in all your glamour and cruelty

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[calisverse]

𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐘 as 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐈 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑

Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 4.

[popcultureds]

Dragon's eggs, Daenerys, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. The ages have turned them to stone, but they will always be beautiful.

EMILIA CLARKE as DAENERYS TARGARYEN Game of Thrones | 01.01 - Winter is Coming

[kada-kade]

Fish woman bundled up to survive the North

[ghostinwinterfell]

what I love about catelyn’s characterization is that she isn’t everyone’s mother. she refuses to treat jon like one of her own. she doesn’t have any “motherly instincts” towards theon. even with brienne, she connects with her on more of a woman to woman level than through some mother-daughter dynamic. she never feels obligated to play the angelic “mother to all” figure.

but that’s the best part about her journey as a mother—it’s kind of messy. she has a favorite child, she’s forced to choose between her kids, she actively resents a motherless boy, she dislikes the hostage child living in her home. like yeah catelyn’s love for her children is beautiful and “pure” or whatever, but it also makes her cruel, selfish, impulsive, ruthless, even vengeful.

tbh catelyn’s sense of motherhood is just so unapologetically human, so refreshingly honest. she may be a mother, but there’s nothing romantic or intuitive or easy about it. catelyn stark loves her children, but it’s not that simple.

[ghostinwinterfell]

I just remembered that scene in the show where catelyn tells talisa that the gods are punishing her family because she "couldn't love a motherless child" and I just. okay that scene is genuinely powerful in the context of the show, but it also proves how little the writers cared to adapt catelyn's actual book character.

like yeah catelyn harbors plenty of guilt for what happened to her family, but she never once blames herself for not loving jon. she's literally out here telling robb NOT to make jon his heir. never mind that sansa is married to a lannister or that arya may not even be alive—she defends their rights regardless. that's literally the last argument that catelyn and robb ever have, and she suspects that it's part of the reason why he plans to send her to seagard.

but apparently a woman who hates herself for not loving her husband's illegitimate child is more palatable. much less interesting or nuanced, but easier to love. apparently.

[hallowed-harpy]

Foils: Daenerys & Cersei

The front represents Daenerys as the sacred, life-giving force of Drogo’s funeral pyre. Mother of Dragons.

The back represents Cersei as the chaotic, destructive, man-made force of wildfire. Mother of Madness.

Custom asoiaf-themed lockets will restock on Sunday, August 3rd at 10am PST.

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[sweetestcersei]

@hallowed-harpy made this for me and I can't wait to get it in the mail tomorrow 🥰

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga and Jenna Ortega backstage at the Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event on May 31st 2025 in Inglewood, California

[english-idylls]

Details of John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (1888).

[sweetestcersei]

i've sat down a few times to try to write my third journal entry about a storm of swords for my re-read series and every time i get anything of substance down, i get this awful vulnerable feeling like i'm in therapy lol

[amengaga]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Claymores

3D asset for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Design by R. Todd Broadwater and Matt Carofano

[all-lee24]

Queen Cersei Lannister

[spider-mann]

Sebastian Stan for Vogue Italia

[sweetestcersei]

i'm a victim of asoiaf influencers bc i really went into feast thinking it was going to be this revelatory re-read that would have me realizing book 4 and 5 are his sleeper masterworks...instead it's been pretty much what i remembered so far.

i'm over half done with it and most of my time has been spent forcing myself to finish chapters for characters i don't care about 😔

maybe i should have done the boiled leather tandem read for a better experience, but all in all, feast has been a disappointment. the prose is certainly better, but the front half of it has been such a slog.

[sweetestcersei]

kind of love arys oakheart pov weirdly

[sweetestcersei]

i find it so strange that people think of book cersei as cartoonish...they clearly have never met a mentally ill boy mom

[rhaenyratargeryen]

CARRIE FISHER as Princess Leia Organa - STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

[sweetestcersei]

Brienne is grrm's most relatable character to me bc I too would let my hot friend haunt my every thought and inform every decision I make after we trauma bonded