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asoiaf oc dump

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From the #1 Westeros Best Seller...Coming soon to your local bookstore...

Euron Greyjoy & Falia Flowers's son oc belong to my lovely friend @dontbotherwiththepronunciation and House Frey oc belong to me lololol

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Mikhail Markelovich Guzhavin - "Moonlit Village in Winter" (1926)

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Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

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me when my vibrator ran out of battery so i post 'house targaryen is nothing but a bunch of relatives looking the same sounding the same fucking each other on some flying lizard' on asotwt and put my phone under my coochie

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this cersei line in affc is so telling ppl always flatten her into ‘she sees her children as extensions of herself’ but honestly? that’s the wrong mirror it’s JAIME she can’t separate from she doesn’t just see him as close she sees him as herself

he’s her double her missing half the proof she exists outside the cage patriarchy forced her into the tragedy is that while her kids can individuate jaime can’t not in her eyes he’s not an extension so much as an annexed piece of her identity and when he starts to slip away the ground beneath her collapses

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that “the ground beneath her collapses” comes through so bad. jaime repeatedly notes how afraid she is. i like the emphasis on the hand, especially with “he came into this world holding my foot.” that is severed, and that loss embodies a lot with jaime

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this is a layer of cersei that is acknowledged by the author. it does not make the love not there. it can be “argue(d)” just how much that love is shaped by it and what that means, but i think this can be discussed in a nuanced way. i know the “extension of” weaponization that does not acknowledge or see the nuances of this and doesn’t even properly grasp what it is is frustrating, but the text is intentionally touching on this on some level, it is just important to understand what exactly does it look like and why. how is this love shaped by a very painful relationship to/with the self? and then how such a lens may lead to a certain aversion to the individuation and autonomy that leads to incompatibility of the other party and what they have going on outside of the self. this is present with jaime too

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jon beating out the catholic church as celibacy’s #1 advocate until he finds out medieval abortion exists, proceeds to no pull out method cum in ygritte every night for several months in full view and earshot of several people who already want him dead. he’ll later invent cunnilingus.

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earlon pyke/yuliette frey

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*modern sansa takes that says she's a popular cheerleader : boring and wrong

*modern sansa thats part of the school choir and literature club, has one best friend thats probably in theatre or the fashion class(jeyne) and a younger neighbour girl that follows them around (beth), she has insufferable takes while discovering YA romances, avid reader of history through epic romances, loves to sew clothes with Cat, tries to occasionally impress the popular crowd with horrible results, has the worst crushes known to man it makes her think the world is over and thinks men start balding past age 20* : immaculate

she also dresses a little like this :

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Night gathers, and now my watch begins.

Gift for @the-perfunctorily , NIGHT’S WATCH!

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arya’s arc is so identity focused, obviously jeyne had to impersonate her, that’s the part that belongs to jeyne is the thing. jeyne envies arya because they are both northern but jeyne is more traditionally feminine and therefore more pretty but she is still very very far beneath arya, and the place jeyne covets at sansa’s side will always be arya’s and never her own, and then she gets stolen from sansa’s side because she is not as important as sansa is, and forced to wear arya’s skin forever while being thrust into this dangerous and tenuous spot as a pretender to the seat of winterfell and the wife to a bastard and known murderer. isn’t being arya so much fun? that part, that loss of identity, belongs to jeyne. it’s like bran loving to climb and being a curious, precocious little kid then being pushed when he stumbles on a conspiracy - the world takes a thing that makes you human and punishes you for it and there’s nothing you can do to make it “fair.” but theon takes her hand and jumps with her anyway. he resents kyra for her weeping & wishes he would have left her to die but when he is faced with jeyne’s weeping, he grabs her before he leaves instead of leaving her on the battlements. i get that he’s the narrator here but her story Is here and it Is about her it is Literally about jeyne never being enough compared to arya & sansa and then being saved anyway by the exact sort of person who would have made her feel small. she suffered and it got to him, and finally jeyne was important enough to save! to theon if no one else!

the connection between the two is of course the rescue itself - it’s jon saying “bring her home mance” but when he says home he’s not talking about winterfell he’s talking about himself. jon & arya understand, much better than their darker shadows, that home is not a place but the people who live in that place with you. both of them are barred from their homes - and of course their shadows theon & jeyne get pulled back kicking & screaming into winterfell over their own objections - and both of them attempt again and again to recreate the atmosphere of winterfell-as-a-home while separated, searching for pieces of each other in others. so when jon thinks arya is now Not Home instead of “dead but don’t ever think the word dead” he openly, and with no shame on his mind breaks his vows to chase after her. Needle is Winterfell and its people. Theon & Jeyne have a story about understanding what that means from inside its walls as its captives, and Jon & Arya have a story about knowing it, and prioritizing finding each other over a place.

the part to me that belongs to arya is jeyne herself. not jeyne-as-arya. i do believe arya will hear a whole lot of disturbing rumors from the north including that she’s married to ramsay that will spur her home - but it’s not about killing her shadow self to reclaim her identity as arya stark. it’s about them finding peace with each other. she has never been no one, just as jeyne can never be arya. reclaiming her identity is about making peace with the parts of herself that do not fit her family’s vision of who arya stark is. no one is the parts of arya that her mother chided her for. no one has done things arya thinks would make her mother no longer love her. no one may believe that arya has to kill her shadow self, but when she gets home it’s going to be about exactly what it’s always been about - needle and her crooked stitches. it’s not septa mordane’s approval that arya covets, and it’s acceptance but not approval that she needs from sansa; she wants the acceptance and (To Arya - i have many opinions about Ned’s view of arya’s gender performance issues) the approval that Ned offered her, that her father offered her, that her mother did not. thoros couldn’t bring back a man with no head but beric could bring back a woman with no throat. she fixated on lady smallwood & septa mordane & sansa bc they are stand ins for her real issue which is cat and cat is still alive and actively searching for something after having made contact with harwin who knows arya is alive as well. all roads lead to winterfell the same as many waters feed into the trident, both sides of arya have to have a reckoning with each other, so that when arya goes north, she can keep in her mind the reminder that winterfell is its people & that includes the sad little shadow wearing her name in the north.

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