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[incalculablepower]

Deathly Hallows was a very sad book, lots of deaths, but at least we got to see Harry Potter get drunk a couple times.

[ravellasmallwood]

An incognito Lyanna Stark rides in the Tourney of Harrenhal against knights whose squires had attacked Howland Reed, a northman. There she is later named Queen of Love and Beauty by Rhaegar Targaryen, which plants the seed for Robert’s Rebellion. An incognito Arya Stark frees captive Northmen from Harrenhal while she is enslaved there by Lannister soldiers during the War of the Five Kings.

Arya Stark & Lyanna Stark Parallels | Harrenhal

[azuresunshine]

WHY WAS THERE A QUESTION ABOUT CANCEL CULTURE BEING CENSORSHIP ON A COMPREHENSION ABOUT NAZI BOOK BURNINGS

[fortunate-hal]

Daenerys Targaryen styled as a Venus (but with three dragons) illustrated by Annie Stegg for a piece in Enchanted Living Magazine.

[arctichotch]

johnny depp was in his mid twenties (25*) when he started dating a 17 year old winona ryder.

he was in his mid forties when he started dating a 26* year old amber heard.

he was 54 when he started dating a 22 year old dancer (2018).

he allowed his 15 year old daughter to live with a man in his twenties and proceeded to defend said man when the police got involved on statutory rape charges.

he is a violent man (not just towards amber) in general. he is literally back in court next month for punching a man on set. and has a long, long history (that predates amber) of smashing things and physically assaulting others.

he uses demeaning, misogynistic language towards women in general, not just amber.

edit: he called the *mother of his children* a “French extortionist cunt”

he is transphobic. towards one of amber’s former best friends, a man who was meant to be his own friend too.

he is an abuse apologist. he defended roman polanski for RAPING A CHILD saying he was too old for that and was married so obviously it’s not possible.

he’s besties with marilyn manson who is an abusive piece of shit himself.

even if you don’t believe that amber was abused by him, is this the man you want to fight to the end defending?

[aryastarksource]

Arya Month 2022 || Day 25: Family - Robb

“I can be strong too. I can be as strong as Robb.” – Arya II, AGOT

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“So you say, but might be the boy knows something we don’t, maybe it’s us ought to be run …” Yes, Arya thought. Yes, it’s you who ought to run, you and Lord Tywin and the Mountain and Ser Addam and Ser Amory and stupid Ser Lyonel whoever he is, all of you better run or my brother will kill you, he’s a Stark, he’s more wolf than man, and so am I. – Arya VIII, ACOK

[bookhousestark]

ARYA STARK MONTH 2022

Day 24: Compassion and kindness

[bookhousestark]

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 ↳ Day 25: Family

“It’s just a sword,” she said, aloud this time…

…but it wasn’t.

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell’s grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan’s stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow’s smile. He used to mess my hair and call me “little sister,” she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.    

[bookhousestark]

Every Arya & Lyanna parallel: → beauty

LYANNA

—   “Lyanna might have carried a sword, if my lord father had allowed it. You remind me of her sometimes. You even look like her.”

“Lyanna was beautiful,” Arya said, startled. Everybody said so. It was not a thing that was ever said of Arya.

—  The northern girl had a wild beauty, as he recalled

ARYA

—  Best you have a new face as well. A pretty one this time, I think. As pretty as your own. Who are you, child?“

—  Or would you sooner be a courtesan, and have songs sung of your beauty?

—  "I’m sorry I tore the acorn dress too. It was pretty.”

“Yes, child. And so are you. Be brave.”

[the-key-five]

arya stark appreciation month → day 27: mythological parallels

Arya as Persephone // Jon as Hades // Read the full meta “Jon, Arya, and Death and the Maiden“ by @etherealdany​ here.

[bookhousestark]

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 ↳ Day 27: Fictional Parallels

[…] A Game of Thrones was my first attempt at epic Fantasy at novel length, but I’d loved the genre all my life. Growing up, I never made any distinctions between SF, Fantasy, and Horror. I would read Jack Vance’s Dying Earth one week, and Asimov’s Foundation the next, and enjoy them both. And The Lord of the Rings had as much impact on me as any book I ever read. — GRRM

[fireismine]

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH 2022

Day 28: Parallels with Other Characters

The narrow sea was often stormy, and Dany had crossed it half a hundred times as a girl, running from one Free City to the next half a step ahead of the Usurper’s hired knives. She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well. She liked the dolphins that sometimes swam along beside Balerion, slicing through the waves like silvery spears, and the flying fish they glimpsed now and again. She even liked the sailors, with all their songs and stories. Once on a voyage to Braavos, as she’d watched the crew wrestle down a great green sail in a rising gale, she had even thought how fine it would be to be a sailor. But when she told her brother, Viserys had twisted her hair until she cried. “You are blood of the dragon,” he had screamed at her. “A dragon, not some smelly fish.” - Daenerys I, A Storm of Swords

~

After that, she had nothing to do but sit and yawn for a long while as Brusco and his sons pushed them through the predawn gloom, wending down a confusion of small canals. The day looked to be a rare one, crisp and clear and bright. Braavos only had three kinds of weather; fog was bad, rain was worse, and freezing rain was worst. But every so often would come a morning when the dawn broke pink and blue and the air was sharp and salty. Those were the days that Cat loved best. - Cat of the Canals, A Feast for Crows

[the-key-five]

arya stark appreciation month → day 30: anticipated meetings

Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he’s at it. His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.

[aryastarksource]

Arya Month 2022 || Day Thirty: Anticipated meetings – Daenerys Targaryen

[asongoficeandfiresource]

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH || Day 2: Nymeria ↳ The kennelmaster once told her that an animal takes after its master.– Sansa I, AGOT

[karyey]

Just when you think you have it figured out, something new begins to take.

day 14 — identities

[asoiafdaenerysdaily-archive]

arya stark appreciation month - day 28: parallels with other characters  → both arya and dany lose their hair at the end of a game of thrones (arya’s is cut off, dany’s is burned off)

As the blade flashed toward her face, Arya threw herself backward, kicking wildly, wrenching her head from side to side, but he had her by the hair, so strong, she could feel her scalp tearing, and on her lips the salt taste of tears.

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The Lannister guardsmen on the gate were stopping everyone, but Yoren called one by name and their wagons were waved through. No one spared Arya a glance. They were looking for a highborn girl, daughter of the King’s Hand, not for a skinny boy with his hair chopped off.

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When the fire died at last and the ground became cool enough to walk upon, Ser Jorah Mormont found her amidst the ashes, surrounded by blackened logs and bits of glowing ember and the burnt bones of man and woman and stallion. She was naked, covered with soot, her clothes turned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away … yet she was unhurt.

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Her hair had burned away in Drogo’s pyre, so her handmaids garbed her in the skin of the hrakkar Drogo had slain, the white lion of the Dothraki sea.