#asoiaf edit

[behindfairytales]

Phia Saban in House of the Dragon (s2) as Helaena Targaryen

[amaltheas-garden]

Sansa Stark + Betrothals/Marriage

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Virgin and Child with Angels (1620) // AGoT, Arya I // AGoT, Sansa VI // Lucas Cranach the Elder, Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist (1526) // Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Illustration for Enid in Idylls of the King (1913) // ASoS, Sansa I // ASoS, Sansa III // Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Uninvited Guest (1906) // Guillaume Seignac, The Red Rose (n.d.) // Marie Spartali Stillman, Love’s Messenger (1885) // ASoS, Sansa III // William Mouat Loudan, Elaine (1899) // ASoS, Sansa III // Girl and Knight, Pinterest // Workshop of Dirk Bouts, Christ Crowned with Thorns (n.d.) // ASoS, Sansa III // Vladimirovich Pukirev, The Unequal Marriage (1862) // ASoS, Sansa III // Crying Woman, Pinterest // ASoS, Sansa VI // Frank Dicksee, Romeo and Juliet (1884) // Crying Dove detail, Pinterest (n.d.) // Domenico Veneziano, Portrait of a Young Woman (n.d.) // ASoS, Sansa VI // Harry George Theaker, A Song of Love (n.d.) // TWoW, Alayne I // Edmund Blair Leighton, Stitching the Standard (1911) // AFfC, Alayne II // TWoW, Alayne I // George Frederic Watts, Sir Galahad (1860-62) // AFfC, Alayne II // Follower of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Beneath the Blossom (n.d.) // TWoW, Alayne I // John William Waterhouse, Lamia and the Soldier (1905) // TWoW, Alayne I // John William Waterhouse, Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1907) // AGoT, Sansa III // Blue Rose, Pinterest // Francesco Hayez, The Kiss (1859)

[martellspear]

.ೃ࿐ ELIA MARTELL; but, rare for a woman of our land, her flower came with no thorns. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart.

[edelweiss-maiden]

𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐞𝐧 (𝟏𝟎𝟗 𝐚𝐜 -𝟏𝟑𝟎 𝐚𝐜)

study of insects by jan van kessel the elder (1660) / free - florence + the machine / young mother and child by james john hill (1868) / lotus-eater definition and transcription via wordsnquotes / autumn sonata (1978) dir. ingmar bergman / the veiled woman by lucien-victor guirand de scévola (1901, inspo) / letter from an unknown woman by stefan zweig (1922) / care by talbot hughes (1898) / king stakh's wild hunt by uladzimir karatkievich (1964) / golden yarn by edward okuń

[diva-calderu]

Alicent x Daemon

For @coffeebooksrain18

[thebrideofwinter]

Lady Catelyn Tully Stark

[ariavar]

The End Start of the Song

Rhaegar and Lyanna in The End of the Song (1902) by Edmund Blair Leighton

I left it in draft for over a year, but here it is! I like how Rhaegar and Lyanna's stories play with chivalric romance tropes so editing this painting of Tristan and Isolde seemed like the perfect fit.

[venusintheblindspots-blog]

“Why should I spare his feelings, when no one cares about mine?”

Excerpt From: A Storm of Swords, GRRM

[amorvincitomniamore]

Though their marriage was arranged, some claim that Lady Arya and Lord Edric met at least once before their betrothal. Some say their first days as husband and wife were filled with fights and shouting, that Lady Arya refused to step foot in their shared chambers. Others claim that from the start, there was a quiet fondness between them. But all agree that when Lord Eddard Stark visited his daughter some time later, she was happy and spoke warmly of her husband, whereas Lord Edric, it is written, could not pull his eyes from her even in front of her father. Lady Arya thrived in Starfall, racing through the hills, training with Lord Edric in the yard, and dancing with him in the firelit halls. It is said he alone could calm her when anger or sorrow took hold. Whatever the truth of their beginnings, all accounts agree—their marriage was a happy one. — A History of House Dayne, Maester Gared of Starfall

[behindfairytales]

Matt Smith in House of the Dragon (2.05-08) as Daemon Targaryen

[amaltheas-garden]

edit from pg 178r of Codex Manesse :)

[martellspear]

“I was the oldest,” the prince said, “and yet I am the last. After Mors and Olyvar died in their cradles, I gave up hope of brothers. I was nine when Elia came, a squire in service at Salt Shore. When the raven arrived with word that my mother had been brought to bed a month too soon, I was old enough to understand that meant the child would not live. Even when Lord Gargalen told me that I had a sister, I assured him that she must shortly die. Yet she lived, by the Mother’s mercy. And a year later Oberyn arrived, squalling and kicking. I was a man grown when they were playing in these pools. Yet here I sit, and they are gone."

— Study of an old man; Francois Andre Vincent / A philosopher Looking into the mirror; Jusepe de Ribera / Anguish; August Friedrich Schenck | quotes: The Iron Claw • A Feast for Crows

[inkandarsenic]

I really do think Theon saw a lot of Robb in Sansa — saw a way to atone for betraying Robb by giving his loyalty to Sansa.

contemplating adding the lyrics but I haven’t decided yet

[lagi01a1]

and then dragons danced

fire and blood aesthetic: rhaenyra targaryen // aegon ii targaryen

[hewantshisbrideback]

Different Roads: The House of Black and White

At the top she found a set of carved wooden doors twelve feet high. The left-hand door was made of weirwood pale as bone, the right of gleaming ebony. In their center was a carved moon face; ebony on the weirwood side, weirwood on the ebony. The look of it reminded her somehow of the heart tree in the godswood at Winterfell. The doors are watching me, she thought. She pushed upon both doors at once with the flat of her gloved hands, but neither one would budge. Locked and barred. "Let me in, you stupid," she said. "I crossed the narrow sea." She made a fist and pounded. "Jaqen told me to come. I have the iron coin." She pulled it from her pouch and held it up. "See? Valar morghulis." The doors made no reply, except to open. ❦ Arya I, A Feast for Crows

[thebrideofwinter]

Princess Elia Martell