#A Game of Thrones

[doradeluna]

The queen wore a high-collared black silk gown, with a hundred dark red rubies sewn into her bodice, covering her from neck to bosom. They were cut in the shape of teardrops, as if the queen were weeping blood. Cersei smiled to see her, and Sansa thought it was the sweetest and saddest smile she had ever seen.

This was supposed to be another quick one that took me a literal month of work, on and off, and over 20 hours of audiobook listened while doing it. There's something to be said about how nowadays I'm more comfortable with working on pieces for longer and just chipping away at work rather than staying up until 4 am to finish something on a rush but like. Anyway, Sansa's POV! Cersei's revenge dress! Murdered husband! Misogyny will come for us all in the end!

Commissions open!

bonus: pycelle's dumb face

#art #my art #mine #artists on tumblr #procreate #fanart #asoiaf #cersei #cersei lannister #sansa stark #petyr baelish #varis #game of thrones #a game of thrones #maester pycelle #sansa #next drawing will have less white people on it i promise

[sanikori]

And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. “The last dragon.” Ser Jorah’s voice whispered faintly. “The last, the last.” Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own. - Daenerys IX, AGOT

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #asoiafedit #daenerys targaryen #canondany #a game of thrones #agot #house targaryen #targnation #valyriansource #valyrianscrolls

[georgescitadel]

George R.R. Martin on the process of creating A Game Of Thrones (1/3)

You hold in your hands the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire… but not the second volume as originally intended. Although I wrote the opening of A Game of Thrones back in the summer of 1991, as related in my introduction to the Meisha Merlin edition of that volume, it was not until October of 1993 that I drew up a proposal for my agents to take to publishers. There is no mention of any book titled A Clash of Kings in that proposal. In 1993, I was under the impression that I was writing a trilogy.

Trilogies had been the dominant form in epic fantasy ever since J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings had been broken apart by publishers and released in three volumes. And the story that I wanted to tell divided quite naturally into three parts; much more so, in fact, than The Lord of the Rings, which is actually one fairly seamless narrative, and not a trilogy at all. I planned to title the books A Game of Thrones, A Dance with Dragons, and The Winds of Winter. I knew right from the start that they would all be large books. Huge books, even. But there were to be only three of them, and…and none were to be called A Clash of Kings. Sometimes the author is the last to know.

As I write this, I am halfway through the writing of A Feast for Crows, the fourth volume of my ‘trilogy.’ There is no mention of that title in my 1993 proposal either. These days, when pressed, I confidently assert that A Song of Ice and Fire will ultimately run to six books… but behind my back I know my lady Parris is smiling knowingly and holding up seven fingers. She may be right. Though I may dream of six books, plan for six books, work toward six books, the only thing that truly matters is the story. And the story needs to be as long as the story needs to be.

In Hollywood, the suits will tell you how long that is. A television show has to fit within its allotted time slot, of course, and you cannot beg, borrow, or steal an extra minute, no matter how much the story needs it. Running times are somewhat more flexible for films, though not as much as one might think. For the most part, the studios still want movies to run about two hours, so they look for screenplays of 120 pages or less, and demand cuts in any scripts that come in longer. My own screenplays and teleplays were almost always too long and too expensive in first draft, so in my later drafts, along with addressing the inevitable notes from studio, network, and producers, I was constantly trimming. In the end, I would deliver a shooting script that was the right length and under budget, but it was never a happy process… and I often went away feeling that the earlier drafts were the better ones.

The size of A Song of Ice and Fire was in no small part a reaction to ten years of trimming. I wanted to do something epic in scale, something at once grand and sprawling and complex and subtle, with a cast of thousands, huge battles, mighty castles, gorgeous costume, lavish feast, great rivers, towering mountains, vast fields… all the things I could not do in television. In short. I wanted to make a world. And for that you need a bit of room.

In my original proposal, I estimated that each volume of the trilogy might run as long as 800 pages in manuscript. The novels that I had written during the 70's and 80's, before Hollywood, had generally come in at 400 or 500 pages or thereabouts, so an 800 pages book seemed very lengthy indeed. The three books of the trilogy would be structured around the long, slow seasons of Westeros. A Game of Thrones would be summer’s book, A Dance with Dragons would take us through autumn, and The Winds of Winter… well, the title says it all. Even in the Seven Kingdoms, where a season can last for years, 800 pages ought to give me enough room to reach the end of summer and conclude the part of my tale, I reasoned.

‘Twas a lovely plan of battle… but no plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy, it has been said. Writers know the truth of that as well as any general, though our wars are fought on blank white sheets of paper and empty computer screens. For the map is not the territory, the blueprint is not the house, the recipe is not the dinner… and the outline is never ever the book.

- George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings Limited Edition Introduction (2002)

#Ned Stark #Catelyn Stark #Sansa Stark #Arya Stark #Bran Stark #Jon Snow #Tyrion Lannister #Daenerys Targaryen #The Outline #A Game Of Thrones #George R.R. Martin #ValyrianScrolls #ASOIAF

[flying-ham]

jorah is so insane having beef with ned for charging him with slave trading WHEN HE WAS LITERALLY SLAVE TRADING

#like dude you literally committed the crime you were accused of #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #jorah mormont #eddard stark #ned stark #a game of thrones #agot #valyrianscrolls

[circuslollipop]

some sansa costume design ideas!! had fun with these and definitely plan to make more with other characters

top row, left to right: pre-series, 2 king's landing bottom row: "alayne", older in winterfell, hypothetical queen in the north*

(*before anyone says anything i plan to do royalty designs for any starklings i get to because i like designing that sort of thing)

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #sansa stark #digital art #a game of thrones #asoiaf fanart #fan art #costume design

[eimear99]

House stark!

#sansa stark #arya stark #robb stark #jon snow #bran stark #rickon stark #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #art #my art #game of thrones #a game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #house stark #house stark fanart

[motrothi]

Jon Snow

Requested by my brother, I tried to combine his book description with his show depiction :-)

#asoiaf #a game of thrones #game of thrones #jon snow #a song of ice and fire

[mrxss]

Mother of thousands, in her womb lies the salvation of the world.

(open for better quality)

#digital art #digital illustration #digital painting #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #pro daenerys #queen daenerys #daenerys is azor ahai #and you cant change my mind #Dany my beloved #asoiaf #a feast for crows #a storm of swords #a dance with dragons #a clash of kings #a game of thrones #azor ahai

[efpizza]

Queen Rhaella (Mother of Rhaegar, Viserys, & Dany) being dressed after a visit from Aerys

Grim concept, but I had the idea for this drawing from these passages:

"Whenever Aerys gave a man to the flames, Queen Rhaella would have a visitor in the night. The day he burned his mace-and-dagger Hand, Jaime and Jon Darry had stood at guard outside her bedchamber whilst the king took his pleasure. "You're hurting me," they had heard Rhaella cry through the oaken door. "You're hurting me."

"(The maids were) whispering after she was gone. They said the queen looked as if some beast had savaged her, clawing at her thighs and chewing on her breasts"

(jaime, a feast for crows)

#asoiaf #asoiaf art #valyrianscrolls #rhaella targaryen #queen rhaella #aerys targaryen #a song of ice and fire #a game of thrones

[ihaveastorminme]

This was the boy he had grown up with, he thought; this was the Robert Baratheon he’d known and loved. If he could prove that the Lannisters were behind the attack on Bran, prove that they had murdered Jon Arryn, this man would listen. Then Cersei would fall, and the Kingslayer with her, and if Lord Tywin dared to rouse the west, Robert would smash him as he had smashed Rhaegar Targaryen on the Trident. He could see it all so clearly. That breakfast tasted better than anything Eddard Stark had eaten in a long time, and afterward his smiles came easier and more often, until it was time for the tournament to resume.

oh yes, Sansa Stark is in fact, her fathers daughter.

#eddard stark #sansa stark #valyrianscrolls #its painful how much they are alike here . because NO NED THIS MAN IS NOT THE MAN YOUU KNEW. i doubt you even knew the man you knew #lyanna met him only a couply of times maybe and she kenw him better than you did #eddard 7 #a game of thrones

[leomitchellart]

'Magister Illyrio murmured a command, and four burly slaves hurried forward, bearing between them a great cedar chest bound in bronze. When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce . . . and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs. Dany gasped. They were the most beautiful things she had ever seen, each different than the others, patterned in such rich colors that at first she thought they were crusted with jewels, and so large it took both of her hands to hold one. She lifted it delicately, expecting that it would be made of some fine porcelain or delicate enamel, or even blown glass, but it was much heavier than that, as if it were all of solid stone. The surface of the shell was covered with tiny scales, and as she turned the egg between her fingers, they shimmered like polished metal in the light of the setting sun. One egg was a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it. Another was pale cream streaked with gold. The last was black, as black as a midnight sea, yet alive with scarlet ripples and swirls.  "What are they?" she asked, her voice hushed and full of wonder. "Dragon's eggs, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai," said Magister Illyrio. "The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn bright with beauty." 

A Game of Thrones, Chapter 11, Daenerys II

#ASOIAF #a song of ice and fire #Drogon #Rhaegal #Viserion #dragon #dragons #egg #eggs #dragon eggs #A game of Thrones #GOT #daenerys targeryan #illyrio mopatis #House #Targaryen #Dreamfyre

[cthaehbutwithafrog]

“Would she still want her back, after all the things she’d done?”

Happy Velaryontine’s day @eddtollett 🧡🧡🧡

#took inspo for Aryas dress of one of your drawings of them uwu #I really really hope you like it bb #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #arya stark #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #a song of ice and fire #a song of ice and fire fanart #a game of thrones #a clash of kings #a storm of swords #a feast for crows #a dance with dragons #my art

[turtle-paced]

i was wondering what your thoughts on Ned's parenting is. I keep seeing posts about how he is a bad parent or even cruel. hell one person even wrote that he is only slightly better than tywin lannister.

I think Ned is one of the best parents in the series. Which is not to say he's perfect (no parent is), because he noticeably struggles over the course of AGoT when he's suddenly the prime minister for the continent and doesn't have his life partner with him to assist him in parenting as he usually would. This results in him being pretty hands-off at times, particularly with Sansa. I strongly suspect we see Ned's absolute worst parenting in his life over the course of AGoT.

What Ned is, though, is also a remarkably modern parent in terms of thinking of his kids as kids. This has the weird effect of showing up where he's actually also still a product of his society and so to the reader Ned looks like neither one thing nor the other - neither a modern parent who fully supports his children in their desires that go against the grain nor a traditional parent who treats his children as mini-adults in a world that doesn't recognise adolescence and barely tolerates childhood.

I don't think it's at all in question that Ned adored his kids, was actively involved in the parenting of his kids, raised kids who loved him and each other, raised kids who have integrity and the ability to form meaningful relationships with others, at least tried to be there for them, and ultimately made the fateful decision to falsely confess to treason in an attempt to save the life of his daughter.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #ned stark #a game of thrones

[emprcaesar]

this made me cry so much when I first read it. such a gentle interaction between these two characters and it also shows a different side to robb. in catelyns chapters we really don’t get to see this side of robb he has to play the part of a king at war and can’t be that child any longer. but in the quiet darkness of winterfell with only bran watching he can let himself cry.

#my beloveds #my actual sons #actually tears left my eyes #I have been going crazy for brother relationships in asoiaf #a brothers love #bran stark #robb stark #a game of thrones #asoiaf #asoiaf books #game of thrones #house stark #book quotes #valyrianscrolls

[flying-ham]

imagine being 11 years old at the westerosi equivalent of a football game and ur moms estranged adopted brother comes up to you, tells you he wanted to fuck ur mom, strokes ur cheek, and then leaves

#sansa girl RUN #sansa stark #petyr baelish #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #agot #a game of thrones #valyrianscrolls

[circuslollipop]

alright let's try this again. hopefully it shows up in the tags this time!! anyway here's lyanna

#asoiaf #asoiaf art #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #lyanna stark #a game of thrones