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DAEMON leaving Dragonstone on CARAXES 02.02 Rhaenyra the Cruel

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“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms, or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.” — G.R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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In my personal opinion a lot of people misunderstand the situation around Ned's battle at ToJ. Ned and his men fought and killed several men of the Kingsguard. But why? Why won't they let him get to his sister even though Rhaegar and Aerys are dead?

"I came down on Storm's End to lift the siege," Ned told them, "and the Lords Tyrell and Redwyne dipped their banners, and all their knights bent the knee to pledge us fealty. I was certain you would be among them." "Our knees do not bend easily," said Ser Arthur Dayne. "Ser Willem Darry is fled to Dragonstone, with your queen and Prince Viserys. I thought you might have sailed with him." "Ser Willem is a good man and true," said Ser Oswell. "But not of the Kingsguard," Ser Gerold pointed out. "The Kingsguard does not flee." "Then or now," said Ser Arthur. He donned his helm. -Eddard X

Aerys is dead. Rhaegar is dead. Aegon is dead. Rhaenys is dead. And they know Prince Viserys is alive and unprotected at Dragonstone with a respected knight. Why not go to him? The next in line. Why stay and guard Lyanna? Because they're not guarding Lyanna. They're guarding their King. Jon Snow. They are the kingsguard and their knees do not bend easily. They cannot bend their knee to anyone other than Rhaegar's last living son. They know Lyanna is dying, they know Ned will take Jon away. They might even think Ned will kill him then and there, why not? His faction killed Aegon and Rhaenys. They aren't stopping a young man from seeing his beloved sister, they're stopping him from killing their rightful king.

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wip of the doomed by the narrative family

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Ralph Fiennes as Count László de Almássy THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) dir. Anthony Minghella

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Kill Bill vol 2 (2004)//White Is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi//Kill Bill vol 1 (2003)

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I don't know how to stay tender with this much blood in my mouth

What else can my hands do with the blood? Pray?

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it

Lucretia (1664), Rembrandt van Rijn//Hamlet, Ophelia, Act IV, Scene V//White Is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi//Franz von Stuck//All the wrong colours, Yrsa Daley-Ward//Medea, Euripides//Circe invidiosa, John William Waterhouse//Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1906), based on a work of 1889, replica by John Singer Sargent//Nightmare, Halsey//Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror, Rebecca Harknis-Cross//An Oresteia, Anne Carson//Kill Bill vol.1 (2003), Quentin Tarantino//Vesuvius, Amber Sparks//Buried, Ashe Vernon//Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974), Toshiya Fujita

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Stark Ladies by Justin Sweet

The Winter Rose and Bael the Bard in the 2024 ASOIAF Calendar

"North or south, singers always find a ready welcome, so Bael ate at Lord Stark's own table, and played for the lord in his high seat until half the night was gone. The old songs he played, and new ones he'd made himself, and he played and sang so well that when he was done, the lord offered to let him name his own reward. 'All I ask is a flower,' Bael answered, 'the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o' Winterfell.'" "Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious. So the Stark sent to his glass gardens and commanded that the most beautiful o' the winter roses be plucked for the singer's payment. And so it was done. But when morning come, the singer had vanished . . . and so had Lord Brandon's maiden daughter. Her bed they found empty, but for the pale blue rose that Bael had left on the pillow where her head had lain." -- Jon VI, ACOK

Arya Stark in The World of Ice and Fire

This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took, the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. "Dragons," she whispered. She slid Needle out from under her cloak. The slender blade seemed very small and the dragons very big, yet somehow Arya felt better with steel in her hand. -- Arya Stark IV, AGOT

Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen in the 2024 ASOIAF Calendar

Lyanna had only been sixteen, a child-woman of surpassing loveliness. Ned had loved her with all his heart. Robert had loved her even more. She was to have been his bride. -- Eddard I, AGOT Not ten leagues from Harrenhal, Rhaegar fell upon Lyanna Stark of Winterfell, and carried her off, lighting a fire that would consume his house and kin and all those he loved—and half the realm besides. -- The World of Ice and Fire

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bael the bard/the winter rose and rhaegar/lyanna ......in the same calendar

I wonder what is grrm trying to say mmmh

“The maid loved Bael so dearly she bore him a son, the song says…”

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Arya never seemed to fit, no more than he had … yet she could always make Jon smile. He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him. — Jon Snow III, A Game of Thrones.

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Jeanne d’Arc - Eugene Thirion // Joan of Arc’s Death at the Stake - Hermann Stilke // Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain

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Clotilde d'Arc, direct descendant of Saint Joan of Arc's brother (Pierre d'Arc) dressed as the Saint for the annual celebrations of the Siege of Orleans (1429)

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Estoy estresada por la entrega de un proyecto de investigación de la universidad

Esta Laena me ayudó a concentrarme en algo más

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Daemon with daughters. I hope to see Rhaena and Baela more next season.

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arya was having trouble finishing her homework

it turned into a group project

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starklings (sans rickon)

finally started reading the books after a long time of being a wiki lurker :")