if i look back i am lost

[palestickyprinces]

this is an ASOIAF blog! viewing is not recommended if dark themes may upset you.

potential TWs: violence, suicide, abuse, incest, sexual harassment & assault

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[prophicc]

Daenerys “Stormborn”, First of Her Name, wearing various crowns of House Targaryen

Bonus style of her own crown:

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[sierrabravoecho]

Brienne who has to dress up in male armour and Jaime who used to dress up as a girl as a child

[ilynpilled]

[flying-ham]

“It was a hair net of fine-spun silver, the strands so thin and delicate the net seemed to weigh no more than a breath of air when Sansa took it in her fingers. Small gems were set wherever two strands crossed,”

- Sansa VIII, A Clash of Kings

[weepingwidar]

Martin Voigt (German, 1990) - Schwarzer Zwölfender (Black Twelve-pointer)(2020/2021)

[greenbloods]

george has bad writing but it's rarely the 'bad' lines that the redditors give him shit for. yes i will defend 'fat pink mast' yes i will defend 'myrish swamp' and 'men call me darkstar and i am of the night' and 'the more she shat the more she drank' i actually dont care about any of them because they're effective for the tone and mood they're trying to convey. if im being honest my problem is that the dothraki dont get to be people

[ghostinwinterfell]

be a good girl.

[witchlingcirce]

Kind of funny from Tyrions pov because his read on Sansa is so off. Sansa telling him he wouldn’t like the godswood because she’s going to meet dontos + Tyrion thinking she would actually tell him what she’s praying for (she probably wouldn’t). Such a fun character moment for Sansa, the characters perceive her so differently from what we see in Sansa’s thoughts during her chapters.

[greenbloods]

people make theon out to be a lot more stupid than he actually is. yeah he's dumb as rocks in all the ways that matter. but to give him a little credit he did capture winterfell with twenty good men

[gazpachoandbooks]

The thing about Theon is not that he doesn't have the braincells. He HAS the braincells. We KNOW he has the braincells. He just ignores his ability to use them in almost every critical scenario he comes across. The frustration this generates on the reader is at least half of the character's charm!! He can't hear you yelling at him through the page to WAIT AND THINK and he's twice as compelling for it

[witchlingcirce]

This quote from Jane Eyre is going to be Sansa to Petyr in twow

[ghostinwinterfell]

hear me out…modern au dany as matilda. she spends all her time at the local library because it’s an excuse not to be at home and it’s the only place where she can hide from viserys. she devours every book they have, but her favorites are the fairy tales and she ends up reading those over and over again. one day as she’s reading the little mermaid for the one millionth time she’s approached by baby sansa. except she’s kind of just standing there and staring at dany and clutching a giant book to her chest (she’s like 99% sure that dany is a real-life disney princess because only princesses have silver-gold hair and purple eyes). basically sansa tagged along with robb and jon because they needed to pick out a book for their school project, but they only want to look at the comic books and sansa got bored of waiting for them so she just wandered over to the fairy tale section on her own. the only problem is that she doesn’t actually know how to read yet because she’s 3. lucky for sansa, dany offers to read to her because after going through basically the whole library she’s a better reader than any 5 year old has a right to be (she does the voices and hugs sansa during the scary parts and even teaches her to sound out some of words). dany wishes that someone would read to her once in a while too, but this is almost just as good.

[wittythunderwitch]

[queenaegon]

The Knight of Flowers shone so fine and pure in his white scales and silk that Jaime felt a tattered and tawdry thing by contrast.

everyone’s wondering who the younger more beautiful queen might be but none of them show any concern for this younger more beautiful lord commander…curious

[ilynpilled]

this is like watching an embarrassing 109 years old horse with a broken leg on the floor being kicked over and over again

[marquisoforder]

“And now you are older, my lord”

[ilynpilled]

he is just as dramatic

[ilynpilled]

jb

[fosterova]

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

[marwyn]

[visenyaism]

I can see that you don’t understand the importance of the Amethyst Empress myth being mirrored in Rhaenyra’s story via the female heiress being usurped and killed by her younger brother. It’s not some random occurrence that most dragons were born during Rhaenyra’s lifetime and her death ended the magic that made the dragons flourish. The dragon births coincide with Rhaenyra’s own blooming fertility and in the end Rhaenyra’s bloodline prevails against her usurpers. Rhaenyra’s life represents the height of Targaryen power and her death ended the dragons just as the Amethyst Empress could’ve brought a new dawn to the Great Empire but instead her death caused the Long Night. The Amethyst Empress had no bloodline to survive her so that’s why the Long Night happened. The survival of Rhaenyra’s bloodline is important precisely because of the role they will play in ending the Long Night.

I can see that you don’t understand that this interpretation of the text is over-literal, thematically myopic, and dumb. And most importantly, boring. Now what.

[visenyaism]

Interpreting asoiaf as a story about the eventual triumph of a chosen bloodline to the point where everything their ancestors ever did is retroactively completely justified to get them to that point is just so profoundly whatever. The only two characters in the main series who really believe that are like Viserys III (wrong) and Melisandre (double wrong.)

​Targs and Valyrians keep apocalypsing themselves and then when given the chance to build something better on the ashes of the old world, fail to do so. Dany is interesting because she’s the last one, and as a teenage girl, someone who the dynasty would’ve completely discarded in her own right. But the narrative points at her and says because of that she’s the first one that might get it right. Daenerys is a hero largely because of her own choices. Ones she makes largely because of an upbringing removed from the power, privilege, and mythology of her family.

The dragons died in the Dance because the Targaryens used their incomprehensible power to start a realm destroying civil war, and war is bad (even if Rhaenyra was obviously wronged) not because the world lost Rhaenyra’s “blooming fertility.” The purpose of the Amethyst Empress myth is to counterbalance the Azor Ahai one so we know that what one culture calls benevolent patriarchal self-sacrifice another calls murder. Question more things that the narrative tells you. I think you’re supposed to.