Fear cuts deeper than swords

Daemon: Rhaenyra listen to me I saw a blond girl with dragons. A blond girl with dragons Rhaenyra. Now that may not seem at all unusual or miraculous to you or me probably because all our dragons are still alive and we have no reason to think anything is going to happen to them but would this woman who roofied me 58 times in a one week span have lied? Do you think she’d show me a tree man without cause? Do you think people are just blonde for no reason? Exactly. Now put your shoes on, we’ll avenge Jeremy

another asoiaf detail that i am obsessed with is how married women aren't always referred to with their husbands' surnames. sometimes people will still use a woman's maiden surname for her, or use both surnames, and it can reflect what people think about the status of the woman's marriage. like cat is sometimes referred to as catelyn tully or catelyn tully stark instead of just catelyn stark by people who associate her with riverrun, or in her own internal monologue. sansa is never once referred to as sansa lannister because everyone knows it's a morally deplorable sham child marriage situation that's basically already annulled. and the most funny one of all: cersei is never, not once in all 5 books, referred to as cersei baratheon. everyone, literally everyone, knows that is NOT her name lmao

easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.

seems like a good moment to remind the general public that maekar is stannis’ great great grandfather. that stick up his ass is a family heirloom