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fanfiction genuinely has me at the cusp of a crash out daily. I would not survive in war cause why am I getting so worked up about comment engagement. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO A HOBBY

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ok sooooo

bloodraven isn't the three-eyed crow, right?

"Are you the three-eyed crow?" Bran heard himself say. A three-eyed crow should have three eyes. He has only one, and that one red. [...]

"A … crow?"¹ The pale lord's voice was dry. His lips moved slowly, as if they had forgotten how to form words. "Once, aye. Black of garb and black of blood."¹ The clothes he wore were rotten and faded, spotted with moss and eaten through with worms, but once they had been black. "I have been many things, Bran. Now I am as you see me, and now you will understand why I could not come to you … except in dreams. I have watched you² for a long time, watched you with a thousand eyes and one. I saw your birth, and that of your lord father before you. I saw your first step, heard your first word, was part of your first dream.³ I was watching² when you fell. [...]"

(ADWD, Bran II)

¹ when asked about it, bloodraven completely ignores the three eyes part and only references his being a member of the night's watch re: being a crow. he can't be so senile that he forgot that he visited bran as a three-eyed crow, right?

² he mainly references watching bran, and never states that he actually interacted with bran in his dreams

³ this is the only part that doesn't specify watching as a passive mode of partaking, but being "part of your first dream" is so vague that it could mean anything

i am confusion. gurm, eggsplain.

has this been discussed elsewhere and i missed it? who else could the three-eyed crow be? please don't tell me it's gonna be euron, we gotta keep that man away from the children

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Jon Arryn in the Father’s image, His Mercy Burns

For my latest chapter, Robert IV.

Art by Monkele.art

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radical centrist luigi mangione thanking ayn rand, conservatives, and liberals, then quoting tyrion lannister and and attributing it to “george” like they are close personal friends

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it’s so significant that ned stark named jon after jon arryn (his foster father) for him to then act as jon snow’s surrogate father. just think about it, ned named jon for the man who committed high treason and refused the mad king’s order to execute his wards, his sons in a sense. it establishes a lot about their relationship and the love between them. it’s also a testament to ned’s characterisation and his moral framework jon arryn played a massive part in developing.

when ned named jon, it was his own way of responding to lyanna’s “promise me”. a vow that he’d do the same to protect his nephew as his surrogate father did for him.

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melisandre döödle

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Jon Arryn in the Father’s image, His Mercy Burns

For my latest chapter, Robert IV.

Art by Monkele.art

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Peter Paul Rubens

Study for an Adoration painting

Netherlands (c. 1615-20)

Oil on Panel, 50.5 × 64.8 cm.

I came across this study and found myself wondering which version it was a study for, because it seemed that the composition was significantly different than most of the Rubens Adoration paintings I had seen. Now I’m fairly sure it was for this one:

Which is extra awesome, because I actually had never seen it.

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bael

bael

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arthur and rhaegar under the dornish night sky

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Princess Elia and Prince Rhaegar inspired by Takeshi Obata illustration of Anakin and Padme

—done by the talented @rinthecap

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“You raped her. You murdered her. You killed her children.” , “Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name.”

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jonsa canon bc jon deserves to be a creep and a weirdo about a girl who looks like his step mum who gave him mommy issues and resembles yet is the opposite of his first lover (ygritte)

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If you'd like to talk asoiaf with a bunch of dirty book purists, The Free City of Braavos, is a very chill (of course being a mod there, I may be biased) small asoiaf fan server that is currently open to new members. If you'd like to connect, here is an invite link!

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The Children open Ned Stark’s eye in His Mercy Burns

Art by the wonderful Nightcrow Art.

For my latest chapter, Eddard IX.