#ned leads

[arcemo17]

Ned: How many Red Bulls does it take to give me wings?

MJ: I don’t know, but after about 5 I start hallucinating that I can fly.

Peter: You two can’t fly already? Losers.

[froggerland]

“Come back for me, Edward.”

You’ve heard of sleep paralysis demon jfj, now get ready for: sleep paralysis demon Jopson!!

Jopson doesn’t know it was Ned who (by extent) gave the order to abandon him and the other sick ones, but Ned himself sure as hell does and his lead poisoned conscience wont let him sleep because of that :)

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[gendrie]

the root of a lot of discourse re: arya stark is that most of the fandom is simply not convinced shes a main character lol she has the 3rd most chapters of any character, the most of any stark, the most of any female character, the most in storm, and she is the only character to have a pov in every single book but people treat arya fans like theyre CRAZY for 1. thinking arya is a complex, dynamic character instead of a static, cardboard cutout of a tomboy and 2. thinking she is important to the story/endgame. even a theory as grounded as "i think arya could lead the bwb bc lots of reasons like she literally did it before at the stoney sept in the actual text also her wolf" and the reaction will be mockery and disbelief that you suggested she will do something other than kill xyz character before fading into irrelevancy

[aphemera]

— Bran thought about it. ❝ Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? ❞

❝ That is the only time a man can be brave, ❞ his father told him.

Ned Stark, Lord of Winterfell

[victorclays]

Hmmm neither Ned or Jopson are in episode 2. Interesting. Fascinating. Intriguing.

Wonder what they could have been getting up to....

*cartoonish sounds of saws, and horns and hammers, and explosions coming from Ned's cabin*

*they both walk out disheveled and covered in kissy marks*

[fromtheseventhhell]

I ignore about 95% of the conversations surrounding Arya having killed people because, outside of Arya stans, people refuse to include the context of the very violent circumstances she experiences + her trauma which influences her actions. She wasn't destined to be a killer and her being forced on the run, having to survive during a war (at times on her own), having to witness countless people being tortured and murdered, being enslaved as a prisoner of war, having to witness the deaths of her family, etc. are all hugely important factors. Not to mention the times when her life is literally on the line and she has to make tough decisions to ensure her survival. The only time her trauma is acknowledged is when people are using it to prove she's "too far gone", otherwise it's essays on how she hasn't suffered that much. It's so boring how people ignore well-developed characters just to reduce them to one or two aspects of their story. And this treatment is only for certain characters; let someone mention Sansa being part of the plot to poison Sweetrobin and all of a sudden, people can understand being forced to make questionable decisions under difficult circumstances.

[saltpepperbeard]

i think there's something in how episode six begins with a darkened lighthouse. the thing it's known for--the light, the warmth, the guidance--is not there.

and the man inside it encourages that very thing. the man inside it is the very catalyst.

[hellgram]

also with all the damage the show did to jon's reputation as a good northern lad and wildling i hope germ comes out with like. yeah he's rhaegar and lyanna's son and the name she gave him while bleeding out on the birthing bed alone but for her big brother holding her hand in a tower with no way to know that baby aegon had been murdered leaving the title of Egg 6 up for grabs was like. howland.

[iangallagherisadeadman]

honestly I really like the fact we don't know shit about Laura Milkovich cause neither Mickey or Mandy knows shit about Monica and they haven't met her either it seems fair

[purgaytorysupremacy]

can someone who’s watched Black Sails spoil the Ned Low storyline for me? I’m not sure how much longer I can watch with him not knowing what happens with him. (I’m on S2E2, I think.) It’s just a lot a lot, even on a show about 18th century pirates lol

[bastardofharrenhal]

why is it that every time i play as a stark i end up as king of the north and every time i play as a targaryen i end up as king of the iron ISLANDS

[emmynominees]

ned beatty as gene mullen in friendly fire

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie

[ihaveastorminme]

Ok. Bran vii made me tear up.

[coffee-at-annies]

I really hope Ned is in net on Tuesday. Jars x isles scares me even without all the other stuff working against us (forbidden chili goal) (5 straight starts)

[destinyh3art]

All i know is that i need some kind of interaction between these two in the final season.

aegon 2 and 3 are such. wildly tragic characters. your name is aegon you were never a person because your name is aegon and your father sacrificed everything for a son. not you, though. you were his duty. so your name is aegon. and your mother loves you, but you were also her duty. she resents you for it as much as she loves you. who cares what type of person you become? you’ll still become aegon and you’ll sit on that throne. you’re simply a reflection of every violent act such a throne requires. history will remember that you lost, and history will remember that you are aegon II targaryen; you were king and then you died. who are you?

and then! your name is aegon. your mother named you aegon because your uncle is aegon and your mom needed another aegon. your mom loves you desperately. she keeps you like a shadow. you watch your mother die in fire. you watch your brother die in the ocean. you watch your brother die in the air. men you don’t know put you on the throne that killed your mother and your father and your brothers because your name is aegon and you are king. you try to be a good king. you marry the daughter of the man who killed your family. she’s the only person who can possibly understand you. and she dies too. your name is aegon and the people know you as the dragonsbane, a destroyer of legacies, sullen and angry. you only smile once in recorded history: when your little brother unexpectedly comes home alive. but then he has a son. and he names that son aegon. and all the dragons die, but the fire that killed your mother spreads.

[boogiewoogieweeb]

I'm not saying The Terror in general and Joplittle specifically have definitively given me permanent brain rot but I am finding it funny that I'm picking up parallels and similarities with both in a series as far removed from it as Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai