pray harder

stern, humorless, unforgiving, grim in his sense of duty.

[maidensfantasy]

im jordan, i care about starks and baratheons and thats ab it. team job application. nedbert truther and enjoyer. sansa and dany stan. robert baratheon is my worstie and favorite science experiment .

main — @dcftones

[osteoglosssidae]

Stannis.

[greenbloods]

re: the discussion about karma in asoiaf, i think it's so fascinating that one of the things that damns cersei in the end is her relationship with lancel. lancel is so constantly treated as a joke by the lannister kids in the earlier books, as an unimportant person, that it would have been easy for george to push him out of the narrative as soon as he outlasted his usefulness after the battle of blackwater bay. but the narrative cares about lancel, cares about his emotional state, about his victimization. it doesnt treat the fact that he was exploited by cersei as a vulnerable 16 year old as a joke like the other characters do.

the fact that lancel turns to the faith of the seven as a way to make sense of his trauma falls in line with how aeron and mel do the same for their own griefs, and the way that theon seems to turn to the old gods in the godswood after his own treatment--the physical descriptions of lancel and theon are strikingly similar. lancel and aeron and theon all seem to be aged severely by their trauma (while mel is the opposite, appearing youthful despite being the oldest living character of them all)

[greenbloods]

i guess in the end im just glad that lancel is taken seriously by the narrative, and that time and time again george takes the hopes and sorrows side characters as seriously as main characters. whether it's lancel or lancel or penny or eroeh or hazzea or the miller's boys, the one thing that is punished by the arc of the story time and again is the belief that certain people matter more than others

[greenbloods]

arya's decision to kill chiswyck because of how he raped and murdered layna is one of those storytelling choices that really show how the little people are prioritized in the narrative. like sure arya couldve used her jaqen h'ghar genie wishes on killing tywin or whatever. but the whole point is that layna mattered too. the death of mycah weighs heavily on arya and ned, and the fact that of all of the Hound's crimes it’s mycah’s murder that he stands on trial for at aryas insistence is significant as a story choice.

it's telling that arya's prioritization of the 'little guy' is reflected in all the starks in different ways. sansa saves dontos hollard. robb spares osha. jon saves the old man the freefolk tell him to kill. bran probably has a moment that im blanking on right now. rickon is four.

[greenbloods]

in a series where the meaning of heroism is constantly upheld and subverted in different ways by characters such as stannis and rhaegar and robb, it stands of note that the most consistent way a hero is identified by the narrative is how they uphold the worth of the ordinary person, even when it doesn't benefit them, even when it hurts them. lyanna “that’s my fathers man you’re kicking” stark, the knight of the laughing tree, stands up for howland reed. dunk kicks a prince of the crown for the sake of a puppet girl. maybe it's true that there's no such thing as a true hero, and that all honor is a mist that melts in the morning. but a common person is not "no one."

an ordinary person is worthy of being saved.

[gameofgreen]

Hotd writers workbook each season:

-Sexually humiliate team green for shock value by inventing non-f&b scenes.

-Turn a civil war into a psychosexual lesbian story between one bad (victim) woman who needs to be constantly punished and one good (victim) woman who is constantly restrained by her gender.

-Glaze girlbossified victim rhaenyra, her feminist sex-trafficker advisor and to an extent her pdf daddy husband (ironically even GRRM was not up their bottoms as much as ryan condal and his writers are).

-Humble alicent through SA by framing her as constant victim of her own side to 1) justify her supporting rhaenyra over her kids 2) for #them to go > she deserves it for daring to support her son against queen rhaenyra, the greens are SO horrible, this is what inventing patriarchy does!

-For the gazillionth time, show how immoral criston cole is.

-Repeatedly depict all of tg as deviant evil misogynists and all tb as goody two shoes feminists by adding more non-book scenes, nuance be damned.

-Milk daenerys and asoiaf prophecy as reserved quota.

-Give most tg screentime to alicent who isnt even tg anymore but another rhaenyra stan.

-Add plagiarized dialogues to show how simultaneously girlbossy and victimised all hotd women are, particularly rhaenyra.

-Allude how every medieval woman against rhaenyra MUST be a pick-me hypocrite woman for trump and every woman for rhaenyra is the most perfect badass feminist ever lived, there is no inbetween.

-Only and only rhaenyra is allowed to love, cry, feel for her children in this show.

-Bare minimum characterization for the velaryons. Their portion of tb screentime is given to rhaenyra, daemon and mysaria.

-Make the greens weaker, more divided and pitiful for #their gratuitous gooning.

-Remove all f&b nuance that GRRM wrote and reiterated in his blog to turn the story of the entire dance into tb best, tg worst propaganda for fave self-inserts.

*Best Show Ever!*

[thewatcher0nthewall]

"Dance with me then"

[bugprinz]

lord please bring my family back together

[fosterova]

Everywhere in the world they hurt little girls Book Dany and Sansa

[brishollow]

getting so sad during both their POV chapters where one just wants a home and the other wants a fairytale prince because they’re LITTLE GIRLS

[homurakemiofficial]

[Closing my eyes] [smiling peacefully] I like to make bad things happen because I'm a bad person and my blood is not unlike a corrosive poison.

[torturexprince]

Shireen Barahteon and papa

[amartworks]

He plucked the crown from its pillow and stepped forth. Carefully as though putting a bird back in its nest did he place the crown upon Robert’s head. It weighed of nothing. It weighed of everything. “All hail Robert of House Baratheon, the First of his Name. King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. May he reign justly, and may his heirs rule justly thereafter, and their heirs, thereafter and for ever. Long may he reign.” “All hail King Robert!” roared the sept.

[dracaria-dracarys]

In the name of the Warrior, I charge you to be brave. In the name of the Father, I charge you to be just. In the name of the Mother, I charge you to protect the young and innocent.

SER LYONEL BARATHEON & SER RAYMUN FOSSOWAY

[visenyaism]

No one’s gonna remember to write anything about rhaelle targaryen in canon so I’m free to make up that she was doing daena defiant things in her mind. fifteen married for a year looking at that ten pound newborn baby like there there one day we are going to kill them all

[visenyaism]

rhaelle extremely bitter she was sold off sent away age eleven the only one in her family actually forced to be a pawn for her dad’s politics making a token appearance at court to watch the little girl that her siblings who broke their betrothals to elope with each other named after her get married off against her will at twelve to her own brother. For what. A dream? Worst of both worlds and it is only ever going to get worse. King Aegon and Ser Duncan presiding. Wondering at what point she started raising her son to kill theirs and realizing it has long since passed.

[maidensfantasy]

nedbert is so pseudo-incestuous its great

[maidensfantasy]

theres something about using one another to replace the blood brothers you’re not close to. Robert being eager to marry into ned’s family so they can be bound by blood. ned telling catelyn over and over that robert loves him like a brother. i know westeros is fine with cousin marriage, but the idea that they don’t act on their obvious desires because of 1) robert’s betrothal to lyanna and 2) the almost sanctity of their relationship if that even exists. They grew up closer than brothers and shared a father figure, and at least for ned it might feel genuinely incestuous to think of robert in any way but platonically

[maidensfantasy]

nedbert is so pseudo-incestuous its great

[hushonline]

*Bobby B In love in a heterosexual way*

* I don’t want to swallow swords, I just want to -

-f**k-my drunken bro *

#

[jeyneofpoole]

theon ii acok of course is infamously the breastmilk and groping chapter but if you think about it for more than two seconds it literally makes you want to tear your skin off. this was not the pyke he remembered. or did he remember? he had been so young when they took him away to hold hostage. he’d looked for a few of the friends he’d played with as a boy, but they were all gone, dead, or grown into strangers. i liked you better when you were nine. what if the prodigal son’s return was actually a humiliation ritual and also he kind of isn’t even a prodigal son because everyone hates him and also his sister is fondling his dick like the whole time.

[maidensfantasy]

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