And For The First Time In Hundreds Of Years, The Night Came Alive With The Music Of Dragons.

…and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

AGOT Daenerys X as the Berserk Vol. 12 cover

Thank you for my new crack ship (cerseitheon)

you're welcome anon

I'm not saying your poor little meow meow isn't wet and pathetic but you still gotta respect the og okay Gollum INVENTED being wet and pathetic he is the poor little meow meow that all other poor little meow meows try their best to live up to but no one does it like him tbh

Theon, Asha, Gender, & the Reccuring Theme of Clothes.

angels of porn - nicole dollanganger, on clothes - kahlil gibran, plural - jordaan mason, clothing symbol in orlando - litcharts, bodymap - leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha, "what do women want?" - kim addonizio, the wrong parts (vivian sisters singing) - jordaan mason and the horse museum, son and daughter - queen

(for Theon Appreciation Month, Day 18: Themes of Gender & Sexuality.)

insp.

🦑 parallels all around 🦑

i amused myself thinking about character parallels to some of the other asoiaf characters. [obligatory disclaimer that parallels doesn’t mean same fate, same purpose in the story, same morality, or any ‘equating’ anything]. and since it is day 26 : …ASoIaF Character Parallels of theon month…

arya - gender performance criticised by authority figure - violently separated from family at age ~9/10 - childhood experience of war - servant of bolton / interactions with roose - the ghost of winterfell / the ghost of harrenhall - highborn character made to live as mistreated servant - enjoys riding - spoken to by weirwood tree - names lost and recovered - traumatised into near identity loss but actually not - helping ‘unimportant’ girl while in mortal danger themselves - association with death / material world transcending kind of trauma narrative

dany - survival against all odds / extreme kind of resilience - grew up in fear - the stories spread about them vs. their actual story - the exile’s elusive/unattainable idea of ‘home’ - ambition to power… - …taken as entitlement and reaching beyond their proper place because they are forever the foreigner - a beloved horse (an angry black stallion named smiler // a spirited silver filly called the silver) - sexual enslavement - inconveniencing those that prefer them dead by still not dying - said to come from ‘particularly evil’ people even though they are not especially more evil than the rest - we flew

sansa - child hostage - “traitors” - the obedient daughter / the obedient hostage who know their courtesies - mean commentary onto others - cut off from your wolf / far away from the sea (& does it invalidate?) - vague idealised dreams of glory and goodness - a story of entrapment (both literal captivities as well as conceptually) - likes to dress well - controlled by ambitiously evil and sexually predatory man they are made to help in his evil schemes - who gives them a new name - and publicly claim an intimate bond towards them - i could kill him… i could kill him right now, but i don’t (sansa not shoving littlefinger out of the moondoor, theon not stabbing ramsay with the knife) - vague idealised dreams of glory and goodness no longer / “there are no heroes….”  - “his lips were like two worms fucking” - that scene where they both walk into the snow, and snowflakes brush their cheeks like kisses

tyrion - their father’s unfavourites - their father would rather see them dead - wants to prove themselves worthy of appreciation and survival; thinks that’s something they need to earn - joyful sexuality, liveliness and ambition in the face of a hostile world - likes to dress well - tried to rule and hold a city that hated them (fssssfff tyrion did a better job we know) - scapegoated to take the fall for actually systemic / complex problems - very public mistreatment that gets condoned / accepted - background of incestuous & abusive family dysfunction - both experienced and committed sexual violence - captivity ; brutality and humiliation experienced in captivity ; runs away and takes others with him - haunted by the memory of girlfriend murdered/lost in extremely traumatic circumstances

for theon month, day 5 : strengths

  Theon had his bow; he needed nothing else

i’m also team theon might shoot arrows again