'Have you?' the Reader asked, so softly.

the tragedy is that even if every single part of tywin’s legacy violently implodes on our page these ppl will still be like “well thats only bc he died” or “well he had one major blindspot which was abusing the shit out of his kids ig” and not confront that everything about tywin’s worldview and methods is anything but this necessary ruthlessly pragmatic utilitarian leader that westeros needs fantasy and he was actually an evil fragile moron who is the one who put his family on an unsalvageable path to doom

when asoiaf said either your story will go unrecorded in history and that is violence or your story will be made into an ideal or a warning and that is violence and when it said power is an illusionary thing but it is real and when it said gender and class are both performances utilized to perpetuate an unjust system and when it said dismantling such systems are not easy and it will not happen without violence and when it said the youth will inherit a world destroyed by the older generations and their only choice will be to adapt and rebuild and when it said vengeance is a cycle and catharsis is a lie and only you can stop it and when it said hope and idealism is worth fighting for and when it said over and over and over again atrocities beyond your imagination will happen next to you and to you and the only thing you can do is get up the only thing you can do is keep going despair is the ultimate crime

"I barely saw [Tom without the makeup]. Instinctively you treat someone a little bit differently. I was just a little bit more careful around you physically. There was a sort of... You just wanted to prioritize them. You know, you want to make sure that they are okay, which I think is kind of what's going on with the character as well as having to prioritize someone else and sort of shepherd them through the day." helloooooooo

robb is in the hunger games, theon is in a little life, sansa is in little women, sam is in bbc’s merlin, catelyn is in the bible, tyrion is in grand theft auto, jon is in a song of ice and fire

Euron Greyjoy said a bunch of bullshit to get elected at the “saying a bunch of bullshit to get elected” competition. Every time anyone asks him if he’s being for real about #anyofthat, he just shrugs without answering. The most reliable sources we have on his intentions and capabilities are his brother who is terrified of him more than anything else in the world because Euron repeatedly raped him as a child and his other brother who hates him and also knows Euron is lying to him about everything but can’t figure out how. i think he’s on fraud watch the only real thing he wants to do is loot oldtown like every other ironborn ever. prove me wrong. publish the winds of winter

If they wanted me to believe he was doing real magic he should’ve shown up in the THE WORLD IS FOLDING IN ON ITS HINGES LETS DO REAL ABOMINATION MAGIC half of feastdance and not so much the TYWIN LANNISTER TOLD THE WORLD HE WAS TEN FEET TALL AND UNSTOPPABLE AND SOLID GOLD BUT IT WAS ALL JUST PATRIARCHY SHIT AND ROT half of things. idk

the whole point of the Kingsguard is that they’re unbelievably fucking washed like zero heroic deeds on the board just morning noon night overtime fraud aura farming. Complicit in every act of patriarchal violence of the monarchy. Not even that good at fighting. Hypothetical victories only. Like “noooo Arthur Dayne would’ve—” except Arthur Dayne lay down his life to stop a pregnant 15 year-old dying in childbirth from seeing her big brother on her deathbed and then got fucking hosed by teenage Ned Stark and his gay best friend who does not hit 5 foot two. “Ohhhhhh aemon the dragonknight” kept his sister in that damn cage for decades and then died in the service of his brother which is dickrider behavior. Bystanderan Selmy? Washed.

Wait he stopped doing what