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My secret santa gift for @gaystannis, Jon Connington at Illyrio’s manse meeting Aegon for the first time 💙

Happy holidays!!!

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“And Griff knighted you?” 

“A year later.” 

Haldon Halfmaester smiled a thin smile. “Tell our little friend how you came by your name, why don’t you?” 

“A knight needs more than just the one name,” the big man insisted, “and, well, we were in a field when he dubbed me, and I looked up and saw these ducks, so … don’t laugh, now.”

this scene has the potential to be extremely hilarious & i’m surprised that nobody’s ever drawn it. joncon is majorly reevaluating his life choices and rolly is trying his best  

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Catelyn arrives at Winterfell

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asha but in peak sexy couture (unbuttoned white dress shirt and tight black high waisted pants)

chest scars are my hc abt her AND HERE’S MY SUCKLING BABE stunt. i bet she shanked her tiddies more than once trying to perfect that move

#n i c e

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Littlefinger would have been dead sooooo long ago if not for his stupid amount of luck. I have a begrudging respect for him mostly because I am the most luckless person lmao this is why I don’t play board games.

Do you think Littlefinger is a good player of the "game of thrones" or is he just lucky while doing stupid stuff? For me it seems that he has no permanent ally and could be caught in his schemes at any second ,like orchestrating deaths using Dontos, Sansa and Lisa, very unreliable people

I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s because of his choice of proxies and catspaws. Littlefinger’s use of Sansa owes more to his own neuroses about Catelyn, Brandon, Eddard, and Sansa herself than his skill with the game of thrones.

Littlefinger’s hang-ups in his actions are due primarily to his overwhelming desire for recognition that he is exceptional. Born a minor lordling with Braavosi sellsword ancestry, Littlefinger has a deep-seated grudge to satisfy against the aristocratic blue blood families like the Arryns that think that they’re better than him. Similarly, he despises Brandon, and Eddard, because Brandon completely wrecked him in a duel and stole Catelyn’s heart away. 

Much like Dutch van der Linde from the Red Dead franchise, if there’s one thing Littlefinger hates, it’s being made to feel small. Hence why Littlefinger needs to rub it in Eddard’s face that he slept with Catelyn despite knowing that it pisses Eddard off, he is constantly waving the dagger around as if daring people to put two and two together. His ego demands it, it’s his primal need for satisfaction coming to the surface. When people don’t recognize that he’s the culprit, he can delight at being underestimated and pulling the wool over someone’s eyes. Needling Eddard that he slept with Catelyn first soothes the pain over the loss by saying that he was first, that it was his charm and personal prowess that was excellent and only the aristocratic schemes of Hoster Tully put an end to it; the game was rigged against him but he demonstrated that he had the chops.

So he does have talent in the sphere, but he does do some monumentally stupid things because of his own personal failings and needs.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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Brandon Stark, the Wild Wolf 🐺

Because in this house, we love a bad boy™😍

#brandon stark #brother of ned stark #cuz lets face it theres too many brandons

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Tyrion V ACOK

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ASOIAF Meme: 2/5 Minor Characters:

The Sand Snakes

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The Seastone Chair: Awesome Digital Illustration by Logan Feliciano

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Would you think it’s right to call Rhaegar and Lyanna selfish for absconding together and finally breaking free from the pressure of their society?

Well, let’s break that up a bit, because I don’t think Rhaegar and Lyanna themselves were motivated by the same thing. 

Rhaegar, I don’t think, was motivated to ‘break free from the pressure of [his] society at all’, honestly. From what Barristan tells us, and from what Dany’s House of the Undying vision shows us, Rhaegar placed a pretty high value on prophetic concerns. While I certainly hope he cared for Lyanna, I think he was mostly considering the need he saw for a third head of the dragon. Which is not so much breaking free as acting in accordance with another perceived duty. So Rhaegar I would not call selfish (on current information). Careless and reckless, sure! But not selfish.

Lyanna’s situation was considerably different. Well worth pointing out here that Lyanna was fifteen. Fifteen, approached by a socially superior man to whom she owed her life, and otherwise looking at a marriage to Robert Baratheon, which she didn’t want. There are serious questions here about the options Lyanna thought she had, the options she actually had, and her ability to choose freely. On account of her age, I’m also pretty sceptical about her ability to predict the consequences of her actions, a different thing entirely to realising what went on in hindsight. I’m entirely unsympathetic to any arguments that she should have known what Aerys would do.

While I think Lyanna did want to escape what her society was telling her she should do, honestly, fuck that society. Forced marriages are no good. I don’t think it’s unreasonably selfish to want to avoid marriage to someone you dislike. I don’t think it’s unreasonably selfish to want to marry someone you do like. I don’t think it’s unreasonably selfish to defy someone trampling over your wishes regarding your autonomy and future.

Whatever Lyanna might or might not have been able to do in order to minimise the fallout of her decision to elope, the bigger problem here is with the society that treats people and their intimate relationships as a political commodity and which does not give women the power to make their own decisions.

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I always meant to polish and post this Arthur Dayne… and then I didn’t

Bonus with Ashara

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“Against all that, Rhaenyra’s advantages were few. Some older lords might yet recall the oaths they had sworn when she was made Princess of Dragonstone and named her father’s heir. There had been a time when she had been well loved by highborn and commons alike, when they had cheered her as the Realm’s Delight. Many a young lord and noble knight had sought her favor then … though how many would still fight for her, now that she was a woman wed, her body aged and thickened by six childbirths, was a question none could answer. Though her half brother had looted their father’s treasury, the princess had at her disposal the wealth of House Velaryon, and the Sea Snake’s fleets gave her superiority at sea. And her consort Prince Daemon, tried and tempered in the Stepstones, had more experience of warfare than all their foes combined. Last, but far from least, Rhaenyra had her dragons.”

Left to right: Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (the Queen That Never Was), Rhaena Targaryen, Baela Targaryen, Prince Daemon Targaryen, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, Viserys II Targaryen, Aegon III Targaryen, Jacaerys Velaryon, Lucerys Velaryon, Corlys Velaryon and Joffrey Velaryon.

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#the blacks #asoiaf

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A Song Of Ice and FIRE: Daenerys BY Dyewind

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“Prince Aenys was the first to marry. In 22 AC, he wed the Lady Alyssa, the maiden daughter of the Lord of the Tides, Aethan Velaryon, King Aegon’s lord admiral and master of ships. She was fifteen, the same age as the prince, and shared the silvery hair and purple eyes as well, for the Velaryons were an ancient family descended from Valyrian stock. King Aegon’s own mother had been a Velaryon, so the marriage was reckoned one of cousin to cousin. It soon proved both happy and fruitful. The following year, Alyssa gave birth to a daughter. Prince Aenys named her Rhaena, in honor of his mother. Like her father, the girl was small at birth, but unlike him she proved to be a happy, healthy child, with lively lilac eyes and hair that shone like beaten silver. It was written that King Aegon himself wept the first time his granddaughter was placed in his arms, and thereafter doted upon the child… mayhaps in some part because she reminded him of his lost queen, Rhaenys, in whose memory she had been named.” This is the last redraw this year. It’s hard to believe that less than a year has passed since I posted the previous version. I decided to add a scar on Aegon’s cheek (you know what scar, heh), to make little Rhaena more lively and to change the background a little. Thanks to everyone who began to follow my work this year, I’m very glad that so many fans of the World of Ice and Fire and fans of the Targaryen house liked my art. I hope you will continue to enjoy them)

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FE Fates portrait set commission of Stannis Baratheon for @post-ironicweaboo ! This was a neat little crossover to work on and I’m happy with how it turned out!😄 Twitter sketch Twitter link

✨Commission info here!✨

#stannis the mannis

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Do you think Rhaegar would have been a better king than Robert?

Absolutely not. Rhargar managed to, at Harrenhal, piss off three of his most powerful vassals, and he kicked off a war based on a vague understanding of an ancient prophecy that got his dynasty almost exterminated. That’s not really sound leadership material. For all of Robet’s faults, and there are many, Rhaegar was a screw up on a whole other level.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#at least robert was likable and didnt piss off three great houses in one go

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the Starks (and Jon). based more on the books than the show