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Jamie after his sword fight with Brienne xx

oh thats hot as hell. if only sex was real

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Josef Liesler (1912-2005)—Between Heaven and Earth [oil, hardboard, 1975]

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Anyways

#asha greyjoy #qarl the maid #qarlasha

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Wolfgang Tillmans Chemistry square 1992

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found on etsy

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While the comparison I made is between Robb/Theon, this quote from GRRM feels right here.

We meet Theon, Robb, and Jon watching Lord Eddard carry out an execution, and they each must face the same trial alone.

Jon’s beheading trial:

“He raised Longclaw over his head, both hands tight around the grip. One cut, with all my weight behind it. He could give her a quick clean death, at least. He was his father's son. Wasn't he? Wasn't he? “Do it," she urged him after a moment. "Bastard. Do it. I can't stay brave forever." When the blow did not fall she turned her head to look at him. Jon lowered his sword. "Go," he muttered.” -Jon VI, ACOK

There are too many things at play here to make non-convoluted deeper parallels between the three instances, but my loose interpretation is:

Robb because he thinks he’s doing what his father would do. Jon because he decided there wasn’t anything good and clean about Ygritte’s death, therefore it was not true honor to kill her. Theon because he wishes he could have a Stark’s honor and be good like Ned, and he utterly fails.

(Tragedy of Theon here is that there’s nothing honorable about kidnapping a child and raising them alongside your own, but in the shadow of a great sword hmmnbbngghh how is Theon supposed to wrap his head around that?)

Theon / Robb: first beheading

“Theon had to take the axe himself or look a weakling. His hands were sweating, so the shaft twisted in his grip as he swung and the first blow landed between Farlen's shoulders. It took three more cuts to hack through all that bone and muscle and sever the head from the body, and afterward he was sick, remembering all the times they'd sat over a cup of mead talking of hounds and hunting. I had no choice, he wanted to scream at the corpse. The ironborn can't keep secrets, they had to die, and someone had to take the blame for it. He only wished he had killed him cleaner. Ned Stark had never needed more than a single blow to take a man's head.” -Theon V ACOK.

“The axe crashed down. Heavy and well-honed, it killed at a single blow, but it took three to sever the man's head from his body, and by the time it was done both living and dead were drenched in blood. Robb flung the poleaxe down in disgust, and turned wordless to the heart tree. He stood shaking with his hands half-clenched and the rain running down his cheeks. Gods forgive him, Catelyn prayed in silence. He is only a boy, and he had no other choice.” -Catelyn III, ASOS.

#the meta is straight forward on the surface but trying to put everything together gets so convoluted #Jon not killing Ygritte could and does mean a bunch of different things yknow #what about the nights watch man Ned beheaded being innocent? #Robb and Jon debating over if he died bravely or not…. #Theon holding the sword…. #theon greyjoy #robb stark #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #Jon snow #a song of ice and fire

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Debbie Harry of Blondie on a tour bus, travelling to Philadelphia in 1978.

Photo : Martyn Goddard.

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1986

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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.

#ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhh

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Wait until Asha finds out about the Stannis/Mel/Davos/Selyse polycule from hell. I think she’d get a kick out of that.

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finally rendered those baela and rhaena sketches;

baela, lady of driftmark 🌊 & her younger twin sister— rhaena of pentos 🪷

(post on x)

#omggggg

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Silent Hill 4: The Room ( Room 302 )

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Post from years ago was right and let’s say it again <3<3<3

also because the night by patti smith is unironically the asha/qarl ship theme song

#asha greyjoy #qarl the maid #Spotify

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Qarlasha brrrrrrrr George finish TWOW for Qarlasha development specifically <3333333 (begging)

#I need to know what becomes of them in TWOW #asha greyjoy #Qarl the maid #Qarlasha

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