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my boy rickon and his big sister arya :)

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Bride of Winter | Catelyn Stark, née Tully

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I don't know why people celebrate the death of Lucerys or the Blood & Cheese incident. Both are tragic events were innocent kids die.

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Addressing the toxic team black accusations against Tom Glynn-Carney.

First and foremost, he is not a rapist; his character, Aegon, the second Targaryen, is. Second of all, I hate how some of you pretend Viserys and Daemon weren't groomers. Nine times out of ten, you don't see sane people from Team Green making rape accusations against Paddy and Matt. Just please fucking stop it; it's like some of you really want to ruin this man's career. And you can say what you want, so please do comment in defense of the toxic actions being taken because I want all the smoke.  I was also told by my aunt that he was a rapist, but I was quick to shut that shit down from the door. It goes to show how quickly false information is spread and how much it could really impact somebody's life. It's disgusting and makes me sick that some of you team black fans have so much hatred for his character that some of you are willing to corrupt this man's life. I find it hilarious that some of you have the sheer audacity to be that fucking bold behind a computer screen or a screen of whatever mobile device is in your possession, but would some of you ever make a statement like that in front of his face? No, most of you wouldn't even dare to do so because he is able to sue for defamation in court by law. So, please don't ditch what you can take because you will get verbally bodied by me morally, and that's not a will; that's a promise. 

Please Reblog.

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Most recently read Because It's You by @purpleneutrino on Ao3 and oh my god

If you're looking for a slow burn canon universe fic that focuses on character interactions, I highly recommend it. It's beautifully written, the characters are on point and everything is perfectly paced.

I have a few messy sketches in the works inspired by the fic, but I only had time to colour this one as I'm currently writing my thesis🥲

I will post them eventually! In the meantime go read Because It's You

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HERRRRR

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🐺🥀🧊Lyanna Stark 🧊🥀🐺

Prince Rhaegar loved his lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

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I don't know why targ haters/ Rhaegar haters believe that Jon connecting to his biological father is a betrayal to Ned's memory but it's a bad take, imo. It's not a competition.

Jon will always feel closer to Ned than to Rhaegar AND Lyanna bc the former raised him for the first fourteen years of his life while unfortunately he never got to meet his biological parents. But it's not like Lyanna or Rhaegar simply abandoned Jon to Ned's care. The reason they weren't around to raise him up is because they died. Had they lived, they would have been the ones to raise their son.

When Jon finds the truth about his parentage it's very possible that he want to know more about Rhaegar and Lyanna and even want to connect with their legacies. And no, that won't be a betrayal to Ned's memory bc wanting to connect with your biological parents doesn't automatically mean that you love your adoptive one any less.

Jon doesn't have to choose, he is a Stark AND a Targaryen (he's more importantly a Snow but that's a conversation for another post). Connecting with the Targaryen side of his family and even embracing that identity if he wants to doesn't mean that he will have to cut ties with his Stark side of family. Especially since Starks and Targaryens aren't currently at odds and it's extremely unlikely they will be at odds at the end of the series.

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most of the time im normal but then i remember how Rhaenyra terrified and half mad with paranoia had to sell -for crumbs- her own crown (the crown of her father and great grandfather before her) in a futile attempt to get little Aegon and herself to safety.

And then I'm reminded of a tired, bruised and beaten Rhaella, hidden underneath her cloak, rushing with little Viserys holding onto her hand and Daenerys still a baby inside her, on their way to flee the city.

Something about both of those women desperately struggling to get as far away from King's Landing as fast as possible, fleeing from their seat of power, the city they created, the city that marks their dynasty. Persecuted and hunted, with no second thought in their mind except to Save. Their. Children!

And then..how both of them, Queens in their own right, though miserable in their reigns, thought to have found their safe haven in Dragonstone. Their ancestral seat, the place which is meant to inspire safety and security in them, the place where their ancestors centuries ago fled to to escape the Doom, where all others perished, they remained protected at Dragonstone.

And there, at their most vulnerable, in this haven of theirs they both found a tragic, horrible death. Leaving behind their children, scarred for life from the events that led them there, unable to escape their mother's end, but at least surviving... But oh the cost...

And then... I think of Helaena and Elia... How they never made it out of King's Landing. How they never even managed to leave the Keep.... Their lives taken but their children weren't spared... Never even given the chance...

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Reina Naerys

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A good day for all Zoro and Sanji fans

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all i want is sabo’s reaction to gear five… oda PLEASE

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Colour of breath

Transparent bubbles shimmering in the sea

Soft pearly vapours

A captive boy who remembers that he has come to a land far from home every time he sees the colour of his breath.

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Something rubbed against his leg beneath the table. Jon saw red eyes staring up at him. “Hungry again?” he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. Jon reached out to tear off a leg, then had a better idea. He knifed the bird whole and let the carcass slide to the floor between his legs. Ghost ripped into it in savage silence. His brothers and sisters had not been permitted to bring their wolves to the banquet, but there were more curs than Jon could count at this end of the hall, and no one had said a word about his pup. He told himself he was fortunate in that too. His eyes stung. Jon rubbed at them savagely, cursing the smoke. He swallowed another gulp of wine and watched his direwolf devour the chicken. Dogs moved between the tables, trailing after the serving girls. One of them, a black mongrel bitch with long yellow eyes, caught a scent of the chicken. She stopped and edged under the bench to get a share. Jon watched the confrontation. The bitch growled low in her throat and moved closer. Ghost looked up, silent, and fixed the dog with those hot red eyes. The bitch snapped an angry challenge. She was three times the size of the direwolf pup. Ghost did not move. He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. The bitch tensed, barked again, then thought better of this fight. She turned and slunk away, with one last defiant snap to save her pride. Ghost went back to his meal. Jon grinned and reached under the table to ruffle the shaggy white fur. The direwolf looked up at him, nipped gently at his hand, then went back to eating.

Jon I, AGOT

It's interesting that GRRM would dedicate several paragraphs to a seemingly unimportant exchange between a boy, his wolf, and an unfriendly third party. But there's just something about this passage that has continued to nag at me for years since I first read it because, considering how heavy handed GRRM was with the foreshadowing in AGOT, this feels important.

Jon is sitting at table full of squires - aka would be knights. We don't really know who they are or what families they belong to, but it's safe to assume that they come from a certain level of privilege; this is considering the fact that it cannot be financially easy to be a squire. And these boys already have a slew of tales detailing all their previous knightly exploits regarding "battle and bedding and the hunt" which suggests that they have some capital. So you have boys who will soon be men. And they will, presumably, become men of some power.

These lads eat their fill of the chicken until only half remains, which Jon then gives to Ghost. The direwolf's name is not so important here but what he represents is. Throughout the series, we're told that Ghost is reminiscent of the weirwood trees (because of his red eyes and white fur). He's stated to be of and from the Old Gods and since he's a personification of the weirwoods, he might as well be one of them. It's almost as if Jon is presenting whatever is left on the table to the Old Gods (Ghost). He lets them devour his offerings while he silently watches. And the motif of watching is so interesting here because it's kind of like Jon takes on a stewardship role - to watch over land/people/etc. He oversees Ghost eating the chicken, so he's overseeing whatever has been given to the Old Gods. This is not new imagery to his arc. As a brother of the Night's Watch and eventually its leader, we have several instances where he leads people to adopting the Old Gods in some fashion. In ADWD, several recruits swear their vows to the Old Gods while he watches on as their Lord Commander. The Old Gods are also primarily of the North and we're told that Jon has more of the north in him than his brothers; interesting that this also includes Bran. So perhaps whatever is being offered to the Old Gods relates to the North.

We must also note that Jon initially thinks to give only a small portion, a leg, before pivoting and providing the entire thing. It feels to me a bit like the process of carving up a kingdom or something similar. The lords (represented by the squires) take what they want and leave aside what they don't; or perhaps they have eaten to their fill and can take no more. Then when his time comes, Jon first considers a small piece of land/group of people before eventually absorbing all of whatever is left behind. The concept of carving up a kingdom rings harder considering that we have several callbacks to the ideals of kingship in this chapter. Robert, Jaime, Tyrion, and even Mance though we don't know it yet, all play into this. And then there's the aspect of Jon letting the chicken slip between his legs which evokes birth/fatherhood, a very curious choice when GRRM could've just had Jon place the chicken on the floor. So land/people are carved up and Jon then uses whatever is left to birth his own type of kingdom. And this kingdom is one for the Old Gods.

This also touches on something that has been quite prevalent throughout Jon's arc. It's the concept of accepting the "others" or "those left over" who live apart from the accepted social norms. Arya (a tomboy), Sam (a gender non-confirming boy), the Night's Watch (criminals, extra sons, and men who have no future left or place to go), and even the wildlings are all examples of this. And Jon takes on a leadership/paternal role to every single one of them. He looks after them as a leader would/should. Sometimes, in the case of Arya and the wildlings, he's equated to a king. He's a steward/shepherd/king. There's messianic undertones to this:

Come unto me, all you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30).

If you're familiar with Judeo-Christian tradition, you'll know that Jesus is often personified as one who spent the majority his time among the outcasts. The idea is that he came to save them too and that anew kingdom (or new earth depending on your translation) would spring up after the end of the world where he would forever rule as king; which presents the idea of a final king after the earthly ones are done away with. Now GRRM isn't so heavy handed with Christian allusions as other authors out there, but he does have a Catholic background and Jon is so overtly a Jesus figure. And in Revelation, Jesus is king and god at the very end....

One last thing: the mention of the mongrel who challenges Jon has always been rather interesting but confusing to me. A mongrel doesn't really relate to one specific type of dog. But it's interesting that Jon notes several roaming about where he is. They follow the serving girls who carry the food to be offered. Mongrels are used to describe antagonist/villainous groups in ASOIAF. Sometimes, they're used to describe slavers in Essos. But what's interesting is that most of the time, they're used to describe Euron's Ironborn especially in Victorian's POV. So I don't think the mongrel who challenges Ghost is a supernatural threat of death (i.e., the Others) but rather a human one. They represent those who are called to the scene once the lords have finished playing their games. It almost feels like a feast for (carrion) crows....

But it doesn't really matter because this mongrel isn't much of a challenge for Ghost. Though the mongrel is much larger, the direwolf is able to fend her off very effortlessly. Given that "mongrel" is used to describe Ironborn raiders, could this exchange between Ghost and the mongrel point to reavers or sea raiders who rise and fail challenge Jon kingdom? There is a historical King Jon Stark who did this....

When sea raiders landed in the east, Jon drove them out and built a castle, the Wolf's Den, at the mouth of the White Knife, so as to be able to defend the mouth of the river.[1][2] His son, Rickard, followed him on the throne and annexed the Neck to the north.

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So this might shed some light not only on Jon's already published arc, but also on what we can expect in the future. We have some foreshadowing through Jon's ADWD dream that he will not only rise with the dawn (thereby live through the Long Night), but will be in a position to lead people (wildings in that chapter) to a new peace after a hard fought war. Also remember that the wildlings, rather enthusiastically, swear oaths to him as if swearing oaths to their king. In this instance, the supernatural (a dream of the war for the dawn) is followed by the natural/human. So perhaps this particular passage (and Jon's dream) can be used to predict that Jon comes out on top, and quite effortlessly too, as a leader. And he becomes a leader who rules by association with the Old Gods; or rules a kingdom for them.

To end, I think it's of note that this passage immediately precedes Jon's conversation with Benjen where he voices his desire to go out on his own - the hero's call to action. This is the adventure that's going to kickstart his growth as a man, warrior and most importantly, a leader. So it looks like before we even began, GRRM telegraphed how it would all end in just three short paragraphs.

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Rhaena Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons

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I think this fandom would benefit if they realised that having unkind/dark thoughts =/= doing something mean/ immortal. We are on the head of these characters on their pov chapters. Of course they aren't gonna be 100% pure angels who never have ill thoughts over anything. What matters is their actual actions,imo.

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I’m not done wth Jonerys Disney series just yet!

Sorry, I know it’s a missed opportunity and Ghost should be there 🙈