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winterprince601 · 7 months

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"he was never unfaithful to robert, was he?" - jaime, acok

ha. ha ha ha. the irony of this line is incredible. what's so striking to me is how one dimensional the realm's understanding of eddard stark as an honourable man is - honour itself is an incredibly complicated and unattainable ideal in asoiaf and i think ned as the stereotypical emblem of it encompasses many of the reasons why. because whilst he absolutely does consider acting in a conventionally honourable way important, he always prioritises those he loves. he defended cat's actions as his own without a second thought when she arrested tyrion. his main priority in king's landing is to see his daughters safe, not to secure the succession. lyanna is the prime example: jon's existence is not the result of the lapse of honourable ned stark, it was honourable ned stark choosing his love for his sister over his duty to his king. that and his personal ethical belief that the political murder of a child is never morally acceptable.

no one in the realm has the insight into his personality we get in the first book. none of his children, vitally, understand that he would always prioritise their safety over any honourable scruples. all of the starklings question what their honourable father would think of their actions - killing in self-defence, marrying jeyne westerling, sleeping with ygritte to name a few examples - without recognising that ned's true first priority was always his family's safety.

in fact, he betrayed robert far more than he ever betrayed cat and he would have betrayed honour for his family's safety every time.

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the-amazing-spider-bi · 7 months

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sorry but Jaime Lannister’s characterisation is so funny to me. yes I tried to kill your eight year old but I draw the line at paying people to do my killing for me. you better believe if I want a third grader dead I will do the child murder myself. preferably with a sword so I can look him in the eye while he dies by my blade

#lawful evil ass guy #actually nobody did lawful evil like him #pre character development I guess #jaime lannister #asoiaf #acok #Léa reads asoiaf #Léa talks #got #something something that post that’s like Jaime lannister would be anti gun but for unhinged reasons. like if you want someone dead you #should be able to best him in combat without a coward’s weapon

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llutik · 6 months

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That night he dreamed of the feast Ned Stark had thrown when King Robert came to Winterfell. The hall rang with music and laughter, though the cold winds were rising outside. At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time…until he noticed that the room was growing darker.

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jeyneofpoole · 3 months

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acok dash simulator

🐺 winterscumming

i’m sorry but the lannisters licherally can’t expect us to just ignore what they did to our liege lord lmao???? sitting up there on that jank throne like i won’t answer the summons as soon as lord starks’ kid calls the banners goddddds the blonde hair makes those cunts stupid. also the incest probably. what is the north known for again??? forgetting??? that’s what i thought…….

🦁 gains-of-castamere

typical northern scum lmao. bring up the ‘incest’ allegations all you want but nobody’s ever allowed to mention stark’s actual bastard as if it’s just, like, fine????? we’ll see who’s laughing when king joffrey seizes your lands and holdfasts ig

🧜‍♂️ womanderly

cersei lannister isn’t gonna fuck you bro

⛓️ iron-pryce

you will never fucking guess what i saw lady asha and lord greyjoy’s other kid doing on the docks today ohhhhhhhh my god

🍑 rainbowhard

LORAS TYRELL BESTED BY A WENCH THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFEEEEE

🦄 renlybrocade

she should’ve killed him the realm can afford to lose one twink

❤️‍🔥 rhollor-wifee

the comet is a sign of his coming

🦊 flor-aunt-it

me and the comet are making out sloppy style

❤️‍🔥 rhollor-wifee

you will burn

⬛️ dontcallmecrow

not my ass going on the great ranging lmao i should’ve deserted 🙏😭

🐻 lordcommandr

Report to command tent. Immediately.

⬛️ dontcallmecrow

oh my god

🛶 c-bitch

they really expect me to follow this metrosexual into battle. ok. gold price looking nepo baby cunt he fucking shot todric and i’m just supposed to steal a castle with him. ok!!!!!! i miss asha……..

🩸 reek

heyyyyyyy i’m in the dungeon fornormal reasons does someone wannacome say hi?

🦑 princee-of-winterfell

ok lol

🐉 that-one-loyalist

i swear to fucking god i just saw daenerys targaryen burn down the house of the undying????? queen???? hello???

🐴 in-the-whoarde

likely place for her to be

⚓️ sonsshine

i love my dad i love boats this is great we’re going to blackwater next i’m sure our victory will be righteous in the eyes of our lord

⚓️ sonsshine

⛵️💥💥💥☠️🟩🟩🌊🌊⛓️🔥🔥🔥⛵️⛵️🟩🟩🌊⛵️🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥⛓️⛓️⛓️👨‍👦‍👦☠️☠️ ⛵️💥💥💥☠️🟩🟩🌊🌊⛓️🔥🔥🔥⛵️⛵️🟩🟩🌊⛵️🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥⛓️⛓️⛓️👨‍👦‍👦☠️☠️

#yes the implication is that jeor has and uses tumblr. i think this is true #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #theon greyjoy #asha greyjoy #cersei lannister #loras tyrell #brienne of tarth #jeor mormont #ramsay bolton #davos seaworth #daenerys targaryen #acok #a clash of kings

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greywoe · 4 months

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Brienne said, "I remember a woman... she came from some place across the narrow sea. I could not even say what language she sang in, but her voice was as lovely as she was. She had eyes the color of plums and her waist was so tiny my father could put his hands around it. His hands were almost as big as mine." She closed her long, thick fingers, as if to hide them. "Did you sing for your father?" Catelyn asked. Brienne shook her head, staring down at her trencher as if to find some answer in the gravy. "For Lord Renly?" The girl reddened. "Never, I... his fool, he made cruel japes sometimes, and I..." "Some day you must sing for me."

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #brienne of tarth #my drawings #acok #love them. and also #FOOD #rewatching my fav show about historical food over and over again paid off i guess #anyway it's the biggest snow storm over here you can't even go to work #no need to wait for the windsof winter they are HERE. walking the dogs was an ordeal #now i know how campstannis felt in adwd.... ok i'll stop it with the unnecessary referencing. anyway happy new year!

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barelyanartblog · 16 days

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Asha visits Theon at Winterfell

#asoiaf #asha greyjoy #theon greyjoy #acok #valyrianscrolls #my art

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buildoblivionthenwewilltalk · 8 months

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“Robb will rule, you will serve. Men will call you a crow. Him they'll call Your Grace. Singers will praise every little thing he does, while your greatest deeds all go unsung." - ACOK

“Jon is the only brother that remains to me. Should I die without issue, I want him to succeed me as King in the North. I had hoped you would support my choice” - ASOS

#something about robbs Crown really gets me ya know?#and Jon has no idea his brother would have left it to him #Jon snow #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #a clash of kings #acok #ASOS #a storm of swords #nights watch #king in the north #valyrianscrolls #minsart #my art #fanart #also if you can spot the reference I am kissing you tenderly

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grey-joys · 6 months

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Sansa thinking “let his sword break and his shield shatter. Let his courage fail him and every man desert him” in ACOK still goes hard

#stupid squid thoughts #game of thrones #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #sansa stark #queen in the north #joffrey baratheon #a clash of kings #acok

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flying-ham · 2 months

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I got bored at work this afternoon so I decided to find out the breakdown of male vs female povs in asoiaf by wordcount. so far I've found affc to have the greatest proportion of female povs with 60.76%, and adwd to have the smallest with 25.68%.

full breakdown:

agot - 45.01% female, 54.99% male

acok - 41.35% female, 58.65% male

asos - 39.66% female, 60.34% male

affc - 60.76% female, 39.24% male

adwd - 25.68% female, 74.32% male

total series - 41.24% female, 58.76% male

I'd like to play around w things more when I'm not tired of reading in data BUT that's what I've got so far lol

#i'm sure someone has done this already #but its fun i like doing shitty data analysis in r #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #agot #a game of thrones #acok #a clash of kings #asos #a storm of swords #affc #a feast for crows #adwd #a dance with dragons #valyrianscrolls

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kazataca · 11 months

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Sor Jorah Mormont, Daenerys Targaryen and Whitebeardin A Clash of Kings

#fanart #artwork #illustration #asoiaf #acok #a clash of kings #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #game of thrones daenerys

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thespoonisvictory · 4 months

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GOD the Jaime-Cat Dungeon Scene (tm) is so good. We spend chapter after chapter watching Cat in utter conflict with herself, torn in different directions. She wants to find her daughters in King's Landing, to go to Winterfell and parent her sons, to stay with her dying father, to mourn her recently dead husband, to be an advisor to her son and brothers that they actually listen to. She is trying to be a mother, a daughter, a sister, to both nurture and council Robb. But it's too much, she can't do all of it.

Meanwhile, Jaime is locked in a dungeon for the entire book (very wife in the attic of him) and yet scarcely goes a chapter without his name being referred to by one person or another. He's practically present in conversations with Cersei and Tyrion, for how much they evoke his name to try to convince the other of something. Others think of his battle prowess, or want him dead, or share the story of his evil deeds, and Cat isn't excluded from this. He's a symbol more than he's a person, a token, a bargaining chip. Never to be harmed for fear of the Stark daughters' lives, but completely trapped by his own status.

So this makes it all the more satisfying to see Cat, in a fit of rage and grief, go downwards to question him at last, after hundreds of pages of this evocation of his name. She's tired of the lack of movement, of the posturing of the men around her, of all that she has lost and had to shrug off to keep going. And what does he tell her? That there are too many vows, too many promises that conflict. He says that honor is too much, that he could never have kept all the plates spinning. That it's too much!!

After a whole year of endless loss and fear and feeling completely alone, one visit to this symbol of a person and he completely and transparently spells out her entire deal, so much of her internal anguish. And then he looks at her and says that there are no men like him, that no one else would get it. like oh my god. george!!!

#asoiaf #acok #jaime lannister #catelyn stark #they are two people trapped in eternal awareness of the fact that there was never a winning hand for them #catelyn despises him for such understandable reasons but they are in the same boat of awareness #two of the relics who were chess pieces in robert's rise to power now experiencing war again #and that's just like. one layer going on here don't get me Started

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volukyrja · 9 months

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“I'm here, only I'm broken. Will you ... will you fix me ... my legs, I mean?”

“No. That is beyond my powers. You will never walk again, Bran, but you will fly.”

#bran stark #asoiaf #game of thrones #fanart #procreate #bloodraven #asoiaf art #house stark #agot #acok #asos #affc #adwd #he’s just a baby #“he’s the ultimate villain!!! LEAVE MY LIL GUY ALONE #looking at you brynden you stay AWAY #my art

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jeyneofpoole · 4 months

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acok (pub. 1998)

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #theon greyjoy #acok #a clash of kings #asha greyjoy

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llutik · 11 months

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little dany sketch i drew today #paperrocks

the dragon is viserion i think.. i like to imagine them looking very different from one another. so he is soft and insect-like

dany looking a bit silly she is a little lizard alien teenage girl :P

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf art #my art #acok #daenerys targaryen #viserion #i miss my computer so much #come back pookie #traditional art...

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greywoe · 4 months

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not so eager now, are we?

don't- don't touch me.

#found this nearly finished on my computer and did some finishing touches #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #asha greyjoy #theon greyjoy #u can tell this is old because 1) sai 2) the 16c inspired silhouette i did a lot for some time 3) the technique.. in general #still like it enough to post it. the sky is still fairly nice to me LOL #and that even tho theyre both wearing similar colours i wanted theon's fit to be more like i imagine greenlander fashion #to contrast but idk if it really comes across well #i'll do more drawings of them i do it all the time it's ok #my drawings #acok #.....ish

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catofoldstones · 5 months

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The fact that the episode where Arya assists Tywin and famously says “most girls are stupid” corresponds directly with the chapter in the books where she overhears Chiswyck laughing about how the mountain and his lackeys (him included) gang-raped a 13 year old child, and this harrows and angers Arya so much that she adds all of these people to her prayer kill list and uses her one of her three precious death-wishes with Jaqen H’ghar is the reason I will be personally beating the bloody shit out of d&d.

#how can you turn such a pivotal moment such a delicate scene with systemic gendered violence #into mOsT giRLs aRE stUPiD #get a hold of yourself #the show was bad before s8 #so bad #and I would love to say that this was the canary in the coal mines #but that was actually s1e1 #game of thrones #at the club beating the shit out of d&d #you are free to join me #got rewatch #arya stark #acok #asoiaf #the misogyny is really popping up with these guys #<- edit

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