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Occasional asoaif posting/art/quotes 💚

[springwolves]

For @daenystheedreamer I hope you enjoy your velaryontine gift and dream easy 🤎🤎

1. Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, A Eunuch’s Dream, 1874

2. A song of fire and ice by grrm

3. Raphael, Jacob’s Dream, 1518

4. A song of fire and ice by grrm

5. I saw you in a dream by the Japanese house

[deadmegumi]

The casting for the stage play is out omg

[deadmegumi]

lyanna and ned...... FINALLYYYYYYY LONG FACED DARK EYED STARKS

[qhorinhalfhand]

An advertisement in Stylus Magazine, May 1965

From An Outsider's In chapter two, a 1960s Westeros music AU in epistolary form.

Mance art by @rhaegars-cervix

[ghostinwinterfell]

possibly the greatest asoiaf moment ever is when jon gets the letter about bran waking up and mormont expects him to grieve because “sorry kid :( it’s actually bad news :( he’s never going to walk again :(” but jon is all like “my brother is going to live !!!” and then he races out of the room and tells everyone he passes that “my brother is going to live !!!” and he gets back to the common hall and picks tyrion up and spins him around and makes him read the letter too because “my brother is going to live !!!” and he’s so giddy that he befriends grenn and tells thorne to go fuck himself and then everybody laughs and jon is just so happy because “my brother is going to live !!!”

meanwhile bran is back in winterfell listening to robb’s bannermen whisper about how death is a kinder fate than his, how they should’ve just let him die, how he’s too broken to be alive—with no idea that his big brother is out there celebrating because bran is going to LIVE !!!

[ghostinwinterfell]

adding these lovely tags from @artemideaddams <3

[ghostinwinterfell]

it’s also worth noting that at the start of this same chapter, this is how jon thinks about donal noye’s disability:

jon claims that noye’s life is effectively “over” because (along with having lived a full life and being “old”), he’s also now disabled. but when mormont later displays this same attitude about bran, jon completely dismisses this idea and celebrates the fact that bran is going to LIVE! his life is not over!

it’s such a beautiful (if subconscious) moment of development for jon. it almost reminds me of his shift in attitude towards the free folk, with jon initially displaying period-typical attitudes towards a marginalized group of people before being directly confronted with their reality/humanity and shifting his worldview accordingly. I mean this entire chapter is about him dismissing and ridiculing “lowborn” recruits until noye gives him a dose of reality, leading jon to take accountability, reflect on his own classist attitudes, gets his act together, and build a brotherhood with his fellow recruits. whether it’s disabled people, common people, or the free folk, jon snow can be as ignorant as the next person, but the difference is that he learns.

[thaliajoy-blog]

I think I'm getting a bit deeper at why Mirri hits so hard in AGOT and it's kinda about the way the Dothraki horde is written, especially with how Dany is surrounded by servants she kind of buddies up with, especially her handmaiden who all have rather tragic backgrounds (Irri & Jhiqui specifically were enslaved by Khal Drogo, their former lives destroyed by his conquering ways, and they're now expected to be teachers & servants to his wife). And that tragedy just plays no part in who they are, they don't get development. They are integrated within the horde & their new life very seemlessly. Mirri, on the other hand, is a victim of that conquering violence who wants to throw in Dany's face that what was done to her is unfixable. That she cannot seemlessly forget her old life & it's destruction because of her kindness, and become Dany's faithful healer/midwife/friend. She cannot be domesticated. She purposefully will not allow what happened to her to disappear into the background, and for herself to be assimilated into the life of the wife of the man who killed & enslaved her people.

[medusas-daughter]

Chappell Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the Ceo was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than people in the actual Epstein files. Pedophiles are currently presidents and starting wars, wife beaters are getting awards and selling out stadiums, but a lesbian who is not the nicest most cheerful person 24/7 is the actual devil and getting banned from performing. I think she should be meaner. Let her be the nastiest bitch in the world. Maybe more women will wake up from the fucking trance this world has put us through and realise being "not nice" is not the biggest crime in the world.

[goreprofonde]

There is no forgiveness for a dog that kills livestock, only the gun, as it should be. The herd trusts us, and a dog won’t stop once it starts killing. All children know this, all young creatures, lambs, foals, calves,  running with their mothers until breath leaves them. What kind of dog would kill the animals it should be defending? What kind of god would allow it? A god won’t stop once it starts killing. All mothers know this, running with their children. The man raises a gun to his shoulder. - Angie Macri, God Not from the Same Root Word as Good.

[sidnugget]

What is gonna happen if skinny jeans go out of style? Go back to boot cut jeans and act like we didn’t think they were disgusting for 6+ years?

[grendelsmom]

Silly posts aside, I love how hard akotsk is leaning on the theme of knighthood/physical labour and exploitation so far. Ser Arlan destroyed his health and body fighting petty disputes for men, who never bothered to remember him because to them, he is nothing. Lyonel can step away from the contest to get a drink, let others pull for him (pick up his slack and turn the tide around), and then go back in, just in time for victory and the laurels. They still risk their life by entering a tourney, but its for vague concepts like honour or even just fun. While Dunk risks his life for the vague possibility that he gets to risk his life for some lord on a consistent basis because that's his only means of survival.

[catilinasghost]

Eugene Sledge - The Pacific || Boots by Rudyard Kipling

[springwolves]

Omg heyy!!!!!

Heyy!!

[tiktaalic]

I was born in the exact right generation I love being an unmarried woman in my twenties with my own bank account and no children

[tiktaalic]

This getting reblogged with “and my thirties” “and my forties” “and my fifties”

[plumslices]

Scarification by John Joyce at Scarab Body Arts

[teratocrat]

i wish the world was nicer to fat girls

[greenbloods]

jaime lannister the man you are

[ilynpilled]

[ilynpilled]

“he heard himself” & “he found himself” etc and the content surrounding them when they happen is so good bc it is very often about truth that contradicts the persona he presents to others and himself. it is buried things, strong concerns, real reasons, and a core, just seeping through his own walls. it is so important and useful when navigating his narration in particular and especially during times where he is very conflicted. the concious & subconscious & unconcious is pretty interesting with jaime. the glaring amount of stuff that his two big dreams give and reveal r so good for this reason too to me

[greenbloods]

jaime has spent so much of his life as a passive observer of his own actions ("going away inside") that there are very few times when he truly feels alive

sonoa has another meta on jaime and his passive suicidal ideation and desire to die in battle. a lot of his arc is learning to feel alive again, to actively recognize himself as making choices in his life instead of living through his life as he were someone else watching. not to be The Kingslayer or Tywin's son or Cersei's lover, but jaime.

[voyaging-too]

That Carrie post reminded me of my biggest and oldest pet peeve: adaptations taking a character who's supposed to be ugly, or at least not beautiful, and casting someone perfect-looking. A lot of the time this is simple misogyny, but the inability to allow ugly people to exist also extends to men and boys, and I remember how pissed I was when I started understanding this at around the age of eight.

Bastian of the Neverending Story is fat and weird-looking, in the movie he's a perfectly photogenic all-American kid.

Hermione is buck-toothed and unpretty, in the movies she's a perfect little girl who grows into a very attractive woman.

Carrie is fat and unpretty, in the movies she's a supermodel in slightly unflattering clothes.

Don't even talk to me about Ugly Betty.

The latest Frankenstein adaptation continues a long trend of trying to convey the message of "this monster is not inherently evil" by making the monster look good. Because obviously if the monster did look bad, it would be evil and people would be justified in shunning it.

Even supposedly more serious media does it. Imre Kertész's Holocaust novel Fateless has a minor character, a wimpy weird-looking member of the group of boys who got deported together. The other boys don't really like him, and disdainfully agree when he's deemed not fit for work - of course they don't yet know that it's a death sentence. In the atrocious movie he's not weaker just younger, a photogenic little boy, and him being sent to his death is played as a sentimental tearjerker for the audience instead of forcing us to grapple with the complexity of the original, where mundane teen boy cruelty continues to exist in boys who are currently victims of a genocide.

A written text says: this person is ugly, this affects how people treat them, this affects how they feel about themselves, how they behave, how they live in the world. This might just be an incidental part of their story, or it might be its entire point of the whole fucking book. And then the movie sweeps in and says: oh, but they aren't ugly! They have always been beautiful! They are being bullied and shunned for no reason! So unfair!

And the unintentional but very obvious implication arises that if they *were* ugly, of course they would deserve the bullying, the audience would agree that they deserve the bullying, the audience would want to join in, kick spit point laugh. The idea of empathizing with an actually ugly person doesn't compute. (Maybe it's clear by now that this has done low-grade but long-lasting damage to me as a person: weird ugly people are simply not allowed to exist, not even in stories about being weird and ugly.)

Btw this is why "everyone is beautiful" type body-positivity does nothing for me, and why I'm hyper-sensitive to how people discuss ugliness in reality and in fiction. For example, I love the Just King Things and the Shelved by Genre podcasts, but I think they struggle to see the value of written descriptions of ugliness. They interpret Steven King's descriptions of Carrie as cruel, they interpret Tiptree's description of P. Burke in The Girl who was Plugged In as cruel and fatphobic. Sure, I don't want to give King kudos for all his depictions of women, but he did get it right that time, and Tiptree absolutely did. Describing a character, especially a woman as ugly, genuinely ugly, no not secretly beautiful, actually ugly, and then telling her story, a story about existing in the world as an ugly woman, is really really fucking important. And people keep shying away from it, oh, it's cruel to call anyone ugly, let's pretend that ugly people don't exist instead.

[dogpuppy]