#is me stumbling upon one too many braime fics

[wordybee]

I don’t think I can fully articulate where this is coming from

but it is very important to me that Brienne of Tarth is no-doubt-about-it, capital-U Ugly

AND it is very important to me that she wants a stereotypical, fairytale romance

AND it is very important to me that she wouldn’t know what to do if she ever got that stereotypical, fairytale romance, because she’s so used to wanting what society says she can’t have that she’s convinced herself she doesn’t want it

AND it is very important to me that she gets what she wants anyway.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #brienne of tarth #jaime x brienne #because yes I think the root of this #is me stumbling upon one too many braime fics #where brienne turns out to be Beautiful All Along #or Secretly Super Hot #(which is different from the former #because Secretly Super Hot implies #all sorts of stuff about Brienne being good in bed #and having lots of one-night-stands in modern AUs #which... see point 3) #god knows I love the braime fic writers #but... there is a core element to brienne #which people seem to want to shy away from #and i wish they wouldn't. #to boldly queue