misstopia

So it was about a year ago that I did my meta post on mommies & ASOIAF. I never got around to the fathers one, maybe this year. But in the interim I wanted to talk a little about parenthood overall in the series, and in particular, ( the asymmetrical treatment they get from the author. )

As always I'd love to hear your thoughts, if I've missed anything or gotten something incorrect or if there's anything related to touch on. I've done my best to not talk about fandom's different approaches to mothers and fathers too much, but I'm not classy enough to be above bitching about it in comments.

Mother's Day was a few days ago and I was hoping to do something ASOIAFish for it, but didn't get to it. But sitting in B&N today (actually yesterday; this took two days to finish writing!), I figured better late than never, and wondered if my f-list was up for a discussion. I'm sure similar things have been done many a Mother's Day before in the fandom, but oh well, eh? As a warning, this gets really long because of the crapload of quotes at the end. Sorry guys! I blather. I was thinking of linking this on 'moot but not sure because of how unwieldy it is. But yes, I really do feel all those quotes are all interesting! Plus the formatting involved in organizing them took a long time, so at least read some of them? (I know, I know, it's really long without the quotes anyway.)

( DRAMATICALLY DEAD MOTHERS: Lyanna Stark, Elia Martell )
( PEACEFULLY DEAD MOTHERS: Joanna Lannister, Minisa Whent )
( PASSIVE MOTHERS: Alannys Greyjoy, Mellario of Norvos )
( ACTIVE MOTHERS: Maege Mormont and Olenna Tyrell )
( PRIMARY FOCUS MOTHERS: Catelyn Stark, Cersei Lannister )
( ALSO STARRING!: Daenerys Targaryen )
( MOMS NOT APPEARING IN THIS POST )
Quotes
( ONE LIFE ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINS )
( DAENERYS, MOTHER OF DRAGONS )
( JON SNOW )
( IN HER ABSENCE )
( ARYA )
( TRADING IN THE MAIDEN'S CLOAK )
( IF SHE COULD SEE ME NOW )
( JOFFREY )
( ROBB )
( CAT AND THE LIONESS )
( GENTLE MOTHER, FONT OF MERCY )
( MOOOOOOOOOM! )
( MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER )
( BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN )
( THE ARSENAL OF MOTHERHOOD )
( A MOTHER'S HEART )
( MOTHER KNOWS BSET )
( FOR MOTHER'S SAKE )
( BEST SERVED COLD )
( YO MOMMA'S SO UGLY )
( WORDS OF WISDOM )