#cat stark tag

[greywoe]

pre-war cat, robb and theon

(+ how i imagined this convo)

#sorry for infecting the tags with my crap again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #robb stark #theon greyjoy #my drawings #the pic is actually rly old probably one of my first fanarts of them... thought it was decent enough and added the doodle #anyway imagine if theon had gone to KL with cat.... actually imagine if he was with her during the whole vale ordeal #i'm saying this bc i would have loved to read theon and tyrion interactions in that situation lol #agot

[irondad-defensesquad]

edit (december 6th 2023): this has been getting a lot of notes - thank you for the love btw! - so i just wanted you to know that this idea has a full story! it's right here. thanks again!

tony is checking his notes while he works, when he hears the door opening.

"oh peter, is that you?" he says, a little relieved but also annoyed. "care to explain why you haven't replied to any of my messages-?"

when he looks behind him, though, there's nobody in the lab.

... the meow startles him.

tony finds the black cat sitting on his notebook, and doesn't appear to plan on getting off.

"seriously?" tony groans. "friday, why is the little black hole in here?"

"he is boss jr., isn't that correct?" the A.I. replies rather smugly.

the man glares at the ceiling. "very funny." then he turns to the cat. "why are you like this. i thought cats liked to be alone. but i guess you just love bugging me."

the cat doesn't reply. he dares to lie down, refusing to let tony work. before they settle on yet another glaring contest today, the older man's phone vibrates on the desk, much to the cat's curiosity. tony quickly takes it and sees he has new text messages from peter.

peter: sorry mr stark, i can't come over today

peter: i have a decathlon meeting and i can't miss it

tony audibly groans. yeah, of course. obviously.

then peter sends another one.

peter: how is tony jr? is he behaving?

tony aggressively texts back.

tony: that is not his name. and no, he's being a little menace, alright. he ruined my couch, he knocked my favorite mug over, and now he won't let me work.

peter: aww mr stark, he just wants attention!

tony: yeah, but he doesn't have to be such a little shit.

peter: stop being mean to him!!!

tony: he's being mean to me.

tony: so what, i'm gonna be stuck with him for another night?

the teen spends a while writing the next text, which becomes many of them, probably indicating he's anxious.

peter: look mr stark i'm sorry i forced you to look after him

peter: i just couldn't leave him in the cold and aunt may already has a lot in her plate

peter: but i didn't mean to make you mad either

peter: i promise i'll try to come over as soon as i can to take him to the shelter

tony's anger fades. he sighs it out.

tony: kid, it's fine. i get it. you have a good heart and i'm proud of you for that. i just wasn't ready to have a stray cat home.

tony: but this isn't your fault, okay? you did the right thing.

he almost texts more but decides not to.

peter: ok mr stark

peter: i'll try to get him to the shelter by the end of the week

tony: no pressure, kiddo.

when he thinks it's over, peter sends yet another one.

peter: hey mr stark? could you take a pic of him? i miss his little face 🥺

tony rolls his eyes and positions the starkphone in front of the cat. the little feline seems to notice it and looks back. and he tilts his head almost instantly. though tony knows it's not out of confusion - it's like he's posing for the photo.

the hero sends it to peter.

who in turn, replies with several stickers of people exploding with heart emojis.

peter: omg!!!! bby!!!! i would die for him!!!!

tony: please don't.

peter: aww he even posed!

peter: guess he rlly takes after you 😊

tony: he is still not my cat.

peter: still... just be good to him until i get back ok? he just wants some company

you don't get it, pete. i'm irresponsible and i ruin everything i touch.

tony doesn't send that.

instead, tony looks at the cat deep into his golden eyes.

his hand approaches the little void. he expects to get bitten or scratched like he has been all day. but worse...

i ruin everything i touch, and i'm going to kill another innocent creature. i'm going to kill him. i'm going to kill him.

...

the cat is snuggling against his hand, purring.

then he lets tony pet his whole body and his tail touches his fingers.

indeed... all the cat ever wanted was love and attention. the things he never had in the past.

with a relieved smile on his face, tony finally answers peter.

tony: okay.

just a simple reply. but many promises.

#irondad #tony jr. the cat #(a new tag???????? mayhaps????) #fics #my fics #drabble #(this got long lmao and it's not even the finished product) #anyway #tony stark in: the dad who didn't want the pet but adopted it anyway the saga

[ladystoneboobs]

[Cat, to Brienne:]"And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. [...]" -Catelyn VII, aCoK

ok, this is another thing that makes me feel like i'm taking crazy pills bc i never see it talked about with all the implications behind it. so if anyone is more versed in androgynous medievalish clothing, feel free to correct me here, but my thinking is if unannounced visitors mistook arya for a stableboy, would that not mean she was wearing boyish riding garb, trousers and all? bc if she was running around with messy hair and a dirty gown, wouldn't she more likely be seen as a female servant? if my reading is not wildly offbase that does not jibe with the idea of arya being terrorized all day by both septa mordane and her mother to be more ladylike. rather, this limited freedom to be mistaken for a servant could suggest that pragmatic catelyn was picking her battles with arya too, not forcing her to always appear prim and proper on days when they were not expecting any guests to see her. catelyn "despaired of ever making a lady of" arya, though neither she nor ned could abandon the goal, which could mean a more measured approach, not exhausting herself by going after arya for every unladylike move she made, especially when she was still a prepubescent child. the quote above starts a paragraph which ends with catelyn feeling "as though a giant hand were squeezing her chest" after saying she thought arya was dead like bran and rickon, after no word of her since ned's arrest. in that context of grief, i think all her words about arya should be read as coming with bittersweet fondness, just being honest about their problems, not sugarcoating any of it.

but let's compare catelyn's trials with arya, including her often running around looking like a stableboy, to arya's interactions with lady smallwood, somehow seen as an even better mother-figure than her own mother, whom arya found easier to comply with bc of her kinder manner. first of all, lady smallwood's efforts to make arya ladylike included two baths and two dresses in one day after arya and gendry ruined the first dress, before finally giving her boy's riding clothes to leave in. i would argue a full second bath was unneeded when they could have just washed the dirt off her face and hands, and, furthermore, that both the dresses were an impractical waste when she knew arya would be riding back out with the outlaws and could not look a highborn lady when doing so. idt pragmatic catelyn would have gone to all that trouble just to make arya look ladylike for a few hours when there were no other ladies around. as for the claim that arya found it easier to comply with her? no, that's just flat-out demonstrably false. the text says she was "forced" into a tub and "they insisted" she wear girl's clothes. what room did she have to refuse as a hostage in a stranger's castle? she certainly felt no compunction about fighting gendry in the acorn dress she'd been forced into, and only felt bad about it afterward when lady smallwood talked about her dead son.

now, let's move on to the only canon quotes we have from cat to/about arya in arya's pov.

"Sansa's work is as pretty as she is," Septa Mordane told their lady mother once. "She has such fine, delicate hands." When Lady Catelyn had asked about Arya, the septa had sniffed. "Arya has the hands of a blacksmith." -Arya I, aGoT Her father had hunted boar in the wolfswood with Robb and Jon. Once he even took Bran, but never Arya, even though she was older. Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. -Arya V, aCoK Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. -The Blind Girl(/Arya I), aDwD

in the first quote we don't know catelyn's reaction to septa mordane's rude disapproval of arya, certainly not if she agreed with it. what we do know is she was not interested in only hearing endless praise of sansa and wanted to hear if arya had made any progress. although admittedly that was a vain hope, which ignored arya's true strengths and the possibility that she could never master and enjoy needlework the way catelyn did.

the second quote better shows the difference between arya's mother and her septa. catelyn does not criticize arya for wanting to hunt boar nor dismiss her interest. instead she tries to mollify arya and accomodate her desire with the promise of a future hunting hawk. that this was a promise, not just an idle thought, suggests this would have happened in due time and could have been a bonding activity for them if the plot hadn't intervened.

the third quote is definitely a backhanded compliment and doubly unhelpful in comparison to sansa, but at least it shows catelyn did not think one of her own daughters was ugly. she thought both were pretty even tho sansa was the more admired as traditionally beautiful, and she thought arya's looks were held back by her messy hair and clothes. (useful to remember for those fans who like to keep track of how many characters called arya pretty vs. how many call her ugly.)

yes, it is a bad sign that arya genuinely wondered if her mother would want her back, dirtier than ever in her disguise as a peasant boy. their relationship definitely had faults which the adult parent must bear responsibility for. but we must remember that arya also worried if robb would pay a ransom for her, and was most ashamed about the people she'd killed, and couldn't bear the thought of ned knowing all she'd done. and we must keep in mind that even ned never openly gainsaid septa mordane on-page either, and that arya desperately wanted to renunite with her mother and felt confident gendry could stay with her if she vouched for him with her mother. that confidence would seem completely unwarranted if their mother/daughter relationship was as utterly bad as some fans make out.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #catelyn stark #arya stark #a wolf with a fish in its mouth #that most recent post in the tag is actually insane but these are things ive thougt abt saying for awhile #i could also say that jon's doubts and fears wrt his mother are also unfounded and that ned bears some blame for that #by never telling him his mother loved him or even whether she was alive or dead #funny how people can recognize lady smallwood's similarity to cat as a mother figure but just saying aryas pretty w/o qualifications is #enough to make her better in every other way too #anyways #happy wolf pack wednesday! #(c)lsb

[asharaxofstarfall]

it's not that you can't dislike sansa, alicent and catelyn, it's that people's reasons for disliking them are almost always rooted in misogyny

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #catelyn tully stark #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #cat stark #don't mind my four different cat tags #haven't posted about sansa in ages but just know that she's always in my heart

[la-pheacienne]

I don't understand why we have to get all technical about whether or not Cat's treatment of Jon constitutes an abuse. You don't think the label of abuse technically, strictly applies to the situation? Okay, fine. Let's say it's not abuse because GRRM says so, whatever.

Cat, the lady of the house, intentionally inflicted misery on an innocent, helpless kid, out of spite for things that were not his fault. She intentionally caused him immeasurable suffering, she intentionally made him feel inferior to her kids and a pariah. She intentionally turned her kids against him and thank god it only worked with one kid (Sansa). She intentionally rejected his very presence to his face by refusing to call him by his name, as if he was merely a fly to her. She intentionally told this kid to his face that she wishes he was in a coma instead of her own son. She intentionally made sure this kid had no home. She was pleased when this kid was sent off to die.

But sure she didn't abuse him. Okay. She just made the life of this kid a living hell, traumatizing him forever.

#anti catelyn stark #i don't even hate cat though #i tag it like this because her stans can be ridiculous #jon snow #asoiaf #aspa rambles

[catofoldstones]

Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind.  

Bran I, AGOT

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, definitely not suppos’dta be a leader during the war for dawn hmm

#the others were still blind #the first to fall is the first to fly #right at the same time as arya warges into balerion the cat at the keep w/o knowing #and then lady dies & bran wakes up #sansa loses lady thereby signifying that her’s will be a much more political arc #then jon starts warging and actively denying warging #we don’t know abt robb + rickon coz no povs #BUT it can be said that robb was busy with the war #what was it that the post meant and now what do the tags mean idk #bran stark #starkposting

[muninnhuginn]

The way cdrama Li Bing is like "you're fired" to Wang Qi then immediately turns to Chen Shi and is all, "you know, you should become an assistant scribe here" whilst Chen Shi is on a mission to find his brother, not gain long-term employment. And is also, very notably, illiterate.

#the cdrama is just team leader li bing with his nepo bestie and his ex. #yes this is inspired by a recent post in the wcl tag but I don't want to risk spoiling op so it's going here instead #white cat legend #also to be serious a second whilst lb gets cs to go for the role and everything he never actually games the system for him #in stark contrast to lai zhongshu who installs his people with no regards to their qualifications and abilities

[deithe]

need winds so bad. imagine jon snow, freshly resurrected, cosmically haunted by kooky uncle bryden, getting messiah-ed by the free folk, battling bisexuality (and failing!), realizing melisandre burnt a kid to bring him back, the watch is in tatters, theon greyjoy crawling up to the wall with a girl who is apparently not arya stark. and to round it all off in walks the shambling corpse of catelyen tully with a crown. jon would fuck off forever beyond the wall.

#i need freshly undead jon and cat so bad. the most awful and horrific mother-son tag team. #which one can exude more awful horrific vibes? only time will tell #jon snow #catelyn stark #catelyn tully

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Catelyn Stark be like:

#Jon snow #ned stark #house stark #again not tagging cat because I don't care to interact with her fans #a post of salt and salt

[daenystheedreamer]

robb got fridged for theon’s character development

#and cat's! feminist king #robb stark #asoiaf #throbb #lol. tagging just so i can write out throbb

[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

[nedcatweek]

In response to Day 1, Canon Prompt: Greyjoy Rebellion by @ladycatofwinterfell

Summary:

Ned hides away the night before he leaves for war again so that no one will see how afraid he is. Catelyn sees his pain and tries to make him understand that he is not alone

#nedcat #ned stark #catelyn stark #asoiaf #writing tag #catelyn and ned #catelyn tully stark #nedcatweek2024 #catelyn tully #ned x cat

[asharaxofstarfall]

i call catelyn stark “cat” like i know her on a personal level

#catelyn tully stark #cat stark #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #need to stop using four different cat tags and just stick to one but i've grown attached #asoaif #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf shitpost #actually i do! she's my mother 🥰

[mummersblade]

The Blind Girl, ADWD I Le Poète by Marc Chagall

Saint Bride by John Duncan I The Ugly Little Girl, ADWD

#okay question of the day why do we think grrm makes sure we know that animals can see through the FM's faces #the cats and the seal KNOW her #they get her #idk much to consider #arya stark #asoiaf #I read this one theory she goes to the wall as Dareon to avenge Jon what if ghost recognizes her #no idea how that'd work but anyway welcome to my tags where I ramble #you know me/he knows me MY GIRL JUST WANTS TO BE KNOWN

[darkmutiewerewolf]

a few new and old doodles that I am very proud of. Adult LB and adult CN get close ups because I love them your honour. Adult cat noir's design is inspired by @hchano's this post (I have no idea how links work I hope this is okay). Also I need to stop doodling on my textbooks.

#ladybug #miraculous ladybug #tony stark #cat noir #clint barton #(i do hope he is recognizable) #harry potter #shuri #captain marvel #natasha romanoff #kagami tsurugi #marinette dupain cheng #janet van dyne #diana prince #oh my gaw so many tags! #my art

[doodlesscribblesandbits]

#meredithtullystark #Meredith Tully OC #ned stark #ned x meredith #how does one draw lips that look good? #I just love Tully oc's #The Tully family dynamic is just so interesting to me #in my head Catelyn has bigger lips and a smoother nose and Lysa the rounder face. #downbytheriverside #DarkCommet #fanfiction art #my art #asoiaf au #I have to work on my Lysa now #Already did Cat #Tag spam honestly