catelyn stark defense squad

ASOIAF side blog

[the-maester-dog]

Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow.

[needlekiss]

Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one. / "I used to be someone, but now I'm not. You can call me Cat, if you like. Who are you?" / I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth.

A Clash of Kings - Arya V / A Feast for Crows - Samwell III / A Clash of Kings - Arya X

c0mm done by by mick_memo on twt

[ilynpilled]

all jaime tully ships r beautiful palaces just throw fish at that man

[ilynpilled]

🧐💎 💎 💎

[ilynpilled]

this but with a lion and a bunch of atlantic cod

[greenbloods]

re: the discussion about karma in asoiaf, i think it's so fascinating that one of the things that damns cersei in the end is her relationship with lancel. lancel is so constantly treated as a joke by the lannister kids in the earlier books, as an unimportant person, that it would have been easy for george to push him out of the narrative as soon as he outlasted his usefulness after the battle of blackwater bay. but the narrative cares about lancel, cares about his emotional state, about his victimization. it doesnt treat the fact that he was exploited by cersei as a vulnerable 16 year old as a joke like the other characters do.

the fact that lancel turns to the faith of the seven as a way to make sense of his trauma falls in line with how aeron and mel do the same for their own griefs, and the way that theon seems to turn to the old gods in the godswood after his own treatment--the physical descriptions of lancel and theon are strikingly similar. lancel and aeron and theon all seem to be aged severely by their trauma (while mel is the opposite, appearing youthful despite being the oldest living character of them all)

[greenbloods]

i guess in the end im just glad that lancel is taken seriously by the narrative, and that time and time again george takes the hopes and sorrows side characters as seriously as main characters. whether it's lancel or lancel or penny or eroeh or hazzea or the miller's boys, the one thing that is punished by the arc of the story time and again is the belief that certain people matter more than others

[greenbloods]

arya's decision to kill chiswyck because of how he raped and murdered layna is one of those storytelling choices that really show how the little people are prioritized in the narrative. like sure arya couldve used her jaqen h'ghar genie wishes on killing tywin or whatever. but the whole point is that layna mattered too. the death of mycah weighs heavily on arya and ned, and the fact that of all of the Hound's crimes it’s mycah’s murder that he stands on trial for at aryas insistence is significant as a story choice.

it's telling that arya's prioritization of the 'little guy' is reflected in all the starks in different ways. sansa saves dontos hollard. robb spares osha. jon saves the old man the freefolk tell him to kill. bran probably has a moment that im blanking on right now. rickon is four.

[greenbloods]

in a series where the meaning of heroism is constantly upheld and subverted in different ways by characters such as stannis and rhaegar and robb, it stands of note that the most consistent way a hero is identified by the narrative is how they uphold the worth of the ordinary person, even when it doesn't benefit them, even when it hurts them. lyanna “that’s my fathers man you’re kicking” stark, the knight of the laughing tree, stands up for howland reed. dunk kicks a prince of the crown for the sake of a puppet girl. maybe it's true that there's no such thing as a true hero, and that all honor is a mist that melts in the morning. but a common person is not "no one."

an ordinary person is worthy of being saved.

[ilynpilled]

i like looking at that part of the weirwood dream from not just the straightforward potentially prophetic lens. at the core, their asos dynamic’s engine is disappointed idealist jaime wanting to snuff out that flame in brienne to prove it isnt, and cant be, real; it cannot persist. bc if it does, if she is, there is no excuse left. that is what her sword still burning after the contradictions destroy his means

[fortunate-hal]

the events leading up to the weirwood dream lure readers into believing jaime is as cynical as his internal monologue makes him out to be until the last possible moment, when the contradiction between informed intent and action is undeniable. the chapter ends there because he can't quip his way out of "i dreamed of you."

jaime reminds himself "a real woman" is waiting for him, leaving brienne at harrenhal and dismissing pia from his tent. jaime urges steelshanks on so he can get back to cersei as quickly as possible, perhaps in time for joffrey's wedding. he suppresses his irritation at the mummers' refusal to ransom brienne, hoping to "dream of cersei" instead. it seems jaime's determination to "put [brienne of tarth] behind him" and return to king's landing will prevail over his misgivings. that is, until she appears in a dream with a flaming sword that refuses to go out.

after the ghosts come rushing in, jaime uses every trick in the lannister arsenal, the bribery and bargaining he didn't need when he had a sword hand, to get back to harrenhal. if, as qyburn says, "something of our souls must remain when we leave this life," then jaime can't bear for brienne to be left behind to become another one of his ghosts. when he finally makes it to king's landing, a flicker of idealism remains -- and it spurs jaime to upend the relationships that once defined him.

[ilynpilled]

[dahnsarchives]

"Jace's death hardened her, burning away her fears, leaving only her anger and her hatred. Rhaenyra would rain down fire and death upon Aegon and all those who supported him and either tear him from the Iron Throne or die in the attempt."

- Fire & Blood

Be cruel, Rhaenyra.

[ales-art]

ser Dunk, a knight of the seven kingdoms

[birdo08]

“Do you even like girls?”

“Of course I like girls!”

Redraw of a Ygritte and Jon scene with my headcanons of them they are so dear to me

[souryam]

stark girlies in another universe

[halidki]

rhaena targaryen, the black bride comm

[m-malyar]

little crows

[vampireb4it]

SANDOR CLEGANE AND ARYA STARK BY TYLER JACOBSON FOR THE ASOIAF 2027 CALENDAR

[gotheyjoy]

lady stoneheart and her son the young wolf

[fishfingersandscarves]

sansa (x)

[prideprejudce]

daemon “well she’s my wife” and mysaria “well she trusts me more than you” going back and forth until alicent gets brought up and both their dumbasses just gotta sit there like this because she still tops overall

[greenbloods]

the lady x sworn shield dynamic can take on many iterations, including as lovers (cersei/jaime), brother-sister (loras/margaery), mistress-attack dog (sansa/sandor, alicent/criston cole), or parent-child (catelyn/brienne), and often it's multiple at the same time, but first and foremost it must always be weird about it.

[remusjohnslupin]

asoiaf sigils → the riverlands (part 1/2) | Stretching from the Neck to the banks of the Blackwater, and east to the borders of the Vale, the riverlands are the beating heart of Westeros. No other land in the Seven Kingdoms has seen so many battles, nor so many petty kings and royal houses rising and falling.