#erryk

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That was good time crumbs.

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Rhaenyra Targaryen and her superior simp squad

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hotd season 2 memes

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HD Stills from House of the Dragon | Official Black Trailer

Team Black

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Just wondering if anyone is having a similar problem to me 😅

I've been crushing on Ser Erryk hard since he first came on screen (Elliott Tittensor long before that), and normally when I have a crush on a TV, book or film character I have little self-insert daydreams about them. Cringe but harmless.

Every time I try to have one about Ser Erryk my conscience goes 'No, he'd never break his oath or dishonour anyone'.

Because he's the most honourable character to ever exist I can't even get my rocks off to him! FML.

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house of the dragon ; simple lockscreens

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shoutout to this exchange on r/pureasoiaf about arryk and erryk i saw two years ago and havent forgotten since, and the final comment by u/Jon-Umber on westerosi chivalry

AliEray: Oh, I never realized they were named after Cargyll twins. [deleted]: What kind of parents would name their children after two brothers who killed each other? Xx_kingbanana_xX: Who loved each other despite their vows/duty setting them up against each other [deleted]: no matter. if there is one thing asoiaf wants to teach us it is this: vows suck. Jon-Umber: That's not the takeaway I have at all. Rather it's that Westeros values romantic ideals which are clearly incongruent with reality. Nobility is given the power of life and death over the serf class with little to no oversight, since they rely on oaths and vows to do the dirty work for them. Obviously, it fails miserably more often than not, because only morally good people are concerned with keeping their word, and they're not overly likely to engage in aggressive violence to begin with. The morally repugnant don't give a damn about vows anyway. There's nothing wrong with vows and oaths. Keeping your word is extremely important to human relationships. How many liars do you enjoy being friends with? Would you call someone who fucked your significant other behind your back to come bail you out of prison? The problem is Westerosi just tend to ignore human nature and their social organization is broken as a result of that. Those in power who are aware of the facade take advantage of it to increase their own power and prestige at the cost of others (Tywin, Roose), and those who have internalized the myth are at an incredibly steep disadvantage (Ned, Robb) to those who haven't. Ned dies as a direct result of his investment in Westerosi romanticism when he confronts Cersei and tells her what he's going to do, expecting the idealized Westerosi norms to protect him. Obviously this fails catastrophically, as Cersei tears up Robert's letter without giving a shit, and Ned ends up dying for it. In many ways the romantic foolishness inherent to Westeros is what GRRM set out to write about in the beginning. George undoubtedly saw all of these overly romantic epic fantasies of the '70s and '80s, which were all aping Tolkien and based on a painted-turd version of feudalism and, being an enthusiast for medieval history, George knew that this was a steaming load of bullshit, and set out to write an epic fantasy which more accurately depicted feudalist society. Anyone who has any knowledge of feudalism whatsoever would undoubtedly agree.

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