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in all timelines, in all possibilities…only you can show me this

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im sick guys

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We finish this together.

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laura’s endless list of favourites ● ships ➼ jaime lannister & brienne of tarth “It’s yours. It will always be yours.”

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jaimebrienne (ig):“The chemistry between Gwendoline Christie as Brienne and Nikolaj as Jaime has just been amazing.” • George RR Martin 🙌🏻Biggest compliment from the master himself! 😏

never forget grrm based jaime/brienne’s story on his favorite true love romance ‘beauty and the beast’ and him acknowledging and complimenting gwen and nik’s chemistry as j/b while ignoring and distancing himself from d&d’s fake, forced, and ugly twincest fanfic is just so loud!

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E Y E S 💙

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I wrote this a year ago and it still hurts. She means so much to me. I hope GRRM offers something more for the character he made me fall in love with.

Brienne deserves to be loved

I know we’re all mad about Jaime’s character assassination, but I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that Brienne also got a shitty ending.

This is a woman who has had a lifetime of ridicule, exclusion and judgement. Excluding book back-story, and only going by the show, we know that she had faced humiliation and rejection, from boys/men, which was such a norm to her, that when one boy/man (it’s not clear how old they were) offered some kindness and humanity towards her, she became unconditionally, and knowingly unrequitedly, in-love with him.

She left Tarth for Renly. To fight for one of few people she had ever known, to be worthy of her strength, loyalty and honour.

When Renly died, her heart was broken. Salt in the wound: people speculated that she had killed him. She soldiered on however, fighting for Catelyn and her family.

Meeting Jaime was huge for her. Not only did she learn about the grey-areas in morality (because she starts out so binary in her beliefs), but she turns him around. Unlike Renly, who she fell for, but who seemingly little more than respected her, Jaime grew to admire Brienne. She was everything he wanted to be, and was a massive influence on him. He armed her, armoured her, knighted her. He fell in love with her.

Did she ever know how he felt? She deserved to have that acknowledged and his love for her validated, as more than just a brief fling that will likely haunt her. Something that she might forever question the meaning of, because ultimately, she probably feels like she wasn’t enough.

When she is knighted, it’s a wonderful moment of recognition that she is more deserving of the title than any man in the seven kingdoms. It’s truly satisfying. It feels true to who she is.

The story ending with her as Lord Commander of the King’s Guard however, does not.

This is a person who follows her heart. Literally. Is it believable that she would leave Sansa’s side to serve Bran, someone she has interacted very little with? That she would take up the title, and quarters, of a man she had loved, but that had rejected her.

It paints a picture for me: in the end, Brienne accepts that no-one will ever love her, the way she loves others. She’s undeserving. She doesn’t deserve love, family, legacy, Tarth… She’s unworthy of all of it. This is all she could ever hope for. Maybe her purpose was simply to redeem Jaime, in that great, white book.

What makes Brienne remarkable, isn’t her strength. It’s not her height, the way she looks and carries herself. It’s not how honourable and chivalrous she is. It’s not that she beat the Hound in single combat. It’s that she is all of those things, with a big, beating and beautiful heart. She is sweet and caring, but can also cut men down like weeds.

We’ve seen strong female characters, who are beautiful, and sensitive, and fall in love. We’ve seen ‘unconventional’ female characters who are strong, but de-sexualised and cold. We’ve yet to see where those venn diagrams meet, and the beautiful stories and lessons that we might extract from that.

This was, and is, GRRM’s vision.

She deserves to be loved, just like all of us.

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Gwendoline Christie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau + audio commentaries

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Imagine..

“Imagine a character who evolved to become a better person and than suddenly get reset like a fucking Computer sending all these seasons and years of evolution, including the reason of his character and what he represent, in the trash..” Me:

“Imagine the main villain of a series who always lived as a lion who deserved a glorious death spending her last moments whimper like a spoiled brat..” Me:

“Imagine two main and important characters being out of character and ruined at the same time with only a scene of few minutes..” Me:

“Imagine trying to convince the viewers that a toxic, abusive and one sided relationship is actually romantic and tragic..” Me:

“Imagine a character who was always been really smart become an idiot..” Me:

“Imagine one of the most important series in the world became a fucking joke because someone was able to ruin it with only few episodes knowing they didn’t understand the story and/or the characters..” Me:

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Tarth has meadows.

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*wakes up in a cold sweat at 3 AM* They just…really had two halves of the same sword and the show completely overlooked the significance of it all

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Jaime and Brienne - gentle touch

She was strong, and gentler than he would have thought.

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That look.

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surprise gift giveaway → for @gwendolinechristies ♡

I am grateful, but…you were well away. Why come back? I dreamed of you.

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