DEATH IS THE MESSAGE

asoiaf · horror

[walkintothefire]

fabien frankel thank you for yet another scrumptious photo of rhys

[thelittlecrannogmen]

maekar gotta be my favorite of the random fuckass targaryens. hes fucked over by birth and being so far down the succession that nobody cares about him but the pressure of simply being royalty makes all his kids losers. and then his dad and all his brothers die horrifically and he’s left standing there like. ?????????? okay? and then after spending his entire life prepping for war and being the only competent commander in the room his reign has no wars. and then he gets killed by a random fuckass rock at starpike. free my mans seriously

[walkintothefire]

i need ormund to shit talk otto before he dies

[deadmegumi]

ormund humiliating both daeron and gwayne with the comments about his sexuality when gwayne has been like the only semi-trustworthy adult in daeron's life and ormund is the one actually ********* daeron. Well it's delicious

[deadmegumi]

ormund terrorizing gwayne and daeron forcing them to suffer whatever whims he has and act in his little performance of a family unit #YUMMMMMMMMMMM

[deadmegumi]

you are my victims and to some extent my wives ❤️

[walkintothefire]

whole house (hightower of oldtown) gay and homophobic god bless

[walkintothefire]

i was dragged to see n*lan's odyssey and now i'm late for hot d 😔

[baratheonpilled]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1.02 / 1.03

[goldcrescent]

Imagine a reach lord hating valyrians so much he glazes a dornish woman and refers to dornishmen as the in-group. Besides the child abuse and the war mongering and the religious fanaticism and the misogyny and the classism and the hostages and the murder and the public indecency and the occupation and the toxic work environment and the theft Ormund is literally so progressive. woke king. Vote Green No Matter Wheen

[tweedstoat]

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 5, "Unbowed and Unbent"

[walkintothefire]

the spirit of a song of ice and fire is in this house of the dragon episode tonight

[bodyigrewupwith]

[walkintothefire]

hammeranvil fics on ao3 are the only thing keeping me going this week

[15-lizards]

Maekar being so loved by the fans…the people yearn for Stannis

[boundwithpurple]

the reason rhaenyra’s line about “the boys who hid their little faces in my skirts, dead so i might sit in a throne of swords” was as i like to say “giving twitter” was because this is the formulation people love to drop about the show: everyone’s aspirations here are futile and ridiculous because it’s all just for a big throne made of swords. that throne of swords does actually make you one of the most powerful and wealthiest people on the planet if you can sit it securely, but again, this actually subtle thing of buying into monarchy as pure mystification, supposedly to puncture the mystifications that advance power, but which just ends on eliding power in a maddening way. never for a second as a viewer of this show can you let up for a second in your insistence that all the characters’ beliefs and values are fucking stupid, lest someone believe you are pro-feudalism. of course, this line owes a lot to a distortion of the robert baratheon line in the main books, but that makes sense for him - does it make sense for RHAENYRA, the character with the staunch belief she has a messianic, fated, religious mandate to sit the throne, for her to deride it as empty scrap metal, reduce it to only physical material, to suddenly see through the transcendent myth of what it stands for and the profound meaning invested in it? well. not really!

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[walkintothefire]

I feel like my good friend grrm every time I open my thesis draft