no chance and no choice

she/her. illiterate & pretentious.

[helaenathedreamer]

isekaing into young cersei's body and bashfully alluding to receiving a prophecy about bearing three children for the king in front of rhaegar like dangling catnip in front of a cat for my personal amusement

[helaenathedreamer]

didn't love all the creative choices made for akotsk. HUGE fan of the magic bee funeral though. much more compelling than the baelor bbq, putting the fun back in funeral for sure

[helaenathedreamer]

so ser duncan the tall really is just dunk's knightsona

[visenyaism]

egg did summerhall is already a devastating realization that haunts the narrative but personally i do not think i will be recovering from the lord commander dunk was also almost definitely complicit in the kingsguard’s violent neglect of rhaella targaryen realization

[visenyaism]

literally like. dunks first moment of heroism his ascendancy into the One True Knight narrative is being willing to beat the shit out of a Targaryen prince to stop him from hurting Tanselle, a peasant teenage girl. And his last heroic moment was pulling Rhaella out of the Summerhall fire as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. it’s symmetry almost.

Except for the fact that Rhaella was thirteen years old and nine months pregnant when that happened. she was already a victim. And the Kingsguard which Dunk was in charge of were at her wedding. which she was noticeably twelve and ncredibly unhappy at. And between her wedding and Summerhall Dunk was still in charge of the Kingsguard. And did not do anything. so the question becomes: at what point in his life did Dunk decide it was not actually his responsibility to protect little girls like that anymore. no true knights in the kingsguard

[selkiesstories]

“no true knights in the kingsguard” excuse you

[visenyaism]

One of them started a civil war that killed everyone and one of them threw a baby out of a window. Among other things

[ilynpilled]

tbf when it comes to jaime’s track record with successful child murder id bet u that infant would survive the trebuchet

[ilynpilled]

he is like 1:10 rn and the 1 is when he helped cersei get that abortion

[ilynpilled]

the reason the suvudu experts were right and gurm was wrong about that matchup is bc hermione is a child which is an automatic guarantee of her survival against that man

[smartbeautifulliar]

In a scale from "Jaime Lannister" to "Anakin Skywalker," how good are you at child murder?

[ilynpilled]

i am glad we r coming full circle

[caracalliope]

LISTEN, he's the kingslayer and not the kidslayer. lannisters are not multitaskers

[ilynpilled]

doesnt stop him from trying

[ladystoneboobs]

i say there are 2 reasons the abortion worked as pre-child killing: 1. the power of women bc this was in no way a jaime solo job like the others 2. if cersei had robert's baby the kid would be royal from birth so kingslaying powers outweigh weakness against children (robb and bran did not have royal titles yet when jaime tried to kill them so the kingslaying powers were not charged up enough to overcome the child weakness. he just tried to kill them too soon both wrt their youth and crownlessness.)

[visenyaism]

egg did summerhall is already a devastating realization that haunts the narrative but personally i do not think i will be recovering from the lord commander dunk was also almost definitely complicit in the kingsguard’s violent neglect of rhaella targaryen realization

[visenyaism]

literally like. dunks first moment of heroism his ascendancy into the One True Knight narrative is being willing to beat the shit out of a Targaryen prince to stop him from hurting Tanselle, a peasant teenage girl. And his last heroic moment was pulling Rhaella out of the Summerhall fire as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. it’s symmetry almost.

Except for the fact that Rhaella was thirteen years old and nine months pregnant when that happened. she was already a victim. And the Kingsguard which Dunk was in charge of were at her wedding. which she was noticeably twelve and ncredibly unhappy at. And between her wedding and Summerhall Dunk was still in charge of the Kingsguard. And did not do anything. so the question becomes: at what point in his life did Dunk decide it was not actually his responsibility to protect little girls like that anymore. no true knights in the kingsguard

[helaenathedreamer]

doing a rhaenyra ck3 playthrough and rhaenyra's eldest daughter looks so much like her grandma <3

[ilynpilled]

we need to discuss the severity of this guy’s kingslaying addiction. imagine if bran does end up king in the books too

[ilynpilled]

no one in that poll is safe

[ilynpilled]

[attonitos-gloria]

sometimes I remember that Cersei and Tyrion are chasing and earning the Masculinity that is denied to them (Cersei because she was born a woman, Tyrion because he was born disabled) by becoming increasingly more Violent, exactly like the Manly Men who abused them (Tywin, Robert), and i feel like I need a cigarette. and I don't even smoke

[attonitos-gloria]

and then I remember Jaime was already pretty much there, in the perfect Male Spot his siblings are currently chasing, by giving his life to become the epitome of Manliness (a knight who perpetuates violence upon violence), and then he met someone who was not violent, actually not a man at all, and yet more of a knight he could ever dream to be

[theaisyapping]

Au: Jaime turns into Oathkeeper

Brienne's ✨magical sword✨

Bonus: it can talk (a lot)

[theaisyapping]

[ilynpilled]

(for bj nation) which one of the two do u like or care more for personally?

jaime

brienne

more casual jb liker/dont care for it

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[ilynpilled]

acok lannisters

[barnowlalys]

He looks hotter bald and broke

you might not like it, but bald, broke, hungover, covered in shit and starving is peak male performance. you might not like it but it's true, wench

[visenyaism]

The most compelling thing about daenerys targaryen to me really is that she is the very last one of them. No restoration no encores the prince the targaryens destroyed themselves promising is a little girl who cannot look back so the only home she can return to is the one she makes out of the world for everyone else with nothing to return to. That’s everything…

[visenyaism]

The valyrians salted the burning wreckage of old ghis to make sure nothing could ever grow again and in turn the wreckage of their empire is so inhospitable to life that anything that goes near it dies and aegon the conqueror put a blood curse on the burning wreckage of harrenhal so that nothing could ever survive there and in turn King’s Landing is going to be reduced to absolutely nothing. But when Daenerys the very last Targaryen leaves the world there won’t be a Targaryen on the iron throne and there might not even be dragons anymore but there WILL be a thousand thousand people who were able to build a home and plant a lemon tree in front because of her❤️

[lena-luthor]

you’d fall and I’d jump | via p.d

[greenbloods]

I think the ultimate fantasy that people have when depicting Brienne is thinking 'Well *I* wouldn't think she was ugly just because she doesn't fit medieval Westerosi beauty standards. In fact, I would think she was HOT!' OK. Cool. Would you still respect her if you did, in fact, think she was ugly though? Or is morality tied up with appearance still, just behind one additional layer of abstraction?

[insufferablelesbian]

all the female characters in asoiaf have to deal with beauty as a real, material condition that affects their lives. it's socially constructed, and maybe those constructions don't line up with our understanding of beauty, but that makes it no less real. the text is not concerned with whether Arya, Sansa, Brienne, or Cersei are attractive to a modern reader. it is concerned with the way it shapes their available choices. Brienne's choices for marriage are severely limited because people agree she's ugly. Cersei and Sansa are commodities in part because they are agreed to be beautiful. Arya is treated with more respect when she wears a dress and conforms to gendered expectations, but the supposed ugliness of her gender non-conformity merits worse treatment. what we think they look like is irrelevant.

[greenbloods]

All the characters in the books are text on the page, and we have no knowledge about their appearance other than through the filters of our POVs. Who and what is defined as beautiful is dependent on societal constructions of beauty.

That being said, I think that the reader who conceives of Brienne as physically beautiful to them is constructing a reading of her character which ignores the point, that Brienne is a worthy and honorable person regardless of her physical appearance. The point is not that beauty somehow isn't a material reality, the point is that it shouldn't be. That doesn't mean that Brienne is ontologically unattractive: within the story, Jaime is actively attracted to Brienne. But it does mean that a Brienne who is perceived as simply unconventionally beautiful instead of ugly by most every beauty standard seems, to me, to be missing the point.

What we think they look like isn't irrelevant. But what they look like is irrelevant to how they should be viewed as people.

[marwyn]