#asoiaf posting

[kataraavatara]

i feel like we could move forward as a fandom if we all understood that the only way the Targaryens are significantly different than any other noble house in Westeros is brother/sister incest and dragons. that’s literally it. not defending brother/sister incest or war crimes dragon edition but it really annoys me when people stumble across problems in house targaryen that are there because they are endemic to all noble houses in westeros because the patriarchal feudal system is in fact bad and then act like they’ve discovered something. “House Targaryen is rotten, every second son live sin his brother’s shadow and daughters are just seen as walking wombs” oh buddy wait until i tell you about ned stark and lysa tully. “they conquered westeros they’re colonizers descended from the evil slave owning valyrians” ah yes as opposed to the starks who ruled over the north for 8,000 years with the power of friendship and democratic election, descended from the andals who very politely asked the children of the forest to leave their land

[3cosmicfrogs]

btw sorry for the recent asoiaf blogging. long story short i got dragged into a house of the dragon watch party (it was. bad.) and i thought to myself "hold on. asoiaf may be a Series, but i don't remember it being this terrible." and then i bought the audiobooks for free online for free legally because i realise that i read all of them when i was 15 and the opinions i formed were very 15-year-old opinions. so anyway i'm doing like 48 simultaneous dna extractions while listening to ned stark desperately trying to rub two brain cells together and complete that fucking punnett square and yeah. its certainly a Series.

[mechanicalchickens]

With Green Jewels

This song reminds me of Cersei.

references under the cut

red tailed hawk

album cover

[smallhatlogan]

shocking number of people think that an old white man who keeps writing rape without realizing he's writing rape is actually consciously writing orientalism because a 14 year old girl is an evil unreliable narrator rather than it just being orientalism played straight

[normalcei]

A Clash of Kings, Catelyn III thoughts

Stannis and Renly's confrontation at Storms End happens here, and there's so much to look at in the chapter but what's really hitting is that Stannis is dressed pretty plainly but with the ornaments of a king - crown sword and belt - and his sword is described as having a huge square cut ruby on the hilt

Renly on the other hand is 'splendid', he's in velvets and silks, his horse is delicately picking her way around obstacles, and his sword isn't mentioned. His sword belt is though, and has 'jagged chunks of black diamond'

And it's so good that little details like the gems they wear are telling us about their preparedness for war.

Stannis has a square cut ruby on his sword hilt, firm, strong, determined, and Renly's diamonds haven't even been properly cut.

[shripscapi]

Commission of Dany in Rhaegar’s armor! I thought this one was such a great concept and I loved working on the armor design <3

[missus-andrist]

Rhaenicent based off that one pic

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

i think its so funny that cersei thinks of catelyn as a meek little mouse in her povs when its like. that woman bashed a man's head in with a rock. she grabbed a valyrian steel blade without hesitation. she traveled across westeros to form an alliance with renly only to steal one of his kingsguard too. she set jaime free from the dungeons and got him to swear to get her daughters back. even in her last chapter she shanked a mf with a knife before going insane. catelyn stark was more of a lioness than cersei im sorry to say

[ambafaerie]

Joffrey throwing Lucerys’ toy into his funeral pyre so his big brother can take it with him into the afterlife 💔

[kataraavatara]

i know i’m truly invested in a work when i start getting pedantic. one time i saw a post jokingly describing Daenerys walking into the funeral pyre as a tenth grader’s suicide attempt and it ground my gears because 1) she knew she wasn’t going to die and 2) she’s an EIGHTH GRADER

[stheresya]

i love the way sansa is so proud to be catelyn's daughter. in a world where women are expected to assimilate to their husbands' world once they get married, there's sansa adopting her mother's gods into her creed, taking pride in having her mother's looks, often choosing to wear the colors of her mother's house and, most importantly, drawing strength from her mother's memory. what's so great about this is that it's not an act of spite against her father. she's just proud of being both stark and tully. it's like arya said: the woman is important too.

[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

[lmaowh-at]

Lanns n Starks lineups/costumes sketches that I will probably add other houses to. Tywin and Joff & the rest aren't here because I was lazy and Cerseis dress took all of my energy. Don't ask me about inspiration or historical basis for these

[thekeytothenorth]

robert baratheon's small council was hysterical actually:

• old ass father figure

• boybestfriend's wife's weird incel friend

• lannister boot licker maester

• the most influential spy in the world who definitely cannot be trusted

• hated repressed younger brother

• hedonistic teenage gay brother as master of laws (??)

• secret targaryen loyalist

[normalcei]

This is such a stupid thing to focus in on in asoiaf but I'm reading the rules for 'Lord of the Crossing' and like

The Frey kids needed gameboys

Big walder can get pokemon red and little walder can get pokemon blue

Bran gets yellow and names his pikachu Summer (idr if you can actually name your pikachu in yellow)

They connect them up to pokemon stadium and they can give Rickon a controller that isn't plugged in, none of this 'mayhaps' business, holy fuck

What happened to games where you just run at each other and knock each other out?

It's nae wonder Freys turn out like that and get Universally Shat On when they're playing the mayhaps game

[volukyrja]

When your aunts dog looks weird