daeron & dunk
dany & drogon at the end of adwd
“We will have it all back someday, sweet sister.” Viserys would promise her. “The jewels and the silks, Dragonstone and King’s Landing, the Iron Throne and the Seven Kingdoms, all they have taken from us, we will have it back.”
GRRM is in fact really good at making up top tier characters i will use the starklings to illustrate the point okay you got: 1) high school freshman King Arthur stars in a shakespearean tragedy, as told by his mom; 2) local moody teenaged Starbucks night shift manager must do his very best to stop the zombie apocalypse through the power of friendship; 3) a middle schooler who keeps her sparkly butterfly gel pens in perfect rainbow order at all times is being held hostage by her evil middle school boyfriend and his evil blonde mafia family; 4) a scrappy but poorly-supervised middle-grade book protagonist bops about a war-zone looking for her family but instead! learns about Death; 5) paraplegic fourth grader Frodo Baggins receives mystical visions and must go on a quest to see a hundred-year-old tree guy; and 6) kindergartener that Bites
Feel like the only toxic dark romantasy ship in asoiaf is Davos x Stannis because Davos let that man cut his fingers off as discipline and romanticizes it. And Stannis LITERALLY IMPRISONED HIM IN A DUNGEON and then was like just kidding,,,, my love,,,,,, you are the only True Soul Who Understands Me and Holds Me Accountable. Also like Lowborn Special Thief x Mean Cruel Rigid Not Chill King is so classic booktok no?
Where does one go to find sensitivity readers these days? I’m specifically looking for someone Mongolian/with Mongolian heritage to chat with about my MDZS Night’s Watch AU. I’m willing to discuss payment for the service.
a lot of the sansa/lyanna parallel posts unfairly shaft ned (something i can't believe i'm saying tbh) because ned attempting to break the joff/sansa betrothal was actually an extremely caring thing to do. robert is the king, the king ned placed on the throne himself, and ned is willing to defy him for the sake of making sure his daughter has a husband who will treat her correctly. it isn't lost on me that in the background of this decision is the abusive relationship of robert/cersei.
in lyanna's case, if rickard had chosen to break her betrothal to robert after seeing robert's loose conduct then lyanna would have been absolutely over the moon. in lyanna we find a sort of anti-establishment sentiment, a rebuffing of patriarchal values for the sake of a more meaningful chivalry. robert meets all the patriarchal standards for a good husband (handsome, warrior, wealthy lord) but he fails lyanna's test for being a good man.
in contrast, sansa (yes, she is eleven, so it's understandable) is, at the time, firmly pro-establishment. she is entirely taken with the idea of joffrey as a gallant, charming, kind prince, not because he is those things, but because he's a prince and a prince should be those things. even with evidence to the contrary, sansa doesn't quite understand the tautological difference at that point.
for lyanna, lord rickard either did not share her concerns or did not see them as the priority. ned, on the other hand, does see them as the priority, and he does care for sansa enough to take a stand. when he admits to treason he does that for sansa as well. the sansa/lyanna parallels rely on ned being similar to rickard in this regard, and well, he's very much not.
