#asioiaf

[horizon-verizon]

The day everyone realizes Rhanerya is actually one of the most awful, horrible, ridiculous, incompetent psycho pieces of shit GRRM has ever written will be a good one. I’m looking forward to her death very much. Nothing more infuriating than a pick me.

....Sure. Rage bait much?

I’m looking forward to her death very much. Nothing more infuriating than a pick me.

Weird how Rhaenyra gets seemingly most of anon's ire than say all these people who actually usurped her, raped various women/girls (Aegon, various girls/women inclu that 12 year old; Aemond with Alys, killing all the Strong males, and burning down the riverlands; Daeron--Bitterbridge), and killed a few of her relatives/supporters.

You'd think raping mass murderers would take precedence over a supposed "psycho" pick me? Or to the women who tried to force her 8 year old granddaughter to kill another child so she could spite the already-dead woman she herself abused for years and the usurped (talking abt Alicent with Jaehaera).

Honestly, anon, you sound like what I imagine many of those content creators just think of book purists, except you read the propagandized misogyny-screen of F&B and decided to continue it. Sorry you don't like imperfect female MCs, anon, can't relate. ✌🏿

[blakeswritingimagines]

Heyy,

I Hope all is well, could I get a NSFW alphabet for Aegon the conqueror from Asioiaf or

Shiera Seastar x fem!reader NSFW alphabet/Fluff alphabet like a female reader which Shiera is enamoured and willing to be monogamous with? (There’s no Shiera content and I’m losing hearing in my left nostrils 🥲 (kidding)

Anyways , love your blog, kisses

Here you go! Hope you enjoy

[hamliet]

On Alicent and Rhaenyra

Yes, just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in. I'm mad about the fact that I like this stupid dragon show and am cautiously optimistic about it. WILL I NEVER LEARN?

Most of my analytical thoughts will be written up on like, a place where I actually get paid to write it (which I'll crosspost here when it goes up!) but for now, have thoughts on fandom discourse, because no place gonna pay me to talk about that but I still have thoughts, so blog, blargh, here we go.

My thoughts on the Alicent vs Rhaenyra diskhorse are that ppl are misunderstanding the genre. Like, House of the Dragon is a tragedy from the outset. Rhaenyra is our heroine; people aren't wrong for seeing that. But she is a *tragic* heroine. She rightly stands in opposition to a bad (patriarchal) society but also benefits from it, and therefore isn't willing to question certain things. She has hubris in this, in assuming she can get away with things other women can't, and it's going to get her killed because she reached too high.

Alicent is tragic as well, similar to Rhaenyra in that she's a victim of this society and also similar in that she's unwilling to really look critically at her role in it and thereby perpetuates it.

But it's also not wrong for ppl to notice that Alicent is the antagonist.

She's tragic, absolutely, but "antagonist" isn't a moral judgement itself. In fact, if you want to look into the tropes she's playing into (wicked stepmother, etc) and deconstruct the fairness of these labels--which honestly the show should do and ASOIAF does w Alicent's parallel characters (like Catelyn Stark)--please do, I encourage it. I call her the antagonist because Alicent makes the first move, regardless of her reasoning, and an antagonist is just an opponent of our protagonist regardless of the protagonist's morality.

Secondly, SPOILERS, but the story... does end with Alicent's line dying out and Rhaenyra's line going on to produce three heroes in our main saga: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and even f!Aegon. Two of these save the world, whatever comes before/after. While I'd argue it's prudent to critically consider whether just having a line continue is evidence of anything redeeming or whether it's more evidence of injustice or both, that still exists as a fact for fans to ponder.

Anyways, it's not so simple as viral reddit threads assert. There is indeed grayness and misogyny in fandom, but there are also ways to critically think about the story's message and purpose that acknowledge why ppl have certain interpretations that don't involve chalking it up to bad faith on behalf of people on either "side." My personal stance is that I love Alicent as a character but I do not like the "uwu did nothing wrong" fan version of her, because it negates exactly what's most compelling about her character: that she's both victim and perpetrator, and as George RR Martin once said, the most intriguing thing to write about is the human heart at war with itself.

[captainelliecomb]

ASOIAF Rec, Jaime/Brienne

Declarations of the Everyday Type by LadyRhiyana Rating: Teen No Archive Warnings Apply Tags: Jaime/Brienne, Sansa Stark, Margaery Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Epistolary, Soulmates, Writing on Skin, Baking, Football | Soccer, Romantic Fluff, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts Word count:1,200

Summary: Picking up one of the many non-permanent whiteboard markers that they have lying all around their house, she writes: Get milk and bread. And after a moment, an afterthought: Please. And after that: Love you xx.

Rec: Sweet, funny, and warm, with excellent female friendships for Brienne, a charming, teasing relationship with Jaime, and so much love it absolutely bursts from every line.

From the @jaime-brienne-fic-exchange collection.

[ashccra]

     BEAUTIFUL, AND WILLFUL, AND DEAD BEFORE HER TIME.

   ‘You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert. You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath’.  

[lives-in-a-harpsichord]

A quick sketch of Tywin and Kevan. Kevan deserves more attention. Give Kevan some attention okay

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