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Sketches for the fantastic trio's clothes

#edric dayne #arya stark #gendry

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Lord Kevan Lannister, Hand of the King

"Ser Kevan seldom "had a thought" that Lord Tywin had not had first."

(The thought here being "ow! A crossbow bolt!") My second take on Ser Kevan, here a little worse for wear. This ones the official mini, and I love his jowly bulldog look, I think they nailed how he looks in my minds eye. I also love his outfit, the minis don't always lean into the gaudy fashions of the books, but this one is pretty suitably stylish.

As you may have guessed from the crossbow bolt, this is one I adjusted for a little diorama scene, hence no base here. I'm happy with the paint job, the red cloak isnt perfect but I always like a mix of fabrics and metals.

#long time no posts! ive now officially finished training after 10+ years so i had a big break #hopefully will get painting back into the routine a bit more #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #miniatures #minis #a song of ice and fire #valyrian scrolls #cmon #house lannister #kevan lannister

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The Boltons do slay in all senses of the word. You do have to hand it to them for achieving a level of cunt few other houses have

fire and blood’s biggest weakness is that there’s only one bolton mention in the whole thing and it’s teenage barba bolton trying to marry aegon the miserable so that the crown will feed her starving people because cregan stark seemingly just isn’t. i need to know more about them and what they were getting up to but well. peaceful lands and well behaved people rarely make history😇

#amazing

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Our Blades Are Sharp

#house Bolton

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I don’t have a lot of words right now but Steven Attewell, who you all reading this probably know as @racefortheironthrone , just passed away. He was a very great writer, friend, and person, and it’s a horrible loss.

#Incredibly sad news. #He was a titan of the community #I interacted with him once or twice and he was always pure class

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Tytos Lannister much stronger than me because if my son grew to be Tywin Lannister i just might end it all

Tywin's kinda the funniest villain of all time like wdym your tragic backstory is your dad was too nice

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love that arya serving as roose's cupbearer served to open her eyes to the way in which class and status literally erases the smallfolk from the perceived realities of their lords (a lesson further reinforced in her travels with sandor where simply wearing ratty clothes is enough for knights to just not notice the most recognizably marred face and most wanted man in all of westeros) and then in the show serving as tywin's cupbearer was just "we wish charles dance was our dad :( he would be so stern but also loving to us :(( we would impress him with our gumption i mean sorry arya would impr-"

#god yes this always gets brought up as 'the one change the show did right' and i HATE it #destroys the whole class system of the setting. completely ruins tywins whole character. responsible for half the 'tywin was right' bullshit

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#sandor clegane

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Wands 9 - Fernoll

#lem lemoncloak

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Jon I-XII ADWD vs Jon XIII ADWD

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the thing w what is dorne based on is ‘dornish = cornish dorne is cornwall’ and ‘the dornish marcher lords to secure a disputed conquest is exactly what was happening to wales in the medieval period dorne is wales’ both hold water they’re both reasonable observations. however they’re both mainly used to argue dorne is white (i assume to make the targaryens look less shitty for the everything) which it just isn’t its a combination of both of the above turkey and moorish spain. theres several diasporas in dorne (some of which are white) which is its own can of worms but ‘how do we feel about grrm’s treatment of this group with brown skin hooked noses black eyes and spicy food in his 90s fantasy series’ is not a problem best solved by pretending they were always meant to be white

#i think I've said it before - i generally view westeros locations as having three layers of inspiration #westeros as a giant UK - in which case Dorne is Cornwall and Wales (not weird to group those two. if you look at a map theyre very close) #(and often had a lot in common - whenever a new culture got to britain they spread east to west leaving Cornwall and Wales to last) #then westeros as europe - where Dorne is of course Moorish spain. and this level is usually the most direct 1 to 1 parallel #then the secret third level of westeros as USA. GRRM is american and he knows america best so while this is the least direct comparison #it is often the most resonant (eg riverlands as the Mississippi adjacent south) #and thise is where a lot of Dorne as Mexico comes in - they do have huevos rancheros after all #(ive not really got into the Dorne is white stuff because... its just so obviously wrong)

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Who cares who Rhaenyra has sex with

you know that tweet that was like ‘if youre creating a fantasy world why would it include sexism or homophobia 🤨 weirdo of you to put that in. why can’t everyone just be happy and liberated’ and how it completely ruined 2010s booktok fantasy. yeah asoiaf doesnt adhere to that a woman having sex outside of wedlock is ruinous to her reputation daemon taking her out on the town to specifically publicly do this and alicent taking issue with it both make perfect sense in universe its a mock medieval setting. canonically EVERYONE cares who rhaenyra has sex with it is an extremely significant plot point in f&b and hotd. alicent in ep4 is viciously jealous of rhaenyras freedom compared to her own continued marital rape/concerned rhaenyra might have been taken advantage of by daemon/judgemental of rhaenyra’s sexuality due to her conservative upbringing etc its a complex scene theyre complex characters. i can like rhaenyra and not personally care who she has sex with and say ‘a lot of the fandom wilfully misinterprets/underinterprets a scene to fit a narrative in which alicent is a onedimensional bitch’ those are not mutually exclusive

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hey aemond do you think a normal amount about fighting your uncle with a sword yes or no

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I don’t know why you guys are always complaining about r/asoiaf I’m having the time of my life

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Cersei failing to seduce Ned in GOT 😭 he’s a stronger man than me fr