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Jaime and Cersei’s romanticized idea of being one soul in two bodies is so fascinatingly destructive. So much of their relationship is based on this notion of fundamentally refusing to accept the other as a whole. Both of them want to shove the other inside of a box of their creation that is kind of antithetical to them as people. Cersei does use Jaime and her children as extensions of herself to achieve things that society keeps from her grasp due to her gender. It is a reaction to the brutal patriarchy she exists within that dehumanizes her and robs her of power. She locks Jaime inside this box where he functions as her sword, essentially. Then, the whole point of Jaime’s arc in ASoS is to establish that he is more than a sword, more than rituals of violence. To me, Jaime’s obsession with Cersei continuing past their childhood mainly stems from a tight clinging to the past. Following Jaime’s trauma, disillusionment, and increasing isolation due to his experience with Aerys, knighthood, and moral constructs, he views the relationship as the only concrete thing in his life and relies on it for affirmation and meaning. He also uses Cersei as a means of dissociation— filling his head with thoughts of her during the executions, “losing himself in her flesh”, hoping to prevent his nightmares through dreams of her— a way “to go away inside”. He also unconsciously never wants to move on from being that blissfully ignorant romantic boy that he was, so he desperately keeps the one thing that is constant (his twin sister - a constant from birth), and romanticizes a relationship that is not what he believes it is. He projects her onto a pedestal and obsesses over an ideal that does not exist, also putting her into the role of a perfect woman (“I thought she was The Maiden”), to turn the relationship into something pure that he can guard and revolve his life around. He puts himself in the position of a knightly protector figure to cope with his own identity crisis and the destruction of his self concept. He needs her in order to feel needed. They need each other for self-love. But, both of them also dehumanize the other in different ways, and to different extents. “You are my other half” is a twisted notion that prevents the autonomy and individualization of both parties. It treats the other as a half and not a whole. Not to mention the possible consent & communication issues it brings. “I am not whole without you.” You are, and should be. Truly dynamic of all time.

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Daughter of Winterfell

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Lyanna stark! (in Georgian inspired clothes)

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I read so many fics these days describing Brienne’s insecurities and how she wouldn’t believe Jaime’s love, and I could almost buy into it. She is very insecure due to her looks, and it seems reasonable she wouldn’t believe Jaime’s love. But then I open the books and read about how she calls out for Jaime in her dreams, believing he would come back to her. How she tightens her hold on oathkeeper when she’s in distress, linking it to the Maiden’s token of love. How she thinks about slinking back to King’s Landing and weep on Jaime’s shoulder. And what’s best, Jaime has proven in his pov that he’d do it all. He’d come back for her, gift her priceless swords as a token of trust, and wishes to comfort her post red wedding. Yes Brienne is insecure in many things, but she absolutely knows and believes that Jaime cares deeply about her, and any doubts she might have she would convince herself that Jaime is sincere and wouldn’t lie about his intentions (like how he is sincere with finding and helping Sansa). If Jaime realizes and confesses his feelings, I actually think she would believe him, and place her trust in his love.

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Least misogynistic Targaryens?

-Aerys I. Saw Aelora kill her twin brother and responded by saying hell yeah I NEED to name you the first female heir since the dance of the dragons.

-Gaemon Palehair the little woke socialist toddler pretender king raised by lesbian sex worker moms

-This is my list I can count Laenor Velaryon we recognize matrilineal heritage here. #Ally to the women community

- Baelor Breakspear would’ve invented democracy just to give women the right to vote if Maekar Anvil hadn’t killed him with a big fucking hammer

- Daeron II he let Elaena run the economy the whole time. I don’t know how he ended up normal he got raised by the aegon-aemon-naerys enmeshment rat king

-Woke Egg and his son Duncan. I can’t speak for the rest of those kids.

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Lyanna Stark

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there's something to be said about the fact that the most sympathetic view we get of Cersei throughout the books comes from Catelyn (and Ned to an extent). They're on opposing sides of a continental war, Cersei is partly responsible for Ned's death and is now holding Sansa (and Arya as far as Catelyn knows) hostage, and still, right before the battle between Renly and Stannis, when Catelyn goes to pray, she wonders if Cersei prays to the same gods she does. She just realized that Bran learning of Cersei's and Jaime's affair is the reason he fell, and still finds it in herself to think that Cersei is a mother too, that no matter if her children came from Robert of Jaime, she still carried them and birthed them and fed them. Her hate for Cersei cannot be understated, and yet, in that sept, the moment when Catelyn thinks to herself that even Cersei, with her proud and cold and lovely features, would weep for her children too does more to humanize Cersei than any single appearance she had in Tyrion's, Jaime's or Sansa's chapters.

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If you had to describe your favourite Targs to someone who knows nothing about them, how would u do it?

- Fascist lesbian wire mother to a beautiful baby paradigm of horrific violence and blood necessary to maintain a feudal state

-Cool

-Lesbian whose genuinely endless miseries are facilitated by the fact that not only are men in feudal societies especially her blood dragon magic cult family the absolute worst but also every other lesbian in the entire world is seemingly in a conspiracy to torment her

- Getting called a gay dweeb for not wanting to fuck his sister radicalized him into being an professional angry gay dweeb.

- If you have father issues always remember that only you can give your dad daughter issues and traumatize him back twice as hard. The universe will reward you for this.

-Coolest deadbeat creep who died murder-suiciding his nephew while leaving his wife who he groomed as a teenager to groom another teenager ever. Least employed person to ever have held half of all cabinet positions.

- Daddy’s little mass casualty incident slash architect of a world she herself could not live or thrive in. Unground her she did nothing wrong.

-Starting point: pure heroine (2013) midpoint: born to die (2012) ending point: john maynard keynes (1883-1946)

-What if J Edgar Hoover did COINTELPRO with birds. and also looked like an anime villain, and later became a tree. 

- Fratricidal suicidal doomed heir protagonist of a gothic horror story we never get to know about. What was she doing over there.

-Doomed gay prophet on a quest to reclaim his lost throne who is obviously not going to make it. Spends his time and powers of prophecy trying his hardest to ohhhh your hands are soooooo big and mine are soooooo small his way into fucking the world‘s most oblivious 8 foot tall man. This does not work but there are moments in your life in which trying itself is worth it for one glimmering moment you could have been a king. Also with a hot knight.

-rude ass disrespectful eight year-old who shaved his head and became woke.

- polite and respectful fourteen year old who burned her hair off and became a revolutionary. Maybe being blonde makes them evil

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Closeup of a rough (!!) Cersei wip I guess tehe

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Inspo for the eyes is that quote by Jaime (in affc I believe) about Cersei’s eyes of wildfire

go check out my updated version of this or else

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the red woman had won her, heart and soul

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i don’t understand people who love a problematic character but get angry when people mention the evil things that character did. like, that’s your man! he’s proud he did all that, support his hobbies!

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big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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jon snow’s living situation before he ceased to live is like: teenager unironically lives at polar icecap wannabe 700 ft tall fence and commands Men in Black who’d rather police illegal aliens and call jon woke snowflake instead of worrying about the actual aliens like justtt beyond their property line but jon can’t rly do anything about that rn bc they’re aliens and maester luwin didn’t offer a course on how to stop aliens from fence hopping into his backyard so he’s just gotta wing it all while managing a bald king’s pr campaign and counting his beets and out sharking a loan shark and sending father figure #8485 after farya which won’t have any bad consequences at all while playing house with a witch and his pretty steward and the pretty girl he likes all while ghosting his friends—oh. a letter.

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captain asha and the black pearl