Lindsay, 23, she/her. library propagandist. blackgumball's asoiaf sideblog
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Text
Sunfyre learning Common Tongue because Aegon never learned how to speak in Valyrian
18K notes
·
View notes
Text
my fingers are very crossed for alicent winding up in captivity at the hands of a furious rhaenyra
#like yeah in a yuri way but also just in a ‘liv cooke and emma d’arcy r so good at acting together’ way#this happens in the book but idk. the show likes to change things 🤪#she speaks
2 notes
·
View notes
Note
alicent :)
MY HONOR
thank you chels 🩷🩷
14 notes
·
View notes
Text
62K notes
·
View notes
Text
Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)
51K notes
·
View notes
Text
6K notes
·
View notes
Text
i’ve always loved these otherwise normal-sized windows that look magnified because of the squeezed-in staircase near them; i love the complete chaos of proportions, and i love that college tucked this chaos away at the very back of the campus
5K notes
·
View notes
Text
Aoyama Seizan Seizan Zen Horses, around 1920-1930
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
women need to stop saying they want to “peg” their men. sounds very weak and stupid. start saying sodomize again
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
Dont be very woried about me since i deserve all of this
26K notes
·
View notes
Text
Stannis: Why did my brothers, The Party Kings, inspire so much love and loyalty while I, Guy Who Let’s A Witch Set People on Fire-
3K notes
·
View notes
Note
what's your take on alyssa targaryen?
she makes me really sad! her final recorded words where she says baelon was made for battles and she was made to bear him an army of sons is haunting. grrm does some interesting things with incest marriage in fire & blood, and one is that both baelon and alyssa and their parents' (jaehaerys and alysanne) marriages start out with sort of an oddly almost utopic promise of a sibling likeness being able to transcend sexual difference in incestuous melding, in these marriages that begin as more equitable than many we see in awoiaf, precisely because they are siblings rather than man/woman, only to complicate that and show the limits of it, as that patriarchal gendered difference asserts itself and divides the sibling couples, with heartbreaking consequences for their sister members.
in their time on dragonstone, jaehaerys and alysanne attain a paradise of equality, only for it to be shattered when jaehaerys truly takes on his role of husband, king, and father. and baelon and alyssa are destined for each other from childhood because they are so alike, specifically because of alyssa's gender nonconformity. she enjoys boyish pursuits, is passionate about flying her dragon (always a symbol in fire & blood of a literal leaving behind of gendered roles back on the ground, to become as genderless and changeable as flame as the dragons themselves in the seperation from earth provided by flight - but by its very nature, only an ephemeral transcendence), prefers playing with boys and training at arms in the training yard to any tutelage in femininity or sisterhood - represented by love for one boy in particular, her beloved brother - and is able, in her marriage to him when they are teenagers, to display a forthright sexual hunger and desire that pushes back against misogynistic westerosi scripts for women.
but then look where it ends up. baelon is made for battles, baelon is the warrior prince, but his sister so very like him, who fucked him so eagerly on their wedding night and bragged about it the morning after, becomes his wife only, the mother of his sons. and it kills her, and you get this expression of her acquiescence to this role as it's killing her, as a way to make meaning of her life by tying her fate to that brother, making it so she is the integral other half of his destiny. it's one of the most depressing moments in the book to me, and it comes up in my fic a lot in the context of something that haunts rhaenyra as well about this grandmother's (who she is so like: daemon is like his and viserys' mother, and rhaenyra is like daemon) fate, and her own.
104 notes
·
View notes
Text
tag game what’s everyone top 5 asoiaf characters
#mmmm...#brienne jaime sam catelyn davos#i feel like this is a little basic of a list but i cant help it i love my guys#when i (finally) finish affc cersei might bump somebody off here
255 notes
·
View notes
Text
it's the holiday season and winter is approaching fast. as you make your way buying gifts for your loved ones please think about those unable to celebrate this year. prices have been racking up in gaza leading to fundraiser funds being allocated both to day to day necessities and (if there's enough) evacuation.
please consider sparing some money, even if it is just the minimum GFM requirement, to the vetted fundraisers below. i've been in contact with all of them.
ahmed's fundraiser (@ahmed8311) -> 24% of its goal
number 161 on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's vetted fundraiser spreadsheet
dr moath's fundraiser -> 52% of its goal
line 85 on operation olive branch's vetted fundraiser masterlist
ola's fundraiser (@olaa123) -> 79% of its goal
number 205 on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's vetted fundraiser spreadsheet
529 notes
·
View notes
Photo
6K notes
·
View notes