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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I highly recommend going into A Song of Ice and Fire valyrian steel tinfoil hat conspiracies. Here are some benefits

  • Fun conspiracy theories involving ancient aliens, time travel, time traveling fetus, magic, space travel, ctulhu deep ones, etc. in a world where magic actually exists
  • Passionate fanbase
  • Fictional world, so everything is literally by design and there is no such things as coincidence
  • Hundreds hours worth of human made podcasts and content to listen/sleep to
  • That bum GRRM will never finish his book so you'll never be proven wrong (or right)
  • It is actually inconsequential to your IRL beliefs
  • The books are okay I guess, by no means necessary to read
[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, I'm interested! Can you give me a brief rundown of a valyrian steel conspiracy theory? I think I remember the books well enough to follow!

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's many youtube videos on ASOAIF conspiracy iceberg. The very top one is obviously R+L=J, Jon Snow parents being Rhaegar and Lyanna. Many of the more sane predictions are around this level. The mid level contains things like John Bolton is an immortal vampire. There are a lot of theories that rely on "World of Ice and Fire" book, which is a companion world lore book published by GRRM and his editors in 2014 describing other humanoids (webbed feet, Neanderthals, winged man, etc.) and fantastical creatures in regions faraway from Westeros. There's a theory that "squishers" (https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Squishers) which is the ctulhu-fish people built many of Westeros landmarks, like the actual Hightower (described as built on oily black stone foundation), which is similar to how the book described stones in Asshai. Then the bottom of the iceberg you get borderline shitposts, like Tyrion being a time traveling fetus and "X skinchanged into Y" during "Z".

[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Oh gotcha! I've definitely heard of some of these before (R+L=J is basically canon at this point, no? And Tyrion the time-traveling fetus I've heard of too, surprisingly)

I misread your comment as saying that there were a bunch of silly fan theories specifically surrounding valyrian steel, and I'm not sure I've ever heard of any of those!