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ur so right queen he IS in the walls

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Sweet-smelling sansa - A Storm of Swords - Tyrion III

Her voice soft as a kiss - A Game of Thrones - Arya I

So courteous and eager to please - A Clash of Kings - Catelyn VII

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Riders and their Dragons

By Anabel Rossi

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That night he dreamed of the feast Ned Stark had thrown when King Robert came to Winterfell. The hall rang with music and laughter, though the cold winds were rising outside. At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time…until he noticed that the room was growing darker.

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“Some said it had been Gregor who'd dashed the skull of the infant prince Aegon Targaryen against a wall, and whispered that afterward he had raped the mother, the Dornish princess Elia, before putting her to the sword.”

“The Princess Elia was a good and gracious lady, though her health was ever delicate."

Anyone who hates on Elia Martell shall die a painful death. No but seriously how can you hate a woman who quite literally did no wrong.

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“Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced” - For Laura ♡

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alyssa targaryen fanart | commission 💖

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“We need more women with agency!” Y’all couldn’t even handle not being sexist to Alicent, Sansa, or Catelyn Stark and how they led.

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Thinking about Littlefinger & Cersei/Lysa Arryn as twisted versions of Ned Stark & Catelyn for Sansa. Or at least, Sansa loses her parents, & is destined to never see them again ; and she finds new hellish parents, perverted versions of the love & Care she had known, if not their total opposite. Ned who cares for his girls & sacrificed himself & his honor for them is replaced by the very man who betrayed him, by a corrupt & lecherous man who completely contradicts the image of what a father ought to be (he is in a way an incestuous figure), and everything Ned was (benevolent, chaste, honorable). Both Catelyn & Lysa are figures paralleled with Catelyn in some way, and in both cases they come out as both equally protective of their offspring (who aren't Sansa) but much more foolish. Cersei wants power as much as she wants to protect her kids, and those desires don't necessarily mix well together. Where Catelyn loved & shielded Sansa and tried the best to enfure her future, Cersei manipulates her, exposes her to shocking truths, to danger, and tries to break her innocence in several ways.

Lysa is the inverted Catelyn, foolish since the beginning, in love with Littlefinger, unable to truly rule unlike her older sister...and of course, she sees Sansa increasingly less as a niece than as a rival for the affection of her husband (this dynamic isn't absent from the Cersei/Sansa one given Cersei's fear of younger more beautiful women who might "cast her down"). The loving dynamic of healthy parenting evaporates to leave place to sexually charged relationships ; the "mother" figure sees the "daughter" figure as a rival for the affection of the "father" figure, and the "father" figure begins to see the daughter as a potential sexual partner instead of his child. The introduction of sexuality in Sansa's life messes up severely the concept of the parent/child relationship.

And like it connects to the faith of the Seven, the southern faith Sansa originally feels more inclined towards, and the father & mother being key figures of that religion, key aspects of that multifaceted divinity, relevant to Sansa's own relation to the figure of the Maiden.

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PEDRO PASCAL as OBERYN MARTELL Game of Thrones - 4.01

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Also, this fandom is very weird towards the women in ASOIAF having their own political ambitions, (or ambition in general).

I think that’s why in conversations where I’m defending Elia, I always have to mention that Dorne married her to Rhaegar so she could become the Queen. Whether she was polyamorous or not, it did not matter once she married Rhaegar. Her not being okay with him and Lyanna will always be more plausible to me.

This can apply to Nettles too. She spent her entire life living in the lowest class in Westeros. Her claiming of Sheepstealer isn’t tied to ancient magic or special bloodline abilities. A more likely explanation is Nettles saw an opportunity to get better for herself and took it. Her tears after the Battle of the Gullet is more than likely not about Jace either, but rather the fact that she lost her home.

These characters having ambitions does not remove their humanity or make them any less sympathetic. Allow the women of ASOIAF to be full characters and not accessories to the male characters.

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"I understand you knew my brother Brandon as well." Is still the funniest thing Ned Stark could've said the first time he ever met Petyr Baelish. Like, an utterly humiliating moment where he was given a large scar after laughably losing horrendously to Brandon in a duel over a woman that Ned is now married too. And his first words to him are "lmao remember my brother I bet you do"