Knight of the Lemon Tree

faves are: Sansa, Arya, Dany, Brienne, Jaime, Catelyn, and Cersei. That's right, all of them. I am firmly against setting bad bitches against each other. header by @nasnyys / icon by @vaelaroyce

[ghostinwinterfell]

sansa and arya are not the villains of each other’s stories, sansa and arya are a reminder that there are no winners in a world that hates women and girls on principle. sansa conforms to the patriarchy and they hate her. arya rebels against the patriarchy and they hate her. sansa embodies the ideal westerosi highborn woman, so she is labeled as “stupid” and too naive for the real world. arya refuses to perform westeros’s narrow definition of femininity, so she is labeled as “willful” and unfit for highborn society. sansa and arya perceive their own gender identities in relation to each other, identities that are built on not being like the other - sansa is “the good girl, the obedient girl” and arya is the “wicked” girl. on one hand, sansa gains a false sense of security from not being like arya, believing that following strict gender norms will keep her safe (it doesn’t), and even if she slips up and is “bad”…well she might hate herself for it, but at least she’s not as bad as arya! on the other hand, arya believes that anything “traditionally feminine” is reserved for girls like sansa and is off-limits for her, that she is inherently less than and wrong and ugly because she is not like sansa. both sisters have been raised to compete for approval, for the status of being “real” girls, they are not allowed to coexist because there is only one way to be a highborn woman in westeros. nobody wins, they both lose their wolves, they both lose their home, their family, each other. and what are they punished for? the crime of being little girls.

[tywinarya]

Arya’s outfits JULY 2025

[mrsvnk]

Lady doesn’t like when they don’t match

[daisydoesdoodles]

"Lemon cakes are my favourite"

[justicesleague]

“The fate of Dorne goes with you, daughter,” he said // Doran Martell had put the fate of Dorne into his hands.

[knightofthelemontree]

How do you guys watch HotD? In every gif of the most recent episode I can't even make out where people are standing. Why is it so poorly lit?

Doesn't this show have like millions of dollars of funding? They can't afford one lamp? They can only use the prop fire?

[alinaerys]

“the singers would have us believe it was all rhaegar and robert struggling in the stream for a woman both of them claimed to love„ ⚔︎

the rebellion. my commission by brielaelaa on ig

[haros-bartossi]

whenever someone expresses a negative opinion about sansa stark I immediately tune them out idgaf. IDGAFFFFF

[asoiaf-art]

By anmenmai on X

[queenautavia]

The two stark girls lost their direwolves and gained a hound 💔

[fishfingersandscarves]

the beauty

[ghostgreen]

so my bff @sanrixian, big time ASOIAF head mugwump, is a fan of Darkstar, who is a character that never showed up in the tv show version. 

now, I have no familiarity with ASOIAF (only watched first 4 seasons of GoT lol), but I drew him from the book description, which is something like “a haughty and cruel but handsome man, with purple eyes and silver shoulder length hair divided by black”. aka goth daddy idk??? 

I have no idea if man boob windows are a thing in the ASOIAF universe, but there you go. 

@sanrixian‘s inks of my drawing are on the right! aren’t collabs fun?!

[ghostgreen]

I started reading A Clash Of Kings! Here’s some drawings from the prologue <3

[ghostgreen]

I’ve been reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time! Here’s some drawings I made while reading the first book. I’ve been craving medieval fantasy type stuff lately and it’s really hitting the spot. So many characters I want to draw, so little time …

[wingedhistories]

Sansa and Tanselle by Cj_KhalifP

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

I have no problems with saying that Sansa is less important that her sibilings still alive except Rickon but saying that she is not important at all and that GRRM does not care about her is senseless.

If she is exclusively meant to give texture to Arya's character why she has more chapters than BRAN THE FIRST CHARACTER EVER CREATED STARK? A character that STILL should only and exclusively be Arya's shadow would have so much space.

If she is just a cam why does she has a profecy still to complete that was mentioned in ARYA ONE OF GEORGE FAVE CHARACTER STARK? It is senseless and pure cope.

"if she was important GRRM wouldn't even think about kill her" honey, GRRM killed Ned in the book in which he was so central that most people thought he would be THE MAIN CHARACTER.

[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.