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Aemond Targaryen, commission for @i-did-not-mean-to

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class is in session!

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.07 | 2.01 | 2.02

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Cersei Lannister in ‘The Wars to Come’

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Hey ASOIAF people. The Freedom Flotilla, an aid ship attempting to break Israel's blockade of Gaza and provide aid for starving people just set sail. They attempted this previously in May and we were bombed by Israel. On board is Greta Thunberg, along with ten other activists including Liam Cunningham, who played Davos in Game of Thrones.

The more public support there is on the Freedom Flotilla the more likely it is that they will be able to achieve their goal safely. Everyone on board is putting their own lives on the line to try to stop this genocide, and we have a unique opportunity to help as a fan community. Use Liam Cunningham being on this ship to flood Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, wherever else with news about this. Talk about how brave you think he and everyone else on board is. Say he's breaking the siege of storms end irl. Post whatever you want that will get more eyes on this story. We have to use every tool we have in this fight, and one of the tools we have is a fan network. Let's get to work.

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what I love about catelyn’s characterization is that she isn’t everyone’s mother. she refuses to treat jon like one of her own. she doesn’t have any “motherly instincts” towards theon. even with brienne, she connects with her on more of a woman to woman level than through some mother-daughter dynamic. she never feels obligated to play the angelic “mother to all” figure.

but that’s the best part about her journey as a mother—it’s kind of messy. she has a favorite child, she’s forced to choose between her kids, she actively resents a motherless boy, she dislikes the hostage child living in her home. like yeah catelyn’s love for her children is beautiful and “pure” or whatever, but it also makes her cruel, selfish, impulsive, ruthless, even vengeful.

tbh catelyn’s sense of motherhood is just so unapologetically human, so refreshingly honest. she may be a mother, but there’s nothing romantic or intuitive or easy about it. catelyn stark loves her children, but it’s not that simple.

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the biggest reason i’ll always understand Alicent and support her (book Alicent because show Alicent wants nothing but to frolic in the forest or whatever) is that if I were married to a King i’d want my son to be King after him. that is literally the only reason anyone would marry their daughters to Viserys and Viserys knew that which is why he didn’t make it clear until after he married Alicent that Rhaenyra would remain heir. if I was married to a King and denied the one thing that should be guaranteed, that my son who is his firstborn son will be King afterwards I too would make it an issue based on the disrespect to me and mine alone. this goes for Rhaenyra i’ll always understand and sympathize with her, she was promised the throne from a young age and she wants it, I may be critical of her but you’ll never catch me saying i don’t think she should’ve fought for the throne because I understand why she would, just like i understand why Alicent would and I don’t think either one is more morally superior/corrupt because at the end of the day they are both fighting for power.

the show keeps trying to make them out to be more noble than they are but it really is just that simple, there didn’t need to be a prophecy or a misunderstanding. Alicent wanted her son to be King because she feels that is what she and him are owed and she wants to keep the power she gained as Viserys wife. Rhaenyra wants the throne as she feels it is what she is owed after being told by her father she would have it. even with Rhaenyra and Alicents friendship i don’t think there was a need to complicate it more than that.

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i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?

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The !book version of the Blacks and the Greens (closest family)💙

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the world is so fucked up i just wanna ram my dick in jaime lannister but i got this stupid fucking vagina fuck this life

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Aemond and Daemon being passionate about each other for the last time 💙

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Winterfell Robb,Bran and Rickon🙂‍↕️

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Age-inaccurate Vizzy T and Rhaenyra laughing the same way :)

(An oldie that turned 1 year back in February!)

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Daenerys Targaryen. I commissioned this piece from @/sver_ver on twitter.

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helaena, aegon and aemond I commision 🕊🍇🏛🌿🍋

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"he was never unfaithful to robert, was he?" - jaime, acok

ha. ha ha ha. the irony of this line is incredible. what's so striking to me is how one dimensional the realm's understanding of eddard stark as an honourable man is - honour itself is an incredibly complicated and unattainable ideal in asoiaf and i think ned as the stereotypical emblem of it encompasses many of the reasons why. because whilst he absolutely does consider acting in a conventionally honourable way important, he always prioritises those he loves. he defended cat's actions as his own without a second thought when she arrested tyrion. his main priority in king's landing is to see his daughters safe, not to secure the succession. lyanna is the prime example: jon's existence is not the result of the lapse of honourable ned stark, it was honourable ned stark choosing his love for his sister over his duty to his king. that and his personal ethical belief that the political murder of a child is never morally acceptable.

no one in the realm has the insight into his personality we get in the first book. none of his children, vitally, understand that he would always prioritise their safety over any honourable scruples. all of the starklings question what their honourable father would think of their actions - killing in self-defence, marrying jeyne westerling, sleeping with ygritte to name a few examples - without recognising that ned's true first priority was always his family's safety.

in fact, he betrayed robert far more than he ever betrayed cat and he would have betrayed honour for his family's safety every time.