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in hindsight it is very funny that ned was like yeah you can bring your megafauna apex predator wolves with you to the most densely populated city in the country. that will be fine probably

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shows up to Starfall with a newborn and tells a pregnant unmarried woman (possibly his or his dead brother's ex lover) that he killed her brother. Ned's honor has taken him to places i wouldn’t go with a gun

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adwd theon is soooo fucking funny. he's tortured beyond recogintion even by himself and forced to see a girl he knows from childhood go through the same thing. he's lost everything he once held dear. theres muderers and cannibals stalking the castle. his only friend is a milf who hates everyone and starts talking to him about how the maesters faked 9/11 and how she wants to feed his surrogate fathers bones to her dogs

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Book one Daenerys design

I suppose sort of like a reference sheet, so I know how to imagine her. She still has no piercings here and overall looks a little younger.

Vest is heavily inspired by @/shebsart's design

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I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.

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love how both tywin and ned are genre definingly different from the predecessors from their houses. lannisters have always been the clever house, from lann the clever swindling casterly rock to tyland lannister splitting kings landing's treasury. but tywin's 'low cunning' and use of brutal crushing military force to solve his problems which he employs in the reyne-tarbeck rebellion and the scouring of the riverlands and the red wedding is different from the historical version of house lannister. it's a new brand of lannisterism, tywin's version, and it is this version of lannister legacy that he passes on to his children.

ned on the other hand very much likes to distance himself from the stark features of the wild and the wolf's blood, which other starks like brandon and rickard and cregan and even lyanna are defined by, adopting instead an ethos of duty and honor more like the tully words or his foster father jon arryn. he does this because he thinks that it is this wolf's blood that killed them in the end. just like the lannister kids contend with their father's idea of a good lannister, the starklings contend with their father's idea of a good stark.

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payne revelation!!! think it is a nice AFFC parallel that Brienne is running around the riverlands with Podrick Payne as her new squire, whilst Jaime, elsewhere in the riverlands, has effectively become a squire to Ilyn Payne. and I think it's like. Pod is Brienne's past and Ilyn is Jaime's future. Pod is a lonely, discarded child who wants to hone his strength to stand tall and defend himself, even as he desperately craves the company and comfort of others. he has seen something of how cruel the world can be, but is looking for ideals in people like Brienne. which is more or less exactly as we find Brienne when she first appears in ACOK: lonely, discarded, clinging onto Renly's train and desperately seeking his attention and regard, idealising him, trying to be a knight worthy of song. Pod is her inner child, and Brienne is trying to help him grow and build his strength without subjecting him to the cruelties she's known in doing so.

and then there's jaime and ilyn lmao, who I think are easily one of the most underrated relationships in the series. Jaime sees the man he could become in Ilyn: nothing more than a headsman for Cersei's whims, with no agency and no autonomy. and what's more, Ilyn has come to accept that as his lot in life. part of Jaime's project in dragging him out into the riverlands is to see if Ilyn can be rehabilitated, and if so, then perhaps Jaime himself can be, too. but it becomes apparent that Ilyn is past wanting that for himself. he seems to enjoy some of the freedom of the march, but he doesn't change. in fact, he laughs in Jaime's face: he makes it feel as though attempting rehabilitation for either of them is a joke. he's Jaime's ghost of christmas future, warning him of the man he could become, whilst simultaneously making him feel there's no possible alternative. he will never fight like he once did, his darkest deeds were still done, and what can he do but spend the rest of his days in Cersei's service. BUT jaime ultimately rejects that, effectively leaving Cersei's service to join Brienne, and pursuing change regardless.

im about to say something!!!! payne..... pane..... pane of glass.... mirror!!!! reflection!!!!! growth!!!!! you heard it here FIRST

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everyone thinks the showrunners have a team green bias bc they made alicent sympathetic(emphasis on pathetic)(also emphasis on simp).. but i KNOW they have a team black bias because they changed rhaenyra's ugly ass banners. no reason for that other than they knew it was too embarrassing. they knew the illiterate hotd tiktok girlies would nawt be able to defend it. they knew that it would give team green ammo the likes of which has never been seen before in the discourse. 'team black murders children' 'yeah well so does team green!!' 'ok well at least our banner FUCKS. at least it SERVES CUNT. imagine having quartered banners. imagine having quartered banners with the arryn sigil. imagine supporting rhaenyra's claim, going to war for her, and having to raise that fugly ass carpet... we may have lost but at least we served!!!'

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love that 70% of the time grrm’s symbolism is really subtle like oh sansa’s refused to eat the pomegranate littlefinger offered and if you weren’t paying attention you’d miss it, and 30% is just jaime has an evil lannister horse and a good kingsguard horse what could this mean

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say what you will about political genius cersei lannister but history will remember her progressive reforms (inventing the idea of firing the kingsguard, elevating bastards to the small council, probably like doubling the funding to STEM research between qyburn and the pyromancers, setting the tower of the hand on fire, etc.) thats the first queen of westeros and its first ever ruler to not have any targaryen blood (unless).

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Samwell Tarly is objectively the best character in ASoIaF. Genuinely tries to be a good person at every step of the journey, only member of the Night's Watch to even try to help a single one of Craster's daughters (Jon Snow could never), literally has the highest kill ratio of Others for any single man at the Wall, also a nerd. He even invented voter fraud.

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stannis and jaime being brothers in law and fucking hating each other is genuinely so funny. they get sat at the same table at robert and cersei’s wedding and jaime’s distracting himself from fantasising about killing robert by needling stannis about his already struggling hairline while stannis seethes because he counselled robert to either execute the kingslayer or send him to the wall and not only has robert ignored him (as usual) but he gets the distinct impression jaime knows. renly and tyrion are having fun and playing

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jailed for lannister war crimes ⛓️

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Nettles

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I do feel like the Tullys got pretty unlucky when GRRM was dealing out house traits, like what’s their sigil?? a fucking fish. all the other houses get to have fun w their inner furry but you know no son of Tully ever ran around a battlefield calling himself the Young Trout. then what are their words?? family duty honour. three unseasoned abstract nouns

then GRRM just starts taking the piss and naming them all after muppets like old man pls was the red wedding not ENOUGH

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You're so right girlboss I want to see you get worse

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It’s-a Me! Daario!