a Girlboss of the seven kingdoms

• stan acc for everyone’s favourite celibate whore • follows from @indiekidsupremacist •

[fortunate-hal]

i'll accept girlboss lord commander of the kingsguard brienne if it's played for tragedy and brienne gets to do summerhall 2 and finish off the targ dynasty for real this time

[chickren]

every powerscaling r/asoiaf thread ends up being a bunch of jaime haters explaining to grrm why he's wrong about the character he godcreated

[chickren]

to say nothing of the ctrl+f brienne issue

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

#the thing is that jaime being that good at swinging that stupid stick is legitimately a huge part of his psychology #like he is invincible #it was his whole personality for decades of limbo for a rzn cant believe they wont even give that shit to him (via @ilynpilled)

#although honestly they won't put brienne on the list because none of them take jaime seriously #they'll add loras lmaoooo who she fucking canonically BEAT #and who jaime says she would destroy #jaime who's like give that woman a valyrian steel sword and she'll conquer this whole continent #jaime sees her with a sword squaring off with a bear and thinks oh she's got this (via @chickren)

[ilynpilled]

redditors do not understand the mind of the true powerscaler

[maestergirl]

always happy with my decision to not read any of that Mormon’s books!

[rhaegars-cervix]

i have the one and only valyrian steel labubu

[mummer]

[ilynpilled]

this has to be the funniest clip of all time

[incorrecticeandfire]

[goldcrescent]

the thing is Cersei could have no scoped that interrogation if she just decided to be catty about it. “Oh so it’s suspicious that all three of my kids are blond while Robert’s bastards look like him? Meanwhile I’ve been to your house and FOUR of your kids are improbably ginger and your bastard looks like you but did I barge into your kitchen and accuse your wife of fucking her brother 🤨?” like Ned would have had to back off immediately

[goldcrescent]

to be clear she’s NOT thinking of Jon and could not identify him at gunpoint, off the top of her head she fills in the blank as the bastard being Arya because of the Joffrey incident but accidentally pinpointing the right number of Ned’s biological children makes the argument even stronger

[goldcrescent]

if Jon had ever been in her direct line of sight long enough her Extreme Beef With Schoolchildren instinct would have kicked in so viciously that she’d immediately go into a Will Graham detective trance and connect it to Lyanna Stark on the spot

[tweedstoat]

Ok but the Kingsguard is basically a boyband of ugly people that commit war crimes for their manager

WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS

[tweedstoat]

[asoiastarks]

the king is like simon cowell and the kg is one direction but if they did war crimes

[kingsmoot]

i have been making myself happysad over bronn and lollys all day btw. bronn isn't even like outstandingly sweet to her or anything he's just sort of calm and decent. and doesn't think she's a fat useless cow nor tell her that she is. so poor lollys is like i'm so in love with him, my lord husband is an angel to tolerate a creature as pitiful as me. and bronn is like jesus fucking christ, kid, stand up. please.

[kingsmoot]

she tells a joke at some point that makes them both laugh until they cry and then when bronn looks back over at her she's crying for real because that's like the first time an adult has listened to what lollys had to say enough that they actually respond to her and bronn is like [awkwardly reaches out a hand to pat her shoulder before yanking it back]

[kingsmoot]

like watching a previously beaten shelter dog fall floppily head over heels in love with a dude who's not that emotionally involved but is very good about providing structure and routine and not making any loud sudden noises

[wulfhalls]

daemon: ten years and u never once asked me to be your hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!

viserys: ok name one policy idea from the top of ur head rn

daemon:

[helaenarts]

‘Such a restless girl, our little queen. She seldom let more than three days pass without going off for a ride. Some days they would ride along the Rosby road to hunt for shells and eat beside the sea. Other times she would take her entourage across the river for an afternoon of hawking.’

Cersei VI A Feast For Crows

[greenbloods]

genuinely i dont even think that asoiaf believes in karmic justice, but it does absolutely believe in narrative retribution. the difference is one of proportionality: none of the characters deserve what's happened to them, but they all 'cause' their own fates on a broader scale. this is what a lot of the "subverting expectations" criticisms of the book get wrong; bad things don't happen to characters out of random chance, they happen as a reflection of their earlier actions.

jaime calls bran a cripple and thinks he would be better off with 'a good clean death,' and when he himself is crippled later he realizes that he would rather life over death. ned unjustly beheads gared and lady with the greatsword ice, and is himself unjustly beheaded by his own sword. jeyne calls arya a horseface, and she later has to masquerade arya for her own survival. even catelyn's death has a strange poetry: her last act before having her throat sawed is murdering jinglebell--the only frey present at the red wedding who was an innocent--in exactly the same way as she is killed a minute later. everything you do comes back to you, but that doesn't mean what happened to you was just.

i dont think it's a coincidence that every act of one-to-one retributive violence in the story rings hollow: arya killing the tickler, vargo hoat's dismemberment and death at the hands of the mountain, brienne killing shagwell the fool, jorah the slaver sold and branded as a slave. these aren't moments that give the characters catharsis. even the large examples: valyria salted the wreck of old ghis to make sure nothing could grow there again and enslaved half the known world and in return old valyria is a smoldering doom half-sunken into the sea, likely at the hands of the very slaves they ruled. 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. asoiaf's narrative retribution is karma without the justice.

[novembermorgon]

tybolt lannister you were mentioned once in passing in dunk and egg and then never again. but i love you. we exist.

[greenseer-blog]

the thing about stannis baratheon is, imagine him on tumblr reblogging a picture of a snail smoking a blunt like “this is illegal and unethical on a number of levels”

[visenyaism]

okay discourse over we’ve settled it now

[visenyaism]

[branwinged]

More than anything, Cersei wants to be respected like Jaime and the other men in her life; she does not rebel against the patriarchy so much as internalize the misogyny of it, believing that she should have been born a man so that she would be given the respect she feels she deserves. In many ways, she lives vicariously through Jaime, claiming that they are “one person in two bodies” and taking pride in his accomplishments. Lena Headey, who plays Cersei in Game of Thrones, claims that her rejection of Jaime when he returns without a hand is deeply tied to that hand being the way in which she wielded power, a power now denied her.

Shiloh Carroll, Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones

[lannistertwinz]

she does not rebel against the patriarchy so much as internalize the misogyny of it, believing that she should have been born a man so that she would be given the respect she feels she deserves.

This contradicts much of what I’ve seen over the years in fandom—particularly the idea that Cersei would aspire to be a female warrior like Brienne. That just fundamentally overlooks a core aspect of Cersei's personality (as well as that of the other Lannisters): her concern with how she is perceived. Emulating Brienne—someone scorned and derided by both men and women for defying conventional femininity—would mean losing the respect and admiration that Cersei does crave. Cersei isn’t interested in subverting social norms, she seeks to claim power and status within them... something she couldn't achieve as a social pariah like Brienne but rather would expect to attain as the quintessential male ideal embodied by Jaime.