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excited for the aegon the conqueror show; i can't wait for him to say "it's conquerin time" and then aegon all over the place

#this is a joke

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the thing that annoys me the most about the bullying claim among the stark sisters is that they talk about how much it affects Arya that she thinks she’s ugly and such and like she does, but she’s so much more worried about being “bad” she killed a boy. She’s also going through poverty and war and starving and being introduced to cults/bands of “justice” by murder

but nooooo she totally is more affected by being called horse face despite being compared to SOOOOOO MANY PRETTY PEOPLE AND THAT MEANS SHES GOOD (never mind that good looking=good person should NOT BE YOUR BASIS)

I think most people, and especially girls, know exactly how it feels to worry about your appearance and feel ugly and unattractive, and I get that this is a particular pain for Arya, who apparently has never been called pretty except by her dad one time in AGOT, in an offhanded comparison to her aunt Lyanna. I don't think attractiveness is the most important thing to validate in any child, but I do think that it is good and nice to affirm to your child that they have their own beauty, so that they can then negotiate their relationship with that word from a safer place in adulthood.

It's not about telling your child they don't look a certain way (e.g. no good telling Brienne she's a normal height and her nose is hardly crooked at all), but that the way they look is something unique to them and something they should take pride in, regardless of what others say. Like I think it's an OOC moment in the show, but I think it's sweet when Olenna tells Brienne she looks 'marvellous' or something. She's not saying 'you look like bella hadid', she's saying 'I love the way you look!' to a woman who has received nothing but insults (despite looking like fuckin. Gwendoline Christie lmao). that is nice. it's not the most important compliment anyone can receive, but it embraces divergence as positive.

as it goes though, Arya is a pretty girl and it's just weird that the adults found countless compliments for Sansa and none for Arya. and that's why I find it so bizarre that everyone wants to pin Arya's self-esteem issues on Sansa, a prepubescent child!! like, would Arya have taken these insults so hard if Cat had stepped in and said 'don't listen, you're a lovely girl and your father says you look just like your aunt Lyanna! sansa i am telling you off for calling people names'. children are always going to call each other mean names! it is one thing that is practically guaranteed to happen in any sibling relationship, and anyone who says otherwise is an only child or lying.

but it is much harder for a child to manage that hurt if they're getting called those names, and society seems to be reifying to truth of them at every turn! Septa Mordane is calling her ugly! Cat is calling her a mess! Ned has never complimented her till AGOT! etc! she has never received a compliment before! so how on earth can you say 'and Arya's self-esteem issues can all be traced back to the playground bickering between she and Sansa and Jeyne' when Arya is obviously getting the same message from what seem like far more authoritative sources! is it not worse that those sources are all complimenting Sansa all the time and never Arya? does that not make it worse when Sansa acts like a child about it? like!!

and yeah I agree that there are other more painful insecurities Arya is struggling with. I do think at least part of the reason that this argument keeps coming up in fandom is that people keep trying to claim that Arya's story is similar to Brienne's, in that she IS ugly according to society's standards and that's ok! which isn't true, Arya is canonically a pretty kid with a dirty face and unbrushed hair. that's all it is. so if we could just accept that, there'd be no excuse for the insistence that this is an important aspect of Arya's story.

because it isn't. like im sorry but the ugly duckling means nothing when there are plenty of people who don't grow up to be swans. they get called ugly as children, and they get called ugly as adults. look at Brienne: she has suffered far, far worse prejudice as a result of her appearance in childhood, and she doesn't get the catharsis of growing up pretty to show them all how wrong they were. Brienne has been treated like a fucking monster for how she looks, all of her life. this is a character for whom her appearance IS actually an important theme, and it will be meaningful to see her realise it's a strength, and find love etc. I'm sorry but Arya growing up to be beautiful doesn't mean shit to me lol. I fully accept it's canon, but it is not a meaningful story beat, in a story with people like Tyrion, Brienne and Sam. Arya's story has so many more fascinating themes about identity, trauma, justice, war, friendship and family. if Arya was pretty all along, why should I care?

#op you continue to have my absolute favorite takes on these topics 10/10 no notes!!

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a tarot card fic cover art commission of molly and body-haunting-ghost lucien for the fanfiction The Fool and the Soldier by @mareastrorum 👻😈

#love this!! #other art

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'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality. The hospitality of knives.’

all hail the high king & queen of elfhame 🧚

characters by @/hollyblack

#cuteeee!!! #other art

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Okay so you're an ancient and powerful vampire who's been sleeping in an underground tomb somewhere in Westeros for thousands of years and around the same time Jon Arryn dies you are awakened by some random smallfolk who accidentally stumbles upon your tomb and now that you've been released back into the world you plan create a vampire army to take over Westeros. Who becomes part of your undead army and who becomes your food? And where would you attack first? And does everyone react to you?

P.S. You have all the basic vampire abilities along with hypnosis, telekinesis, and teleportation and you are of course the strongest vampire, but your weaknesses are sunlight, fire, holy items, and you can't enter a sept, but no one knows these weaknesses, not yet anyway.

Well depends on where I woke up.

Firstly, as I’m grappling with the new world I’ve woken up in, I’m just building a tiny cult and getting information. I’m making sure it’s GOOD information too, so probably once I’m strong enough to get around a bit, I’m sneaking into a castle and I’m making someone highborn my thrall - someone who can walk in the daylight but is tied to me. I think I’d change like some lord’s maiden daughter, make her father my thrall, and be like okay now tell me what the fuck is happening because none of the smallfolk here can read aksjsj.

If we say near Oldstones or the Isle of Faces - both kinda hotspots for funky magic south of the wall - I would say by the time I’ve established a little following for myself, Cat is on her way back North and the war is about to kick off. The moment it starts, i’m dropping everything i was planning - probably to try to get north and see if the daylight days are shorter, and start a lil cult north of the wall - and I’m settling into the Riverlands and getting ready to feed on the slaughter.

Think about it. Desperate people in a war zone willing to flock to anyone offering them shelter. Desperate deserters, hungry soldiers, and half dead bodies everywhere. I can change who I want, I can disguise my kills as being the fault of soldiers, and I have a lot of victims to train anyone I want to change on. Especially when Edmure sends most of his men home to protect their lands - now we got scared desperate soldiers just going home, and I can take advantage of that. By the time anyone with any power figures out what I’m doing, I’ve set up a little cult on the Isle of Faces.

How does this affect the plot? Okay, well, I figure if I'm on the Isle of Faces, I'm going for Harrenhal as my human hide out (while I, the vampire, would want to make more of a home on the Isle itself since humans don't visit there as much. Altho....fuck wait can I hang around weirwoods or do they burn me? Maybe I have to go to Oldstones instead actually) because it's spooky. We know Shella Whent couldn't easily defend it, so probably I've changed a lot of humans at Fairmarket and High Heart, then brought my little group to Harrenhal to take it ourselves. I would definitely set myself up similar to some other peasant or religious heroes here, where I'm offering hearth and home to the frightened heroes nearby and then feeding off them at night. Especially when I find out Harrenhal is cursed- I can just blame anything weird on the curse. That probably winds up helping the Starks because the Mountain can't set up there, nor can Roose Bolton start plotting either, lmao, but also, they've got a creepy cult leader set up in Harrenhal and they have to deal with me. I'd probably promise to let Shella Whent back into the castle so long as she promises to work with my little group to "protect the smallfolk" - and then just like,,,,make HER my thrall. Then I'm really cooking.

#DID SOMEONE SAY VAMPIRE AU

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The wild thing about being obsessed with your own DnD campaign is that there's absolutely NO fandom content for it except the stuff that you make

Like, what do you mean only six other people in the entire world have heard of Dave the Ice Elemental whose job is Freezer at the Fantasy Starbucks?

#YEAH YEAH BASICALLY #i cant believe only three other people know of prince louis valois who is the funniest person in all of estra without even trying

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the tyrell banner wasn't necessary but i added it for the reach

#asoiaf #god i really really hope someone gets this pun #ao3

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a fairly quick drawing of arya stark

#omg this is so cute #other art

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Lann the Clever

“Lann was the fellow who winkled the Casterlys out of Casterly Rock with no weapon but his wits, and stole gold from the sun to brighten his curly hair.”

#love this!!! #other art

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#aurane stealing euron's fleet PLS

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#OOH GORGEOUS #other art

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Listen I know I like to shit on the Game of Thrones show since I started reading the books but nothing, and I mean, nothing tops Bronn as Lord Paramount of the Reach, because the Tyrells are all dead, as one of the scenes that sends me up a wall on all fours in a rabid rage, hanging onto the ceiling with nothing but my teeth

#SAME SAME FR #as if there arent a bunch of tyrell cousin branches #as if there arent TWO ENTIRE TYRELL BROTHERS LEFT #okay but lets say they really are all dead. all the main branch AND the cousins #there's a whole bunch of other houses in the reach!! #house hightower would probably have a claim to highgarden cause of alerie!! #but bronn?? of all people????? #its the way the showrunners so obviously favor him and bend the rules of the setting to reward their fave #while butchering and flattening and flanderizing so many other characters

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a piece i made for Game of Thrones exhibition at Glitch Singapore featuring Arya Stark [clothes, needle, and etc were my redesign] , come visit the the exhibition and enjoy lots of great arts from various artists as well!

#whoaaa thats super cool!! #other art

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if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

#SYMPHONIC MY BELOVED with folk being a very close second

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anyway uhhh i need more shows with the carnival row/shadow and bone vibe. ones with magic, good fantasy politics, more fae, and maybe even vampires!

#gaslamp fantasy is soooo underrated as a genre

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damn, carnival row is such a good show. shame it only got one season :///

#i finished it.

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Sansa and Lady

#ooooh the soft colors #other art