Fancasts From Atop Visenya's HIll

or was it the grieving sister?

rhaegar + elia

I did this mostly to test out painting/sketching on photoshop so it isn't perfect but it was fun (and very enlightening) to make

so here's mama and her babies

Which House Has the Best Words? (Round One)

Bran doodle dump

Book! Jon snow is the only thing I’m thinking abt…

Saint Brienne of Tarth. Part of my series of ASOIAF fan art based on medieval illuminated manuscripts. This one is based off of depictions of Joan of Arc, especially the one by Martin Lefranc. The message means “no chance, no choice” in Latin (my Latin is rusty, though!).

theon witnessing shireen's execution would be Excellent

all the theon discourses would take thee harshest breath inward when the violence is laid bare. a child hostage's fear of ned stark, northern hypocrisy, nothing truly happened to you theon, after all gared was a deserter, mance was a deserter. the repetition of false identities in/around this situation (rattleshirt for mance & gilly's baby for dalla's, both changelings such monsters; theon presenting the miller's boys as bran & rickon as well as jeyne poole as arya; theon presenting as reek) does inherently present arguments about how we justify violence based on who it is committed upon— which would make witnessing the Horror a unique experience for theon imo. all the other deaths-by-burning have been legitimized by accusing the victim of a crime (treason, cannibalism) and theon is a person who grew up in winterfell aware that he was already judged guilty of the crime of being his father's son. ned keeping him alive as hostage/ward was more akin to a stay in his sentence rather than any assurance of safety based upon his own good behavior. few if anybody would protest should theon's father have rebelled and ned been called upon to serve 'justice.' so the execution of an innocent child would not shock theon as it would the others who'd been content to say well it only happens to the most black-hearted of criminals therefore I'm content to look away. in fact, it'd be a confirmation of what we as readers know he's always known— since theon was a child, since he scoffed at ser rodrik protesting that jaime lannister would attempt to murder an innocent child, since robb forbade the torture/execution of hostages only to allow it in theon's case at ramsay's hands. I'm imagining theon bursting into inappropriate laughter and the disgust laid upon him, but who are you truly disgusted with? how did you think this would end?

I do also smell a little greysnow Implication re: jon ending 'mance's' suffering quickly by having his archers kill him before the flames can. if we are dealing seriously with a bran & theon connection it could be interesting to have bran push theon to end shireen's suffering, perhaps as a result of the melisandre-bloodraven tension wherein she receives power from said burnings. and the idea of bran pushing theon to commit this violence which bran himself narrowly avoided could be quite gritty indeed. the Wall regularly raises questions of complicity, so. could be!

The Kiaat Tree (Pterocarpus angolensis, also called “bloodwood”) releases red sap when cut. Species of Pterocarpus native to southern Africa, in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zaire, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

“لا تسألوا الأشجارَ عن نكهةِ الفؤوسِ في الخاصِرة.”

“The sound of the saw must be known by the tree.”

07_Juego de tronos_Arya I

¿Por qué no estás cosiendo, Arya? —preguntó la septa. Se puso de pie. Sus faldas almidonadas parecieron susurrar cuando cruzó la sala en dirección a ella—. A ver esas puntadas.

  Arya quería gritar. Era muy propio de Sansa atraer la atención de la septa. No tuvo más remedio que tenderle la tela. La septa la examinó.

  —Arya, Arya, Arya —dijo—. Esto está mal. Muy mal.

  Todos la miraban. Aquello era excesivo. Sansa era demasiado educada para sonreír ante el apuro de su hermana, pero Jeyne lo compensaba de sobra. Arya sintió cómo se le llenaban los ojos de lágrimas. Se levantó bruscamente y corrió hacia la puerta.

  —¡Arya! —gritó la septa Mordane—. ¡Vuelve aquí! ¡No te atrevas a salir! Tu señora madre se va a enterar de esto. ¡Y delante de nuestra princesa! ¡Eres una vergüenza para todos!

day twenty-three of drawtober

I just know that if HBO ever makes that Conquest show, I will not be normal about Visenya

rhaegar & arthur dayne

bitches hate me because of my.... bad personality.... paranoid nature... addictive tendencies......the torture basement.

I keep postponing serious ASOIAF art to draw the stupidest things

happy harlaween @knightsickness !!

genuinely it’s so awesome how his entire life and thinking process and worldview are so completely warped around what happened at the tower of joy and yet he cannot bring himself to think about it at all. we the reader don’t get to know what it is either we just know that he cannot move forward and yet cannot look back all he can do is circle around the untouchable unthinkable wound over and over never changing and always ending up in the same place. and then he dies and the paradigm shatters