#The red wedding

[westeroswisdom]

A strictly metaphorical post. 🙂

[prettydeeryess]

RIP Robb Stark, you would've loved to see a stark army crossing the twins 😔😔😔

[naggascradle]

really i think the red wedding is perhaps one of the best moments in modern literary history because its soooo much more than just that one scene ive said it once and ill say it again nothing in asoiaf is a complete and utter shock twist everything is foreshadowed like being woven into a great tapestry of everything that happens. the red wedding is foreshadowed so much you feel it looming over every narrative involved and i really do believe the cultural consciousness of the spoiler that it will happen improves the reading for the red wedding. you know that sickening feeling that everyone here involved is doomed and there's nothing youu can do to stop it. daenerys's vision of a king with a wolf head surrounded at a feast of the dead a whole book before it even takes place. the emphasizing of how you should never ever ever ever violate the laws of hospitality its a crime against the gods and catelyn continuing to push that they should eat first no more matter what. the legend of the rat cook and the gods anger over it. and then you realize not only is the red wedding a tragedy but it is just the beginning and a narrative device that will span every house involved and their downfalls. it is by design that tywin lannister plans it and he's dead by the end of the same book along with his grandson. oh red wedding you will always be famous i love you so dearly and i cannot wait to read the fabulous horror of the demise that lord walder frey will meet

[c-m-li]

Tywin Lannister's greatest trick was convincing everyone he was more clever than he actually was.

People are still quoting him in this as if it's a great question and he was in the right.

Except people forget, Tywin Lannister convinced people to forget -

They didn't just kill a dozen men at dinner.

Yes, they killed the wedding party, but everyone forgets that Robb Stark had a third of his army at the Twins with him that the Frey's and the Bolton's slaughtered.

Tywin didn't choose between killing a dozen men at dinner or 10,000 in battle, he did both.

[duchessofthemoonartworks]

No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. 

Inspired by Catelyn Tully at The Red Wedding {2024}

[llutik]

her firstborn

..so ugh you know how once there's been only cat and robb in her scary and not very promising newly married life... and how robb was her whole world

and how he really is her whole world in death???

[stompandhollar]

[ashleybenlove]

Love the way Ezran asks Karim if he loves his sister.

Karim is like of course I do.

Bro. You wouldn't be causing a war if you actually loved Janai.

[dipperscavern]

FFFFFFFFFFUCKKKKKKKKK

[milevenstancyendgame]

It looks like a movie ending, but it's only the beginning <3

[greensleevesii]

Getting references to Tommy Tallarico in your comment section must be like hearing the Rains of Castamere at your wedding. Pure dread. You got GOT

[jokey05]

Theon Greyjoy during all of ASOIAF:

[pendovah]

Ghost . . . Where are you? Was he dead as well, was that what his dream had meant, the bloody wolf in the crypts? But the wolf in the dream had been grey, not white. — A Storm of Swords, Jon VIII

[prideprejudce]

now that I think about it more, the blood and cheese scene in itself is fine. it showed what it needed to show and it was still horrifying and brutal. i'm also never one to be hoping to see *more* violence against women and children on the TV shows that I watch in 2024

that being said, i think the biggest issue from the fans is not even that it strayed from the books but that the show itself hyped it to be the red wedding pt 2. and while the scene was horrific, it was NO red wedding in the least bit. not only was the red wedding gruesome, but it took out several fan favorite characters in one swift blow, which made its impact much more significant with fans. and as much as i don't want to see a kid murdered in a show, the fans really don't have much connection to aegons kids, baby #1 and baby #2.

overall, in a vacuum, the scene itself works, but in the context of the hype around it for the past several months, it falls flat

[robynnnn311]

Robb who had been more of a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoys loins. Murdered at the red wedding butchered by the Freys. I should have been there with him. Where was I? I should have died with him.

[polysucks]

Asoiaf fan: Preeeeeetty sure the Twins are as haunted as Harrenhal now bc of the Red Wedding

Zack Bagans .826 seconds after reading that post, already in Walder Frey’s bedchambers: