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The fact that she tries to give him back the sword Oathkeeper and he kind of says, “It’s yours. It’s always been yours,” the subtext is it’s almost like saying, “You keep my heart. It’s yours. It’s always been yours.” - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

But he has an idea for spinoff, should Jaime survive: “The Braime Bunch.” “You’ve got to give the fans what they want, right?” he teases. “So, it’s gotta be a Braime sitcom. They finally get together. Seven kids. They just can’t stop themselves once they get into it.” - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

in the garden.

victorian jaime/brienne commissioned by the_villanelle from twitter inspired by vladimir pervuninsky’s artwork.

“I can’t believe you wrote a song for me,” he whispered. 

 “I didn’t write a song for you,” she said, smirking. “I wrote a song for me. It’s about you.” 

 “An honor, still,” he said before biting his lip. “I particularly liked that part where you said you wanted to know what I would taste like.” 

She hit him lightly with the flowers. 

“It was feel like. Feel.” She thought about it. “Taste is better though, I might steal —” 

 And then he stood on his toes and finally kissed her. She gasped against his mouth as he pushed her against the wall, his hand at the back of her neck, his arm around her waist. She felt bad dropping her flowers to the ground, but she needed both her hands to pull him closer. Jaime. 

 She almost couldn’t believe she finally had him where she wanted. Jaime Lannister was kissing her like if he stopped he would die. If he stopped, she would die — from Bad Ideas by theworldunseen

Yasss! It’s my time!

First off, check out my ao3 bookmarks because I might be missing out on some great stuff. Sadly I only started bookmarking regularly very recently (say, after S8 lol) so this list is missing some fics. I’ll go through my downloads again when I have time.

Blessings in Disguise - Former A Lister!Jaime and Stage Manager!Brienne in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Hasn’t been updated since 2016 (sobs) but it ends on a good note.

The Contract - both of them are actors this time. I love the social media snippets, the Cereal GC sounds exactly like the Cereal stans on twitter.

Just An Act - High school AU with the ASOIAF cast putting on a Christmas play. Jaime is lead of course. Super cute. Has mild Rhaegar bashing which is always a plus.

Same Time, Next Year - JB childhood friends from ten to 18 years old. Hints of reincarnation au

two halves of a soul - Honestly I think we should credit this fic for helping the JB fandom survive after S8. Make sure to check out angel_deux’s profile for the Jaime POV fic and also some other one-shots based on this series!

dance with me and shake your bones - a sequel to two halves of a soul, this time with p0rn!

Beast and the Beast - not even gonna put a link because I’m sure y’all have read it.

The Higher Education of Brienne Tarth - the grandmother of all school AU’s imo

This is The One - ao3 user disappointed_turtle *zooms in* is muh queen. This one has soccer player Brienne and firefighter Jaime. Featuring other asoiaf ladies as Brienne’s fellow players. Check out their new mod au wip, Cloudbusting as well. It’s quite a bit darker.

St George’s Day - has a similar feel to This is The One. There are a lot of funny JB fics, but this is one of the few that made me laugh out loud. 

The Wake Up - While You Were Sleeping AU. Super soft but hasn’t been updated in a year

Something Blue - Wedding planner Jaime has to do Brienne’s wedding to Hyle Spoiler alert, that wedding does not happen. Has mild Rhaegar bashing, which is, again, a plus.

Clean Hands - obligatory Gwendoline Christie rec

Kismet with a Side of Fries - cute one-shot. tumblr and ao3 user francoeurs please return to me from the war

something good and right and real - single parent Jaime meets newbie single parent Brienne

Working 9 to 5 (for service and devotion) - great p0rn with hints of feelings

Pilot Light - chefs!

Rose-Colored Glasses - fuck yeah, new p0rn!

Ser Goldenpaws and the Wench - does it count as modern if it’s set around 1950′s? This fic is so underrated probably because it’s JB as golden retrievers. But it’s so good and adorable.

Brienne of the Sapphire Isle - yes this is cheating because this is based on Anne of Green Gables which is from the last century. But it is more modern than ASOIAF. So there.

The OTP Series - Myrcella, Margaery, and Sansa love YA author Brienne Tarth and they also love LOVE! So they set her up with Myrcy’s Hot Uncle Jaime. Also one of the JB fics that made me LOL.

Fever - This is a Rodeo AU. The one fic that made me give any premise in a JB fic a chance, no matter how odd.

All the Redemption I Can Offer - a post-ADWD fic, except set in modern times.

Run Fat Knight Run - a mod AU that’s also a S8 fix-it? yeah. Obviously, angsty.

The Wine is Not Enough - JB and a bunch of other characters attend the premiere of Cersei’s new film. It ends well for JB, if not for the film.

Everyone Has Secrets - Girl with a Dragon Tattoo AU. Has one of the best smut scenes in JB fics imo. This one’s darker than the others.

All the Roads are Winding - kinda cheating because this is a multiverse with a mod au, canon-based AU’s, apocalypse AU’s, but honestly, if you haven’t read this one, what are you doing???

The Dark, Dread Toyshop - Has magical realism and sexual awakenings. Go read it now.

LadyRhiyana’s mod au ficlets - especially the ones with Jaime the vampire who feeds on love, not blood 

what’s in the box ft. jaime & brienne !!

“I am more of a romantic than Dan and David. I kinda want him to just leave Cersei! She is bad for you and it’s not healthy and clearly you are in a relationship where you are more in love with her than she loves you.. so, you know.. And what about this Brienne of Tarth?!? She is, like, more a great..” - Nikolaj Coster Waldau

BONUS:

Don‘t you hide this in the tags, @firesign23! THIS. All of this. And I totally get how NCW can say he liked S8. (Mostly for the reasons above). Plus now that it‘s done and he has the options of getting on with his life and be proud of the work he did for 10 years, which he should be even if he didn’t win the plot fights, or think it over until he hates looking back on it, I totally would concentrate on all the good stuff and accept the rest, because it obviously was not possible to be changed by him. Wise people know … and so on.

- that was very beautifully said @firesign23, and I completely agree that this is the ending Nik was referring to when he said he was okay with Jaime's ending.

Rewatching this interview made me extremely curious about what Nik's first reaction to the S8 script really was, if he got that worked up about Jaime not leaving at the end of S6. I imagine him calling Gwen and the two of them having a really epic combined rant about that script, and it gives me some measure of peace. Haha

But then I think about all the bad decisions they made with Jaime throughout the seasons (the sept rape scene, not leaving cersei after she blew up the sept...hmmm so many sept-related mistakes), and realize that the signs of that TERRIBLE end for Jaime were there, but I chose to ignore them in favor of getting just any ending (I have serious doubts about getting the book ending).

Gwendoline Christie presents SAG HEROES (feat Brienne of Tarth) at the 26th Annual SAG Awards | 2020 (uploaded on tumblr because it is blocked on YouTube for all countries except for the U.S.)

I also think about how he avoided looking at her until she forced him to by grabbing his face.

And how he avoided touching her until her voice broke as she begged him to stay.

And that nod at the end, like he was resigning himself to make her hate him.

To me this was the last time Jaime Lannister still felt even remotely like Jaime Lannister.

“No, wench. It’s you I want.”

‘view with a grain of sand: selected poems,’ wisława szymborska

‘the complete collected poems of maya angelou’

‘art objects,’ jeanette winterson

‘by grand central station i sat down and wept,’ elizabeth smart 

‘seam,’ tarfia faizullah 

‘play it as it lays,’ joan didion

‘war of the foxes,’ richard siken

‘midwinter day,’ bernadette mayer

‘in the pines,’ alice notley

‘death is not an option,’ suzanne rivecca 

‘the dead and the living,’ sharon olds

‘the melancholy of anatomy,’ shelley jackson

‘edinburgh,’ alexander chee

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir 

‘monster: poems,’ robin morgan

‘how we became human,’ joy harjo

‘ayiti,’ roxane gay 

‘our andromeda,’ brenda shaughnessy

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

‘the lady in the looking glass,’ virginia woolf

‘the journals of joyce carol oates’

‘mathilda,’ mary shelley

‘flame & shadow,’ sara teasdale

‘go tell it on the mountain,’ james baldwin

‘stag’s leap,’ sharon olds

‘hyperdream,’ hélène cixous

‘devotions,’ mary oliver

‘the center cannot hold,’ elyn r. saks

‘sexing the cherry,’ jeanette winterson

‘the bloody chamber,’ angela carter

‘on earth we’re briefly gorgeous,’ ocean vuong

‘flesh wounds,’ virginia l. blum

‘the journals of joyce carol oates’

‘selected poems of frank o’hara’

‘the dream of a common language,’ adrienne rich

‘on beauty,’ zadie smith

‘the four chambered heart,’ anaïs nin

‘gravity and grace,’ simone weil

‘selected poems of anna akhmatova’

‘collected poems of t.s. eliot’

‘decreation,’ anne carson

‘collected works of susan sontag’

‘collected works of virginia woolf’

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir 

‘garments against women,’ anne boyer

‘the love of a good woman,’ alice munro

‘her body and other parties,’ carmen maria machado

‘the hour of the star,’ clarice lispector

‘good bones,’ margaret atwood

‘collected poems of sylvia plath’

‘selected works of joan didion’

‘devotion,’ patti smith

‘veil and burn,’ laurie clements lambeth

‘grief lessons,’ anne carson

‘the collected poems of audre lorde’

‘erosion,’ jorie graham

‘the empathy exams,’ leslie jamison

‘the beauty myth,’ naomi wolf

‘selected works of sarah kane’

‘waiting,’ marya hornbacher

‘sane,’ marya hornbacher

‘stigmata,’ hélène cixous

‘a field guide to getting lost,’ rebecca solnit

‘keith haring journals’

‘written on the body,’ jeanette winterson

‘night sky with exit wounds,’ ocean vuong

‘crush,’ richard siken

‘haruko / love poems,’ june jordan

‘bluets,’ maggie nelson

‘the collected poems of lucille clifton’ 

‘complete poems of mariannne moore’

‘poems and prose,’ christina rossetti

‘the gentrification of the mind,’ sarah schulman 

‘power politics,’ margaret atwood

‘a girl is a half-formed thing,’ eimear mcbride

‘one secret thing,’ sharon olds

‘the silent woman,’ janet malcom

‘the white book,’ han kang

‘braiding sweetgrass,’ robin wall kimmerer

‘not vanishing,’ chrystos

‘sinners welcome,’ mary karr

‘cat’s eye,’ margaret atwood

‘zami / sister outsider / undersong,’ audre lorde

‘sula,’ toni morrison 

‘we sinful women,’ rukhsana ahmed

‘the house on mango street,’ sandra cisneros 

‘blood and guts in highschool,’ kathy acker

‘unbearable weight,’ susan bordo

‘rhapsody in plain yellow,’ marilyn chin

‘the hunger moon,’ marge piercy 

‘trash,’ dorothy allison 

‘the cocktail party,’ t.s. eliot

‘love lessons,’ alda merini

‘selected poems of marina tsvetaeva’

‘disorder,’ vanesha pravin

‘a strangers mirror,’ marilyn hacker

‘human acts,’ han kang

‘dearest creature,’ amy gerstler

‘when my brother was an aztec,’ natalie diaz

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

Gwen nominated for a Critics Choice award

no Golden Globe nom for D&D/S8 shitefest

Nikolaj in glasses instastory

no WGA nom for D&D/S8 shitefest

Gwen/Brienne/Nik/Jaime/Braime singled out in more than one end-of-year highlights list

new Nik & Gwen clips from preseason press interviews

Gwen **legs for days** photo

Did I miss anything?

... and now a new fic from Sigilbroken???!! Whose JB fics I've easily read half a dozen times each??? Who's like #3 or 4 on the list of JB sacred texts?????

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Gwen nominated for a Critics Choice award

no Golden Globe nom for D&D/S8 shitefest

Nikolaj in glasses instastory

no WGA nom for D&D/S8 shitefest

Gwen/Brienne/Nik/Jaime/Braime singled out in more than one end-of-year highlights list

new Nik & Gwen clips from preseason press interviews

Gwen **legs for days** photo

Did I miss anything?

... and now a new fic from Sigilbroken???!! Whose JB fics I've easily read half a dozen times each??? Who's like #3 or 4 on the list of JB sacred texts?????