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Nettles and Sheepstealer by Audrey Benjaminsen for the Folio Society’s edition of Fire and Blood.

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i just don’t think alicent is fundamentally opposed to violence or war. she is practical about having to use violence to advance a goal, and does it herself - she just has unacceptable limits that she hits, like rhaenyra’s murder or sending helaena to war against her will. but tellingly, in both cases she orders violence or accedes to violence to achieve the goal she herself seeks. she tries to stop one instance of violence unacceptable to herself, but must permit other kinds of violence to occur to do so. to save rhaenyra and her family in 1.09 she has larys burn down mysaria’s spy operation, and though the show is a bit frustratingly vague on this, it seems clear that this is done with the intent of killing the people who work for mysaria - just destroying the building wouldn’t achieve much. she agrees to aegon’s murder in 2.08 to save helaena. i think she experiences significant distress at both acts. she has an abhorrence of violence that is a thread throughout the show, from her anxiety at the bloodshed at the tourney in 1.01 to her horror at the violence of her own outburst in 1.07. but she does do them, and accept she has to do them, to acquire the (often limited) power to achieve her specific ends…which is exactly what she’s telling rhaenyra she’ll have to do in all we’ve gotten of her s3 so far!
she is a power player in a very violent political system that she has survived for a long time in, and regardless of her ambivalence, i just do not see the figure criston’s partial and sexist view conjures - a woman too tender and good to confront violence as a reality, and therefore unfitting to head a government prosecuting a war. it’s equally telling her moments of resistance, of using power for herself rather than others, are centered around the love of women, and work against the goals of the men who try to control her. but it can’t really undo the patriarchal power structure, as it is often posited to do via a richean lesbian continuum kind of framework - she has to work within it, always. none of alicent’s relationships with women can ever be extricated from hierarchies of power or said to be working against it in any neat way, at least so far. alicent saves rhaenyra’s life, but the only way she can do that is by seeking and affirming power for aegon. it doesn’t disrupt monarchal power, it actually affirms it, while working to strip rhaenyra of power. she later capitulates to rhaenyra for helaena, but it entails affirming rhaenyra’s pursuit of power, because safety for helaena is dependent on rhaenyra gaining power. these female bonds do not have any straightforward, inherent political purpose or function. they always affirm power as much as they disturb it, they might redistribute it or fight specific unacceptable ends, but they are too tied up in this system for it to ever fundamentally disrupt it. but that has great meaning to me! life is often not made up of radical acts or breaks, which most of us have few real opportunities for, but a more complex negotiation of accommodations and resistances that can still profoundly shape lives.
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Some thoughts I have about Jaime’s weirwood dream in ASOS:
It opens by naming his old identity out loud. He tells himself he’s safe as long as he has his hand, then safe as long as he has a sword. That’s the whole of who he was: the hand, the blade, the name. Tywin gives him the sword. Cersei is the only light in the world. The Lannister legacy, past and present, standing before him.
Brienne pops up when he’s still defined by all of that. She’s in chains. She asks him for a sword. He frees her, and she has a sword now, and he can see her in this light as almost a knight, almost a beauty, and then her flames take life, and the darkness retreat some more.
And then Cersei tells him “The flames will burn so long as you live. When they die, so must you”.
Then his family leaves. Tywin and Cersei turn and go, and they take every Lannister ghost in the cavern with them, leaving just Jaime and Brienne alone.
And Brienne, in this dream, she starts in chains, then he frees her, then he arms her, and then her blade takes flame until she’s a second source of light, equal to him, standing beside him. He notices her body again, sees that she has more of a woman’s shape. When she touches him, he shudders, because she’s warm.
Then the ghosts comes. But it isn’t the ghosts that hurt him. His flame only starts to flicker when he gives in to the guilt, and the more it swallows him the lower the flame burns, until it goes out. Jaime’s flame dies because he surrenders to despair.
And what is the rule the dream laid down? As long as the flames burns, he lives. When they die, so does he.
His flame dies. Brienne’s is still burning.
And now Brienne is the hand holding the sword and the only light in the world.
When he collapses under guilt, she still stands. She stands between him and his ghosts. She stands between him and the darkness. His flame went out yes, but her light still remains.
So I don’t know if the dream necessarily means Jaime dies before Brienne, but that his living or dying is tied to her. As long as the flames burn, he lives. Once they go out, he’s gone. Hers is still burning.
If she falters, if her light goes out, that’s where his death is.
i actually believe u can read it as up in the air, and ppl should, but i personally am a big fan of this interpretation too

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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN AND ALICENT HIGHTOWER House of the Dragon, Season 3
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oh my god. alicent at harrenhal (?) helaena in the godswood. mysaria swapping out dragon keeper’s robes for valyrian noble’s robes. daemon and ormund visenya-ing. larys and aegon roadtrip. rhaenyra. dragon show summer here we come
House of the Dragon, (Condal 2022-) / "[...] the cry of a woman keening. It came from the bog': (Re)presentations of the Bog in Nineteenth-Century Irish Gothic Fiction", (Galiné, 2018) / A Storm of Swords, Bran II, (Martin 2000) / A Feast for Crows, Brienne IV, (Martin 2005) / "Rural Ghost Walks", (Bevan 2023) / Fire and Blood, "The Dying of the Dragons", (Martin 2018)
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brienne does not change jaime. she does not try to fix him. brienne does not do anything but exist, which is meaningful enough obviously because of what she embodies. and then jaime decides to change himself separated from her. jaime is not even romantically pursuing her as he changes himself
brienne is someone who cares and retains her values and humanity and continuously rejects and contradicts jaime’s cynical worldview that he uses to justify himself. her very existence is a condemnation of jaime on every level. she is someone who seems undeterred by the contradictions and refuses to become corrupted by them. it doesnt matter that most of her society despises her for what she is and continuously blocks her path instead of rewarding it. she is “no chance and no choice.” that is why she is a catalyst for jaime, but the responsibility and burden of change is on jaime. he is doing that work, not her. and he is doing it for himself, not her.
the thing about jaime is that at the core he wants to be able to actually like himself. he is hungry and aching for love from others, but especially (above all) the self. that is the driving force here. i genuinely cannot comprehend how ppl do not grasp that he hates himself
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i don't know if i could precisely describe why, but something about schmendrick the magician always reminds me of tyrion. possibly it's that mixture of bitterness and cleverness and jealous yearning, or that they're both denied true manhood in their societies, with tyrion being called half-man. etc., + his cptsd as a result of (sexual) abuse and trauma / schemdrick's cursed immortality and inability to age along with lines like: "I'm no man," he said. "I'm a magician with no magic, and that's no one at all." unable to perform their proper roles (martial violence/magic) and therefore access the full extent of their power, they both have to rely on their words and tricks. there's a pull, a vibe, a note idk.
yes!! yes! there are so many similarities between molly and tyrion. it breaks my heart. his fascination with dragons is mentioned even in the first book, so it becomes this thread running through his whole life, something he dreamed of the way maidens in tlu dream of unicorns. i was also thinking of this part between schmendrick and the unicorn:
and how jealous he is of molly at first for joining them--that she has a secret understanding with the unicorn that he can't know, even with all his age and knowledge, though they come to love each other very much. with molly and the unicorn, there's this terrible beautiful catharsis, but schmendrick's relationship with her is more painful for them both. he saves her, but he changes her, and as much as he wants to help her, he also wants something from it/her, even though they both know she can't give it. some mixture of that dynamic + the bittersweet molly parallels you pointed out are the undertones i imagine for tyrion and dany, though darker because of their circumstances/grrm and with the potential for real betrayal.
ADWD, Jaime I / HOTD, "The Green Council" 1x9 / HOTD, "The Red Sowing" 2x7 / AGOT, Dany III