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it's actually crazy that catelyn straight up kills a dude in the first book and it's never brought up ever again

thre is a passage in ACOK where she's talking to brienne and says something like "ned always got really somber when he had to kill someone but I don't think I would mind it 😊" which is already an INSANE thing to say holy shit

but like girl you literally slit a guy's throat 3 months ago what the fuck are you talking about

#and then she does it again in asos #the funny part of the cat/brienne dynamic is that in acok only one of them has killed a man before #and it’s not the woman who beat dozens of trained knights in a melee

Hiii! I'm trying to make an archive for asoiaf calendars in a small turkish asoiaf forum and ur posts helped a lot with the 2014 calendar, probably wouldnt finish that one if it wasnt for u, thanks a lot!! xoxo

thank you! i’d love to finish processing the rest of the color spreads from gary gianni’s asoiaf artbook some day, as the versions of those calendar illustrations circulating online are pretty low res.

jonyearly

i am not afraid i was born to do this

#brienne of tarth #fanart #grrm asks what if a girl who wanted to martyr herself as a teenager outlived her adolescent cause and couldn't be joan of arc after all

greenbloods

Crazy that Daeron's "I dreamed of you" in The Hedge Knight (1998) was likely written--at least, published--before Jaime's "I dreamed of you" in A Storm of Swords (2000). Feels like Thee "I dreamed of you" was first.

#the reason bnfs invested in the got lannisters do not want to touch “i dreamed of you” in its full context with a ten-foot pole #or gloss it as “i guess jaime likes her” or “she's a true knight like dunk” or a banal easter egg from grrm #is that if it's anything like the dragon dreams in akotsk it implies that brienne is a witness/accessory to the fall of house lannister #which would be very dunk of her but not very jonquil darke or pretty meris of her

flapjacku

My fave vale gals (mya, myranda, sansa)

#mya stone #myranda royce #sansa stark #alayne stone #fanart

i apologize for cutting jaime's infamous wobbly legs simile from that graphic. it was not out of prudishness but out of fear of getting flagged again.

#i am 30 or 40 years old i can't do another battle with support staff

Her arm was all gooseflesh, clammy and chilled, but she was strong, and gentler than he would have thought. Gentler than Cersei, he thought as she helped him from the tub...

Diagrams from The Barber's Manual, A. B. Moler (1931)

#valyrianscrolls #jaime lannister #cersei lannister #brienne of tarth #jaime can't conceive of a relationship with anyone but cersei in asos #he knows brienne is more willing to perform caregiving tasks in his illness to fulfill an oath to catelyn #than cersei would be willing to perform out of love #that conversation with cersei fascinates me bc they both know he can't shave himself anymore #he /has/ to order someone to do it for him but refuses to do so #it's about power and submission *and* disability

sodawizardo

Brienne the beauty

#brienne of tarth #fanart #fantastic brienne design!

visenyaism

Ormund Hightower Perfume Chekov’s Gun Resolution:

Perfume is very flammable

They will draw him out of the city by making it smell bad

He will get distracted by it and die at war

It is negatively impacting his mental state because it’s poppers

The smallfolk of tumbleton will rebel at an obvious symbol of excess

Some other thing

It’s just a character beat to establish him as a rich asshole

Remaining time: 15 hours 14 minutes

#what the maesters in fire and blood didn't tell you is that tumbleton went up like a nuclear blast in an incense mass casualty incident #(jk jk i think it's laying the foundation for a quirky stink trap no more subtle than the rest of the plot line has been so far)

so they're doing a feast for crows (2005) this week, huh

#on one hand it affirms for me how readily affc could have been made into fun television #on the other hand brienne isn't here #though i love alicent and like much of the hotd ensemble #the characters interacting with these faithfully realized motifs just aren't you know. the characters i loved from those books.

maloops

Catelyn's POV characters from ACOK 🍂 had a lot of fun with this one, currently very influenced by Sheilah Beckett's illustrations

I've already made Arya's, Tyrion's and Theon's versions!

#edmure tully #catelyn stark #margaery tyrell #renly baratheon #jon umber #brienne of tarth #robb stark #roose bolton #fanart #cat’s acok chapters are so underrated

gotheyjoy

lady stoneheart and her son the young wolf

#lady stoneheart #robb stark #fanart

i find robert's rebellion aus (ie. ned marrying ashara, cersei marrying rhaegar, jaime marrying lyanna) tedious because they tend to smooth out the domestic tensions that make that generation interesting without acknowledging the alternatives could be just as tragic

however, i do think catelyn and jaime could have had an unhappy arranged marriage that produced offspring with kill counts like hotd's daemon in adulthood. an au for the type who looks at the 12 names on the characters killed by jaime lannister wiki page and thinks "i could do better"

#cat might have gotten some good hatesex out of this without being emotionally or intellectually satisfied #nothing about the the looming ice and fire apocalypse would have been prevented #but there could be someone with catelyn's wrath and jaime's impulse control or cat's tact and jaime's combat finesse roving around

branwinged

"i want more complex women" you couldn't even handle catelyn stark. unlike cersei. who was the most advanced catelyn apologist within the text, she was cheering her on for wrongs she didn't even commit > "Catelyn Tully was a mouse or she would have smothered this Jon Snow in his cradle. Instead, she's left the filthy task to me." < she would've supported her wrongs, she wanted her to be more evil about it even. which is why it is a tragedy that she never knew the way catelyn spoke of her:

when she fantasises about killing you in a manner which signifies your worst, most oppressive fear 🥰

#catelyn stark #cersei lannister #just because cat's had five kids and would happily have had a sixth doesn't detract from her willingness to resort to violence #she's not a “knight of summer” or even a “maiden of summer” because her carefully planned marriage was upended by civil war in adolescence #she grabs a knife with her bare hands /before/ the execution of her husband and dispersal of her family #why would you want her in a corner apologizing for not treating the boy she believes is her husband's bastard better instead?

ilynpilled

i like looking at that part of the weirwood dream from not just the straightforward potentially prophetic lens. at the core, their asos dynamic’s engine is disappointed idealist jaime wanting to snuff out that flame in brienne to prove it isnt, and cant be, real; it cannot persist. bc if it does, if she is, there is no excuse left. that is what her sword still burning after the contradictions destroy his means

fortunate-hal

the events leading up to the weirwood dream lure readers into believing jaime is as cynical as his internal monologue makes him out to be until the last possible moment, when the contradiction between informed intent and action is undeniable. the chapter ends there because he can't quip his way out of "i dreamed of you."

jaime reminds himself "a real woman" is waiting for him, leaving brienne at harrenhal and dismissing pia from his tent. jaime urges steelshanks on so he can get back to cersei as quickly as possible, perhaps in time for joffrey's wedding. he suppresses his irritation at the mummers' refusal to ransom brienne, hoping to "dream of cersei" instead. it seems jaime's determination to "put [brienne of tarth] behind him" and return to king's landing will prevail over his misgivings. that is, until she appears in a dream with a flaming sword that refuses to go out.

after the ghosts come rushing in, jaime uses every trick in the lannister arsenal, the bribery and bargaining he didn't need when he had a sword hand, to get back to harrenhal. if, as qyburn says, "something of our souls must remain when we leave this life," then jaime can't bear for brienne to be left behind to become another one of his ghosts. when he finally makes it to king's landing, a flicker of idealism remains -- and it spurs jaime to upend the relationships that once defined him.

#jaime's decision to exhaust the horses racing back to harrenhal has unintended consequences #it's the first of the increasingly deliberate ruptures with his family #culminating in the betrayal of tywin and cersei to save tyrion and then the tysha reveal #iho if you write off brienne's “he is not the man he was” you dismiss much of jaime's asos arc #a narrative of change (for better and worse) is much richer than a story of becoming “good”

futuregws

which Targaryens do you like more??

AKOTSK Targaryens

HOTD Targaryens

Voting ended onJul 4

You can like both but it's more of a which one do you like more so if you like 1 Targaryen from AKOTSK and 3 from HOTD then I think HOTD is the answer, unless you have a different justification, but this is basically what I mean

#the hotd writer’s room has done some valiant work making f&b figures into characters #and there’s good acting to boot #but if i could trade hotd s4 for another dunk and egg novella i would

melrosing

*hammers on ur door* have u considered the jb water motif today

#brienne of tarth #jaime lannister #fanart #it’s baptism and rebirth symbolism sunday

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