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cersei fitss

guys, i broke a leg

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bunch of wolves

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HOTD HOUSES AU

Aegon is squatting, because he's been thrown out of his mother's house and he'd rather spend the little money he has on drugs and booze than pay rent.

Helaena has money to pay rent but moved in with him because she heard he has a lot of roaches and spiders (they are free roaming! What a considerate owner!) and she doesn't really mind the dirt.

Corlys is currently living at his beach house because Rhaenys threw him out of their shared home (again) after she saw one of his very obvious bastards at his workplace. He hopes she'll forgive him soon (give it three months).

Rhaenys likes fine things, has a different plating arrangement for every occasion and works of art worth thousands. But don't be fooled, her grandkids only managed to make her remove the plastic cover from the couch three months ago.

Jacaerys is currently away at university engaged in a rooming situationship. Neither has discovered yet you can actually fold clothes and that the drawers are there for something. They are half a month away from contracting scurvy since all they eat is ramen noodles, pizza and chicken nuggets.

Rhaenyra enjoys the antique style of her home, it's a family heirloom with invaluable furniture and modern amenities. One benefit is that she doesn't have to take care of the kids while they are lost in the maze of tunnels under the mansion. Daemon also lives there, but the only thing he owns in that house is a bottle of three in one shampoo and his viagra pills.

Alicent's house used to look like Rhaenyra's until Viserys got sick and she started binging the Property Brothers. She thinks a cozzy almost monochrome house is an improvement. The only colour besides earth tones and white allowed in the house is sage green. Yes, she needs 26 cushions on the sofa, she doesn't care it's uncomfortable.

Aemond's house is... concerning. He claims to keep it permanently wrapped up due to OCD but he has also soundproofed it (to sleep better). His neighbours have yet to see anyone leaving (he has no friends).

Enter at your own peril.

Baela and Rhaena have managed to rent a very cossy and spacious apartment. It has a lot of plants, a great location and a sunny balcony. The only problem in paradise is that Lucerys (Rhaena's boyfriend) seems to think he also lives there despite contributing nothing to rent or utilities. He just wont leave, and keeps eating all of their left overs. Baela is, putting it lightly, at the end of her rope.

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Sam with the glass candle, A Feast For Crows

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queen regent

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ser brienne and queen cersei

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The wench looked as ugly and awkward as ever, he decided when Tyrell left them. Someone had dressed her in woman's clothes again, but this dress fit much better than that hideous pink rag the goat had made her wear. "Blue is a good color on you, my lady," Jaime observed. "It goes well with your eyes." She does have astonishing eyes.

Brienne glanced down at herself, flustered. "Septa Donyse padded out the bodice, to give it that shape. She said you sent her to me." She lingered by the door, as if she meant to flee at any second. "You look . . ."

"Different?" He managed a half-smile. "More meat on the ribs and fewer lice in my hair, that's all. The stump's the same. Close the door and come here."

She did as he bid her. "The white cloak . . ."

". . . is new, but I'm sure I'll soil it soon enough."

"That wasn't . . . I was about to say that it becomes you."

Plssss tap on it for better quality

I've noticed something...it should've been either "maiden/warrior" or "knight/lady" ups

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the red wedding chapter is so iconic and dramatic it's easy to forget the first half is just... cat complaining about the food and the music and the drinks and the guests and gods this has GOT to be the worst wedding of all time except for sansa's maybe and it's actually making her feel a bit better about her own stupid shotgun wedding that she hated her brother probably deserved better than this shitshow but at least his child bride is kinda hot so there's that anyway she's not gonna go talk to him because she is soooo sad and bitter and old at the big age of 35 and her head hurts real bad holy shit why is the music so bad have these guys never seen an instrument before you can't even tell what they're playing also has she mentioned that the food fucking SUCKS can someone PLEASE end her suffering

...wait is that the rains of castamere????

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In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight.

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Ashara Dayne of Starfall

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How do you feel about cats? I desperately wish asoiaf had more of them

I love cats, personally. I got two of them! I also have two dogs! I’m more of a cat person than a dog person, but I love both :3

But, as you know, I’m fuckin insane, so of course I had to use your ask as a platform to talk about how Peepaw Greg uses cat and dog symbolism in the series.

So let’s talk meta about his usage of cat and dog themes in Westeros.

In asoiaf, gpa Greg makes big big use of canine and lupine symbolism—most notably through the Starks and their direwolves—to explore some themes of loyalty, survival, identity, and instinct. The prevalence of dog-adjacent imagery, from the feral wildness of the direwolves to the brutalized obedience of people like Sandor Clegane, speaks to a deeper thematic preoccupation with what it means to belong (hypergeneralized) like. to a family, to a code, to a pack. Wolves and dogs in peepaw’s world are not literally animals, they’re totems of identity and indicative to some degree of fate that becomes perpendicular with the moral and emotional arcs of the characters they shadow.

By contrast, feline imagery like the Lannisters’ cunty lion sigil remains largely heraldic and aesthetic rather than emotionally or thematically embedded. Lions in the series symbolize institutional pride, legacy, and power, but lack the dynamic intimacy of the wolves. They are mythologized apex predators, ya sure ok, but predators in captivity, not the wild. They’ve lost their instincts. Their strength is theatrical. Their claws have become ceremonial.

The Lannisters aren’t predatory like their avatar so to speak. They’re curated. Groomed. Caged in gold and politics and perception. They hiss and bite, but most of them are bound by visage and expectation:

• Tywin is the lion’s roar—but it’s hollow in the end. He dies on the toilet. Womp womp (I laugh errytime)

• Cersei sees herself as a lioness, but she spirals into paranoia and ineffectual tyranny. (Literally just an evil slut. Smooth brain. No thoughts, just vanity. Yas queen go offffffff)

• Jaime begins as the golden lion but is declawed—literally—and only becomes compelling once he sheds that identity. (Smol. Must be protected at all costs.)

• Tyrion, the runt of the litter, understands the lion’s mold enough to break it—and it nearly destroys him. (I mean it kinda does long long term. I love who he becomes in adwd)

The Rains of Castamere goes fuckin HARD and underscores their obsession with legacy through intimidation (BECAUSE OF ONEEEEEEEE TIME. IT WAS ONE TIME. LIKE ITS NOT HARD TO ERADICATE THE ENTIRETY OF 2 HOUSE LINEAGES ESPECIALLY IF THEYRE SWORN UNDER YOU IM SORRY TYWIN BUT THATS NOT the fLEX YOU THINK IT IS im sorry okay back to our regularly scheduled insanity)

— A Storm of Swords, Catelyn VII

— A Storm of Swords, Arya VII

This isn’t a simple cats vs. dogs dichotomy. It’s about what these animals represent. Wolves and hound imagery when used in asoiaf evoke loyalty, instinct, and interdependence. Lions (or generally, feline figures which, I note, are very few) represent arrogance, isolation, and the brittle weight of legacy. Martin privileges the canine because his world favors those who endure—not those who posture. True survival in Westeros depends on bonds, not bloodlines; on pack over pride. (Get it? Bc a ‘pride’ is a pack? A pack of lions? Like the phrase blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb? Get it? Ok I’ll see myself out no need to call security)

While the thematic imbalance may seem skewed toward the wolf, this asymmetry is deliberate!!! The lion isn’t underdeveloped—it’s hollowed. It stands as a symbol of inherited power, not earned strength. Like Famous Disabled Worker Rights Advocate and Cheese Enthusiast Magister Illyrio once said

— A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion I

The lions of Westeros roar from red keeps and golden thrones (toilet thrones, am I right? Huh? Eh?), but they are trapped by politics, legacy, and illusion. Their power is a spectacle maintained through fear, maintained through myth. They ain’t even got the fundage to back it up. Pull up, Cersei. The wolves, by comparison, represent power that is quiet, blood-won, and bone-deep. They do not command; they endure. They are not elevated by institutions, but by instinct.

Each direwolf’s fate mirrors their Stark:

• Lady’s unjust execution reflects Sansa’s theft of innocence and disconnection due to her loss of identity and lack of companionship.

• Grey Wind’s death during the Red Wedding marks Robb’s failure to heed instinct, and his transformation from noble heir to vengeful pretender.

• Nymeria’s independence parallels Arya’s exile and self-determination, leading a pack in the Riverlands as Arya learns to lead her own life beyond names.

• Shaggydog’s ferality reflects Rickon’s descent into chaos without guidance or protection or intervention.

• Summer’s sacrifice anchors Bran’s transformation into something inhuman, but still bound to loyalty and vision.

• Ghost, albino and silent, is Jon’s mirror: othered, introspective, and spectral. A quiet nod, too, to his secret Targaryen bloodline. (Suck my ass it’s canon)

These direwolves are not pets. They’re living metaphors and fragments of soul and fate.

So no—I don’t think the series needs more cats! Their absence is the point. The feline is not underused; it is overestimated, just like the legacy it represents. Lions are only dangerous when the wolves are gone.

And besides—when Martin did give us a Cat, he had her butchered at a wedding and threw her body in a river. He killed her. Then he brought her back. Then he killed her again—socially, narratively, and emotionally.

So… maybe we’re good on cats.

Rip cat you woulda loved the MILF category on pornhub <3

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man sansa's GoT chapters always take my legs out. like she's so genre-savvy and attuned to symbols and aesthetics for the wrong genre!! and her constantly filtering everything through the lens of The Songs/searching for aesthetic bliss is soooooo fascinating. sansa noooo life is not a song sansa watch out they're going to subvert your tropes!!! she can't fucking. hear me.

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i feel like sometimes the irony of the line implying ned loved robert more than cat because he never cheated on him gets lost… the point is ned never actually cheated on catelyn, but in raising jon, ned was betraying robert…

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The craziest thing about Brienne stubbornly trying to convince everyone that Renly was killed by a shadow is that she maintains the story despite either not directly witnessing it or not grasping what she saw in the moment. She just kind of takes Cat's word that it happened afterwards.

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acok king's landing povs are peak bc every time cersei appears on page tyrion gets so ruthlessly smarmy and sassy about her that u almost forget that she's like. genuinely scary in sansa's povs. "I will not suffer to be called a whore" 'why, sister, he never claims Jaime paid you' vs "Get out of my way." Cersei slammed her open palm into his wound. Ser Lancel cried out in pain and almost fainted as the queen swept from the room. She spared Sansa not so much as a glance. She's forgotten me. Ser Ilyn will kill me and she won't even think about it. is such an insane contrast to witness. tyrion doesnt fear cersei and gets to be smug and bold because he doesnt believe she could harm him. sansa is terrified of cersei because she knows cersei could kill her

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if you have same face syndrome you can draw all of the targaryens with ease