Mother of Sorrows

New painting study I did of Alicent. I'm really proud of how this one turned out and the fact that I finally decided to get out of my comfort zone.

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🐉 Ceryse Hightower🗼

Targaryen Family Tree

“Maegor Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone, wed Lady Ceryse Hightower […] the High Septon himself performing the nuptials. Maegor was thirteen, the bride ten years his senior…”

Spouse: Maegor

I don't understand the people in the ASOIAF fandom who will judge romantic relationships based on the age difference of the characters from a modern point of view. While we are in a fucking feudal context, or at least one inspired by it. You can't judge that with a modern eye. You can't say that a guy in his thirties who courts a 14 year old woman, and marries a 15/16 year old woman is a pedophile. Already because the young ladies are teenagers, not children. But then and above all, because at the time, these women in this age group were of marriageable age, and just a few years away from the official age of 16. Yes, it may look horrible to the modern eye, and it is. But that does not systematically make the men who marry these women pedophiles or groomer. It's completely ridiculous to make such comments. The customs and mentality of the time were not the same as today. These men saw these women as adults. Not like children (which goes against the definition of pedophile). As for adolescence, it was literally something that didn’t exist back then! Please, people open history books more often to educate themselves a little.

PAUL ATREIDES & MAEGOR TARGARYEN – ON POWER, MOTHERS, DESTINY AND COMING BACK WRONG

pet sematary – stephen king / fire & blood artwork – doug wheatley / dune: part two – denis villeneuve / dune – denis villeneuve / came back wrong / dune – frank herbert / fire & blood – george r. r. martin / on visenya targaryen / dune: messiah – frank herbert

Any Writing Professor: Do not name any two characters with the same letter, it will confuse your audience.

George RR Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki: This is Radagon, who married Rennala, mother of Ranni who likes to pose as Renna, enemy of Rykard and Radahn. He is really Marika, Maliketh's Goddess, mother to Morgott (AKA Margit) Mohg, Malenia mother of Millicent, Miquella, possibly Melina and now Messmer, and she had them after she raised Godwyn and Godefroy with Godfrey, from whom Godrick is descended.

but, our stories aren’t over yet.

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i'm so normal about this (crying screaming shaking throwing up pulling out my hair)

There had been a time when she had been well loved by highborn and commons alike, when they had cheered her as the Realm’s Delight. Many a young lord and noble knight had sought her favor then…though how many would still fight for her, now that she was a woman wed, her body aged and thickened by six childbirths, was a question none could answer.

I fucked around a lot w rake brushes on this one and I'm not sure about them, still. However, book Nyra! I've been reading fire & blood (to keep myself from rereading asoiaf, mostly) and if there is One thing GRRM does very well is making you forget that the characters live in a hellish lovecraftian world by distracting you with mundane politics and misogyny. Or maybe the misogyny is part of that, who knows. Wondering if I will have the time or the willpower to also do book Alicent

Drawing questionable characters is cathartic.

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Grrm watching the barbie movie, sourced from his instagram

no no YOU don’t get what they mean to me

"Greens did this" and "Blacks did that." Shut up this is feudalism; everyone sucks. You don't side with who's the most moral, you side with who you think is the hottest. GOD, I THOUGHT WE UNDERSTOOD THIS.

long live the queen

"When Jaehaerys departed Oldtown for King’s Landing, most of his court traveled with him. His sister Rhaena parted ways with him at Highgarden, however, flying back to Fair Isle, the seat of Lord Farman, on Dreamfyre. But she left behind her daughters: the twins Aerea and Rhaella. Rhaella, the younger, remained at the Starry Sept, having been sworn to the Faith, while Aerea, the elder—now the heir to the Iron Throne until such time as Jaehaerys had children of his own—went on to the Red Keep to serve as a companion and cupbearer to Alysanne."

my version of rhaena's twin daughters as commissioned by dianaaklem on x/twt! there's another version which diana had asked for and it will be featured in the next commissions post 💜

Show Jaime:

“I know I just slept with Brienne who I have a deep attachment to, and I’m about six seasons deep into a redemption arch but Ima peace out and get crushed by rocks with my sister wife”

Book Jaime literally in the middle of reading a letter from Cersei begging him to come and save her:

“I wonder what brienne is doing right now”

level 1 fantasy author: what if you could fuck your clone lol?

miyazaki and grrm: your clone ceases to be an exact copy of you a second after it enters existence. the subjective nature of consciousness means that a different experience of reality is created. a unique history inevitably results in a different person with their own memory and desires. you and your clone would immediately be separated by the vast, lonely distances of individual consciousness. and even if you were to merge again, you would not find the comfort of yourself but the horror of being known by another. holding your hammer before the ring of life, the same strike would express contradictory yearnings for rebirth and stagnation

also miyazaki and grrm: just to be clear, in this scenario you're still fucking your clone, you're both getting divorces to do it, you're making clone babies, you're making your clone bark like a dog,