no chance and no choice

egg did summerhall is already a devastating realization that haunts the narrative but personally i do not think i will be recovering from the lord commander dunk was also almost definitely complicit in the kingsguard’s violent neglect of rhaella targaryen realization

One of them started a civil war that killed everyone and one of them threw a baby out of a window. Among other things

tbf when it comes to jaime’s track record with successful child murder id bet u that infant would survive the trebuchet

he is like 1:10 rn and the 1 is when he helped cersei get that abortion

the reason the suvudu experts were right and gurm was wrong about that matchup is bc hermione is a child which is an automatic guarantee of her survival against that man

In a scale from "Jaime Lannister" to "Anakin Skywalker," how good are you at child murder?

LISTEN, he's the kingslayer and not the kidslayer. lannisters are not multitaskers

i say there are 2 reasons the abortion worked as pre-child killing: 1. the power of women bc this was in no way a jaime solo job like the others 2. if cersei had robert's baby the kid would be royal from birth so kingslaying powers outweigh weakness against children (robb and bran did not have royal titles yet when jaime tried to kill them so the kingslaying powers were not charged up enough to overcome the child weakness. he just tried to kill them too soon both wrt their youth and crownlessness.)

egg did summerhall is already a devastating realization that haunts the narrative but personally i do not think i will be recovering from the lord commander dunk was also almost definitely complicit in the kingsguard’s violent neglect of rhaella targaryen realization

sometimes I remember that Cersei and Tyrion are chasing and earning the Masculinity that is denied to them (Cersei because she was born a woman, Tyrion because he was born disabled) by becoming increasingly more Violent, exactly like the Manly Men who abused them (Tywin, Robert), and i feel like I need a cigarette. and I don't even smoke

The most compelling thing about daenerys targaryen to me really is that she is the very last one of them. No restoration no encores the prince the targaryens destroyed themselves promising is a little girl who cannot look back so the only home she can return to is the one she makes out of the world for everyone else with nothing to return to. That’s everything…

The valyrians salted the burning wreckage of old ghis to make sure nothing could ever grow again and in turn the wreckage of their empire is so inhospitable to life that anything that goes near it dies and aegon the conqueror put a blood curse on the burning wreckage of harrenhal so that nothing could ever survive there and in turn King’s Landing is going to be reduced to absolutely nothing. But when Daenerys the very last Targaryen leaves the world there won’t be a Targaryen on the iron throne and there might not even be dragons anymore but there WILL be a thousand thousand people who were able to build a home and plant a lemon tree in front because of her❤️

I think the ultimate fantasy that people have when depicting Brienne is thinking 'Well *I* wouldn't think she was ugly just because she doesn't fit medieval Westerosi beauty standards. In fact, I would think she was HOT!' OK. Cool. Would you still respect her if you did, in fact, think she was ugly though? Or is morality tied up with appearance still, just behind one additional layer of abstraction?

all the female characters in asoiaf have to deal with beauty as a real, material condition that affects their lives. it's socially constructed, and maybe those constructions don't line up with our understanding of beauty, but that makes it no less real. the text is not concerned with whether Arya, Sansa, Brienne, or Cersei are attractive to a modern reader. it is concerned with the way it shapes their available choices. Brienne's choices for marriage are severely limited because people agree she's ugly. Cersei and Sansa are commodities in part because they are agreed to be beautiful. Arya is treated with more respect when she wears a dress and conforms to gendered expectations, but the supposed ugliness of her gender non-conformity merits worse treatment. what we think they look like is irrelevant.