clarasimone

Thanks to @scratchybeardsweetmouth for the great cover pic !... Came unto Tumblr to feed on Daenerys x Jorah; so cannot resist unrequited love tropes; and therefore Iain Glen, who began as my knight-du-jour, then became my Knight Eternal! and the one true thespian whose mystery I will forever try to fathom..... but I also love Film Aesthetics, architecture, travel, cats big and small... and I do bend the knee for many queens... their identity revealed here and there!

[thefrakkintrinity15]

From Episode 3x08 promo

[regresso-com-agonia]

Iain Glen as Leonard Wood drawing

[thewebspinner]

Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont Game of Thrones 1x06 •A Golden Crown!•2/3

[mormont19]

Attention Iain Glen fans!

Do you want to be a part of a fan project?

Fan @lenwolvie will be attending Comic Con Liverpool and meeting Iain. She has graciously offered to create a fan binder that she will present to Iain. If anyone wants to submit a letter and/or fanart that will be included inside the binder, please reach out to me directly (either here or my Instagram @iainglenupdates) and I will provide you with more details.

[cybersexuality]

Jack Taylor and Anne Hennessy - The Guards

[mormontofrivia]

Happy Birthday Iain Glen (24 June 1961)

[calisverse]

𝐈𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐍 as 𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐇 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓

Game of Thrones. Season 8, Episode 2.

[isabelleadjani]

GLORIA HOLDEN as Marya Zaleska & NAN GREY as Lili DRACULA'S DAUGHTER dir. Lambert Hillyer, 1936

[itszulasworld]

A love like this...

Jack + Kate

[mormontofrivia]

Daenerys Targaryen & Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones 1x10

[favor757]

Iain Glen - the “DH Collection” - 3/?

[marmalademouse]

Happy Ending

Goodbye reality. Hello delusions. :)

[marmalademouse]

I. WOULD. DIE. FOR. YOU.

[scratchybeardsweetmouth]

And so it goes, and so it goes And you’re the only one who knows

– And So It Goes by Billy Joel

[houseofthebear]

Beautifully done. Love it!

[targaryensource]

Daenerys Targaryen in Episode 2.08: The Prince of Winterfell

[severedreamlandheaven]

I firmly believe that if Jorah had lived, he would have protected Daenerys from herself and prevented the tragedy in King's Landing. He would have reminded her what kind of heart she has, as he did in the past. He was her anchor. 💔😭

[favor757]

I fight and die for your glory, oh glorious Queen.

[clarasimone]

Am I the only one who feels that the cathartic discharge of kick-ass-titude on the part of Jorah in this scene is literally on-par with the intensity of his desire for Daenerys ? I can’t breathe.

[toas-tea]

Oh man that summersault was straight out of a Dark Souls game.

[salzrand]

Forever 😳-ing @ Jorah throwing that spear bc uff

[clarasimone]

Okayyyyy ladies, was I too subtle in my question ? @toas-tea, @salzrand: I was asking, don’t you think the violent fervor with which Jorah goes about slaying all these men, ALMOST NEVER BREAKING EYE CONTACT WITH HIS LOVE suggests a displacement of his sexual drive ?

Your expert opinion ? @houseofthebear care to be scientific here ?

[houseofthebear]

I agree @clarasimone I do think Jorah is projecting his pent-up sexual frustration into the killing of these men. I mean, stabbing is an up close and personal way of killing someone. It implies a sexual ‘thrusting’…the knife taking the place of the organ. It’s called Piquerism, but it’s a paraphila (a sexual arousal brought on by atypical objects) and that’s delving into sadistic behavior patterns. Jorah is definitely not that.

His actions in the pit may be his way of showing Daenerys that he’s been driven to the edge and even possibly slightly hurt that she didn’t stop the fight. He’s putting everything on the line…here I am, willing to die for you, you are everything.

[clarasimone]

@houseofthebear I was expecting greatness, but that scientific analysis floors me. I know you think I’m jesting but I am not :-)

[houseofthebear]

@clarasimone Aww, you’re too kind. I agree with @toas-tea too…especially after he stabs that kneeling man in the chest and then slowly looks up at her. He’s almost saying, “See what you’ve driven me to do? I’ll kill for you…isn’t that enough? What more do you need from me?”

[clarasimone]

YES indeed @toas-tea and @houseofthebear… I’ll just add one subtlety. I’ll phrase this better down the road but to get back to my initial idea, the sexual catharsis ? I don’t mean it to coming literally from Jorah’s subconscious, so am not trying to make him into a deviant @houseofthebear but from a film aesthetics standpoint, if you ALSO effect an extra-diegetic reading of the scene, the equation is there. This character who’s been denied romantic fruition and sexual climax gets a form of release here and turns it into a dolorous spectacle for the one he loves and was never able to passionately bound with. This, to me, is why the scene is so rich: because, in the diegesis, your reading comes thru shining loud and clear (it’s Jorah suggesting: see what I’m driven to ? you could stop this… just take me back) and then the filmmakers add or underlay the extra-diegesis with metaphor: this gladiatorial killing, THIS SCENE in all its angsty over-the-board violence and spectacle and excess is the “weight of one man’s heart” (to quote Ripper Street ;-). The filmmaker are SHOWING us the degree of passion Jorah could demonstrate if Daenerys would simply let him. Transfer what he does to these bodies, the showmanship with which he slays them, the flourishes, the despair, the know-how, the passion, the utter sense of abandonment and self-less-ness unto loving Daenerys and the scene screams: DAENERYS WAKE UP and chain this man to your bed and heart ;-) It is SUCH a brilliant piece of writing, directing and acting. I’m so glad to know that it was one of IG’s favorite scenes, along with the banishment and his death scene.

[clarasimone]

I’m reblogging this meta for our new Sister-in-Thirst @bellahadar and because the topic came up again in @toas-tea‘s recent tags when gifs of Jorah fighting in the pits of Mereen for his Queen resurfaced.

I’m rewatching GoT these days and I can safely say that I stand once again behind my interpretation of this scene. There is dramatic despair in Jorah’s action (see what you’ve pushed me to do) but the bravado, the extreme physicality, the flourishes (the tumble and roll before the final kill, for instance), and that look, that look Jorah gives Daenerys when he plunges his dagger in his opponent’s heart, the irrevocability, the passion, the virility of that penetration encapsulates all the erotic tsunami he, as a man, was never able to exude in her presence. Jorah is a noble, tender man at heart, but though he comes from the North, he is not a wintery man (to quote The Crucible ;-) and 5 seasons of pent-up desire are being unleashed here and displaced in a spectacle of erotic violence.

It’s a masterpiece frankly. 

[mormont19]

I don’t think I’ve read this analysis but bravo @clarasimone @houseofthebear because this is AMAZING. I have never even looked at this scene through that particular lense and I 100% agree and I love it. Years later I am still discovering different aspects about scenes from this show.

[clarasimone]

Very cool to go back on all this 😁