#i am a george stan

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us

[taurusicidal]

i love being in love!

even if it scares me.

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

of course it’s an alicent profile pic saying this shit:

the thing is, i would’ve agreed with the original sentiment of this post if it wasn’t for the tags, but then this person goes mask off and proves to me that they were only pretending to offer meaningful criticism.

cause all i see in these tags is buzzword 🗣️🗣️ buzzword 🗣️🗣️ buzzword 🗣️🗣️

i just wanna know, why are the targaryens always singled out as the house that ‘regularly cannibalizes its own?’

these don’t exist ig: the she-wolves of winterfell, the current lannisters, and literally every House ever.

why are the targaryens held to such an unfair standard? and why are they held responsible for the sins of their ancestors?

it is literally so funny. but like… in an astonishing kind of way.

in these tags there’s no objective language used 🙅‍♀️ no care for nuance 🙅‍♀️ and no meaningful interaction with the main themes of the series 🙅‍♀️

OP kind of tries to pretend, but it’s all surface level shit. it’s clear that they’re blinded by their hatred of the targs and dany.

because george never holds things his characters can’t control against them. what a character should be judged by is their actions, and imo, that’s what george writes about: how individual characters actions and choices can shape the world around them (bonus if the character is a cripple, bastard, or broken thing and is trying to protect others); and he also puts a lot of emphasis on a characters intentions and how they come to their decisions, which gets us his famous ‘human heart in conflict with itself’ thesis statement.

george, someone who’s interested in the choices of the individual and how they get there, clearly thinks it’s important to showcase how different characters handle great power, otherwise he wouldn’t have so many POV characters in positions of such great importance.

on that note, asoiaf isn’t an anti-monarchy piece. you could easily claim that it’s a criticism of systematic oppression, systematic violence, corrupt institutions, and unbalanced social structures; it’s a sort of think piece on how people in positions of power destroy the lives of the common in their petty fights of greed and ambition, all whilst ignoring the incoming humanity ending threat.

and through this thought process, you get the title of the first book: a game of thrones. the political shifts are a game for these powerful people, and this motif is one of the most important statements to understand in order to interact with the series discussion on what it means to be a good ruler. this motif also comes up in a conversation jorah and dany have about the smallfolk: “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are.” it’s high lords, not royals. it’s a critique of the whole social structure and political system, not a criticism of one family.

so, if you’re of this belief that petty power disputes are dumb and are angry that most high lords don’t give a shit about their subjects, then you should love daenerys, who’s one of the few characters who’s using her power to make lasting societal change.

now, is she perfect? no. no she’s not. cause she’s a teenage girl trying to take down a slave trade that’s been around for thousands of years (hilarious that she’s actually fixing the mistakes of her ancestors…). but dany is learning and is doing her best to get better and is trying to empower the powerless. that sets her apart from almost every other ruler in asoiaf and makes her one of the most important POVs in this book series quest to find out what makes a good ruler. something something gods make kings and queens to protect those who can’t protect themselves…

with that in mind, i agree that the conclusion of the series won’t be a character sitting on a throne because of their blood or because of some divine right mumbo jumbo. imo, a character will only sit on a throne if they’ve been smart, gained allies, formed alliances, have control of an army, have gained loyalty from the people they wish to rule, have been honorable, maybe have a dragon or three, and are a hero.

dany has checked off almost all the boxes, so i think it’s safe to root for her. and considering the foreshadowing, i think it’s logical to guess that peace will be ushered in, even if it’s a hard won peace. and what’s wrong with believing that daenerys will be one of the ones who helps usher in this peace after all the work she’s done to protect those who don’t have the power to protect themselves?

[myimaginationplain]

I think I might be in the minority for thinking this. but daenerys's crown as described in the books in ugly as sin. weirdly shaped, bulbous and bulky, absolutely no color harmony to be seen. even the most talented artists cannot make that thing look good in my eyes.

( x )

in my mind's eye I just scrap it entirely & imagine dany's crown being shaped a bit like these:

( x, x )

rather than jutting out, the three dragons are etched into the face of the crown, or maybe the crown is shaped into their outline. rubies, emeralds, and yellow diamonds or yellow sapphires are the eyes of drogon, rhaegal, & viserion (yeah yeah I know rhaegal's eyes are yellow not green, but this is a crown!! I'm going for aesthetics here!) maybe they can be used to decorate the rest of the crown too. but other than the jewels, the crown is entirely gold; none of that gold + silver + jade + ivory + onyx metal-mixing mess.

it can still be ostentatious, just less messy.

[cerealbowlbxtch]

.. it looked at me first

[thedogeveryonehates]

💕😍❤️🥰

[bookslikeno]

obsessed with the way Paul just bounces around in Help

[thefrontofmymind]

[faggotfungus]

If one more person says something like, "George Washington warned us this would happen," I'm gonna start busting kneecaps.

You're capitulating to a slave owner. You know this. There are So Many other people to look to when drawing a source on how the USAmerican 2-party voting system is a failure.

Or keep tellin on yourself. Makes it easier for the rest of us to cut you out of our lives.

[ilynpilled]

im such a basic fuck but asos is so good like its so good idgafff. still da fave as much as i like feast/dance

[james-vi-stan-blog]

Have you seen the new posters for Mary & George?👀

Yes!

It's strange to see James with an earring (though we saw it in promo pictures and trailers already) since I don't recall a portrait of him with one and actually the (unsourced) rumor I have heard is that James hated the single Raleigh-style earring on men (not that this stopped it being the fashion at court), but I love that single drop pearl Early Baroque earring look and am just happy to see this time period done at all.

[jestbee]

I saw people saying george is too hard to be friends with and that’s why quackity is distancing himself LMAO

Yeah, so hard to be friends with. Not the type of person that you'd want to move five thousand miles to live with you or anything, definitely not the type of person that treasures his friendships so much that he has keepsakes of them in his wallet and on his desk. What an awful person, oh my god.

I would suggest that if Q can't handle a friendship that requires more than someone fawning over him 24/7 then it's probably best he fucks off.

Sorry. I'm usually more measured than this but I will defend George with my last breath.

[thatiranianphantom]

Okay this is cute

[mushiewrites]

Whoa you switched from lee!dream supremacy to lee!george!!! Please please tell me more about what led you to this decision!!! I love lee!Gogy 🥹

I’ve always been lee!George supremacy 😎 but @fluffallamaful has lee!Dream supremacy in her bio!!!

look at him there how can there not be lee! george supremacy 🥺

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Im still wondering what the deal was with the joke at the start of peacemaker tries hard about people being mad about lore being retconned (and also how anybody mad is a dumb idiot who doesnt understand how comics work). Like the only people I've ever seen talking about Peacemaker's previous stuff being ignored in a negative way besides ME are people who arent actually interested in the character and just wanted to hate the show because they hate James Gunn (and it is very obvious from the way they talked about it that they didnt actually get who Peacemaker was as a character since most of those people were also convinced he was a serious antihero pre-show which like. Yeah ok.)

I dunno. Still convinced it was making up a guy to be mad at and is part of why I was annoyed with this miniseries from the start. Also because of the fucking sexual assault joke Im not ignoring that.

[endmeplease69]

Case in point. George was my favourite. He wasn’t perfect. But compared to John? Holy shit.

Cynthia Lennon truly was gods strongest soldier. Like imagine your husband, your childhood sweetheart, father of your child, the man who carved your name into the churches of Europe as his form of worship. This same man, the man who once wrote you aching letters about wanting to live and be alone with just you, telling you and the world that he can’t be apart from his boy besties for five minutes.

Then barely a year later he gets into a frankly comical amount of LSD, essentially moves in with his most special boy bestie, goes through his multiple affairs in detail with you like a hellish ‘what I did on my holidays’ slideshow, and finally tells you that he wants to leave you by having his mistress/heroin buddy/your former stalker sit on the sofa wearing your dressing gown as you return home from holiday before dragging you through the court until you are broken in every sense. Broken hearted, broken financially and broken homed. You are destitute, in tatters with a little boy he won’t see due to distance and commitment to said former stalker who he is parading round with on a ‘peace and love’ tour whilst filling up rooms with fur coats.

Then a few years later he temporarily splits from his new wife, seems to recover himself slightly and finally trots out a song. A song of apology, contrition, love, devotion, and recommitment full of personal little in jokes and messages. It is a song of love but you can’t understand it because it isn’t to YOU, it mostly isn’t even to HER, but to his FORMER BANDMATE.

HIS. FORMER. BANDMATE.

With hammers. I would have killed him with hammers.