Sara Snow and Jacaerys
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Unpopular opinion Arya wouldn't wear her hair long, she didn't even wear it long before the books, I have it by personal decision but it is a nuisance and for someone like Arya who likes more dynamic things, taking care of it and combing it less when they don't have modern hair products is not in her priorities or mine either, unless she has a bunch of maids behind her all the time, otherwise she would easily cut it, wearing it tied up all the time is not comfortable either.
Queen Alicent had her own candidate: Prince Aegon, Rhaenyra's half-brother.
But Aegon was a boy, the princess ten years his elder. Moreover, the two half-siblings had never gotten on well. “All the more reason to bind them together in marriage,” the queen argued.
Viserys did not agree. “The boy is Alicent’s own blood,” he told Lord Strong. “She wants him on the throne.”
Sansa already looked her best. She had brushed out her long auburn hair until it shone, and picked her nicest blue silks.
Sansa was dressed beautifully that day, in a green gown that brought out the auburn of her hair, and she knew they were looking at her and smiling.
“You have juice on your face, Your Grace,” Arya said.It was running down her nose and stinging her eyes. Sansa wiped it away with a napkin. When she saw what the fruit in her lap had done to her beautiful ivory silk dress, she shrieked again. “You’re horrible,” she screamed at her sister. “They should have killed you instead of Lady!”
She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. Her fingers felt thick and clumsy as she struggled with the silver fastenings without the benefit of servants.
She was dressed in mourning, as a sign of respect for the dead king, but she had taken special care to make herself beautiful. Her gown was the ivory silk that the queen had given her, the one Arya had ruined, but she’d had them dye it black and you couldn’t see the stain at all. She had fretted over her jewelry for hours and finally decided upon the elegant simplicity of a plain silver chain.
“Her Grace said to me that you are a woman now, and should not dress like a little girl. Hold out your arm."Sansa lifted her arm. She needed a new gown, that was true. She had grown three inches in the past year, and most of her old wardrobe had been ruined by the smoke when she’d tried to burn her mattress on the day of her first flowering
The smallclothes were all silk, but the gown itself was ivory samite and cloth-of-silver, and lined with silvery satin. The points of the long dagged sleeves almost touched the ground when she lowered her arms. And it was a woman’s gown, not a little girl’s, there was no doubt of that. The bodice was slashed in front almost to her belly, the deep vee covered over with a panel of ornate Myrish lace in dove-grey. The skirts were long and full, the waist so tight that Sansa had to hold her breath as they laced her into it. They brought her new shoes as well, slippers of soft grey doeskin that hugged her feet like lovers.
Dress warmly, Ser Dontos had told her, and dress dark. She had no blacks, so she chose a dress of thick brown wool. The bodice was decorated with freshwater pearls, though. The cloak will cover them. The cloak was a deep green, with a large hood.
Littlefinger pointed out a cedar chest under the porthole. "You’ll find fresh garb within. Dresses, smallclothes, warm stockings, a cloak. Wool and linen only, I fear. Unworthy of a maid so beautiful, but they’ll serve to keep you dry and clean until we can find you something finer."He had this all prepared for me.
She donned silken smallclothes and a linen shift, and over that a warm dress of blue lambswool. Two pairs of hose for her legs, boots that laced up to her knees, heavy leather gloves, and finally a hooded cloak of soft white fox fur.
There was a gown of purple silk that gave her pause, and another of dark blue velvet slashed with silver that would have woken all the color in her eyes, but in the end she remembered that Alayne was after all a bastard, and must not presume to dress above her station. The dress she picked was lambswool, dark brown and simply cut, with leaves and vines embroidered around the bodice, sleeves, and hem in golden thread. It was modest and becoming, though scarce richer than something a serving girl might wear. Petyr had given her all of Lady Lysa’s jewels as well, and she tried on several necklaces, but they all seemed ostentatious. In the end she chose a simple velvet ribbon in autumn gold.
All of Lady Lysa’s silks and samites were to be left behind. Her sheerest linens and plushest velvets, the rich embroidery and fine Myrish lace; all would remain. Down below, Alayne must dress modestly, as befit a girl of modest birth. It makes no matter, she told herself. I dared not wear the best clothes even here.
Nor did Petyr choose to explain. Instead, he smiled and said, "I have brought my sweet girl back a gift."Alayne was as pleased as she was surprised. "Is it a gown?” She had heard there were fine seamstresses in Gulltown, and she was so tired of dressing drably.
-Sansa and fashion
The House of the Dragon writers are so jealous of Book Aegon
Canonical Aegon traits/characteristics they gave to Rhaenyra:
- Aegon’s motivation to protect his family is given to Rhaenyra, they even have Rhaenys say “The Greens are coming for you, Rhaenyra. And your children.” And have that be the final line of the season 1 recap. As if in the book it isn’t Aegon who is told Rhaenyra is coming for him and his whole children and that that ALONE convinces him to become King
- All but admitted to making show Syrax the book Sunfyre equivalent. Ryan Condal said Syrax is a golden dragon who has an incredible bond with her rider and is the kind of dragon you’d want to put on your banner. And called the bond between Aegon and Sunfyre maester propaganda
- Has Rhaenyra want to fly into battle, which she doesn’t in the book, to make her seem as brave and selfless as Aegon
Made it seem like Rhaenyra didn’t want the throne and was forced to take it, which is basically what happens to Aegon in the book
Meanwhile, they gave Rhaenyra starving the smallfolk and them rebelling against her to Aegon. They had to make Aegon a rapist who enjoys watching children fight just to try and desperately make it so he wouldn’t become the fan fave, and it still isn’t working. They have everything in their power to stop Aegon from becoming beloved, and it still didn’t work
General audiences may be Team Black because of what they did Aegon in the show, but he has still become the favorite character. The amount of people I’ve seen say they’re Team Black but Aegon is their fave/the best character is crazy
got such muddled feelings abt hotd season 2 its like 'this shit is so stupid' (pissed off) but also 'this shit is so stupid' (lmao)
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I got covid two years after the pandemic and in the middle of university
A central element of the myth of [Eleanor of Aquitaine] is that of her exceptionalism. Historians and Eleanor biographers have tended to take literally Richard of Devizes’s conventional panegyric of her as ‘an incomparable woman’ [and] a woman out of her time. […] Amazement at Eleanor’s power and independence is born from a presentism that assumes generally that the Middle Ages were a backward age, and specifically that medieval women were all downtrodden and marginalized. Eleanor’s career can, from such a perspective, only be explained by assuming that she was an exception who rose by sheer force of personality above the restrictions placed upon twelfth-century women.
-Michael R. Evans, "Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine"
"...The idea of Eleanor’s exceptionalism rests on an assumption that women of her age were powerless. On the contrary, in Western Europe before the twelfth century there were ‘no really effective barriers to the capacity of women to exercise power; they appear as military leaders, judges, castellans, controllers of property’. […] In an important article published in 1992, Jane Martindale sought to locate Eleanor in context, stripping away much of the conjecture that had grown up around her, and returning to primary sources, including her charters. Martindale also demonstrated how Eleanor was not out of the ordinary for a twelfth-century queen either in the extent of her power or in the criticisms levelled against her.
If we look at Eleanor’s predecessors as Anglo-Norman queens of England, we find many examples of women wielding political power. Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conqueror) acted as regent in Normandy during his frequent absences in England following the Conquest, and the two wives of Henry I (Matilda of Scotland and Adeliza of Louvain) all played some role in governing England during their husbands’ absences, while during the civil war of Stephen’s reign Matilda of Boulogne led the fight for a time on behalf of her royal husband, who had been captured by the forces of the empress. And if we wish to seek a rebel woman, we need look no further than Juliana, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who attempted to assassinate him with a crossbow, or Adèle of Champagne, the third wife of Louis VII, who ‘[a]t the moment when Henry II held Eleanor of Aquitaine in jail for her revolt … led a revolt with her brothers against her son, Philip II'.
Eleanor is, therefore, less the exception than the rule – albeit an extreme example of that rule. This can be illustrated by comparing her with a twelfth century woman who has attracted less literary and historical attention. Adela of Blois died in 1137, the year of Eleanor’s marriage to Louis VII. […] The chronicle and charter evidence reveals Adela to have ‘legitimately exercised the powers of comital lordship’ in the domains of Blois-Champagne, both in consort with her husband and alone during his absence on crusade and after his death. […] There was, however, nothing atypical about the nature of Adela’s power. In the words of her biographer Kimberley LoPrete, ‘while the extent of Adela’s powers and the political impact of her actions were exceptional for a woman of her day (and indeed for most men), the sources of her powers and the activities she engaged in were not fundamentally different from those of other women of lordly rank’. These words could equally apply to Eleanor; the extent of her power, as heiress to the richest lordship in France, wife of two kings and mother of two or three more, was remarkable, but the nature of her power was not exceptional. Other noble or royal women governed, arranged marriages and alliances, and were patrons of the church. Eleanor represents one end of a continuum, not an isolated outlier."
Game of Thrones actors as different ASOIAF Characters:
Lena Headey as Catelyn Stark Natalie Dormer as Cersei Lannister Joseph Mawle as Eddard Stark Oona Chaplin as Nymeria Sand Richard Madden as Edmure Tully Iain Glen as Jon Connington Tara Fitzgerald as Barbrey Dustin Alexandra Dowling as Margaery Tyrell
Insp.
For @creatorhubevent Summer 2021 Event: Day 4: Alternative:
neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)
It will always bother me that they sell this new Snow White as a Latin princess. We Latinos have our own cultures and stories. Why do we need them to paint a European story?
Sense i havent seen anyone else mention it, id like to say: props to orwyle for being the least sexist man on the green council 👏👏👏 keep brewing moontea king
Bran + the oath of knighthood
In the name of the Warrior I charge you to be brave
Something about the way the raven screamed sent a shiver running up Bran's spine. I am almost a man grown, he had to remind himself. I have to be brave now. - Bran II ADWD
In the name of the Father I charge you to be just
"One day, Bran, you will be Robb's bannerman, holding a keep of your own for your brother and your king, and justice will fall to you. When that day comes, you must take no pleasure in the task, but neither must you look away. A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is." - Bran I AGOT
In the name of the Mother I charge you to defend the young and innocent
A good lord protects his people, he reminded himself. "I've yielded Winterfell to Theon." - Bran VI ACOK
In the name of the Maid I charge you to protect all women
Bran wanted to give the lady a hundred men to defend her rights - Bran II ACOK
It feels so small in the grand scheme of things now. But im still so annoyed about them making House Hightower’s colour green.
Its always funny to me when fans downplay the significance of the scene where sansa builds snow winterfell. Not only is it beautifully written but grrm spends a long time describing it (I think like 4 pages) and it really details the castle..why would he write such a detailed layout of winterfell if it held no meaning for the future. And Sansa remembers how it was, it even says that even the things she forgot came back into her memory. I dont know what sansas endgame will be but she will be a part of restoring winterfell and the constant denial of that by many fans is almost funny
The only other time Winterfell is described in so much loving detail is when Bran introduces the castle in his climbing chapter before being pushed out of the tower. But where Bran (named for the founder of his line) focuses on the history of the castle (the thing that will truly connect him to it), Sansa is shown to rebuild it with her hands.
Bran gives us its past, from the buildings to the Starks in the crypts, and he is made to witness its destruction, while still taking strength from its stones and roots.
Sansa recreates her home from loving memory.
It's so beautifully done.
The bastardy vs Jace thing would matter more to me if there was a girl Snow or Nettles in it. There isn't, I don't see a resolution in this, it's only 2 big men and another Rhaenyra cheerleader.
I see things on the bright side
Phia is my Laena fancast, I'll take that scene as Laena and Daemon
