a Girlboss of the seven kingdoms

#although honestly they won't put brienne on the list because none of them take jaime seriously #they'll add loras lmaoooo who she fucking canonically BEAT #and who jaime says she would destroy #jaime who's like give that woman a valyrian steel sword and she'll conquer this whole continent #jaime sees her with a sword squaring off with a bear and thinks oh she's got this (via @chickren)

redditors do not understand the mind of the true powerscaler

this has to be the funniest clip of all time

if Jon had ever been in her direct line of sight long enough her Extreme Beef With Schoolchildren instinct would have kicked in so viciously that she’d immediately go into a Will Graham detective trance and connect it to Lyanna Stark on the spot

WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS

Cersei VI A Feast For Crows

i dont think it's a coincidence that every act of one-to-one retributive violence in the story rings hollow: arya killing the tickler, vargo hoat's dismemberment and death at the hands of the mountain, brienne killing shagwell the fool, jorah the slaver sold and branded as a slave. these aren't moments that give the characters catharsis. even the large examples: valyria salted the wreck of old ghis to make sure nothing could grow there again and enslaved half the known world and in return old valyria is a smoldering doom half-sunken into the sea, likely at the hands of the very slaves they ruled. 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. asoiaf's narrative retribution is karma without the justice.

tybolt lannister you were mentioned once in passing in dunk and egg and then never again. but i love you. we exist.

okay discourse over we’ve settled it now

Shiloh Carroll, Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones

This contradicts much of what I’ve seen over the years in fandom—particularly the idea that Cersei would aspire to be a female warrior like Brienne. That just fundamentally overlooks a core aspect of Cersei's personality (as well as that of the other Lannisters): her concern with how she is perceived. Emulating Brienne—someone scorned and derided by both men and women for defying conventional femininity—would mean losing the respect and admiration that Cersei does crave. Cersei isn’t interested in subverting social norms, she seeks to claim power and status within them... something she couldn't achieve as a social pariah like Brienne but rather would expect to attain as the quintessential male ideal embodied by Jaime.