#asoiaf what-if

[ilikestuffthatsparkles]

Theon leaving

[visenyaism]

mysaria being the one to turn back and protect rhaenyra when daemon slipped away after making big promises and not delivering whatsoever yet again. i am going insane

[mileenaxyz]

Okay...now...hold on....

[cthaehart]

Jaehaera playing with Maelor :]

[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

[branwinged]

one thing about asoiaf is that it frequently invites you to have sympathy for characters who've carried out varying degrees of morally repulsive acts (most apparent with pov characters such as theon, cersei, tyrion, and jaime but also sandor, joffrey, and even viserys). and most of these characters have received some equivalent of, what may look like 'narrative comeuppance' : theon flayed by ramsay, cersei made to perform her walk of atonement, tyrion sold as a slave, jaime losing his hand, joffrey's painful, drawn out death etc. except the scenes really aren't framed like that since the series doesn't seem to buy into that idea. all these incidents are not just deserts but moments of horrible injustice against these characters. and that's a little series thesis statement in itself, no neat category of monsters whose misdeeds can be addressed by a single moment of karmic justice but people like you and me who hurt others and have been hurt and continue on living. it's saying, here's this person who is capable of great cruelty influenced and motivated by their experiences with the world, but will you also hold understanding and sympathy in your heart for when the world is cruel to them in return? given what most fandom discourse looks like... the answer to that question is unfortunately a resounding no for a lot of readers.

[almostaknight]

margaery and jaime are going to maximize their joint slay (every single one of her husbands and his kings dying) and involuntarily kill tommen

[franzkafkagf]

every time somebody fancasts henry cavill in something asoiaf george deletes 200 words from his twow manuscript

[swordmaid]

suddenly shy 😳

[orlaite2]

Visenya the Conqueror and baby Maegor

based on Leyendecker's "Madonna and Child"

[grandkhan221b]

HOTD season 2 coming up got me re-reading ASOIAF again wooops

[visenyaism]

[vintrage]

fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH

[gojuo]

Remember what they're taking from you

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[knorrig]

”we need more complex female characters!” you bitches cant handle sansa stark and she’s twelve.

[greenqueenhightower]

I can't stop thinking of how Otto brought 100 cats to the Red Keep to take the place of the hanged ratcatchers. There was a ferocious war going on, there was danger everywhere, and Otto had the time and energy to go like: "Man, we have way too many rats. Imma do something."