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Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers

big fan of tywin’s standard for being a lannister not even slightly resembling the history of the house it’s just something he made up. tyrion and jaime are extremely in line with the lannister legacy of guile heroism/being cunts but fail to live up to tywin’s vision for the house which never actually existed it references nothing

‘if joanna had lived the lannisters would have been normal/nicer’ WRONG i think she would have married cersei off as geographically far away as possible and then started doing some the lion in winter shit with jaime. she refuses to acknowledge tyrion because in surviving his birth she’s gone from a victim of tywin’s imp to his mother an accomplice there must have been something wrong with her to birth him like that. do not fall into the all dead mothers were really soft and niceys fallacy

grrm unimaginably funny and real for hating harry potter and writing power scaling fan fiction about it. i think my awesome 35 year old morally grey knight oc would beat the shit out of hermione cringer

Queen Shireen Baratheon, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm

Based on Holbein's Anne of Cleves

Aemma Arryn 👑💙🦅

one thing that's great about the song of ice and fire books is the way nobody ever knows what the fuck is going on. like somebody in a bar will be like "long live good king renly!" and somebody else will be like "oh he died. like a month ago. yeah lady catelyn stark stabbed him" and somebody else will be like "actually I heard he was stabbed by a shadow his brother fathered on a priestess" and a fourth person will be like "wait didn't renly literally just win the battle of king's landing last week" and then they're all like "well, whatever. long live good king whoever it is now. next round's on me"

I believe in long haired Laios supremacy

star of the sea

Princess Elia Nymeros Martell

Commission for the wonderful @chemtrailsoverthesun 💕!

It's been a while since I've drawn her! I was absolutely excited to work on this commission!

"it ends in [fire and] blood, as it began. it ends when casterly rock is cracked open, so the sun can shine on the maggots and the worms within. it ends with the utter ruin of house lannister and all its works."

— nymeria sand

More Dorne posting: It's interesting to me that Dorne is very much an Orientalist fantasy, but because it's the older type of Orientalist fantasy about the Middle East/North Africa (and broader Islamic World, especially since the main historical inspiration seems to be Moorish Spain, including the choices of filming locations for a lot of the Dorne scenes in GOT) that's in many ways the opposite of the kind of Orientalist stereotypes of the region that became more common post-9/11 (and the first major encounter with Dorne in the series, A Feast for Crows, came out after that in 2005), a lot of people in the Song of Ice and Fire fandom don't seem to recognize it as such. And so you instead get a lot of people thinking that Dorne is somehow "subverting" those stereotypes. And you just want to say, uh, I hate to break it to you Mr. TVTropes but the idea of a fantasy version of the Middle East that is much more open-minded about sexuality and gender than Europe, and whose people have strong sexual appetites is not, in fact, a thing that George R.R. Martin dreamed up. Far from it, this was the predominant view of the region among Western Europeans for centuries....

i have a bone to pick with people who claim Oberyn got killed because “he was arrogant” or “he talked so much shit instead of just killing the Mountain” or “he was so full of himself yapping instead of fighting” etc..

this just tells me that some don't understand why he did it in the first place. if he wanted to “just kill”, he could've done so secretly with his poisons or in a way that wouldn't trace back to him.

Oberyn was determined to make the Mountain confess before his death in front of the crowd that he indeed r*ped and killed Elia and her kids by the orders of Tywin, so Dorne could prosecute Tywin for his crimes.

if the Mountain had died before Oberyn could force him to confess, the entire effort to bring justice for Elia and her kids would have been in vain, and the main offender would be on the loose, forever.

Oberyn's desperation for the truth to come out was the reason he didn't deliver a lethal blow to the Mountain, which unfortunately led to his own demise. Although he succeeded in killing the Mountain by poisoning his spear and giving this bitch a slow, painful death; it came at the cost of his own life and Tywin escaping justice.

So, when people talk about him 'talking shit,' the whole speech wasn’t about the Mountain or Oberyn's pride; it was Oberyn's desperation for the Mountain to confess and unveil the rumors, revealing the heartbreaking truth. Oberyn didn't deserve this ending, but what can we say?

"it's so fucking over" yeah dude it's 11pm it's the end of the day it's time for you to go to bed. and tomorrow you'll be so fucking back because you'll be awake. go tuck yourself in dude you'll be ok

Reading comments saying how in Deep Space Nine whenever the crew faces a moral dilemma, they often just turn to Garak, and it made me want to make this