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[visenyaism]

bran still thinks his mom is alive. btw

[lordmeowdemort]

Suggestion: bandersnatch-type of a game of thrones episode where I get to save Ned Stark

[bettys-gardens]

Robb Stark; with snowflakes melting in his hair For @teddyfloood

[ichabodcranemills]

Man, I miss Ygritte

[arituzz]

~ h o l i d a y s ~

[userlarri]

THE FUCKING RED WEDDING JUST BROKE ME. NO TIME TO SAY HELLO GOODBY IM DEAD

[baronmpontmercy]

I miss Ned Stark

[anon-foreverandever]

Feudal monarchy Vs Autocratic monarchy

Whichever two, I’d always say: Stannissa! Stannissa! STANNISSA!

Had to do it. I’m doomed to all possible hells, which are... the ones of the Seven, actually, wow the Drowned God is less of a dickhead than I thought. Still a dick though.

Well now, I can swear I hate every single damn time whenever I research about ASOIAF and come to the posts of Renly good king, Tywin the ruler we need, etc etc. I know no one shall read this, or almost no one, and I’d dare you prove me wrong, but since there is no one, who cares? Anyway, if people research like I did in the past, they will come up to this post eventually if hitting the correct words of research.

Now the thing people always forget is that the Starks did nothing out of common sense for a human need. Kidnapping my sister whom I love so dearly I play in private with her with out-of-role-for-girls games? COME OUT AND DIE, YOU DIDNT EVEN TELL ANYTHING! NOT A FUCKING LETTER! SO IT’S KIDNAPPING, COME AND DIE!

That’s why I wanted certain fic i saw reblogged on @joannalannister where, Lyanna being already saved from the wrathful Mad King, could not doubt their intentions then, because you simply would be like... i don’t know, telling people you deserve whatever happens to you and that is so much NOT like it, but of course, majority is ignorant, whatever.

Now the point is that people think that Targaryens always should be kings and therefore Renly does it right by serving Baratheon justice. well, besides that this world is full of deceivers, or at least they are the ones taking majority of on-screen time in the POVs, at least in the first books. It seems like people don’t know what kind of world they are, where there are oaths of fealty in exchange for oaths of protection, they seem to think that simply there are of fealty, and they are done to avoid utter destruction but then the king can do as he pleases, even if they then would destroy them, then where is the whole fucking damn point of doing this oath in the first place?

So no, people, you give an oath of fealty because the one who is receiving this oath does so in exchange of an oath of protection, of ruling, not of “you’re my property” you don’t rule things, you rule people, and people have their own wills, and the whole point of ruling is in synchronizing all these wills with the best of your intentions. This is feudal monarchy, this is what Aerys and Rhaegar were, and they broke the rules, and even then, Stannis had a hard time choosing. And by the way, I do think that, should Robert be the breaker of peace, he would have chosen against him, however hard.

Autocratic monarchy is what Varys wants, is what he worked for so many decades. To put someone he would shape int he perfect ruler. IF THE RULER IS PERFECT, NO POINT IN RULES, NO POINT IN INTERMEDIARIES (the oligarchy) NO POINT IN ANY OTHER WORD, SIMPLY OBEY. The perfect ruler simply decides with the information given by people who know about the specific matters, but not about governance in itself. And I would admittedly like this world, if the perfect ruler existed, and could exist in each generation. Alas “we are only human” and so, Varys is wrong. The perfect ruler is impossible, period. And now comes the interesting part. Even if there was an autocratic monarchy, the main defender of this, Hobbes, admitted the EXISTENCE OF RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE. And this is the whole fucking damn point, in exchange for limiting your autonomy to the exterior, he has to defend YOU from harm to your interior, that is, your person, your identity. you can speak but not command, but that allows you to have guaranteed your defense, and if the king does not want, then there is no point in having a king “a true king defends his people, or he’s no king at all”

In other words, when people say “DAENERYS THE TRUE HEIR” “RENLY THE BEST KING”, they are saying “The king/queen can do as s/he likes”. Seemingly they learned nothing of the painful backstory and its consequences that GRRM so delicately put up throughout the years. But that’s to be expected. Some people just care about privileges, even if they would end up being harmful to them. Renly uses image to appear good, and some people might even say that image matters, but it only matters to improve the substance, or to show what the substance is from afar, because the moment is brought to test, the copper BENDS, badly. Copper and Tin serve to create bronze from iron, but by themselves, they are nothing. Iron is something by itself. Black and hard that will break before it bends, just like the NIGHT’S WATCH

That’s why Tyrion gets fed up, and anyway, that’s why Oberyn was fed up with Tywin and would have forced him to see House Lannister fallen in Tywin’s branch, and made him see how the ones to inherit Lannister House would be not the ones he had been grooming for it, before making some spell for the poison now killing him for good, just so Tywin can know it and cannot lie to Oberyn or even to himself before dying. Which is exactly what Tyrion does, making it known to Tywin that he’s him writ small, since Tywin was denying to himself that Tyrion was his son. Tyrion wanted him to know that not even a lie to himself would be allowed, and that it was totally shaky. Image by itself holds nothing, it’s proven sooner or letter what substance lies beneath.

Aerys even presumed to threaten Jaime that if he does not obey, he would have his head, even though Jaime was precisely his better medium to enforce authority. Once Jaime says “Rossart”, all the image of the king as utterly powerful collapses, Aerys understands he holds no power, image means nothing, he’s just a king who has no one to command in that room. So he flees, and even Jaime reflected on how it should have been harder than this to kill him. Because throghout their lives, they are hammered into the head the image of power, but actually, image means nothing, only one is fit to rise for such a challenge. Dragons, Aerys, Tywin, Westerlords, landed knights, landless knights, smallfolk. Peace is kept because it benefits most. Not even dragons take that away. Or you got a Dragonpit being stormed so hard that a century later they are empty, ghastly ruins. Tywin got what he earned, so did Aerys, the Dragons (though they were beasts, so guilty isn’t that easy to determine, neither of the dragonriders depending on their reasons) and the Westerlords might get a brutal campaign of repression from Tyrion because they willingly sided with Tywin in whatever atrocities, and the smallfolk and knights might get them too since they followed them in their prejudices against Tyrion. If Daenerys pulls back from evil, from jumping, leaping into the abyss, AFTER SLAYING HALF A MILLION, well, it is only to be expected that Tyrion at the very least does a brutal campaign in the half of the Westerlands that he invades, and who knows if more.

Image is only important with substance to sustain it, otherwise it vanishes like smoke, for smoke will in the end vanish, try as they might hide the substance, the substance will have to prove itself sooner or later.