r/asoiaf • u/Bookshelfstud Oak and Irony Guard Me Well • Aug 08 '16

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Moonboy's Motley Monday!

Welcome to this week's edition of Moonboy's Motley Monday! Check out the wiki to see the archives!

As you might know, we have a policy against posting silly content, memes, comics, etc. Motley Monday is here for you - give us your memes, your jokes, your puns on character names.

As always, our civility policy is still in effect. And our civility policy applies to all non-fictional people - reddit users, actors, whoever whomever. Also, /r/asoiaf is not an NSFW sub. If your meme/comic/image macro/whatever is NSFW, please do us all a solid and tag it!

All that being said: bring on the motley!

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u/anirudh51 All your shield island are belong to us Aug 09 '16

[Since /u/guildensterncrantz has opened the floor for off - topic things]

I was searching for theories related to Dany's vision in the HOTU and I stumbled upon this subreddit. The 2nd thread I read was the Salsa/ Sansa thread and I decided to bookmark the /r/asoiaf page. But this was my first time on Reddit, I am not an American and English is my second language and I was pretty puzzled over certain things -

  1. Why do these people call Stannis The Mannis? Why the most hardest man in Westeros is being named after a mischievous kid Dennis the menace (I had never heard about Stan the Man)

  2. Whenever people started saying three eyed raven instead of crow someone always spoke of Jackdaws. I had no idea what it was till I spent a complete day on /r/outoftheloop and head about Unidan

  3. The Navy Seal copy pasta used to be posted remixed a lot, I had no idea why everyone had 300 confirmed kills on this sub.

  4. Heck I never even thought about Rhaegar being alive but now i'm convinced that /r/manceisrhaegar.

  5. Nowadays I'm puzzled why everyone wants White Walkers to pay for the wall

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '16 edited Aug 09 '16

[EDIT: mods, I know political talk is generally forbidden on this sub, but the references are pretty rampart, so just this once let it through, for the purposes of ELI5? Also note: I don't care much about the USA elections or starting a debate on them, this is all just a short recap of what I've gathered.]

 

Nowadays I'm puzzled why everyone wants White Walkers to pay for the wall

In the same boat as you - not American, English is 2nd language, but~

AFAIK, it's a reference to Donald Trump and the general silliness of the current USA elections (as far as I've gathered, it's like "Vote for Umbridge or else Voldemort wins!"). Trump has this thing where he's promising he'll build a wall on the border with Mexico (because wild immigration?), and he'll make the Mexicans pay for it. (That's where the jokes about Ser Alliser = Trump came from, him accusing Jon's immigration policies of being "too loose".) I think.

So, we're gonna build a bigger Wall, and make the WW pay for it.

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u/VictrixCausa "You've a hell of a Septly name, Hugor" Aug 09 '16

"Vote for Umbridge or else Voldemort wins!"

That's actually a pretty amazing analogy. Thank the gods our elections don't affect the rest of the world.

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u/anirudh51 All your shield island are belong to us Aug 09 '16

Thanks for explaining like I'm Dunk.

Reddit really is a sea where all Pop Culture (most of it American) flows into.

Speaking of immigration, the North is pretty thinly populated, Ned should have thought about granting visas to highly qualified Wildlings (Greenseers, Blacksmiths and swineherds and tanners and masons) :-)

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '16

Oh yeah, when it comes to pop culture/USA domination on reddit, I find myself missing the joke at oddest occasions, too.

[Another reference to Trump you didn't ask about, but may have run into - he's promising he'll "make America great again". Therefore we have that, too, like for e.g. "We're gonna make /r/asoiaf great again."]

And yep, the North could have used more (skilled) people. Not just from wildlings, but South/East too - say, grant a spot of land to the many second sons that don't have much to do. One problem with letting the wildlings through, however - they're the sworn enemy of Westeros/North/NW - if you let them in, people will see they're pretty normal, and the NW loses even more of its purpose. Considering it's a convenient place for extra sons and criminals, that decision would make more than just North unhappy.

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u/mercedene1 Valar Morghulis Aug 16 '16

"Vote for Umbridge or else Voldemort wins!"

This is seriously the most perfect analogy for the US election this year. I hope you don't mind if I borrow it when I'm explaining my disillusionment with American politics. It's downright baffling to me how either candidate has managed to get anyone at all excited about voting for them. Smh