THE TRUE HEIR,

sideblog to greydeath

[patrocles]

asoiaf fancast meme - older versions of existing characters 

“I am merely a reflection of my father’s greater glory. I was raised to uphold and ensure the legacy he tried to build for our noble house. I’m the only one left. A false move, a failure, means I’ve failed him and everything he worked to achieve. What an unfair thing to bear such weight. But I am the Storm Queen, hard as steel and full of fury as he was, what else could I be?”

malin buska as shireen baratheon

[orlaite2]

Queen Shireen Baratheon, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm

Based on Holbein's Anne of Cleves

[kathrynhoward]

THE GIRL KING (2015)

requested by anonymous

[femalebeautyinart]

Empress Elizabeth of Austria by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1865

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

[miserecarni]

[By finally embracing her sacrifice] Iphigenia understands that the only way for a daughter to establish a connection with her father is to submit entirely to the principles of the universal paternity: courage, disregard of danger, defending the country's best interest (meaning the system of male alliances on which the Achaean unity is built), and the glory that knows no oblivion. Kindness, tenderness, the intimacy of a personal relationship have nothing to do with the father and cannot connect with him: Iphigenia cannot enter her father's world unless she dies.

Bruna Giacomini, I padri del mito, il mito dei padri: tra Euripide e Kierkegaard

[cor-ardens-archive]

[goreprofonde]

- Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love.

[thunderstruck9]

Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954), Two Deer, 1996. Ink on paper, in two parts, each sheet: 52 x 46 in.

[crowtrobot2001-deactivated20201]

Dragonstone Island by Kieran Belshaw

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Which are more full of fate: The stars, or those sad eyes?”

— Lionel Johnson, from The Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson; “To Morfyd,”

[pian-ran]

“This is the king’s true heir. Shireen will one day sit the Iron Throne and rule the Seven Kingdoms. She must be kept from harm.”

— Selyse Baratheon, A Dance with Dragons.

[antigonick]

“[the sea]—turquoise blending into Aegean blue with wine-deep shadows beneath—”

— Daphné du Maurier, “Not After Midnight”, in Don’t Look Now and Other Stories

[remniscent]

“I am looking always for the sea.”

— Denise Levertov, from Life in the Forest: Poems; “Metamorphic Journal,” (via thatkindofwoman)

[museiums]

annie steg gerard

[sabotensan]

slowly but surely we’re dining in a table full of regret

[screenshotsofdespair]

[wearepaladin]

[sch-uwu-lchen]