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will literally never happen and i kinda prefer it that way, but can you imagine if hotd did confirm that aemonds son lived and the house whent theory is true. like yeah actually alicents line didnt die all the current starks are alicents blood thats why they're so ginger. catelyn got her bastard-hating bone and insane cheekbones from her 6x great grandpappy.

really i think the red wedding is perhaps one of the best moments in modern literary history because its soooo much more than just that one scene ive said it once and ill say it again nothing in asoiaf is a complete and utter shock twist everything is foreshadowed like being woven into a great tapestry of everything that happens. the red wedding is foreshadowed so much you feel it looming over every narrative involved and i really do believe the cultural consciousness of the spoiler that it will happen improves the reading for the red wedding. you know that sickening feeling that everyone here involved is doomed and there's nothing youu can do to stop it. daenerys's vision of a king with a wolf head surrounded at a feast of the dead a whole book before it even takes place. the emphasizing of how you should never ever ever ever violate the laws of hospitality its a crime against the gods and catelyn continuing to push that they should eat first no more matter what. the legend of the rat cook and the gods anger over it. and then you realize not only is the red wedding a tragedy but it is just the beginning and a narrative device that will span every house involved and their downfalls. it is by design that tywin lannister plans it and he's dead by the end of the same book along with his grandson. oh red wedding you will always be famous i love you so dearly and i cannot wait to read the fabulous horror of the demise that lord walder frey will meet

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The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.

magnificent century: kösem // adwd, the prince of winterfell// the unequal marriage by vasili pukirev // adwd, the prince of winterfell // before the wedding by firs zhuravlev // adwd, the prince of winterfell // h.d. 'the flowering of the rod' IX/ photo of rafaela dare by larissa dare // taylor swift 'would've, could've, should've' // magnificent century: kösem

[ID: A web weaving of Jeyne Poole from A Song of Ice and Fire, with ten images.

Image 1: A young girl about 12 years old, Melisa Ilayda Özcanik in Magnificent Century: Kösem, wearing a pink dress.

Image 2: "I take this man," the bride said in a whisper.

Image 3: 'The Unequal Marriage', a painting of a young bride crying at her wedding to an old man.

Image 4: 'and girlish, her legs as skinny as a bird's. A child. Theon had forgotten how young she was. Sansa's age. Arya would be even younger. Despite the fire in the'

Image 5: "Before the Wedding", a painting of a young bride crying on the floor, her face in her hands. Her husband stands next to her.

Image 6: 'stop this talk about being someone else." Jeyne, her name is Jeyne, it rhymes with pain. The music was'

Image 7: 'I live; I am alive;

take care, do not know me, deny me, do not recognise me,'

Image 8: A photo of a young brown-haired, brown-eyed girl, laying on her side and crying. Her hair is partially covering her face, with someone else holding it back.

Image 9: 'Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts / Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first'

Image 10: Melisa Ilayda Özcanik in Magnificent Century: Kösem, looking deeply upset. End ID]

(ID taken from alt text.)

genuinely do think house hightower is cooler and more interesting than the targaryens, like dont get me wrong i like both but the hightowers take it. easily. their shadowy history of alchemy and necromancy, patronage of westeros' cultural and religious institutions, and big fuckass taller-than-the-wall lighthouse has bewitched me body and soul. dragons, blood magic, and a destabilising obsession with incest is all well and good - but institutional corruption and the delicate mastery of soft power? just too tasty. been on the wrong side of several wars and never lost a head or a penny from their main line because they know how to play the game. one of the richest houses in westeros and they know how to do it right ! funding the arts, sciences, faith. controlling the narrative. every message goes through the maesters, them and septas tutoring little lords and ladies, all roads lead to oldtown, and thats just how its done why would you even question it. how could you question it. and all the while the lord of the hightower sits up in the clouds in a tower built atop an unsettling ancient labyrinth of black stone, burning a flame that can be seen for miles, lighting the city every night. like good luck getting away with shit when theres no shadowy corners to hide in. the metaphor isnt subtle. every other house would wish they were the hightowers if they could conceptualise the higher plane this familys operating on.

romanticisation of house florent bc alicent and gwayne’s mother was a florent so funny house noted for religious extremism and big ears. ‘marg and loras are relatives of alicent and gwayne 💚’ passe im going to start doing that about them being related to selyse and that florent who threatened to have davos killed if he didnt recommend him as stannis’ hand

i think its so funny that cersei thinks of catelyn as a meek little mouse in her povs when its like. that woman bashed a man's head in with a rock. she grabbed a valyrian steel blade without hesitation. she traveled across westeros to form an alliance with renly only to steal one of his kingsguard too. she set jaime free from the dungeons and got him to swear to get her daughters back. even in her last chapter she shanked a mf with a knife before going insane. catelyn stark was more of a lioness than cersei im sorry to say

Ik someone always says this: but I genuinely think that Catelyn Stark is one of the best characters GRRM has written.

Her chapters are genuinely so interesting, seeing a rise of the king through his MOTHER is such an interesting idea and I love it so much. Catelyns motherhood both being her downfall and her best strength??? Yeah don’t even talk to me

it's just so funny addam and hugh are exactly the kind of dragonriders they were hoping for!!! respectable tradespeople with plausible enough stories that can be safely excluded from the line of succession!!! they might be literate!! they know how to behave around highborn people!!! essentially what passes for lower middle class in westeros. even nettles is the kind of character that is easy to build a folk hero narrative around!!!

and then there's fucking ulf. ZERO respect. claiming to be the son of baelon the fucking brave. does he even have a job

please not people comparing catelyn and rhaenys's reactions to their partners' bastards claiming that rhaenys is better??

i'm sorry are women just expected to accept the fact that their partners cheated & not be angry at all? obvs it's not the child's fault but cat's not perfect. like sorry that women have negative emotions and aren't always able to rise above and be the bigger person. also, corlys never brought his bastards to live in his and rhaenys's home so their situations are different.

y'all say you want female rage but every time a woman is not acting like a saint the fandom turns on her.

gwayne hightower born to be a classic fairytale knight, forced to live in the mind of george rr martin

See how the heir to Riverrun is allowing his smallfolk to come take shelter within his walls. Very edmure, very mindful.

so you're telling me show!daeron dies without knowing what his brothers and sister(s) look like in adulthood, but for perhaps through portraits. show!daeron dies without memory of his king's face, only the fleeting reminiscence of a brother who smelt of wine, whose joy was the sun. show!daeron dies without seeing his family, with only the knowledge that he had--has--a home and now he must protect it/return to it/die for it.

screaming crying and throwing up bc sandor clegane isn’t real and here right the fuck now like shut up

unquestionably funny that ryan said it was sooo annoying and expensive like just far far too big an inconvenience to have maelor exist. okay fine - then why did we get approx five scenes of rhaenyras toddlers sat there playing, doing nothing for the plot, just existing for rhaenyra to stoke their heads sadly and be that oh so perfect motherly figure they clearly mean to depict her as. like they genuinely didnt need to be in half the scenes they were in. You know who did spend a lot of time with and doted on her children? Helaena. You know who was beloved of the smallfolk? Helaena. You know who they did riot in the name of? Helaena. They wish Rhaenyra was Helaena so bad.

Shiera Seastar.

Another fanart of Great Bastards of Aegon IV Targaryen from ASOIAF.

three-eyed raven

"My mother told me that dead men sing no songs," he put in.

A Game of Thrones, Prologue

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

A Game of Thrones, Daenerys X

i know the kingsguard lodging situation hit a sexually repressed 15 year old jaime lannister like a truck

When you think about it Euron Greyjoy is actually the villain of all time, GRRM's magnum opus. He opens his eyes to the world and decides sibling abuse is gonna be his thing for a while. He fucks his brother's wife, gets exiled for it, fucks off to god knows where. Then allegedly finds a dragon egg, tries to get a wizard to hatch it, gets mad, randomly throws it into the sea. Commits war crimes, captures warlocks, makes them cannibalize each other for shits and giggles. Steals a dragon horn. DEMOCRATICALLY GETS ELECTED KING. Raids a man's castle, ties up the man, sees his daughter who goes "hey my step mom and step siblings suck strip them naked and make them serve dinner to ur men like that" and he goes "ok." and then is like "hey that was fun im gonna like kinda marry you and make you my salt wife". But she will be his SALT wife (she actually wont he will literally CUT her tongue bcs he evil) bcs he literally thinks oh yes i will marry daenerys and then tame a dragon using my dragonhorn and conquer westeros on dragonback aegon-style. He gets fucked up on shade of the evening daily, sees hallucinations and visions and plans on summoning eldritch horrors. He is an edgy pirate with a ship called "silence" bcs he fucking tore out the tongues of his entire crew and the ship is painted red so it conceals the BLOOD. Martin went "i have enough morally grey antagonists" and then created euron fucking greyjoy.

rereading asoiaf and a lot of this still feels so fresh. martin’s depiction of the subjectivities of children and children actively experiencing trauma, and staying with and being with them and seeing through their eyes and getting this vast fantasy epic through the prism of their suffering, still feels very extraordinary to me in a way i can’t quite articulate. obviously we are living in the aftermath of the YA fiction boom, but there’s something special about this focus in fantasy fiction for adults, where the world is destroyed through adult strivings for power, and we see so much of the cost through sansa and arya and bran. but they are not precious moppets used to work on adult sympathy either, they are inescapably full people, allowed to be unlikable and difficult, allowed to exist beyond the constraining limits of activating pity or protection