bran extremist

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Omar and Ibrahim are building a library in Gaza. You can learn more about their project and donate here.

We are not just building a library — we are rebuilding a chance to learn, and restoring books to their role in protecting what remains of our children’s and students’ future. Every book that reaches this library gives a child a moment of calm, a student a window to the world, and a person a reason to keep going.

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

Hello darlings,

Anyone read Gene Wolfe? I was reading a very complimentary GRRM blog post about him, and this Ursula K. Le Guin praise is what has me most intrigued:

All my love,

L

[stavosdivorcelawyer]

we were like two deaf men talking.

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[ilynpilled]

lol i did always think that the madness layer w dany is only really functional to me in a john brown way

[ilynpilled]

i am very curious about how this will be handled

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[marwyn]

But York’s eyes had drained him of his bluster. The man was a fanatic, Marsh decided. He had seen eyes like that before, in madmen and hell-raising preachers and once in the face of the man called John Brown, down in bleeding Kansas. Marsh wanted nothing to do with fanatics, with preachers, and abolitionists and temperance people.

Also from Fevre Dream (Marsh later delivers the “fire and blood” speech, post-character development)

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Lyonel Baratheon (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Kermit the frog (The Muppets)

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[ellemnopie]

if you are still taking requests, i'd love to see osha in your style! <3

Hey diva!! One Osha coming right up~

[torturexprince]

I have always wanted it.

[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?

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Henry VI part 1, Act 1 Scene 2

Jaime III, A Storm of Swords

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Henry VI part 1, Act 2 scene 4

Arya V, A Game of Thrones

Sansa I, A Storm of Swords

Jon IX, A Storm of Swords

[chevaliermesfait]

obsessed with these tabs that fold out to show banners in this late 16th century manuscript (you can see the full manuscript here):

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

Did not "enjoy" Henry VI part 1 but it was extremely informative for thinking about Brienne as a woman warrior and the societal ramifications of that, a very different depiction than the one we are so lucky to receive in ASOIAF

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

I'm not going to try and argue that GRRM has read The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki but is fascinating how that book & A Dance with Dragons both end with a young woman trapped via marriage experiencing terrible diarrhea right before war erupts

[lmaowh-at]

Dream

[souryam]

will you make a song for him

[dudstermezter]

pov your first day at a new job in the king's guard and you bump into a random lowkey cute drop your curl routine dude who you call a moron and he turns out to be Jaime fcking Lannister. and you're fired. 🫶

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

I really dislike when predictions of events (especially ones that happen in the show) are treated as fact and the characters involved are analyzed working backwards from them, as if these events have already happened in their arcs:

Stannis burns Shireen

Arya kills Lady Stoneheart

Bran becomes king

Dark Dany

even Jon's resurrection falls into this camp for me!

and so on

It's not that I particularly am invested in these fights/interpretations not happening (and in fact, probably a lot of these have a good chance of happening!), but I think it's so very pointless to discuss them as settled canon and base character interpretations and understandings in these events since we haven't seen the execution.

It makes no sense to me to discuss these things without seeing the context and how they are written. The plot point tells you next to nothing, it's all about how George composes the scene and characterization of the people involved, and that we don't know! And since we don't know, a lot of people instinctively fall back on the show characterization of events which I find to be incredibly frustrating.

I feel the wholesale adoption of these points is kind of intellectually stagnant, to be honest. There are entire swaths of TWOW that are predicted and treated as fact by fans, and I don't really think that's a good thing for our analysis and understanding of the books (and certainly not emotionally if it ever comes out lol!)