#catofoldstones

[istumpysk]

I have a question: why would Rhollor actually bring back Jon to life? Like what does jon do for rhollor that he has to bring him back to life?

Does jon coming back confirm that he is the azor ahai? (which I don’t like at all since azor ahai is not a good guy in my books)

I'm pretty convinced that Daenerys is Azor Ahai, and the prophecy is just being misinterpreted.

Are we sure R'hllor brings Jon back? It's possible his direwolf is playing a role in keeping him alive. ;)

#stumpy ask #catofoldstones

[circuslollipop]

Ooh! 🐅 ✨ 🍁 for the ask game!

aaaa thank you so much for sending!!

🐅 - Characterization: character habits, personality, etc.

inspired by her brother willas and the star charts he drew for her when she was little, i think marg will occasionally take up sketching when she has no other duties to attend to. she doesn't have much time to practice (especially since she came to king's landing), but she sometimes draws her surroundings, like the clouds and landscapes around her when she's riding a carriage through the countryside

✨ - Worldbuilding or background story elements.

i think i recall grrm saying one time he partially based the reach off a region in northern france? no idea if i'm remembering that correctly but because of it i imagine the tyrells and other reach folk with a french accent. all the love to the ppl who headcanon italian tyrells; i think that's a really neat hc too but french tyrells is where my brain is at

🍁 - Physical locations, flora & fauna.

gonna keep this reach themed i think! the arbor gives me like. a mixture of southern california islands (think catalina island or the channel islands) and napa valley wine country in terms of overall climate. lots of hills, chaparral, quite warm weather. also they have island foxes there and if you've never seen one before i implore you to look them up

#catofoldstones #thank you for sending!!

[visenyasdragon]

rhaenys/corlys for the ask game!

Ship It What made you ship it?

I think they're extremely well suited. They're both ambitious, focused, intelligent people. They're the ultimate power couple

What are your favorite things about the ship?

I like that dynastically it makes perfect sense to unite two major Valyrian families. I also love that it gave House Velaryon access to dragons bc they absolutely deserve them! Finally, I love that this ship just goes to show how succesful the marriage can be when Targaryen princesses are given agency to choose their own husband! JAEHAERYS AND AEGON THE UNLIKELY TAKE NOTES!!!!!!

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Although nobody in their right mind would claim that Corlys didn't love Rhaenys, he did disregard her opinion on many occasions, such as Laenor's marriage to Rhaenyra or joining the war against the Greens. I think that when Rhaenys lost at the Great Council she was done with pursuing politics, but Corlys always wants more, more gold, more ships, more dragons, more power, and unfortunately it killed much of his family

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHIPS!

#answered #catofoldstones #corlys velaryon #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys tqwnw #asoiaf #rhaenys x corlys #rhaelys #hotd #house of the dragon

[transdimensional-void]

Please keep a little patience, I have soooooooo many questions to ask you about dune 🙏🙏

(I am reading the books v slowly 😭)

i am waiting sooooooooo patiently uwu. but omg pleeeeeease i need more people to discuss dune with 👁️👄👁️

#answered #catofoldstones #also the dune and asoiaf parallels #was grrm writing in response to dune I THINK SO

[fairycosmos]

🪼 for the book rec <3

circe by madeleine miller! <3

*ty for playing angelssss please dont send any new ones cause i'm busy catching up on the ones in my inbox lol <3

#catofoldstones

[fantasynovel]

Your sleepless asoiafposting scared me a little lol. I mean we did get absolute bangers like that Sansa post and that rupi kaur poetry and that iron throne post but at what cost…

Take care bestie <3

omg i'm sorry 😭😭 i really should have slept lmao but the fixation + 2 cups of coffee + 2 more cups of coffee (when i realized i would not be sleeping at all) really did a number on me haha. i'm supposed to go out tonight so pray for me

#ask #catofoldstones #currently putting together thoughts on capitalism and infinite growth in charles stross' accelerando for class #and let me tell u. sleep would have been a benefit

[hurremshiv]

I know I always ask top 5, top 10 etc but top 5 books of all time that you would not stop recommending, go! Also, movies!

My top 5 books are here

And my top 5 movies are here

#answered #catofoldstones

[catofoldstones]

joined twitter 😔

#pray for me 🙏 #my friend convinced me #so yeah I joined it to #speak to one person and one person alone #you can find me @catofoldstones #same username #because I hate myself

[aella-targaryen]

"I need a Father. I need a Mother.

I need some older...

And Wiser...

I talk to the Gods...

but the sky is empty..."

Sylvia Plath, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"

GIFs from :

@thefourteenflames @notalicent @rhaella-s @daemyrarule @henry-alex @catofoldstones @lunaoblonsky

#hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #daemon x rhaenyra #rhaenyra x daemon #rhaenrya targaryen #daemyra #house of the dragon #hotd s2 #corlys velaryon #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys x corlys #corlys valeryon #queen aemma #aemma arryn #king viserys #viserys targaryen

[esther-dot]

Hi Esther!

Would you have a tag (or tags) that I can follow for asoiaf theories and metas on your blog? I feel like I am far behind in terms of fandom speculation/theories that have come out and would really like to catch up.

Thank you <3

Sadly, I was not good about tagging when I first joined the fandom, and I’m still not consistent. 🫣 But I looked around and have found some stuff you might enjoy.

I like these posts about Dany's relationships with her nephews as being foreshadowed by her interactions with Rhaegal (Jon) and Viserion (Aegon). This post about potential foreshadowing for Dany to kill Aegon. This spec about Dany v Aegon and Jon betraying her. This one, about how killing Aegon will not be the victory she expects, and some parallels between him and Robb .

I have a tag for Dance of Dragons 2.0, but the better one to peruse is prolly sayruq's on that topic. Also, just so you know, the fandom at large seems to think "mummer's dragon" means Aegon is fake, but we tend to believe he's Elia's son and that that's about Jon. I'd recommend reading Aegor's tag for more general Aegon content.

I can't find any specific book meta about how the Starks will defeat the Others at the moment, although I linked to a meta about it happening at Winterfell in this post. If anyone has a post they like or wrote on it, please send it catofoldstone's way!

Let's see...I haven't been doing a good job keeping up with meta for the past year, but I think there's good stuff in the Stark v Tag tag which has foreshadowing for conflict between wolf and dragon and spec about Arya and/or Jon assassinating Dany. Oh, here's the tag talking about foreshadowing for Dany to face-off with Euron which I find interesting spec. I do have a few tags I’ve tried to remember to use more, Book Jonsa, R+L=J, King Bran, The Girl in Grey. This post about the Ashford Tourney Theory has links for meta on that (it's a beloved Jonsa theory), and I have a few additional things tagged for it. I also have this post with some favorite Jonsa metas. The Sansa and Lyanna tag has been fun due to @please-dot's eye for parallels.

theusurpersdog doesn't seem to be active any longer, but their posts on Dark Dany are very good. This one has links to the previous ones in their series on her. I like this one about book Jon as well.

I enjoyed howlandreads writing (also inactive), especially this post, Feminine Rebellion in ASOIAF.

Reading trinuviel's post about Dany being Azor Ahai (but that being a bad thing!) was formative for me, so even though I feel like I link that a lot, I shall again! This is the final post in the series and has links to the previous entries.

Fedonciadale is someone I thought of as our very own ASOIAF expert. She passed away a year ago, but I’d encourage you to look through her masterlist. She was a fan of LOTR and Martin is a huge fan (he said he regularly rereads it), so I was very interested in the parallels she found between the two series.

I’m not sure if you were around for this, but Istumpy did a reread project and you can find links to each of those posts in this master post. You may want to look at the summaries for each book in that post to find where the foreshadowing for a specific topic is and approach it that way.

The one meta by someone beyond our corner of the fandom that I think about often is that famous series of essays on Dany because Martin endorsed them. It was written years and years ago, and after reading Martin's words on it, it's hard to understand how Dark Dany is treated as a fringe theory or rejected as part of shipping wars.

I hope you find something you enjoy somewhere in all of that!

#dot chat

[timetravellingkitty]

ladies, gentlemen, others. we are gathered here today to celebrate the expiry of a certain tumblr user's free trial of life: tumblr user @bypatia , also known as cat. cat was an incredibly sensitive and kind person who found their true calling in the ocean. their photography will remain forever unmatched. they were known for being particularly insane about asoiaf, as evidenced by their blog @/catofoldstones. however, they klanced too close to the sun, which ultimately led to their untimely demise. they are remembered by me, their adoptive daughter, my tooth holder rajesh and their cat levi. amen i will be stealing their cat and their room in the mental institution will be going to me

#kat!

[circuslollipop]

No. 5 for the book ask, if you’re still up for it :)

Book asks

5. What genre did you read the most of?

definitely fantasy! if i were to go more specific i would say high fantasy (thanks asoiaf, grishaverse, priory of the orange tree, and many others. do i count tfota? actually i think tfota might count as one of the most unique takes on portal fantasy i've seen. anyway it still has high and dark fantasy elements imo), but i found i also read plenty of dark fantasy and gothic horror!

#catofoldstones #thank you for sending!! #i would love to read more dark fantasy its literally my favorite genre but i am so incredibly picky abt it kskfdjh #prolly because a lot of (mainstream) dark fantasy just feels like it's about the same two characters in different fonts yk

[hieronymph]

I can’t see your comment, would you mind saying it here?

:(

Oh no? Is this Tumblr censorship?? Or have I been shadowbanned lol?

I said "@catofoldstones their responses amuse me. I was a deeply brainwashed Hindu too. As a queer woman, I know how shitty this religion and so many of their so called Gods are. It's a free block list for me"

#asks #my mutuals 💕

[hardestysally]

9 favorite movies I watched this year

Tagged by @raffaella-cerullo thank you! 💕

No pressure tags @ragnyra @lucwestenra @patritxi @catofoldstones

#got this in just under the wire! #also as you can tell I am not good about watching current movies #tag game

[kitnjon]

Tagged by @bi-alinaoretsev Thank you for tagging me!!!

Nickname: I don't have any

Height: 5.2ft

Last Google Search: HD YouTube downloader

Song Stuck in My Head: Currently its a bollywood song called 'Teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya'

Number of Followers: 763

Amount of Sleep: around 7 hrs

Dream Job: I always wanted to be an astronaut

Wearing: T-shirt and shorts

Movie/Book That Summarizes You: I am not sure if it summarizes me fully but I definitely relate a lot with 'Only yesterday'

Aesthetic: No idea tbh

Favorite Authors: Suzanne Collins, JRR Tolkien

Favorite Song: I don't have a single one. It mostly depends upon my mood hehe

Random Fact: I have really long and straight hair

Tagging @asoiastarks @catofoldstones @raffaella-cerullo @witchklng @trollslanda (No pressure!)

#my post

[hurremshiv]

22 & 24 for the year end ask :)

22. I didn't go on holiday anywhere this year. But I have to say that my favourite place I went to this year was the convention I went to a couple of months ago when I got to see my friends again

24. My New Year's resolution was to get a job and it took me ages and help from my family but I have one!

#answered #catofoldstones