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possibly the greatest asoiaf moment ever is when jon gets the letter about bran waking up and mormont expects him to grieve because “sorry kid :( it’s actually bad news :( he’s never going to walk again :(” but jon is all like “my brother is going to live !!!” and then he races out of the room and tells everyone he passes that “my brother is going to live !!!” and he gets back to the common hall and picks tyrion up and spins him around and makes him read the letter too because “my brother is going to live !!!” and he’s so giddy that he befriends grenn and tells thorne to go fuck himself and then everybody laughs and jon is just so happy because “my brother is going to live !!!”

meanwhile bran is back in winterfell listening to robb’s bannermen whisper about how death is a kinder fate than his, how they should’ve just let him die, how he’s too broken to be alive—with no idea that his big brother is out there celebrating because bran is going to LIVE !!!

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This is soooooooo hard but in the absence of eligible Mormont women I had to go with the Kraken. Arianne and Brienne tie in 2nd place though. Cersei comes third and Ygritte and Taena get honourable mentions. Do I have a type? No. Unironically absolutely not.

I don’t even have a joke for this one idk just

"but where is (child)?!" that's a child🧍‍♀️

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heres how he can prove me wrong with the lady stoneheart x jaime x brienne threesome in winds

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Okay but I am really opposed to this fandom interpretation of Zuko being under the thumb of his advisors post-canon, unable to fight their collective might and feeling forced to accept their decisions. I've seen it in many fics, but my dude - when has this boy ever done things the way they were expected of him? That boy found his way into the war room when it was obviously expected of him to stay out, then spoke his mind when even his uncle had explicitly told him not to do that. Then he was banished and continued doing things the way his uncle very much DIDN'T want him to do them, opposed his own nation's army and fucking got through a naval blockade consequences be damned, and infiltrated a fortress as a vigilante. THEN he went back home and went against all expectations AGAIN when he basically became a traitor to the nation and confronted his own abuser while still in a position of no power.

My guys, do you really think that THIS MAN would shut up when he actually got power? I'm going to speak my mind, and you are going to listen Because of some advisors? That boy infamously screamed at the Universe from the top of a mountain in the middle of a storm - you think he'll be intimidated by some old nobles?

The boy has zero chill.

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Oh look at what I found!

Flickering torchlight danced across the walls, making the faces seem half-alive, twisting them, changing them. The statues in the great septs of the cities wore the faces the stonemasons had given them, but these charcoal scratchings were so crude they might be anyone. The Father's face made her think of her own father, dying in his bed at Riverrun. The Warrior was Renly and Stannis, Robb and Robert, Jaime Lannister and Jon Snow. She even glimpsed Arya in those lines, just for an instant. Then a gust of wind through the door made the torch sputter, and the semblance was gone, washed away in orange glare.

Clash, Catelyn IV

very firm stance that blue is associated with the maiden and red warrior but dont ask me about the other colours thats a free for all

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Go eat a cookie. Preferably homemade.

Food history has been so sanitized by the demonization of carbs. “Our ancestors only had fruits and veggies they didn’t have all these refined carbs” our ancestors drank beer 25/8 because the water was bad. Our ancestors drizzled honey on shit ever since we knew it existed. We’ve been making bread for our entire recorded history. It’s true that bleached sugars specifically are a new thing but high glycemic carbs are not new at all, we’ve been consuming them for thousands of years

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“Arya grinned. The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did.” (AGOT, Arya I)

“She still had one brother left. Jon will want me, even if no one else does.” (ASOS, Arya XII)

oh arya stark, you are so loved and wanted. your father sold his honor to keep you safe & your mother set an enemy free to save you & your sister dreamt of a daughter with your face & your little brother saw a girl with tangled hair and thought it was you & your big brother broke his vows and died trying to save you. a band of outlaws wanders the riverlands trying to find you & your mother refuses to die until they do & your direwolf lives within you even now. the north is rallying around a girl with your name & the mountain clans are uniting to rescue her & the free folk are bringing her home because that’s how much your brother loves you.

“even if no one else did” “even if no one else does” only for arya to become “no one” herself. like how did the world fail this little girl so badly. how do you make a child feel so completely unloveable despite being surrounded by love. how do you make her believe that she has no place, that she must become “no one” in order to escape her own life. oh my precious baby girl.

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This frame but it’s older Zuko

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The faith uses prisms as part of their rituals and rainbows as part of their imagery, so I'm going with seven rainbow colors (therefore grey and black and brown not allowed).

We've got: red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet

I'd give red to the Smith, actually, because Jon Sow tells us that the 'Red Wanderer' (mars) the wildlings call Thief is known in Westeros as the Smith. I know I know Mars is Roman god of war and the warrior would make more sense in our world, but I don't make the rules. They call the red planet the Smith, so I'm ascribing red for the Smith. Smiths need a lot of heat from the fire to forge things, iron turns red-hot when it's worked. It makes sense to me. The Smith would have that amount of power and intensity. Also red is the official communist color and it's used as part of the identity of most labour parties around the world, so it makes so much sense for the working-man of the Seven.

I agree blue is for the maiden, very fitting with the associations of virginity and purity. Blue is associated with maidens in the story itself, mostly through Brienne the Blue.

I agree with butterfly about Yellow for the Crone, she carries a lantern and that gives off yellow-ish light, and yellow is the most illuminating of the colors in light's decomposed spectrum. It also distorts other colors the least.

Green for the Mother also works very well. It's Gaya and Demeter and all things fertility. Green as summer grass, as they say (thinking about maiden-mother-crone as spring-summer-autumn blue-green-yellow, it all clocks).

Violet goes for the Father. Violet is a shade of purple, and purple has all these royal and regal associations, and the Father is like the King, the one who decides. Also Targaryens, the og royal family (that official history says has always ruled through kings not queens) are often associated with the color because of their purple/violet eyes.

Indigo, being the apparently 'darkest' color of light, goes to the Stranger. Rhaegar (doomed by the plot, dead before the story starts) had indigo eyes. Cressen keeps the Strangler crystals specifically in an indigo jar. Indigo is also the color of the light Daenerys sees in the House of the Undying, inside the room of the dead and rotten corpses.

That leaves the warrior with orange, and I think it's fitting. Orange is in the 'realm of red', though it's lighter, livelier. A very fiery color, associated with energy irl and with Dorne in the story (very warrior-like people). It's less ambiguous than red, which represents passion and love, but also violence and blood. And look, I know the warrior obviously is tied with violence akshually, but I have a feeling the Faith of the Seven would not highlight this particular aspect of god. Septons will say the warrior protects not that he lusts for blood. So orange feels more fitting than red.

very firm stance that blue is associated with the maiden and red warrior but dont ask me about the other colours thats a free for all

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Arya Stark. ????? She is and she isn’t. She? He?

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my favorite thing about theon greyjoy (books) is that he’s a fucking asshole. even after getting uber tortured for years and losing his identity and just generally being subjected to the worst shit ever, his inner monologue is still so bitchy. all that shit didn’t make him a better person it just made him quieter. he is really still out here talking like that in his head. okay theon. okay girl i see you

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the gays had their fun now it's time for the dykes 🫡

from butch bear women to melancholic ghosts and blood witches, the world of ice and fire is ripe with hot (and dangerous) GILFS ready for our enjoyment! but which of these steaming grandmas is the hottest?

"but where is barbrey?!" she's not even 40

"but where is lsh?!" she's still 35 even when she's dead and rotting

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Dick would oft sing as they rode along together; never a whole song, only a snatch of this and a verse of that. She suspected that he meant to charm her, to put her off her guard. Sometimes he would try to get her and Podrick to sing along with him, to no avail. The boy was too shy and tongue-tied, and Brienne did not sing. Did you sing for your father? Lady Stark had asked her once, at Riverrun. Did you sing for Renly? She had not, not ever, though she had wanted … she had wanted … 

A Feast for Crows, Brienne III

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Arya’wanderings in Riverlands are similar to cat’s. I also think that Arya and cat made similar choice when faced with dying Sandor and the whale: seemingly doing something for nothing. Although they are in different states of mind, why can’t they both interpreted as”returning the power of death to ‘god’ and to the livings themselves”?

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The archetypes

GRRM is in fact really good at making up top tier characters i will use the starklings to illustrate the point okay you got: 1) high school freshman King Arthur stars in a shakespearean tragedy, as told by his mom; 2) local moody teenaged Starbucks night shift manager must do his very best to stop the zombie apocalypse through the power of friendship; 3) a middle schooler who keeps her sparkly butterfly gel pens in perfect rainbow order at all times is being held hostage by her evil middle school boyfriend and his evil blonde mafia family; 4) a scrappy but poorly-supervised middle-grade book protagonist bops about a war-zone looking for her family but instead! learns about Death; 5) paraplegic fourth grader Frodo Baggins receives mystical visions and must go on a quest to see a hundred-year-old tree guy; and 6) kindergartener that Bites

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ok I get it I GET IT you all want to fuck the fish! but how sexy is he really? could he stand a chance against canon heartthrob jaime lannister? or maybe your beloved hound who I hate with all my being? we'll see...

last round of the asoiaf sexyman poll: the lion, the fish and the ugly dog 🦁🐟🐶

if you vote for sandor you'll start coughing in 3 days...