you aren't owed an end to your favorite story. you don't own it. you have no claim on it. go write fanfiction.
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this behavior is antisocial, consumerist, and should be publicly shamed
aug 22, 2025, 8:45 pm • 434 21 • view
It's the same people who use terms like 'IP' and 'content' unironically. The type of brain that thinks everything is a franchise that exists outside of the author's vision and can be taken over by anyone else. It is anti-art and infuriating. Read another book, there's tons of them.
aug 22, 2025, 11:25 pm • 16 2 • view
Wow so many of you are intimately aware of George R. R. Martin's inner life and thoughts. Thank you for sharing all this valuable insight.
aug 23, 2025, 2:15 am • 191 3 • view
I love Sanderson. He’s not the right guy for this. Nobody should finish the series. George wrote himself into a corner as evidenced by how the show ended.
aug 24, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
You make liking you easy
aug 22, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m not even a big Martin fan and like…yeah I’m sure it’s annoying but also this isn’t McDonald’s. What the fuck.
aug 22, 2025, 8:58 pm • 5 0 • view
The type of person who demands with entitlement that GRRM finish the books is also the type of person who is going to hate the ending no matter what it is.
aug 22, 2025, 9:40 pm • 8 1 • view
Thank you. I'm glad more people are disgusted by this behaviour. It was never okay.
aug 23, 2025, 9:02 am • 2 0 • view
I would like to think that Martin would pick an actually good writer to finish it off if he wanted but if he doesn't want it finished it is his call alone. It's funny because people did this stuff to Arthur Conan Doyle a century ago.
aug 22, 2025, 8:48 pm • 12 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
An unfinished story can be so beautiful! You can turn it around in your mind for the rest of your life. "But what happens?" Nothing happens! It's fiction!
aug 22, 2025, 8:45 pm • 14 1 • view
I literally got my start it writing doing exactly that.
aug 22, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
And if Martin just didn't write any more novels in the series that *would* be the end. An ending is just where a story stops. Sometimes that's an artistic choice and sometimes it's because of death or disinterest or writers' block but it's something a reader should work to be more comfortable with.
aug 22, 2025, 9:31 pm • 8 1 • view
That might sound pedantic, but the history of literature is full of great stories that are worth reading and just kind of *stop* for one reason or another. Dead Souls, The Castle, The Tale of Genji.
aug 22, 2025, 9:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Also, there is nothing stopping any fan from making up their own ideal ending in their head and entertaining themselves with it! Or, yes, writing it as fanfic! Hell, come up with how you would end your ideal fantasy epic and start your own!
aug 23, 2025, 2:24 am • 3 0 • view
This also applies to unfinished fanfic.
aug 23, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I think most of the loud ASOIAF fans don't actually want an ending. They just want a solution sheet for the plot so they can check whether they got a good grade in theorizing.
aug 23, 2025, 5:46 am • 4 0 • view
There’s nothing GRRM could do with the end of that thing that wouldn’t make some majority of people who want it mad. I wouldn’t want to touch it either. What’s he care anyway.
aug 22, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view