probably me

24, she/her | dolorous edd stan | eyepatch enthusiast | tinfoil hatter | bitch

[alayne-stones]

my favorite genre of asoiaftwt

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

i just apolitically killed the king like i have no agenda or whatever im just the jester here but i stabbed him anyway LOL all the courtiers and advisors are trying really hard to figure out who did it LOL all of them wanted him dead but they dont know whose scheme it was so nobody can promulgate a coherent political maneuver based on the circumstances LOL just playing my lute #MyLute

[twoiafart]

Rhaenys & Meraxes by Ertaç Altınöz

[hestiagf]

good morning soft sad freaks on an unprofitable website

[iphigeniacomplex]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[moonwyvern]

Caraxes's loneliness at Harrenhal 🌕

[sansa-stark-is-me]

Old Nan quite literally lives rent-free in every Stark child’s brain like the original Northern horror podcast. It’s hilarious because she wasn’t even trying to be scary that was just her bedtime routine. Other Westerosi kids got lullabies; the Stark kids got: “Once, my sweet summer child, the Others came and the sun died and everyone you love turned into ice-zombies anyway, sleep tight :)”

And the thing is… it sticks. Every single Stark kid, no matter where they are, no matter what trauma they’re experiencing, will suddenly remember one of her nightmare fables at the WORST possible moment.

She turned Winterfell into a place where the past is alive, where the Long Night is not a myth but a warning, where names like “the Last Hero” or “the Night’s King” sit in the back of your skull until the moment you realize maybe she wasn’t making anything up at all. Old Nan didn’t traumatize them accidentally she prepared them. In her own crooked, spooky way, she gave every Stark child the education they actually needed to survive the story they were about to enter.

[stupendousturtlebonkkid-blog]

Old nan may just be a child of the forest theory is one of my fave

[grendelsmom]

Silly posts aside, I love how hard akotsk is leaning on the theme of knighthood/physical labour and exploitation so far. Ser Arlan destroyed his health and body fighting petty disputes for men, who never bothered to remember him because to them, he is nothing. Lyonel can step away from the contest to get a drink, let others pull for him (pick up his slack and turn the tide around), and then go back in, just in time for victory and the laurels. They still risk their life by entering a tourney, but its for vague concepts like honour or even just fun. While Dunk risks his life for the vague possibility that he gets to risk his life for some lord on a consistent basis because that's his only means of survival.

[whodied66]

arya and sansa stark of winterfell

[darling-shrike]

You know I think a chronic problem with male ASOIAF fans is that a lot of them have never talked to their mom or grandma or any sex worker so they don't seem to realize that abuse and exploitation exist regardless of legality or societal values. "It's legal for Robert to rape Cersei so why does she consider it rape why does she feel exploited if it's normal and accepted" well you see rape exists whether it's legal or not, it didn't become traumatizing by virtue of being made illegal. "Why is Sansa so horrified at the prospect of Tyrion sleeping with her" well Chett it's because pedophilia is traumatizing in and of itself not because people suddenly decided it was harmful for shits and giggles. I'm sure you would know if you asked meemaw how she felt about grandpa beating her or her being married at 14 when it was still technically acceptable to do so.

"Omg I can't believe this cunt whore Shae wanted to be paid for her services and used Tyrion to be a gold digger" Well Brad Shae is a disenfranchised woman in a world where she can't exactly go back to college or do doordash, and Tyrion is certainly not going to marry her she kinda needs her own money. Him not paying her is kinda fucking her over massively so yeah she needs to keep the dresses and the jewelry to be able to do a quick getaway in case things turn to shit. I know Tyrion is your Bro but he is not in fact entitled to free sexual labour because he's ugly and sad. Maybe talk to grandmama about what she did before women were allowed their own bank accounts idk.

[timeforwolves]

Hound and wolf pup by EtceteraArt

[atopvisenyashill]

they’ll be like george has a rape kink & point to the scenes where

a victim of domestic violence assaults another woman as a way of working through her own trauma

a teenage girl who has already once compared her marriage to an older man to slavery thinking about the painful sex/domestic violence she is experiencing and wanting to kill herself rather than experience it again

a woman who is traveling through a war torn country asking her young squire if he would keep watch over her to make sure she isn't attacked and raped in the night while she rests

several scenes where a character who is notorious for being a "rapid dog" rapes innocent women, directly as a result of the nobility not giving a shit about the safety of the peasantry by releasing this man on the peasantry of the riverlands with the explicit justification of torturing the people there

a teenage girl who was sex trafficked is rescued despite her "low birth" from medieval leatherface in what is clear and obvious commentary on the willingness of the stark maid in the bael the bard story, a recurring story & motif in the series

a young woman who is part of the peasant class is turned into for all intents and purposes a sex slave for the crime of being "loose" with the wrong side's soldiers, is saved from further gangrape by a character who has at several points been forced to stand guard while a woman is being raped and is increasingly bent on not being in a position where he has to let evil flourish again, but remains unsure on how to approach this

a main character, working through his own sexual trauma, rapes a sex slave and immediately vomits afterwards because he is well aware he just raped a person

[melody-nelson]

#'oh the theon stuff' is rough yeah but i'm sorry i remain firm on this if you don't understand the point of why theon interacts#with so many women who have been sexually abused before he himself is sexually abused you're reading with your eyes closed

[attonitos-gloria]

sometimes I remember that Cersei and Tyrion are chasing and earning the Masculinity that is denied to them (Cersei because she was born a woman, Tyrion because he was born disabled) by becoming increasingly more Violent, exactly like the Manly Men who abused them (Tywin, Robert), and i feel like I need a cigarette. and I don't even smoke

[attonitos-gloria]

and then I remember Jaime was already pretty much there, in the perfect Male Spot his siblings are currently chasing, by giving his life to become the epitome of Manliness (a knight who perpetuates violence upon violence), and then he met someone who was not violent, actually not a man at all, and yet more of a knight he could ever dream to be

[putridbenny]

finished rereading dance and i wanted to do something about it

[amber-laughs]

robb saw his mother at her lowest. husband dead, father dead, children dead, brienne gone, son had just ruined his best alliance, edmure, she had to see rickard karstark on a daily basis. so he walked up to her and said “one more thing, i’m legitimizing jon snow”

[daemonwaters]

There is no type of secret parentage theory I detest more than theories about Duncan the tall. He's not a lothston or a targaryen or a stark or a strong or whatever, shut up already. He's the orphaned kid of two random nobodies in Fleabottom who died or abandoned him when he was young and we'll never know their names. He doesn't need some grand and noble ancestry.

[quackysprouts]

just thought about jaime lannister again. fuck. that rat monkey bastard. he is privileged, he’s richer than most bloodlines combined, he looks like a girl, he’s almost 40, he has mommy issues and daddy issues and sister issues and brother issues, his name means ‘i love’, he’s been unserious all his life, he used to be the best swordsman in the land, he is disabled, he is blond, he’s used to crossdress so that his twin sister can play with swords while he learned to sew, his fursona is a lion, he is greying, he’s in love with a girl he’s been bullying the entire time they’ve known each other, he wants to be topped by her, he used to fuck his sister, he’s washed up, he has body dysmorphia, he fought a bear, he’s the only reason his disabled brother is alive, he wants to save everyone, he can’t save anyone, he watched his children die, he killed his king, he kept his promises