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The sky was blue, the grass was green, and I was full of hope. Ser Jorah had been with her then, her gruff old bear. She’d had Irri and Jhiqui and Doreah to care for her, her sun-and-stars to hold her in the night, his child growing inside her. Rhaego. I was going to name him Rhaego, and the dosh khaleen said he would be the Stallion Who Mounts the World. Not since those half-remembered days in Braavos when she lived in the house with the red door had she been as happy. But in the Red Waste, all her joy had turned to ashes.
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DANY MONTH - OCTOBER 2021
Day 14: Mother of Dragons.
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She would sooner have returned to Meereen on dragon’s wings, to be sure. But that was a desire Drogon did not seem to share.
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Daenerys Targaryen in Season 6.
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“I remember, Sam. I still remember.”
He was not making sense. “Remember what?”
“Dragons,” Aemon whispered.
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ELIA MARTELL WEEK 2021 → day 1: fancast
In Dorne, she walked among vipers and none would bite her. In King’s Landing, she found herself surrounded by lions (Shriya Pilgaonkar as Elia Martell)
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”Who can rule without wealth or fear or love?”
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Let’s be clear here. Sansa did not lie in front of everyone and side with Joffrey over her own sister because it was protocol or to save Arya or because she was afraid of the Lannisters. She did it because she loved her beautiful prince Joffrey and thought that he was right and she wanted to marry him and become queen and do shit like this:
“Go ahead, call me all the names you want,” Sansa said airily. “You won’t dare when I’m married to Joffrey. You’ll have to bow to me and call me Your Grace. ”
After Joffrey sadistically tortures Mycah and attacks her little sister Arya with a sword:
After they had gone, Sansa went to Prince Joffrey. His eyes were closed in pain, his breath ragged. Sansa knelt beside him. “Joffrey,” she sobbed. “Oh, look what they did, look what they did. My poor prince. Don’t be afraid. I’ll ride to the holdfast and bring help for you.” Tenderly she reached out and brushed back his soft blond hair.
Just sisters being sisters, am I right? Yeah, my sister would also have more compassion for the guy who attacked me with a knife! That’s really how siblings are with each other!
Even later, she still victim blames Mycah for what happened when it’s just Arya and Sansa in the room:
“It’s not the same,” Sansa said. “The Hound is Joffrey’s sworn shield. Your butcher’s boy attacked the prince. ”
Much later, when Sansa is now the target of Joffrey’s abuse, she realizes that what Arya did was right:
He’d owned a sword named Lion’s Tooth once, Sansa remembered. Arya had taken it from him and thrown it in a river. I hope Stannis does the same with this one.
AGoT Sansa was a vain, self-centered, spoiled, snobby, classist bully who didn’t give a damn that another child was being tortured or that Joffrey attacked her sister with a sword, or that her 9 year old little sister was alone in the woods for several days and being hunted down by Lannister men. It’s more important that one’s hair is shiny and brushed when appearing before everyone to lie about what happened!
Joffrey’s lie - that Arya and Nymeria attacked him without any provocation - only stands because Sansa refused to support her sister’s side of the story. Joffrey knows that what he did to Mycah is wrong and that’s why he changes the story and lies. Noble children mingle and play with the small folk all the time.
Put any character in Arya’s spot - Brienne of Tarth, Jon Snow, Robb Stark, Bran Stark, Daenerys Targaryen, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Ned Stark, Renly Baratheon, Barristan Selmy - and they would have all done the same thing that Arya did and protected Mycah from Joffrey’s sadism. Brienne of Tarth would have applauded the fuck out of Arya for what she did - and Brienne is exactly the kind of knight that Sansa claims to love in her songs.
What’s the point of Sansa loving all these songs of chivalry and knightly valor when she can’t tell right from wrong and recognize that in this case it was Arya who was the brave knight standing up to a bully. Just like her aunt Lyanna did before her and stood up for Howland Reed against a bunch of bullies. Oh, but the parallels are really between Sansa and Lyanna, right? Sansa and Lyanna - they both cry for songs aww ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️! But it looks like only one of them really understood the themes of these songs.
Every person in that room knew that Arya was right and it was Joffrey who provoked the attack. But the one witness to the entire thing lies and says she does not remember and turns it into a he said, she said scenario that allows for Cersei to demand punishment in the form of a dead wolf and a weak-willed Robert to give in and order Ned to do it. The loss of the direwolf here is symbolic because Sansa chooses the Lannisters/future family over the Starks/current family.
Does anyone think that Catelyn Tully - Family, duty, honor - the embodiment of family loyalty, would have been okay with Sansa siding with Joffrey against Arya?
It should have been Catelyn in that scenario and not Ned. Ned was wrong to not confront Sansa about her lying. And no, he does not explain to Arya why Sansa lied - because Sansa lied for a selfish, petty reason. He wants Arya and Sansa to stop fighting each other and puts the onus for all that on Arya. What he should have done was give Sansa a similar talk and explain why what she did was wrong and that she too had to put in the effort to get along with her little sister.
‘The lone wolf dies but the pack survives’ should have been something that Ned told Sansa since it is literally her wolf that dies. But Arya is GRRM’s central character and hence gets the thematic line and little talk from Ned about unity being more important than division and strife.
So no, Arya is not responsible for Lady’s death and Nymeria is not going to be Sansa’s direwolf as recompense.
As for Mycah - Unlike her sister and her fans, Arya rightly places the blame for that where it belongs.
Arya screwed up her face in a scowl. “Jaime Lannister murdered Jory and Heward and Wyl, and the Hound murdered Mycah. Somebody should have beheaded them.”
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A terrified, half starved Arya lashing out at S@nsa when she refused to tell the truth about Mycah’s death, and Arya throwing an orange at S@nsa after she victim blamed Mycah, is not in any way equivalent to S:nsa and Jeyne consistently tormenting Arya over her looks for years.
And look, siblings can name call and fight and have falling outs, and at the end of the day still have a strong a firm bond. People who are intimate and understand each other well and are comfortable in their respect for each other, can tease and muck around with people who they are not so close to and therefore need to be more cautious.
But S@nsa and Arya do not have that. It is clear from their very first page that there is a massive gulf between them. Horseface was not a one of, nor was it used in good fun. These girls do not like each other. They love each other because they are sisters, but any fondness they have for each other, any affectionate memories, are vastly overwhelmed by the mutual hostility. S@nsa’s treatment of Arya is not normal sibling rivalry and teasing, because it is not countered by the warmth and trust and loyalty normal siblings have for each other. It’s always ‘even S@nsa’ or ‘even Arya’, they are lesser than their brothers in each other’s eyes. Because unlike their brothers, they don’t love each other for who they are as individuals, but because they are related and shared a childhood. Because they are both Starks and family ties matter and they have been taught to value that. There is not sufficient personal intimacy and trust to handwave the namecalling as ‘normal sibling squabbling’.
S@nsa is a child. Septa Mordane and the society they live in have done much to cause this hostility between the girls and to encourage S@nsa’s behaviour. And this is why S@nsa bullied Arya. But S@nsa still bullied Arya. You can forgive her. Understand why and see that it does not mean S@nsa thrives off causing pain for others, but she still bullied Arya. Lots of children bully, and S@nsa is one of them. Arya fans just want Arya’s experiences to be acknowledged and for it to be recognised that this was not a good or typical relationship, where two girls got on each other’s nerves a bit but were really actually very loving, it was bullying.
A kid tells their parents or a teacher that at school another child and their friends have been name calling them for a long time and making fun of their looks. This is bullying. It is indisputably deal with as bullying It is no different just because it took place at Winterfell and between siblings.
No it is not the worst thing to happen in the books, not by a long shot. It’s not in the top five worst things to happen to Arya alone. But it is a big part of her formative experiences and has had a massive effect on her as a character. To ignore that Arya was bullied is to ignore a massive chunk of her childhood and who she is a person by result. It will also colour any reunion these girls have in the future. `
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got meme [two/four quotes]: “The Lords of Westeros are sheep. Are you a sheep? No. You’re a dragon. Be a dragon.”
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got meme [one/six outfits]: daenerys lands at dragon stone
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✧ follow forever celebration ✧
daenerys targaryen + house colors for @visenyatargaryen
“i am the blood of the dragon. i must be strong. i must have fire in my eyes when i face them, not tears.”
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Daenerys Targaryen + Non-Targaryen Houses of Descent
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Cersei Lannister in the episode Mockingbird.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION WEEK
day five: favorite tv character | daenerys targaryen from game of thrones
“Let the priests argue over good and evil. Slavery is real. I can end it. I will end it. And I will end those behind it.”
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This article is making the rounds on twitter and holy shit we are two years out from Game of Thrones, and they still manage to be awful in newly ways. They literally put this woman in therapy because of how they got this scene that barely mattered. What the hell was wrong with these people?
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