#mance?

[amber-laughs]

#he’s the kind of kid that gets left at the orphanage while stuart little gets adopted #we’ve got rhaegar. ned. benjen. mormont. maester aemon. mance rayder. donal noye. stannis #my son’s abandonment issues are through the roof #i stole this from my own twitter account #jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf crack

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

GRRM’s inclusion of Mance Rayder among Jon’s expansive catalogue of father figures is a very clever one, beyond just being a retread of the fantasy protagonist gaining a temporary teacher who imparts wisdom then leaves. It’s the way Mance’s identity as father-figure and king play into Martin’s subversion and deconstruction of the secret prince trope. Because he is Rhaegar’s son, many of us would expect Jon to inherit the Iron Throne once his identity is revealed. After all, that’s the rule of the genre and Jon is as clear cut a fantasy protagonist as you can get in ASOIAF. But we’re five books into a seven-book series, and Jon is nowhere near the Iron Throne. Not only that, but he still doesn’t know who he truly is. Instead, he’s spent three out of the five books interacting with Mance’s kingdom, building their trust and becoming Mance’s spiritual heir. Jon even completes what Mance tried and failed to do when he manages to bring wildings south of the Wall and install some sort of working peace with the Watch. By the end of ADWD, Jon has pretty much become the de facto leader of the wildlings and there’s thousands more left to save. So if GRRM is to subvert the hidden prince trope in any way, it looks like he already has. Jon may not be the one to inherit Rhaegar’s kingdom at the end, but it sure looks like he’ll inherit all of Mance’s. And it’s quite clever to have the fantasy protagonist not take over his father’s kingdom by virtue of his birth, but instead rule a stand in’s by virtue of his actions.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #jon snow #mance rayder #rhaegar targaryen #my stuff

[mother-rhoyne]

#I've read all of these at least once btw twice and more for most #Euron is naked because I'm obsessed with that famous piece of him in Victarion II AFFC and so I guess he just goes like that everywhere #the quality is so bad please click for more than three pixels :') #Daenerys I Targaryen #Aegon VI Targaryen #Jon Connington #Jon Snow #Rhaegar Targaryen #Elder Brother of Quiet Isle #Mance Rayder #Dick Crabb #Elia Sand #Bran Stark #Quaithe #Shiera Seastar #Euron Greyjoy #Aerys II Targaryen #Tyrion Lannister #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #my art

[smellbringer]

Settling a Debate in the Zelda Fandom

I've been paying attention to Tears of the Kingdom Discourse, namely the argument on whether the Link bought the house in Hateno Village in Breath of the Wild that Zelda moved into before TOTK.

Some argue, "No, she clearly lives alone, they call it Zelda's house and no one remembers Link."

Some argue that they clearly do as why would someone need a secret room like Zelda does if they live alone.

One thing people forget however is that when you go back to Tarrey Town in TOTK, Hudson will remember Link and state his gratitude for what Link did to help found the town in BOTW.

But in BOTW Link can only do the Tarrey Town Founding quest if he bought the Hateno house. So that seemingly settles it, Link and Zelda lived in the Hateno house between BOTW and TOTK and probably hit the yoinky sploinky.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to lurk for a few months again and not post shit in the meantime.

#tears of the kingdom #Zelda #Link #the legend of zelda #zelink #botw #totk #breath of the wild #I still like to think Link and Sidon have a sort of bro-mance going on #BOTW felt like one of the few where Zelink was genuinely earned by the writers

[shripscapi]

some wildlings (including mance for an anon a while ago!) + jon

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #jon snow #mance rayder #ygritte #val the wildling #my art

[scrollonso]

never letting go of the fact that before max would maxplain to charles he'd do it to lance.

#but then he called him the r slur so #erm #anyways! #0118 lore goes crazy #mance come back to me #f1 #formula 1 #lance stroll #aston martin #ls18 #max verstappen #red bull #mv1

[neverendingspirals]

dilf beyond the wall dare i say….

#rip mance rayder. youd love depeche mode #mance rayder #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #art #art.jpg #a song of ice and fire

[hothugecurvy]

Ashley Sage Ellison

#ashley sage ellison #ashley #sage #ellison #huge cleavage #big tiddy committee #puppies #huge tiddies #manc #mancunian #manchester

[writingsofwesteros]

Masterlist Part 2 - 23rd November onwards

Masterlist Part 1

Aegon Targaryen x Reader

Riding with pleasure  Teaching Moments  Wrong Room Good Boy Mine

Otto Hightower x Reader

Passion Override  New Pleasure  His Dragon Daddy Mate Shared Apologies 

Alicent Hightower x Reader

Need  Her Knight -- Part 2 Pleasure Galore  Sharing  Learning 

Corlys Velaryon x Reader

Pure Crush Maid Another Heir Taking you Fully taken

Oberyn Martell x Reader 

You are mine  A hidden Targaryen 

Larys Strong x Reader

Payment -- Part 2 -- Part 3 Mine Now In the dark -- Part 2 Wet Flowers  Punishment  A Match Cane

Cregan Stark x Reader

Dragon’s Wolf Betrothal  Belonging 

Rhaenyra Targaryen x Reader

Invitation  Teaching Moments

Daemon Targaryen x Reader 

His Hightower Girl An Audience  I want it Another man’s wife Jealousy  ROCKSTARR -- Part 2 Nearly Caught Septa -- Part 2 Brat Mistress  Trapped Caught -- part 2  Female Daemon Wife to take

Tywin Lannister x Reader

Punishment&Pleasure  Soulmate -- Part 2

Viserys Targaryen x Reader

Reunion  His New Wife Brat Professor  I want you Kinky A helping hand Run,Run, Run away His to have

Criston Cole x Reader

Queen’s sister Shifting Alliance  Plaything Punishment 

Aemond Targaryen x Reader

Breeding Taking what’s owed  Forced Betrothal   A rose trapped

Cersei Lannister x Reader

Sharing Rose Training 

Jace Velaryon x Reader

Training  The strong lioness

Mance Rayder x Reader

She-Wolf

Sandor Clegane x Reader

His Princess

AU

Slutty!Robyn 

#aegon targaryen x reader #masterlist #hotd imagine #oberyn martel x reader #otto hightower x reader #corlys velaryon x reader #aemond targaryen x reader #mance rayder x reader

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Drawing Every Named Character in A Song of Ice and Fire

By Alejandro Kay

Part I: Prologue

Part II: Bran I

#a song of ice and fire #a game of thrones #night’s watch #jeor mormont #waymar royce #the others #bran stark #robb stark #mance rayder #old nan #jon snow #ned stark #theon greyjoy #jory cassel #robert baratheon #rodrik cassel #rickon stark #fanart

[amber-laughs]

“Bring her home, Mance” but away from Winterfell, because the Starklings are each other’s home not some castle

#robb knew the problems that would come with releasing jon from his night’s watch vows BUT HE MISSED HIS BROTHER #arya wanting king’s landing to flood but changes her mind bc she’s needs sansa to survive #sansa being beaten for robb’s victories but praying for them anyway #bran wishing all the starklings could come be ravens with him #jon still thinking the war horns could be robb returning #crying into my pillow #asoiaf #jon snow #arya stark #starklings #valyrianscrolls #game of thrones #starks #house stark #mance rayder

[jeyneofpoole]

asoiaf character you'd like to be tumblr mutuals with? asoiaf character you'd have beef with on tumblr?

it’s already been said but wylla manderly is basically already on tumblr and she would be the coolest mutual that i could ever have. also sansa would do the justgirlythings bit including the lesbian part and i eat that shit up. i would have beef with selyse’s tradcath r’hollor blog who blazes her 5 note posts religiously (all 5 notes are mel on separate accounts it’s a mating ritual.) also if mance was a real person and he was in a band i would have to blacklist the tag because the people on here would make so much old man yaoi between him (lead singer) and the drummer (qhorin) i would have blood feuds with people posting untagged mancexreader fic on MY dash in the year of our seven 298 AC

#i love this ask thank you so much #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #wylla manderly #sansa stark #mance rayder #qhorin halfhand #selyse baratheon

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Jon coming back “wrong” but it’s not in the fire-zombie way people imagine. Rather, as a result of the different types of magic within him heating up to a fervor, he comes back as a freak of nature, playing right into GRRM’s deconstruction of biblical doctrine and prophecy. In true Christ-like fashion, Jon transforms into the fantasy hero we think we deserve: a prophet, warrior, king, and god. It’s good for Westeros and its survival, but is it good for Jon? Is it really good for him? He’s only 17. He’s a kid ☹️

#not a fully formed theory or anything rn but this post came about because I was thinking of how #jon’s main three parallels beyond the wall are: coldhands the ranger #mance the king #and bloodraven the god 🌚 #then I started thinking of jon not as separate entities but rather as one combined magic super saiyan #and remembered how his adwd dream is like magic on steroids with him being armored in ice and wielding fire #and how this is happening as he harnesses the magical ability of prophecy and how he’s a warg and a warrior and yeah #well all this to say that jon will be something we’ve never seen before and it will be fucking depressing #because he doesn’t deserve to carry that burden #jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls

[jackoshadows]

A tale of two marriages.

The vast difference in how Jon Snow deals with the marriages of Arya and Sansa Stark has already been mentioned. However, I noticed there are also other differences in the overall narrative as well.

First, two Kings - Robb Stark and Stannis Baratheon - refer to and use Sansa’s marriage to Tyrion to affirm that Sansa will never get Winterfell while positing that Jon Snow should be Lord of Winterfell.

“Young, and a king,” he said. “A king must have an heir.  If I should die in my next battle, the kingdom must not die with me. By law Sansa is next in line of succession, so Winterfell and the north  would pass to her.” His mouth tightened. “To her, and her lord husband. Tyrion Lannister. I cannot allow that. I will not allow that. That dwarf must never have the north.” - Robb Stark, ASoS

"By right Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa."

"Lady Lannister, you mean? Are you so eager to see the Imp perched on your father's seat? I promise you, that will not happen whilst I live, Lord Snow." - Stannis Baratheon, ADwD

In contrast, two Kings - Mance Rayder and Stannis Baratheon - are trying to save Arya Stark from her marriage to Ramsay Bolton for Jon Snow.

He glanced at the letter again. I will save your sister if I can. A surprisingly tender sentiment from Stannis - Jon, ADwD

Bring her home, Mance. I saved your son from Melisandre, and now I am about to save four thousand of your free folk. You owe me this one little girl. - Jon, ADwD

It’s interesting that Stannis has this ‘tender sentiment’ while vowing that Sansa will never get Winterfell considering that Arya too is married to his enemy Ramsay Bolton. Maybe he intends for Ramsay Bolton to be dead soon which would free Arya to make other alliances. Or maybe he hates the Lannisters more than the Boltons.

Additionally there is no other mention of the Sansa/Tyrion marriage in the Northern context, no Northern houses or lords who bring it up, no secret plotting that revolves around this marriage. In contrast Arya’s marriage to Ramsay is mentioned in the four corners of the North, from the Wall to Winterfell, from Deepwood Motte to White Harbor and is a driving force for many of the characters’ actions and plotting. It’s more important in terms of ‘The North Remembers’ and Northern uprising against the Lannisters in King’s Landing, the Freys and the Boltons considering it revolves around Lady Arya Stark present in Winterfell.

This is why - as GRRM has pointed out in interviews - Arya’s marriage to Ramsay is a necessary and important book plot.

Unintentionally. A little change in a long narrative can have big changes further on. You know, when we remove Jeyne Poole from season one, then you don’t have Jeyne Poole to be the fake Arya, as happens in the book. So what do you do then? The butterfly effect has done that.

It’s not Jeyne Poole’s marriage to Ramsay Bolton that is driving all these mini subplots in the North.Yes, it’s sad that no one would care if Ramsay married Jeyne just like no one cared that Jeyne got send off to the brothels while Sansa was a high value hostage of the Lannisters. Just like no one cared about Jeyne’s story in the books until the show replaced her with Sansa and suddenly there were discussions about rape in the series.

GRRM: I was trying to set up Jeyne for her future role as the false Arya.   The real Arya has escaped and is presumed dead.  But this girl has been in Littlefinger's control for years, and he's been training her.  She knows Winterfell, has the proper northern accent, and can pose as Arya. Who the hell knows what a little girl you met two years ago looks like?  When your a lord visiting Winterfell, are you going to pay attention to the little kids running around?  So she can pull off the impersonation.  Not having Jeyne, they used Sansa for that.  Is that better or worse?  You can make your decision there.  Oddly, I never got pushback for that in the book because nobody cared about Jeyne Poole that much.  They care about Sansa.

In the books, it’s Arya marriage that has two kings trying to save her, the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch breaking sworn oaths, the Mountain clans and Northern houses marching with Stannis for the Ned’s precious little girl. They all think that’s Arya Stark in Winterfell. Arya may not be physically there, but it’s the marriage of Arya Stark in Winterfell in front of the Heart Tree, being given away by kin, Theon Greyjoy, that’s being used to hold the North and lend legitimacy to Ramsay Bolton as Lord of Winterfell.

#Arya Stark #Stannis Baratheon #Robb Stark #Jon Snow #Mance Rayder #Ramsay Bolton

[lelianaslefthand]

I picked it in Lothering. I remember thinking, ‘How could something so beautiful exist in a place with so much despair and ugliness?’

#my last reblog reminded me of this picture i saw on pinterest #and i immediately saved it to my alistair-mancing ocs' boards #alistair theirin #.txt

[wolvesofthenorth]

The most unrealistic thing about Game of Thrones isn’t the dragons or the White Walkers. It’s the fact that there are so many fine ass men in Westeros.

#game of thrones #sandor clegane #the hound #tormund giantsbane #jon snow #tywin lannister #jorah mormont #brynden tully #benjen stark #bronn of the blackwater #jaime lannister #jaqen h'ghar #roose bolton #edmure tully #stannis baratheon #robb stark #oberyn martell #mance rayder #gendry baratheon #tagged my faves #no particular order