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"this song is about this" "this song is about that" "this person wrote this song about this person" wrong all songs are about ocs ive made and ocs that have not yet come to pass

#this is approximately you guys for hotgw when you hear a hozier song

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gif request meme | @ygriite asked: Game of Thrones + favourite romantic relationship

Eddard and Catelyn Stark

#thats my mom and dad

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'BuT NeD ThInKs PoSiTiVeLy Of RhAeGaR' Ned thinks of Rhaegar ONCE that he was a man unlikely to visit brothels. From this we can conclude that he was not a sex pest like Robert. How on earth does this inform of Ned's personal feelings though? Ned is comparing Robert and Rhaegar and thinking in factual terms. Its similar to how he thinks of Aerys killing his father and brother but not once does he express hatred against Aerys. But we do know what he would think of Aerys, its common sense. Even if we go by 'Lyanna was willing' idea, Lyanna still died because Rhaegar impregnated her at 15 and then left her imprisoned without proper healthcare. She died because of Rhaegar's actions. People who use this argument are usually those who don't understand Ned's character very clearly, he is a man who while suffering from ptsd, suppresses painful emotions and feelings.

Ned Stark is SO MUCH more complicated then those people will ever give him credit for. They are desperate to paint him as so easily black and white when he is the most "living in the grey area" man to literally ever exist. They also refuse to give any context to that scene.

Because it isn't really Rhaegar Neds thinking about in that scene, it's Jon. Ned is in a brothel looking for one of Roberts many bastards, and connecting Robert to Lyanna to Rhaegar he wonders if Rhaegar was like Robert in that sense. The question Ned is really asking, is if there is a possibility that there are more people out there like Jon. He's asking himself if he's sure that Jon is alone and comes to the conclusion that yes, Rhaegar probably didn't sleep around like Robert and this comes to the conclusion that the only secret child of Rhaegars is in fact, still Jon.

But it's like you said, Ned strongly buries his true emotions deep down. He is a very traumatized man who has never truly gotten past the point in his life where his sister died in front of him. Ned is still trapped in that room and the haunting smell of blood and roses. Ned was described as catatonic for a while after Lyanna died and he never truly came out of that emotionally. He keeps everything inside very deeply and is utterly haunted with that upcoming trauma once the main story starts. His every action in Kings Landing is rooted in that trauma of what happened to Lyanna and the deep fear of what will happen to Jon. Everything he does in Kings Landing is about that, Neds priority in the story, is Jon. That dicates everything he does in the main plot because he is deeply traumatized and terrifed of what will happen to his son.

There's even a strong argument to be made that had Robert never come to Winterfell and involved the Starks directly within the dealings of the Crown, that Ned wouldn't ever have let Jon join the Nights Watch. That agree or disagree with letting him, that a big reason he allows it, is out of the fear of Jon being anywhere near the people Ned's spent Jons entire life protecting him from. That Ned would rather Jon be in the Nights Watch, then hunted down and murdered by Robert.

Ned the entire story and half of his life has been burying very deeply rooted trauma of what happened to Lyanna, and has been motivated that same time to put Jon as one of his biggest priorities right up until his death. But because he keeps this all buried deep inside, its easy for people, mostly Rhaegar defenders, to paint him as black and white, a bad father, a mindless soldier with no autonomy outside of Robert, a selfish man.

Ned Stark is one of the best written characters in recent literature, theres a reason he's still remembered and talked about to this day, and it is certainly not because he is as black and white as Rhaegar stans desperately try to slander him as.

#if i asked a random person what series is ned stark from #theyd probably be able to at least say game of thrones #if i asked a random person what series rhaegar targaryean is from #id bet most random people couldnt tell me or at best would make a lucky guess #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #ned stark #eddard stark #anti rhaegar targaryen #anti rhaegar x lyanna #anti rhaegar stans #anti targ stans #anti targaryen

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I am glad there are people out there who acknowlege how problematic Ygritte was and it was not a romantic relationship. I have seen very few Jon fans who realize that. In a way Jon parallels Lyanna here and it is so sad to me.

It is very rough. As someone who has been a victim of rape very similar to Jons experience, it is disturbing to see people still look at them as romantic. In the book it is far from romantic, but the show is actually worse.

Because in the show we have to watch it, more often the not, Jon genuinely looks most of the time, like he's scared of her. They have ONE scene that does some very heavy lifting to force this to look romantic before the fallout and I think I skip it everytime. It is literally the only scene anyone can point to that even remotely suggests he has feelings for her. But again, I will say, I've been in abusive relationships like that and sometimes you manage to trick yourself long enough to experience moments of relative peace before you remember who it is youre really dealing with.

That cave scene I will literally skip the entire chapter, and nearly the entire episode just to avoid it because it being framed as romantic deeply fucking disturbs and upsets me. It makes me feel like I should be remembering my own experiance like that, with such love goggles and thats really awful to feel.

Jon never loved Ygritte, was in a hostage abusive relationship with her by force, and she at least once but likely many times, raped him.

And I will never go for anything other then exactly that, but because Jons one of the few male rape victims in this series, the fact that its done by a female perpetrator has rotted peoples perceptions into insisting it was love.

It was not. It was rape and he was scared of her the whole time.

#game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #jon snow #anti ygritte #anti jongritte

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jon snow appreciation 11/∞

the Pretty that was promised (requested)

#how is this a both a man who is a precious sad puppy #but also a feral intense unhinged man

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So people really didn’t see anything wrong with the first interaction between Daenerys and Jon Snow? The way she not only disrespected him and his own rise to power – without a birthright that she loves waving in everyone’s face– but she also threatened to burn him for not bowing down to him and pledging his loyalty to someone he doesn’t know. someone who literally reeks of privilege, and entitlement and tries to bend people to her will by fear, scare tactics and long boring ass speeches talkin about ‘before i was here there were no dragons for years yadda yadda’ she is so annoying and the fact that ppl expected jon to just bow down to her, despite how rude and disrespectful she is to him and his own personal struggles?? i’m glad he kills her lmaooo

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Robb will rule, you will serve. Men will call you a crow. Singers will praise every little thing he does, while your greatest deeds all go unsung. // I keep hearing stories about you, bastard. The way people in the North talk about you, you’re the greatest swordsman who ever walked.

#the GLOW UP OKAY MY LOVE

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Rhaegar looked a good potential ruler only in comparison to Aerys lmao. He would have been terrible, from an objective pov. I mean he managed to piss off THREE major houses at once. That is quite the achievement.

Like, he only looks good when you look at his father, grandfather and great grandfather. Aerys II was, well, I think there's little need for any elaboration on that. A man who enjoyed cruelty to the degree that when he begun to turn mentally unstable, the voices in his head had only made that cruelty turn up to the degree war was going to be inevitable one day no matter what.

Jaehaerys II was also not a good King and had a very short reign. He ruined the very carefully balanced status of Westeros created by his father in order to have an incestuous marriage with his sister. He did the most damage to the last reign of the Targaryeans by creating only ONE direct bloodline by marrying his sister and then ordering the marriage of his son and daughter together. His only good contribution in his short time as King was delegating the Ninepenny Kings War to the command of Ormund Baratheon, but he only did it because Ormund was the one who talked him down from fighting in the war himself, so it wasn't even his own idea.

Aegon V should have been remembered as a good King, but he failed his own family by creating circumstances which allowed Jaehaerys II the opportunity to both marry his sister and marry his own children together, thus dooming the bloodline of his own family. He also ruins his final memories with his actions at Summerhall. Summerhall is the one event which ruins Aegons ability to be remembered as a good ruler because his downfall was still his own obsession with his house's superiority with dragons.

In contrast to all that, sure, maybe Rhaegar wouldn't be the worst King but he wouldn't have been a good one. He too by Roberts Rebellion was delusional and obsessed with prophecy to the degree no one around him understood why he was doing the things he did. His actions led to a massive war that overthrew his own family and left three members of the Stark family dead which haunts over the narrative the entire main series.

Meaning if Rhaegar did not realize the ramifications of kidnapping the firstborn daughter of a major house who was betrothed to the firstborn son of another major house, all the while insulting another major house whom had married INTO his family via his own wife, meaning he was just an idiot. Or he knew the ramifications but was so obsessed with the prophecy he did not care, which means he was utterly delusional.

The whole point of the downfall of House Targaryean is that it was inevitable. In their own ways not even the best remembered Kings were good people. None of them really were because the Targaryeans are the wrong fit of people to live amongst Westeros, let alone rule it.

Rhaegar nor Viserys nor Daenerys would have been good rulers.

#i could go on honestly this family is full of the biggest disaster human beings of all time #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #anti targaryen #anti targ restoration #anti targ stans #anti rhaegar targaryen #anti daenerys targaryen #anti rhaegar stans #anti dany stans

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jaime disassociating to the point where he can’t remember major life events is an incredibly sad character detail but the comedy in it comes from the fact that there’s no way any of the lannisters noticed. least of all him. i’m imagining tywin talking to him and asking how old he is (his ass would not remember his kids’ ages) and jaime doesn’t fucking know. he’s like uh eighteen. no nineteen? he says i know what year i was born and starts to count up until tywin stops him. tywin says how old is cersei and jaime’s like she’s nineteen and tywin walks away like gods my son’s a fucking moron

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GAME OF THRONES — 7.03 "The Queen's Justice"

#Rip Lady Olenna you were too good for season 7 you deserved better #but the woman still went out like a champ

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#that man has never known love nor arousal until that moment

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The funniest thing about hating Rhaegar is his stans assuming we love Robert and then they begin arguing how he was an abuser and a pos as if we don't know lol. Hating Rhaegar and Robert is not mutually exclusive. It reminds me of takes like if you love Jon, how can you love Catelyn? 🤦🤦 People need to stop living through characters I beg. Liking/disliking certain characters based on who your favorite character likes/dislikes is NOT normal behaviour.

The amount of Rhaegar stans who jump on you like OH YOU LOVE ROBERT HUH like okay lets take it back friends and show me where we said that.

Now, I am a bit biased because I do rather like the Baratheons in general but I am the first to pick those grown ass men up by the scruff of their necks and hold them up over a cliffs edge telling them that they're asses are gonna get dropped into the sea unless they smarten up.

Like yes Rhaegar stans, Robert is a piece of shit. But the reasons Lyanna did not want to marry him was because he was a womanizer whom already had bastards and she knew he was not a man who would be faithful or respectful to her. (My personal headcanon is that Lyanna was not interested in marriage at all but thats only my personal speculation).

Robert didn't even mistreat her, because he did not know her. She didn't want to marry him because she knew, she as a wife, was in for a life of a husband prone to massive infidelity, something any reasonable 14-15 year old girl would object to. And we have no way of knowing if he would have mistreated her the way he does Cersei. How he treats Cersei is absoutely horrible and abusive, but the circumstances of their marriage DO play a part in the manner which they mutually mistreat each other in different ways. Theres no real evidence that Robert would treat Lyanna as horribly, we can only say for sure, he would have been insultingly unfaithful and Lyanna would have at the least still been miserable.

So their assumption that Lyannas life with Robert would've looked just like Cersei's is wrong. Cersei's life also is played due in part that most of her family do not care about her well being. She was mistreated and miserable and no one cared. Lyannas family all cared about her deeply. The Starks are all very close and protective, so the idea that Ned would stand by and allow Robert to treat his SISTER that way is to say Ned views Cersei exactly in the same level of respect he does his little sister, which is wrong.

In Lyanna vs Robert in Neds eyes, Lyanna wins. We know this. He keeps Lyannas secret from Robert half their lives which could be a secret considered treason. Ned chooses Lyanna, and would not actualy let her be treated by Robert the way he sees Robert treat Cersei. Also by the time Ned sees the extent of his marriage to Cersei it is far too late to intervene meaningfully and thus he does nothing because by this point there is nothing he can do.

In fact, Ned while still going to tell Robert the truth, extends mercy to Cersei and all but begs her to take her children and run as far away from Robert as they can. Ned defies Robert by telling Cersei to spare her and her childrens lives by running before it's too late. Something which again, could be considered treason once Robert knows the truth.

Robert has MANY problems, and ironically, the show is actually the version of the story that handles this better. Robert in the show is still not a good person, but he has so much more layers and nuance to make him less black and white unlikable. This version of Robert you can actually understand what about him does Ned like and why other people still care about him. Its a rare example of an adaptation improving something from the books.

But Book Robert just sucks. We all know that. He sucks. No one likes Book Robert not even Baratheon fans like me.

But because Rhaegar stans depend on Rhaeyla for their characterization of Lyanna, they can ONLY imagine an opposite where it is Robert and Lyanna because their views of her depend on her in a romance. They don't see her as an individual character who probably wanted nothing to do with either Robert or Rhaegar.

In my personal opinion, Lyanna did not want to marry any man, and probably hadn't even considered if she wanted children. Since the earliest we know anything substantial of her is the Knight of the Laughing Tree, which is a story that tells me shes still just an adventurous girl who wants to see what the more exciting parts of life can offer her. And while dreading one marriage, she was kidnapped and forced into an even worse scenario with an even worse man and died because of it.

Like, at the very least, Roberts side of the war was partially fighting to save her life. Rhaegar fought the side of the war that led her trapped on the other side of the country, almost dying alone in a bed of her own blood.

There no nuance here with these people. They don't see Lyanna outside of Rhaelya and thus they are obsessed with proving that Robert was worse then him even though most discussions about Lyanna have nothing to do with Robert in the first place.

But to be clear, Rhaegar is worse then Robert. They both suck, but Rhaegar is still worse because at least Robert never kidnapped and raped a 15 year old girl which started a war and ended in her death.

The only reason its easier to dunk on Robert is because he was still alive when we met him at the start of the series. A lot easier to shit on a character when we directly followed their actions before they died.

#the jon and catelyn thing is so funny like the brainrot #its either your with me or your my enemy but unironically #i can love and defend catelyn and still call her emotionally abusive towards jon #they can and do co exist #rhaegar can suck and so can robert #targ stans so badly want this fandom to act like fucking twilight #team rhaegar or team robert sort of nonsense #me not tagging it cus honestly im just scared of targ stans at this point like yall win im not tagging anymore #you wanna get mad at me come check my blog directly

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“Your father was a man of honor. He was no friend to me, but I saw his worth. Your brother was a rebel and a traitor who meant to steal half my kingdom, but no man can question his courage. What of you?”

#no im not reblogging this cus i keep looking at the top right gif no not at all

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Your work is what gets me anticipating a Monday morning and I have not had that feeling since the show was actually airing … you are doing great ❤️btw I’m not sure of where you are like it matters but I’m based in the UK and I have notifications on

Oh no I am so sorry, you get a notification whenever I make my dumb ass posts you must be disappointed a whole lot 🤣

Also that is wild to me, my dumb ass story being something people actually look forward too come Mondays. Like it does not stop baffling me that people could possibly anticipate new chapters of this story, it still makes no sense it has people who LIKE it this much!

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Not me writing 10.3k in one day, over 8k of that was in one single sitting. Also not me writing a shockingly unhinged smut scene like holy shit Jon Snow fucking destroys my brain I swear to god

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wanna kill anyone thats ever touched her

#jon doesnt actually say it but this 100% is him about hotgw reader

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Genuinely insane to me that there are Targ stans claiming that the Targs, an incestuous family of former slaveowners of a colonial empire, came to Westeros and were corrupted by the evil eViL Andal culture and religion.

Like what??? The Andals and the faith of the seven are absolutely not without their own systemic issues (nor are the first men) BUT to argue that the rulers have been corrupted by the people they conquered is INSANE.

#their insistence that the andals/the seven are the bad guys is INSANE #valyrians literally would toss their slaves into the fourteen flames in blood magic rituals to create chimeras #the andals literally fled to westeros to escape the valyrian freeholds oppresive slavery regime #the Targaryens have dragons and they have the gall to say they were the corrupted ones??#god forbid a people and religion tormented by Valyrians and their dragons and destructive fire and blood magic #are generally anti magic and anti dragon #the targs literally forced the faith into giving them exemption to the sin of incest #and people somehow think the faith was in the wrong for what? wanting them to stop???#the brain rot is astonishing #you can critize the seven and system of society developed by the andals #but it is NOT because they are bad or secretly evil #they are as anti dragon as bravvos because the valyrians used dragons to destroy their homes and enslave them #the targs literally came to westeros and traumatized these people #of the andals don't like the targs

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