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bleh so i changed my url about a week ago but i didn’t like it and decided to go back except someone mean decided to steal my old url so i’m compromising thanks to @thominho !!!

and yeah i’ll be tracking #andrrewgarfield from now on :)

Hi! Well, I first have to point out that we don’t know for certain whether the Southron Ambitions Plan (SAP) was the real deal. It’s still a theory, although it’s a theory I firmly believe in.

I talk about this in detail in my tag for #southron ambitions, but I think the point of the SAP was to limit Targaryen power / decrease the power of the cental government, while simultaneously increasing the power of the Great Lords through a permanent Great Council. 

And at the time when Joanna and the Princess were concocting a Lannister-Martell alliance, Tywin wanted Cersei to marry Rhaegar. Tywin wanted (the power behind) the Iron Throne to remain strong at this point, with Rhaegar and Cersei as King and Queen. (And I believe Joanna was in accord with that.) So I don’t think the proposed Jaime/Elia match had anything to do with Southron Ambitions. I think that was more about the Princess trying to find a strong ally for Dorne, while the Lannisters were looking for the most prestigious match possible. (Elia was the only unwed princess in Westeros at the time.) I’ve discussed these ideas before as “Parallel Southron Ambitions” because I think everybody’s starting to move against an increasingly unstable Aerys at this time, but not everyone is working together to accomplish this goal. 

But did the Princess later join up with Jon Arryn, Rickard Stark, and Hoster Tully? tbh I don’t think so? 

The Arryn-Stark-Tully-(deceased)Baratheon alliance to me seemed borne out of the desires of a few old war comrades not to let the Targ follies that led to things like the War of the Ninepenny Kings happen again, whereas I just don’t get the feeling that the Princess was motivated by a desire to oust Aerys. After Tywin rejected Elia, she seems to have withdrawn from the game for a time; Elia had no betrothal for the 6 years from 273 to 279, so it’s like the Unnamed Princess wasn’t playing. And tbh I think that was very important. I think Aerys approached the Princess about Elia/Rhaegar because Dorne was more politically isolated. (Click the various links to WordPress in that post please if you wish to read about it.) 

(I don’t think this headcanon is supported by anything, but I feel like the Unnamed Princess was ill for several years before her death, and she was confined to her bed, sort of the way Doran has trouble getting out of his wheelchair because of his terrible gout. I think this illness was the reason why she wasn’t playing the game, and why I think Aerys approached her, because she wouldn’t be able to make visits to the Crownlands / act as an ally at court for Elia, etc, like I think there was just. this perfect storm of keeping Elia isolated that eventually led to her horrible death all alone. But this is just my headcanon.)

So no, I don’t think the Princess was involved in Southron Ambitions. As to the extent of her involvement in greater Westerosi politics, I don’t think she was ever that involved, I think she was a lot more focused on Dorne. I could be totally wrong though. It would be nice if GRRM discussed her politics a bit. It would be nice if I had a name to use while discussing her politics. 

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the safe mode thing has always been there, i think this new filtering system is something you can't toggle on and off