How Can One Not Love Egg?

How can one not love Egg?

preasoiaf appreciation week ( @preasoiafsource): day 6 (monarchs) ♛ Aegon V Targaryen

Though beloved by the smallfolk, King Aegon made many enemies amongst the lords of the realm, whose powers he wished to curtail. He enacted numerous reforms and granted rights and protections to the commons that they had never known before, but each of these measures provoked fierce opposition and sometimes open defiance amongst the lords. A student of history and lover of books, Aegon V was oft heard to say that had he only had dragons, as the first Aegon had, he could have remade the realm anew, with peace and prosperity and justice for all.

I almost feel like it's not us doing it, it's the characters themselves that so much wanna fall in love they use us to do it over and over again in every way possible.

sometimes my brain is like “so you’re going to take the same characters and make them fall in love again, in a sort of new way but with essentially the same dynamic as every other thing you’ve ever written?” and the other part of my brain is like “….yes ❤️”

Heart eyes heart eyes heart eyes

How I Met Your Mother

Gendry is being his asshole self and takes Arya's seat while she's gone and then refuses to give it back to her.

Arya adapts quickly to the situation by simply sitting on the stranger's lap.

Gendry is too stunned to tell her to fuck off. Actually, he finds he doesn't even want to tell her to fuck off…

Oh boy.

Okay, I've read these books a thousand times and I had never really gotten that picture of how huge the elk was just because... I can't think in 'feet'?

US why don't you just accept that the metric system is intrinsically better??

the great elk....

“The elk was huge, a great elk, ten feet tall at the shoulder, with a rack of antlers near as wide. The creature sank to his knees to let them mount. ”

Ok but the elk that Coldhands rides is 10 feet tall.

Its shoulder lenght is as tall as your average apartment wall!!!

(the heights in this pic are SHOULDER HEIGHTS for the animals)

IT’S HUGEEEE

Women of House Blackwood Shiera Blackwood It appears that King Arlan briefly considered crowning his good-daughter Shiera, Roderick Blackwood’s eldest child, with his own son ruling at her side, but the riverlords spoke out against being ruled by a woman, and His Grace decided to add the riverlands to his own domains.

Agnes Blackwood Lord Tully abandoned Riverrun without a fight, fleeing with all his strength to join the host gathering at Raventree Hall under Lady Agnes Blackwood and her sons. But when Lady Agnes advanced upon the ironborn, her belligerent neighbor Lord Lothar Bracken fell upon her rear with all his strength and put her men to flight. Lady Agnes herself and two of her sons were captured and delivered to King Harwyn, who forced the mother to watch as he strangled her boys with his bare hands. Yet Lady Agnes did not weep if the tales are true. “I have other sons,” she told the King of the Iron Isles. “Raventree shall endure long after you and yours are cast down and destroyed. Your line shall end in blood and fire.”

Alysanne Blackwood Then he boldly led the last of the royalist host against the approaching riverlanders, who were commanded by the young Lord Kermit Tully, the even-younger Benjicot Blackwood, and Blackwood’s sister Alysanne. When the Lord of Storm’s End learned that the host was led by boys and women, he grew confident in his victory, but Bloody Ben Blackwood, as he was remembered after, broke his flank, while Black Aly Blackwood led the archers who brought down his knights. Lord Borros was defiant to the end, and the accounts claim he killed a dozen knights and slew Lords Darry and Mallister before he himself was slain by Kermit Tully.

Melantha Blackwood Wife of Lord Willam Stark and mother of Edwyle and Jocelyn Stark.

Melissa Blackwood Both younger and prettier than Lady Barba (albeit far less buxom), as well as more modest, Missy had a kind heart and generous nature that led even Queen Naerys herself— as well as the Dragonknight and Prince Daeron— to befriend her. During the five years of her “reign,” Missy bore the king three bastards, most notably the boy Brynden Rivers (born 175), later called Bloodraven.

Betha Blackwood Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited (some say willful) daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall, who became known as Black Betha for her dark eyes and raven hair. When they wed, in 220 AC, the bride was nineteen and Aegon twenty, so far down in the line of succession that the match provoked no opposition.

Alyssa Blackwood “Walder Frey’s fourth wife was a Blackwood, but kinship counts for no more than guest right at the Twins. I should like to bury Lucas beneath the tree, but the Freys have not yet seen fit to return his bones to me.”

Bethany Blackwood “Bethany is only eight. A gentle girl, full of laughter. She has never been more than a day’s ride from my hall.”

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