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cersei lannister & sansa stark

elleo-nora

🐺Stark Sisters

pissbataille

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS— 1.02. Hard Salt Beef.

#damn. she looks so sexy 💋#akotsk

dudstermezter

oh sweet summer child 🐦‍⬛🍂🗝️

[c0mms open!🗝️]

#bran stark #art #u

salmonhere

Wolf girl

#arya stark #art #u

if only asoiaf fans were aware of the concept of bridal slavery. what agency do you people keep talking about??? like i’m sorry...but the way some of you talk about mirri's actions veers into the territory of forced sterilisation apologia. the dothraki are already othered in the narrative itself...but here comes asoiaf fandom acting more racist than their white author born in the 1940s. i'm mixing two separate issues here and it may come across as generalising the whole discourse but please bear with me!!!

#there are different forms of slavery...from the top of my head; there have been slave kings in south asia (it's more complicated than that #but still... l guess unsullied are a better comparison)#daenerys stormborn #mirri maz duur #khal drogo #rant #also dorne is not south asia adjacent ... peace and love on planet earth 🫶

vivacissimx

I’ve seen some Sansa stans claim that Sansa and Loras are the reversed in color Lyanna and Rhaegar, since Loras is dressed in blue and silver and gives Sansa a red rose and Rhaegar is dressed in red and black when he gives Lya a blue rose. Do u think this was intentional?

This again 😭 I've said before what the clear imagery during the Hand's tourney is: it's a metaphor for Sansa's burgeoning with fertility allusions abound (Loras rides a mare in heat), and the first clash with the truth of male violence (Gregor's sword is just a dick). Sansa's red rose given to her by Loras isn't analogous to the blue rose generally known for it's resilience blooming in dead winter either, and specifically between Rhaegar and Lyanna it symbolizes Jon the son of their consummated relationship, because the red rose is actually symbolic of heat and passion and it's quick fading. Sansa's red rose is a promise given to a flowering maiden (aka marriage) which is left unfulfilled by the end of the tourney, wherein no Queen of Love and Beauty is crowned due to Gregor's brutality and his ensuing fight with Sandor. At the end of the tourney, Sansa's seeming suitor does not crown her-- rather Sandor Clegane is the unexpected victor. And he is Sansa's unexpected romantic interest as well.

Beyond the red/blue rose non-equivalence, the rest of the color symbolism is not correct either. If we're following this logic then Loras is Sansa's LI but of course we know that's not just untrue, but entirely imagined by her as Loras later reveals he's forgotten the incident. Loras's blue flowers are revealed to not be flowers but SAPPHIRES, a stone which throughout asoiaf is used in concert with deception or hidden truths (in this case the trick is both explicit and implicit: the flowers are not flowers, and Loras isn't what he seems either). Jaime lies about sapphires to protect Brienne, Lysa Arryn the Lannister's false accuser wears sapphires at Tyrion's trial in the Vale, etc.

Sansa's association with red roses continues on with Marillion's "Roadside Rose" ballad, but also I would say her and Sandor's intertwining continues from the tourney imagery with her AFFC musing that he'd taken "a song and a kiss" and left her nothing but "a bloody cloak". The kiss never actually happened we know, but the same set-up of a maiden's ideas of romance followed by the violence of marriage (cloaking/maiden's blood) appears there, and with the same exact characters. Sansa and Sandor are pretty tethered when it comes to having had their naivety brutally destroyed so this all fits very well.

Personally I would say the 'blue rose' image functions most closely to metaphors such as Arya's black swans (the duck becoming a swan: obvious allusion to an oddball girl growing into a beautiful woman; that the swans are black: intriguing) or perhaps Bran naming his direwolf, the traditional Stark herald of Winter, as Summer. There's incongruities there which are revealing, and also are implied to be quite singular to the character(s) at hand, rather than a general metaphor.

eyeatgarbage

#u #daenerys stormborn #art

felderwin

as sad as myrcella’s death scene was in the show it was also kind of boring to have her respond so well to jaime’s confession right before. like imagine if she had called jaime a gross freak and then died immediately

#got #t

fagcrisis

game of thrones is a tv show in which jaime tells myrcella that hes her dad and that shes an incest baby and not only is she fine with this she tells him shes glad hes her father. and then she immediately dies of poison. this show won 59 emmys

#got #t