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More medieval dyes for y'all!
#game of thrones#asoiaf#asoif/got#a song of ice and fire#house of the dragon#headcanon#fashion#hotd#asoiaf books#asoiaf fic#asoiaf fanfic#asoiaf fanart#asoiaf fandom#got fandom#got fic#got fanfiction#got fashion#got#game of thrones fanfiction#medieval dyes#medieval#natural dye#plant based#natural dyes#dyes
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Sunfyre learning Common Tongue because Aegon never learned how to speak in Valyrian
#house of the dragon#sunfyre#hotd#got#game of thrones#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#aegon ii targaryen#10k
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I feel like so many problems people have with tv at the moment could be solved if we just went back to the good ole days of 20 episodes a season that’s just sixty percent filler and character development. Give the people what they want- less condensed story and more meaningless shenanigans
#Netflix#the acolyte#the boys#bridgerton#Disney#disney plus#Loki#ahsoka#star wars#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd season 2#game of thrones#got#avatar the last airbender#atla#atla netflix#stranger things#osha aniseya#oshamir#osha x qimir#darth plagueis#darth plagueis the wise#asoiaf#supacell#shadow and bone#shadow and bone netflix#six of crows
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it's always a lannister beefing with a child
(honorable mention)
#house of the dragon#hotd#game of thrones#got#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#house lannister#tyland lannister#tyrion lannister#cersei lannister#jaime lannister#tywin lannister#sansa stark#bran stark#arya stark#joffrey baratheon#jaehaerys targaryen#george r r martin#grrm
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“Visenya why aren’t we burning the dornishmen?”
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd spoilers#house of the dragon spoilers#aemond targaryen#vhagar#team green#dance of the dragons#visenya targaryen#aemond one eye#aemond the kinslayer#fire and blood spoilers#fire and blood#hotd season 2 spoilers#hotd s2#hotd season 2#hotd meme#asoiaf#asoiaf meme#got meme#game of thrones#meme#dorne#rook’s rest#rhaenys targaryen#meleys#aegon ii targaryen#sunfyre
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another thing fantasy writers should keep track of is how much of their worldbuilding is aesthetic-based. it's not unlike the sci-fi hardness scale, which measures how closely a story holds to known, real principles of science. The Martian is extremely hard sci-fi, with nearly every detail being grounded in realistic fact as we know it; Star Trek is extremely soft sci-fi, with a vaguely plausible "space travel and no resource scarcity" premise used as a foundation for the wildest ideas the writers' room could come up with. and much as Star Trek fuckin rules, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic-based fantasy worldbuilding!
(sidenote we're not calling this 'soft fantasy' bc there's already a hard/soft divide in fantasy: hard magic follows consistent rules, like "earthbenders can always and only bend earth", and soft magic follows vague rules that often just ~feel right~, like the Force. this frankly kinda maps, but I'm not talking about just the magic, I'm talking about the worldbuilding as a whole.
actually for the purposes of this post we're calling it grounded vs airy fantasy, bc that's succinct and sounds cool.)
a great example of grounded fantasy is Dungeon Meshi: the dungeon ecosystem is meticulously thought out, the plot is driven by the very realistic need to eat well while adventuring, the story touches on both social and psychological effects of the whole 'no one dies forever down here' situation, the list goes on. the worldbuilding wants to be engaged with on a mechanical level and it rewards that engagement.
deliberately airy fantasy is less common, because in a funny way it's much harder to do. people tend to like explanations. it takes skill to pull off "the world is this way because I said so." Narnia manages: these kids fall into a magic world through the back of a wardrobe, befriend talking beavers who drink tea, get weapons from Santa Claus, dance with Bacchus and his maenads, and sail to the edge of the world, without ever breaking suspension of disbelief. it works because every new thing that happens fits the vibes. it's all just vibes! engaging with the worldbuilding on a mechanical level wouldn't just be futile, it'd be missing the point entirely.
the reason I started off calling this aesthetic-based is that an airy story will usually lean hard on an existing aesthetic, ideally one that's widely known by the target audience. Lewis was drawing on fables, fairy tales, myths, children's stories, and the vague idea of ~medieval europe~ that is to this day our most generic fantasy setting. when a prince falls in love with a fallen star, when there are giants who welcome lost children warmly and fatten them up for the feast, it all fits because these are things we'd expect to find in this story. none of this jars against what we've already seen.
and the point of it is to be wondrous and whimsical, to set the tone for the story Lewis wants to tell. and it does a great job! the airy worldbuilding serves the purposes of the story, and it's no less elegant than Ryōko Kui's elaborately grounded dungeon. neither kind of worldbuilding is better than the other.
however.
you do have to know which one you're doing.
the whole reason I'm writing this is that I saw yet another long, entertaining post dragging GRRM for absolute filth. asoiaf is a fun one because on some axes it's pretty grounded (political fuck-around-and-find-out, rumors spread farther than fact, fastest way to lose a war is to let your people starve, etc), but on others it's entirely airy (some people have magic Just Cause, the various peoples are each based on an aesthetic/stereotype/cliché with no real thought to how they influence each other as neighbors, the super-long seasons have no effect on ecology, etc).
and again! none of this is actually bad! (well ok some of those stereotypes are quite bigoted. but other than that this isn't bad.) there's nothing wrong with the season thing being there to highlight how the nobles are focused on short-sighted wars for power instead of storing up resources for the extremely dangerous and inevitable winter, that's a nice allegory, and the looming threat of many harsh years set the narrative tone. and you can always mix and match airy and grounded worldbuilding – everyone does it, frankly it's a necessity, because sooner or later the answer to every worldbuilding question is "because the author wanted it to be that way." the only completely grounded writing is nonfiction.
the problem is when you pretend that your entirely airy worldbuilding is actually super duper grounded. like, for instance, claiming that your vibes-based depiction of Medieval Europe (Gritty Edition) is completely historical, and then never even showing anyone spinning. or sniffing dismissively at Tolkien for not detailing Aragorn's tax policy, and then never addressing how a pre-industrial grain-based agricultural society is going years without harvesting any crops. (stored grain goes bad! you can't even mouse-proof your silos, how are you going to deal with mold?) and the list goes on.
the man went up on national television and invited us to engage with his worldbuilding mechanically, and then if you actually do that, it shatters like spun sugar under the pressure. doesn't he realize that's not the part of the story that's load-bearing! he should've directed our focus to the political machinations and extensive trope deconstruction, not the handwavey bit.
point is, as a fantasy writer there will always be some amount of your worldbuilding that boils down to 'because I said so,' and there's nothing wrong with that. nor is there anything wrong with making that your whole thing – airy worldbuilding can be beautiful and inspiring. but you have to be aware of what you're doing, because if you ask your readers to engage with the worldbuilding in gritty mechanical detail, you had better have some actual mechanics to show them.
#finx rambles#worldbuilding#for writers#honestly I quite liked the asoiaf books I read#it's a well-constructed story! it's a well-constructed world too on its own merits#none of this stuff about grain and spinning is actually important to the story#the problem is that grrm himself seems to just. not realize this#and goes about blithely insisting he's created an extraordinarily realistic fantasy world where all the tax policies make sense#he has not!#he has invited people to tear his creation apart if they can and! it turns out! they absolutely can!#this shit's got no tensile strength! it's made of glue and popsicle sticks!#you're not supposed to put weight on it
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sometimes i love asoiaf twitter
#sansa stark#ned stark#got#game of thrones#joffrey baratheon#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#HE WAS OFF THE PERCSSSS#omg i NEED to be friends with the person who tweeted this#hijabi helaena......i love u twitter user sullibible
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can someone please get this girl her dog back
#sansa stark#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#game of thrones#got#i dont remember how lady is described and didn’t bother looking it up but pretend thats lady use ur imaginations <3#here’s how we can still win (convince the lord of light to resurrect a direwolf that was killed years ago)#working may way thru the stark babies…….. maybe bran next…..#but for now it’s sansa’s moment <33333 my beautiful strong amazing perfect daughter who has overcome so much
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rhaenyra targaryen 👑🐉
#fire and blood#hotd#house of the dragon#rhaenyra targaryen#queen rhaenyra#rhaenyra#team black#george rr martin#game of thrones#got#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#hbo#fan art#game of thrones fanart
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Reminder to everyone here that the actors have no control over the writing. None.
Tom Glynn Carney went round and round with Sara Hess about making Aegon a rapist. He lost greatly.
Nikolaj Coster Waldau had an interview a few years back where he talked about going to D&D and the rest of the writers time and time again, begging them to stop making Jaime such a big waffler. They told him he is an actor and to act, let them do the writing.
The actors have no power. They are contracted for multiple seasons as actors and if they tried to quit, they'd be sued for breach of contract.
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd cast#hotd spoilers#Olivia cooke#Tom Glynn carney#alicent hightower#aegon ii targaryen#got#asoiaf#game of thrones
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men will literally do home renovations on a whole ass haunted mansion before sending a raven to his wife and children
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Book Daenerys my beloved
#my art#rkgk#poridraws#fanart#daenerys targaryen#Targaryen#asoiaf#got#a song of ice and fire#game of thrones#daenerys#game of thrones daenerys#hotd#house of the dragon#mother of dragons#DANYYYYYY#asoif/got#asoif fanart#I swear she deserves so much better ESP IN BOOKS…#FREE DANY FROM ALL MEN PLEASE ANDBSNDNSN
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The category is: A boy who has all of the makings of a great king, forced upon a war to save his scattered family, that dies before seeing them together again:
(they also have great hair, face cards that never decline, and daddy issues)
#got#game of thrones#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#hotd#house of the dragon#house targaryen#house stark#jacaerys velaryon#jacaerys targaryen#robb stark#king in the north#clara bow#type shit
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Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it
#tywin lannister#asoif/got#asoiaf#game of thrones#lannister#westeros#the muppets#muppets#muppets take manhattan#the muppets take manhattan#kermit#gonzo#fozzie bear#miss piggy#a song of ice and fire#a song of ice and feels#house lannister#storm of swords
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I will defend them with my life
#death note#misa amane#atla#avatar the last airbender#katara#marvel#mcu#captain marvel#game of thrones#got#asoiaf#sansa stark#legend of korra#lok#korra#attack on titan#aot#shingeki no kyojin#snk#mikasa ackerman#breaking bad#skyler white#naruto#naruto shippuden#sakura haruno#demon slayer#kny#kanao tsuyuri#star wars#rey skywalker
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to be loved means to be consumed.
prints + merch + dm for commission info
#vic.txt#my art#rhaenicent#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent hightower#hotd#house of the dragon#rhaenyra x alicent#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf art#hotd art#game of thrones#got#fav#art#fanart#illustration#artists on tumblr#digital art#character art#house targaryen#house hightower#targtowers
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