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finally rereading asoiaf and it’s mind-boggling to me when people complain about it being grimdark because… it’s so unreservedly and unabashedly about love. in all its forms.

there’s so much love in just the first chapters. catelyn’s love for bran that drives her to catch a knife with her bare hands, ned’s love for lyanna years and years after her death, arya and jon, even those little bonding moments between jon and tyrion. “the things i do for love.” like there is horrific cruelty and unimaginable suffering but the love is so apparent when it ruptures through. it makes me crazy.

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conclavement

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hurdy gurdying or gurdly hurdying? 🤨

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western au doodles

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Thinking a lot lately about how theon's arc in asoiaf post winterfell takeover is unironically so fucking good because by having grisly torture happen to someone who is low key a terrible person grrm manages to avoid the trap of a lot of other stories about prison or prison adjacent situations which have an "innocent" person as the main character and therefore accidentally end up with their message being "that stuff was terrible because sometimes it happened to people who 'didn't deserve it' because they didn't do anything wrong by the standards of the institution in question" and gets at the actual meat of "torture is unilaterally bad and doesn't work." in this essay I will

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Gallows at the siege of riverrun

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Catelyn heard someone snigger behind her. She loves him, poor thing, she thought sadly. She'd play his squire just to touch him, and never care how great a fool they think her... (and some other things)

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such a shame that edmure hasn't yet gotten to meet the only member of his family truly proud of his great victory of the stone mill. so proud she even believed he could destroy tywin on an open battlefield too! ofc if she knew robb/catelyn/brynden blackfish's opinion on all that, she'd no doubt be influenced by her mother's and big brother's thoughts of the uncle she hadn't met before, but it's not like either is in any position to tell her now. maybe that's the one silver lining of the rw, if/when edmure and arya there's nothing to stop her congratulating him on his defeat of tywin lannister.

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Sandor Clegane and Stranger

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Simon Strong and Daemon at the Harrenhal dinner:

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Pigeon attempts to court falcon

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Someone help him

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not to be a lesbian but i need to see her suffer for what she did

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alacrán y pistolero

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Happy Harkonnens 🖤

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or was it the grieving sister, the lady ashara? she threw herself into the sea, I'm told. why was that? for the brother you slew, or the child you stole?