Slayed

Am I doing this wrong? Yes. Lesbian, disabled, book lover, artist She/they

[hellothehunterofartemisthings]

MY VERSION OF HARROW. EXCEPT with PEARLS bc I feel like pearls r kinda like bones??

[harsleywrites]

Being Team Greens or Team Blacks in a serious way when the entire tale is anti-war and anti-monarchy is next level stan brain rot I actually cannot

[ohwolfling]

The children Rhaenyra loses were children made in love and the children Alicent finds herself killing are the products of forced marriage in her childhood. Where Rhaenyra's older boys are both symbols of her capacity for love or sensuality, and die in some way as symbols of how the system punishes women for what is acceptable and even encouraged for men (bastards, lovers, sexual charm), Alicent's sons are her hurt made manifest. They shift from what validates and protects her (male heirs with Targaryen™️ looks) to evidence of how she fails in her roles (trophies of maternity visibly scarred) to representations of the patriarchy's sins against her (Aegon pulls the rug from underneath her, abandons his duties, neglects them and with Larys; Aemond romanticizes/fantasizes about sexually violating her and thinks it's protective to do so, he places her in competition with another woman).

Rhaenyra's identity is stripped from her and her vulnerabilities exposed and magnified as her dreams fall away... family, service, the existence men are allowed, eventually her masculine echo and/or gender nullifying partner in Daemon. She tries to become the throne and instead is stripped down to the animal, GRRM's sigil based themes made stronger by Helaena's assertion that the dragons do something to them, change them.

Alicent's identity is returning to her and for the first time challenged past its neutered teenage state as she attempts to kill the symbols of her violation and the system that owns and necessitates them.

[str4ngexmult1verse]

But I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze, My footsteps on the ground, You'll see my face in every place, But you can't catch me now

[queendayne]

right headcount. gwayne alive daeron alive addam alive. alicent in a field somewhere but alive. aegon has become the joker. rhaenyra looked hot in armour and had the pope murdered. daemon committed war crimes. i don’t want to talk about helaena.

[tashaneva]

*yuri beams your hockey yaoi*

[wingsseni]

irina and ilyusha 🤍

[iruutciv]

Hi I've been raised from the dead by a new ice gay show how is everyone else doing

[andiedraws]

More Burning Kingdoms Art

In honor of the sapphic gaze and Malini being so down bad for Priya, I tried to panel some key scenes comparing how her view towards Priya changes as they grow closer through Books 1-3.

The way she went from thinking Priya was “unlovely and forgettable” in the beginning of The Jasmine Throne to “You are like ink and all I want is to make poetry of you” in Oleander Sword to “could stare at that face for hours” is so funny/cute to me, but also heartwarming. 😆

(All text quoted in the drawings are exerpts from The Jasmine Throne, The Oleander Sword and The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri)

Enjoy!

[cairhienin]

thinking of her (lady bhumika from the burning kingdoms trilogy)

[doodlesnoff]

Bhumika Forgetting (1/3 of The Burning Kingdoms tryptic)

[doodlesnoff]

Remember the five minutes in Oleander Sword where everything was fine, and then nothing devastating ever happened to these characters 🙃

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

"Rao," Aditya called out. "I dreamt of you." ... "I saw your eyes, shining like stars."

("What had happened, to make them shine?")

"I don't know," Aditya said. "But Rao- perhaps one day we'll meet again, on the other side of this war, and you will be able to tell me."

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"I know now," Aditya said. "Why I dreamt of you as I did. Don't forget what stars are, Rao."

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What is a star, Rao thought, in Aditya's slurred, smiling voice, but distant fire, reaching for you across worlds?

[belpheg0r-luna]

Im reading the oleander sword and whatever is going on between Rao and Aditya is THE gayest thing I've ever read

[hellothehunterofartemisthings]

Literally they are so doomed it’s not even funny, as long as aditiya lives he will be a threat to Malani so he had to die (I mean obvi not fanfic writers write us the way out). Aditya come home baby the kids miss you

[belpheg0r-luna]

Im reading the oleander sword and whatever is going on between Rao and Aditya is THE gayest thing I've ever read

[bee2124]

How it genuinely feels to still be reading fan fictions from fandoms I’ve been in since I was 12

[andiedraws]

No one deserved to finally make love more than Priya and Malini, after everything they’d been through! ❤️‍🔥

(It’s been an extremely busy and tiring past couple of days, so all I could manage to draw was smut 😝👀)