“From this day forth there would be but one king in Westeros. Those who bent the knee to Aegon of HouseTargaryen would keep their lands and titles. Those who took up arms against him would be thrown down, humbled, and destroyed.”

Its the battle as we know, Dany says Dracarys to NK, but it doesnt work, she sees Jon running towards the NK with Longclaw, but she sees a lot of wights coming, Drogon lands and breath´s fire killing a lot of wights, but more wights comes at Drogon and Danys falls near Jon when Drogon in stress with wights leaves.

Jon and NK fight, but NK beats Jon, Longclaw is on the floor, NK grabes it and puts in Jon cheast, Dany screams,NK smiles and turn his back at her, going to Bran. Dany goes to Jon, he´s bleeding, shes crying, Jon begs her to save Bran and put her hand in his sword, she says i love you and pulls Longclaw out of his cheast, when she pulls it, its on fire! Melisandre at the same time, says at the castle “Azor Ahai is here”. After all, Jon´s duty were to save and protect Azor Ahai - Dany the Unburn - thats why Lord of Light saved him.

Everyone is fighting wights, Arya and Jorah is protecting Bran from the NK generals, Jorah dies. Dany passes through fire with the fire sword LongClaw, NK turns around, goes to Dany, she runs screaming at him in rage, he tries to swing at her with his ice sword, but she gets down, when shes up she puts screaming in rage the fire sword in his chest, destroying him and the all the wights.

After this Dany finds shes pregnant, but she´s in rage because Cersei didnt helped, Jorah is dead, Jon is dead, Missandei and Tyrion are imprisoned in Kings Landing. Dany is mad. Sansa is crowned Queen of the North and she and Danys agrees if sending tropes to fight Cersei, Dany will give Sansa independence. After 4 months its the fight, Dany has already a pregnancy belly but she still flies on Drogon. Its the Kings Landing fight.

What Dany didnt know was that Cersei has wildfire hidden through Kings Landing, when Drogon kills the Golden Company, it activates wildfire destroying the city. Dany is in rage with Cersei, flies through the Red Keep, the queens look at each other Dany flying in Drogon outside and Cersei scared inside the Red Keep, and Dany says “Dracarys”. Cersei and big ammount of the Red Keep are destroyed.

Dany enters the throne room with Missandei and Tyrion present at the room watching her at distance. She looks at Kings Landing destroyed tearful, then looks at the Throne, she touches the Throne and then she says seriously “Dracarys” and Drogon destroys the Iron Throne. She looks at Missandei and Tyrion and says “Send ravens tell that Danenerys Targaryen broke the wheel, Westeros is now independent, and the people are free.”She goes on Drogon flying away and disappears. 

Years fast foward every region is independent Tyrion meets with Sam and they tell that they heard various rumors - same say seeing a dragon flying at old Valyria, others say seeing a dragon heading to West of Westeros, while others say dont see in years a dragon or a Targaryen. They hope Dany and the child of Jon are safe and happy elsewhere. Tyrion is the Casterly Rock Dwarf, Sansa the Queen of the North, Yara the Queen of Iron Islands, some cousin of Olenna and Margaery is the Queen of the Reach and Arya is the lady of Stormsland with Gendry Baratheon and Bran is working with the maesters to fulfill the history books correctly. Then the last image are a blond boy and a brunette girl entering a cave and finding dragon eggs. The we heard Dany´s voice without seeing her “ Come here children”. The children smile and leaves the cave running. FADES TO BLACK

People forgot whatRamsaysaid “If you think this is going to have a happy ending you havent paying attention” And when George RR Martin said this is going to have a bitter sweet ending like the Tolkien books. 

My theory ending is Jon and Dany will have a kid, but they die in the end, changing the face of Westeros for good. And changing Westeros is not trought sitting on the Iron Throne, but with the destruction of the Iron Throne, magic and all the royal rules. In the end their kid will live like a free person. And a new age of independency and freedom without the Throne, magic and Royal rules will begin.

The purpose of dragons are to destroy once for all the walkers, NK and the Throne, it was a dragon that forged the Iron Throne and it is a dragon that will destroy it. The Iron Throne needs to disappear, its a symbol of power, ambition, corruption.Magichas do disappear because gives an advantage. If they destroy the magic trees all the children of the forest and Bran/3 Eyed Raven gets destroyed too and maybe this is the only way of defeating NK once for all.

Think about it - we have seen a lot of houses being exterminated -  Tyrells, Martells, Umber, Freys, Bolton. Maybe its a hint of the new age that is going to happen.

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This, unequivocally.

POP QUIZ AND GO!

No it’s really not a trick question.

They are all the same pot.

Congratulate you and your brain on a job well done! 

They really do look all look the same don’t they?

I mean apart from not being matchy-matchy  in colour. You probably couldn’t really tell when these bad boys and girls were fired.

Citations Away! :

1. British Museum Online Collection Qing Dynasty mid 19th Century-Early 20th. Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999 

2. British Museum Online collection  Ming Dynasty 1368-1485 Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999 

3. Victoria and Albert  Online collection, Yuan Dynasty 1278-1368Kerr, Rose. Song Dynasty Ceramics. London: V&A Publications, 2004. p. 39, nos. 30 and 30a  

Did I just give you a boregasm?  Sorry I promise there’s a point to all of this.

You probably don’t need to know the other bits particularly. It just telling you what museum it’s in and what book it’s in.  It’s just doing your basic due diligence. What I did do for you was bold  the important information.  So just doing some quick math for you you’ll notice a 622 year time lapse from No.3 to No. 1. WHOA. WAIT. WHAT ??!! Yes that’s right. That’s legit same pot was made over and over again not changing for 600 years. 

But I’m getting ahead of myself here. 

These are Jun ware flower pots. Well technically this is the bowl that you would put the flower pot in.  Does that make sense? Maybe not. This is a Jun ware flower pot. This is the thing that you put in the stand. 

Jun ware is what you will hear from those in the know called a ‘Great' ware of the Song Dynasty(960-1279). The text version of air-quotes is there because 'great’ just comes from the bazillion of history texts that call them great because Song Emperor’s used them at one point. This means they have a bunch of people telling you they’re great. So they’re great and that’s that really. The other ones that you’ll hear called great will be Ding, Ru, Jun, Guan and Ge.  

Oh and okay- why we should be kind of resentful towards the Mongols here: Song dynasty (960-1278/9) great ware are kind of rare because of History’s O.G’s. Though to be fair the Song dynasty towards the end was a bit of fuster cluck-so 50/50. But because they kind of kicked butt at making things organised (probably quite literally), China got to the mass production of things! Yay! Not limited to but including paper and ceramics.

SO HANDSHAKE A MONGOL DAY! -Now with less Swording and Marauding. 

To Recap and add a bunch of Chinese ceramics history in short: Great wares are ones that were used by the Song Imperial court at some point. So basically they were all #blessed for Song.  So because they were official wares, they had seriously regimented #ootd: Same patterns, colours, and shapes. Basically:

Then all other Dynasties trying to fit in and prove they were legit really got into #tbt and basically be cause older=better=same same stuff being made over and over again. 

Or Even shorter: 

ZOMBIE CERAMICS!! THEY ONCE HAD A SOUL BUT NOW THEY ARE JUST AN EMPTY SHELL OF THEIR FORMER SELVES!!!

And truth be told, I pretty much  hated on and everything to do with them.

I really did. I did not even give a ounce of bother. I was Diet Bother not even the full calorie bother. I really didn’t see what was so so special about stuff that was endlessly standardised and repeated with very little new influence. It was like congrats on making a cup that does what its supposed to.

Then I had a total epiphany.  

This right here is called the 'Willow’ pattern and what you would also get called Chinoiserie. 

First things first though, the Art Histo. crew likes to call these guys 'Blue and White wares’ because obviously because you’ve got your blue and your white.  Though what will really impress  is if you call them 'Underglaze Blue’ ceramics. This mean that the images of birds and people frolics are either hand-drawn on or transfer printed on then glazed in. And the other top three facts you need know:

1. Blue colour is caused by cobalt oxide. 

2. The Chinese were a Mister-Steal-Yo-Motif yoinked it from the Middle East along with a few shapes and designs including the cobalt. They did this around the 14th century and quickly got busy. So much so that by the 16th century they even managed to source their own blues, gave a serious makeover to its earlier form called Qingbai, and, decided what designs it was going to put where.                                                                                              ENHANCE: This is called an Ewer. They are normally a metal thing but ceramics like to borrow from meta things. 

 3.    They are made in Jingdezhen. You can even call Blue and White ware: Jingdezhen                       ware. Cause that’s all they do. Ever. The city’s official theme song should be Can’t Stop                  Won’t Stop. Check it:                                                              

Now that’s all caught up with, historical tour of duty two can begin: So along with tea, Europe was super big in love with Blue and White wares too. But they were mucho mucho dinero.  So European ceramic factories decided they would take a crack at it which is how the whole Chinoiserie thing happened.  Basically, a bunch of people who had never China’d trying to China. 

What can you say really? And to make matters worse-and I promise I’m almost done throwing Chinoiserie under the bus- Do you remember really artsy types call Blue and White wares Underglaze Blue? Because it has all that baked in goodness of blue being under the glaze? Yeah. The European guys weren’t doing that. They were busy either hand drawing on or transferring the design on with a stencil which coined the term transfer ware. This means your design is pretty prone to wear and tear and chips off kinda easy. So not only are the aesthetics all off but the quality was worse.  It gets better though. Sure, it’s so easy to rag on Chinoiserie for being a really bad Euro trip, but you gotta remember: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Europe took this pattern and ran with it made it in browns and reds, then even ripping off of ceramics and putting it on walls and bed sheets. ALL WILLOW EVERYTHANG! 

Look at what’s going on here though :Europe took a totally Chinese idea and decked themselves out in it. 

This is where and why I’d like to introduce you to : 

JO NYE THE POLI SCI GUY!!!

Personally, I think he deserves his own catchy early nineties theme song:JO JO JO JO JO NYE THE POLI SCI GUY! 

Joseph Nye coined the idea of soft power. Power in political science is all about the ability to influence the behaviours of others to get the outcomes you want. Nye thinks that great and all but wants to add something: The swag factor. What I mean by that is, Nye wants to include relative coolness into the definition of power. What that means is this: How many people around the world totally want to win an Oscar/care about the Oscars? A. Whole. Lot. Like, really a lot. I mean Cannes is cool and all but I’ll take that man gold statue.Please and Thank you. And what I want to do here is show you is that Blue and White ceramics are like ceramic’s Oscar. Yes.

Now if we take the  the 'Willow’ pattern along with Blue and White wares make them follow along Jo Nye’s Poli Sci soft power footsteps China is the one of the first soft powers along with exercising its own brand of decorative nationalism. What I mean by all that is that even though Blue and White ceramics were technically a Middle Eastern idea, China was the first one to literally export it to the world and:

The first example of this before the whole Europe thing, China was kind of a big deal in Asia. They and set a trend in Korea (because China kinda conquered them but whatevs.) inspiring them to make their own form of Blue and White wares in the  14th century (Joseon Dynasty 1392-1897). 

Then well  this. We’ve already seen this here  talked about this but this is Europe’s tribute to  Blue and White game. 

Then all of a sudden, Chinese ceramics became super duper affordable (read: Colonialism), which made Japan decide they too wanted to make fetch happen. Japan also decided the whole Western Colonialism thing wasn’t for them and decided that they too would become a Colonial power too but do their own thing.  Tough, to do things, you need money. Japan needed to make money and long story short, Japan realised there was money to be made in imitating Chinese ceramics and came up with it’s own Chinoiserie thing called Imari.

And there you have it: Three different examples from three different places and spaces that show how infectious the ideas of Chinese ceramics truly are. What you see in Blue and White ceramics are a Chinese idea idea that took the world by storm. It is the ultimate trend set by the ultimate trendsetter. When China was a regional boss by the 13th and 14th centuries I spread its design ideas to it’s tributary spaces like Korea. Then by the time Blue ware were really taking off in the mid 19th to early 20th centuries, China wasn’t even at the top of it’s political game any more and soon it was a colony. Yet, China accommodated no one artistically. In fact, you see the opposite. Japan reorganised its ceramic industry to produce Chinese-style ceramics, kind of favouring that over its own designs. Then there was Europe, some of the most powerful nations in the international system bending over backwards to imitate and possess something from one of their colonies. Now that’ pretty amazing.

All in all, I hope you get why I changed my opinion on ceramics generally and why I think you can find ceramics or at least Chinese ceramics pretty cool.  They can be quite the bad asses of history and kind of an endearing underdog story. And you know, failing that, you know they can totally pour and hold your drinks, store your stuff, or keep your flowers tidy. But I rather think of them like this: