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R U A MEDVEDKONSTANTIN SHIPPER🙏🙏

not sure if i can call myself a shipper but i enjoy their dynamic!! but i prefer it one sided (medved->konstantin), makes it all the more juicy to me

(just as konstantin->vasya and anna->konstantin) everyone is obsessed with someone but no one with each other (except for morozko and vasya which is not very appealing to me as a ship lol)

vague spoiler for the last book of winternight trilogy:

i lovedd the final scene with them ;0; didnt expect medved to be so heartbroken.. <3

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Hi! I absolutely love your Theon fanart! He looks so good in your style.

I don't know if you've answered this before, but who would you have as a fancast version for Theon? Asha as well.....or the whole Greyjoy shoal really.

Hii! Thank you anon 💃🏻💃🏻

I honestly don't really do fancasts much but once in a while i see someone who reminds me of the characters

For Theon i dont have a favorite fancast but he definitely needs to have dark, mid-to-long hair

I talked about this briefly in this post if you wanna check out :D

I should probably make another post some time about theon for this

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🔥 The hypothetical CerseiTheon marriage someone suggests after Robert dies

tywin is the one to suggest this to cers in asos and she hates the idea, which is unforchies bc i LOVE THIS SHIP

i was actually first introduced to the idea by shebsart's art of them, i really recommend their tag on the subject:

theon being married off to a mean milf who looks exactly like jaime lannister would be such a win for him. cers would be driven insane by this martiage that she sees as far beneath her but i think they're quite well matched.

to quote an old post of mine the mind that sends ramsay bolton's creepy manservant off into the sunset with the last of ned stark's silver is well matched to the mind that re-arms the faith's paramilitary branch after three hundred years of peace in exchange for minor debt forgiveness.

i want them on season 4 of the white lotus.

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Hello! I just found your art after reading the ASOIAF series - its so beautiful! Exactly how I imagined the characters! I wanted to ask - did you ever finish your POV series for A Dance with Dragons? I couldn't find it on your page but I'd love to see how you portray some of the new characters (especially Jon Connington and Quentyn Martell).

Hello, and thank you!!

I haven't finished Adwd portraits yet and i dont think im able to finish it any time soon 😭

I didnt give up, just took a break but i ocassionaly go back to them.

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tbh creature 4 tbh creature couple

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quanzi

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have you seen babygirl with nicole kidman and harris dickinson yet? i sat in that theatre thinking omfg this is so shebsart cerseitheon and i won't rest before you get my vision here....

noo i haven't yet but i will as soon as it drops on the internet!

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he looks like one of those murdered biritsh boys

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Come to me now. Make me whole again.

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repulsion (1965) was good

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you are truly the figurehead of asoiaf art i see ur art EVERYWHERE on EVERY PLATFORM it is insane

omg thats so nice of you to say 🫶🏼😭 im not as active as i used to be but i used to draw asoiaf nearly everyday

i ocasionally see some greyjoy followers on the tl, shout out to them and to everyone who enjoys my fanart 🙏🏻

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western au doodles

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Have you ever loved anything?

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Have you ever loved anything?

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so i read the Winter Prince a few months back and i loved it

this scene with morgause was a fave

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Gilly, Ygritte, and Monster in Winterfell

art by @shebsart, commissioned by me

Shebsart came through once again guys!!! I’m so excited ^_^

For about a year and a half, since I got into ASOIAF, I have admired Shebsart’s work. Their Theon in particular is the closest I’ve ever found to my vision of him, I adore his hooked nose (Asha’s too!). They also have such an amazing Barbrey design and the Starks, including Jon, are amazing. I have paid for some Ygritte commissions before with other artists, and I have liked all three of them, but when it comes to the closest look of what I think of when I imagine her book counterpart is some of Shebsart’s old pieces of her (and Jon). I was looking for someone to draw Gilly and Ygritte and there was nobody whose opinion that I held in higher regard than Shebsart, as they were my favorite ASOIAF artist, so I asked them if they had any recommendations of who had their commissions open. They told me they actually considering opening their commissions and I have been working with them ever since, even though as far as I know they have not formally opened commissions. Shebsart has been really great to work with and patient, even though there’s been some trouble with payment barriers since we live in very different parts of the world. They’ve been professional and worked hard.

I have long imagined the possibility of Gilly and Ygritte as friends; I thought it was high time I got it depicted in some way. I think it would really benefit Gilly if she had some female influences that weren’t family members. Of course, she does receive this to some extent, but I think it would be very interesting for her to find companionship with a girl around her age that shared the general Freefolk culture, although of course her upbringing was wildly different than Ygritte’s. We know that Ygritte has some sort of soft spot for young children, or at least some sort of moral code that keeps her from killing them. This is one trait shown in both the books and the show. In the show, while I don’t consider anything that happened to it as canon, she specifically spared Gilly and Monster knowing that the others around her would not. I don’t think it would be much of a stretch that Ygritte would grow attached to Monster and have a soft spot there, even though we know she hates incest and would therefore consider his conception an abomination. Everyone in ASOIAF is misogynistic to some extent and some of the things Ygritte says about women are toxic, but I would like to think she wouldn’t victim blame Gilly or call her a whore as Stannis did. I definitely see Ygritte as a strong woman who would want to protect and stand up for someone like Gilly. And Gilly has great compassion and is all around a good person, so I think a friendship would be good for the both of them.

In the depiction above, Ygritte is Queen in the North, consort to Jon. This fits in the same AU as my previous Jon and Ygritte commission by shripscapi. I’ve said this many times, I respect people who hate Jon x Ygritte and they have very valid reasons, but knowing Jon’s character, as long as Ygritte lives, which she would have in this AU as the Battle of Castle Black does not happen, there’s no other choice in Jon’s mind for consort for him as King Beyond the Wall. For the timeline of this art, Jon was first crowned King Beyond the Wall and he went South with his people to get away from and prepare to battle the Others, seeking help from other rulers. His men battle the Boltons and because neither Rickon or Bran have been found yet, he is declared King in the North as well for the time being. His residence is temporarily taken up in Winterfell and the Freefolk settle nearby in close quarters. Jon goes towards the Vale as he’s heard word about Sansa, but Ygritte stays behind with some of the Freefolk. This is when Gilly is her lady-in-waiting. I wanted to show that Ygritte’s clothes are nicer than Gilly’s, but I still wanted both outfits to be respectable. I wanted the fashion to be reasonable for a Northern climate, so that meant furs. Besides, they are both Freefolk and furs mean a lot to them culturally. I sent references for clothing and Shebsart went from there. Some people say Ygritte would never wear a dress but I disagree if it was comfortable enough and she was able to boss people around and be smug, I think she’d wear it as long as it was advantageous for her. And besides, I imagine that Jon designed the dress herself and that’s flattering enough for her to like it. What I did like to show is that Gilly is taking more towards traditional “ladylike” activities like embroidery, while Ygritte isn’t interested. She’d rather sit around and talk and laugh.

Oh, and isn’t baby Monster precious????

Edit: I’ve seen someone say they think Ygritte would hate her life if this is what it was like, and I’m not mad at it or anything, but I don’t agree!!! To clarify more about this AU, Jon becomes King Beyond the Wall because the Freefolk believe that only someone will Stark blood would be able to negotiate with the Others, so they’d be doomed without him. So therefore it’s not just about her feelings for Jon, she’s married to the person she believes will be able to save her people. The influence she has on him is also major and a source of pride for her. In the art above, she is living in Winterfell and yes she’s wearing a dress, but that isn’t her life forever. The reason she stays and doesn’t go with Jon to the Vale is not because she’s a woman and he refuses to let her fight, but because in the main timeline she has a child already (this art has a bit of a fudged timeline, if I were to write a fic on this idea she’d already have had a child before they breached the Wall) and if Jon were to die, the child still has Stark blood and would still be the only hope against the Others. If she had been South and had died with Jon (Jon doesn’t die at this point, but the prospect is why she stays behind), the child would have regent with their own motivations and wouldn’t have its interests at heart like Ygritte would. This is an important role that I do think at the end of the day, despite Ygritte not being the smartest person, she would take pride and be protective over. It’s not simply that motherhood has changed her and is a role that took over her previous personality, because that’s not true. It’s that there are greater things at play and she’s a key part of protecting the source of the realm’s salvation, so to say. She doesn’t live at Winterfell forever and when at Winterfell, she does boss around some Lords but doesn’t do any chores that she would find tedious. The most she does is sew together a wolf plushie for child, which was incredibly poorly done. When Bran and Rickon are eventually found and thus Jon doesn’t have the title of Winterfell, they settle in lands previously ruled by the Umbers and she doesn’t wear a dress anymore, I have another commission by shripscapi that shows her usual attire but it is furs, she does hunt, she teaches her children to hunt and falconry. Her traditions are not stomped out in favor of Southron traditions. Her home is not a castle, but a small home slightly more impressive than the huts of the rest of her people, inspired by architecture during the Norman invasion. All in all, she’s really happy. The most important thing to her is that her people are safe, the Others are going to be defeated, and they’ve gotten past the Wall, a goal of her people for a long time. I guess I’ve just had a different view of Ygritte and the Freefolk than majority of opinion. I think the Freefolk are more adaptable than people in the South generally are, and it’s impressive how they rallied together despite their differences when faced with the Others. I don’t think the Seven Kingdoms would be able to do that. So I feel as if she, as well as most of her people, would be very happy and feel a sense of accomplishment for being able to live on and live among people that, before the threat of the Others, would never be able to tolerate them and vice versa.