#summerhallsolstice

[qhorinhalfhand]

archetypes of a knight as seen commonly in fantasy, and their representations in a song of ice and fire by george r.r. martin.

#tumblr killed the quality begging you to click #grrm's explorations of knighthood are one of the most interesting parts of asoiaf to me #these were the common archetypes i found represented in the series #summerhallsolstice #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #a song of ice and fire

[melrosing]

Summerhall Solstice: JB and the Songs 😌 Galladon & the Maiden The Bear & the Maiden Fair Jaime & Brienne

#jaime x brienne #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #melrosing art #summerhallsolstice #me staring at the theme like 'how can i make this about jb' #yeah i've decided songs are a classic fantasy element

[harrenhals]

Summerhall Solstice: A Song of Ice & Fire + gothic horror

Jeyne Poole & Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

Based on the story of Bluebeard, The Bloody Chamber tells the story of a teenage girl who marries an older, wealthy man. She soon realizes the full extent of his perverse and murderous tendencies when she discovers the bodies of his previous wives, presented in gruesome ways. In both the original folktale and The Bloody Chamber, keys are a reoccurring motif. In both stories, the girl drops the key to the chamber in a pool of blood which cannot be washed out. 

“So, for the opera, I wore a sinuous shift of white muslin tied with a silk string under the breasts. [...] the white dress; the frail child within it; and the flashing crimson jewels around her throat, bright as arterial blood.” - The Bloody Chamber

“The bride was shivering too. They had dressed her in white lambswool trimmed with lace. Her sleeves and bodice were sewn with freshwater pearls, and on her feet were white doeskin slippers—pretty, but not warm. Her face was pale, bloodless.” - The Prince of Winterfell, A Dance with Dragons

“Keys of all kinds - huge ancient things of black iron; others slender, delicate, almost baroque; wafer-thin Yale keys for safes and boxes.” - The Bloody Chamber

“Even if he found some secret way out, Theon would not have trusted it. He had not forgotten Kyra and her keys.” - The Turncloak, A Dance with Dragons

“There was a Marquis, once, who used to hunt young girls on the mainland; he hunted them with dogs, as though they were foxes.” - The Bloody Chamber

“Ben Bones, who liked the dogs better than their master, had told Reek they were all named after peasant girls Ramsay had hunted, raped, and killed back when he'd still been a bastard, running with the first Reek. ‘The ones who give him good sport, anywise. The ones who weep and beg and won't run don't get to come back as bitches.’“ - Reek III, A Dance with Dragons

#summerhallsolstice #asoiaf #asoiafedit #valyrianscrolls #jeyne poole #lit #*

[kuorena]

Summerhall Solstice: The Last Hero

There's not a man on the Wall knows the haunted forest better than Benjen Stark. He'll find his way back. 

So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog, and a dozen companions. For years he searched, until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him, and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds—"

All Bran could think of was Old Nan's story of the Others and the last hero, hounded through the white woods by dead men and spiders big as hounds. He was afraid for a moment, until he remembered how that story ended. "The children will help him," he blurted, "the children of the forest!"

-AGOT, Bran IV

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #asoiaf art #as far as we know the last hero and azor ahai do not mean the same and while I don't actually think that benjen is meant to be the last hero #what if he tried to be? #maybe old nan told him the story too and he remembered it when he realized it was hopeless to return anyways #maybe I'll write this out someday #summerhallsolstice #benjen stark #children of the forest #my art

[sare11aa11eras]

“Prophets” for the summerhall event! Here are four of my favorite prophets in the main series: Patchface, the Ghost of High Heart, Melisandre, and Aeron. Each character’s relationship to prophecy is different, and the accuracy of their interpretations of those prophecies are also therefore different!

#summerhallsolstice #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #iatc #my art #patches #patchface #shireen baratheon #tgohh #the ghost of high heart #melisandre #melisandre of asshai #aeron greyjoy #aeron damphair #asoiaf fashion hour

[dwellordream]

When his brother comes into his inheritance, young Sandor Clegane flees not to Casterly Rock but to Red Lake, where he meets a strange girl called Lynesse, who claims her dead mother has turned into a crane

#summerhallsolstice #valyrianscrolls #sandor clegane #lynesse hightower #new fic #oneshot

[springwolves]

For the summerhall solstice event!

#summerhallsolstice #fic #I'm so nervous over this lol