family, duty, honor, gag him!

Minors and TERFs DNI, you will be blocked. 28, nyc lesbian and cat mom. here to shout into the void about my hyperfixations. right now that’s asoiaf, occasionally IWTV and Yellowjackets. also g0lightly on ao3. briensa propagandist and brienne-is-the-next-hound truther. this is a dreamfyre stan account. she, her, hers. born under a scorpio moon.

[g0lightly]

The Hounds of Harrenhal

Longfic! Currently at 132k words, will probably be ~300k by the time it’s completed. On a break but not abandoned. Canon compliant except for the fact that Sansa is now Robb’s fraternal twin. The story begins in 302 AC, making Sansa 19 and Brienne 21. This is queer adventure romance about Sansa x Brienne.

After Jaime’s death, Brienne takes over the Hound’s helm and persona in her grief. To restore his honor and legacy, she resumes her mission to find Sansa; along the way, she enters a tourney at the Eyrie as the Hound to win some much needed coin to continue on through winter. At the Eyrie, Lady Alayne Arryn begs the stranger in the Hound’s helm for help escaping a doomed marriage.

Brienne temporarily sets aside her mission to help the lady escape north to reunite with her family. Petyr Baelish then announces that the Hound has abducted Sansa Stark, who has been in disguise as his bastard daughter Alayne, and advertises a large reward for her safe return. All this as Tyrion uses his previous marriage to Sansa as an attempt to take the Vale for the mountain clans and Daenerys, ultimately leading to a second dance of the dragons as the Long Night looms over a years-long winter.

Soon all the singers of Westeros would sing of Harrenhal’s Hounds, their witch queen, and the “abduction” that started it all - but life is not a song. In this story, it is far sweeter.

Painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee.

Art by @mourningstormss, commissioned by me.

Spring in the Widow’s Tower

Also a longfic but not quite as long as THOH — currently 13k words, my goal is ~30k words when it’s complete. A slowburn with family elements, lots of internal reflection, angst balanced out by occasional fluff.

307 AC. The War for the Dawn is won and Brienne of Tarth finds herself listless when her seven years of service to the now-King Bran come to an end as he takes his place on the Isle of Faces. In the wake of Jaime’s death, she sets off to honor her vow to Lady Catelyn and right a wrong with the dowager queen Sansa, whom she made a widow two years prior when King Aegon VI went to war with Daenerys. Brienne only wishes to die a true knight; fate has other plans for her.

[g0lightly]

Sansa's (possible) attraction to Mya Stone mirrors Jaime's attraction to Brienne

As part of my Briensa brainrot posting, I want to establish one of many parallels between Sansa and Jaime. I think the text may be setting up Sansa’s attraction to women, specifically gender-nonconforming women like Mya (Edit 2026: Ok this is wishful thinking but I stand firm that it would improve Sansa’s story if he was setting her up for an eventual romance with a GNC woman). The way Sansa describes women’s appearances versus men’s appearances is more similar to straight male POV characters than to other female POV characters, as this post does a fantastic job of demonstrating. Specifically, I’d like to point out that the way Sansa thinks about Mya in her men’s clothing mirrors the way we initially see Jaime think about Brienne in hers. 

[Mya] could be pretty, if she would dress up like a girl. Alayne found herself wondering whether Ser Lothor liked her best in her iron and leather, or dreamed of her gowned in lace and silk. - Alayne II, AFFC

As the above post also points out, Sansa has to contextualize her potential attraction to a woman — an unconventional woman at that — through the eyes of a man as it’s not ladylike to have such thoughts about other ladies. Later in this chapter she repeats this question to Myranda Royce, excited to have an older girl to ask such a question.

“Do you think Ser Lothor likes [Mya] as she is, in mail and leather?” She asked the older girl, who seemed so worldly-wise. “Or does he dream of her draped in silks and velvets?” “He’s a man. He dreams of her naked.” She is trying to make me blush again. - Alayne II, AFFC

Sansa is so curious about this that I have to wonder if Ser Lothar is indeed the one with a crush. Mirroring Jaime, she goes from imagining her unconventional crush in her men’s clothing to imagining her in the kind of clothing she understands to be beautiful. And then she’s prompted to picture her naked.

He amused himself by picturing her in one of Cersei’s silken gowns in place of her studded leather jerkin. As well dress a cow in silk as this one.  - Jaime I, ASOS

Afterward, Jaime jokingly (or not so jokingly) asks Brienne to remove her clothes to prove that she is a woman. This is a much more cruel and direct sequence of thoughts/interactions than what we see with Sansa and Mya, though that’s fitting of Jaime and Sansa’s characters at these very different places in their respective arcs. Nevertheless, both are characters used to being valued for their conventional beauty (and their ability to conform to gender roles) attempting to understand their own interest in unconventional beauty that does not conform to gender roles. 

[fortunate-hal]

“I asked him why he kept her close, if he thought her so grotesque. He said that all his other knights wanted things of him, castles or honors or riches, but all that Brienne wanted was to die for him…”

Brienne x Joan of Arc as depicted by Wilfred J. Jones for Mark Twain’s Saint Joan of Arc, Harper & Brothers (1919)

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

#the fascinating thing about the stoneheart conflict#is that forces brienne at 20 to live while compromising her oath (to save podrick) #while brienne at 18 was ready to become a teenage martyr for renly #catelyn was essential in giving brienne a purpose beyond dying for renly or avenging renly #what if you have to live and fight within an impure reality #rather than burn for a cause you believe is pure?

[sillysoil]

i think this will be appreciated here……

[devonaoski]

THE SOPRANOS (1999-2007)

[icantspellthings]

[graygiantess]

"I hope your favorite character is played by an actor you hate!" Tired, unoriginal, etc.

"I hope your favorite character fucks your dad!" Devastating, weirdly specific, about to happen to Harry Bogosian in three weeks.

[newsandstuffisee]

[sillystigmata]

Y’all think this is a joke.

[theaisyapping]

Grown up Arya and Sansa doodle

[g0lightly]

this isn't a gotcha. as a black sansa lover who really admires you, i just wanna know your thinking behind this. but addamsvelaryon's joke about jonestown was really hurtful to see and i unfollowed her when i saw her double down on it. do you not think that what she did was antiblack? i rlly trust ur takes bc i know u call out bigotry no matter who it comes from, so i'm a bit disappointed. many other black people called her out, and it's hard for me to believe that u didn't see them do so.

I had to take some time to look into the context of Jonestown and it honestly made me sick to my stomach. Previously there was a situation where she was being accused of insinuating someone else was racist for misspelling Addam’s name when the insinuation came from someone else. Black mutuals of mine expressed that they did not believe that it was fair to blame her in that instance and I followed their lead. However that is not the case this time around.

In the past I’ve regretted not reaching out to people before SB’ing and have made a resolution to reach out first. I couldn’t bring myself to do that delicately in this situation though which delayed me from taking action. However I realized that feeling is an answer in and of itself, so I’ve moved forward with the SB.

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[neenarchive]

they should have adapted daphne du maurier's rebecca with the muppets

[neenarchive]

[shouty-y]

Lesbian knights ⚔️

[slayingasavagegiant]

—a storm of swords, catelyn vi

[bugprinz]

each time i draw cat i turn her hair more Auburn and less Red

[g0lightly]

What an odd way to spell AO3

[nyxqueen97]

i think a lot of showverse fans/key 5 phenomena/ reddit-twt standom culture has done irreparable damage to how ppl speak about these characters , grrm has his flaws as a writer but like i think in general he knows what he's doing, i love the starks im able to recognize their flaws and the protag/classic heroes/heroine journey he puts on them it doesnt mean they won't be in dark trajectories this is especially viewed with the current underworlds esque the stark kids are under, i do think there's a lot weird biases within different corners of fandoms but i think enjoying the idea of jon becoming darker or not everything working out in his favor is not saying "you think jon is evil for being a bastard way to preach catelyn dogma🤨????" and its like noooooo i think his clear hangups about his identity and the stresses and brainworms his current relationship with power AND bastardy both within himself and his upbringing with Cat/ned, his targaryen reveal, the blackfyre historical symbolisms and him being a planned messiah baby is bound to make him crashout eventually and pull some things he might not have wanted to originally , germ is not as cynical as ppl think but he likes writing horror, he likes writing irony, he likes conflict,drama,tragic cycles and the human heart in conflict with itself and things that are more akin to tragic heroes all these are hugely emphasized in characters like jaime and theon ect which are in direct parallel and contrast to jon sometimes and thats way more fun to talk about then how he's going to be a traditional hero and have bunch of magical ai babies that tiktok slop tries to push as a good ending for him

[nyxqueen97]

This is kinda relating to ppl who think Tyrion won’t cause any discord/damage among the Lannisters/starks and dany or that Quentyn’s death won’t mean anything to dorne like this is the biggest cope I’ve ever seen from fans

[grendelsmom]

People on twt being mad when Tanselle recieves merchandise and Valarr doesn't, because she is "not as important as him". Like damn some of you guys really are larping that medieval peasant mindset.

Sure, within Westerosi society Valarr is way more important than Tanselle. But like... this is not Westerosi society. This is a story. And Tanselle and her relationship with Dunk is arguable a moving force within that story, while Valarr is set dressing at best.