#Lightbringer

[veeisgayasf]

Daddy Master Mommy

#gwendoline christie #gwenposting #gwen christie #lgbtq #mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry. mommy? #larissa weems #so hot wtf #principal weems #weems #sit on my face #ser brienne #brienne of tarth #lady brienne #game of thrones #lucifer sandman #lucifer #the sandman #lucifer morningstar #lightbringer #mommy issues #daddy issues

[dykedivorce]

THE SANDMAN | Lucifer

#the sandman #thesandmanedit #sandmanedit #tvedit #lucifer morningstar #lightbringer #gwendoline christie #could literally gif that face for 24 hours a day and ask for more #mine

[fang-venkas]

Book 1: The Jackal is a nameless, superhuman creature, no one knows what he looks like, some think he’s not even real, his sole name evokes dread in the protagonist

Book 2: AND he’s got daddy issues!!

#idk something about this is just unbelievably funny to me #red rising #adrius au augustus #the jackal #golden son #Darrow o Lykos #the reaper #morning star #iron gold #dark age #lightbringer #red god #virginia au augustus

[izuku]

DANY WEEK 2023 ↳ Day 5: Magic/Prophecies (insp) Daenerys is Azor Ahai and Drogon is Lightbringer

#danyweek2023 #asoiafedit #asoiaf #canondany #valyriansource #valyrianscrolls #targnation #gameofthronesdaily #daenerys targaryen #drogon #** #mine: gifs #azor ahai #lightbringer

[arvandus]

Had my bday yesterday so I finally got all of the bday messages. And NB specifically has me squinting my eyes in suspicion….

Oh???

Out of ALL THE WORDS TO CHOOSE…

#arvandus rambles #obey me #obey me nightbringer #nightbringer spoilers #lightbringer #ring of light #I see what you did there Solmare… #Nightbringer vs Lightbringer #readyyyy FIGHT!

[kkelenca]

continuing my fun theorizing "what if Celes' magical infusions left her with eyes that always glowed"

#my art #celes chere #final fantasy vi #ffvi #final fantasy 6 #ff6 #lightbringer #glowing eyes #ice magic #kefka's tower #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #glow!celes

[mursartifice]

children of the dragon

a song of ice and fire portraits, 2

“and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.”

#asoiaf #fanart #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #asoiaf fanart #digital illustration #house targaryen #house of the dragon #digital artwork #drogon #rhaegal #viserion #daenerys targaryen #mother of dragons #lightbringer #the winged shadow

[captn-lovelace]

sometimes i forget not everyone knows the theory that lightbringer is and always has been a dragon, and that the azor ahai story is the story of someone bringing about dragons to bring balance to fire/ice. and thus dany is azor ahai reborn and drogon is lightbringer

-there’s an asshai story about the birth of the first dragons that says the moon was a dragon’s egg. the moon touched the sun and the moon cracked open to release the dragons

-the azor ahai story goes that he tries 3 time to forge lightbringer, the third requiring the willing sacrifice of his wife ended up cracking the moon and forging the flaming sword

-dany tries 3 times to hatch her dragon eggs, the 3rd requiring her willing sacrifice (walking into the flames)

-dany and drogo are frequently referred to as the moon and the sun, respectively, and dany (the moon) steps into the pyre with drogo (the sun) and the eggs crack and the dragons are released

-drogon’s egg hatches last, and the book says it sounded like the world cracked open, dragons return for the first time in living memory

so we’ve got the original azor ahai cracking the moon, the moon in established folklore has been viewed as a dragon’s egg, drogon’s egg cracks like the planet is breaking. hence, the asshai myth is another culture’s take on the azor ahai/dragon origin story. and dany hatching drogon IS dany forging lightbringer.

there’s a lot more but this is all i’ve got, thanks for coming to my ted talk

(oh and check out @ hallowed.harpy on tik tok i heard the bit about the sun/moon symbolism from her)

#alternate reasoning: maester aemon said so and i believe him #anyway if you ask me it’s always coming up dany #azor ahai? dany. the stallion who mounts the world? dany. the 3 heads of the dragon? dany is all 3 babey #if dany isn’t confirmed to be the stallion who mounts the world i will literally eat a cardboard box #over on tik tok i’ve been having legit scholarly conversations about dany in these god damn books #it’s fun #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #a game of thrones #azor ahai #daenerys targaryen #lightbringer #drogon

[another-day-another-shadow-ban]

Gwendoline Scenes From All Movies & Series I Could Find

So… I did a thing, which was learning how to cut videos?? Like it’s not even a big thing but I’m very happy with myself, and of course, I’m not out here doing amazing edits or anything but what I am doing is being hopelessly in love with Gwen, so I thought why the heck not to stare at her face non-stop on all roles I can find?

Movies The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) - Classy Shopper 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Captain Phasma The Hunger Games (2015) - Commander Lyme Absolutely Fabulous (2016) - Gwendoline Christie Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Captain Phasma The Darkest Minds (2018) - Lady Jane Welcome to Marwen (2018) - Anna In Fabric (2018) - Gwen Our Friend (2019) - Teresa A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019) - Titania, Queen of the Faries The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) - Jane Murdstone Flux Gourmet (2022) - Jen Stevens

Wizards vs Aliens (2012) - Lucy/Lexi

Wednesday (2022) - Larissa Weems Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 All Episodes

The Sandman (2022) - Lucifer Morningstar Episode 4 Episode 10 All Episodes

That would be all for now, lovelies, till next time.

#wednesday netflix #gwendoline christie #welcome to marwen #in fabric #our friend #anna #gwen #the sandman netflix #the sandman #scene packs #captain phasma #lightbringer #lucifer morningstar #principal weems #larissa weems #teresa #titania #queen of the faires #shakespeare #a midsummer night's dream #the hunger games #mockingjay #commander lyme #the imaginarium of doctor parnassus #classy shopper #the darkest minds #lady jane #jane murdstone #the personal history of david copperfield

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Consider this quote that has launched a thousand ships...

“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall.”

(Jon VI, ADWD)

This is one of those quotes that has a lot of hidden meanings, depending on the leans through which the reader interprets it.

I often see it used as shipping fodder - understandably so, given Jon's connection to both Arya and Daenerys. But I would argue that it really has a lot of symbolic significance to Jon, kings, and dragons.

For instance, Mel talking of men casting shadows upon the world and then immediately mentioning that Jon's own shadow looms large over one of the greatest wonders of the world reminds me of several quotes about Tyrion:

“Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are.” He favored Jon with a rueful grin. “Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs.” And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

(Jon I, AGOT)

“Oh, I think that Lord Tyrion is quite a large man,” Maester Aemon said from the far end of the table. He spoke softly, yet the high officers of the Night’s Watch all fell quiet, the better to hear what the ancient had to say. “I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world.”

(Tyrion III, AGOT)

Tyrion has often been likened to a small man who casts a giant-like shadow - often within the context of him wielding some sort of power/influence, as we can see with Vary's remarks. It's quite remarkable that Jon, a mere boy, is also equated with casting a giant-like shadow, especially within the context of him wielding innate magical power. I also find it difficult to ignore that Tyrion's shadow is said to stand as tall as a king, especially if we add the context of Jon comparing their heights earlier in that chapter.

We thus have shadows likened to kings. So where do the dragons come in?

“A trader from Qarth once told me that dragons came from the moon,” blond Doreah said as she warmed a towel over the fire. Jhiqui and Irri were of an age with Dany, Dothraki girls taken as slaves when Drogo destroyed their father’s khalasar. Doreah was older, almost twenty. Magister Illyrio had found her in a pleasure house in Lys. Silvery-wet hair tumbled across her eyes as Dany turned her head, curious. “The moon?” “He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi,” the Lysene girl said. “Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.”

(Daenerys III, AGOT)

It's said that dragons are birthed from the moon. Daenerys' herself is presented as some sort of moon maid often in the text - which makes it all the more believable that she's the moon kissing Jon in Mel's quote.

But we must also consider Mel's quote within the larger context of the book in which it appears. For Jon, ADWD is full of symbolism regarding death, (re)birth, kings, Azor Ahai's legend, and dragons waking from stone.

Burning dead children had ceased to trouble Jon Snow; live ones were another matter. Two kings to wake the dragon. The father first and then the son, so both die kings. The words had been murmured by one of the queen’s men as Maester Aemon had cleaned his wounds. Jon had tried to dismiss them as his fever talking. Aemon had demurred. “There is power in a king’s blood,” the old maester had warned, “and better men than Stannis have done worse things than this.” The king can be harsh and unforgiving, aye, but a babe still on the breast? Only a monster would give a living child to the flames.

(Jon I, ADWD)

A repeated motif with the faith of R'hllor, especially as it pertains to Mel and her attempts to bring about Azor Ahai, is the idea of human sacrifice. Especially the sacrifice of king's blood. How curious that this line is repeated several times in the Wall plot? And how curious that we end the book with Jon's assassination.....

Throughout ADWD, Mel sees Jon in her visions, especially as she looks for Azor Ahai. Val later reminds him that there is some significance to what Mel sees

“His milk name. I had to call him something. See that he stays safe and warm. For his mother’s sake, and mine. And keep him away from the red woman. She knows who he is. She sees things in her fires.” Arya, he thought, hoping it was so. “Ashes and cinders.” “Kings and dragons.”

(Jon VIII, ADWD)

There irony here is that they're right. Mel sees Snow in her visions (though Jon is thinking of lowercase 's'). But only Val equates this to kings and dragons. We know that Jon is both.

“Pyp should learn to hold his tongue. I have heard the same from others. King’s blood, to wake a dragon. Where Melisandre thinks to find a sleeping dragon, no one is quite sure. It’s nonsense. Mance’s blood is no more royal than mine own. He has never worn a crown nor sat a throne. He’s a brigand, nothing more. There’s no power in brigand’s blood.”

(Sam I, AFFC)

There is a deep irony to this quote. We know that Jon is dead (or near death) by the end of ADWD. And if we consider R+L=J, then it seems that Melisandre has just found her sleeping dragon, whether she knows it or not. This could create a very interesting parallel to the Tragedy at Summerhall. which was intended to birth dragons but instead brought about a metaphorical dragon in Prince Rhaegar....who happens to be Jon's father, and who was initially thought to be Azor Ahai/TPTWP. Thus, there is an intended parallel of a Targaryen princeling mimicking dragons waking from stone with both Rhaegar and Jon.

Not only that but according to prophecy, Azor Ahai has been credited with having birthed dragons

“He is not dead. Stannis is the Lord’s chosen, destined to lead the fight against the dark. I have seen it in the flames, read of it in ancient prophecy. When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone. Dragonstone is the place of smoke and salt.”

(Jon X, ADWD)

But we have what seems to be a different interpretation of prophecy that has Azor Ahai forging Lightbringer, and there is the mention of a moon....

“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa,’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.

(Davos I, ACOK)

So all in all, we're told that dragons (allegedly) came from the moon, and that Azor Ahai's forging of Lightbringer caused a crack in the moon (which sounds very similar to the crack that brought forth dragons).

Side Note: Are these two different prophesies? Different interpretations of one prophecy? The second one talks of a very literal flaming sword, but did the crack in the moon also bring forth dragons? In that case, are there supposed to be two Lightbringers (a sword and dragons)?

When we consider all of these things, Jon is placed in a rather peculiar position. He could be the dragon being born from the moon....but what if he is the sun itself? (Or as close to the sun as he possible can be?)

Let's take a step back and consider again how Daenerys fits into all of this.

Dany pressed her heels into her silver and rode closer. “My lord,” she said softly. “Drogo. My sun-and-stars.”

(Daenerys VIII, AGOT)

Khal Drogo looked down at her. His face was a copper mask, yet under the long black mustache, drooping beneath the weight of its gold rings, she thought she glimpsed the shadow of a smile. “Is good name, Dan Ares wife, moon of my life,” he said.

(Daenerys V, AGOT)

As stated earlier, Daenerys has always been presented as a moon maid. In her interactions with Khal Drogo, he often called her the moon and she equated him with the sun; which makes for a very interesting comparison later on when Drogo's life is exchanged for dragons, and Dany kisses him sometime prior.

There aren't many similarities between Jon and Drogo, but Dany's House of the Undying visions place them both as her husbands.

Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness.… mother of dragons, bride of fire …

(Daenerys IV, ACOK)

Then we have the matter of Azor Ahai and his flaming sword, Lightbringer.

ADWD hints at the possibility that Jon will be the one (not Stannis) to successfully forge this legendary sword.

Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. 

(Jon XII, ADWD)

What's interesting about Lightbringer is that it's not just an ordinary flaming sword. There's more to say on the properties of Lightbringer but based on textual clues, we can assume that it must meet two conditions:

It must give off heat

It must be bright...as bright as the sun (Jon's ADWD dream indicates that his sword is giving off a light that encompasses the world around him: "his blade burned red in his fist...The world dissolved into a red mist."

Lightbringer being a stand in for the sun often comes up in relation to Stannis' false sword.

“Now he comes north humbled, with his tail between his legs. Why should I give him any aid? Answer me that.” Because he is your rightful king, Davos thought. Because he is a strong man and a just one, the only man who can restore the realm and defend it against the peril that gathers in the north. Because he has a magic sword that glows with the light of the sun. 

(Davos I, ADWD)

Stannis Baratheon drew Lightbringer. The sword glowed red and yellow and orange, alive with light. Jon had seen the show before … but not like this, never before like this. Lightbringer was the sun made steel.  [...] “Westeros has but one king,” said Stannis. His voice rang harsh, with none of Melisandre’s music. “With this sword I defend my subjects and destroy those who menace them. Bend the knee, and I promise you food, land, and justice. Kneel and live. Or go and die. The choice is yours.” He slipped Lightbringer into its scabbard, and the world darkened once again, as if the sun had gone behind a cloud. “Open the gates.”

(Jon III, ADWD)

This brings up a very interesting question for the reader to consider. If Jon is the one to successfully forge the true Lightbringer, then he becomes one who would wield the sun itself; which is undoubtedly going to be very important in the upcoming war for the dawn when all of Westeros will be covered by never ending darkness.

Jon himself is never directly linked to having the countenance of the sun, or being golden like the sun, but it must mean something if he is the one to harness the sun.

So going back to Mel's quote, it's a bit of a mental exercise to try and tease out what role Jon plays in this. The moon (which birthed dragons) has embraced him. But is Jon the dragon to be brought forth by the moon's actions? Is he the sun? Or maybe a hybrid of both?

#jon snow #prophesies and visions #azor ahai #lightbringer #dragons #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #my stuff

[nanstgeorge]

“You did this,” he cried. “You killed us all! You’re a monster! You’re evil!” He tried to say more: she had betrayed everyone in the kingdom of Celdaria, everyone in the world. She was supposed to be the Sun Queen, their savior and protector. And yet she had become the Blood Queen. The Kingsbane. The Lady of Death.

FURYBORN by Claire Legrand

#my anakin #rielle dardenne #litedit #bookedit #literatureedit #empirium trilogy #the empirium trilogy #furybornedit #furyborn #kingsbane #lightbringer #my edits* #yalitedit #litblr #yabookedit #bookishedit

[thegorydamnreaper]

Cassius Bellona

🦅 His honor remains 🦅

#red rising #iron gold #pierce brown #darrow of lykos #lightbringer #cassius au bellona #Cassius Bellona #myart

[elencaart]

Not sure I ever shared this final battle Celes here 😊

#final fantasy vi #celes chere #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #セリスシェル #ファイナルファンタジー #my art #sfw #forgive the ripples glaze is very obvious on my style #Lightbringer #glaze

[tanith-rhea]

Gwendoline Christe as Lucifer Morningstar in The Sandman, Episode 10, Lost Hearts

#lucifer morningstar #the sandman lucifer morningstar #vertigo lucifer morningstar #gwendoline christie #gwendoline christie's lucifer #lightbringer #the sandman #the sandman netflix

[janesmitish]

"I wish I could do more, but I can't go back in time to save his son. He won't respect pity or think he deserves it. In the cold prison of our minds, we are alone with our self-hatred, our doubts, and guilty. No one more than Sevro. A friend may reach through the bars and hold our hand, but they cannot open the door for us. Only the prisoner has the key. All I can do is remind him we're waiting for him when he gets out." Lightbringer, Pierce Brown

#lightbringer #red rising #darrow of lykos #sevro au barca #pierce brown #im fucking sobbing again what the fuck

[darklinaforever]

Looking for the perfect equivalent to the Grisha trilogy ? What Darklina and Malina could have been if written well ? All with an equally bittersweet ending ?

In this case, you must absolutely read The Empirium Trilogy with the relations of Corien & Rielle (Corielle), and Rielle & Audric :

Darklina VS Corielle (by the way, if you know the names of the artists for the Darklina and Corielle fanarts, please tell me ? That I name them and above all that I go see their other creations) :

@aleksanderscult

#grisha trilogy #the grisha trilogy #grisha #shadow and bone trilogy #the shadow and bone trilogy #shadow and bone #siege and storm #ruin and rising #darklina #alarkling #anti malina #anti mal oretsev #the empirium trilogy #empirium series #claire legrand #rielle courverie #audric courverie #rielle dardenne #corien #furyborn #kingsbane #lightbringer #corielle #corien x rielle #corien and rielle #anti leigh bardugo #the darkling #pro darkling #aleksander morozova #alina starkov