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I like when Catelyn starts killing people in her brain

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Ok so, I'm a bit stupid and decided to paint this slightly blasphemous version of that disturbing encounter between Sansa and The Hound during the Battle of the Blackwater.

(I basically ripped off an annunciation I saw in Urbino) (yes that green stuff is supposed to be wildfire, it looks like a bunch of plants).

Here's the print!

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Trump's criteria for choosing people for his administration are remarkably similar to Cersei's criteria for choosing her Great Council in A Feast for Crows:

"loyal" aka yes-person / suck-up (mandatory requirement)

as corrupt and/or incompetent and/or insane as possible (also mandatory)

bonus: hot ("central casting") and/or kind of looks like an old crush

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Cersei has insane political maneuvers

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This is Nan, Lord Bolton's own cupbearer, and she hopes your princess dies.

(ACoK - Arya X)

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ned being held up as the metric for moral goodness in asoiaf is absurd like did you not read bran i, agot in which he beheads a man on the run from the others because he must fulfill his fedual oaths and he carries out the execution through his family's ancestral sword which was definitely forged for the exact opposite purpose, i.e. in defense of the north against the others. and then he uses ice again to behead the direwolf which was meant to protect his daughter. is it any wonder that he also meets his end the same way, through it, after spending the rest of the book in king's landing in service to a failed king, desperately trying to reassure himself that they are not repeating history. bran i is saying ice was already metaphorically broken long before tywin melted it down because the starks have forgotten their magical history yes, but also because ned represents an older, failed generation in service to hollow chivalric ideals. and it is now up to his children, the ones coming of age in a world destroyed by the previous generations—it is up to bran, sansa, arya, and jon to reforge their family legacy, away from contradictory oaths and in service to hollow paradigms. (and in a way ice is already currently being remade through brienne, who is not a knight of the songs but still the closest thing to the idea of a true knight)

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Was doodling some Hermes last night

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I’ll give you this cursed thing before going on my trip.

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Something almost i never see mentioned about catelyn is how surely she is the voice more anti-war in the early books is due to she being from the lands that due their geography position have a long history of being the first and most damaged by literally any war, rebellion that occurs in the whole freaking continent. Like, she surely knows about the history of her lands.

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“Speak the names, and a man will do the rest.”

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Maybe it was just a misunderstanding... (check out part 1 here)

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My Hounds compilation found in the darkest depths of my files, made years ago, and somehow never posted, I think. Still love this guy!

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"you are dead," dany said.

murdered. though his lips never moved, somehow she could hear his voice, whispering in her ear. you never mourned me, sister. it is hard to die unmourned.

"i loved you once."

once, he said, so bitterly it made her shudder. 

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A girl and her hound

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Do the gods, when disguised as mortals, have the uncanny valley effect?

Okay, stick with me here- my evidence is drawn from the Iliad, where is says:

Which seems pretty uncanny valley to me? Like, the gods are disguised as mortals, but they can never perfectly mimic a mortal, as they are not mortal, they do not act the same way, try as they might. Something about them will always look off- too polished, too precise, not human enough.

I���d imagine there is something deeply unsettling about a god mimicking a mortal. Enough that those who know what to look for, the gait in their walk, the look of power in their eyes, can tell the divine from the mortal.