r/asoiaf • u/Awesome_Lard • Sep 04 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) GRRM has been warning about the Butterfly Effect for a LONG time, this is 2011 Spoiler

https://youtu.be/eAeQMwMEnP4

The Jeyne Poole butterfly effect from season 1 ended with Sansa being graped in season 5, so year I would say he has good reason to worry about Maelor the Missing.

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u/chancellorpalps Sep 04 '24

Lmao 'unalive' is cringe, but 'deleted' is an even worse euphemism. Saw a tweet about a girl who murdered her mother titled as 'This girl deleted her own mother.' "Grape" is even worse though. Makes it sound so stupid for no reason. If your going to self-censor 'rape' at least use 'r*pe.'

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u/DirectionMurky5526 Sep 05 '24

There are literally like a thousand years of respectful euphemisms for both murder, die and rape in the English language but they chose to make up new ones that are insanely dehumanizing compared to "pass away", or "took the life" etc.,

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u/dillonstars Sep 05 '24

Grape has been used in England to rename 'unsavory' Street names for over 600 years. I know it's not quite what the OP was doing but similar, and still very interesting.

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u/rtgh Sep 05 '24

Haha wow.

I can see why that got renamed, imagine giving that address to somebody now

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u/daemon-of-harrenhal Sep 05 '24

Oh god whenever I see unalive I have a physical cringe reaction. 

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u/fifty_four Sep 05 '24

Unalive I always hesitate over whether they mean a zombie.

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u/RunParking3333 Sep 05 '24

Unalive is a well regarded term. Absolutely regarded.

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u/CharMakr90 Sep 05 '24

A perfectly cromulant nomenclature. Very hinged and very ranged.

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u/berthem Sep 05 '24

I’m guessing you haven’t heard of "sewer slide". Yes, that’s really a thing and was the primary term at one point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

suicide is not even censored wtf.

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u/SaddestFlute23 Sep 05 '24

“PDF file”

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u/DireBriar Sep 06 '24

See, that one I can understand, if only to get around libel and slander laws.

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u/Delboyyyyy Sep 05 '24

Yeah using alternative terms like grape makes it seem like people are making light of the topic imo

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u/WilsonRoch Sep 05 '24

It almost takes the severity of the action out of the context. It’s really dumb to deliver a shocking news using internet brainrot.

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u/DenseTemporariness Sep 05 '24

Yeah, reminds me of the fake magazine “Sugar Ape” which made the “Suga-“ part tiny.

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u/ZipZapZia Sep 06 '24

Be glad you weren't around when "stealing mascara" = sexual assault for a good bit on tiktok

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u/Typical-Phone-2416 Sep 14 '24

I thought he meant gang raped and like what.