#my agot reread

[starkmaiden]

Every time I read AGOT I’m blown away by just how beautiful the writing in the opening prologue is.

The description of the wights and the last stand heroism of Waymar Royce is what drew me into the story in the first place.

[stromuprisahat]

“I wanted him to stay here with me,” Lady Stark said softly. Jon watched her, wary. She was not even looking at him. She was talking to him, but for a part of her, it was as though he were not even in the room. “I prayed for it,” she said dully. “He was my special boy. I went to the sept and prayed seven times to the seven faces of god that Ned would change his mind and leave him here with me. Sometimes prayers are answered.” Jon did not know what to say. “It wasn’t your fault,” he managed after an awkward silence. Her eyes found him. They were full of poison. “I need none of your absolution, bastard.” Jon lowered his eyes. She was cradling one of Bran’s hands. He took the other, squeezed it. Fingers like the bones of birds. “Good-bye,” he said. He was at the door when she called out to him. “Jon,” she said. He should have kept going, but she had never called him by his name before. He turned to find her looking at his face, as if she were seeing it for the first time. “Yes?” he said. “It should have been you,” she told him. Then she turned back to Bran and began to weep, her whole body shaking with the sobs. Jon had never seen her cry before.

A Game of Thrones- Chapter 10 (George R. R. Martin)

Yeah, I don't care Catelyn is distressed, the hatred's already been there. There's no excuse to say shit like this to a child (and she still sees Robb as a child, so Jon should be one in her eyes too). And using his name for the first time?! Don't tell me that wasn't intentional.

This might be the last time Jon'll ever see her son he obviously cares about, so she takes out her helplessness on him.

If Jon's such a thorn in her side, why doesn't she hate Ned?! Oh, yeah, because he's her beloved Lord husband, so she can't resent him for his manly urges, only his stubborn care for the result. And not enough to wish him crippled.

Catelyn's hurting and feeling guilty, so she hurts the person, who won't fight back or seek support. Low hanging fruit, kicking puppies and such.

And Jon isn't merely kind, he lies for her sake, and feels for her. He's a better person, than I.

Robb knew something was wrong. “My mother …” “She was … very kind,” Jon told him. Robb looked relieved. “Good.”

[morghvls]

The tourney of the hand was lowkey westeros’ silliest most low stakes tourney ever like you’ve got

- Sansa gambling on mma unsupervised cause septa mordane is too hungover to attend and Ned is… idk detectiving

-Sansa nlog moment where she literally forgets Jeyne exists shes so into the mma

-Jaime getting literally getting stuck in his own armor

- People’s heavyweight champ Sandor Clegane

- Biggest event of the whole tourney is the Clegane bros trying to kill eachother aka Sandor’s normal Tuesday

[barbreypilled]

can I say she’s the Prim of The Dragon Books or will y’all put me to the sword

don’t tag as racebending

[catofoldstones]

Jon III of agot and Jon XIII of adwd are such brilliant inverses of each other. The Night’s Brothers teasing Jon as Lord Snow vs Jon actually coming into that name and being in an actual position of power. Jon being warned that if he continued to be blind to his privilege his Brothers might kill him vs Jon actually being stabbed because he wanted better governance, which the Brothers took as to him looking down on them. Jon deeply missing his siblings, especially arya vs his last thoughts being of his siblings, and leaving the nights watch because of arya. Jon being singularly lonely and only just starting to make friends vs Jon becoming lonely because of his position only to be betrayed by the same people in the end. Oh mirrors, oh mirrors.

[atopvisenyashill]

if cat takes tyrion to riverrun instead of the vale do we think that changes much

[weirwoodsugar]

>spend five books fixing your shitty little attitude

>die anyway

[carrizoblooms]

@gameofthronesdaily event 01: favorite character(s) daenerys stormborn

Ser Jorah took her arm. "My queen, Drogo will have no use for dragon's eggs in the night lands. Better to sell them in Asshai. Sell one and we can buy a ship to take us back to the Free Cities. Sell all three and you will be a wealthy woman all your days." "They were not given to me to sell," Dany told him.

[maidensfantasy]

sansa and ned’s parallels are one of my favorite parts of the series (mainly because i really only think about house stark), but like its so obvious and yet some people just. don’t see it? They tend to just think arya is more like ned because she is tomboyish and likes traditionally masculine things, while sansa is feminine so she’s like catelyn because woman??

anyways sansa is ned’s narrative heir and if she’s following in his footsteps as an unlikely heir of winterfell well! we know whose gonna be queen in the north by the end.

[jonquilspool]

That should be enough for any woman … but not for the dragon. With Viserys gone, Daenerys was the last, the very last. She was the seed of kings and conquerors, and so too the child inside her. She must not forget.

DAENAERYS THAT'S THE DYNASTIC ROT TALKING!! DAENAERYS NO!! IGNORE THE DYANSTIC ROT PLEASE!!

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

time for me to get back to my regularly scheduled Jon Snow agenda posting 🙂

[wulv3r]

if robb had been at the hand's tourney he would

1. have not have jousted even with a gun to his head he knows his strengths

2. have took on thoros and beat his ass in the melee bc flame sword? lol okay hack. relying on a gimmick. cringe.

[althaeaofficinalis]

I love that tyrion is charming in agot even when he's in captivity - like he's in trouble? CRANK UP THE CHARM. and it works!! there's so many small instances of tyrion's charm working on people in little ways (brynden blackfish has smiled at him twice and made a joke, and there's nothing to indicate that he's vicious about it, for ex.). the man has insanely high charisma and I love it

[asoiaf-essays-collector]

It took me this long to get it.

Daenerys Stormborn. Was born during a terrible summer storm that nearly destroyed Dragonstone castle (I'm rereading AGoT in translation so I don't have the exact quote right now).

In a world where every any little detail can become an omen, where we know that something bad gonna happen with Starks just because a stag killed a direwolf in the very first chapter - our POV character, this little princess, was born during a storm so horrible that they called her Stormborn (I'm sure if it was just an usual storm people wouldn't pay attention to that but this one - as Daenerys informs us in her first chapter - nearly destroyed a massive Dragonstone castle and completely destroyed Targaryen fleet). Also her mother died while giving birth to her.

From her first pages you should associate her with destruction. Not with salvation.

It funny to think about this nowadays. I remember her being praised everywhere, and every "Top 10 badass Daenerys moments" started with her long fantasy name and no one even thought of the "Stormborn" part and its meaning.

I'm sure GRRM had so much fun watching all of this "praise the progressive fantasy princess" era when he warned us about her in the 3rd chapter.

[tyriongirl]

"Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold."

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones - Prologue

[catofoldstones]

Illyrio never intended for Viserys to get the crown from the start, did he?