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sharadayne · 3 hours
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“Theon chose plain boots and plainer clothes, somber shades of black and grey to fit his mood. No ornament; he had nothing bought with iron. I might have taken something off that wildling I killed to save Bran Stark, but he had nothing worth the taking. That's my cursed luck, I kill the poor.”
-Theon II, ACOK
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Why is okay for Nymeria to come to Dorne, align with one side then conquer it, before establishing themselves as rulers of a united state?
But when House Targaryen did it, only on a vast scale (the continent was always at war: The Ironborn were gradually moving into the Stormlands from the Riverlands and looking to invade; the Dornish and the Marchers were in perpetual tit for tat fighting and so on)
They came into a war zone, declared themselves a new style of ruler and forced the formally disunited region into one which benefited people (more so in Dorne, but the point still stands)
Don’t stab one side just because they were brown.
nymeria and her people came as refugees during a time when dorne was already in conflict
she formed an alliance with mors martell and married him, joining his cause
she didn't burn thousands of people alive with 3 monstrous dragons
she encouraged intermarriage between her people and the andals and the first men instead of genocide and destruction of cultures. in fact that newly arrived rhoynar began to worship the same gods as the andals with only a small number keeping to their old religion
she didn't start new wars after and there wasn't constant insurrections against her
the orphans helped the deserts of dorne bloom until the dragons destroyed most of the farmlands.
house martell has ruled dorne for 1000 years
to recap, nymeria helped a king of dorne conquer his enermies. the targs in comparison:
started an invasion out of a belief that they are superior to other people
used weapons of mass destruction
refused alliances with the rulers like meria, preferring to violently subjugate people by threatening to destroy their homes
burnt down entire towns and people inside them
started a new era in westeros where there were continent wide wars. sorry but you're wrong about westeros having wars of that scale. it was usually small scale conflicts between petty kings. the last time there was something of that scale was during the andal invasion
forced people to accept targaryen exceptionalism which includes incest and practiced separation instead of integration
there were constant rebels in the aftermaths as many people didn't want the targaryens ruling over them
formed a highly unstable dynasty that caused the deaths of an untold number of people
basically brought very little change to westeros besides building king's landing in 300 years
it's pretty obvious why nymeria's situation and targaryen colonisation is different.
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JACERYS VELARYON and CREGAN STARK In House of the Dragon, Season 2
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sharadayne · 17 days
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one for my heart and two for show! / three tears for all the souls below!
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"Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. Jon judged that wise. He did not like the way some of the queen’s knights were looking at the steward."
the dance with dragons audiobook has absolutely been kicking my ass the last month so I had to express it, somehow
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Sansa my poor baby
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Dany in Meereen
I don't really like the pose here but ok
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The lion and the rose
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leda 1, 2, 3
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I don’t post on here much, but wanted to leave this one for the asoiaf/got fandom. Arya and Sandor ! 
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A Stardust AU
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sansa slaying the giant
painting study of ‘Judith with the Head of Holofernes’ by Cristofano Allori
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it’s not that i don’t want you.
prints + merch
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asoiaf girls!🫶
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Dany and her Silver in the Dothraki Sea… (the shallow end at least)
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MARTELL WEEK - day O2
⤻ favorite quote
“I was the oldest,” the prince said, “and yet I am the last. After Mors and Olyvar died in their cradles, I gave up hope of brothers. I was nine when Elia came, a squire in service at Salt Shore. When the raven arrived with word that my mother had been brought to bed a month too soon, I was old enough to understand that meant the child would not live. Even when Lord Gargalen told me that I had a sister, I assured him that she must shortly die. Yet she lived, by the Mother’s mercy. And a year later Oberyn arrived, squalling and kicking. I was a man grown when they were playing in these pools. Yet here I sit, and they are gone.”
a feast for crows, george r. r. martin
the way this quote affect me during my first read and still provokes the same feeling each time i read it.... i couldn't have chosen another one. also, doran is such an overlooked character
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