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#EliaMartellWeek Day 2 - Elia and Rhaegar

In early 279 AC, Princess Elia Martell and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen were betrothed. They married a year later, in 280 AC in a lavish ceremony at the Great Sept of Baelor in King’s Landing. Rhaegar moved their residence to Dragonstone shortly after their wedding, where later in 280 AC, Rhaegar and Elia’s first child, Princess Rhaenys was born.

#house martell #Elia Martell #elia x rhaegar

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The Course of the Empire: The Consummation of Empire (detail) 1836. Thomas Cole

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eliamartellweek • day iii • events of her life

#Dorne #Elia Martell

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Afternoon nap.

#big cats #walking in the mountains #beautiful day #land and sea

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Wild Jaguar Swimming in the Cuiaba River, Brazil by Sue Roehl on Flickr.

#big cats #swimming in my yard

bitchfromtheseventhhell

#EliaMartellWeek: Day 4 → Elia and her friendships.

#Dorne #Ashara Dayne #Elia Martell

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Brooch

Marcus & Co.

c.1900

The MET

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The sweet sister that she never had. She and Tyene had learned to read together, learned to ride together, learned to dance together. When they were ten Arianne had stolen a flagon of wine, and the two of them had gotten drunk together. They shared meals and beds and jewelry. (requested by @sabrinastarkmartell)

#houses #house martell #tyene sand #Arianna Martell #Dorne

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Game of Thrones Great Houses + Van Gogh

Source: art (x)

#houses #van gogh #house baratheon #house targaryen #house stark #house lannister

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“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through your hearts. You need her as she needs you…. “ GrrM

#houses #house stark

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If the new gods are based on Christianity (that's what I'm assuming), then what are the old gods and Rhollor based off of?

The Faith of the Seven is not based on Christianity as such (no messiah who died for your sins), but rather the complex hierarchy of the medieval Catholic Church: a High Septon (the Pope), the Most Devout (cardinals), septons and septas (priests and nuns), septs and grand septs (churches and cathedrals) complete with stained glass and statues, septries and motherhouses (monasteries and nunneries), penitent and silent and begging brothers (variations of monks), the Faith Militant (Knights Templar and other crusading orders), holy days, institutionalized misogyny (“shame!”), etc. The Seven themselves, which as aspects of the one god that are prayed to individually, are analogues of the Trinity (also with an influence of the pagan Maiden, Mother, and Crone); possibly some elements of Mary and the saints there as well.

The religion of the Old Gods is basically Celtic animism, with elements of paganism (Celtic and Norse), and also an influence of how druids were interpreted in literature and medieval cultural beliefs (worshipping trees, occasional human sacrifice). Bran’s vision of the past, with the priestly woman slicing a prisoner’s throat with a sickle before a heart tree, is very telling here.

The religion of R’hllor, according to GRRM, is inspired by the dualistic beliefs of Zoroastrianism and Catharism. There’s an excellent essay about R’hllor and Zoroastrianism and GRRM’s other influences over here on asoiafuniversity.

And since you’re interested, here’s a wonderful interview with GRRM where he talks about his worldbuilding of ASOIAF religions. Hope that helps!

bitchfromtheseventhhell

It was true that Aegon had been a friend to the smallfolk, had practically grown up among them, but to countenance the marriage of the heir to the throne to a commoner of uncertain birth was beyond him. His Grace did all he could to have the marriage undone, demanding that Duncan put Jenny aside. The prince shared his father’s stubbornness, however, and refused him. Even when the High Septon, Grand Maester, and small council joined together to insist King Aegon force his son to choose between the Iron Throne and this wild woman of the woods, Duncan would not budge. Rather than give up Jenny, he foreswore his claim to the crown in favor of his brother Jaehaerys, and abdicated as Prince of Dragonstone.

#houses #Aegon x Jenny

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PSA -

VILLAINS ARE VILLAINS.

Villains are not a precious little punching bag that’s going to stand there and take your shit and be sassy with their hand on their hip. If you mess with the bull you get the horns – if you push a villain, you will get the wrath of a villain. If your character is rude/disrespectful to a villain, especially one in a high place of power, and the villain lashes out (whether it be verbally or physically) –

THEN YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE UPSET ABOUT IT. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?

Don’t write with villain/cruel/evil characters if you can’t deal with a villain/cruel/evil character being less than nice to your precious cinnamon roll of a character. Surprise! That’s not how this works! If the villain suddenly kills your character without having spoken to you first, then you have absolutely every right to be mad. But if your character receives a verbal lashing or non-lethal physical response that is in character for the villain to give, then you need to deal with it.

I’m also sick of this sense of prerogative way of thinking certain characters hold when it comes to villains. This mindset of, ‘oh this person is evil, bUT OBVIOUSLY THEY’LL LOVE ME AND I’LL BE THEIR SPECIAL SOMEONE THEY WON’T HATE ME OR TRY AND KILL ME.“ NO. STOP THAT. You cannot go into interactions with villains expecting them to absolutely fall in love with your character/be best friends with them. This is why it’s most times excruciatingly difficult to ship/bro-ship with villains. And even if this does happen, you should expect a villain to still be aggressive and/or rude from time to time.

A VILLAIN DOES NOT STOP BEING A VILLAIN JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP.

I’ve written villains for a long time now, and one thing has been made perfectly clear – you will get shit for writing your character too IC and you will get shit for writing your character too OOC. You will be fucking cursed out for your character being aggressive to those who are rude to them, and you will be blasted for writing them being nice even just from time to time. So fellow villain writers – just let your villain flag fly. Don’t fucking listen to people who try and give you shit either way for your portrayal. To those who do not write villains – respect them. Just because your character is sassy and spunky, doesn’t automatically give them the right to try and be disrespectful to someone who is most likely superior to them.

TL;DR IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN. IF YOU CAN’T DEAL WITH SOMEONE BEING CRUEL TO YOUR MUSE, DON’T WRITE WITH VILLAINS.