#eddardstark

                             William. You have to let yourself fall.

I love the virgin headcanon but idk maybe your right early season jilliam was hot & heavy.

I also think Julia def knows about Anna, and I think if it is actually Murdoch’s kid, it would have been from when Murdoch & Anna those two episodes in Season 5.

kaidyn!!! hi after a while of deciding what episode was my favourite - i made a set of one of my favourite mm episodes. Some top contenders included The Green Muse, Snakes & Ladders, Midnight Train to Kingston.... I have more but I can’t think of them right now...  

Anyways! here’s the post & the episode I choose! I had such a thrill yesterday rewatching it and it really reminded me how good this show used to be is! 

Part one

1. Robb Stark, the Young Wolf

"They say he rides into battle on the back of a giant direwolf. They say he can turn into a wolf himself when he wants. They say he can't be killed."

2. Tommen Baratheon, The Boy King

"I will call in the army. I will take back the sept and kill every last one of them. I will start a war if I have to."

3. Syrio Forel, the First Sword of Braavos

"The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true."

4. Eddard Stark, Warden of the North

"The winters are hard but the Starks will endure. We always have."

5. Khal Drogo, the Great Khal

"The stallion who mounts the world has no need for iron chairs."

6. Rakharo

"As you say, I do, blood of my blood."

7. Maester Luwin

"The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters?"

8. Grey Wind

"A hall is no place for a wolf. He gets restless, you've seen. Growling and snapping. I should have never taken him into battle with me. He's killed too many men to fear them now."

9. Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne

"Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him."

10. Talisa Stark

"You're right. You found me out. I'm writing a letter to the Lannisters. 'The Young Wolf' is on the move."

--Ned Stark, A Dance with Dragons

I love how GRRM weaves these threads of hope throughout his stories, even in the darkest hours when all our heroes are teetering on the edge of the abyss. And it’s Ned who reminds us not to give up hope. Of all the characters GRRM could have chosen to express this sentiment in ADWD, he picked good old dead Ned. Ned who helped do the impossible and cast off the tyranny of the dragons, Ned the White Knight who lives on in the rallying cries of Northmen willing to fight and die for “Ned Stark’s little girl.” 

Because Ned Stark is just ... everything. GRRM isn’t saying Ned Stark was a fool. GRRM warns us against abandoning honor in the face of a dishonorable world. When the world grows dark, GRRM tells us, we need to hold fast to our principles as tightly as Arya clings to Needle. It will be a long, stumbling journey through night, but that’s when true knights are needed most. It will be hard ... but what if we succeed?

“what if we prevail?”

It makes me think of JFK:

We choose to [...] do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win

One becomes a true knight, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that’s what makes it worth doing. And not everyone will succeed, but what if you do? “what if we prevail?”

This feels like the point of ADWD to me, Ending slavery is hard, but Dany must try anyway, because it is right. Incorporating wildling refugees into Westeros is hard, but Jon tries anyway, because it is right. The break between Tyrion and his family is crippling, but opposing House Lannister is right. And Bran ... Bran’s journey through the darkness is one of the hardest of all ... but what if we prevail?