A mystery knight bearing the Hound’s name and helm enters a tourney at the Eyrie celebrating the marriage of the new Lord and Lady Arryn.
The bride, Lady Alayne, causes a scandal when she gives her favor to the mystery knight instead of her lord husband.
@madeleinewintr
I love how both Lannister twins are forced to spend time with younger characters who idealize the gendered social role they embody that is killing them from the inside out. Like yess inject that shit into my veins!!!!
the fact that so many ppl read abt saera and just assume that she's an alcoholic at 12 and engaging in hypersexuality is because she is selfish instead of recognizing those behaviors in a CHILD as symptoms of abuse saddens and scares me. if jaehaerys has no haters i'm gone!
jaehaerys saying that she was 🚨"always a whore"🚨 after her scandal ... that was when the sirens started blaring in my head. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY THAT JAEHAERYS!? that wasn't the result of garden variety royal kid trauma.
@aliyahsview
Ah yes because closeted queer women do not and have never existed, certainly not in feudal society where their entire existence revolves around marriage and producing heirs
@songofamethyst
You keep using the word “masculinize” as if it’s always bad thing. Black women deal with masculinization even if that is not how they express themselves - that is harmful. Headcanoning a character to have a more masculine gender expression is not. Hope this helps!
@asstudyinpink
I’m not fond of him either but i prefer it to making “bad” characters totally inhuman. Isn’t the point of GRRM’s work that we’re all human hearts in conflict with ourselves? Even the assholes?
@daenaeraslover
They’re my Roman Empire fr. The fact that their personalities seemed to switched when “Aerea” claimed Balerion has so many possible implications i don’t even know where to begin
this + cat seeing arya’s face in the warrior and brienne’s face when she goes to the sept later (what i affectionately call cat’s mirrorball scene) + realizing what holster did to Lysa shows the tragedy of cat dying just as she started to see how her society shaped her
how it feels to remember that dreamfyre was the only dragon to break free from her chains during the storming of the dragonpit before she died with her children shrykos and morghul, the same colors as drogon and rhaegal, but her stolen eggs still made dany THE breaker of chains
@realmsmisery
when i first watched the first few eps of season one back in the 2010s i thought she lived with illyrio her whole life. would not be surprised if a lot of casuals never corrected that impression!
sorry but it will always be insane to me that a ship that puts sansa with a grown man who tried to SA her as a child is this popular especially compared to a ship with someone dedicated to protecting her
@jaehaeryshater
Saw a Jaehaerys defender recently saying he and Alysanne didn’t have anything against Viserra… anyway NEED to know how that individual managed to read a book with their eyes fully closed 🤩
i don’t get why ppl are mad at this? it’s way more important to me that dany is surrounded by people who love her like family at the end of the books than it is to see her at the top of the existing power structure that killed her blood family. i want her and bran to break it!
I have to admit that I can't ship anyone with jacaerys if baela is not included in the ship, jacegan? welcome back conquerors, Jace x Baela x Cregan. Jace x Addam? nono Baela x Jace x Addam, she is his wife, she cannot be excluded
the way these stats are presented in a way that doesn’t clarify that this largely happens BEFORE LESBIANS COME OUT is so vile tbh. ppl don’t understand how vulnerable it is to feel like you’re fundamentally broken bc you don’t feel the way you’re “supposed to” abt a male partner
Ive heard the "lesbians have higher domestic abuse rates than heterosexual couples" so many times today. Where does that even come from. And without any evidence either
me when asoiaf fans pit their fave female characters against each other as if the series doesn't critique the societal structures that puts them in that position in the first place
Instead of a Jon POV in my longfic i think i’m gonna do a Satin POV to increase 1) mystery around resurrected jon’s state of mind 2) the extent to which i am able to showcase satin’s pent-up yearning 🫣 may as well rename this fic “a feast for bus drivers”
I dare anyone to tell me it wouldn’t have been a more satisfying end for Brienne and Sansa if they hooked up before the long night and stayed together at Winterfell instead of having Brienne get dumped by Jaime… like why are my girls alone at the end? 🥺
I doubt I am the first to say it but Havana Rose Liu – specifically in Bottoms – is so Sansa to me. This specific line of hers even got a shout out in one of my fics bc this is the exact energy i imagined Sansa embodying in that scene. Also those cheekbones hello!!!
Yeah butchfemme Rhaenicent is hot but have you tried butchfemme Brienne/Sansa? They’re already a blonde butch knight and a redhead femme princess deeply tied to each other in the text, you’re welcome!
Here’s my longfic about them 🩵
NEED to know who the lesbian and bisexual women in question are, peepaw!!!!! he wrote this in 2016 so could be referring to fire and blood but i have to think he means main series. it’s not like the gay gene just died out with the dragons
@lotticents
There’s a difference between hating mlm ships and acknowledging that people don’t give wlw or gnc ships the same attention. Like i’m a lesbian and I still enjoy m/m ships bc I actually believe love is love no matter the genders involved and it makes me sad it doesn’t go both ways
@indrhaeni
The pure hate of Dany being telegraphed through a misunderstanding of Arya is doubly frustrating. Her arc is about moving past the need for revenge but dudebros see her as this badass killing machine who hates girly girls like Sansa and Dany when that’s not her at all.
Eleanor Tomlinson and Millie Brady are such unbelievably good FCs for 20s-ish Sansa and Arya (respectively). They look different enough from each other but still look like they could be sisters.
@JohanDH4
@viserionfyre
I can make it sadder — what if he wanted Daenys to bring him back to Old Valyria after Maegor made him kill another dragon (Quicksilver) in the battle beneath the gods eye 🥺
@viserionfyre
What is it with the hbo adaptations and not letting girls queen out in the vale!? First Alayne now Jeyne and Rhaena? And no sign of Jessamyn? I find book Rhaena + Morning to be interesting and symbolically important in dragon lore so I’d imagine he’s fuming about that too
@bookpurism
The way GOT and HOTD have omitted plotlines about female characters coming into their own around other women in the vale is so weird like what do they have against girls queening out in the vale :(
@weirwooddream
@jaehaeryshater
I would say it’s a reference to the silver apple branch in the Celtic myth of bran’s voyage (a clear asoiaf inspiration) but that would be giving D&D far too much credit
Me astral projecting in to GRRM’s dreams to tell him that if a lesbian divorce (Rhaena and Elissa) started all of this then a lesbian wedding should end it 🩵 boom! legacy secured! winds of winter and a dream of spring coming soon to a bookstore near you!
Sansa hate = blocked
Queen Rhaena hate = blocked
Catelyn hate = blocked
Brienne hate = blocked
Bran hate = blocked
Dany hate = blocked
Asha hate = blocked
Cersei hate = blocked
Theon hate = blocked
Jaehaerys I hate = 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮
Littlefinger hate = 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮
Theon hate = blocked
Asha hate = blocked
Joffrey hate = blocked
Ramsay hate = blocked
Robb hate = blocked
Victarion hate = blocked
Catelyn hate = blocked
Cersei hate = blocked
Walda Frey Hate = blocked
Euron Hate = blocked
Arya Hate = 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮
Balon hate = 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮
Virgin “Sansa will never warg/be a true Stark bc Lady died!”
Chad “Sansa’s connection to Lady wasn’t severed by death; with Lady buried at Winterfell, Sansa now draws strength from her wolf and her passed on relatives.”
Lady’s death awakened Bran. Something magic is afoot!
It’s crazy how much grace ppl give to Stannis in his relationship with his brother *whom he MURDERED* than they do for Catelyn who was not very nice to Jon
@viserionfyre
and rhaena was the one who had the idea to put dragon eggs in targ kids' cribs! probably came to her as a dream from dreamfyre. everyone has her to thank for their nepotism dragons! women are so linked to the targ dragon power it's delusional and weird to deny atp
@sunfyred
@Maxisntheree
This is the take!!! Plus the implication that Jaehaerys was the kind of man where it would even be reasonable for Alysanne to see her daughter as a threat goes over a lot of people’s heads I feel.
@nutmegisme
@FringeBookHan
Seriously, we never would have gotten more than one or two seasons of shows like Mad Men or Breaking Bad that took a few seasons to get big if they premiered in this cutthroat environment
@ghoulhag
Literally like … do they know that there are plenty of neurodivergent “normie” girls? In college my other “normie” friend and I used to go to anthropologie during exam season to smell candles and feel blankets. We were taking our stim breaks and didn’t even know it lmao
as much as i love rh*enicent... if the goal of hotd was to tell a doomed lesbian love story about a woman having her power usurped by her younger brother and deciding to give up the throne to live in peace w her gay lover, rhaena and elissa were RIGHT THERE (art by
@didoleonina
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the way dreams/prophecies have been presented in GOT/HOTD vs ASOIAF is so contrary to the books and the narrative has paid the price. dreams are so symbolic and visceral in the books but so literal or absent on the show. And prophecies are largely played straight which is 😤🙃
asoiaf readers, which change made for the tv series (hotd or got) do you hate the most? i hate how got erased dany’s dragon dreams and how much they butchered her visions in the house of the undying
asoiaf fanboys when you point out that male characters who are celebrated in-universe were clearly written to be misogynists:
NOOOOO STOP OVERANALYZING MY POWER FANTASY POOKIE!!!!! NOOOOOOO IT WAS JUST BAD WRITING / UNRELIABLE NARRATION (even though i never say this otherwise!)
When fanboys say Rhaena Targaryen was so awful just bc she was snarky to her beard husband meanwhile her fuck-ass younger brother nearly killed Alysanne and did kill Daella by forcing women who couldn’t healthily handle pregnancies to get pregnant
having a rarepair as your otp is not for the weak. this shit will have you fiending for someone to talk to who gaf about your ship but there are maybe a dozen of you and you’re stuck replying “yaaaaas!” to a post someone made in 2018
it is a mystery to me how arya of all people has the most read-with-my-eyes-closed stans 😭 “reminder that arya canonically loves flowers” like yeah? who doesn’t? don’t get me started on the ones who act like sansa is a war criminal for being kind of rude to her little sister
@ilprimoamor
@vampyrejudith
Rape is still bad lol. It’s okay to like immoral characters, that’s part of what this series is about, but why be so defensive?
The parallels with Sansa finding the Hound in her bed during the Blackwater haunt me. Cersei thinks her sexuality will work on Ned but it doesn’t; she encourages Sansa to think this way during the Blackwater. Ned thinks his mercy will work on Cersei but it doesn’t.
@hiisteriia
Responding with laughter can really go the extra mile in this case too. Like “lol you thought i was going to be mad but i can’t even take you seriously” is like the conversational equivalent of throwing water on the wicked witch with this type of person
@snowvism
The way there are more aeron bracken x davos blackwood fics than there are jon x satin fics … open the schools!!! in a few chapters I’ll be able to add my fic to this tag at least along with Theyne 🫶
@sunfyred
@Maxisntheree
Yeah like ppl really don’t want to believe that the guy who is very critical about the Catholic Church might be implying something about the king who leaned really hard into his fictional Catholic Church equivalent 😶
I also made a trailer for an arc in my longfic that I haven’t even started writing yet that sees Brienne and Sansa separated out of duty to one another and the yearning just carried me away… had to cut it a minute short bc again, hell site.
Longfic:
I just realized… Maegor didn’t claim a dragon until after Aegon I died. Aegon the uncrowned didn’t claim Quicksilver until after Aenys died.
So for a couple of years, Rhaena was the only one of Aegon’s descendants who was a dragonrider. She was like 12-14 lol literal queen shit
My favorite thing is watching male-centered asoiaf fanboys melt down and ignore key motifs and themes when you point out that jaehaerys was a terrible person and tywin wasn’t that brilliant and jon is just as much of a hater as sansa and cat