LadyRunestone

22. Currently writing ASOIAF fanfiction. But we'll see. We'll see.

[dogpuppy]

[greenbloods]

disco elysium-like: theon in winterfell, adwd

You stand over the parapet. All around you the crossbows are whistling in flight, nocking, tensing. Far off to the north was a warhorn sound.

LOGIC: Stannis. Our only hope, if we can reach him.

PERCEPTION: The cool air stings against your face. Time slows to a crawl.

ENDURANCE [medium: failure]: Look at you, thinking you could play the hero like the songs. You must be fucking insane. That's it, isn't it? The Bastard must have flayed your brain too.

SHIVERS [challenging: success]: The snows whispered in the autumn air, falling like ash. Like tears. Somewhere, deep beneath the bowels of the earth, the dead kings stand vigil over stone tombs, the swords stern and sturdy in their hands. In the heart of the woods the weirwood waits with its knowing red eyes.

SUGGESTION: Reek...reek....

INLAND EMPIRE [trivial: failure]: It rhymes with Mozambique.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [easy: success]: What the fuck is Mozambique?

A bolt passed within a foot of you, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel. Holly and Frenya were as good as dead. There was no sign of the other spearwives.

HALF-LIGHT: If they take us alive, they will deliver us to Ramsay.

COMPOSURE [formidable: success]: You feel Jeyne in your arms. She was the only warmth in the world.

CONCEPTUALIZATION [challenging: success]: You've only seen Bran climb these walls a hundred times. It's just like that, see? Just the other way round. All you have to do is fall.

PAIN THRESHOLD : Just like Bran.

DAMAGED MORALE -1

LOGIC: There's nothing else to do.

INLAND EMPIRE: No chance, and no choice.

Jump.

Jump.

Jump.

-1 Internalized Dog Motif. -1 Missing fingers. -1 Life is not a song. +1 The old gods know your name.

⚅⚄

SUCCESS: LEGENDARY

VOLITION: Deep breath in, out.

PAIN THRESHOLD: This is going to hurt.

You grab Jeyne about the waist, and fly.

[rhaemonds]

LARYS + ALICENT + CRISTON ↳ LARYS + AEGON, CRISTON + AEMOND

[ladyrunestone]

Like father like son or something

[ladyrunestone]

Jaimie, Cersei, Tywin, Stannis, Euron and Olenna, these are 6 of my favourite asoiaf characters, and guess what they all have in common?

[ladyrunestone]

I think had we known more about Baelor's canonical wife and their relationship and marriage, or how they felt about each other, people would've written less OCs and more about them than they are currently doing, which isn't much. But we don't know anything about her as a character or if she's even still alive or not when Baelor dies. The only mention we have about Jena Dondarrion in the books is just her name in the Targaryen family tree which you can find in the TWOIAF appendix. If not for that, we wouldn't have even known her name.

Sure we don't know much about Jena, but we can grasp enough about her and their dinamic simply by looking at where they come from and the political climate.

Jena is a Dondarrion, a marcher house from the stormlands. They have been the number 1 line of defense against Dorne for thousands of years. Baelor is the first half-dornish Targaryen after one of the deadliest conflicts in westerosi history, and what's worse is that he looks more Martell than Targaryen. I imagine there might be some bad blood there at first.

We know Baelor was good at diplomacy, and that the marcher lords as a whole think that the dornish people are liars, so Jena might have hated this part of his husband's personality and thought him dishonest.

The marcher lords at the time were the ones who were more vocal against dornish influence and peace with Dorne, and they distrusted both Daeron II and Baelor. A marriage between them would have been brokered to keep the peace first and foremost, and both would have felt the presure of the very balance of the seven kingdoms resting on their marriage succeeding.

And we do know that it suceeded, because in the First Blackfyre Rebellion the only marcher houses that sided with Daemon were from the Reach and not the Stormlands, where the Dondarrions hail from. What's more, in the Battle of the Redgrass Field, Baelor personally led the forces of Dorne and the stormlands.

We can infer more of Jena's character from the culture of the marches: they have a strong martial tradition, they are no-nonsense people, and they have their own particular tradition of epic poems.

We don't meet Jena, but we meet Ser Manfred Dondarrion, who must have been either her brother or her nephew. We know he's callous, stuck-up and selfish. In the show we see he's necrophilic and, after seeing his obsession with people who share his hair color, probably incestuous. A difficult character certainly. From imagining how a woman might feel living in the same castle as he, we can imagine much of what Jena must have endured.

It seems to me that there is enough meat there to have an interesting love story without needing to pull an OC niece out of the hat. Also, Baelor already has nieces. If they really want to go the incest route and shipping him with Maekar is not enough, there is Aelora to consider.

[branwinged]

"What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said. "By all rights, you ought to be in skirts and me in mail." Cersei to Robert in A Game of Thrones

RHAENYRA & AEGON HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

[ladyrunestone]

hypothethically speaking how would one go about killing your husband the king and securing a regency for your newborn son? further context: your daughter has a dragon but so does your unstable brother-in-law and your jealous cousins, and theirs are bigger.

[hidden-kingdom-of-yadar]

real life villains:

“what if we invaded our neighbor and jailed everyone who disagrees with us”

fantasy villains:

“700 years ago i infiltrated a secret order, manipulated seventeen bloodlines, forged six prophecies, and subtly guided one specific orphan toward a philosophical conclusion”

[ladyrunestone]

but like, what was the deal with myriah martell?

[maplebalderdash]

Cersei 🦁

[ladyrunestone]

I'm so mad... I was reading a fic that was so, so good... And then it was ruined by misogyny. We can't have nice things in the asoiaf fandom guys...

[frottinq]

I'm always confused by calls from vigilante justice from anarchists and people who hate cops in general. so you want to stop cops from their systematized violence and you want to replace it with... no rule of law or process to determine guilt or innocence aside from how people feel about the crime that was committed?

[frottinq]

like am I insane for thinking this is actually not an effective method of keeping people from offending, nor is it an effective method of determining guilt or innocence?

is the point of a justice system to assign blame for a crime and then rehabilitate, or is it to make the people who read about it feel better because we took an eye for an eye?

[sailatina3]

State-enforced agents who will enact systematic violence against racialized and transgender minorities for the supposed purpose of protecting the community or children ❌️

Your local heckin community members who will enact violence against racialized and transgender minorities for the supposed purpose of protecting the community or children ✅️

[stellarynn]

People need to get less Catholic about this shit. You can't punish your way to a better world, and irredeemable sins aren't real! You especially can't Catholicism your way out of child abuse, given the history of the church and children and all that

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ladyrunestone]

What if the dead wife/dead mum/dead sister was actually a terrible human being? What if you start idealising her after death because it is easier to forget the bad parts than to acknowledge that you will never forgive her? What if she's the reason you are like this?

[ladyrunestone]

Zev what the fuck have they done to you

[otherside-picnic]

even if God were real, it would be necessary to depose him

[otherside-picnic]

With your help, we will bring an end to the Kingdom of Heaven and enact the People's Republic of Heaven

[gotheyjoy]

my take on theon’s outfits