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We need to talk about the Angel And Devil and Another One sets!!!
THE FACT THAT EVEN DEVIL JYUSHI IS CRYING
THE ANGEL OSOMATSU NOT QUITE SURE WHAT TO DO
THE METAPHOR FOR ACCEPTANCE
I AM SO MENTALLY ILL ABOUT THIS WHOLE SET
ONTO THE NEXT ONE
DO YOU SEE??!? DO YOU UNDERSTAND??!!! THE STRUGGLE WITH THEIR IDENTITY, THEIR INNER PAINS, THEIR SELF-ACCEPTANCE, THE CONFUSION WITH THEIR OWN SELF??!!?? DO YOU SEE!!!!!!!!!! *FUCKING BLOWS UP FOREVER*
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Good Girls AU Fic Recs (1/3)
SO! I got tagged in by a few people to do some fic recs, and I’ve actually decided I’m going to do something a little bit different by tying weekly recs into the Good Girls rewatch and focusing on fics that sort of slot into canon around each episode. I’ll be posting the first one for 1.06 between the two rounds of the re-watch tomorrow.
That though does, of course, make it very hard to rec proper AUs, which is basically a crime, because AUs are the best, haha.
With that in mind, I decided to do a little three-part AU fic rec series too, so without further adieu! Here are a handful of fics I love!
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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.
Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.
This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉
More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.
When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:
Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.
Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:
Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:
And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.
After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.
Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"
Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.
Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((
Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀
can confirm it looks pretty much the same on mobile
if you already had your google account on the highest privacy settings possible (as i did with my main), gemini is off by default, there won't be anything in the extensions tab and you don't have to turn it off
but i did have to go through this process with my other accounts, so do check all of them
So this morning I, uh, “accidentally” wrote an essay outlining the highlights of Jaime and Brienne’s obvious buildup to a romance in response to someone on reddit referring to Brienne as Jaime’s “sister he never truly had.” It’s entirely based on canon and involves little to no interpretation. Since I’ve been kinda off meta lately, I’m adapting it for tumblr:
Jaime and Brienne are a romance and it would take an awful lot of ignoring both text and subtext to read it as platonic.
They begin their story with Jaime laying bare everything most reviled about himself. He owns who he is and what he’s done and Brienne is not at all naive to any of it. This is important.
Jaime doesn’t get a POV until he is on his journey with Brienne of Tarth, all the way in the third book. Their relationship defines his character arc. He spends a good portion of the first chapter admiring her body, although he does not seem to realize he’s doing that. We certainly do not get descriptions of Brienne’s legs from Catelyn. Jaime I also has Jaime’s first, but not only, admiration for Brienne’s eyes.
Their swordfight in Jaime III is an analogy for fucking. The “sword” is a euphemism for a penis fairly often, and that’s especially true here. The whole thing is full of subtext, but here are some choice outtakes:
“Give me the sword, Kingslayer.”
“Oh, I will.”
The swords kissed and sprang apart and kissed again. Jaime’s blood was singing. This was what he was meant for; he never felt so alive as when he was fighting, with death balanced on every stroke.
Left, right, backslash, swinging so hard that sparks flew when the swords came together, upswing, sideslash, overhand, always attacking, moving into her, step and slide, strike and step, step and strike, hacking, slashing, faster, faster, faster… until, breathless, he stepped back and let the point of the sword fall to the ground, giving her a moment of respite.
His point scraped past her parry and bit into her upper thigh. A red flower blossomed and Jaime had an instant to savor the sight of her blood before his knee slammed into a rock. The pain was blinding. Brienne splashed into him and kicked away his sword. “YIELD!“
Jaime drove his shoulder into her legs, bringing her down on top of him. They rolled, kicking and punching until finally she was sitting astride him.
Brienne lurched to her feet. She was all mud and blood below the waist, her clothing askew, her face red. She looks as if they caught us fucking instead of fighting.
Small wonder, we were making enough noise to wake a dragon. "Well met, friends,” he called to them amiably. “My pardons if I disturbed you. You caught me chastising my wife.”
That’s just one chapter.
When they’re captured, Brienne cares for him as a partner would. As Cersei never would have. Jaime tries to teach her his coping mechanisms when he fears she will be raped. Shagwell refers to them as “the lovers.” He later tells Qyburn that Brienne is his “protector,” a term used in the marital rites of the Seven in Westeros.
During the confession in the bath, Jaime pops a boner while looking at Brienne naked. He plainly has no idea what to do with himself, having only ever been interested in one woman before. He continues to think about her body.
In Jaime V of ASoS, he thinks of her as “such an innocent.” Later in Jaime I of ADWD, when asked what he likes in a woman, he replies “innocence.” Who in Jaime’s life could he be talking about? Definitely not Cersei. Brienne of Tarth is the epitome of innocence; she has only ever done the right thing, her entire life.
Jaime’s weirwood dream in ASoS sends him back for Brienne even after he keeps thinking how he can’t wait to get back to Cersei. This is the first but not last instance of Jaime choosing Brienne over his sister. The dream clearly shows to him that his father and Cersei will leave him, but Brienne is his literal light in the darkness. Again, they are naked. He thinks of her as having a woman’s shape and as “almost a beauty, almost a knight.”
He saves her from the bear pit without a second thought, saying he only rescues maidens. This is straight from a fairytale or a Westerosi ballad of knights and their ladies. It’s something Brienne thought she would never have, that she would be destined to play the knight forever, never worthy of being anyone’s maiden fair. But Jaime treats her as such, even if he isn’t fully aware of what’s going on between them yet. If Renly saving her from embarrassment by dancing with her was enough for her to drop everything to follow him, imagine the effect Jaime turning around to actually save her life against all odds just have. And then he just drops “I dreamed of you” on her?
In Jaime IX of ASoS, he gives Brienne Oathkeeper, and it is such a courtly act. He sends Cersei away angrily and in marked contrast bids Brienne to “close the door and come here.” Pretty much back to back. He and Brienne exchange awkward compliments for one another. He’s also outfitted her in a dress that he feels “becomes her” with a padded bodice. I don’t know many brothers who go out of their way to make the most of their sister’s assets. This chapter also has the “we know each other too well” line from Jaime. Brienne knows how he thinks at this point. Their back and forth here is exceptionally familiar and understanding. No one else seems to understand their motivations and desires the way they understand one another.
Jaime gives her a mare he says is as homely as she is. In Brienne’s first AFFC chapter, the same mare is described as “sweet to look upon.” Throughout this book, Brienne thinks often of Jaime. She can’t even stand to be in the same room as the men who start insulting him. She leaves instead to go gaze Oathkeeper and then later thinks about their bath together. She thinks of him as “half a corpse and half a god,” you know, as sisters often do. She dreams of failing Renly, but when the shadow kills who she thinks is Renly, it’s shown to be Jaime who has been slain instead. Other men Brienne has been romantically attached to in one way or another become Jaime Lannister in her mind. Repeatedly.
Jaime, meanwhile, is praying to the Father to give Brienne strength. This is the same character who has mocked the gods and religion. He thinks on more than one occasion (in both ASoS and AFFC) of fathers, babies, bastards, and being a better father if he ever got the chance again. On each occasion, his next thought is of Brienne.
And of course, there’s Jaime III in AFFC where we’re given a description of Brienne’s betrothal to Ronnet Connington. Jaime’s thoughts usually move at a rapid fire pace. But we aren’t given insight to Jaime’s thoughts during all of this. Instead we get:
“The sight of Brienne naked might have made the bear flee in terror.” Connington laughed.
Jaime did not.
and
Jaime’s golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed and the oil spread out, burning. “You are speaking of a highborn lady, Ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.”
It’s another installed it Jaime reacting quickly where protecting Brienne is concerned. He doesn’t think, he just moves. He then sends Connington far away from him so Jaime doesn’t have to look at him anymore.
Brienne later stumbles into some of the Mummers who held them captive and took Jaime’s hand. “That one was for Jaime,” she thinks when she cuts off one of their hands. Later in the chapter she falls asleep thinking of their fucking-instead-of-fighting swordfight and dreams of Jaime draping a rainbow cloak around her. Cloaking is, of course, akin to exchanging rings during marital ceremonies in Westeros. More on this later.
They spend the rest of their journey thinking of one another often. Brienne wishes Jaime was with her. Jaime pops another boner when resisting Pia and then thinks of Brienne when he hops into the bath to hide it. Brienne wonders if Jaime would comfort her if she returned to King’s Landing, much as Jaime wondered if Brienne would let him comfort her if he tried it after they heard about the Red Wedding. She even thinks,
That was what men wanted, wasn’t it? Soft helpless women that they needed to protect?
It’s clearly not what Jaime wants. Jaime seems pretty into women with powerful thighs.
The tale of Galladon of Morne, the Just Maid, and the Maiden is a blatantly obvious parallel to Brienne (whose brother was named Galladon), Oathkeeper, and Jaime with the gender roles reversed. Note that after gifting him the sword, the Maiden falls in love with Galladon.
While fever dreaming after her “no chance and no choice” fight to protect the orphans, Brienne calls out for Jaime over and over. The Brotherhood take this to mean she is the “Kingslayer’s whore.” She dreams again of a man she was romantically attached to (Connington) and the man again becomes Jaime in her dream.
“He will bring a rose for you,” her father promised her, but a rose was no good, a rose would not keep her safe. It was a sword she wanted. Oathkeeper.
And of course, Brienne goes to the gallows rather than promise to bring Jaime back to them. She was going to die for him. The only thing that persuaded her otherwise was the image of Pod, an innocent little orphan boy, hanging next to her. Because she is good and noble, placing the life of an innocent above all else.
And in Jaime I of ADWD, Jaime scrambles to his feet upon seeing Brienne, and worries over her injuries. He abandons his army, his king, and his sister to go with Brienne.
He doesn’t say why he does it, but since they “know each other too well,” I’m sure he has complete faith that whatever she’s leading him toward will be a good and important cause. Is she tricking him? Maybe, probably in some way or another. Will he be angry with her? Probably, but only briefly. If anyone can understand wanting to save the life of an innocent instead of someone you love, it’s Jaime Lannister. He has, after all, just recently told Cersei her was not ashamed of loving her, only for what his love for her had led him to do. The only limitation on Brienne’s love and protection, apparently, is the lives of innocents.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a highlight reel, really. And this doesn’t even include any of what George has had to say about it. (Spoiler: Gwendoline Christie has said on multiple occasions that during their talks, George said Jaime and Brienne were a gender-swapped beauty and the beast.) There’s a lot to conjecture about. But whether or not Jaime and Brienne are a love story is not one of those things.
what never fails to get me about Jaime's story, regarding the day he killed Aerys, is that he'd already seen what people were capable of, and still he didn't think his dad would murder Ellia or her children, the Targ heirs now that Rhaegar was dead.
like there he is, a 17 year old, professionally trained, and he's witness to the horrors a man could do with fire and power. but he didn't stop to think a woman and her babes would suffer as part of the overall power play. he didn't think his own dad, who had been friends at some point with the horrible man in question, would do such a thing to get in good terms with the new man in power.
despite knowing the horrors of the world, Jaime constantly finds himself expecting better from people. even when he left Harrenhal he was surprised when they told him Hoat had had Brienne checked for STDs and Jaime's original thought is "what?" and then he goes "of course". and then when he sees Brienne in the bear pit he assumes they've given her a real weapon at least, and he gets offended when he realizes the depths of their horribleness. Jaime himself would not think to do something so cruel and vile so he gets whiplash when the world reminds him there are people that would
a notable exception is Brienne. he expected less from her, expected her to ditch him if things got complicated or if she got something better to do. but she proved him wrong, over and over again, in the best way possible. she stuck to her promises, stuck to him, and showed a kind of human decency he'd been used to see destroyed. and she'd made it a strength
and people still wonder why he falls in love with her.
This is not the Brienne ending you were looking for
I have a longer “review” for the entire back end of the season/general ending, that I will post in a moment, but I wanted to spend a few more words on Brienne and why this ending is, overall, the worst possible ending she could get, regardless of whether or not you know her book backstory or rely only on what the show has told you.
Yes. From a certain angle, the one where Brienne isn’t much more than another powerful female character breaking gender norms, having her end up as the first female knight and first Lord Commander of the Kingsguard can be seen as a positive ending.
But if you look deeper, IMO, several things are established even just within show-verse that make her signing up to a celibate order for life short of a travesty for her character, and possibly reduces her to one of the less satisfying endings on the entire show.
1) Brienne’s struggle, even on the show, was not just about being a woman warrior. Brienne didn’t join Renly’s Kingsguard because of some deep seated desire to be a Kingsguard. She joined it because she loved him for being kind to her about her femininity when nobody else was (whether he was a bit of a prick behind her back, especially book-wise, is another matter), and knowing he could not love her in return, she thought this was the best she could do. When she talks to Pod about her past, she doesn’t mention “never having been happier” at swinging a sword. She mentions “never having been happier” at having boys dance with her and whisper in her ear that they wanted to marry her and take her back to her castles. When she gets mocked in the show by other characters is about her lack of femininity and her looks, not because she’s a woman who wants to fight. While I have no doubt Brienne genuinely loves what she does, no matter the circumstances that led her to it, serving others was always about settling, for Brienne, more than about empowering herself.
2) Brienne is not Arya. Besides the obvious (i.e. Arya actively fought against being a Lady her entire life while Brienne resigned herself to not being suited for that role), Arya is given agency, while Brienne’s is taken away. Arya rejected Gendry’s proposal because that was “not her”. Arya was given a choice and she took charge of her future and the woman she wanted to be. Arya has the opportunity to go back on her decision, in the future, if she wants to. Brienne didn’t reject other options because she really wanted to become a Kingsguard. Brienne was left with no other options because, once again, she was rejected by the man she loved and had to settle back into “her place” as a guard, because that’s the best women like her can aspire to. Which leads me to…
3) Brienne is the only heir to her House. Besides her father being brought up almost every season by other characters, and her status as a highborn Lady being emphasized several times, it was even established as late as this season that she’s her father only heir. By becoming a Kingsguard, she is not only forsaking her claim to Tarth, but essentially condemning her House to extinction. One needs to headcanon all sorts of caveats for this not to be the case (e.g. Bran’s Kingsguard will be different and allow its members to hold titles and lands, marry and have children; Brienne’s father will have another child who will inherit Tarth and so on), since the show has taken no care whatsoever to think about any of this. (But, meanwhile, manly man Gendry gets legitimized because he has a cock and made Lord of the Stormlands even though he doesn’t even know how to count… and Bronn, cutthroat sellsword, sits on the high council).
And this is without taking into account just how much her book arc focuses on romantic rejection, her feeling of failure towards her father for not being the heir he deserves, and the guilt, suffering and trauma she’s carried within her entire life because of this.
The show has never seen Brienne as anything more than another “gender defying” token character, without any of the nuances, layers and differences that George has imbued his “gender defying” characters with in the books. Brienne is not Arya. Arya is not Asha/Yara. Asha/Yara is not Brienne. They were three different, complex representations of women that did not fit societal norms for entirely different reasons and in entirely different ways. Yara and Arya, all in all, had endings that empowered them by putting them in charge of who they had wanted to be all their lives.
What set Brienne apart from the other two women was her longing for romantic acceptance and the fact that her LOOKS were the primary reason why it was not accessible to her. D&D might not have done it consciously (I am pretty sure they didn’t really think about Brienne much, or even read her chapters). And maybe this is GRRM’s endgame for Brienne too (I really want to believe this is not the case). But regardless of where this ending is coming from, if you cannot appreciate just how horrifyingly problematic this is, I don’t know what to tell you.
Do you think JB will end together? Like, marrying and maybe even having kids? I know it’s a lot to hope in asoiaf universe, but I so wish they would!
GRRM is aiming for a bittersweet ending. There’s even a quote from him saying that he already knows who’s going to marry who.
“I know the broad strokes, and I’ve known the broad strokes since 1991. I know who’s going to be on the Iron Throne. I know who’s gonna win some of the battles, I know the major characters, who’s gonna die and how they’re gonna die, and who’s gonna get married and all that. The major characters.” [x]
He clarified that “major characters” includes the main Lannisters. This was said in 2016, after his last asoiaf book, which means marriage is for future books. It could literally be any pairing for one of the major characters, or multiple pairings. My point is, there will be at least one marriage for the major characters that didn’t happen on the show. Personally? I think there’s going to be a couple, and whether or not Jaime and/or Brienne dies by the end, they’ll still be one of them. This is going to be kinda long…..
I’d very much like to hope this isn’t George’s end for Brienne, and I don’t really believe it is, but a tiny bit of me thinks back to how D&D said they seeded in endgame stuff in S4 because it was the first season after they had that story conference with George and there was so much emphasis on the white book that season. But we’ll never get ADOS so I’ll remain happy in my headcanons.
You know what was also seeded in S4 and even in later seasons after their conversation with GRRM? Their marriage.
4x01: Jaime and Tywin conversation, with Jaime protesting becoming heir because he wants to be near Cersei. Assuming his character has development and will break from her (which he does in canon and should have been starting at that point), “I don’t want a wife, I don’t want children!” would translate into him willingly getting married and wanting to openly father.
4x01: Maybe you’re a Lannister too
4x02: While the Bear and the Maiden Fair is playing in the background, Loras tells Jaime he’ll never marry Cersei and then walks off. When he walks off, Brienne walks past and Jaime looks up at her.
Then we have the whole conversation with Cersei and Brienne, with Bear and the Maiden Fair playing in the background again. The scene establishes that Brienne is in love with Jaime (and CERSEI NEVER FINDS OUT THEY BONE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ugh that’s another rant). The Brienne and Cersei scene isn’t direct marriage foreshadowing of course, but when you couple it with the previous scene with Loras, Jaime and the Brienne transition … well.
Also why the fuck would they seed a ONE EPISODE consummation in episode 8 all the way back to the beginning of season fucking 4 (and even back to season 2) if there was no intended meaningful endgame for this relationship? And the best part? GRRM wrote that episode, and we know he wrote those scenes because he mentioned he had to imagine how a Cersei and Brienne encounter would go down.
4x06: Jaime and Tywin conversation, with Jaime showing a bit of growth by agreeing to “marry a suitable woman and father children named Lannister.” He’s essentially choosing Tyrion over Cersei. (so lmfao to their switch from his core being “the things I do for love” to “the things I do for Cersei.”). Considering this is the last conversation he has with his father, with him saying “you have my word,” that gives scene a lot of fucking weight in terms of foreshadowing. YES, the plan didn’t work because Tyrion went crazy during his trial, so he doesn’t have to hold to any agreements he made with his father. But… that misses the point. In that season, Jaime went from totally rejecting any outcome where he’d have to leave Cersei, to choosing his brother’s life over his twin and accepting his role as heir. Because he showed that growth, and this was the last conversation he had with Tywin, it sets up the possibility of him being able to make that decision willingly in the future.
Also, that scene is like a checklist lol. Tywin is telling him to leave the KG, which HE DOES, and then marry a suitable woman to father children named Lannister (oh HEY there’s a Lady Brienne who you just sent on a quest, gifting her with your own fucking sword -a classic literary symbol for love-, who you coincidentally just had a transformative journey with, and who coincidentally just had a scene where it was revealed she was in love with you HMMMMMMM I wonder where this story is going)
5x03: Brienne’s happiest moment. This scene right here is why I LOATH HER ENDING FYI. They really failed at adapting her character to screen, but her ending on the show even sucks WITHIN IN THEIR OWN NARRATIVE and defeats the entire fucking point of her character. (I’m not going to rant about that anymore, but I’ll link you to posts that explains why I hate it. [1], [2], [3] [4]).
Anyway, not only have they been setting up Jaime for marriage, but they also threw this bit in that show’s Brienne isn’t opposed to marriage and being a lady!! She literally says the happiest she had ever been was when the boys wanted to marry her and take her back to their castles. This scene is now completely pointless! Yes, it was to show why she was so devoted to Renly, but they could have written it a million different ways without adapting the romantic rejection element to her arc if they were just going to shit on it in the end? They didn’t have to say she loved the idea of marriage and living that life style? SO LOGICALLY, before the S8 mess, one would think there was a narrative point to throw that in, and that it could be foreshadowing of a marriage between her and Jaime if you add everything up (and for book readers especially since this is also heavily foreshadowed in the books)
5x04: Jaime drooling over Tarth. Seriously, WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS SCENE other than to continuously seed his connection to Brienne and possibly foreshadow HIS ENDGAME DESTINATION? Keep in mind they spent loads of money and time on actors to stand around so Jaime can stare at a CGI Tarth. If they wanted to just show that he was thinking of Brienne (again, WHY, if it was meant to be just some half episode fling?!), they could have done it in a way less expensive and time consuming way through dialogue, or him writing her name down on his page of the White Book (WHICH HE DIDN’T DO ON THE SHOW DFGHSLKDJSFGHL) but NO they INTRODUCED THE ENTIRE FUCKING ISLAND I mean….
5x10: Jaime tells Myrcella he’s her father. In the books, it is made clear that Jaime develops a desire to want to father his children, but knows he’s unable to. He even has a thought about how if he has another child he’s going to make damn sure he gets to hold it. This scene is introducing his desire to father, but is now reduced to being completely pointless thanks the S8 and Jaime apparently not caring about having a child. Before the joke of S8, if you add this scene with everything else, it’s a sign that the Tywin Checklist is on its way to completion, just in a way Jaime had not intended.
6x06: There is literally NO REASON for Jaime to leave the Kingsguard, other than to release him from vows so he’s eligible to land, titles, and marriage. He could have achieved the same endgame while never being released from the KG. He could have left Cersei to join the North while still being in the KG/QG. In the books he even runs off with Brienne to help her while he’s still in the KG. Then Tommen says this, “you have served your House and your king faithfully for many years, and you’ll continue to do so, but not in this city.” Keep in mind that a) from a narrative standpoint there is no reason for him to leave the KG unless he’s specifically being set up for marriage and b) we were introduced to Tarth in the previous season.
Then we get the tent scene in episode 8, which isn’t marriage foreshadowing by itself, but it for fucking sure continues to seed that relationship with one of their most romantic scenes (and foreshadowing the bang), almost immediately after he has been released from the KG. Anyone who has the slightest bit of pattern recognition, and able to string clues from a narrative together, can see where this is heading.
7x04: Brienne accepting her title as Lady. Ignoring the fact she doesn’t reject her title in the books, the show has her say over and over and over again that she’s not a lady. We assume this stems from her insecurities and not because she doesn’t want it, because her insecurities are strong in the books and on the show they even established she was happy with the thought of married life in a castle. So obviously there was some sort of confidence boost for her character development on the show, since she’s now accepting her title with a “thank you” and a smile. So… WHAT’S THE POINT of all this Lady Brienne build up for her show arc if the plan was just to have her ditch her title by joining a celibate organization in the end? This was a seed for a very different endgame.
We also have the dragon pit scene where Cersei looks at them TWICE. Again, not marriage foreshadowing, but taking everything into consideration and piecing it all together….
D&D very clearly had an entirely different endgame seeded. I am convinced GRRM told them the Jaime and Brienne marriage endgame, and they seeded it JUST IN CASE they decided to follow through. They’re lazy writers and never cared about properly adapting Jaime and Brienne (I mean, LSH? Adapting literal opposite scenes like the WST?), and they didn’t have a plan after the Red Wedding (they even admitted to not writing stuff that fans started to guess because sHoCk), They threw in only a COUPLE bits of contradictory endgame seeds just to give themselves an out. Towards the end, they decided to go with the out. When did they decided to detour from GRRM and drop it? I’m not sure, but I think they made this final decision when they suspiciously removed Cersei’s miscarriage scene from S7 at the last minute.
Anyway, the scene with Brienne reading his page doesn’t even happen in the books, and IF she winds up as some bodyguard in the end (again HIGHLY DOUBT), it’ll be a completely changed KG that allows love and heirs. In the books it is made clear that Brienne is the heir to Tarth and it doesn’t look like her father is going to have any other children. And again, she definitely doesn’t oppose being a Lady, she just thinks she’s unworthy to be one and unworthy to be his heir because of her insecurities.
Jaime: [insults Brienne out of nowhere]
Brienne: dude, what the fuck
Jaime: She’ll Never Trust Me 😩😩😩 She’ll Always Judge Me Just Like Everyone Else ❌😷❌ And I Know Why 😤😤😤😡😡 It’s Cause I’m The Kingslayer Isn’t It 🗡️👑💀 She’ll Never Trust A Kingslayer 😔😔 It’s My Curse I’ll Have To Bear Forever 😢
Jaime: [constantly acts like a rude lil bitch to Brienne]
Jaime: hm maybe I shouldn’t be rude to her this time
Jaime: h-hi Brienne :) your dress looks nice :) do you want a free sword :)
Brienne: What are you doing? You’re acting kind of weird and I don’t get it
Jaime: 😑🙄😑 I Should Have Known Better 😩😩 Than To Think She’d Ever See Me 😩😢 As Anything More Than The Kingslayer 🗡️👑💀🩸 I Cannot Stand This Judgement For Even A Second Longer 😤😤😤❌❌❌ You Try To Reach Out To People But Sometimes They Just Stab You In The Back 🗡️🗡️ With Their Rudeness 👺 And Stubbornness 🐂 And Wenchiness ❌👱🏻♀️❌ Guess I’ll Always Walk This Lonely Road Of Being An Outcast 😔😔😔 And A “”””Kingslayer”””” 🗡️👑💀🩸 As Long As I Shall Live ⚰️⚰️⚰️
thanks for being nice to me. in return i will die for you and never leave your side and go grocery shopping with you.
People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.
This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.
Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That's why my personality changes so much.
Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.
how dare you say we piss on those poor sheep, haven't they suffered enough
What Jaime thinks his love language is: Touch
Evidence: sexual codependence, thinks of the breeze as lover’s fingers, reverse sublimates strong emotion into boners
What Jaime’s actual love language is: Acts of Service
Why doesn’t he know: No one has ever done something for him that was not transactional
Evidence: Jaime’s entire life re: his family, existential punishment for one gigantic act of service. Brienne becomes “gentler than Cersei” when she catches him, washes and dresses him in the bath of Harrenhal. Turns back after dreaming that she steps between him and damnation. “So he did.”
What Brienne thinks her love language is: Acts of Service
Evidence: Renly, Catelyn, Sansa, carries around a magic sword in order to pledge her service, weeps when that symbol of devotion is taken from her
What Brienne’s actual love language is: Words of affirmation
Why she doesn’t know: Roelle’s lesson that every compliment is a lie, words are used to hurt her at every opportunity (seriously, even fog mocks her appearance)
Evidence: so hurt by words that she dreams she bit off her own tongue, sapphires, the unconvincing words are wind, she screamed a word.
