Alua

she/her zionist scum DNI

[bymyhandsinister]

True winter was so near that one could smell it in the air. The world itself had a cold feeling to it. It seemed almost blue, all the colours muted and all the edges sharper. Mya was looking at the sky, already covered by dark clouds so early in the morning. It promised a snowfall, the first one below the mountains. Mya smiled. First snow on the day of the last harvest festival. Finished just in time.

Mya Stone through the years, story told in snapshots, fragments and missing scenes. From her early childhood all the way up to the Tourney of the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. Follow Mya as she comes to terms with being a bastard, her place in the world, her sexuality, as she deals with love, heartbreak and stubborn mules.

Fic takes place in a slight AU where the time skip happens, filling the gap with the budding relationship between Mya and Alayne.

You can read chapter 8 here

[creatureofalatau]

NEW CHAPTERRR even gayer than the one before

[gravelytimelessfortress]

doodle with Asha Greyjoy

I guess her relationship with Theon is my favorite sibling dynamic, she's literally that big sister vibe herself

[flapjacku]

Theon Greyjoy for the six fanarts challenge on my twitter

[ahouseofstarkdefender]

The Year is 2026, and people still believe that Sansa's end is to be Lady of Arryn

Guys, why do you think GRRM wrote that Sansa Stark was the one who witnessed the confession of Lysa Arryn about killing Jon Arryn, accusing the Lannisters, and betraying Catelyn and the Starks, for Littlefinger? Revealing that the one who caused every big incident was Petyr Baelish, if she is not supposed to resolve it? Bring justice to the one who caused the deaths of Ned, Cat, Robb, and everyone else?

GRRM already told us:

I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief. I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.

"I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief," Grey Wind.

"I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams," which meant the Red Wedding.

"but the saddest sound was the little bells," she meant Jinglebell.

"I dreamt of a maid" which is Sansa.

"at a feast" talking about the Purple Wedding.

"with purple serpents in her hair," she's talking about the Strangler, the poison used to kill Joffrey.

" And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow," the savage giant is Petyr Baelish, and the castle is Winterfell.

Believing Sansa is not going to have a big part and remain in the Vale is just like the show did, making a few scenes about Jon being the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna, the legitimate son, and... then not doing anything.

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[bastardbraves]

u people r not weird enough about jonsa. no i dont care about them being cute i need them to be freaks. sansa is searching for ned, robb, arya, even alayne in jon and jon sees catelyn, ygritte, and lyanna in sansa. do they want me or they want me to be somebody else. also jeyne was a fake so arya must be dead for real therefore the only sister jon has left is one who never even wanted him in the first place, why would she want this angry bitter undead version of him either. sansa is pretty weirded out too because her resemblance to catelyn, ygritte, robb, triggers jon in ungodly ways which reminds her of how littlefinger saw her and that’s gross. she wishes he had saved jeyne poole but all he cares about is arya. alayne understands her bastard brother intimately but sansa doesn’t know how to exist with this new version of jon snow. they don’t even know each other anymore they r ghosts and even when they did know each other it was only from a distance. so much guilt and yearning. tenderness too. they r trying to be ned and cat in order to hold the north and themselves together but they are not, no more than jon can be robb for sansa or sansa can be arya for jon. no matter how hard they try they can only ever be jon and sansa and that has never been enough for either of them.

[miratula]

Catelyn Stark & Cersei Lannister

hello do we fw catsei here or nah

[gotheyjoy]

post-reek theon and post-resurrection jon things

[bymyhandsinister]

I've been thinking a lot about how the Kingsguard is portrayed in fics and ig what it reveals about how the fandom views them. I think it's sort of fascinating, that people would like them to be just the coolest knights of the realm but as an institution they were designed to suck and it creates an interesting meta-textual tension.

There's always a desire to fix things to contend with but so much about Aerys's kingsguard especially is taken at face value. How many positive depictions of Oswell Whent are there, when his only appearance in the book is telling Jaime in a flashback that they aren't supposed to protect Rhaella? AUs love constructing perfect Kingsguards, often treating the entire thing very lightly, and not like a lifetime commitment that alienates them from their family and other people. For me the funniest pick, and the most telling, is always Blackfish, both bcs of an assumption that a gay man would really love a chastity vow, even tho he dodged marriage the regular way his entire life but also bcs in the books, he abandons his duty to fight for his family! The type of characters people want in the Kingsguard are, just like Jaime, unsuitable to be actual canon Kingsguards.

[i-ambirby]

[casszanova]

Jeyne Poole, lady bolton.

[rolandofthehorn]

erling haaland - brienne is a pretty popular match from what i have seen (admittedly i have been thinking of that one for a loooong time even before the wc but never really got around to posting it)

My stocks are now on young neymar-theon.

Idk both have that cocky son of a bitch aura plus both are infamously physically and mentally broken down by the end.

yes im wilding. I have more asoiaf characters-footballers comparisons probably but not as striking as these two i would say

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Ten Fierce Ravens, by Jonathan Burton, for The Folio Society’s illustrated collector’s edition of A Storm of Swords

“On my honor as a Tully,” she told Lord Walder, “on my honor as a Stark, I will trade your boy’s life for Robb’s. A son for a son.” Her hand shook so badly she was ringing Jinglebell’s head. Boom, the drum sounded, boom doom boom doom. The old man’s lips went in and out. The knife trembled in Catelyn’s hand, slippery with sweat. “A son for a son, heh,” he repeated. “But that’s a grandson… and he never was much use.” A man in dark armor and a pale pink cloak spotted with blood stepped up to Robb. “Jaime Lannister sends his regards.” He thrust his longsword through her son’s heart, and twisted. Robb had broken his word, but Catelyn kept hers. She tugged hard on Aegon’s hair and sawed at his neck until the blade grated on bone. Blood ran hot over her fingers. His little bells were ringing, ringing, ringing, and the drum went boom doom boom. Finally someone took the knife away from her. The tears burned like vinegar as they ran down her cheeks. Ten fierce ravens were raking her face with sharp talons and tearing off strips of flesh, leaving deep furrows that ran red with blood. She could taste it on her lips. It hurts so much, she thought. Our children, Ned, all our sweet babes. Rickon, Bran, Arya, Sansa, Robb… Robb… please, Ned, please, make it stop, make it stop hurting… The white tears and the red ones ran together until her face was torn and tattered, the face that Ned had loved. Catelyn Stark raised her hands and watched the blood run down her long fingers, over her wrists, beneath the sleeves of her gown. Slow red worms crawled along her arms and under her clothes. It tickles. That made her laugh until she screamed. “Mad,” someone said, “she’s lost her wits,” and someone else said, “Make an end,” and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she’d done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold. –A Storm of Swords, Catelyn VII

[ibloodstone]

Sansa Stark

[fraudiest]

[brishollow]

the oldest babies of house stark

[viceuron]

Ok, all jokes aside, I want to ask you a very serious question, a question nobody in fandom tries to answer seriously. So assuming Euron is really such a powerful warg that he is capable of repeatedly possessing a body of a woman who's basically a whole continent away from him, do you actually think he would do that? Specifically to be fucked by his brother? Doesn't it seem out of character, not even a little bit? Or, alternatively, does everyone in fandom subscribe to this theory because they think it's hot, and that's it?

Context

While the post was obviously made in jest, this anon asked me to put "all jokes aside" and answer this seriously, so I shall. Assuming that Euron is capable of warging into the body of a woman a continent away from him: No, I do not find it out of character for him to violate his younger brother's sexual boundaries to exert power and control over him.

The fandom seems to have difficulty coming to terms with the fact that Victarion is also a victim of Euron's sexual abuse, albeit indirect.

Victarion had no doubt that Euron had "used" the Dusky Woman prior to gifting her to him, because "that was his way". When he gazes upon the Dusky Woman, Victarion "found himself remembering the first woman his brother had given him, to make a man of him." This establishes a pattern of Euron's invasive presence in Victarion's sexuality, so deeply rooted as to color his first sexual encounter.

The creepiness of Euron summoning Vic to the chamber he took up residence in while freshly post-coital and naked aside from a cloak also goes understated. What is even more telling is Vic's reaction: he treats this like a minor nuisance, which tells us that he is accustomed to Euron inflicting his nudity upon him, but he simultaneously finds it obscene and is rendered unable to gaze upon him until Euron covers himself. Why would a grown man, especially one so dedicated to being stoic and unfazed in the face of all challenges, be unnerved by the sight of another man's naked body?

Finally, in terms of its power dynamics, cuckolding as a sexual practice is not about two men sharing a woman, but about a man using the woman's body as vehicle for having sex with the other man. Euron forcing cuckoldry upon Victarion is fundamentally About Victarion; afterwards, his mockery of Victarion's supposed size and lack of sexual prowess all but confirms that.

Taking all of the above into account, my interpretation is: Euron is established to have a habit of preying upon his younger brothers. However, he is thwarted by Vic's closeness in age to him, his size and strength, and the fact that Balon may have taken Vic under his wing relatively early. So lacking that direct venue he could exploit with impunity, he resorts to poisoned gifts and psychological warfare, culminating in the rape of Vic's third wife.

I suppose there is yet one element left unaddressed, and that is the sexual politics of fucking and being fucked — it is everything to the deeply patriarchal. But in terms of warging into the Dusky Woman, it is not Euron that is physically being fucked. Whatever iffiness he might feel towards the notion of being fucked, I guarantee you that he feels greater relish from outsmarting Victarion and violating him sexually. The physical gratification from intercourse would pale in comparison for him.

(Also, who is "everyone" in the fandom who apparently subscribe to the theory? There are like five VicEuron shippers in total aside from me, and all of whom I've had to recruit with my own blood, sweat, and pleading face emoji. If you see this theory out in the wild, it is mostly people joking — as I was when I made the meme — while simultaneously finding an unnerving grain of truth in it. "[The Dusky Woman] turned towards him, silent and smiling... but when she saw the red priest at his side... she hissed in sudden fury." The Dusky Woman is made mute by Euron; if you believe Euron to be capable of warging, what benefit might depriving her of her tongue provide?)