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Avid Jaime and Brienne Shipper.  Devout Liliana Vess Stan.  Obsessed with Meh Yewll. My love for misunderstood anti-heroes is eternal and I will defend them with every ounce of breath in my lungs (or power in my laptop).  Aquarian - need I say more? ;)

[ladyylynx]

tired jimbo warmup doodle from a while ago

[jotonomy]

on this episode of we’ll always have book!braime: let’s begin by talking about how bad jaime lannister is at thinking brienne is ugly. jaime. you can’t go on about how she’s ugly and then compliment her and then mentally wax poetic about her eyes. they’re  astonishing.

and my dear, darling, sweet little brienne just repeating his words back to him ‘it becomes you.’ brienne getting flustered and trying to explain away why she looks different/better. 

also, jaime sent a septa to make clothing for brienne. jaime did it. without warning. 

just set me on fire, it would be less painful.

[brienneoftarth]

She does have astonishing eyes.

[scorpsik]

Gwensday x

@brienneferguson @weemssapphic @theswordmaiden @kitkat-kattywack

[atopvisenyashill]

i mean that really is got in a nutshell, it takes the book scenes and deprives them of context to be nothing but wow shocking gory or sexy scenes. so the red wedding which is the hinge on which the entire riverlands arc swings is shown on tv but purposefully in a way where ONLY the red wedding is shown and not it’s consequences. no personal arc for jaime, no growth in maturity & morality for brienne, no overreaching arc about the way the people of the riverlands have completely lost their faith in ~the social contract~ bc of the red wedding and are turning to all sorts of subterfuge, violence, and magic as a result of that loss, no point about how it always the most vulnerable, the youngest, our children and next generation that pay the steepest price for the ways we allow the oppressive structures around us to continue, and certainly no bringing the riverlands into the overreaching arc of magic returning. but we DID get to see the robbwind corpse, absolutely.

[brienneferguson]

Gwendoline Christie in HBO's Naked & Exposed (S3E05, 2013)

He just needles her too far and she stands up before him—even putting aside all of Brienne's very deep and very painful complexities and insecurities about her body and being a woman—she stands before him naked and basically says 'Do not mess with me.'

[scorpsik]

Gwensday x

@theswordmaiden @weemssapphic @janewaykove @kitkat-kattywack

[chickren]

the way that jaime and brienne are created to be unobtainable to each other is so damned delicious

brienne is the embodiment of virtue. so naturally she thinks jaime is an utter reprobate. irredeemable. and if she didn’t already know more of jaime’s crimes than anyone else on earth, he makes sure she knows the ones no one else ever pinned on him, like rossart. but the thing is, he longs to be considered just. he is dying to be thought honorable.

it rarely comes up in his chapters, but everyone else in the universe knows that he could have basically any woman he wanted. the only time you hear him even vaguely imply it is with catelyn, but it’s a known thing. then he encounters brienne. and she sits there, judging him, obviously wishing she had an excuse to kill him herself. she is not playing hard to get, she actually is impossible for him to get. how could this honorless criminal hope to tempt her? she is beyond his reach.

then you have jaime. a legendary beauty. born the heir to a great house, the most powerful house. he is considered the greatest swordsman in the land. and to top it all off, he’s not only a member of the kingsguard but is the lord commander. he’s both what brienne wants to be and what she wants to fuck.

and he immediately confirms for brienne that he thinks what everyone thinks: she’s ugly. she’s a woman in breeches who fights like a knight, which is grounds for more than half the people she meets to disdain her. and the things that might make her an attractive mate to some men are meaningless to jaime—her inheritance is inconsequential to him, he gave away more power than her lesser house would ever possess. he’s completely out of her league.

so what happens when you tell someone that something’s off-limits? when you say: “them? you can never have them.”

[ellaria]

Game of Thrones (2011 — 2019) 8.02 ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’

[pompeianred]

Brienne of Tarth ASOIAF as historical paintings (30/∞)

Art: Watchman, What of the Night? (prev. Joan of Arc) (circa 1867) by George Frederic Watts

[winnie-the-monster]

“Ser Jaime?” Even in solid pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman. “I am grateful, but….you were well away. Why come back?”

A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. “I dreamed of you,” he said.

[iheartgot]

[plaguebeasts]

Shes so beautiful to me *remembers that her ugliness is a vital piece of her character and also showcases the reality of how unattractive women are treated irl* i mean no she's not

[theartofcinema]

I am grateful, but you were well away. Why come back?

A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. “I dreamed of you,” he said.

[ilynpilled]

In regards to your Brienne post what do you think her endgame is going to be?

Other than her being knighted, I want her to live. I think she is the legacy of knighthood reconstructed. She is the conclusion to a question that was proposed in the narrative. Honestly, unpopular opinion, but I would want her to just go on her own way. I would like it to be vague. I want her to succeed in her primary goals: not fail to protect Jaime like she feels she did to Renly & Cat (and probably her father, think Tarth will fall and he will die too):

“I swore an oath to keep him safe,” she said to Rhaegar’s shade. “I swore a holy oath.”

“I swore to keep you safe,” the wench said stubbornly. “I swore an oath.” Naked, she raised her hands to Jaime. “Ser. Please. If you would be so good.” The steel links parted like silk. “A sword”

But in the end she failed him. Renly died in my arms

And when the shadow sword sliced through the green steel gorget and the blood began to flow, she saw that the dying king was not Renly after all but Jaime Lannister, and she had failed him.

She had failed Renly, had failed Lady Catelyn. She must not fail Jaime. He trusted me with his sword.

find the Stark sisters and return them home, and sing. At the end though, I would want her to no longer be tied to any of these people. If Jaime lives, I think he will take the black (whatever this will mean) and they will be separated forever. But she will still have Oathkeeper. I also think once she fulfilled her oath she should also not be tied to the Starks. After all:

"Will you drink red or white? Of indifferent vintage, I fear. Ser Amory drained Lady Whent's cellars nearly dry."

"I trust you killed him for it." Jaime slid into the offered seat quickly, so Bolton could not see how weak he was. "White is for Starks. I'll drink red like a good Lannister." (very funny considering the color symbolism that is happening with this man right now 🤭)

"I would prefer water," said Brienne.

I want her to be a knight, maybe continue traveling the land and help whoever is in need, or return to Tarth. Would not be crazy about her taking vows tying her to the service of anyone, even if it is Arya or Sansa. Wouldn’t want her to be a sworn sword or a Kingsguard for the rest of her life. I think that would not make the most of her potential. Her vow is to return them home, not to serve them for eternity. I want her to be her own knight, who is not loyal or tied to a single person or institution (even if those institutions are changed for the better, or if the person she serves is good) but loyal to the smallfolk that need her strength and protection. I think that is her real duty.

[mllebennet]

[wpmorse]

Jaime took one look and burst into song. "Six maids there were in a spring-fed pool . . ." Jamie III - Page 285

Our heroes travel through Maidenpool and see more carnage, most notably its famous pond being polluted by corpses. Naturally, Jamie has to open his big mouth.

It took me some time to decide how to do this picture before decided to have Jamie, Brienne, and Cleos riding in the foreground. Regrettably, there wasn't much room to show Maidenpool. It might be just as well. My best reference for medieval villages has been the paintings of Bruegel, and his villages are intact.