#a song of ice and fire

[alpaca-clouds]

Let me quickly add two things as well.

Okay, here is the thing. Technically speaking your medieval fantasy world is never gonna be realistic, even if you have a continent that geographically and in terms of climate is close to medieval Europe. Because there are just several things about the real life. For once, I do not know any single fantasy world that has a quasi-medieval Europe, without having a history of a quasi-ancient-Rome taking over most of the continent before. But so much of medieval culture was influenced by Rome (and by Christianity, both things go hand in hand). You cannot have medievla European culture without Rome and Christianity. Sorry. You just cannot. You might have some things that are similar, but not everything. (That is actually why I - now learning about the world building of Dragon Age, would argue that this is one of the more believable worlds. Because there is a) enough difference to real world history, but b) Tevinter and Andrastianism do take over the role of Rome and Christianity well enough to make the similarities believable.) No epoche is something that just happened. It was always influenced by historical context. Mind you: This is fine. It is fine. But don't just go around and claim how fucking accurate you are, when you clearly do not even understand baseline influences on medieval culture! (Also: Something, something, if you want to be accurate, I wanna see more spears and less swords, for fuck's sake.)

I also want to talk a moment about how GRRM portrays sexual violence. Because something I noticed about the books is very much that GRRM specifically measures the value of a woman over her ability to just accept being raped. And I fucking hate it so much. Like, if you read his shit, you will see that women generally come in two flavors in his book. The woman, who gets raped and will be fine with it, might even develop an (unhealthy) relationship with her rapist, and the women, who is not fine with it and will break down over it. And GRRM will make very clear that he consideres the first kind as good women, and the second kind as bad women. And it is so fucking misogynist. Like, literally, fuck that guy.

Someone over on Discord asked, "I'm morbidly curious: How BAD is A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of the authenticity George claims it to be?"

My reply was straightforward:

The long and the short of it is that ASOIAF is basically a vehicle for GRRM to present both his rape fetish and his Hobbesian view on human nature and has less historical accuracy than Frozen or most other Disney movies.

That's actually a good way to think of it, now that I've said it--he's Family Unfriendly, they're Family Friendly, but both have the same relationship with History: just Pure Aesthetic with no consideration for how the worldbuilding would work.

[sierrabravoecho]

Jaime is so close to inventing Westerosi Fuck Marry Kill

[reyuriwalker]

grrm writing fire & blood: it's a family feud and both sides have a solid claim one based on tradition and the other via anointment

hotd writers: everyone who disagrees with rhaenyra is immoral and wrong (despite her also doing evil shit that will never be addressed)

[grandkhan221b]

Part 9 of Drawing Asoiaf Characters That Have An AI Generated Image On Their Wiki Page - Alyx Frey ! One of the women that would have been presented to Robb to mary

As always I got carried away on the rendering lol

[tangerine-brooks]

I also think tyrion's "once you've accepted your flaws they cannot be used against you" line from the show is just as if not more funny because after saying that he proceeds to spend, like, eight seasons and four books NOT accepting his "flaws" and having them used against him.

i think tywin's 'a lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep' line from the show is really funny because basically ALL tywin does is concern himself with the opinion of people!

[agirlcalledlia]

“When Yoren had dragged her into that alley she’d thought he meant to kill her, but the sour old man had only held her tight, sawing through her mats and tangles with his dagger.

She remembered how the breeze sent the fistfuls of dirty brown hair skittering across the paving stones, toward the sept where her father had died.”

[knightsickness]

one of my favourite things about jaime and cersei povs is literally every other pov (correctly) is like ser gregor clegane is an actual monster serial killer serial rapist serial mutilator of women and children and to jaime and cersei hes like. their coworker. a family friend

[wweskywalker]

“Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna… and thousands died for it.”

— commissioned by rubylovescatby and she is such a sweetheart!

[praparuru-ume]

Young Daenys and baby Balerion

Uni has been eating me alive, but I finally finished coloring this one :>

[poritora]

More book Dany but this time with her children🙏

[geekysteven]

Enough with the gritty retellings, I wanna see sunny reboots. Make a cheerful Punisher. An optimistic Game of Thrones. Give us a happy-go-lucky Old Boy

[sarcasticsweetlara]

I would not be surprised Lysandro did not encourage Larra to become close to Viserys, especially since it would take Lysandro two years since he acquired Viserys to marry him to Larra when he was 12 and Larra 19, waiting for the signs to see that probably Viserys was beginning to go through puberty and therefore Larra and him could have children quickly (while Viserys was still a child) and ensure he had Targaryen grandchildren

larra rogare + viserys ii

[helaenarts]

Aegon, Visenya and Rhaenys marriage ceremony on Dragonstone beach, 6 BC

I like to imagine that in this marriage they were all equal and Rhaenys and Visenya were were as married to each other as they were to Aegon 🤭

!!!!! I Hope yall will enjoy this piece as much as i enjoyed drawing it !!

This is my take on Valyrian fashion preconquest already a bit tainted by westerosi culture !

[krampus-chai]

The Wolf's Head pt 2. Inks.

[targsource]

Aegon and Helaena

by lopatafour on twitter