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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.

Yeah honestly Jaime saving the city, but also allowing the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty in the city (theoretically he “””””could”””” have restrained the king and saved the children), dooming the Baratheon dynasty via adultery, and of course the stock and standard defence of a monarch’s marital rape - like? It’s kind of getting implied he needs to LEAVE the Kingsguard in order to actually honour his vows of knighthood. Like, the idea in the show that Brienne and Pod would join the Kingsguard makes sense… and… the post would utterly ruin them. The whole guard needs to be re-done to be just really good guards - not knights. Unless they’re okay with the Kingsguard being allowed to depose tyrants as like an insurance policy- because otherwise you CANNOT be a good person and a good knight and a good Kingsguard.

“i never see you at the club” ok well i never see you on ao3 at 2am reading about the same two bitches falling in love for the 1000th time in the 500th way

i stand by the statement that anyone who believes brienne and tormund were meant to be, has a fundamental misunderstanding of brienne's character and doesn't actually like her.

can’t wait for jaime and brienne to mutually respect each other all night long

i’ll always be so moved and inspired by brienne of tarth, always. brienne, who knows she’ll never be seen as beautiful, who fits no one’s idea of a lady or of a knight, who will never be respected as either. who has been belittled and outcast her entire life and seldom shown the gentleness she deserves. she has every reason to become as embittered as jaime or sandor and resent the world for what it has done to her, and yet she doesn’t. she continues to believe in goodness and continues to have hope. she stays honorable and gentle and holds onto her tender heart no matter how many times it is hurt. brienne is the epitome of the resilience of the human spirit, a reminder that true strength is knowing that love and beauty and kindness exists no matter how much you have suffered, and that you can bring that light into the world yourself every single moment. she’s so strong and i’ll always love her for it

trashing brienne of tarth? talk shit get hit wITH A SOLID GOLD PROSTHETIC HAND IN THE FACE

“Jaime,” Brienne whispered, so faintly he thought he was dreaming it. “Jaime, what are you doing?” “Dying,” he whispered back. “No,” she said, “no, you must live.” A Storm of Swords

“jaime did it mostly for self preservation” “he did it bc he was ordered to kill his father” are not only blatantly incorrect and borderline illiterate reads of what is in the text but idk why people find it unfathomable that someone like jaime would want to prevent thousands of people from violently burning alive. like it is not actually a difficult moral equation which is at the center of jaime’s arc and his relationship to his society because he realizes that the ethical constructs of westeros seem to be in opposition to this very obvious moral choice as seen by how the situation could even escalate to the point that it does through the enablement of the tyrant by the respected institution of the kingsguard and the uncritical upholding of the feudalistic construct of the honor system over an actual coherent moral code. same with the scorn he receives for killing what everybody acknowledges as an objectively horrid tyrant who harmed innocents and violated law that knights are also sworn to protect and uphold.

My unpopular opinion is that Jaime wasn't wrong to kill him even if it was to save his or his father's life.

jaime wasnt wrong to kill him if be just found his voice annoying #real