I cannot believe I’ve left it six years to reread, because I’ve totally forgotten about gems like this, “Ned, our toddler is kinda scared about our new mythical face-biting wolf pets” / “Cat, our toddler needs to face the real world, where wolves sometimes bite your face” this is gold honestly
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I cannot believe I’ve left it six years to reread, because I’ve totally forgotten about gems like this, “Ned, our toddler is kinda scared about our new mythical face-biting wolf pets” / “Cat, our toddler needs to face the real world, where wolves sometimes bite your face” this is gold honestly
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do you ever have that one canon character you liked just fine in the canon, but the more you see of their fans, the more you come to just kind of … loathe them by association? like, a pavlov’s reflex of cringing every time you see their name or face
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Daenerys’ Wedding Dress - I repurposed Sansa’s coronation dress into a wedding gown for Dany.
“Proud and silver and beautiful, she waited for him by the weirwood tree of his ancestors, clad in ivory and velvet and fur, crowned with a dragon, and decorated with the red leaves of the weirwood tree. Beside her, the tree wept blood, but Jon could swear that its tears, likes his, were not of sorrow, but of happiness.”
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otto hightower and alicent hightower once they realize that the king is going to defend the rightful heir (and beloved child) so their plan to gain house velaryon's support went up in smoke
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Rereading AFFC and it’s really striking how much training Margaery got to be queen when compared to Cersei. I wish we had a Margaery POV but it’s obvious that she doesn’t just happen to love activities that just so happen to be great PR for her and her house. Maybe she enjoys some of it and being so social and active but look at how she spends her days. Going to see the daily catch at the docks, giving alms, riding horses and boats where everyone can see her and her ladies, favoring merchants and tradespeople all over the city, praying publicly in the sept of Baelor rather than privately in the Red Keep. Someone taught her that if she bought a snack from a street vendor that man would tell the story of how he met the Queen for the rest of his life and there is power in that. She knows how to politic and what her role is and how to go about queening. And her family trusts her! Trusts her to do well! Trusts her enough to leave her to it!
And seeing it from Cersei’s POV is sort of startling in that she can’t see what Margaery is doing and even when she can see it she doesn’t really understand why it’s important. Tywin Lannister was obsessed with his daughter becoming the queen since the moment she was born but never bothered to teach her a single thing about politics or how to be a queen. Not that Tywin had an eye for image politics but still. He really just thought that Cersei’s job as queen is to look pretty, give birth, and do what he tells her to. It’s a downright lack of imagination on his part. And a failure to prepare her.
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asoiaf fandom is anti monarchy only when they want the targs or daenerys dead
but if their fav are rulers in the same feudal system? that's fine
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loras and jon can never meet because jon will stare at him for 3 chapters straight talking about how beautiful his hair is and how lovely he smells
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It's kind of underrated on how everyone was 100 percent sure Loras was going to commit regicide the second he saw Joffrey abuse Margaery, so the rest of his family had to hurry up and plot a murder before Loras could become a kingslayer. Aemon the dragonknight could never
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Daemon🤝Aemma
The Hightower’s biggest haters
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“When Prince Daemon sent forth his call to arms, they rose up all along the rivers, knights and men-at-arms and humble peasants who yet remembered the Realm's Delight, so beloved of her father, and the way she smiled and charmed them as she made her progress through the Riverlands in her youth. Hundreds and then thousands buckled on their swordbelts and donned their mail, or grabbed a pitchfork or a hoe and a crude wooden shield, and began to make their way to Harrenhal to fight for Viserys's little girl."
- Fire & Blood, GRRM
Rhaenyra is not the “Realm’s Delight” for nothing.
Daemon is not the “Prince of the City” for nothing.
I can’t wait to see the Riverlords rise up for their Queen.
The Starks will call the banners.
Lady Jeyne Arryn will show the Realm what a woman at the helm of a Great House can do.
The Winter Wolves!
I said it once and I will say it again: the Blacks have the best/coolest allies, who fight for Queen Rhaenyra and then for her heir, the future Aegon III.
More than half the Realm sided with our Black Queen.
Roderick Dustin: “We have come to die for the dragon queen!”
The greens will be introduced to something they can never comprehend: pure loyalty.
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Just a reminder that the only reason Alicent Hightower survived the Dance of the Dragons is because her spiteful and ungrateful behind was touched by Rhaenyra’s mercy.
Alicent was supposed to be executed along with her snake of a father after the Blacks took King’s Landing.
Rhaenyra decided to spare Alicent because she knew how much Viserys loved his second wife. She honored her father by sparing this woman who bullied her since she was 8 years old and plotted to steal her throne.
That’s the definition of mercy.
And through Rhaenyra’s mercy, Alicent got an even better punishment than death: live long enough to watch everything she worked for blow up in her face while her entire line ended.
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Categories of people who actually give an accurate chapter count from the start for how long a story is going to be:
people who have already written the whole thing, they’re just posting it a bit at a time
people writing in a style where the chapter count is integral to the structure, such as 5+1
wizards
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Things that work in fiction but not real life
torture getting reliable information out of people
knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour
jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact
calling the police to deescalate a situation
rafting your way off a desert island
correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes
effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences
heterosexual cowboy
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"Well you see... Rhaenyra, a proto-feminist figure living in a patriarchal medieval context with no surrounding feminist movement doesn't live up to my specific ideas of what a "feminist" should be. Therefore, she has no right to question or challenge gender roles and I have no obligation to view her struggle through a modern or feminist lens. And since her story is primarily about being subjected to medieval-brand misogyny that I've decided she no longer has the right to challenge, it means that I'll probably end up emulating and endorsing those mindsets. But don't you dare criticize how my precious innocent Alicent participates in the patriarchy! It's not her fault and you're only allowed to discuss her through a modern feminist lens about how she's a victim of medieval-brand misogyny but also don't you dare use that lens to point out that she actively upholds that system and weaponizes it against other women she's a product of her time and she's a victim who doesn't know any better!!!!!!!!!!!"
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