#GIVE JON A CAT

[atopvisenyashill]

not to keep harping on but definitely the complaint i see that really sticks in my craw is that the only reason or the main reason robb planned to banish catelyn to seaguard was because of their argument over jon. it’s certainly a factor but they have spent the entire war arguing over every decision robb makes! ned tells robb “keep your mother in your council” but robb really does not! he has her there, yes, he lets her speak, yes, but oftentimes he will disregard her advice without any appeasement, misstep badly, and be worse off politically in the exact way she warned him of. she’s not the only person he blows off - he’s not exactly nice to edmure either, for example - but cat is right when she suspects there’s an element of “kings are not supposed to have mothers” and “wedded to his war" and she clocks this long before the argument over jon! robb tries to get rid of her at the beginning of a clash of kings when all cat has done is urge him to continue peaceful negotiations with the lannisters!

robb is angry because he’s in over his head and he knows it, and it's got very little to do with jon! robb is losing this war and his best friend was the son of a man who crowned himself and lost the war!! robb knows exactly what’s going to happen to the north if he loses and despite everything, he cannot seem to win despite being a near prodigy in battle tactics. and here his mother has been this whole time, fighting him on every front - just like the lords but he cant punish them for disagreeing can he? - and being so frustratingly right about more things than his lords, and now they’re picking at this wound in their family that has never been allowed to heal and a lot of resentment that both robb and catelyn are feeling at their general situation gets focused in on each other. this is such a tully thing too (pls remember these are canonically unpleasant people!) because look at lysa projecting years of resentment onto sansa, look at the entire cat, hoster, edmure situation, or even hoster & blackfish’s relationship. family is so important to them but in times of stress, “doing everything for family” becomes an anchor pulling them down, until the only thing left is to lash out at each other.

most of the lords are happy to let this nonsense play out! catelyn does not even have the privilege maege & dacey mormont do at being head of their own house - she’s just a wife, just a mother, just a first born daughter. when she disagrees, they don’t see an equal arguing with them, they see a woman sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. they do not give a single solitary shit about like, ~the plight of bastards~ they just believe, like robb, that sansa is currently “tainted” by her marriage to a lannister and can’t be allowed to inherit, that arya is dead, that the boys are dead, that jeyne is not yet pregnant, and a bastard boy castle raised who looks like ned is better than no boy at all (see edric storm, addam of hull, and larence snow). these men have not spent the last fourteen years cooking in their resentment over this situation the way catelyn and robb have!

jon is a reason. but so is rickard karstark, jaime lannister, willem lannister, tion frey, renly baratheon, walder frey, and theon greyjoy. ned is a reason as well, and bran, sansa, rickon, arya, hoster, edmure, perhaps even lysa and sweetrobin. jon is the final straw but robb isn’t (only) sending catelyn away because of some righteous fury on his brother’s behalf! he’s sending her away because she is an easy, socially acceptable target for all his frustrations and failures and fears that he can project on, and punish, in a way he cannot punish his enemies, his lords, or himself.

and catelyn is as always very aware of the deeper motivations in her son’s mind, and resentful that she doesn’t have the power to push back; she’s just a mother, after all.

#getting on my soap box #robb stark #catelyn stark #valyrianscrolls #catelyn stark defense squad #cat/robb and ned/sansa/arya are the most interesting & realistic depictions of mother/son and father/daughter relationships send tweet #like the jon snow of it all is always relevant. but she is also right that she’s being punished for being a woman who won’t shut up. just b #some of her advice (SOME! NOT MOST!) is sketch or not good doesn’t mean they’re not punishing her. it’s not like edmure gives good advice! #but guess which tully is sent away!!!!!! edmure gets to have flaws. he gets to be wrong. catelyn does not. #motherhood #mothers and sons #gender politics in asoiaf

[mxwhore]

'listen to my purrs, human' for @jonsimsandcats 2023 - tips

#not the original idea buuuut since i was late anyway i decided to give you something extra (evil) #tma #jonathan sims #lieutenant #jon sims and cats #jonsimsandcats2023 #tessart

[officially-nothing]

She’s becoming Jon the wet cat archivist

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #magnuspod #gwen bouchard #gwendolyn bouchard #she’s giving wet cat Jon #just a bit silly #Alice knows something fs #she’s joncore

[snekberry]

your future jon design makes me think of cats and how they make holes in cardboard boxes with their fangs

here's an example: https://youtu.be/w36rJdcUk3Y

whoops my hand slipped

everyday i make future!jon a little more cat-like, as one does.

#ask #tma #jonathan sims #snekberry draws #half tempted to give future jon the ability to shapeshift into a cat #but i dont know if that would work with the time travel au #would the ceaseless watcher give its special little boy cat shapeshifting abilities

[fiendishartist2]

worlds most depressed 28 yr old man

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #my art #i just cant stop drawing him like this. its so much fun #like a wet cat if it had depression and was this close to giving up and jumping in a river #i promise i have happy jon art it just. is probably in an au or season 1 pre prentis attack lol #i couldnt decide which colours i liked better so i made 2

[mildcicada]

#when i was first coloring him in he was gonna be golden chinchilla colored but then i was like ehhh jonah magnus should be red/orange but #elias should be gray ...so i just desaturated what i already did instead of recoloring lol but #he is now supposed to be shaded silver lol #but thats why his coat pattern is on the darker side compared to what it *should* be #og elias bouchard coming from an important/roch family and while whole thing with thinking he just *deserves* stuff bc of his upbringing. #etc. -> he is purebred and matches the breed standards etc for a scottish fold of his color #obviously the eye color doesn't matter because. ahaha #i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes #and the cat body/face type (also present in british shorthairs) to me gives off sort of... unnasumming vibes? #like ahaha yes i am a boring boss who loves paperwork look at how unnasumming i am season 1-2 elias y'know #trying to think of what cat breed jonah would be. and also jon gerry etc you know all the other characters i like #would it be boring to have multiple british shorthairs #i mean.. #Michael shelley/distortion is a laperm that's all I know #i didn't particularly care with the personality attributes associated with eliascat because it didn't need to fit his personality on account #of not being his original body. but i do try to keep in mind the best personality/look/etc. cat attributes as a whole for a character #also sometimes get obsessed with jt making historical and geographical sense but then it just limits me greatly to a point im not into it #so i don't care about specific breeds in that respect lol #tma #my art #elias bouchard #the magnus archives #some notes looking back(made it 2 hours ago but still looking back ok..) on it now are that i feel like elias would never choose this breed #for his next bodyhop because of the inherent health issues in scottish folds. I saw the breed was created in like the early 1960s and #assumed that maybe the health issues wouldn't have been common knowledge until later enough for jonah to be unaware of them but actually no #there's legislation about it like 6 years later LOL so jonah would..maybe not make this choice #i guess in the future when drawing i will just make him a British shorthair #my catTMA is simultaneously 'they are just regular cats or like all show cats or something' and 'exact tma plot but as intelligent cats' #LOL its just vague in my mind idk..also maybe jon can be an Abyssinian #ALSO WHAT WAS I THINKING 'jonah may not have been aware about x thing' like did i...did i forget. me 2 hours ago was dumb as rocks

[donoteatmymoths]

Warrior cats art??? In 2024???

#WHAT WOULD JONS WARRIORS NAME BE #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #warrior cats #i havrnt drawn a cat in the warriors style in years so apologies jf this is ass #and thks was just meant as a joke drawing fkr my friends but i figured i might as well post it #AGAIN GIVE ME IDEAS FOR HJS NAME I CANT THINK OF ANYTHINg #also sorry if his scars arent completely accurate again this was just for fun #jonmartin #jmart

[dirtytransmasc]

self indulgent got concept.

Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.

in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:

The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.

cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.

like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.

#listen listen listen #I just want Catelyn to love Jon Snow and I don't care what I ahve to do to make it happen #(plus the angst is delicious) #I was rewatching old kids movies and ended up watching ice age and idk why but the mom sacrificing herself for her babe gave me ideas #I just imagine young Cat holding onto the boy she hated and wished death on for being bastard (only to find out he wasn't one) as tightly- #as she could. knowing Robert and his men were coming. knowing they would slaughter the boy in front of her. knwoing she'd wished for this- #and deciding she'd give her own life to protect him if thats what it came to. #and in my mind she jumped from the window of the nursery knowing the halls will be filled with the kings men and leave little chance for- #escape. before fleeing on injured legs to hide the babe and herself knowing Robert would be right behind her. she's in agony. but she'll- #going for the babes sake. she won't stop until her heart is dead in her chest. even if it hurts to move and breath and think he keeps going #maybe she takes a horse and flees wintefell all together. maybe she hides somewhere in/around the castle. maybe Robert catches her? #if she runs with him she'd have nothing but the clothes on her back. she'd have to feed him and keep him warm. she'd have left her own son- #behind. the potential angst and hurt/comfort as Cat misses her own son and learns to love another. feeding him and keeping him warm from- #her own body while she's injured and lost and at the will of the elements of the strange new place she now considered calling home #idk I just think it'd be an interesting concept #there's something about a mother and her child being cornered by 'wolves' (in this case a stag). this has the added spice of Cat and Jon's- #dynamic. just earlier that day she could barely look at him and now she's willing to die for him. the change happened in seconds. #that was a lot of ranting in the tags. oops. anyway... #catelyn stark #jon snow #I love putting these two in harrowing. life altering. and/or traumatic situations so they can finally just be mother and son #I live for the angsty family feels #got #game of thrones #asoiaf

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

For the doodle thing... Scarecrow with a cat if you don't mind :]

Two meow meows for you (jon loves black cats)

#MS Paint Doodles - Scarecrow #I had to give him a black cat lol #also tnba jon seems like a cat person

[ladystoneboobs]

i call this collection, contradictory quotes from two boys very, very confused about their families, homes, and loyalties.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta #asoiaf #jon snow #theon greyjoy #jonathan snowflake starkgaryen #long post #this was such a pain bc tumblr kept giving me errors processing the post #so i ended up having to copypaste into a word doc and take screengrabs of that to post as photos #finally posting out of sheer stubborn frustration as much as anything #(c)lsb #i am no stark #its not like i think jon was wishing for cat's death every time she went into childbirth #but the possibility must have occured to him that w/o her nobody would question his place at winterfell where hed lived his whole life #the same could not be said for hostage theon with no stark blood #and hes blinded by jealousy to think jon had more honor at wf. more love maybe but he wasnt the one sitting with robb for fancy feasts #jon's thoughts of the gods are quoted bc hes implicitly counting himself a stark with that phrasing instead of his gods or the old gods #just like theon betraying himself every time he said plural gods even if he never cared enough abt any gods to pray until ramsay #i'll always think his capture of wf had as much to do w desire to become a stark as revenge #else he would have sacked the castle and took hostages back to pyke like asha said #its like the saying if you cant beat em join em for theon it was the opposite #he couldnt understand why people who knew him as a hostage wouldnt help him hunt down his own child hostages #it was only fair! theyd be his wards and still live at winterfell together #it occurs to me that stannis for jon was like ned for theon stern scary guy he had to remind himself not to care about #jon may as well be shouting im the lord of winterfell when announcing his desertion hes so bold yet he thinks if this is oathbreaking #if! what theon turncloak mental gymnastics could make it not oathbreaking to kill a northern lord?!

[starlooove]

I think it’d be funny if Damian was completely against graffiti at first until miles was like “oh ok….No it’s nothing I just didn’t think the Son of the Bat would let the GCPD tell him what to do. My mistake :/“ their first joint tag is a mural going around the gcpds main station involving various rogues and vigilantes from each of their cities.

#nightwing visits and appreciates how accurate blud is #red hood signs his section #as do spoiler black bat and somehow the fucking oracle #prowler (omg I can’t believe Aaron didn’t die and just went into a temp coma :0) #anyways prowler says he looks a lot handsomer than the mural makes him out to be but it’s whatever #Tim says they’d be so lost if they actually went to San Fran bc that apartment complex is NOT next to that park omg #he cried and he refuses to admit it #Signal convinces the GCPD to leave it up till the next time the station gets destroyed #Batman doesn’t react but Bruce has each section of it framed and one big picture of all of them combined #damian and miles are literally best friends sorry Jon #Harley is so excited Abt her section and Ivy decides that she’ll give miles and Damian a head start when her plants take back the earth #Selina was surprised to be on there but Damian has a new cat #his name is batcat #jokers not on the mural and he was offended and tried to bomb it and got jumped by the other rogues smh my head #freeze was especially pissed since the mural had a beautiful dedication to Nora #agent a isnt drawn physically but there’s hints of him there that Bruce recognized and pointed out to Alfred like a 10 yr old talking Abt- #-a vid they’re showing their parents #Damian and miles didn’t draw themselves actually #just signed a big ass kid arachnid and Robin #kid arachnid is his name till he’s old enough to actually be Spider-Man

[orionsdistortion]

okay- so- i know that a lot of people really love Melanie and in a lot of ways i do too! but oh my god it makes me so sad when she blames jon for every single problem thats happening :( like he don’t know whats going on either :((((

(this could also be because i am a jon apologist but listen hes my favorite and oh my god he just needs some sleep this poor man)

((s4))

#melanie tma #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives #give jon a cat and a hug campaign

[streetslost]

thinking about how cat values herself so little she would die or ruin herself or give up something she loved or literally anything for scott in a heartbeat.  for almost anyone that she grows to value or care about.  because she sees herself as so easily replaceable.  if she’s gone, that’s fine.  maybe someone will be sad for a bit, but they’ll move on.  there will be someone else to take her spot... but other people are desired, needed, loved...  and scott is all of those and more.  some others that she grows to care about... the things she would do... both to herself and even to others to protect them... very unhealthy.  and getting cat to believe or feel she has value in any capacity is extremely difficult.  even if she says “ok, thank you” and pretends like she believes someone who tries to tell her otherwise... she most likely isn’t being honest. she never truly is able to grasp the idea of being wanted, needed, or loved.  even when she marries scott, has kids, all of that.  she looks at him frequently and wonders if he regrets it and is just pretending.  a part of her deep down knows the truth, and it keeps her from doing anything too brash or stupid... but the other part of her will always rip herself down.

#in seventeen years... amy and jon and scott were some of the only ones #to genuinely honestly and lastingly care about her #and cat is convinced otherwise at one point in her life by margie #in seventeen years cat has had so little genuine love and affection or at least doesn't believe she has #so she's so messed up #even having CHILDREN with scott doesn't solve it #it doesn't make her a less caring wife or mother #in fact it makes her love harder because she feels she has #to make up for being so replaceable and unneeded #but giving herself value is the hardest thing #&&. headcanon ( a closed heart makes a poor story )

[snekberry]

it all went downhill from there

#rambling #i recently watched the new puss in boots movie and it's worsening my urge to give jon more cat characteristics #i love cats #i love....catboy....jon #the beholding also loves catboy jon! #sorry for being cringe on the dashboard #but i think im allowed to be cringe on my birthday

[wolverinedoctorwho]

I'm mid season 3 of TMA and I don't want to dig in the tag too much till I've finished it but I NEED to yell about how CUTE the scene with The Admiral is and just. The softness in Jon's voice and the accidental bumping of his bad hand and the PURRING. OUGH it's so good it's so cute I need MORE

#i wanna give jon a big hug in this season he needs one so god damn BAD #the magnus archives #yeah ill tag this one so what i want people to yell about the cat with me #MAYBE IM INVOKING SMTHIN BY SAYING THIS BUT THAT CAT BETTER NOT DIE OR I WILL BE VERY SAD BOTH BC CUTE KITTY AND WHAT IT MEANS AS A SYMBOL

[hell-heron]

It's always so bizarre and jarring when you see generally aggressively book-only and contemptous of the show people have that one show scene that they appear to have just. Completely forgotten isn't canon.

#i saw it recently with the ned and sansa doll thing and with the jon and cat prayer #uncharitably its maybe not surprising its those that give ammo to defend or attack controversial characters get incorporated lmao #but still jarring #not that i can talk bc i genuinely had absorbed the runt of the litter this one is yours snow thing lmaoo #op