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by basje

#photography #fog #mist #pale

user-boxer

This user loves and appreciates the moon

#exactly

weirwoodking

the way that Arya has leadership so deeply ingrained in her soul that Nymeria instinctively formed a massive pack to guide and protect

#a song of ice and fire #arya stark

keepingupwiththeboltons

Every day i hope and prey that when jon comes back to life he goes absolutely rabid

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #jon snow

theroseinthedarkness

Audrey Hepburn’s nightgown in Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

#gifs: costumes

shebsart

the bride’s eyes

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #jeyne poole #arya stark #theon greyjoy

cygnea

Aesthetic Meme: 9/9 characters (Arya Stark)

“I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but some times she felt she was a little girl after all.

#arya stark #arya aesthetic #asoiaf #aryastarkedit #asoiafedit

lovesickbrat

if i think abt arya stark too much i start to cry

#arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire

lannister-archived

You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North.You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.

#arya stark

aryaofoldstones

The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did. They went everywhere together, and Nymeria slept in her room, at the foot of her bed. If Mother had not forbidden it, Arya would gladly have taken the wolf with her to needlework. Let Septa Mordane complain about her stitches then.

#nymeria #arya stark

visenyatargaryen-archive

You ever think about how Jon Snow literally gave his life for Arya Stark

#jon snow #arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire

nobodysuspectsthebutterfly

So, apparently there’s this theory that Arya’s chapters in ADWD are either a year behind or a year ahead of the other POVs? And it’s stupid af extremely baseless.

You know why it exists? Because when Tycho Nestoris is talking to Jon, he says there was ice in the canals of Braavos when he left, and Arya’s chapters (including TWOW’s “Mercy”) never mention that.

But I’m sorry, that’s a ridiculous nothing to try and base a timeline on. I live in Chicago, and if someone called me up in January to say “there was snow on the ground when I was in the city last week”, I’d very likely tell them, “we’ve had some warm days, it’s all melted now.” (Mind you, a week later I’d be saying, “damn, 12 inches, digging out my car’s going to be a bitch, lol.”) Like, weather changes. That’s sort of the definition of weather (vs climate) – it’s not constant, it varies from day to day, even during a season.

To actually figure the timeline in Arya’s chapters relative to other characters, you need to look at the news from Westeros that reaches her. Like the slave ship full of wildlings that ended up in Braavos because of a storm, is full of the people from Hardhome that we hear about being kidnapped by slavers in Jon’s chapters. And the storm that drove the slavers to Braavos, is probably the same one that dumped Davos on the Three Sisters. Furthermore, in the epilogue of ADWD, Kevan tells Harys Swyft to go to Braavos on a mission for the crown, and to hire Gregor’s men as his guards if he’s worried about assassins… and in “Mercy”, Harys Swyft is in Braavos with Raff the Sweetling as one of his guards. As the Small Council wanted Harys to leave right away, we know that “Mercy” must take place within a few weeks of the end of ADWD.

As for the canal ice thing, well, it just means there was a lucky couple of warmer days around the time “Mercy” takes place, or that Tycho happened to leave during a cold snap that didn’t last long, or… it’s just a minor error that may or may not be fixed before publication. GRRM has a lot of minor errors like that; for example, theory-wise, the “narrow hips” vs “wide hips” thing for Jeyne Westerling, which only got fixed in the latest editions of AFFC a little while ago. Something like that is not meant to be important or relevant, odds are it’s just something GRRM overlooked and really doesn’t care about.

But the problem with these sorts of theorists is that they focus on a tiny incongruity and poke at it for “proof”, building a giant framework around it, while overlooking all the actual text and character work that could topple their tower in a second. Also, in my experience, they don’t read – or read very selectively, laser-focused on one or two characters and ignoring the others – or only look at quotes other people have put together. But I think the main issue is they’re not reading the books as a whole, or ignoring or skimming their non-faves, and therefore miss far too much.

This is why I got called a prophet for predicting Arya was going to encounter Raff in Braavos and probably kill him. It wasn’t prophecy, only logic and putting the pieces together. And I didn’t do it by reading only Arya’s chapters, I figured it out by reading Arya’s and Jaime’s and Brienne’s and JonCon’s and Kevan’s chapters. Despite the POV format, GRRM thinks of the books as a gestalt and writes accordingly, and really, that’s how we should be reading.