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the cousins !!

Aemon's son and jaehaera!

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Until the Rot takes us

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Rhaenys, Visenya and Cregan Stark x Black Aly from Fire & Blood

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Viserys Targaryen. Another one of Mad King`s children.

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brienne lighting a cigarette: we never would’ve met if ned stark hadn’t been excecuted isn’t that weird

jaime lannister so drunk he can’t see straight: can yuo put that out on me

They don’t want you to know this but once you have enough followers they’ll start making your posts for you

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theyre spraying him

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We all got that one vassal who's read a few too many warrior tales... Trying to get a little freaky with it on the down low... Won't shut up about his loyalty unto death... Saying shit like "my liege, I am your blade...." Bitch I sent you to guard my isolated holdings in the eastern provinces for a reason!!!!!!! #REBLOG!!!!!

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so sad that cersei lannister never found out robb stark married a descendant of maggy the frog when he was the king in the north because i would have LOVED to see how her beautiful mind would’ve processed that piece of information

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Stannis: Why did my brothers, The Party Kings, inspire so much love and loyalty while I, Guy Who Let’s A Witch Set People on Fire-

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sorry to keep doing this, but like, the reason a lot of targaryen analysis is frustrating is because it's invoking the nebulous 'cycles of abuse' thing wherein the post has correctly zeroed in on the theme of generational abuse in the text, but it's never talking about how that abuse is made possible and perpetuated. and the answer is obviously feudal patriarchy. everything wrong with the targaryens is also wrong with westeros at large. this isn't an attempt at whataboutism, but anything asoiaf has to say on the targaryens (or the lannisters, or the greyjoys etc) is also commentary on westeros's feudal patriarchy, because in a system where ultimate power is in the hands of a family, the politics of the state is family politics. abuse of daughters is made possible through a system in which they're viewed as property of the patriarch, to be exchanged for the continuation of bloodlines. abuse of sons is made possible because power flows down from the patriarch to whom they must defer to and serve in perpetuity.

this is why i'm not a fan of 'supremacy' / 'rot' readings because they always resort to pathologising individual characters or families, that there is something uniquely, deeply wrong with them in isolation. like the popular interpretation of incest in the books is that it's criticism of blue-blooded narcissism specific to certain families. that because joanna and tywin were first cousins and because tywin had a 'family first' ideology, the twins' incest is a symbol of 'lannister supremacy'. and that reading has some merit because there is an element of irony here, as the incest is later a source of scandal for the lannisters, certainly not something tywin would've ever wished for. but it's also ignoring the way cersei thinks of jaime as herself, not out of egotism, but because she's suffocated by the gender role of the perfect lady she has had to perform her entire life. and self recognition in jaime is a means of surviving that experience. she lives through him, in the belief that a part of her gets to perform the westerosi ideal of masculinity. and the first time they begin striving for self-definition is in affc, immediately after the death of tywin - the family patriarch, when their story arcs begin questioning whether it's possible for them to exist outside the socially decreed (and enforced by an authoritarian father) roles of the knight and the lady. there's a lot happening here, why reduce it to just character-specific delusions of superiority.

there is another big narrative use of incest in the books and it's craster's keep, which also operates within the exact same framework. craster's daughters are his property, and his sons are sacrificed to the white walkers as a ritual for his own personal security at home—almost the same role westerosi sons are expected to fulfill as knights, sacrificed to institutions of war and violence. the night's watch being willing to overlook this and instead offering him protection on this side of the wall and then protecting the people of westeros on the other side of the wall where all this is being played out on a continent-wide scale—all done in the name of dehumanising and making war with the free folk. unaware that the real threat is something else, something that is probably, allegedly being strengthened through craster's human sacrifices—an evil they've made peace with. does that say anything about the evil having been here along, the evil being normalised. the evil being perpetuated through apathy, giving way to a cataclysmic event in the future. and that it won't go away with specific people dying out because it is foundational to the institutions of westeros.

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The Night's King and his Corpse Queen

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attributing all failings of house targaryen to 'rot' they have inherited from their valyrian ancestors, to me, feels one metaphor away from interpreting generations of one family as ontologically predisposed to ruin. i understand the intent here is to speak of the general decline of their monarchical power, but dynastic declines don't happen in a vacuum because of there being something specifically, inherently wrong with one family. they're all actors within a violently misogynistic, feudal society. this obviously isn't an extraordinary observation, and discussions involving other noble houses get this, yet when it comes to the targaryens everything has to be chalked up to 'valyrian supremacy'. sorry but i don't think this achieves anything beyond simply moralising their behaviour in itself without recognising how it has been influenced and enabled by westerosi society.

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you break things in anger

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"aemond, we’ve kept him in leathers this season. we made him this leather jerkin that’s got intricate appliqué work on it, and then his dragon-riding coat is this leather that has an oily texture to it, so it feels like it would be weatherproof. he’s in these dark greens that look almost black, to seem more intimidating".

— caroline mccall

@ ewanmitchell.x

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Part 9 of Drawing Asoiaf Characters That Have An AI Generated Image On Their Wiki Page - Alyx Frey ! One of the women that would have been presented to Robb to mary

As always I got carried away on the rendering lol

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saw someone say cersei is the daughter otto wishes he had and alicent is the daughter tywin wishes he had. that’s very cute but objectively wrong alicent is otto’s favorite child he wouldn’t want a different one. and tywins favorite daughter is jaime :)