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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.

#rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #jon snow #GHOSTS MAKE FOR THE BWST LOVE STORIES LETS GOOOO #q

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girl's night out!

🍸 Pairings: Alysanne Targaryen/Rhaena "The Black Bride" Targaryen, Alysanne Targaryen/Jaehaerys Targaryen

🍸 Modern AU, rated E, 16k words

🍸 Alysanne is Maegor's Daughter while Jaehaerys & Rhaena are siblings

Alysanne doesn’t have siblings. She doesn’t know exactly how it works. Her father had been her only blood family, and no one had ever confused her for another Maegor. Jaehaerys had an elder brother, Aegon, long dead now… as siblings went Rhaena was the only person who could have held that place in Alysanne’s life. Could’ve been a sister. The space had been open to her, yet somehow— had Rhaena never wanted it?  Or had Alysanne been the one to bite back any attempts at sisterhood?

#rhaena the black bride #alysanne targaryen #jaehaerys targaryen #asoiaf fic #this isn't targcest but for all intents and purposes. it is #women who bite

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died 129 AC. reborn 2024. welcome back viserra & faline snow from ao3 love doesn't live here

#ldlh

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“Theomore is a good man,” Alysanne told her daughter, “a wise man, with a kind heart and a good head on his shoulders. His people love him.” The princess was not persuaded. “If you like him so much, Mother, you should marry him.”

Princess Viserra Targaryen

I added this to my print shop!

#this is THEEE viserra art btw amora crushed this one #viserra targaryen #alysanne targaryen #theomore manderly #[whispers softly] bitch #q

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“In 86 AC, Queen Alysanne announced the betrothal of her daughter Viserra, fifteen years of age, to Theomore Manderly, the fierce old Lord of White Harbor.”

commission of my bby Viserra from @wodania

#OHHH MY GOD #viserra targaryen #alysanne targaryen #jaehaerys targaryen #they're not even looking at her... #everyone looks at viserra because she is beautiful. but when she is sad #heartbroken #or begging #everyone looks away

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Arya with the skull of Balerion and Daenerys with Drogon by Justin Sweet

[T]he greatest of them, Balerion, the Black Dread, could have swallowed an aurochs whole, or even one of the hairy mammoths said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben. (AGOT, Tyrion II)

Another skull loomed ahead, the biggest monster of all, but Arya did not even slow. (AGOT, Arya III)

This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took, the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. "Dragons," she whispered. (AGOT, Arya IV)

The Dothraki looked at her hatchlings uneasily. The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. "Khaleesi," Aggo murmured, "there sits Balerion, come again." (ACOK, Daenerys I)

#arya stark #daenerys targaryen #agot #acok #q

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listening to the columbia student radio show covering the ongoing situation around student arrests and protests, something easy to put on to feel less disconnected right now

#palestine

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First of Her Name

#rhaenyra targaryen #syrax #q

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Aerys and Rhaegar after Duskendale | Text from Franz Kafka's unsent letter to Hermann Kafka, later published as Dearest Father

Aerys ordering the execution of House Darklyn following his imprisonment at Duskendale by Marc Simonetti / Mad King Aerys by Jake Murray / The Tourney of Harrenhal from The World of Ice and Fire / Aerys & Rhaella's unhappy wedding / Rhaegar & Elia Martell's wedding, from which Aerys was absent and Aerys looming over his Hand, Tywin Lannister / Aerys executing Brandon and Rickard Stark

#aerys targaryen #rhaegar targaryen #pre asoiaf #franz kafka #web weaving #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls

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I know you have analysed them a lot but what is your fav part of rhaelya? And what's a fic idea you would like to write about them?

oh Rhaegar & Lyanna are the reason I joined fandom for the first time, so you know my love for them is special 😅 as for my favorite part: I have probably talked about this before but I'm very touched by the concept of 'human connection in a hurricane.' It's about how chaos causes panic & panic can overwhelm us but it's true purpose is clarity. In the mire of asoiaf political intrigues and betrothals, Rhaelya represents that clarity. In general, I find Rhaelya to be more similar than not (for all the icefire chatting). What do you do when you love your father but he's the reason you can't go home? If the people who love you can't help you or save you, does that turn you cruel or empathetic towards the world? When do/don't we trust?

There is also the obvious which is that Rhaegar & Lyanna fall in together because the other is what they admire. It may seem like a random & sudden pairing but really there's a mirroring from the beginning. Rhaegar sings a song to an audience which doesn't understand—Lyanna cries for a reason her family doesn't get either. Their coming together is about hiding the Knight of the Laughing Tree's identity and in that moment they see each other. Lyanna jousts for Howland—Rhaegar does it for Lyanna. Ostensibly the latter are chivalrous acts (defending the weak/honoring the maiden) but because they're not performed within the usual paradigm as expected these actions are a) reviled and b) reveal what truly motivates the two: Compassion. Justice.

I am also partial to the complication of returns/how leaving a place that is no longer safe is a love story/the moments that beg you to run headlong into them and you, human as can be, make that choice. All of these are part of Rhaelya's story. It's true that Lyanna left her family who she loved. People will say ah she was young, she was stupid, she was blinded by Rhaegar's charisma; but again, this is a moment about clarity. About certainty. Justice is about what happens in the future. Lyanna ran to the future & left behind only those whose love mattered less than their ability to possess her.

Rhaegar I have recently longposted about so it's clear how I formulate him. On the Lyanna part I've definitely said this but basically once the war kicked off there was no way for him to transport Lyanna anywhere without further endangering her and/or him family with Elia—you need to understand that Rhaegar loved his children to understand him at all. That he loved his mother, his father, had seen them broken down & turn apathetic or even cruel towards the world. You need to understand that Lyanna represented a shining light of hope against this backdrop for him. I am also one of the people who believe that Rhaegar & Lyanna's sexual relationship only started after Brandon/Rickard were executed so clearly this is a complex but also painfully simple story about the human heart for me. I love people at their most human. Affirming people's dignity during suffering or crisis is an ethical duty I feel I have towards others. And GRRM did exactly that for Rhaegar and Lyanna, so how can I not love them? I'd ship Rhaelya if I was born in a small Bavarian village in 1753, etc etc.

As for the fic I'd love to write, there are two:

1—

Rhaegar riding through the Riverlands on his way to the Ghost of High Heart. He's with Myles Mooton, Arthur Dayne, Richard Lonmouth, Oswell Whent. They stop at the Inn at the Crossroads. Everyone's laughing and drinking, Myles is flirting with the one pretty barmaid while Rhaegar is ContemplatingTM—Bess is her name. Bess boasts about all the ladies and lordlings who stopped at their inn recently & gives a description of what sounds like Brandon and Lyanna Stark. They enjoy riding out on their lil horses. But, Bess says, the Northern lord didn't like the look of our little lordling so they didn't stay long & haven't been bacj. The girl was kind though! She gave a few coins for the boy after slipping away from her wroth brother. Suddenly, Rhaegar's tuned in and the little lordling is trotted out...

A toddler with black hair and blue eyes. Soon after, the plans change.

2—

Their first meeting including Rhaegar nerding out a bit over meeting a crannogman after Howland uses lite magic to try and help them escape. Benjen & Howland trying to take responsibility for being the KOTLT and failing. Lyanna not just a winter maiden but a stubborn Northern bitch hardened by winter (it's the iron underneath baby!!). Sussing each other out during a long silent stare down. Maybe somebody even cracks a Joke? That kind of thing.

OK long answer 💀 sorry but I can't help myself!

#text #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #rhaelya

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The Knighting of Jaime Lannister

#arthur dayne #jaime lannister #asos #the image of Arthur wrapping jaime in his own cloak oh I know Jaime added that bit in post LOL #but the implications of jaime bleeding lannister red bloodstains into it… #i’m having a brain bunny I did not anticipate 30 seconds ago #THE KNIGHTING OF JAIME LANNISTER

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I think you gonna like this fanart:

https://www.tumblr.com/perunikaart/673470714994655232?source=share

good lord i LOVE it x

#asks

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tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

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lyanna my soul 🤧🤲🌷

#OH?? #rhaelya #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #q

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Tyrion’s Seasons of Love ❦ A Dream of Spring

Tyrion and Sansa decide to remain married when they reunite in the future. They have a daughter whose exuberance and love of flowers reminds Sansa of Arya.

#sansa stark #tyrion lannister #arya stark #😢 #q

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my little sketch with Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen with her firstborn Jacaerys Velaryon 🌟

I wanted to say to my strong and beautiful side of followers, Happy International Women’s Day 🐉

#rhaenyra targaryen #jacaerys velaryon #woah okay this is my favorite art ever now #jace her first and favorite fr #q

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meereenese + dothraki wedding

#incredible concept #the fluidity.... almost feels underwater #daenerys targaryen #the bells in her hair 😭 #agot #adwd #q