#him-e

I’ve just realized Bill and Dany were both ultimately killed by their lovers but one of them was unjustly villainized & the other was a master manipulator who got a faux redemption arc and a romantic hero’s death ://

This! Exactly my thoughts!

I was thinking about this parallel the other day and I got angry too, especially at Bill’s redemption and death as a romantic hero. Ugh. I think it was, at least for me, the worst scene on the finale.

I wouldn't be surprised if Qyburn thought it would be funny to name the champion of a woman accused of having obviously-not-legitimate children and passing them off as legitimate in part after Rhaenyra's lover.

And of course as an ex-maester, Qyburn is fully educated in Westeros history. “Robert” for Robert Baratheon, “Strong” for Harwin Strong... and Qyburn gives the name to Kevan with a smile and a grandfatherly twinkle in his eye...

someone asked:

I remember reading a fic where Robert Strong's body was the Mountain and his head was Robb Stark's and it sounded like an interesting theory (if also really really awful!)

It’s also really really fucking stupid. (And one of several reasons I rolled my eyes at that supposed “best fic ever”, its tendency to shove in non-textual anti-thematic crack theories for shock, sigh...)

someone else asked:

wait i’m very new to asoiaf and everything i don’t really get the meta, what's the womb theory? why is frankengregor bridal carrying cercei so creepy? is it because he's a zombie monster in the 'role' of husband?

My “wombs theory” re Gregor’s revivification. (now, my theories can sometimes be shocking, but they are always heavily textually based. also fyi, trigger warning for rape and body horror and other disturbing content.) And yes, oh yes indeed.

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@him-e​ replied:

#you know grrm loves his 3000 iterations of beauty and the beast #time for a really dark one i guess

Hi! Thank you so much! I’m not sure that I know enough about art and art history to really have any thoughts about this tho :( Like, I imagine that the Westerlands would favor extremely ornate styles, and for the Reach, I always think of medieval France, and Dorne makes me think about Moorish Spain or Morocco or Palestine or India, and for the North, I imagine much simpler, rougher styles, but that’s pretty much the extent of my thoughts :( I’m sorry! 

You make me SO PROUD, silje.