#Jon's quest

[buildoblivion]

not much snow in essos I imagine

[milo-the-mage]

little sketch of @clairebearsparkles’s designs for spiritfarer jmart :] sorta like talking sprites! I’ll for sure be doodling them (and maybe some of the other characters from this au) more at some point

[kcdahippie]

Jon Pertwee is so effortlessly fabulous as Three sometimes and it's truly amazing. Like you could EASILY put this pose side by side with Ncuti Gatwa and see the Doctor embodies in them bothso well

[honkygay]

my fav dynamic (romantic AND platonic / familial) is guy who’s seen the horrors his entire life and guy whos only known about them since Last Tuesday band together to Stop The Horrors or at least figure them out

[ghostyary]

havent drawn them in forever

[captainspaulding]

oh im boutta be insufferable.

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

AGoT was absolutely making some big statementsᵀᴹ re deconstructing unrealistic fantasies and how they make tragedies out of children, with Jon, Bran, and Sansa being the main vehicles for this commentary. They are basically three different versions of GRRM’s critique on the genre. All three had built life expectations based on the songs fed to them as children, but had to have those dreams and aspirations (very) violently shattered as they were thrust into a world that didn’t care how it made corpses out of them. They have all been made victims of fantasy’s violence in a tragic process that is believed to be the natural order.

Sansa realizes in time that the songs didn’t paint the full picture. The singers neglected to warn her that not all handsome princes are kind, and not all knights actually understand the contradictions in the vows they swore; some don’t really care to in the first place. She learns that the handsome prince she loves can brutalize her through the very knights who should protect her (an innocent maiden). Though he doesn’t know it yet, it was Bran’s very ideal that almost killed him. He wanted to be Barristan the Bold, a valiant knight of the kingsguard. But it was a member of this “noble” order that tried to murder him (and thus made his hopes and dreams impossible) because he witnessed him betraying the man and institution he swore allegiance to. And Jon, like Bran, wanted to be the valiant hero. He banked on the songs which propagandized the Night’s Watch and their noble exploits. Then he actually joined the watch and came to learn that this “noble” order is an oppressive xenophobic force; and the contradictions presented when the oppressed (a bastard boy with little social status) unwittingly becomes an oppressor (him initially buying into the propaganda that the wildlings shouldn’t be a protected class).

Once all is said and done, all three children are forced to take on roles that couldn’t be farther from what they envisioned. Sansa is a princess hopping from one tower to the other, forced to cater to the whims of abusive men. Bran is a crippled boy who unlocks a magical power that he doesn’t really care for; he wanted to be a knight not a magician for crying out loud! And Jon does become Lord Commander as he wished, but he is utterly depressed and lonely when he’s made to foreswear family ties and drive his friends away once he gains power over them.

But the cool thing is, in the very same way that fantasy is deconstructed through them, it is also reconstructed and given new meaning as they find a place for themselves in the world in spite of their tragedies. Sansa is still a pretty princess in a tower, but she is learning to be her own rescuer and she has managed to retain empathy and kindness in an environment that tried to tell her how futile it would all be. Bran may be crippled and incapable of becoming Brandon the Bold, but he has reinvented what it means to go on the hero’s adventure and he is beginning to build a role as the Prince of the North. And Jon may be a bastard, yet he has somehow become the living embodiment of what it is to be the valiant prince that little children love to dream about.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Sasha: I have bad news.

Tim: *thinks Sasha is finally leaving the institute* When?

Sasha: Oh, not that.

*confused Jon and Martin stares*

Sasha: It's about Elias.

Elias: *watching them in his room* Oh no. She WAS Gertrude's pick did she figured everything out already? Well not everything or she wouldn't be saying all that but still...

Jon: Elias? Why were you researching Elias?

Sasha: I was trying to discover why Gertrude keept this place so unorganized, I know what you guys think, but it really isn't like her...

Tim: You go Sash.

Martin: And?

Sasha: I think I got it.

Elias: *in his office* That certainly changes things. *grabs pipe*

Jon: Tell us.

Sasha: Elias is a tory.

Elias: *relieved* *sits back at his chair* *drops pipe*

[shieldofmen]

Day 11 - Defender of Realms

Old art! This is like one of first completed pieces of Jon I did on my tablet ❤️

[axolotlcipher]

See the joke is that I love Tammy, but GURL these romances. All lighthearted fun from ur local lesbian.

[onceinawhilemoon]

man I wish I could erase my memories of SHCO so I could play it all over again like it's my first time

[takenbythemist]

you guys are NOT ready for when i finish s3 bc i have the best desolation!tim au ever created and i am going to talk about him 24/7 the MOMENT i finish mag119/mag120

[cult-of-the-eye]

IS THERE A ZOO BREEDING PATHETIC WET CATS OF MEN NAMES JON????? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY???

[kcdahippie]

How I feel knowing I have to work tomorrow

[eatouryoung]

hey do you guys remember mag 65 binary. also do you remember it was a live statement. also do you remember the guy was specifically trapped in a program that could transfer itself to any device the statement giver was looking at so she was forced to listen

bonus jon not giving a fuck about this statement

[atopvisenyashill]

on my father's wings

i was bored at work and had the quest for camelot soundtrack stuck in my head so now you all have to suffer as well. yes i will continue to compare asoiaf to children and teen's media, i'm a children and teen librarian, all i read are picture books now sorry.

(if you haven't seen quest for camelot, it was a children's adaption of The Kings Damosel. It is LOOSELY based on the book though, and it was a critical flop because people have no taste. the music is amazing, very celtic and it started my love affair with cary elwes!!!)

if you were with me now i'd find myself in you if you were with me now you're the only one who knew

i want to live my life the way you said I would with courage as my light, fighting for what's right like you made me believe i could

this world i'll never see my dreams that just won't be

Some day with his spirit to guide me And his memory beside me I will be free

So I will fly on my father's wings To places I have never been There is so much I've never seen And I can feel his heart beat still And I will do great things On my father's wings