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a knight of the seven kingdoms teaser oh i hope that shit also gives us corny prophetic vision sequences or whatever silly shit we are doing but it is a detailed avant garde jb pegging scene that takes up 60% of the runtime of the sworn sword

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brienne is actually kind of insane for calling jaime kingslayer right at his face. just imagining this 19yo calling a 34yo man cunt trash worthless piece of shit waste of space waste of air shithead get fucked idiot unprovoked AND anytime he opened his mouth it's actually so funny to think about

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i understand that you guys are joking but if the running joke of Jaime’s haterism with archery ends with his death i will be very mad at GRRM

me reading jaime getting shot to death by like 300 arrows in the winds of a dream of autumn part 2 broadway musical play script that i smuggled out of george’s office in the year 2078

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One thing I want to talk about is the style of address we use in Irish when we talk about prolific writers and poets.

In English we tend to just use their surname in more academic contexts e.g “Plath uses…” “Boland is seen as…”

In Irish, we can use the article “An” + the suffix “-ach” with their surname to show that we’re not just talking about anyone with that name but THE writer with that name e.g

Seán Ó Ríordáin - An Ríordánach

Máirtín Ó Direáin - An Direánach

All of this to say I’m absolutely bringing this to my asoiaf posting going forward. That’s not just GRRM that is THE Martin. An Máirtíneach

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so sad that cersei lannister never found out robb stark married a descendant of maggy the frog when he was the king in the north because i would have LOVED to see how her beautiful mind would’ve processed that piece of information

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i think people overestimate how obviously stupid victarion is to others bc we get his internal monologue but he doesnt say most of that out loud he’s probably the quietest/most reserved greyjoy. when theyre debriefing in meereen i hope we get a barristan pov where hes interpreting victarion’s short answers and silence as stoicism + hiding his plans when in actuality vic is being quiet bc he doesnt know whats going on. barry sweating during the long stony pause after asking a very simple question because he’s mistaking it for this

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I give Theon a lot of grief for being dumb (and he is) but a big part of that is that he's making decisions based on his emotions, and his emotions are pulling him in multiple directions at all times. He wants to be a good ironborn for his family but they treated him like shit even before he was taken away he wants Robb to look up to him he wants Ned and Winterfell to respect him but he resents them so so so much he wants to please his father he wants to belong to Winterfell he wants to OWN Winterfell he wants what Asha has he wants to meet the standards he grew up with on the mainland he wants-

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people are calling cersei a closeted lesbian...is nothing sacred anymore

i get why everyone can only analyze characters through modern sexual identity categories since it's our current paradigm but it still bugs me so bad. cersei's sexuality is so specific to her non-translatable social position: she was the queen, which is to be the most powerful a woman can be, but was still violently subordinate to her husband the king in a decade of marital rapes and physical violence and general indignities. now she is queen regent, but struggling to hold onto power in a misogynistic political culture. when she has sex with a woman in affc it's not about attraction or object choice, but that she can play out having kingly sovereignty on a subordinate feminine subject. she roleplays her rapes, with her as the aggressor this time. which can be a deeply lesbian activity, but it's just not how cersei is thinking of it. the important thing, sexually, is how political authority, bodily autonomy, and sexual mastery are imbricated and inextricable for her as a westerosi queen.

as she struggles to fight for her political authority and bodily autonomy (to remain regent, and not be married off as a broodmare again) sexual mastery becomes an important theater to try to access an emotional sense of power. sex with a woman is about enacting that sexual power on a subordinate subject, as she was. she is repulsed by taena's body, let down by the sex they have (the saddest line is where she thinks about how she feels worse, and doesn't understand what robert got out of it, i.e. raping and hurting her), and thinks that the only time she ever enjoyed sex was when she was having it incestuously with her twin brother. now you can argue, and i sometimes do, that jaime is kind of a woman with it, and i do think their twincest fucking IS kind of gay, but the important detail is that cersei always thinks of jaime as a man. he is her, but a man, and this is the emotional import of their relationship to her, and thus colors the sex they have and its meanings.

he is dominant, generally, in their sexual encounters - she thinks about how he doesn't take no for an answer; we see him not take no for an answer in the sept scene; we are in his head and witness to the misogynistic language with which he thinks of her as a sexual object; he penetrates and she is penetrated (this is so tightly interlocked with dominance and submission in the westerosi sexual imaginary, as is obvious in the language of cersei’s thoughts when she fingers taena). she can bear this - sexual submission as a woman - because she is doing it to herself, in her mind, in the self-protective structure she's made out of her and her twin's lifelong sexual relationship. its the only time she's ever enjoyed sex: not dominating others, but dominating herself, experiencing mastery without the tensions of being the master who can never fully inhabit the role because of sex. "closeted lesbian" gets at precisely none of this.

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the thing about theon being taken as a prisoner to ensure balon’s good behaviour is if ned hadnt volunteered to ward him at winterfell theon could have had a much better time (being a louche scheming kings landing courtier after robert immediately forgets hes supposed to be a prisoner and just lets him do whatever) or a much worse time (foisted off on stannis and stuck on dragonstone with the worlds most miserable swingers)

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Need someone to draw Jaime in this shirt with Brienne

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happy holidays -_-

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Sansa in her green tourney dress

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Where was Jaime during Tyrion's trial by combat? Was he watching and Tyrion didn't see him? Was he taking care of other matters in the WST and couldn't leave? Did he want to see the fight between Oberyn and Gregor? Was he with Tommen? ("King Tommen was not in evidence; for that, at least, Tyrion was grateful." ASOS, Tyrion X)

In Jaime IX he mentions the stableboy killed by Gregor during the duel, in a way that could make him a witness in it:

A few of the horses still shied away from the dark splotch on the hard-packed ground where the earth had drunk the life's blood of the stableboy Gregor Clegane had killed so clumsily. The sight of it made Jaime angry all over again. He had told his Kingsguard to keep the crowd out of the way, but that oaf Ser Boros had let himself be distracted by the duel. The fool boy himself shared some of the blame, to be sure; the dead Dornishman as well. And Clegane most of all. The blow that took the boy's arm off had been mischance, but that second cut . . .

And this is how it happens from Tyrion's POV:

The stable was behind him. Spectators screamed and shoved at each other to get out of the way. One stumbled into Oberyn's back. Ser Gregor hacked down with all his savage strength. The Red Viper threw himself sideways, rolling. The luckless stableboy behind him was not so quick. As his arm rose to protect his face, Gregor's sword took it off between elbow and shoulder. "Shut UP!" the Mountain howled at the stableboy's scream, and this time he swung the blade sideways, sending the top half of the lad's head across the yard in a spray of blood and brains. Hundreds of spectators suddenly seemed to lose all interest in the guilt or innocence of Tyrion Lannister, judging by the way they pushed and shoved at each other to escape the yard.

So, there are chances that Jaime was there during the fight, but Tyrion, not knowing his brother had finally arrived in King's Landing, probably didn't think to look for him in the crowd. And everyone's focus was on the duel, so of course he wasn't looking for Jaime.

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I gave him the good god's own kiss to send him on his way.

But never before had I felt a dead man shudder as the fire filled him, nor seen his eyes come open.

gay people will literally recreate snow white before admitting their feelings

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oathkeeper

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Jaime the Kingslayer by guillemhp