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saessenach · 11 hours

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What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

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amber-laughs · 2 days

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that fucking royal feast at winterfell haunts me. did they toast to the royal house baratheon? did robert shout out his war stories about taking down a once great dynasty? did ned watch jon snow cheers to the death of his own father? raise a glass to the death of his future, the loss of his identity? would he even notice if he had?

#how many time has jon heard those stories and not understood what it meant for him?#jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #ned stark #r+l=j #valyrian scrolls #game of thrones #house targaryen

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hyacinthecanard · 8 months

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Lyanna survived and lived hidden with her son in Greywater Watch. But when news of her brother Eddard taken prisonner in Kingslanding came, the wolf-blood is too much and she joins Robb Stark's forces to try to free him.

#14yo jon hasn't hit his growth spurt yet #just imagine catelyn's face when this ned lookalike comes out from nowhere #howland is just lyanna what are you doing here #jon snow #house stark #asoiaf #lyanna stark #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #r+l=j #war is a mother-son bonding time #my art #it was supposed to just be a sketch #fanart

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winterprince601 · 9 months

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thinking about how all three of the kingships jon stands to inherit are legacies of love - jon's ability to understand the free folk as human and worth saving is an act of love and they love him and essentially make him king beyond the wall in return. robb loves and trusts his brother and is confident in jon's love and loyalty in return, even fresh from theon's betrayal, so he names him his heir to the north. despite the ambiguity of the affair, grrm seems to suggest rhaegar truly loved lyanna and that would make jon, literally, their love child - illegitimate or not, his existence and potential claim to the iron throne is because "prince rhaegar loved his lady lyanna" and he lives because lyanna loved him and ned loved lyanna.

do you see it? around jon snow, more important than any royal blood or legitimacy, is a nexus of love?

#jon snow #asoiaf #a song of ice and feels #asoiaf theory #asoiaf theories #stark #targaryen #king in the north #king beyond the wall #the iron throne #r+l=j #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #robb stark #ned stark #eddard stark

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citizensun · 2 months

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Mother and son. The shield is a bit too small for his tastes but by the gods Jon's gonna use it.

Featuring pointillism because I'm at work and do not have access to anything other than office supplies. Also I don't think I own art supplies?

A few notes:

• Post-res!Jon adopts black, white and red as his colors for. Uh. Several reasons. He's making a exception here, though.

• Jon's shield arm is giving Rob Liefield, I know. Nevermind the anatomy.

• All things considered, the lack of Ukrainian flower crowns in Lyanna fanart is absolutely criminal.

• If the wolf embroidery on Lyanna's sleeve looks a bit wonky... Well, it's because she did it herself. Sorry girl.

• Jon got Lyanna's nose and chin! Those emo eyes, though. He's lucky no one who knew Rhaegar paid attention to him. Also I'm a pretty hair Jon truther no cap.

Bonus: "I'm not taking the damn crown off, Brandon"

#lyanna stark #jon snow #Valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #the knight of the laughing tree #asoiaf art #r+l=j #sun o' mine #my art

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buildoblivionthenwewilltalk · 9 months

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#JonSnowFortnightEvent2023 - @asoiafcanonjonsnow

Day 9 - Wishes and Hopes

He knew nothing of his mother; Eddard Stark would not talk of her. Yet he dreamed of her at times, so often that he could almost see her face. In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.

oh I made myself sad :)

#he looks like her 🥺#also one day I will decide what northern fashion looks like #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #jon snow #lyanna stark #r+l=j #canonjonsnow #minsart #my art #fanart #valyrianscrolls #jonsnowfortnightevent2023 #jon snows mother

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asongofstarkandtargaryen · 3 months

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Was this how it was for my father? he wondered. Was he as weak as I am, when he dishonored himself on my mother's bed?

ASOS, JON III

I know we will never get it, but I want Rhaegar's pov when he fell in love with Lyanna. Was he brooding all the way, like his son was when he was in love? Or was he totally different on that aspect?

#jon snow #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #rhaegar x lyanna #valyrianscrolls #a post of ice and fire #r+l=j

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bene-darkmans · 10 months

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the R+L=J reveal doesn’t matter to me anymore I’m Team the Jon Snow Psychological Stew that will be Ned Stark’s lookalike at Winterfell with the Catelyn Tully lookalike and feral red-haired Rickon in his father’s house where he never felt he belonged has his Stark impostor complex validated

"If you kill a man, and never mean t', he's just as dead," Ygritte said stubbornly. Jon had never met anyone so stubborn, except maybe for his little sister Arya. Is she still my sister? he wondered. Was she ever? He had never truly been a Stark, only Lord Eddard's motherless bastard, with no more place at Winterfell than Theon Greyjoy. And even that he'd lost. When a man of the Night's Watch said his words, he put aside his old family and joined a new one, but Jon Snow had lost those brothers too.

Every morning they had trained together, since they were big enough to walk; Snow and Stark, spinning and slashing about the wards of Winterfell, shouting and laughing, sometimes crying when there was no one else to see. They were not little boys when they fought, but knights and mighty heroes. "I'm Prince Aemon the Dragonknight," Jon would call out, and Robb would shout back, "Well, I'm Florian the Fool." Or Robb would say, "I'm the Young Dragon," and Jon would reply, "I'm Ser Ryam Redwyne."

That morning he called it first. "I'm Lord of Winterfell!" he cried, as he had a hundred times before. Only this time, this time, Robb had answered, "You can't be Lord of Winterfell, you're bastard-born. My lady mother says you can't ever be the Lord of Winterfell."

I thought I had forgotten that. Jon could taste blood in his mouth, from the blow he'd taken.

In the end Halder and Horse had to pull him away from Iron Emmett, one man on either arm. The ranger sat on the ground dazed, his shield half in splinters, the visor of his helm knocked askew, and his sword six yards away. "Jon, enough," Halder was shouting, "he's down, you disarmed him. Enough!"

Not being Ned’s son will hurt, not being Robb or Arya’s brother? That’s going to destroy his sense of identity more than anything else.

#jon snow #awow #winds of winter #asoiaf #r+l=j #robb stark #house stark #arya strak #king in the north #aegon vi targaryen #faegon #young griff

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gayalicent · 2 months

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#anti rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #elia martell #asoiaf #r+l=j #got

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asoiafcanonjonsnow · 9 months

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JONSNOWFORTNIGHTEVENT2023

DAY 7: FOILS AND ADVERSARIES: Stannis Baratheon

#jon snow #JonSnowFortNightEvent2023 #asoiafcanonjonsnow #canonjonsnow #Stannis Baratheon #GIF #ADWD #AGOT #ASOS #ACOK #R+L=J #ASOIAF #A Song of Ice and Fire #valyrian scrolls #valyrianscrolls #Melisandre #Azor Ahai #Prophecy #Original Post

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emprcaesar · 5 months

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lyanna stark means so much to me. i have made a post about her before and how she is the most enigmatic characters that is talked about a lot through the series but still no one seems to know her truly. which just amplifies the fact that she was just 16 years old when she died. she was an angry sad 16 year old girl that no one could understand. she wasn’t some glorified saint like robert remembers her as she wasn’t a tragic character in some play she was a real living breathing girl that was full of love and hope and anger. she wasn’t just one thing.

i believe that she willingly left with rhaegar but didn’t think it through completely because SHE WAS 16 and when she heard her father and brother died because of her she wanted to go back to her family but rhaegar was so obsessed without he prophecy that he made her stay.

“No,” Ned said with sadness in his voice, “now it ends.” As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. “Eddard!” she called. A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death.”

she fucking screamed for her brother. in the end she wasn’t some brave she-wolf or a martyr she was a scared little girl who was impulsive and wanted her big brother to save her.

if you believe R+L=J theory (which i do) then her prodigal son who was never meant to be this ancient prophecy come to life is alone in the world and has no clue how much his mother would’ve loved him. but jon shoudlve never been born. lyanna shoudlve never been in that situation.

i’ve also seen a lot of people blaming lyanna and shit talking about her and that’s just flat out victim blaming because even if lyanna willingly went and was cool with being with rhaegar the whole time and was completely in love with him SHES STILL 16. and before you say it’s normal in the asoiaf universe it doesn’t change the fact she’s 16 and can’t make executive decisions like this.

i need to lie down.

@atopvisenyashill has amazing posts about this!!!!!!

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saessenach · 5 months

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working on a wee storyboard thing - a certain prince gets knocked off his horse while chasing the Knight of the Laughing Tree and shenanigans ensue

#asoiaf #lyanna stark #rhaegar targaryen #rhaelya #my art #asoiaf fanart #valyrianscrolls #the knight of the laughing tree #rhaegar x lyanna #wip #artists on tumblr #fanart #digital art #r+l=j

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amber-laughs · 6 months

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He loves him. He raised him. That’s his son.

"Come, let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now."

He hates him. A constant reminder of the worst days his of his life. The weight of House Stark on his shoulders with no warning.

“He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.”

He doesn’t miss him.

“The thought of Winterfell brought a wan smile to his face. He wanted to hear Bran's laughter once more, to go hawking with Robb, to watch Rickon at play.”

He begs, in his dying hour, for one last moment with him.

“The thought of Jon filled Ned with a sense of shame, and a sorrow too deep for words. If only he could see the boy again, sit and talk with him…”

He’s his greatest shame.

“I've never lain with any woman but Cersei. In my own way, I have been truer than your Ned ever was. Poor old dead Ned. So who has shit for honor now, I ask you? What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"

He’s his highest honor.

“The Starks were not like other men. Ned brought his bastard home with him, and called him "son" for all the north to see.”

He’s his darkest lie.

“Catelyn had asked her husband the truth of it, asked him to his face. That was the only time in all their years that Ned had ever frightened her. “Never ask me about Jon,” he said, cold as ice.”

He’s his kept promise.

“Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister's eyes.”

#oh to love your son so devoutly but resent your nephew so desperately #i need grrm to forgo secrecy and just openly talk about ned/jon/lyanna/rhaegar i HAVE to know everything #their relationship is so intriguing to me coming only second to jon and catelyn’s i think #jon snow #ned stark #lyanna stark #R+L=J #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #game of thrones

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catofoldstones · 2 months

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george really needs to release twow, scrolled so far down found the og r+l=j meta :/

#asoiaf #r+l=j #also #if someone is giving out free therapy do let me know #this series has its CLAWS in me

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chachamaru-sama · 5 days

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