Hi helgeke, thank you for contacting us! If you read through these posts about our decision regarding the show, we explain that
asoiafuniversity is no longer accepting submissions of show-only meta.
We said:
we will (probably) continue to reblog posts comparing & contrasting the show and the books
We also said that if someone is submitting a compare/contrast post of the show and the books, it must be heavy on book analysis for it to be accepted.
None of those posts were submissions, but I’m happy to explain why each of those posts was reblogged, because I’m the person who reblogged those and I felt them to be very relevant to ASOIAF:
spoiler about what GRRM will do in future books - asoiafuniversity always reblogs new information about twow
Stannis compare/contrast post, illustrating quite clearly that book!Stannis is motivated by duty
Stannis’s motivations in the books, book quotes everywhere
bit at the end about the spoiler - tbh I wasn’t very happy about reblogging this post because it was so much about the show (which idgaf about critically anymore), but a number of people were coming into my personal askbox very upset over the spoiler and even more were very upset in their reblogs of post #1 from this list, and I felt like the message, “It probably won’t happen exactly like that in the books” was an important one. Still, I wouldn’t have reblogged this post if post #5 was around earlier for me to reblog.
excellent post by dwwt discussing in detail the spoiler from future books and how it could occur, probably in a manner different from the show
compare/contrast post about Daznak’s pit - as I said earlier, I have little interest in show analysis anymore, but a mutual put it on my dashboard with tags that strongly recommended everyone read it. I found that amidst the show analysis was a nice discussion of Daenerys’s story in ADWD, specifically the pit scene, which isn’t something many people on tumblr talk about:
Dany’s arc is one where she navigates through a complex political situation in which she ends up making more and more moral concessions in the name of peace, to the point where she loses touch with herself. Her moment of realization about how wrong everything she’s done feels occurs in Daznak’s Pit, when suddenly the full weight of her decisions hits her. As she is troubled by the violence in the fighting ring, she tears off her tokar, the cultural and impractical garb of Meereenese nobles, and demands to leave, demonstrating a rejection of their values and traditions. Poetically, this is the moment that Drogon swoops down, solidifying Dany’s reconnection with who she is: Daenerys Targaryen, blood of the dragon. [source]
Personally, I would be happier if all of the show content were cut from these posts and I could just reblog pure ASOIAF content, but I find it’s kind of like content for asoiafedit, a strictly ASOIAF blog I help mod for. Even the best ASOIAF gifsets use footage from the show a lot. Even if you’re an ASOIAF fan who has never watched the show and all you want to blog about is fanart, beautiful artwork 100% free of the show’s influence is almost like a unicorn these days.
The show remains a large part of ASOIAF fandom, unfortunately. It’s very hard to blog about ASOIAF as if the show never existed. That being said, all of those posts had multiple tags for blacklisting if you wanted to avoid them completely.
I hope that this provides a satisfactory explanation as to why I found those posts relevant to A Song of Ice and Fire and why they were reblogged. I expect that more posts along these lines will be reblogged in the future.
– joannalannister