[sad-hippie]

They didn't speak of the North and all that had went on inside its borders.

For some reason or another it seemed akin to treason. To speak of kinder places, warmer halls, gentler people. And yet they also didn’t speak of the war, for a different reason entirely. Because it had been fought and because it had been won. By those who had not the right to hold banners, to hear the cries for their name, the cheers, and the clamours.

During those five years, King Rhaegar hadn’t mattered, and all his wives - the ones that had been and those that were yet to be - hadn’t made a difference.

a shield of silence, a sword of hope, by Sadhippie

[princess-of-the-seven-kingdoms]

"He could still hear Sansa pleading, as Lyanna had pleaded once."

[heavenpureheart]

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[radiocombucha]

Few people know, but Otto Hightower did not die from a sword blow, but from a cringe

[somerhall]

Reminder that these two canonically spent the war scissoring sharing a tent:

and Sabitha Frey, the Lady of the Twins, the widow of Lord Forrest Frey and mother of his heir, a “sharp-featured, sharp-tongued harridan of House Vypren, who would sooner ride than dance, wore mail instead of silk, and was fond of killing men and kissing women,” according to Mushroom.

Many thought her [Black Aly] to be of that same ilk as Sabitha Frey, for they were oft in one another’s company, and had been known to share a tent whilst on the march. [Fire & Blood, GRRM]

Sabitha's husband died and the wimple came off.

[frizox]

I know, I know, Book!Alicent and Show!Alicent are not the same person and do not act out led by the same motives, but why did Condal and Hess think that Show!Alicent could only be handled in season three by stripping her away of all power and authority and letting literally every man around her treat her as nothing but a sex object?

Remember when Vaemond Velaryon was like “Viserys is king only in name, everyone knows that it’s Alicent wielding all the power” so mmmm where the fuck is that woman? Where the fuck is the respect she commanded? Where the fuck is the court of lords that have been loyal to her while Viserys was playing with Legos and Rhaenyra was busy creating an army of bastards with Harwin Strong?

[ventusolariss]

Jenny Holzer, "BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER"

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

[ivorysansa]

sansa i, affc / jon xi, adwd.

[littlesisterdeath]

For it was the voice of one who had never been dirty or hungry, and had not guessed successfully what dirt and hunger are.

E.M. Forster, from Howard's End.

[padek]

Portrait of Judith Lieb, 1969 by the artist Christo

[nixscriptum]

[webweabings]

TO RETURN TO MY TREES

“The Overstory” (2019), by Richard Powers; // “Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript” (2001), by Henry David Thoreau; // Kim Novak; // Chinese Proverb; // “To the lighthouse” (1927), by Virginia Woolf; // Santosh Kalwar; // Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; // “Cosmos” (1980), by Carl Sagan; // “Timeline” (1999), by Michael Crichton

[derangedrhythms]

I lie in the dark and think. I think of God and Death and Triangles. I think of you a lot.

Dylan Thomas, The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas; Pamela Hansford Johnson, 9th May 1934

[gailcarriger]

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

let love in. believe compliments. be vulnerable and soft-hearted. tell people you love that you love them. see beauty in everyday things. live life like you’re in a movie. don’t be afraid to begin again.