#a storm of swords

[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

[thesunsethour]

Jaime deciding to become more involved in Tommen’s life is so funny because his three instincts are:

• teach this 8 year old to learn how to dissociate from unimaginable trauma

• plan to separate Tommen from his mother and fill the small council with allies of his own which should be easy because he knows Tommen’s favourite hobby (stamping his royal seal into hot wax)

• scrap all this and run to the Riverlands with Brienne. sorry Tommen

[grandkhan221b]

Sansa trying her wedding dress (2 seconds before learning she's getting married)

Just wanted to draw this dress with how in detail it's described - also good practice drawing fabrics

[motorway-south]

jaime’s thought process being “i want brienne to strip naked bathe in front of me just like cersei used to” to “cersei and i should get married why not?” to “for the next part of my evil plan, ill free sansa stark. but only bc no one expects me to” he’s so so so nutty

[moondostj]

“beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.” / “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.” / “you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath.” / “the slim, sad girl who wore a crown of pale blue roses and a white gown spattered with gore.”

— george r.r martin

[jynersq]

jaime watched her eyes. pretty eyes, he thought, and calm. he knew how to read a man’s eyes. he knew what fear looked like. she is determined, not desperate.

[7seasofem]

the red priestess

[wlwarhammer]

Jon is actually evil like no one is safe from a read 😭

The king? Fatty

8 year old girl? Stupid and boring

Her 7 year old brother? Fat like his fat dad

The crown prince? Botched lip filler

Jon’s own brother? Stupid smile

[llutik]

sun, moon & roses

[smilingfig]

Finally finished this self indulgent piece...

[sansansource]

George R.R. Martin - A STORM OF SWORDS, Arya XIII

[thesunsethour]

jaime returning to king’s landing in ASOS after the painful aerys-trauma-induced catharsis of the harrenhal baths only to return to his siblings Tyrion ‘set the blackwater ablaze’ Lannister and Cersei ‘let’s blow up the red keep’ Lannister. his life is so tragically hilarious

[myownastraldress]

A Storm of Swords, "A Song of Ice and Fire", George RR Martin

[motorway-south]

funniest cat moment of all time is when robb shows up married and is like "oh yeah the weirdest thing happened my soul dog didnt like her uncle" and cat who has been in soft prison for weeks is like like "robb PLEASE kill that man without trial! and never forget to take your soul dog with you again...."

[wodania]

“our towers, they rose up and set with the sun / our sermons, they burnt us with fiery tongues / we wrought our wings of metal, surprised when we fell,” eastward of eden by amelia day

“The Valyrians learned one deplorable thing from the Ghiscari: slavery. The Ghiscari whom they conquered were the first to be thus enslaved, but not the last. The burning mountains of the Fourteen Flames were rich with ore, and the Valyrians hungered for it: copper and tin for the bronze of their weapons and monuments; later iron for the steel of their legendary blades; and always gold and silver to pay for it all.” a world of ice and fire, ancient history: valyria’s children

“The freed slaves parted before her. “Mother,” they called from a hundred throats, a thousand, ten thousand. “Mother,” they sang, their fingers brushing her legs as she flew by. “Mother, mother, mother!”” a storm of swords, daenerys iv

[myheartburnsthere-too]

brienne doesn't know what an absolute catch she is and that's the real tragedy of asoiaf

I wonder what septa roelle is gonna say when bri inevitably rolls back up to tarth with a ring on her finger, a sword in her hand and the hottest guy in the seven kingdoms going to ask her father's blessing that's going to be DELICIOUS