i’m so full of love i could barely eat

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD LORD COMMANDER JON has already DONE IT. He rose faster than anyone around him. He’s competent, decisive, terrifyingly capable. And the reward is… isolation. Suspicion. Hatred. The slow realization that being SPECIAL doesn’t mean being ACCEPTED it means being dangerous to the social order. His power doesn’t fit. His instincts don’t fit. His compassion doesn’t fit. So he does what people like Jon always do: he tries to CUT HIMSELF DOWN TO SIZE so others won’t have to.

And the Ned parallel? That’s where it gets almost unbearable. NED gives up his MARRIAGE, his HONOR, and the TRUTH to keep Jon SAFE. Not just from Robert’s wrath, but from the narrative of power itself. He knows what happens to boys with claims, symbols, songs attached to them. He knows crowns eat children alive. So he chooses obscurity as protection.

But the joke the cosmic, GRRM-grade joke is that Jon is NEVER SAFE FROM STORY. Ned is looking SOUTH. He’s afraid of KINGS and THRONES and EXECUTIONS. He’s afraid someone will try to MAKE Jon into something. But Jon’s danger was always NORTH. It was BAEL THE BARD. It was the OLD STORIES. It was blood that doesn’t stay buried. It was the kind of inheritance that doesn’t care whether you want it or not.

Jon doesn’t die a quiet bastard on a farm somewhere. He doesn’t die as a pawn in King’s Landing. He dies leading FREE FOLK, tearing down the boundaries Ned trusted, becoming accidentally, inevitably a KING-SHAPED THING without a crown. A figure people FOLLOW, not because of law, but because of belief.

some little guys that did shcokingly well on twt

edit: was asked to put a little id in the tags so ya ok

[ID: A group of chibi-styled drawings done digitally. First image has a small Stephanie Brown in her Spoiler costume extending her arms with her eyes closed. The speech bubble above her says “eek!” Next to her, Tim Drake’s in his Robin costume with his arms hanging awkwardly by his sides. The speech bubble above him says “oop!”

Second image is Cass Cain as Batgirl, her arms are above her faux-menacingly. The text bubble beside her says “huh?”

Third image is of Jay Nakamura standing there with a sort of deadpan expression.

Fourth and final image is of Mia Mizoguchi as Robin holding her arms out, tilted, with a very happy/goofy expression on her face.