#[ game of thrones. truth. ]

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Sasha using the title "Lord" in RiAAU after taking over Toad Tower and presumably killing Grime and stealing Barrel's Warhammer from him, and other political and military leaders assuming she's a man because, well, Sasha is a gender neutral name, so they hear Lord Sasha and assume they're talking about an adult male toad warrior. The second most powerful person in the known world and only real threat to the Leviathan reign!

Cue princess Marcy fleeing Newtopia and her father seeking refuge with his worst enemy hoping to offer information and political levarage in exchange for protection, perhaps even offering herself in marriage to transfer eventual inheritances and whatnot, and she finds out that Lord Sasha is not, indeed, a dark and domineering toad warlord, but a beautiful, terrifying girl her age that looks like her and oh god her poor little lesbian heart can barely take it.

[the-daily-dreamer]

For a brief moment I lived in a world where SanSan shippers and Sandor defenders weren’t real and I was so happy. But naturally the filth of this fandom comes up and strikes at the worst times and ruins all good things.

So a reminder: TW SA

Sandor Clegane is a grown man and creep who is sexually attracted to a girl between the ages of 12-14.

Even if he didn’t act on it, the mere fact that he is interested in sleeping with a child is disturbing and disgusting.

It’s not unfathomable that Sandor would r*pe Sansa, he very much considered it and admitted as much.

Just because he didn’t officially r*pe Sansa does not mean that his actions during the battle of Blackwater were “good” just by comparison. A key part of SA is the power the perpetrator holds over the victim. When he’s holding her down on a bed with a knife to her throat telling her to sing for her life, he’s still getting a similar gratification

Being drunk does not justify what Sandor did to Sansa

If you ship those two you have to look at the fact that you ship a child with a grown man who considered r*ping her and accept that with fullness of chest

There’s no way around this. SanSan as a ship is vile. Sandor is not the misunderstood, sad knight who just needs to be “saved”. He’s a brutal and savage man who is attracted to little girls (at least one).

And btw if you are angry that Jorah is a creep to Dany then you gotta carry that energy for Sandor and Sansa. Because regardless of how you may feel about either character, both are literal girls who are victims of grown men.

[dxcstrange-stuff]

SURPRISE!

Behold! Here are some exclusive stills from a tiny animatic that I have been working on for the past few weeks! This one is a homage to Stephen Dillane, one of my biggest inspirations and muses to date. He is responsible for a humongous amount of artworks of mine, that would never have been made without him.

I have been meaning to work on something like this for a few months, and thanks to the ever so wonderful @lastnightfanfictionsavedmylife and their endless support, I managed to make this idea a reality! So keep an eye out for another round of stills and finally, the finished project itself 💖

[fiiiiin]

I don’t care what the new X-men integration into the MCU will be like; I just need James McAvoy to express his utter contempt at Marvel if they manage to screw it up the way they’ve been doing with their recent phase. This man’s unabridged ire at how big franchises handle their media will never not be funny and valid.

[alongtherubyford]

is it wrong of me to want to ship rhaegar and elia

[strawberrybyers]

people being upset at grrm for stating his disagreements about hotd is hysterical because what do you mean you’re going to tell the creator of these stories and characters that he’s wrong?? 💀 IT’S ALL HIS WORK!!! there would be no hotd for anyone to watch if it wasn’t for him. he knows all the traits the characters have, the traits he was going to give them that he decided not to, the complete ins and outs of the dynamics and situations that happen and the ones that got scrapped… like how are you going to tell an author that the way he views his work is being portrayed and received as is wrong???? that’s so bold to do lmfaooo. like regardless of our opinion, at the end of the day we’re all wrong because we did not create this world. we are just visitors

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Daenerys III

The knight gave his heels to his mount and started off again.

Dany rode close beside him.

“Still,” she said, “the common people are waiting for him. Magister Illyrio says they are sewing dragon banners and praying for Viserys to return from across the narrow sea to free them.”

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her.

“It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”

He gave a shrug. “They never are.”

Dany rode along quietly for a time, working his words like a puzzle box.

It went against everything that Viserys had ever told her to think that the people could care so little whether a true king or a usurper reigned over them.

Yet the more she thought on Jorah’s words, the more they rang of truth.

[dodiaska]

my take on the r+l=j thingy. hope i made jon look stark enough but with those 'sad emo prince rhaegar' look that ive seen being talked about lol

also lyanna's head piece was by all means inspired by @imjustapoorwayfaringgeek 's fanart of her!!! amazing work btw!!!!!

[all-about-that-rec]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Arthur Dayne/Jaime Lannister Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, The ghost of Ser Arthur Dayne Additional Tags: all the feelings, Canon-typical attitudes towards homosexuality Summary:

“I’ve never slept with a knight before,” Jaime said.

[Afterwards, Brienne put her hand on his cheek and smiled. “Liar,” she whispered.]

[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Jasnah Kholin from the Stormlight Archive

[rise-my-angel]

I need this show to ask themselves how on earth centuries of history were all remembered as the same stories that were eventually the same stories lied about by maesters spreading pro green propaganda, when the in universe book of Fire and Blood did not exist for so many centuries after the Dance, that the man who wrote it was alive during Robert Baratheons reign.

Were the maesters even then, holding every Targaryean at knifepoint forcing them to spew out history literally everyone would know was not true just in case one man in 200 years future wanted to write a fucking propaganda book about it?

Did Rhaenyras own descendants just willingly spreading pro green propaganda too?

[the-daily-dreamer]

How dare this character not have emerged from the primordial ooze having known all the truths of the world. How dare they not have learned the lessons they haven’t been taught yet. How can they not know what I, an omniscient reader with different lived experiences, know. THE NOOSE FOR THEM!

What am I supposed to do? Watch them go through an entire character arc? What a waste of my time. They are supposed to be perfect and stay stagnantly perfect for the whole story. Lest I enjoy a character that makes a mistake or was ever wrong. They should be perfect, like me.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that the capes the Night's Watch wear from Game of Thrones were made out of cheap Ikea rugs (x)

[bones-ivy-breath]

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

[sunder-the-gold]

Why games can't have real moral choices anymore: Game of Thrones-ification, and other solipsistic nonsense

I kind of went off the rails with a previous ask, and I want to put this out there on its own.

This is the same mentality that demanded the removal of morality paths from video games, that would insist playing a Renegade in Mass Effect should get you the same results as playing a Paragon, and that cheerfully ignored previous canon about how Thedas' Crows worked so that they could be presented as heroes in Veilguard now that the writers made them protagonists.

The mindset that players aren't allowed to choose "mean" morality paths anymore, because a protagonist can never be "evil".

This mindset that "protagonism = heroism" and "antagonism = villainy".

This mindset would insist that inFamous' Cole McGrath's two different morality paths have equal weight, because no matter what he does he is still the protagonist.

Because everyone is the protagonist of their own story, and the writers are solipsists who insist that they can never be evil, only their own personal antagonists in real life can be evil.

"As long as you are the protagonist, as long as you are 'the lesser evil', you can use 'evil' tactics as much as you want and still be a virtuous person! If you can only find an Acceptable Target, no amount of cruelty and sadism against them can be considered Evil!"

"If I frame this person as an antagonist, it doesn't matter how fair, even-handed, reasonable, compassionate, or merciful they are... because they stand in the protagonist's way and won't let them do everything they want, they are evil villains and nothing you do to them is 'crossing a line'."

In a word: Dustborn.

From what little I've seen of Dustborn from the few people who bothered to play and review it. The people who were absolutely disgusted with the villainy of the protagonists and who laughed that the writers tried to strawman the belief in objective truth as being the same thing as believing that personal opinions were the same thing as facts.

A confused delusion that could only occur to people who don't believe in objective truth. People who think they can dictate reality to nature as long as they manufacture the appearance of majority consensus. By attacking anyone who voices a dissenting opinion.

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Time to debunk another TG bullshit related to how Otto pimped out his daughter : “Otto did what any lord would have done. He and Corlys are the same.”

It is bad enough that they constantly justify Alicent’s actions and praise her but to do that for Otto too, is going over the line.

You’re really going to compare this guy:

To this one?

Alrighty. Let’s begin.

I have noticed that TG fans have a hard time understanding that there is a hierarchy in relation to the Houses in Westeros. There are Great Houses which come before vassal ones, of course. But there is also something else: since the Targaryens are the rulers of Westeros, their closest ties are to other Valyrian Houses, namely House Velaryon and House Celtigar. They are kin. And even better, House Velaryon is as Corlys once put it “the greatest power in the Realm”.

Now, when I say that there is a hierarchy that also applies to those who have access to advantageous marriages. Up until the Dance, the royal bloodline has come through Targaryen Kings and Queens (Queen Aemma was also half Targaryen on her mother’s side) but also a Velaryon Queen, Alyssa Velaryon.

So, it is of course no surprise that Corlys Velaryon proposes his daughter, Laena to be the next Queen after Queen Aemma’s passing. With a short supply of Valyrian brides, Laena was the best option without a doubt. Corlys presented his daughter as a suitable candidate before the King, Council and Court. Everyone knew that Viserys was considering taking Laena Velaryon as his next wife. And Corlys had every right to make such a move because his daughter ticked all the boxes: she was Valyrian, daughter of the Lord of the Tides, with her came the Velaryon fleets, dragons and riches. Oh, and she was also the daughter of a Targaryen Princess. This marriage would have united the Valyrian Houses on the Iron Throne. There was only one problem: Laena was too young. Had she been like 4 years older, Viserys would have considered her. But it wouldn’t have been a problem if he had. She and Viserys could have had a marriage only for public display, until Laena had the respectable age. It wouldn’t be the first time such a marriage came to be.

Now, the Hightowers are a whole different story. As much they claim to be a force in the Reach, their ties to the Faith do not grant them the title of a Paramount House. The Paramount House of the Reach is House Tyrell.

Otto Hightower is a second son from a vassal House with nothing to his name. His daughter was in no way a suitable candidate for the King. That is why he didn’t dare do what Corlys did. He didn’t present Alicent as an option before the King, Court and Council because then everyone would see him for what he truly is: an opportunistic social-climber who wants more. So, he pimped his daughter out in secret by having her visit the King during the night, wearing her dead mother’s dresses. What Otto and Alicent did was shameful, and in no way near noble.

Corlys is the Lord of Driftmark, and presented his daughter Laena OPENLY to the King, Council and Court.

Otto, even as Hand, is a nobody. He does not have the privilege (or is even allowed) to publicly propose his low-ranked daughter as a candidate to be the future Queen. So as a greedy opportunist that he is, he pimped out his daughter to a grieving King during the night.

So no. What Otto did is not what any lord would have done. He is no lord, first of all. And secondly, other men of his ranking understand their place in the hierarchy and don’t scheme/plot the way the Hightowers constantly do.

He and Corlys are not the same. Corlys had the privilege, the blood and the necessary ranking to be able to proudly and openly present his daughter as a candidate. So why not? Especially since the bloodline had been continued through a Velaryon Queen once before.

Laena was to be considered first and then any daughter of the Lord of a Paramount House. But never the daughter of a second son of a vassal house.

Otto schemed in the most disgusting way possible to take away a privilege that is not normally granted to someone as low as him in ranking. He is a greedy opportunist who SECRETLY pimped his daughter out to the King for personal advantage.

What Corlys did was honorably and publicly present his daughter as the most suitable candidate before the King, Council and Court. What Otto did was shamefully pimp his daughter out in secret.