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[istumpysk]

I have never understood why people use Sansa administering sweetsleep as motivation to kill Robert. The sweetsleep administering starts in the Eyrie itself. The question about Harry the Heir enters into the equation when they are at Gates of the Moon. By this time, she has ordered two dosages of sweetsleep and so I don't understand how people tie that as a motivation to her end result of Harry's betrothal because all of this i.e the sweetsleep doses have happened before the conversation about the betrothal even takes place. It means that Sansa is already trying to kill him before she even comes to know about Harry lol.

Secondly the dosages are administered in order to stop his epileptic fits. Another thing that Baelish tells her that they need to keep Robert healthy so that the lord's don't question them. Baelish also says that Robert is the key and is even self aware to admit that lowborns like him shouldn't target the Seat of the Arryns which also makes far more sense in the fact that the whole Harry plan is a sham and his key to the power is Robert.

Great thoughts as always, nimbledick.

What can I say? This fandom's specialty is struggling to follow events in chronological order.

The sweetsleep issue is indicative of their desperation to pin any fault on Sansa. It's almost unjust how much more we have to work with compared to them.

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[catofoldstones]

Lol they are coping. The outline mentions Sansa's resolve to become Sansa Stark which means that it's an internal decision on her part to push away Baelish's consistent forcing of Alayne persona onto her. Secondly the white harbour news is mentioned for a reason. It's mostly likely the catalyst that triggers her to shed away her Alayne identity and resolve to come back into her own. Very much likely that it's going to be the news of Arya's marriage to Ramsay.

Yeah, it’s selective reading and plausible deniability working overtime to make their moth-eaten, barely standing arguments make sense. As always.

Exactly. The argument that ‘take north’ is Baelish’s plan falls in front of the news of White Harbour, whatever that may be - Arya’s wedding to Ramsey Bolton or that Rickon has been found alive on Skagos and brought back. Both are very compelling and will no wonder push Sansa to take matters into her own hands. Though I feel that the news will contain some information that will antagonise Baelish to Sansa fully and finally, making her resolve to run even stronger. So it could be the Arya news. I mean, selling your sister to a barbarous political enemy does make Baelish enemy no. 1. But that is all speculation at this point, considering the outline is 20 years old and solely for GRRM’s own reference.

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[kellyvela]

To add to the JoJo analysis, Sansa considered Joffrey as her Prince Aemon which her father said that he was not. Later when Sansa is forcibly wed to Tyrion and Joffrey threatens to take her as his mistress, he compares himself to Aegon the Unworthy who was Prince Aemon's brother. Also there is that line about how bastards are not allowed to swordfight with princes when Jon says why he isn't allowed to spar with Joffrey.

Yes to all that. I wrote about it in some other metas.

Thank you :)

#asks #nimbledick #jojo #jonsa

[m-alyen]

im looking for this fanart of sansa and willas sitting together w a little puppie or smt but I CANT FIND IT HELP plsplsplsplspls can someone help me find it/reblog w it?

edit; THANK U SM @nimbledick

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[sanrixian]

#inktober2017 #nimbledick #ASOIAF . . . . #sanrixian #sketchbook #dailydrawing #pendrawing #brushpen #inkdrawing #dickcrabb #inktober

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[youritalianbookpal]

[Transcription: two photos of a citation taken from A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin. The quote reads: They had a restless night. Thrice Brienne woke. Once when the rain began, and once at a creak that made her think Nimble Dick was creeping in to kill her. The second time, she woke with knife in hand, but it was nothing. In the darkness of the cramped little cabin, it took her a moment to remember that NimbleDick was dead. When she finally drifted back to sleep, she dreamed about the men she'd killed. They danced around her, mocking her, pinching at her as she slashed at them with her sword. She cut them all to bloody ribbons, yet still they swarmed around her... Shagwell, Timeon, and Pyg, aye, but Randyll Tarly too, and Vargo Hoat, and Red Ronnet Connington. Ronnet had a rose between his fingers. When he held it out to her, she cut his hand off.]

I completely forgot the amount of nightmares and weird dreams Brienne has in affc and frankly at this point I just want her to have a good night’s sleep and dream of nothing for seven hours.

#asoiaf reread #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #george r.r. martin #a feast for crows #brienne of tarth

[flightydreamer]

I’m sorry that I never trusted you. I don’t know how to do that anymore.

George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

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[istumpysk]

My most unpopular theory is that Littlefinger's grand plan is marrying Sansa. Thats it. I don't think there is anything more and I don't see any surprise reveals awaiting regarding his grand master plan. As far as his political plans are considered I have always felt he is a dynamic player and he doesn't have any definite endgame in his mind except marrying her. Whatever comes in his way he will grab that. Harrenhall is not something he was interested in nor has he ever expressed any ambitions to become Lord Paramount of Riverlands. It was simply a ruse so as to make himself of eligible station to marry Lysa. The fandom tries to overcomplicate him as some conflicted greyish dark villain when in truth he is like a non magical version of Euron Greyjoy.

Not an unpopular opinion on this here blog!

That man has only two priorities: climbing the ranks of power and Sansa Starks. Everything else is impulsive and subject to rapid change.

The whole point of his character is that she is his weakness, which will inevitably lead him to make incredibly foolish decisions, resulting in his downfall.

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[istumpysk]

Even if someone is trying to look at the Duncan angle while analysing Ashford Tourney doesn't it make sense to apply that to Brienne instead of Sandor?

Oh, you mean the confirmed descendant of Duncan the Tall? That Brienne?

Yeah, that would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it?

But you know, we can't let reality get in the way.

Post: Every single event in The Hedge Knight should be tied back to Sansa, actually.

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[catofoldstones]

Always thought Sweetrobin would have been a suitor had George gone with the five year gap. This also explains why Harrold Hardyng is added into the story who seems like a very forceful addition to the plot and that George hadn't conceived of the character till the end of ASOS. Just look at this. Harry is supposed to be a 18 - 19 yr old able bodied male heir to one fourth of Westeros and yet after Jon Arryn's death in the beginning of AGOT, we hear nothing about this man till the end of fourth book. Sweetrobin is an only sickly child and yet there is no public opinion on how there is already an able bodied male spare in existence. It would also explain Lysa's paranoia because people wouldn't hesitate to flock to Harry instead of Robert. But we hear nothing about him. This also explains the only other mention of a Hardyng in Dunk and Egg Ashford Tourney. I mean to say that to intentionally omit Sweetrobin as a suitor due to lack of 5 yr gap, George forcibly added Harrold Hardyng to the story as to line up Sansa's suitors similar to the remaining five champions in Lady Ashford Tourney.

Hi Nimble!

Sorry for responding so late. I didn’t know much about the 5 year gap that GRRM had planned and decided to read up on it. Now I have some opinions(tm) lol.

Well, I think you’re right. GRRM wrote The Hedge Knight in 1998, before A Storm of Swords was published and we still don’t get a mention of Harry Hardyng in ASOS by Lysa or Peter or anyone. If truly HH was planned since the beginning we could’ve gotten a mention of him if not when Robert mentions that he has made Jamie the Lord Protector of the Vale to Ned, then at least when Lysa is paranoid about SR’s claim. Maybe the suitors were added retroactively, because by the time Hedge Knight was published, ASOS was still being written, and Sansa was not yet being courted by the Tyrells or married to Tyrion. On the other hand, maybe GRRM was in the middle of writing ASOS and decided to add in the suitors as parallels to what he was writing, with the exception of SR of course- because you simply can’t give away your future story on a plate can you? Maybe he added a HH later because he decided to fit the similarities more perfectly? Because, like you said, adding HH like that because he himself noticed a happy coincidence would fail if it did not point to the end goal/next step in neon red lights.

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[istumpysk]

Victarion Greyjoy is a dull-witted, violent, criminal warlord, who lacks basic empathy and compassion.

You didn't just call him that.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

#stumpy ask #nimbledick

[istumpysk]

I hope that Jaime Euron scene will be Victarion Euron fight. I am cheering for Vicky to kill him and then die in the most comic way lol. He might be halfway there already.

It's possible they pulled from Victarion and Euron for three different scenes.

#stumpy ask #nimbledick

[istumpysk]

Fuck Marry Kill - Sailor edition

Sallador

Victarion

Euron

Each candidate can be mapped to only one option.

Rude!

Fuck - Victarion Greyjoy

Forget his imposing frame, toned abdomen, or unparalleled sex drive.

I'm in it for the post-intimacy cuddles, where we openly share our deepest emotions.

"For I mean them to return and haunt these Yunkishmen," he told the dusky woman that night after he had taken his pleasure of her. They were close now, and growing closer every day. "We will fall upon them like a thunderbolt," he said, as he squeezed the woman's breast. - Victarion I, ADWD

<3

Marry - Salladhor Saan

This is a no brainer. Every second spent together would be a gift. I'd tell him to take the garbage outside, and he'd come back at me with,

"Must you persist with your ceaseless nagging about the trash? You are no true wife, I am thinking. Tell me, woman, where are my moments of respite?"

And I wouldn't be able to stop laughing.

Kill - Euron Greyjoy

Self-preservation. I'm killing him before he can kill me.

#stumpy ask #nimbledick #fuckmarrykill game

[istumpysk]

One of the things I have not understood is the over glorification of Littlefinger's narrative purpose amongst the book fandom especially the shippers and his Stans.

I get it the show dumbed him down but one thing I never understood is some of his fans being sadly insistent on the fact they made his character all about boinking Sansa. But that is not something made up, it's the whole gist of his character.

They say that the man who started the war of the 5 kings couldn't die by the hands of Sansa and they try to redirect his death through a supernatural entity say a corpse like Stoneheart or White Walkers but people forget that instructing Lysa to kill Jon and then telling her to write a letter to Cat so as to lure and trap Ned in Kings Landing but all of that happens before he has his eyes set on Sansa. In fact all of his politicking after Ned's death and from ACOK have revolved around Sansa. From enlisting Dontos to saying the merits of a Tyrell marriage in place of Sansa's to taking Harrenhall as a seat only to gain a title because he was lowborn enough to even marry a spurned princess to putting a wrench in her betrothal to Willas to conspire with Olenna and decide the Purple Wedding was the time to take out Sansa out of the capital to framing her husband for murder so as to widow her and to murdering Lysa to the present Vale succession that we are heading into TWOW.

I don't know why it bothers people to say that his character entirely revolves around Sansa especially from ACOK and after Ned's death. But just because his character entirely revolves around Sansa's, doesn't mean the other way around holds true. Yes he is an important part of her arc but so was Joffrey, Cersei or Sandor. Sansa is a protagonist and Baelish is the supporting character in her arc though he is the most important supporting character in her arc till now, one could say. He is an important plot device and that's it. Sansa is a fleshed out Pov who is a work in progress and Baelish is a static character whose arc is to oil up her hero's journey. It's really hilarious how people get shocked when you say that Sansa has a hero's journey and they are like she is not ugly or an outcast and I am like yeah stop reading those YA novels where everything is a sense of escapism to project upon people who you think had better than you. Also what is this outcast hero worship. George introduces trope but he writes these characters as people. He said the same when he was asked about female characters and he said every demographic you get all kinds of people. So yeah just because someone is pretty doesn't make them evil nor the other way around is true. By that logic Ramsay Bolton should be a hero 🤣. He is ugly and a bastard and unlike Jon, he doesn't have a secret royal ancestry. This obsession with heroic ugly outcasts always makes me believe that this people have not left middle school.

Most of the times I see these arguments are voiced by antis when they talk about after she takes him down, she will die because there is nothing to her arc after his death and I don't get it. Is it because he is the most important non magical antagonist in the books and taking him down renders a certain narrative significance in the text. I must admit its mostly that this accusations are always voiced by key 5 Stans.

Another thing I don't understand is the insistence on him dying with a bang because the show emasculated his death and I am like George for all his talk about moral greyness, always makes sure that his villains die helpless. Remember Tywin, Drogo, Joffrey etc. Even a good guy like Ned dies helpless and Baelish is the anti Ned figure who tries to take that place in Sansa's arc after Ned's death. His death has to mirror Ned's. Overconfidence followed by people that were loyal to him turning against him, add in a daughters betrayal( this time with actual intent to harm him unlike Ned's where she never intended any harm befell her father) followed by helplessness and dying far away from home.

George has himself said Baelish is obsessed with Sansa and the thing with obsession in ASOIAF is that it leads you to the grave. Just ask the woman who was obsessed with Baelish and was later murdered by him.

Nimby! What could I possibly add to this? Well said.

It's more minimizing of Sansa, this time within her own god damn storyline.

The ice and fire threats might be central to the story, but nobody can deny who the political Final Boss is. Admitting Littlefinger's goals rest on Sansa, or that his fate is tied to Sansa, is admitting Sansa is important. They can't do that.

#stumpy ask #nimbledick

[istumpysk]

I know he is shallow and is marked for death lol but of all the suitors who have expressed an interest in Sansa till now or have been related to her in some matrimonial plot aspects, Harrold Hardyng is the guy with whom she has had the most chemistry in one unedited sample chapter across five books.

Also Harry X Sansa > Sansa X Willas

You'll get no argument from me! Their chemistry is great.

Because of the limited availability of suitable men of appropriate stature and age to ship Sansa with, Harry becomes the de facto #2 choice.

#stumpy ask #nimbledick

[istumpysk]

That bad king good men good king bad men stuff is laughably bad. He has this knack of saying things like "it used to be different in those days" and come up with some darndest explanations and people eat it up lol eg - the child bride thing. See human beings have changed but perception, base feelings etc haven't changed that much.

Public perception of a leader is directly proportional to the stability of the region governed by that leader. It is something that has been consistent throughout different types of goverment across different civilizations throughout history. Even if you are not well perceived by your people because you are not answerable to them, still you have to be well received by your minions or get prepared for rebellions and coups lol.

A good king doesn't have to be a perfect man but that doesn't mean he has to be a monster.

Dammmnnn nimble, couldn't have said it any better.

I'll still give George the benefit of the doubt in assuming he doesn't truly believe bad men can be good kings. However, it does strongly resemble his views that all individuals are complex grey matter, with a mixture of virtues and flaws - including men like Gregor Clegane and Euron Greyjoy, apparently.

Post: aemon babble

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