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u guys are absolutely right i shouldnt even acknowledge it or dedicate any time of my day to it but the stagnant state of the main series just led to so much contrarian bullshit being regurgitated (ironically also by the very people who berate and dunk on others 24/7 about being illiterate about their faves) and being taken seriously in actual legitimate asoiaf circles that it just gets under my skin lol

#a moment of weakness im afraid #its just so stupid like its a long series if u dont gaf about a part of it then just stfu and don’t embarrass urself i beg

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Had an idea for "Human" Ramattra

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“jaime did it mostly for self preservation” “he did it bc he was ordered to kill his father” are not only blatantly incorrect and borderline illiterate reads of what is in the text but idk why people find it unfathomable that someone like jaime would want to prevent thousands of people from violently burning alive. like it is not actually a difficult moral equation which is why it is at the center of jaime’s arc and his relationship to his society because he realizes that the ethical constructs of westeros seem to be in opposition to this very obvious moral choice as seen by how the situation could even escalate to the point that it does through the enablement of the tyrant by the respected institution of the kingsguard and the uncritical upholding of the honor system over an actual coherent moral code. same with the scorn he receives for killing what everybody acknowledges as an objectively horrid tyrant who harmed innocents and violated law that knights are also sworn to protect and uphold and actually contradict by not acting against.

#like u guys r so blinded by agenda posting that it gets mind numbing #seeing ppl that otherwise r not illiterate repeat these points actually kills me #i should be studying but here i am pissing and crying again #and the whole ‘oh he only did it when it was convenient’ that is not the point the point is that he kept upholding what the kg represented #until he was pushed far enough to break and throw it all away #we see that he keeps challenging it and keeps being shut down until it reaches a breaking point #it isnt framed as ‘oh jaime now knows that he can do this bc tywins here haha’ #its just he finally reaches the obvious breaking point #bc someone out there has to stop a nuke #and it all becomes clear #jaime doesnt have to be the paragon of virtue to do this but yes he has the awareness and the moral code to do the right thing #how contrarian brained do u have to be to take this away

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Jaime thought back on the head he'd given to Pia. He could almost hear his little brother chuckle. Whatever became of giving women flowers? Tyrion might have asked. — Jaime IV

"He will bring a rose for you," her father promised her, but a rose was no good, a rose could not keep her safe. It was a sword she wanted. Oathkeeper. — Brienne VIII

#self rb #back to hiatus bye break over mid terms back on kms #🫡 #funs over for me sadly

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"No one can fault Lannister on his courage," Glover said. "When he saw that he was lost, he rallied his retainers and fought his way up the valley, hoping to reach Lord Robb and cut him down. And almost did."

Jaime would be battering his host to bloody bits against the walls of Riverrun, and the Others take their chances.

"Why should I tell you anything?"

"To save your life."

"You think I fear death?" That seemed to amuse him.

His cousin groaned. "We can't hope to defeat eighteen."

"Did I say we could? The best we can hope for is to die with swords in our hands." He was perfectly sincere. Jaime Lannister had never been afraid of death.

Two swords would be even better. One for the wench and one for me. We'd die, but we'd take half of them down to hell with us.

Let them kill me, he thought, so long as I die fighting, a blade in hand.

"Jaime, what are you doing?"

"Dying," he whispered back.

"No," she said, "no, you must live." He wanted to laugh.

"Stop telling me what do, wench. I'll die if it pleases me."

"Are you so craven?"

"What else can I do, but die?"

Just more shit in the bucket. Jaime resolved to be the first man on the battlements. And with this golden hand of mine, most like the first to fall.

Jaime smiled. "I agree. I am as unfit to guard the king as you are. So draw that sword you're fondling, and we shall see how your two hands fare against my one. At the end one of us will be dead, and the Kingsguard will be improved." He rose. "Or, if you prefer, you may return to your duties." […] The man is craven, and a good thing. Though fat, aging, and never more than ordinary, Ser Boros could still have hacked him into bloody pieces.

It was a good thing that Jaime wore no sword; elsewise he would have ripped his blade out, and if Ser Brynden did not slay him, the archers on the walls most surely would.

"Well, shut your bloody mouth and kill me if you can."

It pleases him to humiliate me nightly. It might please him even more to kill me.

Dondarrion was rash enough to attack, however, he would find himself facing forty knights, every one worth ten outlaws and a hundred brokenmen. And if the lightning lord has more than that? a voice inside him asked, but a harsher voice replied, why, then I see if Cersei sheds a tear for me. (draft)

clearly a man whose main motivation for his biggest and most defining choices is self-preservation

everything else in here aside where does this idea of reckless with borderline suicidal tendencies jaime “i never feared death” lannister as someone very fixated on self preservation come from??

#he would kill himself to own the libs be fucking for real with me

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everything else in here aside where does this idea of reckless with borderline suicidal tendencies jaime “i never feared death” lannister as someone very fixated on self preservation come from??

#i see it so much as if its like his primary motivation in everything that he does and its like man #this obsession with removing the possibility that he may feel empathy towards other ppl sometims is so funny sorry

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bran’s aspirations for knighthood and the kingsguard specifically and how their stories were music to his ears and how he romanticizes them and how it is repeated over and over again in his chapters that those dreams were crushed due to him being crippled is one of my favorite tragedies in the series. he was robbed of his dreams by the man that became as vile as he is primarily because of his experience and disillusionment with those same heroes that he romanticized very similarly and the corrupt moral and ethical frameworks they exist within. i also like it in terms of emotional weight and how terrible it makes jaime’s act. he was the one that killed the boy this time. he killed “the boy that wanted to be ser arthur dayne.”

#self rb #thinking about them #cycle enjoyers and everything

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“Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion, and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things. There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night.

- George R. R. Martin

#smile

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anon my good friend no joke i would rather kill myself than engage in asoiaf prepubescent girl pretty discourse

#idgaf #lady smallwood scene is very cute and i love it tons though

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add this to the moodboard...

#prev #jb

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bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

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cersei and tyrion calling jaime unserious in canon is saur funny

#what the hell is thaisvagv #i do not remember this at all

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jaime being insane in terms of skill as a swordsman is so key to his status as the #1 resident of idgafghanistan bc that is part of what enables his post-aerys experience faux nihilistic limbo state bc he effectively believes that he can solve any problem (“knots and tangles”) that he even allows to matter atp by cutting it apart with a longsword. the uncomplicated physical keeps protecting him from the complicated mental (kind of like how he frames the dissociative quality of the battle fever to tyrion: “you stop feeling, you stop thinking, you stop being you”). oh the kid wakes up and talks? ok well ill just kill ned and then robert and then. he is so far gone that he does the same with brienne when she embodies two major obstacles: the surface level problem of being his captor who judges, misunderstands, and dehumanizes him, and the deeper problem of being someone who cares and retains her values and humanity and continuously rejects and contradicts jaime’s cynical worldview that he uses to justify himself. her very existence is a condemnation of jaime on every level. this is also why her actually ending up dominating him and him being unsuccessful in cutting her down in that fight works so well. she is a knot he cannot cut through.

#someone liked this again oh op u spilled

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The REAL reason I couldn't survive in the world of asoiaf is that everyone knows half the knights of the realm and all the houses their words and their sigils my ass could not remember who ser Jeffrey Stone the Lance of Runestone unhorsed at the tourney in Stone Hedge to celebrate Danelle Bracken's wedding to Walder Frey's most attractive great grandson

#i was gonna say this is jaime but no this is the type of thing he would know

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#my communist king uve done miracles on me 80% winrate u r everything #ovw