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H-O-T-T-O-G-O/You can take me hot to go!
#they’re hot#they’re on fire#but unfortunately#can’t go#i’ve been giggling about this for days#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#game of thrones#brandon stark#rickard stark#margaery tyrell#loras tyrell#shireen baratheon#rip shireen#you would’ve loved chapell roan#chappell roan#rip margaery#good luck babe! would’ve hit too close to home#Spotify
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absolutely not 😭
#the firelighters???#noooo#shireen i miss u baby#shireen baratheon#melisandre#rip shireen#carice van houten#princess shireen baratheon
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wow palestine is finally trending
#free palestine#palestine#save palestine#stop asian hate#save the middle east#save sheikh jarrah#praying for palestine#i stand with palestine#rip shireen#pro palestine#savesheikhjarrah
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June Jordan, Moving Towards Home (from 'Living Room' (1980-1984), 1985); in Naming Our Destiny. New and Selected Poems, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, NY, 1989, pp. 142-143 [Designed by Marcia Salo]
Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022) ♥
#graphic design#poetry#book#june jordan#shireen abu akleh#rip#marcia salo#thunder's mouth press#1980s
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During the multiparty negotiations to end apartheid in the 1990s, when it became apparent that gender concerns would sink to the bottom of the ANC’s list of priorities, she led the process of forming an independent women’s organisation – the Women’s National Coalition – that would unite women across political parties and ideological lines. She described it as a “conspiracy of women”.
It was a remarkable body that coalesced around two key demands: the inclusion of women in all decision-making about the shape of the post-apartheid state and constitution, and an end to violence against women.
Shireen Hassim at The Conversation. Frene Ginwala remembered: trailblazing feminist and first speaker of South Africa’s democratic parliament
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The princess's fool was waiting outside the maester's door for her like a faithful hound. Dough-soft and slump-shouldered, his broad face tattooed in a motley pattern of red and green squares, Patchface wore a helm made of a rack of deer antlers strapped to a tin bucket.
Patchface the Fool as illustrated by Charles Vess in the Subterranean Press edition of A Storm of Swords
#valyrianscrolls#patchface#artist: charles vess#source: ebook rip#prayer circle for shireen to get a friend who is not a creepy clown in twow
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“Of course I get scared. In a specific moment you forget that fear. We don't throw ourselves to death. We go and we try to find where we can stand and how to protect the team with me before I think about how I am going to go up on the screen and what I am going to say”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh#Death
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They took you brutally, gruesomely, intentionally, without remorse and kept on shooting whilst you were face down on the floor.
Never again should they get the chance.
You will get the justice you deserve, sooner or later.
Rest in peace beautiful angel on earth, Shireen Abu Akleh.
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Talibans lll - Burna Boy, Chris Brown, Byron Messia
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Geezus Krist
#too many talibans not enough mics#RIP Shareeza Shireen Ali-Higgins#men are mostly useless tbh#sarri not sorry!
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So we all know GRRM, like all authors, took a lot of inspo from real life fairy tales, religion, and mythology. There are a ton of parallels but I picked out a few to put in this poll
Propaganda: Before anyone says anything, I know a lot of these are dark spins on the original. I’m not trying to say Littlefinger is a handsome prince or whatever. Also note that some of this is based on either things that haven’t happened yet but are highly likely to happen in Winds/Dream up to and including being confirmed by GRRM.
Arya and Jaqen as Hades and Persephone-the young maiden of spring is found by the lord of the underworld, who gives her an object (in this case a coin) to trick her into being trapped in the world of the dead. When she leaves home, winter comes, but when she returns, so does spring.
Sansa as Rapunzel-a princess locked in a tower by an evil sorceress (or just queen) who is spirited away by a man who wants to marry her. Strong focus on her hair as a symbol of her identity.
The Brotherhood Without Banners as Robin Hood and his Merry Men-a band of outlaws who defend the common people against corrupt authority figures. This one is really self explanatory.
Cersei as the evil queen and Margaery/Sansa/eventually Dany as Snow White-a vain, cruel women terrified of her beauty fading and being replaced by a younger woman who outshines her, so she tries to destroy her perceived rival, ultimately leading to her own downfall. The girls in Snow Whites slot are the popular choices for the identity of the YMBQ and the one Cersei is currently convinced it is.
Jaime and Brienne as Beauty and the Beast-a double subversion. Jaime is handsome and Brienne is ugly, but when they meet she’s brave and kind while he’s selfish and cruel, so it’s the beast who helps the beauty be better.
Lyanna, Rhaegar, and Robert as Helen of Troy, Paris, and Menelaus-a beautiful woman fiercely desired by two powerful men, she either runs off with or is kidnapped by a prince, leading to her (soon to be) husband retaliating by starting a tragic war.
Stannis and Shireen as Agammemon and Iphegenia-a king and commander sacrifices his daughter to the gods to win a war. Bonus if this ends up causing Stannis’ downfall.
Lady Stoneheart as Demeter-a mother wanders the land bringing destruction and misery as she searches for her daughter(s.) When her daughters return to her, spring comes.
Cersei and Jaimes children as the emperor wearing no clothes-the emperor walks around naked insisting that he’s a wearing magic invisible outfit, but everyone is afraid to tell him the truth until finally a child points out that he’s wearing nothing at all. See: everyone pretending not to notice that Cerseis children are the result of incest with her brother, and Ned finally realizing the truth when his 11 year old daughter points out that Joffrey is nothing like Robert.
Bran as the Fisher King-the Fisher King is a character from Arthurian myth. He is the guardian of the magical holy grail, protecting it so it (and power) does not fall into the hands of the unworthy. Notably, he also has a deliberating injury to his legs or groin (depending on the version.) Of course the endgame Bran of the show is a blatant rip-off of Leto II from Children of Dune, but I think the Fisher King sounds more like GRRM would do.
Dany as Moses-a leader who has prophetic visions, who after performing a miracle, frees her people from slavery and leads them on a harsh journey to a new land. Notably regarded as a critically important figure by a monotheistic religion.
#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#lyanna stark#rhaegar targaryen#robert baratheon#jaime lannister#cersei lannister#sansa stark#tommen lannister#joffrey lannister#myrcella lannister#arya stark#jaqen h'ghar#danerys targaryen#margaery tyrell#shireen baratheon#catelyn stark#I almost put jon as cinderella#but I feared the flame war it could kick off
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Occupation forces attack the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh, the journalist they murdered:
Heavily armed forces are beating up Palestinians carrying Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin, they’re charging at them with cavalry horses and assaulting them with batons (theyre also kicking those they knock to the ground) and threw sound bombs and stun grenades inside the French Hospital of Jerusalem. Here is the moment of attack:
They’ve besieged the hospital and demand Shireen’s coffin to be hidden inside a hearse instead of her being honored with visible a martyrs funeral being carried over the shoulders of Palestinians
The ocupation yesterday raided the home of Shireen’s family and took down Palestinian flags raised there. They detained Shireen’s brother the day after murdering his sister and ordered “no Palestinian flags. No chants. No walking procession”
Occupation forces have rushed the funeral and continued assaulting Shireen’s family, friends and mourners. They ripped away Palestinian flags (including off the hearse) and are attempting to suppress chants in honor of the martyred journalist
Israeli occupation forces have arrested several mourners for raising the Palestinian flag in occupied East Jerusalem. Abu Akleh’s niece, Lina Abu Akleh, has said Israeli forces are “still trying to silence” her aunt and the mourners gathered for the funeral.
Shireen was a Palestinian Christian and the funeral has moved her body first towards the Church for the service then are moving her towards the Christian cemetery where she will be laid to rest.
The Israeli occupation army asked people “if they are Christian or Muslim”. And Muslims weren’t allowed in to participate in the funeral march. Occupation forces have also prevented thousands of Palestinians from entering the cemetery.
Despite agression and attempts of supression from the occupation Palestinians continue the funeral and resist by still raising Palestinian flags and chanting for Shireen Abu Aqala and for Palestine. Arriving in the dozens of thousands
They murdered her and will not grant her peace even in death, the brutality of the israeli occupation against Palestinians is clear
Free Palestine
#Palestine#free palestine#israeli occupation#shireen abu akleh#shireen abu aqla#Settler colonisim#Israel#Fuck israel#apartheid#Human rights#Politics#Journalism#فلسطين#فلسطين حرة#شيرين ابو عاقلة
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doctor who liveblog pt 50
s10 ep2 smile
- uh oh evil smiley robots
- i love when there’s new companion and they have to learn all the doctor lore
- uh oh the people are being made into fertiliser
- he is the helpline
- uh oh dead body
- don’t look into the future book, you won’t like it
- uh oh people pods
- grief tsunami
- this guy’s always endin up in the wrong place
- elephant
s10 ep3 thin ice
- no he can’t steer this thing bill
- good to see they’ve gotten much better at talking about race since the shakespeare episode with martha because that was horrendous
- THE TARDIS WARDROBE MAKES ITS RETURN
- uh oh thames creature
- aw bill looks so cute
- the doctor is having the best time, i could watch a whole episode of just him and bill frolicking about
- uh oh mystery glow
- yay he got his hat
- fuck ass kids
- oh the ice ate him
- uh oh we’re bringing moral conflicts into our lovely day out
- old timey diving suits let’s go
- that’s a big old creature
- oh they’re harvesting creature poo
- crazy for him to she has a temper
- oh do not like this guy
- GET HIS ASS DOCTOR
- well that didn’t go well
- the not-so-little-mermaid
- rip bozo
- COME ON BILL
- aww that’s nice
- uh oh mysterious knocking
s10 ep4 knock knock
- as always the real villain is the uk housing market
- oh shit it’s a castle
- this is suspicious as hell
- uh oh
- love her using the tardis to move house
- finally someone is pointing out that timelord is a stupid fucking name for a species
- helppp not the granddad 😭😭
- this poor guy is really barking up the wrong tree
- aww her mum 😭😭
- see this wouldn’t be a problem for me because every time i hear a creepy noise in my house i just assume it’s my cats
- ofc it’s the doctor, in many ways he is like a big cat
- incredibly funny how much bill’s roommates love her granddad
- omg little mix
- oh god it’s eating him
- SHES GETTING EATEN BY THE TREE
- OH GOD HES STUCK IN THE WALL
- omg he’s alive
- THE LANDLORD
- uhhh
- fuck yeah secret bookcase door
- alien bug!!
- alien bugs!!
- oh daughter in the tower
- OMG THE BUGS ATE HIM
- OH GOD THE DAUGHTER IS WOOD
- OMG IT ATE SHIREEN
- oh he’s the sonnn
- oh god they’re both getting eaten by the bugs
- ohhh they’re getting them back!! that’s nice
- what about the past students? are they just dead dead?
- oh it’s a person inside
- OMG IS IT MISSY (i do normally think it’s missy)
- it’s def missy, she loves people getting eaten
#nortism liveblogs doctor who#doctor who liveblog#doctor who#dw#new who#doctor who series 10#doctor who s10#12th doctor#twelfth doctor#bill potts#smile#thin ice#knock knock
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i have decided to break down all the wild potential female line claimants to the iron throne thru the targaryen line because why not let’s go:
obviously there's our "modern" targaryen daughters: daenerys, rhaella, shaera, and rhaelle. that one is easy to explain in part because it's mostly incest, lol. it goes like so (mind you, i'm cutting out male siblings that don't inherit for now) -
Aegon V + Betha Blackwood -> Jaehaerys II, Shaera, Rhaelle (also Duncan & Daeron)
Jaehaerys II + Shaera -> Aerys + Rhaella -> Daenerys
Rhaelle + Ormund Baratheon -> Steffon Baratheon. Steffon + Cassandra Eastermont = Robert, Stannis, and Renly.
so rhaella & shaera's lines are the same as their brothers, and rhaelle is the grandmother of the baratheon kings, which means like the targaryen main line, all of their lines will be dead or illegitimate as well (rip myrcella, tommen, shireen, aegon vi, and daenerys tho).
that leads you up from aegon v to maekar’s daughters, and since we are at a time period where no main character was alive, i made a little graphic to explain easier. let's start with daeron ii (since he's maekar's father anyway) and work backwards:
there’s several ladies in this grouping: rhae, daella, aelora, daenora, and vaella. we know ‘recently’ a targaryen married the evenstar, and timeline wise, it can only be Rhae or Daella, likely to selwyn’s grandfather. which means claimant number one is selwyn & brienne as king & princess of dragonstone claimant. hell yeah.
there’s two “dead end” branches next. maekar has a granddaughter, vaella, but given she’s described as “simple” it’s likely she never married. daeron & myriah, meanwhile, had no daughters but their son rhaegel had two, aelora and daenora. aelora married her brother aelor but aelora killed herself several years after aelor died (it’s a wild story but not relevant). no children. daenora married into maekar’s line tho, to aerion brightflame and had a son, maegor targaryen, who was passed over for aegon v. we do not know if he married or had kids bc it’s not listed and it’s not like there’s a cadet targaryen house anywhere so if he did marry, probably all daughters.
even further back is aegon the unworthy who had one daughter: daenerys. yes that’s right, our second claimant for king and princess of dragonstone is doran and arianne martell (and then, haha, elia and aegon vi AGAIN, love nobility family trees). and then technically, because the martells are normal and don’t die off every two generations, probably a few offshoot martell cousins. and a reminder that minus mysterious maegor, we have no living male line descendants potentially hanging around either. but back to the targ line.
viserys ii had naerys who married aegon iv so their line is the same. aegon iii, his brother, had three daughters.
daena has daemon blackfyre and given that he was legitimized, you could make the argument that the blackfyres have a claim lmao, so any female line daemon kids could be fair game. then you have elaena targaryen who had several legitimate children: viserys plumm, & robin, laena, jocelyn, and joy penrose. that’s right my esteemed readers our third claimant for king and prince of dragonstone is phillip & dennis plumm!
*loud boos bc they’re not even a great house or a house that used to be kings, they’re just some random nobles in the westerlands* shut up i’m not finished!!
through elaena, the only targ pulling her weight out here to populate the family tree, we have our fourth claimant as well: Old Penrose of the Parchments for King on the Iron Throne!
there’s no reason laena, jocelyn, and joy did not marry but we have no info on them so just know if they married some random landed knight, we also have some random dude walking around the stormlands who could be the next king of westeros.
then we get JAEHAERYS but to keep with ignoring men in this post, i entitled it “alyssa’s line.”
baby visenya, who was a stillbirth & jaehaera, who died before having children, are the two “dead end” lines from the dance. before them is viserys, who had helaena but helaena’s heirs are aegon ii’s heirs.
now, jaehaerys had daenerys, alyssa, saera, viserra, daella, and gael. daenerys died before having children as did viserra. gael & saera had no legitimate children. that leaves alyssa and daella. daella had aemma arryn, who married back into the targ family tree to have rhaenyra. alyssa also married back into the family tree and had three sons, viserys, daemon, and aegon. aegon died as a baby, we know viserys, but daemon had two daughters with laena velaryon: baela and rhaena. laena herself is also a distant claimant through the female line - aemon, jaehaerys’ first born son, and jocelyn baratheon had rhaenys, the queen that never was, who had laena. through baela we get our fifth claimant for king of westeros, the literal toddler montereys velaryon! rhaena is kinda tricky - she had no children in her first marriage, and six daughters in her second to garmund hightower but he was the third son and his oldest brother had six kids so it’s not likely the hightower line descends from rhaena however it would be really funny if it did so for the sake of making myself laugh i give you our sixth claimant to the seat of house targaryen, king leyton hightower and prince of dragonstone baelor breakwind. this puts a lot of people in the running tbh, bc leyton has a million kids. his daughters marry and have kids with an ambrose, a tyrell, a cupps, and a redwyne (and a mormont but jorah and lynesse have no children).
(it would require all the hightower male heirs to die [not likely, there’s three of them] AND mad maid malora as well to get to alerie but king and queen mace and alerie tyrell with willas as prince of dragonstone is so fucking funny to me. hey daeron how olenna’s ass taste now.)
before jaehaerys, we have aenys, who had rhaena the boss bitch & alysanne. alysanne’s line is jaehaerys’ obviously, and rhaena married her brother aegon the uncrowned. they had two girls, aerea and rhaella, but neither lived to see adulthood. maegor never had living kids, which brings us back to aegon, who had only sons, and visenya and rhaenys, who married their brother.
i actually had a point to this which is that there is just no one sitting on that fucking chair at the ending because there is no one left alive to sit on it that the lords would choose. they’re not crowning a penrose or a plumm and they’re certainly not crowning my girls arianne and brienne however hilarious i think that would be. i think “westeros breaks up along weird new borders” makes sense just due to that alone - the north will push for independence (maybe parts of the riverlands will want to stick with the north), dorne isn’t likely to be thrilled about some random ass king, the iron islands is…the iron islands, so the only kingdoms that might actually want to stick together are the stormlands, the reach, the crownlands, the vale, and the westerlands, but also, all of these bitches hate each other right now & a lot of them are gonna bite it so who knows.
anyways tldr female line targaryen claimants include these wild choices for King & Heir:
Selwyn and Brienne of Tarth
Doran and Arianne Nymeros Martell of Dorne
Any female line Blackfyres
Phillip and Dennis Plumm of the Westerlands (so minor we don’t even know where their seat is lmao)
Old Penrose of the Parchments
Montereys Velaryon of Driftmark
Leyton and Baelor Hightower of Oldtown
Through Leyton, who has a whopping 10 children, we have House Ambrose, Cupps, Redwyne, and of course, the fat flower himself, House Tyrell as claimants eight thru like, fifty.
#house targaryen#valyrianscrolls#elaena targaryen#rhae targaryen#daella arryn#daenerys targaryen martell#daenerys martell#rhaena targaryen#baela targaryen#i had so much fun doing this it was so funny aksjdjd#getting on my soap box#secret targaryen theories#rhaelle baratheon#rhaelle targaryen
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[Id: a video of an Al Jazeera live feed, showing Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral procession. Hundreds of Palestinians stand, waving Palestinian flags and at the forefront, a group carries Shireen's casket. A line of IOF soldiers, wearing helmets and batons, blocks their passage and soon descends on the Palestinians. The soldiers push against the people carrying the casket, that's almost dropped. A journalist says "I've looked at news around the world through decades and I've never seen a scene like this. Look at this! Attacking innocent people carrying the casket. I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say anymore! What are they expecting now? This is unbelievable. Such disrespect for the dead and for those who are mourning the dead. How is that a security threat to anyone? How does it require this kind of repression, this kind of violence on the part of the Israelis?" / end id]
On 11/05, Shireen Abu Akleh, a beloved Palestinian journalist, was shot dead by Israeli Occupation Forces.
This was a targeted assassination. Ali Al Samoudi, Shireen's colleague who was hit by other bullet, says Israeli snipers shot three bullets at the team of journalists, the third hitting Shireen in the head on the space unprotected by her helmet. Shatha Hanaysha, the woman who was by her side, said the snipers kept shooting at people trying to rescue them, even though they were wearing vests clearly marked as press.
Even though there's clear evidence, the Israeli Defense Ministry tried to say the Palestinian armed resistance had shot her. B'tselem quickly disproved this, showing the Palestinian soldiers were yards away from where she was killed.
After killing her, the IOF brutalized the mourners, raiding the hospital Shireen was taken to and harassing the crowds giving condolences to her family, taking down Palestinian flags and arresting people. They also brought Shireen's brother into interrogation in order to prevent expressions of Palestinian nationalism during the funeral.
They still covered her casket with the Palestinian flag. The IOF descended on the crowd gathered for the funeral procession and targetting the pallbearers, almost dropping the coffin. The video is harrowing and painful to watch. They didn't want Palestinians to mourn over her casket so they only allowed her to leave the hospital in a closed car, and still ripped the Palestinian flag from the car, while arresting several others for simply raising the flag.
The funeral procession still happened, being called one of the longest in Palestinian history. IOF soldiers tried to break the collective mourning, riding along with horses and separating Muslims and Christians, only allowing Palestinian christians into the church.
While the Jabari family was gathered to mourn Shireen, bus loads of settlers came and took over their building. Now, they're on social media boasting about their "new building acquisition."
This morning, the Israel Defense Ministry showed a blurry video of the soldiers descending on the pallbeares and said they attacked them because they were throwing stones at them, what's simply never happened. They invented the stone. To the unrelenting hasbara, I'm leaving this comment by a Palestinian organizer:
Even though there's piles and piles of proof, western media outlets are making spineless reportings saying they can't be sure who killed her until further investigation.
It's our job to give dignity to Shireen's memory, that the Israeli government is trying so hard to slander. She put herself in the line of fire of her colonizers to amplify the plight of her people. The least we can do is follow journalists and activists and organize, as Al Jazeera has broadcast:
Israel will not hold itself to account, just like its apartheid regime won’t dismantle itself. International stakeholders who do not call this out simply cast themselves as a cog in Israel’s whitewashing machine.
It's the time to take Palestinians side. It's not the time to dispute BDS guidelines, with basic stuff like supporting Eurovision.
Here are posts with Palestinian based resources.
Here's a list of protests that you can attend this Nakba Day. If you can, ask for a friend to come with you and show your support:
MAY 14TH
San Francisco, Valencia St.
Houston, Space City Room
Ottawa, Human Rights Monument
Los Angeles, Modjeska Park
Atlanta, Piedmont Park
Omaha, 72nd and Dodge Avenue
London, Portland Place
Minneapolis, Bryant Avenue
MAY 15TH
NYC, Brooklyn Museum
Los Angeles, Federal Building
Toronto, Dundas Square
New York, 5th Avenue
Austin, City Hall
Montreal, Zionist Consulate
Detroit, Hemlock Park
San Diego, 6th Avenue
Dallas, the Grassy Knoll
Paterson, Main Street and Gould Avenue
Washington, Lincoln Memorial
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery
Atlanta, Marjan Dr.
Las Vegas, Venetian
Chicago, Ida B Wells Avenue
Madison, Peace Park
Philadelphia, Rittenhouse Square
Portland, Salmon Springs
São Paulo Praça Estado da Palestina
Barcelona, Plaça Universitat
Atocha, Plaza de las Provincias
Murcia, Plaza San Domingo
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Bremen, Bronze Man Parklage
Cologne, Roncalliplatz
Freinburg, Platz der Alten Synagogue
Hannover, Voraussichtlich Kropke
Mannheim, Mannhelmer Kloss
München, Odeonsplatz
Tübingen, Holsmaktz
Göteborg, Stigbergstorget
Amsterdam, De Dam
Sidney, Sidney Town Hall
New Haven, New Haven Green
Raleigh, Moore Square
Milwaukee, Vernon E. Barg Pavillion
Saint Louis, Market Street
Phoenix, Arizona State University
This is the time to act on your anger and support the armed resistance. There's a clear shift happening on the way the international community talks about Palestine. Within our lifetimes, Palestine will be free.
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What do you think will be the political ramifications of Jon's death? I think the free folk won't have it. It will be really chaotic.
The Freefolk are most definitely not having it. At this point Jon Snow is more or less their King Beyond the Wall. They are ready to fight for him. The last Jon chapter makes that clear.
“The Night’s Watch will make for Hardhome. I ride to Winterfell alone, unless …” Jon paused. “… is there any man here who will come stand with me?”
The roar was all he could have hoped for, the tumult so loud that the two old shields tumbled from the walls. Soren Shieldbreaker was on his feet, the Wanderer as well. Toregg the Tall, Brogg, Harle the Huntsman and Harle the Handsome both, Ygon Oldfather, Blind Doss, even the Great Walrus. I have my swords, thought Jon Snow, and we are coming for you, Bastard. - Jon, ADwD
Jon has not only let the Freefolk this side of the Wall, he has also let them keep their Gods (Unlike Stannis), not asked them to bend the knee and given them charge of some of the castles on the Wall and leadership positions at Castle Black. When the assassination happens, Jon hears the Freefolk leaving the Shieldhall behind him:
Men poured from the surrounding keeps and towers. Northmen, free folk, queen’s men - Jon, ADwD
Jon has given Oakenshield and Queensgate - the two castles on either side of Castle Black - to Tormund Giantsbane and Morna White Mask. Tormund and his men are already there when the mutiny happens. Morna and her spearwives are on their way and are most probably already there when everything goes south. So are Iron Emmett and his spearwives. Add Borroq and his giant boar and Wun Wun to the mix and the mutineers don’t stand a chance in the immediate aftermath.
The only obstacle I can see to the Freefolk going berserk is an obstacle that Jon Snow himself created - the child hostages. These children have been send to Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower. With Cotter Pyke at Hardhome, it’s now Ser Glendon Hewett who holds Eastwatch.
Though the last part troubles me. Glendon Hewett was a seasoned man and a strong one, a sensible choice to command in Cotter Pyke’s absence. But he was also as much a friend as Alliser Thorne could boast, and a crony of sorts with Janos Slynt, however briefly. Jon could still recall how Hewett had dragged him from his bed, and the feel of his boot slamming into his ribs. Not the man I would have chosen - Jon, ADwD
I am not sure which way the Queensmen will move. On the one hand Wun Wun ripping apart Ser Patrek. On the other hand, the current Lord of Winterfell is threatening Queen Selyse, Shireen and Melisandre and the Lord Commander was actively helping their king and protecting their queen, going against his NW oaths for which he just got murdered.
Jon’s death is going to further complicate Northern politics. We know there are Northern houses who are aware of Robb’s decree and see Jon Stark as the next King in the North. As GRRM says in this SSM,
Q: I have a question, since Robb actually legitimized Jon and named him his heir for Winterfell and the North before the Red Wedding (granted no one knows about this and is still alive or free, the Greatjon knows as does Edmure, but I dont see them getting out of the Twins any time soon and Catelyn would probably die before telling anyone) does this make Jon’s rejection of Stannis’ offer moot?
A: Edmure and the Greatjon are prisoners, true… but you are forgetting the envoys that Robb sent to Howland Reed… Galbart Glover, Maege Mormont, Jason Mallister… they are all alive and free…
There’s House Thenn, newly created because of the marriage brokering Jon Snow did and the Freefolk holding land this side of the Wall. Alys was aided by Jon Snow and her uncle is still imprisoned at the Wall.
It’s possible Edmure Tully and other prisoners are getting freed in the next book by the brotherhood without banner and Edmure is a witness and signatory to Robb’s decree that legitimizes Jon Snow and names him Lord of Winterfell.
We know of two possible ‘envoys’ from Riverrun send by the Blackfish to the Wall - Robin Ryger, former Captain of the Guards and Desmond Grell, former Master at Arms. Both experienced men who chose to take the black after Jaime ends the siege of Riverrun and ask to be send to the Wall. Raff is supposed to have escorted them to Maidenpool, from where they travel to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. Considering that TWoW has Raff in Braavos, it could very well be that these two gents have reached Eastwatch. How are they going to react?
Then there’s Justin Massey with Jeyne Poole who will pass through Castle Black on his way to Eastwatch and Braavos. What is he going to do with what happened? Will word get back to Stannis? However, according to the Pink Letter, Stannis has apparently lost to the Boltons. The time lines are a mess.
The main thing is that the famed neutrality of the NW has shattered, and there’s going to be infighting amongst crows, wildlings, queensmen and northmen. There will most definitely be political ramifications in terms of who it is that will end up holding the North by the end of TWoW.
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