ᵂʰᵉʳᵉ ᶜʳᵒʷˢ ˢˡᵉᵉᵖ ོ

[maidensmelancholy]

The poetry you see in life does not diminish the profanity I see in mine. You look toward heavens; I see only the abyss. I cannot contain my tragedy. I cannot swallow it. It would be raw and tearing, like barbed wire at my throat.

Do I ask you to swallow your joy? No. I smile for you, even though that smile stretches the darkness, lengthening the shadowed corridor I must walk.

[unicornsandfigs]

“no squall could frighten dany, though. daenerys stormborn, she was called.”

— commission done by @adelikashere

[greenfirees]

My brain: do not say it. Me: says it, with flourish and conviction.

[melrosing]

Aegon VI/Young Griff for day 8 of huevember

[warp-speed]

Rhaena is pleading with Aegon "The uncrowned"

[winterosiee]

“She wore a garland of pale blue roses, and her eyes wept blood.”

A comm by asaisxart 💗

[greenfirees]

I don’t want ‘closure’; I want a sequel where I’m proven right.

[greenfirees]

I’m not avoiding responsibility. I’m letting it mature like a fine wine.

[visenyaism]

shout out seventeen year old Jaime Lannister for after undergoing the most traumatic incident of his adolescent life, breaking his Kingsguard oath to murder the evil king he was sworn to protect and also 3 other people because they were about to nuke the city, deciding that the most reasonable course of action afterwards was to sit on the iron throne and hang out for a bit.

[knightsickness]

discussing asoiaf intertextually is at the end of the day a fool’s game. ‘i think the themes grrm is exploring with the lannisters play interestingly with richard iii’ i can’t get asoiaf fans to read richard iii. most of them haven’t even read asoiaf

[archmaesterofevenfall]

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[forlya]

Dany and Jon visiting the tower of joy at different times and saw different things 

The present and the past of the tower of joy

Commission down by小八太难了



[whatagrump]

“The Warrior had been Jaime’s god since he was old enough to hold a sword. Other men might be fathers, sons, husbands, but never Jaime Lannister, whose sword was as golden as his hair. He was a warrior, and that was all he would ever be.”

Once again posting what is still technically WIP art in my “Jaime Lannister as the aspects of the seven” series (backgrounds/statues are still TK). Here’s Jaime as the Warrior, during his time in Robert’s Kingsguard.

close-up:

[quiddling]

unc 🐎🐎🐎

[saintjudasi]

war games

[blxckfireposts]

Maybe Caligula was onto something when he planned to make his horse a consul. I would elect a horse over most politicians nowadays.

[ghostofcrowss]

How many boys and men in Westeros have longed to don the white cloak, to take their vows, and stand amongst the seven most elite warriors in the realm? Before his fall, Bran Stark was among those who aspired to join their ranks. After all, they are regarded as the greatest knights in the realm, and yet they are not. The Targaryens’ formation of the Kingsguard, while noble in concept, quietly marked the death of chivalry, or at least began to erode and chip away at it. Seven knights sworn to defend the king and embody knighthood’s purest virtues. They wear white to symbolise purity and honour. Yet the Kingsguard fundamentally shifts the meaning of knighthood. This brotherhood does not elevate chivalry; it institutionalises it. The order crushes personal conscience beneath hierarchy and binds moral choice to obedience.

A true knight is charged to protect the innocent, to defend the weak, to uphold justice, and to act with honour. These are sacred vows sworn before the gods. They are not meant to be hierarchical, and they are certainly meant to be sacred. However, initiation into the Kingsguard brings another set of vows. The knight must protect the king and royal family with his life, obey every command, and keep every secret. His duty to conscience, the helpless, and the innocent now falls beneath his oath to serve an institution. This is what I mean by a hierarchy of oaths. It is not merely that Kingsguard vows can contradict knightly ones; it is that those vows are ranked. Knights are no longer guided by morality but by the command structure of power, where obedience eclipses justice.

Ser Duncan the Tall is perhaps the purest example of what knighthood once meant. As a hedge knight, he lives by conscience and honour. He defends the innocent at great personal cost, striking a prince to protect Tanselle Too-Tall. That moment defines true knighthood: acting for what is right, not for who commands. Yet when Duncan joins the Kingsguard, that same moral strength becomes restrained. He does not lose his goodness, but his ability to act upon it. The institution transforms a knight of conscience into one bound by silence. During his service as Kingsguard and Lord Commander, Duncan witnesses the suffering of Rhaella Targaryen, a child trapped in a miserable marriage and forced into pregnancy at a young age. At what point did Duncan’s courage fade? Surely he and Aegon were close enough for him to speak against it. His death at Summerhall may show that his moral core remained, yet it is tragic that his greatest act of protection comes only through a duty permitted by the same vows that once silenced him.

Jaime Lannister provides the perfect inversion of Duncan’s tragedy. He lives within the same hierarchy but refuses to remain silent. Jaime recognises that his vows betray one another and exposes how the Kingsguard transforms knights into instruments of royal will rather than protectors of justice. When he kills Aerys, he loses his honour in the eyes of the world but reclaims the essence of true knighthood. His rebellion restores the morality that the Kingsguard stripped away. Jaime embodies the decay of chivalry under monarchy, yet unlike his fellow Kingsguard ‘knights’, he breaks free from it. In doing so, he reminds us that the greatest act of loyalty a knight can perform is not obedience to power but fidelity to conscience.

It is so tragic that in seeking to bind honour to the throne and enshrine themselves in protection the Targaryens severed knighthood from its soul.