Tired

it goes well with your eyes

Brienne touched Oathkeeper’s hilt. “His,” she said. 

love is a dream you enter

Happy 10th anniversary to A Dance With Dragons!

Unserious, talented boyfailures who hide an incredibly complex personality and their hypercompetent, girlboss knights in shinning armor\bodyguards.

commissioned by Kelsey🧡

Goodwin, master-at-arms at Evenfall Hall, and baby Brienne of Tarth

i like how so much of the weirwood dream feels like such a “childish” nightmare in certain ways. like he is afraid of the dark. he is afraid of creatures in the dark. he is afraid of being abandoned by his family to the darkness, kind of like a little boy. and yet “doom” is so abstract. it does not take shape as some powerful scary monster (though it does take shape in ‘the others’ imagery as well as the kg/rhaegar, but he does not know that). what makes him terrified and what makes his fire go out is complexity, his own ghosts, guilt, and meaning being destroyed by the contradictions of an institution and a nonsensical moral system: the loss of hope regarding the possibility of redemption. but it might not if he learns to be brave like brienne. it is her fire that then becomes the only light in the world, the only light in his darkness. and he is given that chance, and he chooses to go back to save her. then, jumping into a bear pit empty handed is very brave on the surface, but it is brave on an existential level too because it shows that jaime is not afraid to care, to have hope be rekindled, to reject his feigned moral nihilism that allowed him to justify himself, to take the leap into the pit on a metaphorical level too, “the abyss” that he was terrified of being shoved into in the dream itself. and then “I dreamed of you.” so good.

“That is the only time a man can be brave."

the opposite actually

At Harrenhal the tubs had been huge, and made of stone. The bathhouse had been thick with the steam rising off the water, and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god. He climbed into the tub with me, she remembered, blushing.

Look at this FOOL 😭

got my tablet out for the first time in months just to draw this