I thoroughly believe men should be loved the way women are expected to be loved. Shampoo his hair for him in the shower and rinse it out for him. Pull him to your chest and play with his hair when he’s feeling sad or sleepy. Take him out to dinner and pay for his meal. Bring him little surprise gifts. Kiss his forehead and temple when you see him. Let him be the little spoon and hold onto him like he’s everything to you. Be obsessed with him, treat him with all the love you expect to be treated with.
“Here’s your choice. Three dragons, or you teach that hellhorse how to walk on water.” “I like an honest brigand. Have it your way. Three dragons… when you put us ashore safe on the north bank.” “I’ll have them now, or we don’t go.” The man thrust out a thick, callused hand, palm up. Clegane rattled his longsword to loosen the blade in the scabbard. “Here’s your choice. Gold on the north bank, or steel on the south.” The ferryman looked up at the Hound’s face. Arya could tell that he didn’t like what he saw there. He had a dozen men behind him, strong men with oars and hardwood poles in their hands, but none of them were rushing forward to help him. Together they could overwhelm Sandor Clegane, though he’d likely kill three or four of them before they took him down. “How do I know you’re good for it?” the bent-backed man asked, after a moment. He’s not, she wanted to shout. Instead she bit her lip. “Knight’s honor,” the Hound said, unsmiling. He’s not even a knight. She did not say that either.
—A Storm of Swords, Arya IX
art from asoiaf sketch dump, by Hanieh Salehi (twitter). Posted to tumblr with permission of the artist.
Quellon Greyjoy tried to reform the ways of the ironborn and integrate them with the rest of the Seven Kingdoms by freeing thralls, forbidding most reaving, discouraging salt wives, encouraging marriages with the mainland, and bringing maesters to the Iron Islands. Quellon was succeeded by his son, Balon Greyjoy who rejected most of his father’s reforms. Balon’s desire to return to the Old Way led to Greyjoy’s Rebellion against the rule of King Robert I Baratheon.
this isn’t part of my modern!asoiaf au (but it kinda is) since this drawing is from months ago, but I wanted to post it anyway since the fandom is enjoying my versions on the book characters!
this is yara/asha (I actually prefer “yara”, idk why)
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the best way to support libraries is to use libraries. go get a card, check something out. not a big reader? they got movies. they got games. yes, like botw and fallout and let’s go eevee. they also have cds that yes, we workers know you take home and rip to your computer. we also do it.
if you have a well funded library you might even have access to maker spaces that have 3D printers. or video/audio recording equipment. libraries aren’t these tomb silent homes for books any more. they’re community spaces. they’re full of life and things.
put a middle finger up at jeffrey bezos and support your local library
Magaery’s second Queen look (Still married to Renly).
THIS is something that Margery could be “experimenting” with fashion-wise. Combining the Stormlands and High Garden fashions into very extra designs that would be “too” daring or too much for anyone else. (Rant about GoT fashion choices incoming, I think the actress is fantastic, but the concepts for Margaery’s fashions really bother me so… buckle up?)
When it comes to Magaery’s costume the costume crew on the GoT show have soooo many quotes that make my eyes roll out of my skull. Anyone who looked at the “burrito” dress and green-lit it because “Magaery is experimenting with her fashion”… no. The haute couture fashion they thought they were emulating (badly finished/tailored too - wait I wasn’t going to roast them that hard!) looks bizarre. (And there are way too many reference to her “…young flesh”, “…more flesh on her”, “girlish, revealing simplicity”. It sounds like they want to eat her I am disturbed. Doing the research for this was a lot of wtf moments. I’m all for Magaery being the youthful, soft opposite of Cersei and seducing Joffery, but those descriptions???!)
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They had come together at the ford of the Trident while the battle crashed around them, Robert with his warhammer and his great antlered helm, the Targaryen prince armored all in black. On his breastplate was the three-headed dragon of his House, wrought all in rubies that flashed like fire in the sunlight. - Eddard I, aGoT
“What is meaning, name Rhaego?” Khal Drogo asked as they walked, using the Common Tongue of the Seven Kingdoms. […] “My brother Rhaegar was a fierce warrior, my sun-and-stars,” she told him. “He died before I was born. Ser Jorah says that he was the last of the dragons.” - Daenerys V, aGoT
She could feel the heat inside her, a terrible burning in her womb. Her son was tall and proud, with Drogo’s copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, violet eyes shaped like almonds. - Daenerys IX, aGoT
“It may be as you say, blood of my blood,” Dany replied gravely, “but he shall have a new name for this new life. I would name them all for those the gods have taken. The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green banks of the Trident.” - Daenerys I, aCoK
All characters ive meant to draw again for a while :) Considering doing matching namesake images for her other dragons as well.
Interesting how Rhaegar thought himself integral to the Prince that was Promised prophecy (first as the hero then as the father), Rhaego was seen to be the Stallion who mounts the World, and Rhaegal (+ the other dragons) is sometimes theorized to be Lightbringer by fans… Daenerys seems to be prophesied to be the hero everything leads up to
CANONDAENERYSCHALLENGE||Moments: Dany waking up at night to pay her respects to Stalwart Shield, refusing to look away from him (and from her duty towards him), sympathizing with him and being determined to ensure justice for him
I am still at war, Dany realized, only now I am fighting shadows. She had hoped for a respite from the killing, for some time to build and heal.
“I’m six-foot-five and over two-hundred- some-odd pounds. You don’t get to see a lot of my body type in fashion. I really loved that in this shoot we got to push the envelope of what types of bodies fit in the world of high fashion and representation.”
Winston Duke ph. by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine (2019)
