#r. j. l

[moonsbypadfoot]

remus lupin 🌙

[polysucks]

Rhaegar won, damn him… He has Lyanna now

Here’s to the women who are only remembered through the lens of the men who live in the shadow of their sepulchers.

[saessenach]

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.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

[rhaegars-cervix]

the knight of the laughing tree

art ref. under the cut

[winterprince601]

honestly, i don't blame anyone for not making the connection between rhaegar targaryen and jon snow. they are such different guys to me. you could organically stumble upon rhaegar playing a silver harp in a clearing in the woods, silently weeping into the flowing waters of a crystalline stream. jon is the teenage manager of a fast food chain who sometimes shows up to work dripping wet because he doesn't own an umbrella.

[actressposts]

[buildoblivion]

promise me ned

[whatsupidontknow]

Whoever Jon’s mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely

[helaenarts]

‘What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… We are only humans and the gods have fashioned us for love.’

Rhaegar Targaryen leaving a pregnant Lyanna Stark at the Tower of Joy to join the war

[littlerebels]

Probably a nitpick, but can I just say how much I despise when writers try to make every character know every character from the start? I get the need to seem clever, like, oh yeah, I planned allllll of this B), but really it just makes your world feel smaller, like there's less people residing in it and less forces contributing to the events that happen.

For instance, in Arcane:

Silco didn't adopt Powder/Jinx because he resonated with her sense of betrayal and abandonment and loss of a sibling. No, he adopted her because he was already friends with Felicia. He was always her godfather, essentially.

Jayce didn't get the rune from a mysterious mage (once commonly theorized to be Ryze or a Bone Scryer Shaman). No, it was retconned to be Viktor the entire time. Because of course it was. (Lowkey reminds me of the god awful Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond 'le epic plot twist!1' from Steven Universe, but moving on...)

And fans eat this up.

Not everything needs a twist pre-established connection. It cheapens relationships, like in the case of Silco and Jinx, and really just ruins my immersion, lowers stakes, and shrinks the setting. It shows the writers don't know how to handle the material and are just relying on tropes, "Aha! This character was thiiiis the entire time!" The Marvel-style end fight and time travel/Into the Spiderverse universe-hopping shenanigans didn't help either

[esther-dot]

“He knew nothing of his mother; Eddard Stark would not talk of her. Yet he dreamed of her at times, so often that he could almost see her face. In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.” AGOT, Jon III

One of my favorite things about Arya looking so much like Lyanna is that Jon has seen a face like his mother’s smile at him, eyes like his mother’s look lovingly at him.

[polysucks]

Lyanna Stark idk

happy thanksgiving. Say something nice to an indigenous artist today (like me)

[amber-laughs]

He loves him. He raised him. That’s his son.

"Come, let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now."

He hates him. A constant reminder of the worst days his of his life. The weight of House Stark on his shoulders with no warning.

“He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.”

He doesn’t miss him.

“The thought of Winterfell brought a wan smile to his face. He wanted to hear Bran's laughter once more, to go hawking with Robb, to watch Rickon at play.”

He begs, in his dying hour, for one last moment with him.

“The thought of Jon filled Ned with a sense of shame, and a sorrow too deep for words. If only he could see the boy again, sit and talk with him…”

He’s his greatest shame.

“I've never lain with any woman but Cersei. In my own way, I have been truer than your Ned ever was. Poor old dead Ned. So who has shit for honor now, I ask you? What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"

He’s his highest honor.

“The Starks were not like other men. Ned brought his bastard home with him, and called him "son" for all the north to see.”

He’s his darkest lie.

“Catelyn had asked her husband the truth of it, asked him to his face. That was the only time in all their years that Ned had ever frightened her. “Never ask me about Jon,” he said, cold as ice.”

He’s his kept promise.

“Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes.”

[saessenach]

working on a wee storyboard thing - a certain prince gets knocked off his horse while chasing the Knight of the Laughing Tree and shenanigans ensue

[ofjonsafame]

“ Ned Stark’s bastard has been named King in the North, and …(Sansa), stands by his side. “

-Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones

[jimmymmtz]

/Commission/ RhaeLya. The tower of Joy