#joannalannister's asks

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

What do you think of the fancasting for younger Tywin Lannister with actor Peter Eggers?

Ah, that's my friend @joannalannister's fancast. I always thought it was spectacular.

[143staytiny]

Hey lovelies! Just wanted to post a reminder that this blog is 18+ so minors do not interact. There are lots of places for you, but this isn’t one of them. This blog is not exclusively NSFW, although I do occasionally post NSFW stuff, but it is my space and I ask that you respect that.

Also, in light of one of the lovely blogs I follow recently having this issue, if you find that a minor or someone you suspect to be a minor or even just an unpleasant blog is following you on your side account and you can’t find where to block them, I’ve got you, lovely! (Yes, some of you already know this, but I didn’t so imma tell you anyway!)

I found this amazing post

https://nobodysuspectsthebutterfly.tumblr.com/post/120608024047/sideblogs-blocking

by @joannalannister and @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly that explains more about this so go check it out and show them some love! also maybe repost it so other people can learn too

Basically, what you are going to do is you are going to go on desktop- I know, it’s annoying, but I haven’t figured it out on mobile- and you are going to go to

www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/TYPE-SIDEBLOG-NAME-HERE

replacing the ending with your side blog name. You will likely also have to login so be prepared for that (que ‘where the fuck did I put that password’ 😅).

Once you are there, you will see a page that looks like this!

Then, on the left hand side, select the blog that you would like to block them on.

You will see your blog here in the middle of the screen. Make sure you are on the correct one. Then, select ‘Blog Settings’ on the right hand side.

Finally, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see a section for ‘Blocked Tumblrs’ with a pencil icon to the right. Select the pencil icon and you will be able to add blogs to your blocked list on that account.

That should fix your problem! I have done this on my main account and in my side blogs, and it has worked well for me. I hope this can help someone out! Stay safe, lovelies!

[bidonicart]

Tyrion x Tysha, 73

“Height Difference Kisses Where One Person Has To Bend Do Wn And The Other Is On Their Tippy Toes”, as you can see I fudged with the prompt a bit but I hope it’s accurate in spirit!

ETA: requests are now closed!

[shredsandpatches]

Hi! Could I please ask you what the king arthur post means?

For reference, here’s the original Middle English text:

Allas that euer I bare croun vpon my hede / For now haue I loste the fayrest felaushyp of noble knyghtes that euer helde crysten kynge to gyders

Which means, basically, “Alas that ever I wore a crown on my head, for now I have lost the fairest fellowship of noble knights that a Christian king ever held together.” For context, this is right after Lancelot rescues Guinevere from being burned at the stake and in doing so kills a number of Arthur’s knights, most notably Sir Gawain’s brothers Gareth and Gaheris, leading Arthur (at Gawain’s urging) to go to war with Lancelot and Mordred to seize the throne while he’s at war.

[bidonica]

🔥 + asoiaf shipping

I’ll look into my house first: my most unpopular opinion re:shipping is that I don’t believe that, even if they both survived the endgame (and I’m pretty sure Jaime won’t), Jaime and Brienne would go on to have a bunch of children and live that kind of domestic bliss. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade and I know this sort of fanon is popular for a reason (I think most het ships end up having some permutation of it), it just doesn’t line up with my interpretation of the characters. So I feel I’m kind of on the sidelines of current JB fandom, but also I don’t expect people to conform to my vision.

I tend to side eye Sansa ships where she’s paired with a Tyrell as some kind of a healthier option than the ones she’s been presented with so far, because tbqh I can’t see how the family who manipulated her into being a tool for the murder of Joffrey would have her best interests at heart. That girl has been lied to enough!

Also, but this is possibly an unpopular opinion on shipping in general, SHIPPING ISN’T AN IDENTITY. It’s something you do, not something you are. Having a favorite ice cream flavor doesn’t turn you into ice cream. I wish this notion was clearer in current fandom discourse because it makes things devolve into these incredibly vicious arguments about a very, very futile thing like “which made up characters you’d prefer to see smooching”. Like, do we realize how ridiculous that sounds? 

[mariedemedicis]

Cersei headcanon pls!

I’ve been thinking about Cersei and Melara a lot, so. I think Cersei liked Melara for nearly all the same reasons she also hated her. Unlike Jeyne, Melara wasn’t afraid to challenge Cersei and she was vivacious and pretty and a year older. I think Melara might have been a little less sheltered and more worldly than Cersei. Cersei certainly likes/d bossing people around but I think she got considerable more enjoyment out of telling Melara or Jaime what to do and having them listen to her than doing the same to Jeyne.

I think insomuch as Cersei was friends with or cared about anyone who wasn’t Jaime or earning Tywin’s approval or at least another Lannister, she was friends with and cared about Melara.

This is touched on in Cersei’s memories but I think Melara’s interactions with Jaime were what bothered her the most. I don’t think Melara flirted with Jaime exactly (they were babies) but I definitely think she showed some kind of interest, maybe even talking to him like Cersei did. (God forbid!)

Tywin was obviously ambitious in attempting to choose a bride for Jaime from amongst the other Great Houses but under other circumstances, I don’t think Melara would have been such an unlikely choice and I don’t think Jaime would have particularly minded being married to her. (And that may have scared or angered Cersei all the more.)

I think Cersei vilified Melara in her mind after the fact to cope with her guilt. Not necessarily that she regretted her actions but instead of missing her friend Melara, she made Melara more responsible in her head for the encounter with Maggy and added to all her flaws and I think over time has come to believe some of her own fiction.

(I also think that Jeyne left Casterly Rock as soon as she could after Melara died (since Cersei says that they both betrayed her). I don’t know that she explicitly suspected Cersei had killed Melara but certainly that something bad had happened. She gladly never left Fair Isle again and had a happier life than Cersei once she had left. Also the dozen children is an exaggeration. She has somewhere between four and seven children.)

[joannalannister]

PINK CRINOLINE ↳ Margot Robbie as Joanna Lannister ♛ Shohreh Aghdashloo as Loreza Martell ↳ ↳ WLW midcentury AU

I was never spellbound by a starry sky What is there to moon glow, when love has passed you by Then there came a midnight and the world was new Now here am I so spellbound, darling Not by stars, but just by you

1945. Still reeling from her husband’s death, Loreza Martell knows her people have no time for grief. In San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations meet to decide who will lead the post-war world, and Dorne cannot--will not--be left behind. But as a charter to unite the nations is written, Loreza finds only loneliness in this cold, foggy city ... until a young translator for the Conference catches her eye. Joanna is quick and clever, and her hands are warm, but her husband is not one for sharing. The two women enter into a forbidden affair, with deadly consequences. 

[lupotterdraws]

Hi, I just wanna tell you that your stannis art is AMAZING, and you are AMAZING ILU!!

THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVELY COMMENT AND YOUR SUPPORT, BUD! I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH! 

(and am glad someone enjoys my stan doodles possibly as much as i enjoy drawing him)

[moonlitgleek]

I would love to hear your thoughts about Fire and Blood when you finish it! (Or not even when you finish it, just whenever, cuz you're amazing!) 💕

I have the best friends in the world! Love and hugs, lady.

I am halfway through and I intend to go back and reread each chapter once I finish since I keep blowing through pages because I want to know all the things, which is not very good for proper processing. But a few of the things that jumped at me so far:

(spoilers for Fire and Blood volume 1 under the cut)

1. Gyldayn seems more rambly and prone to ponder sexual scandals than Yandel. He spent waaaay too much time talking about that, and while sexuality is at the heart of some conflicts, the way he went on about the story of Coryanne Wylde and the sordid details of how she was “examined” really undermines his position as a historian and makes me overly iffy on him. Also, there are private conversations between Jaehaerys and Alysanne that I’d really like to know his source on.

2. Speaking of authors, what the actual fuck George? You’d think that in a book that goes so into detail about unconfirmed scandals he’d have the room to expand on someone like, idk, Argella Durrandon? He had the chance to make her story a bit better but he not only did he uphold her forceful loss of voice being the last we hear of her, he compounded the matter by also having Marla Sunderland’s tongue removed before she was packed off to the Silent Sisters. Literal stripping of women’s voices for defiance, by their own men no less, when it’s so unnecessary and so singular in its gendered use in the plot infuriates me. There is a lot of overlap between gender and silencing of voice in this (Argella, Marla, Ceryse Hightower, Rhaena Targaryen). UGH.

3. On the topic of women, Torrhen Stark’s daughter not only does not have a name, she is completely unmentioned in Jonos Arryn’s rebellion, nor by her nephew (?) Alaric with either Alysanne or Jaehaerys. Looks a bit peculiar since Alaric obviously brooded on the consequences of Targaryen decision for his family in the case of Jaehaerys and those he sent to the Wall, so is there any particular reason Torrhen’s daughter goes completely unmentioned even when the topic of marriage was raised and southern matches brought up, George?

4. Aegon, Visenya and Rhaenys are outright referred to as the three heads of the dragon. It’s no longer symbolic or understood but an explicit connection. That’s way too obvious for me to buy that Rhaegar’s Aegon and Rhaenys don’t point straight to a recreation of the Conquest Trio.

5. The war of escalating atrocities between Dorne and the Targaryens is terrible but I feel like there is a conscious effort to make the Targaryens seem better somewhat? The mention of them trying to negotiate at this point before actually utilizing dragonflame is weird because it is not consistent with anything in the Conquest. I don’t know what to do with that part.

6. The First Dornish War makes Daeron I’s folly in the conquest more obvious. Dornish terrain is as much an element to conquer as Dornish people and it costs a lot to manage it. Keeping conquered Dornish ground is bloody hard even with dragons. Daeron even leaves a Tyrell in charge just like Aegon.

7. Is it just me or does the Targaryen succession look weird in early days? Jaehaerys is referred to as the rightful heir by all rights then a few pages later it’s nope, Aerea is then suddenly we’re talking about Rhaena’s claim even though every reference to Targaryen succession before that points to a male-preference primogeniture. Alysanne takes issue with Jaehaerys treating Aemon as his heir over Daenerys even though Jaehaerys’ accession is tarnished based on that principle. There is a distinct vibe of seeing the son of Rhaenys the Queen Who Never Was as the expected heir of Aemon rather than Rhaenys herself (though this could partly because Princess Rhaenys and Lord Corlys wanted to put forward a potential male heir to offset Baelon being seen as the natural successor - since when was Baelon seen as the natural successor though? That apparently wasn’t only Jaehaerys’ sentiment so was that a popular view while Aemon lived or a reaction to Baelon avenging Aemon? Was Aemon aware and that’s why he made a comment to Rhaenys about liking a grandson, or was that regular era preference of male heirs?). Main takeaway though is that Jaehaerys passing over Rhaenys had nothing with extant competing claims but was about regarding Baelon as a natural successor for his gender, age and prowess. Jaehaerys pretty much didn’t even consider Rhaenys. Headdesk. You’re killing me, man.

8. I feel like the characters of Rhaena Targaryen and Alyssa Velaryon are being walked back. The point where apparently Septon Barth comments that Alyssa undoubtedly wanted to do the right thing but didn’t know what that was flies in the face of her previously established actions. I don’t like how she was taken down from an active and conscious political player, to a confused and almost secondary player next to Rogar (much preferred him when he was Robar, both the name and the person) till their final tiff, to  a womb and another casualty of childbirth with the emphasis being on her children. Rhaena may have called out the latter but the whole thing feels like a punishment for Alyssa for first opposing Jaehaerys and Alysanne then opposing Rogar. As for Rhaena, she swings between political sacrifice for the greater good to treating Jaehaerys and Alysanne with contempt for it. Resentment is perfectly normal and understandable but Rhaena surpasses that. She is purposely cast in an unfavorable light and her sexuality is strongly used to frame it.

9. There is a bit of exoneration after the fact to Jaehaerys sentencing most of Maegor’s Kingsguard to the Wall on contradicting arguments. I get his point about oathbreaking but punishing those who deserted Maegor because they didn’t uphold their vows to protect hum while also punishing those who didn’t desert him for defending and enabling a murderous usurper is extremely contradictory. That the two knights who deserted Maegor then deserted the Night’s Watch and a caused a conflict that claimed the life of Walton Stark neatly brushes this quandary off because it demonstrates that Jaehaerys was right.

10. I love how Septon Barth and Alysanne often work as a team in pushing Jaehaerys towards one policy or another. On more than one occasion, one of them makes the argument and the other comes with the definitive final strike. I love the women’s court and Alysanne’s Laws though I think there is a certain vagueness in the way Jaehaerys codified inheritance in the Widow’s Law. I’m still midway through Viserys I’s tenure though so I don’t know if this will be raised in any sort of legal argument for the Dance but it’s a non-issue so far.

11. I hate how Daella Targaryen was written. I hate how we keep adding names to the “death by childbirth” list. I hate how the child brides keep getting ignored. This is too conspicuous in the case of Daella and her daughter Aemma Arryn. Queen Alysanne held herself and especially Jaehaerys to blame for Daella’s death because she felt that, at 16-17, they wed her too early and that contributed to her death in childbed. But it’s treated like a non-issue that Aemma married Viserys at 11 and was bedded at 13.

12. I’m indescribably charmed by how Baelon the Brave got his epithet by booping a dragon on the nose. Also, the relationship between Aemon and Baelon, and Baelon and Alyssa. Too bad we can’t have nice things.

13. I already lost my shit over this in DMs with you but still, Aerea Targaryen! Aerea Targaryen! Oh my god. I was equally horrified and fascinated. A speculated trip to Valyria that resulted in the princess’ body being inhabited by “worms with faces” or “snakes with hands” made of fire and heat that cooked her body from the inside. This surpasses Valyria being a thin place or geophysically unstable. This means there is a Lovecraftian horror capable of using human bodies (and non-human bodies, Balerion was wounded as well but dragons are fire made flesh so that probably protected him) as vessels to… spread? Take over? Turn people into dragonic/fire abominations? Also, also, is that take over possible for anyone or is whatever is dormant in Targaryen DNA that tends to emerge with the use of magic in the form of babies with dragon-like qualities (though it appeared in non-magical cases) makes them more susceptible?

COMPARE TO THE OTHERS. A Lovecraftian horror made of ice and another made of fire. Blood magic probably behind the creation (calling?) of both. We still don’t know how the Others came to be and there has been legitimate rebuttals to the show’s version of their creations BUT I think what could be taken from the show is the suggestion that this is blood magic gone wrong.Both take over human bodies though differently (is this linked to living bodies being warm and dead ones growing cold? Is that why the fire-based monstrosity manifests in living creatures while the Others trades in dead bodies? The things beneath Aerea’s skin burst out either when they felt the cold of the ice bath the maesters put her in or when she suffered cardiac arrest and died. Either way it’s connected to cold)  The cosmic balance between ice and fire has deeper roots….. now I’m really curious as to the nature of the magic of the Wall that keeps ice and fire firmly separated.

14. We are slowly building a succession history for the Starks: Torrhen Stark -> son (?) Brandon -> son Walton -> brother Alaric -> grandson Edric -> Ellard of undetermined relation. That’s how as far as I got in the book but that’s too far from the Benjen Stark that starts the Stark family tree in TWOIAF. Cregan Stark was already Lord of Winterfell by 129 so that’s a period of 28 years between that and the Great Council that also fits the aforementioned Benjen and his son Rickon, Cregan’s father and grandfather.

15. I’m so not a fan of the art in this book. It ranges from blatantly inaccurate (Aemond and Luke during the Dance, SIGH), to exaggerated (Elinor Costayne is weird in that art with Maegor. Also, did she wait to react till she climbed the entire Iron Throne? And Jaehaerys was cool and measured in his response to Maegor’s supporters after landing in the Red Keep. WHY does he look like he is yelling in the art?) to weird (Which of the Black Brides is dressed like a septa and why? Why does Jaehaerys look like all of 8 at his coronation when he was actually 14?). Perhaps that’s a bit nitpicky but I’m not impressed tbh.

16. GRRM overdid it with Jaehaerys’ reign imo. There is writing conflict because peace and prosperity is dull to write, and there is cramming every possible conflict under the sun in the story. Was there anything missing? I count family drama, political intrigues, succession questions, plague, policy changes, financial crisis, winter, and mini-rebellions. He reigned for a long time so I get it but at one point it was one conflict after another that I’m having trouble reconciling what I read with previous descriptions of Jaehaerys’ reign.

17. There is a lot to talk about with Jaehaerys and Alysanne but I want to get the timeline straight and give it some more thought. But I will say that as delighted as I am with all the women in Alysanne’s story and with Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s relationship reflected in policy, it’s monumentally disappointing to read about his relationship with his daughters. There was an underlining gentleness in how he treated his mother Alyssa and Rhaena that was sorely missing with some of his daughters. I came out of this part feeling really off and unsettled. And sad. So very sad. WTF, Jaehaerys. Just WTF.

That’s my preliminary thoughts on the first half of the book. It’s mostly feelings with a side of unsubstantiated and unresearched spiraling. Politics, worldbuilding and themes tend to appear on later reads.

(Edit: part two is here)

[weloveperioddrama]

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words <3

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We depend entirely on the community and the period drama fandom, since this blog wouldn’t exists without them: if people are making edits but they are all getting deleted, we wouldn’t be able to reblog them so our blog wouldn’t even have a reason to be. Likewise, if people are not posting in Tumblr anymore because the staff keeps chasing creators out of their site and keep making sharing our creations impossible, we can’t keep on here. If, miraculously, the new policy allows people to keep sharing their creations and people enjoy said creations about things they love, we will stay here. So it both depends on how will this new policy will affect users, and how will the period drama fandom will react to them. If we can’t go on in this site, our wish is to continue to share our love for period dramas with people who feel the same way, so we will have to try and find another place that’s willing to welcome us all. But as of today, we have no alternative platforms that offer the same as Tumblr does. (If any of you have any ideas, let us know!)

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[haticesultanas]

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(i’m so sorry, your message was buried among the ottoman history ones DDDDD: i have 50 asks yikes)

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Other Lannister marriage options for Sansa?

Nick (Nic76) asked:

Why did Tywin settle on having Tyrion marry Sansa? It seems like there were several other Lannisters that were available (Lancel, Tommen, or maybe Tywin himself) that could have married Sansa to give the Lannisters a claim to the North.

Hey Nick, @joannalannister’s a little overwhelmed with questions at the moment, so she forwarded yours on to me, hope you don’t mind!

Well, first of all, note that Tywin did bring up Lancel as a potential marriage option:

“If you will not have the girl, we shall give her to one of your cousins,” said his father. “Kevan, is Lancel strong enough to wed, do you think?” Ser Kevan hesitated. “If we bring the girl to his bedside, he could say the words... but to consummate, no... I would suggest one of the twins, but the Starks hold them both at Riverrun. They have Genna’s boy Tion as well, else he might serve.”

--ASOS, Tyrion III

And that’s the important point right there. Lancel was too sick to consummate a marriage at that time. Tommen was only eight years old, far too young to consummate. That makes them both unsuitable, because,

a marriage not consummated can be annulled, and

it’s not just marrying Sansa that gives the Lannisters a claim to the North, it’s having a son with her, a Lannister-Stark heir to Winterfell.

That’s why Tywin wanted Tyrion to impregnate Sansa immediately, even though he knew making a 12-year-old pregnant is a good way to get her dead in childbirth or infertile if she lives, because she didn’t matter to him at all, just the Lannister heir her body would be used for.

As for why not Tywin himself, couple of reasons there also.

He didn’t want to remarry. (GRRM hasn’t said why, but it could be for love -- that no-one would compare to Joanna; or it could be that Tywin didn’t want any further competition for Jaime’s inheritance of Casterly Rock; or other possibilities.)

Tywin intended the marriage to Sansa to be Tyrion’s reward for his success at the Blackwater, and also a means to make him settle down and stop screwing around with prostitutes.

Sansa’s husband, the father of the Lannister-Stark heir, would be the Warden of the North and Protector of Winterfell, bound to lead an Lannister army to take control of the North (and take it away from the Boltons). Tywin already has a job, several jobs, he’s Warden of the West and Hand of the King and the Lord Paramount of the Westerlands, he’s busy. Far more important things to do with his time.

I suppose one might ask why not Daven Lannister, then? Healthy, a good age, unmarried, close to the main Lannister line, a war leader... But the answer is plain there, also: Daven wasn’t there, he was on the other side of the country at Lannisport forming up a new Lannister army, with all of Robb’s army and the war-torn Riverlands in between him and King’s Landing -- and Tywin needed Sansa married right away, to prevent the Tyrells from betrothing her to Willas. Also, Daven got betrothed to a Frey girl as part of the plans for the Red Wedding (for which Tywin needed a Lannister heir from Sansa, after Robb’s death), so no doubt in Tywin’s mind he was busy too.

Therefore, while Lancel was an option, Tyrion was the only Lannister male of the right age and status immediately available, immediately able to consummate a marriage, and capable of being Lord Protector of Winterfell and all that comes with it. Hope that helps!

[him-e]

Hi Claudia, I just wanted to say that you have such a fun blog! There’s always something pretty to look at or interesting to read, and I’m really thankful to have you around 💕

THANK YOU LAUREN ≧^◡^≦

[bidonicart]

Jaime x Cersei, 36

another take on the “we can never be together” prompt! Turned out kinda romance cover-ish 😅

Requests are closed!

[chillyravenart]

Hi Yasmin! While we're on the subject of top fives, what are your top five favorite ships? 💕

Hey Lauren! Oh tough question, my mind has conveniently gone blank 😩

Ermmm Rhaegar x Lyanna, Ragnar x Lagertha, Harry x Ginny, Elizabeth x Mr Darcy and Beren x Lúthien.

[mariedemedicis]

OC name meme: L, A, U, R, E, N

So I already did an L but rest assured, I have more then one oc with a name starting with L.

Full Name: Lana

Nicknames, If Any: None

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Gender: female

Sexuality: lesbian

A Song I Associate With Them:

3 Important Relationships: Catalina, Hana, & Sophie

2 Fears: violence & fascism

1 Element of their backstory: religion major

Full Name: Adeline

Nicknames, If Any: Addie

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Gender: female

Sexuality: bi

A Song I Associate With Them: Sweet but Psycho by Ava Max

3 Important Relationships: Zoe, Freddie, & Sadie

2 Fears: rejection & something bad happening to her loved ones

1 Element of their backstory: Italian-American

I don’t have any ocs with u names. 😞

Here’s a v as compensation.

Full Name: Vera

Nicknames, If Any: None

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Gender: female

Sexuality: undecided

A Song I Associate With Them:

3 Important Relationships: Raquel, Oscar & Shani

2 Fears: failing before she gets started & getting seriously injured dancing

1 Element of their backstory: her dad is a retired Navy Captain

Full Name: Emmy

Nicknames, If Any: None

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Gender: female

Sexuality: questioning

A Song I Associate With Them:

3 Important Relationships: Sasha, Walt, & Carrie

2 Fears: being unwanted & being alone

1 Element of their backstory: plays basketball

Full Name: Nikolai

Nicknames, If Any: Niko

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Gender: male

Sexuality: demisexual

A Song I Associate With Them:

3 Important Relationships: Sam, Addie, & Dan

2 Fears: being second best & disappointing his mom and sister

1 Element of their backstory: plays soccer