Chapters: 1/1Fandom: A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game Of Thrones (TV)Rating: Teen And

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark Characters: Sansa Stark, Sandor Clegane Summary:

Three years after going to the Quiet Isle, Sandor travels to the North to find a certain Queen.

Very AU with the show at this point. I wrote this quite a while ago and am just now publishing here (yes, I know this makes the title quite ironic).

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via theliteraryjournals)

My darling Jane. I know this is a quote for Pride and Prejudice, but I think it's about time to read Persuasion and Northanger again.

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I’m watching a documentary on GRRM where he takes Sibel Kekilli through his hometown of Santa Fe. And look what I saw decorating the walls of GRRM’s house: a Sansan gallery ;) 

(it’s John Picacio’s Sansan illustration for the 2012 ASOIAF calendar).

I want to read this fanfic, if someone wants to write it.

So if Brienne and Tormund do get together . . .

Imagine them going back to Tarth to tell her father that they’re together. (All of the scandal because Tormund has, like, zero political or social savvy for Westeros courts but, by damn, he thinks Brienne is the greatest.) Selwyn, obviously, would not be too happy about his daughter’s choice of a bedfellow, but Tormund offers to marry her, if that’ll make things square with the uptight southern folk.

And, when it comes down to Brienne inheriting the seat of power from her father. Tormund’s no politician and would bungle his way through this pile of political shit. He’s a simple man and Brienne’s the honest and fair ruler. He’ll just be at her side and support her (because, hey, she’s as fair a Lady as she is a warrior and they still spar in the yards). 

But, imagine the lords and dignitaries and representatives coming to Tarth and they all defer to Tormund because (however begrudgingly) he’s wearing the colors and sigil of the ruling house of Tarth and the Seven Kingdoms are as patriarchal as shit. (Their children, as tall and ginger and badass as they may be, will carry the Tarth name in the Seven Kingdoms to carry on their mother’s legacy.) Now, when all of these noble people automatically defer to Tormund, he just shrugs and laughs and goes, “The fuck do I know about being the lord of a castle? Brienne’s the one who knows this stuff. I’m just here to warm her bed, watch her back, and teach our children how to fight like one of the Free Folk.”

So everyone who comes to Tarth not-too-subtly has to deal with their (internalized or otherwise) sexism, misogyny, and issues with outdated gender roles. 

Oh my God. He's fantastic.

Game of Thrones’s Tormund Giantsbane shaves his beard.

Norwegian film actor Kristofer Hivju, who portrays Tormund Giantsbane on the TV show “Game of Thrones”, announces it’s time to shave off his beard. After sporting this signature look for years, the results of the shave are a little unexpected.

The greatest moment in all of community!