bronze & iron

my second rank — too small the first— crowned — crowing — on my father’s breast — a half unconscious queen — but this time — adequate — erect, with will to choose, or to reject, and i choose,  j u s t  a  c r o w n—

Legendary founder of House Stark.

I put my trust in you, a stranger, because I knew it was the best chance for my people, for all our people. Now I’m asking you to trust in a stranger because it’s our best chance

Lord and Lady Lannister.

(for @shedreamedofwolves, who requested a set of meera in winter colors! sorry this took forever. i know this is technically meera and bran, but i love the quote so much and i feel like it says so much about her? idk)

“The queen could feel the heat of those green flames. The pyromancers said that only three things burned hotter than their substance: dragonflame, the fires beneath the earth, and the summer sun. Some of the ladies gasped when the first flames appeared in the windows, licking up the outer walls like long green tongues. Others cheered, and made toasts. It is beautiful, she thought, as beautiful as Joffrey, when they laid him in my arms. No man had ever made her feel as good as she had felt when he took her nipple in his mouth to nurse..”

Daenerys Targaryen vaulted onto the dragon’s back, seized the spear, and ripped it out. The point was half-melted, the iron red-hot, glowing. She flung it aside. Drogon twisted under her, his muscles rippling as he gathered his strength. The air was thick with sand. Dany could not see, she could not breathe, she could not think. The black wings cracked like thunder, and suddenly the scarlet sands were falling away beneath her.

Eight quotes → “I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard’s daughter and Lady Catelyn’s, the blood of Winterfell. She did not say it, though.”

“I will remember, Your Grace,” said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. “If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them love me.”

Jaime/Brienne + thinking about one another

long may she reign

As a virgin, Artemis had interested many gods and men, but only her hunting companion, Orion, won her heart. According to Hyginus, Artemis once loved Orion, but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was protective of his sister’s maidenhood. In her pain, she appealed to Zeus to immortalize Orion in the stars as a constellation.

“Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft… the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper. […] Once, she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father’s head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.”

joffrey looked as petulant as only a boy prince can look… “i cannot abide the wailing of women.” (for @tyriion)

The Lengii are a tall, slender people known for their beauty and having skin the color of oiled teak. In the four centuries since Leng threw off the yoke of Yi Ti, the island has flourished under the rule of a long line of god-empresses. The first of the current dynasty, still revered in the east as Khiara the Great, was of pure Lengii descent.