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Hi <3 Could you please add your ghost in harrenhal/ghost in winterfell art to your store?

Sure anon! Today I also updated the store with some of my latest artworks :)

#asoiaf fanart #house bolton #arya stark #theon greyjoy #daenerys targaryen

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Not a mermaid or a merman but a secret third thing (mermusician)

(Cambridge UL MS Add. 4085)

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ik i said im not gonna share previews anymore but that sign can’t stop me bc I can’t READ but anyway… look at them!!!!!!!! actually foaming at the mouth this is like… everything to me LMFAO

#they look glorious

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Imo, although "Arya is an outcast" and "Arya would make friends with anybody." seem to contradict each other, in reality this is not the case.

Who are this "anybody"? Squires and grooms and serving girls, old men and naked children, rough-spoken freeriders of uncertain birth.

That is, it seems easy for her to make friends with the smallfolk, but the one in which she lives is a highly classist society in which the interactions/friendships that really count are those between "peers".

And in the group of her peers, i.e. the nobles and noble ladies in particular, she is absolutely treated as an outcast: the one who is mistaken for a servant, the one who is never good enough, the one who makes us look bad in front of the princess, etc. ...

Time to ramble. I’m thinking about the way Arya and Sansa fans seem to get into this debate about who was more lonely and neglected in Winterfell. Which is kind of funny because then the arguments get totally reversed when debating other aspects of the characters. But anyway. The general arguments seem to be:

1. Arya was clearly the neglected outcast. This is clear in the meta narrative because of her connection to Jon and the fact that she doesn’t look like her true born siblings. The more direct evidence comes from the way Sansa and Jeyne teased her, the harshness of Septa Mordane, and Catelyn’s exasperation. It can be inferred that Arya feels a sense of insecurity wrt to her family ties as she wonders if her own mother would want her back after everything that happened. It can be assumed that she was a bit of an outcast based on her disinterest in the things expected of her as a girl, and we see the way many characters look down upon non-conforming women and girls in-universe. Sansa, on the other hand, receives praise from her mother and the septa and has two named close friends in Winterfell. She happily conforms to what is expected of her as a highborn girl and we can assume she would fit in in Winterfell.

2. Sansa was clearly the neglected outcast. This is clear in the meta narrative because she is the only one to lose her direwolf, which is the family symbol. The more direct evidence comes from contrast with Arya, whom Sansa observes can “make friends with anybody,” seemingly in contrast to herself. Ned agreed to kill Lady despite knowing she was innocent and indulged Arya’s interest in swordplay whilst being unenthusiastic about indulging Sansa’s interest in tourneys. Arya is demonstrated to be beloved by Ned’s men in a way we do not observe with Sansa. We can assume that Sansa didn’t feel like she belonged because of her interest in sothron culture, something none of her siblings share. Arya, on the other hand, is extroverted, makes friends easily, is northern in appearance, and has no interest in sothron culture, so we can assume she fit in in Winterfell.

I actually don’t think a lot of the points in the two arguments is mutually exclusive. We also have to remember POV bias. Arya doesn’t reflect on Any friends her age she had at Winterfell (I am not including Mycah because I am under the impression they became friends on the way to King’s Landing), but Arya is not one to reflect and reminisce. Sansa notices that Arya can make friends with anyone, but she doesn’t experience Arya’s inner world. What does Sansa mean by making friends? Does she see Arya having fun and being at ease talking to anyone and feel envy, since she herself feels like is performing, always minding her manners, when she’s socializing with most people? Could it be that Arya is friendly but struggles to find long term close friends like Jeyne and Beth, attributing this disparity to Sansa’s “ladylike” interests? Could it be that being teased by Sansa and her friends and scolded by Catelyn and Mordane has made Arya assume that other girls wouldn’t be interested in close friendship with her, causing her to be friendly but keep a certain distance? (**please note I am not trying to make a case for nlog Arya. I think keeping a distance because you assume you’ll be rejected is different and does not require that she looks down upon other girls, because there is no evidence for that here**)

I don’t have a good conclusion I just think it’s interesting that this is something that gets debated because the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. We can’t know because we get very few flashbacks and the story picks up when their normal lives in Winterfell end. I can’t speak to George’s intentions but if we pretend they’re real people I’d speculate that both would have felt misplaced within Winterfell at times, envying certain traits about the other

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Fantasy authors fear the landsknecht and his drip

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Šemeš, Marc Burckhardt

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a piece i made for Game of Thrones exhibition at Glitch Singapore featuring Arya Stark [clothes, needle, and etc were my redesign] , come visit the the exhibition and enjoy lots of great arts from various artists as well!

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Said Gawain, gay of cheer, 'Whether fate be foul or fair, Why falter I or fear? What should man do but dare?'

I admit it, I got a bit carried away with this

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The Changing of the Seasons By Saint Hildegard

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i know everyone (including me) loves the teatro comunale di bologna posters but i feel like we need to talk about the don giovanni one. they understand the assignment, which is 'this guy has to look like a trust fund grade-A SHITHEAD'. truly incredible

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scenes from asos jaime vi

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1925 The Eiffel Tower illuminated by Fernand Jacopozzi. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau & 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

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https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

#how is belarus the name of bielorussia!! #arg I hate you english #european 89%

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Bard Miku + Ices n Fires

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How do you come up with the outfits for the characters? Have you studied fashion design or something similar? I really love the outfits you create for them

Thanks anon! Not fashion but yes, I have a background releted to costume design.

I often choose a thematic element to start from. For example, with the nobles of Asoiaf I use their heraldry a lot because I like that a character is immediately recognizable by what they are wearing. I often make random sketches to try to come up with new ideas on how to use these same elements differently.

Then maybe I incorporate things from historical periods and/or other works of art that remind me of the "right" vibe. Like, I feel like the Dothraki's main inspiration is supposed to be the Mongols but when I design their clothes my head goes to cowboys for some reason...

I'm not very consistent in style between one artwork and another, because in the artworks I do for fun I try to experiment a bit, but I like to maintain the same thread within the same illustration. For example, the portrait of the Boltons that I did recently is inspired by the portraiture of Moroni (a sixteenth-century Italian painter that I love).

Just have fun and sketch a lot 🥰

#asoiaf fanart #ask laurel

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armor, 1617

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title cards in The Green Knight