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The She-Wolf

✎ᝰ. anattmar_re

there's a lot going on here with jon re: working through his feelings of jealousy, exclusion, deep hurt, etc., by emasculating the baratheon princes in his head (and decided myrcella is insipid in the previous paragraph) instead of directing those negative emotions to his family. but! also. what i really love about this part specifically is the detail about the length of arya's hair.

later, we get this moment from sansa's perspective:

and then catelyn talking about her here to brienne:

and it makes me smile and makes my heart hurt because i can so easily picture catelyn wrestling with arya in the same way and arya squirming and fighting them every moment, and neither her or her maid being able to do anything with it. i imagine they kept it as short as catelyn would reasonably allow and might have just cut out whole tangled chunks instead of brushing them out, and i wonder how either of them would've felt about that, especially in comparison to how much catelyn loved brushing sansa's hair: would it have been traumatic and added to arya's self-esteem issues, or would she have been relieved? obviously not as traumatic as being called lumpyhead after yoren chops her hair off wildly, or being called arya horseface by jeyne and sansa, but hair issues are such a mother wound.

gotheyjoy

theon just arrived to winterfell and met ned’s firstborn son

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Little Brienne ✨

romanticize-and-decay

my boy

"Jon's eyes were a grey so dark they seemed almost black... [He] was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast... He had the Stark face if not the name: long, solemn, guarded, a face that gave nothing away."

tombware

Wanted to see how some ASOIAF ladies' faces would look like in my style

forlya

Join us for Lyanna culture event on X!

@lyannaweek2026

rhaenyraloversblog

Haunting the narrative final boss : Rhaegar Targaryen, Elia Martell, Lyanna stark.

aryaofoldstones

Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too. “You would do better serving Lord Tully at Riverrun.” "I’m too bloody lowborn to be kin to m'lady high.“ "You won’t be stealing no kisses from a princess.” "Arise, Ser Gendry.“ You could have made swords at Riverrun for my brother, she thought, but what she said was, “If you want to be some stupid outlaw knight and get hanged, why should I care?”

Hidden love

stark girlies in another universe

#lyanna stark #ashara dayne #catelyn tully

she-wolfblood

Why hasn't anyone made a post criticizing Ned and Robert's friendship? Every time I read about their interactions, I feel like punching something 💀 That relationship practically only worked because Ned was submissive and let Robert do whatever he wanted.

aerltarg

as a person who was raised with our local proverb "tell me who your friend is, and i will tell you who you are" (a literal translation of this equivalent of "a man is known by the company he keeps"), i just can't understand this. and, imo, ned's blindness to those he cherished, like robert and jon arryn, is a negative quality intentionally written by grrm. agot itself (yk the book that has ned among the main characters and heavily focuses on his arc) states again and again: ned, look at your friend, look. "love is sweet, dearest ned, but it cannot change a man's nature", the narrative itself makes ned realise that lyanna was right all along. which is hilarious bc at the time she was 14 at max talking about 18yo robert, but ned came to the same realisation at what? 35? lmao. if anything, tragical events of agot just further show how much it would take ned to see the truth of robert's character.

wrath-of-achilleus

fucking EXACTLY. It was so frustrating to read Ned's POV in AGOT because of exactly this.

It's also so insane to me that 'Ned's honour got him killed' is unquestionably accepted in the fandom, like no. It wasn't honour that forced him to accept Robert's request to come to KL and be Hand (he could have refused and cited his duty to Winterfell and the North). It definitely was not honour for him to overlook the deaths of Elia, Rhaenys, and Aegon, and to continue respecting Robert as a king. AND on the topic of Elia and the kids, it was NOT honour that led to Ned telling Cersei that he knew about her and Jaime. It was guilt, and fear. He literally starts the chapter thinking about dead children. Robert's Rebellion haunted Ned throughout AGOT, and that was what got him killed. And the stubbornness of his best friend.