/lit/ - Literature

Seriously,
how the fuck are we to believe Stannis fed thousands of men on Dragstone for over a year until he got the sell swords from Bravos without any trade/supply from the mainland?
Did they just subsist on fish all that time???
Theoretically possible i suppose (there are stone age civilizations that basically did this) but that's a pretty fucking malnourished/low morale army and for a guy who gives as much of a fuck about legistics as Martin does you would expect more on this.

why do people lose their shit over his work so much? Yeah sure writing outrageous shit for shock value is cheap but he doesn't come across like that. He writes about really ugly and absurdist topics and situations which I think reflects life pretty well. Life is extremely ugly to look at. Fantasy isn't supposed to be about pristine fairy lands all the time just because it's "fantasy". This is the wrong thing to get hung up upon when it comes to his ASoIaF books imo