#R+L=J

[cynicalclassicist]

Ah... that's something to think about from GRRM.

Once, I emailed GRRM asking him to verify the authenticity of a quote where he compared Brienne and Sansa, and he responded promptly.

Later, I emailed him a playful little poem declaring that I know jonsa is real, and that man went completely radio silent.

I’m just saying…

[polysucks]

Lyanna Stark idk

happy thanksgiving. Say something nice to an indigenous artist today (like me)

[saessenach]

What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

[winterprince601]

honestly, i don't blame anyone for not making the connection between rhaegar targaryen and jon snow. they are such different guys to me. you could organically stumble upon rhaegar playing a silver harp in a clearing in the woods, silently weeping into the flowing waters of a crystalline stream. jon is the teenage manager of a fast food chain who sometimes shows up to work dripping wet because he doesn't own an umbrella.

[buildoblivion]

promise me ned

[helaenarts]

‘What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… We are only humans and the gods have fashioned us for love.’

Rhaegar Targaryen leaving a pregnant Lyanna Stark at the Tower of Joy to join the war

[esther-dot]

“He knew nothing of his mother; Eddard Stark would not talk of her. Yet he dreamed of her at times, so often that he could almost see her face. In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.” AGOT, Jon III

One of my favorite things about Arya looking so much like Lyanna is that Jon has seen a face like his mother’s smile at him, eyes like his mother’s look lovingly at him.

[amber-laughs]

He loves him. He raised him. That’s his son.

"Come, let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now."

He hates him. A constant reminder of the worst days his of his life. The weight of House Stark on his shoulders with no warning.

“He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.”

He doesn’t miss him.

“The thought of Winterfell brought a wan smile to his face. He wanted to hear Bran's laughter once more, to go hawking with Robb, to watch Rickon at play.”

He begs, in his dying hour, for one last moment with him.

“The thought of Jon filled Ned with a sense of shame, and a sorrow too deep for words. If only he could see the boy again, sit and talk with him…”

He’s his greatest shame.

“I've never lain with any woman but Cersei. In my own way, I have been truer than your Ned ever was. Poor old dead Ned. So who has shit for honor now, I ask you? What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"

He’s his highest honor.

“The Starks were not like other men. Ned brought his bastard home with him, and called him "son" for all the north to see.”

He’s his darkest lie.

“Catelyn had asked her husband the truth of it, asked him to his face. That was the only time in all their years that Ned had ever frightened her. “Never ask me about Jon,” he said, cold as ice.”

He’s his kept promise.

“Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes.”

[jimmymmtz]

/Commission/ RhaeLya. The tower of Joy

[hyacinthecanard]

Lyanna survived and lived hidden with her son in Greywater Watch. But when news of her brother Eddard taken prisonner in Kingslanding came, the wolf-blood is too much and she joins Robb Stark's forces to try to free him.

[rhaegars-cervix]

i have brainworms over how jon was allegedly conceived months after brandon and rickard’s deaths. i feel like lyanna must’ve had very conflicting feelings all around, anger at both of them (as well as aerys), sadness and disappointment, doubling down on her convictions even if unable to shake the underlying guilt because if she looks back she’s lost… well it’s good she at least has someone to take that out on :)

[remy--hadley]

I know the fandom is divided over whether rhaegar loved lyanna or he was prophecy obsessed but I think it's pretty telling that rhaegar, before he left for the war, actually filled the room she was staying in/giving birth with her favourite flowers. And the fact that she was holding onto it as she gave up her definitely indicates that she was mourning him even when she was dying

[polysucks]

Part 1 of @meemawdean’s incredible art requests!

meemawdean and I had discussed some of the cultural differences among the houses and the cultural differences they portray derived from their ancient roots. Specifically, I will die on the hill that the Starks are heavily indigenous peoples coded. If you’re somewhat familiar with my art, you’ve probably noticed that I have drawn the Stark children in a lot of indigenous inspired fashion, such as parkas, amauti, kamleikas and kuspuks! I’m really interested in exploring the cultural significance of dress, style and depiction of heritage in my art for the world of A Song of Ice And Fire, and am forever obsessed with the anthropological aspect of the peoples depicted in this series.

I was recently re-reading acok, and it was in one of Catelyn’s chapters where she spoke about nursing Robb. I found it really interesting, that (at least, from what I could recall) none of the the mothers whose perspectives we get to see the story through ever spoke about nursing their babes. It just made me think more and more about how intimate the northern peoples are in Westeros— specifically, the Starks. The Starks are affectionate with each other, they hug, they kiss, they laugh and are playful with one another, and they are constantly thinking of one another, while other family dynamics we have seen are a little more…dare I say, sterile.

That’s a long winded way for me to say I think Lyanna would have been a very doting mother, affectionate and very hands-on with her son, insistent on not having a wet nurse, and very dedicated to the quiet bonding time she gets to nurse her son and nourish his body to grow. Imma end this post before I start crying lyanna no you know better than to fall for a man who uses purple shampoo

[saessenach]

working on a wee storyboard thing - a certain prince gets knocked off his horse while chasing the Knight of the Laughing Tree and shenanigans ensue

[asoiafcanonjonsnow]

Lyanna and Jon

Even his own mother had no place for him. The thought made him sad.

"Promise me, Ned" Lyanna's statue whispered. She wore a garland of pale blue roses and her eyes wept blood.

The Riddler - Nightwish // Jellwery - Dalmata Shop // Charity - Carlo Dolce // Jon V - AGOT // Tomb art - Père Lachaise Cemetery// Crying Mary Unknown // The death of Barbara Radziwill - Jósef Simmler // Eddard V - AGOT // Jon Snow - Aranza Sestayo // The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish

[winterprince601]

thinking about how all three of the kingships jon stands to inherit are legacies of love - jon's ability to understand the free folk as human and worth saving is an act of love and they love him and essentially make him king beyond the wall in return. robb loves and trusts his brother and is confident in jon's love and loyalty in return, even fresh from theon's betrayal, so he names him his heir to the north. despite the ambiguity of the affair, grrm seems to suggest rhaegar truly loved lyanna and that would make jon, literally, their love child - illegitimate or not, his existence and potential claim to the iron throne is because "prince rhaegar loved his lady lyanna" and he lives because lyanna loved him and ned loved lyanna.

do you see it? around jon snow, more important than any royal blood or legitimacy, is a nexus of love?