Lady Without Her Crown

grrm must really love the beauty and the beast trope since he built sandor and sansa's dynamic off of it, and used it to subvert gender roles with jaime and brienne - arguably his favorite twist on tropes. he's very much a romantic writer.

keep thinking about brienne living on the eastern side of westeros, while jaime’s on the western. both grew up near the sea. both grew up sailing!!she used to watch the sun rise above the water in the morning and he watched the sunsets at the horizon….😭 totally opposite yet so similar!

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

we need to bring back the phrase "what business is it of yours" in a big way i'm serious

i know you can just say "none of your business" but phrasing it as a question with a jarringly formal tone is the ideal way to shoot an overfamiliar unwelcome overture dead in its tracks and force the person making it to confront the boundaries they're taking for granted + it would really piss people off which is funny

&also it allows you to experience the joy of talking like an autistic vampire, which i highly recommend