#fuck bran

[irlplasticlamb]

i need to redraw this monstrosity one day

#vic.txt #my art #is that? house stark in a modern setting? yes it is #i would definitely put them in different clothes…… what the fuck was i thinking #except bran he’s perfect

[saessenach]

“No,” Jon Snow said quietly. “It was not courage. This one was dead of fear. You could see it in his eyes, Stark.” Jon’s eyes were a grey so dark they seemed almost black, but there was little they did not see. He was of an age with Robb, but they did not look alike. Jon was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast.

Robb was not impressed. “The Others take his eyes,” he swore.”

Jon and Robb in AGOT | Bran I

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #my art #asoiaf fanart #a game of thrones #agot #grrm #digital art #artists on tumblr #fanart #jon snow #robb stark #canonjonsnow #i love bran i #i love how fucking vibey jon is in this chapter #anyway i am slowly but surely getting the asoiaf out of my system #rhaelya drawing is nexttt hopefully will be done this weeken #then i return to my cave #wait then there's gonna be the tideswept comic #ok here we gooo #i loved coming up with stuff for jon to wear bc my boy has a very restricted colour palette #his options before the black were hella limited tbh #like no stark grey and white for SURE #blue is also out bc it would be an insult to catelyn #and i think ned would have an anneurysm before he let jon near anything crimson and black #so browns and greens it issss

[thisonetimeinmeridian]

Honestly? Still kinda ticked Gendrya didn't end up together and that all the surviving Stark children were BY THEMSELVES at the end of the series even the whole point of their story was their love for their family and wanting to find their way back to eachother

#still mad #fuck d and d #game of thrones finale #game of thrones #game of thrones season 8 #like what the fuck? #we knew they were dumb but not that dumb #the stark children #the starks #house stark #arya stark #jon snow #sansa stark #bran stark #gendry waters #gendrya #they were supposed to have babies and keep the house alive #wtf #also team sophie #had to throw that in there

[lycorim]

I will not rest until more The North With Funny Hats content

#hats are fucking slept on in this fandom. disgraceful. #you know catelyn absolutely bundles up her babies before they step foot outside. four layers /minimum/ on a warm day. #ned does the same for Jon so he doesn't feel left out #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #sansa stark #jon snow #bran stark #game of thrones #my art #fan art #ngl i just wanted to draw some hats I saw on pinterest

[ilynpilled]

What are the top ten asses in asoiaf

© Martina Pilcerova

jaime numero uno‼️

also why he is so confident in body shaming other men and their flat asses

#and fuck lin #god bless #ask #sorry to bran for being in this 😔

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

sansa is her father's daughter bc she consistently has the best chapters in the book

#chaos reads #asoiaf #sansa stark #brans chapters are lowkey boring i dont like arya that much and jon is probly her cousin so whoop de fucking doo #sansa 🤝 ned 🤝 catelyn 🤝 davos #BEST chapters trust #still need to get to the third book so i can read abt my poor little wet meow meow (jaime) #ned stark

[laurellerual]

Do you know a detail of GoT that irritates me even after all these years?

This is Sansa the Queen of the North:

And this is Bran the King of the Six Kingdoms who reigns where the iron throne once stood:

But for some reason they bothered to come up with a crown design for only one of the two.

#game of thrones #anti got #rant #king bran #for fuck sake #like they made all the marketing aroud who wins the throne #and the guy who actually win the throne doesn't have a vrown or a coronation scene or a coronation outfit #ok #grrm #bran stark

[tell-them-the-north-remembers]

You're in the wind I'm in the water

Nobody's son Nobody's daughter

#ITS THEM #LOSING MY FUCKING MIND #my babies #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #my tragic little babies #Shireen Baratheon #Bran Stark #brandon stark #got #game of thrones

[souredfigs]

A lot of people are fascinated by Harrenhal and its ghosts and I get that but bro WINTERFELL AND THE EGGS IN THE CRYPTS??

Winterfell and how it was constructed in general is so fascinating , like its always described in chapters as a living organism , that deep hot springs run through the castle like blood through a person's body , then there is the weirwood tree and the immense magical power it itself holds as a sort of root of the castle and the point upon which Bran can see through the past , the present and the future .

Then the crypts , the freaking crypts which are larger than Winterfell itself and as you descend into the lower levels they become increasingly dark and old and a giant portion of it which hasn't seen the light of the day in thousands of years is collapsed and totally inaccessible , there are swords of the Kings of Winter which are there in order to keep something contained like the souls of the deceased ,not to mention the fact that Bran and his clique actually took some of them on their way ? The giant spiders and rats the size of dogs old nan talked about and how the crypts go from bottom up , with the recent burials at top and the oldest at the bottom which has kind of never been explained ?

But perhaps the most exciting thing about the crypts is Mushroom's account about Jacaerys Targaryen's Vermax laying a clutch of eggs in the crypts near the supposed hot springs , and the immense significance that has to the story of ice and fire itself

Like the Starks and Targaryens give us many of our main characters in the books , they are the two oldest families in Westeros , so old that their origins are intertwined with legends and myths, and magic is heavily involved in their families . We saw in Hotd the state secret info Viserys gives to Rhaenyra about the Song of ice and fire and Aegons dream about the long night and theres this implication that Torrhen Stark bent the knee becuase Aegon told him about this dream , that to defend the living there must always be a Stark in Winterfell and a Targaryen in the South, becuase winter is coming and without these two houses Westeros and probably the rest of the world are cooked? Then during the reign of Jaehaerys I Queen Alysanne goes to Winterfell and gives support to the nights watch and befriends Alaric Stark .

And then decades later her descendant Jace goes to Winterfell (and as the hotd trailer shows , also goes to the Wall!!!) and he forms such a great bond with Cregan Stark that they make a pact of ice and fire sealed in blood , likely before the weirwood tree in mix of both Valyrian and Northern tradition , with Jace agreeing to marry his firstborn daughter to Cregan's heir , then Jace later dies in the gullet but Cregan honours their pact by carrying out Justice in the hour of the wolf and making sure Jace's little brother ascends the throne .

AND THEN A CENTURY AND A HALF LATER RHAEGAR AND LYANNA GET TOGETHER AND KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY FULFILL THAT PACT , AND NED KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY HONOURS THIS PACT BY TAKING IN THEIR SON JON SNOW, THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT OF ICE AND FIRE , AND MOST LIKELY THE PRINCE THAT WAS PROMISED TO LEAD THE BATTLE FOR THE DAWN .

AND HOW JON CONSISTENTLY DREAMS ABOUT THE CRYPTS MORE THAN ANY OTHER STARK CHILD? AND HIS MOST LIKELY RESURRECTION IN TWOW WILL HAPPEN IN THE WALL , WHICH, APART FROM THE CRYPTS IS THE MOST MAGICAL PLACE IN THE NORTH IN A WESTEROS WHERE MAGIC HAS AWAKENED WITH WITH A FORCE NOT SEEN SINCE THE DAYS OF OLD VALYRIA ? RIGHT AT THE TIME WHERE THE OTHERS ARE AT THE DOOR ?

DO YOU SEE HOW DEEP THIS SHIT GOES?!

#this is literally the tip of the iceberg theres soooo much #LIKE WTH DAWG #LOSINGD THE MINF #Im so ready to see jace and cregan and brokeback winterfell #and winds of winter and how the crypts will come into play becuase they have a tON of importance in the books #brans pov chapters are going to be so good i just know it #im so ready #house of the dragon #cregan stark #jacaerys targaryen #winterfell crypts #the long night #winds of winter #I fucking love the starks if you couldnt tell #when winds of winter comes out you best believe I will sleep with it under my pillow #like Alexander the Great with his favourite copy of the Iliad #jacegan #hotd season 2 pls do not be bad #im literally yapping im sorry lol

[thelustybraavosimaid]

Reading Fire and Blood made me realise how much Jon's admirations and preferences of what he likes in women is pretty general amongst Stark men.

Alaric:

Lord Alaric had lost his wife three years earlier. When the queen expressed regret that she had never had the pleasure of meeting Lady Stark, the northman said, “She was a Mormont of Bear Isle, and no lady by your lights, but she took an axe to a pack of wolves when she was twelve, killed two of them, and sewed a cloak from their skins. She gave me two strong sons as well, and a daughter as sweet to look upon as any of your southron ladies.”

...

Once the initial frost had thawed, his lordship took the queen hunting after elk and wild boar in the wolfswood, showed her the bones of a giant, and allowed her to rummage as she pleased through his modest castle library. (Jaehaerys and Alysanne—Their Triumphs and Tragedies, Fire and Blood)

Cregan:

Queen Alicent’s captors had slain her guards and were thus condemned to death, but an impassioned plea from Lady Baela herself spared her rescuers from a similar fate, though they too had bloodied their swords by cutting down the king’s men posted at her door. “Not even the tears of a dragon could melt the frozen heart of Cregan Stark, men said rightly,” Mushroom tells us, “but when Lady Baela brandished a sword and declared that she would cut off the hand of any man who sought to harm the men who had saved her, the Wolf of Winterfell smiled for all to see, and allowed that if her ladyship was so fond of these dogs, he would permit her to keep them.”

--

And Lord Cregan, a widower these past three years, had responded in kind. Though Black Aly was no man’s queen of love and beauty, her fearlessness, stubborn strength, and bawdy tongue struck a chord for the Lord of Winterfell, who soon began to seek out her company in hall and yard. “She smells of woodsmoke, not of flowers,” Stark told Lord Cerwyn, said to be his closest friend.

About Alysanne's description:

“A lean tall creature was this wench,” says the dwarf, “thin as a whip and flat-chested as a boy, but long of leg and strong of arm, with a mane of thick black curls that tumbled down past her waist when loosed.” Huntress, horse-breaker, and archer without peer, Black Aly had little of a woman’s softness about her. (Aftermath—The Hour of the Wolf, Fire and Blood)

And Jon:

Ygritte trotted beside Jon as he slowed his garron to a walk. She claimed to be three years older than him, though she stood half a foot shorter; however old she might be, the girl was a tough little thing. Stonesnake had called her a "spearwife" when they'd captured her in the Skirling Pass. She wasn't wed and her weapon of choice was a short curved bow of horn and weirwood, but "spearwife" fit her all the same. (Jon II, ASoS)

--

All the same, the wildling princess was not beloved of her gaolers. She scorned them all as "kneelers," and had thrice attempted to escape. When one man-at-arms grew careless in her presence she had snatched his dagger from its sheath and stabbed him in the neck. Another inch to the left and he might have died.

Lonely and lovely and lethal, Jon Snow reflected, and I might have had her. Her, and Winterfell, and my lord father's name. Instead he had chosen a black cloak and a wall of ice. Instead he had chosen honor. A bastard's sort of honor. (Jon III, ADwD)

--

Why not? thought Jon. They are all convinced she is a princess. Val looked the part and rode as if she had been born on horseback. A warrior princess, he decided, not some willowy creature who sits up in a tower, brushing her hair and waiting for some knight to rescue her. (Jon XI, ADwD)

#fuck 'jon has a type' STARK MEN HAVE A TYPE #and so does Bran lol #he loves Meera who is an expert hunter and catcher #asoiaf #jon snow #cregan stark #alaric stark #ramble

[buttercuparry]

But no seriously though....

George was the one who disclosed what the title of the og series actually means. It is a Targaryen prophecy. A legacy handed down to each heir. Much like the Stark's Winter is Coming. I have never read Fire and Blood, so I don't know if Rhaeger was the one who discovered this legacy after ages or if Aerys knew too. But regardless over the years Winter is Coming became more and more related to the hardship of surviving the land, than a warning about the cold dead things that go bump in the night.

Like okay think about it! You have these two houses, right? And one passes on the ominous message through generations: be careful, be aware, winter would come again and with it would come death. And on the other side we have another house where they are like: be prepared. Be prepared for the song of life and death. If you aren't prepared all hope is lost.

And so we have one raise a Wall, a shield to guard the men. And if the Starks ( the lords of winterfell who have been given the knowledge; whose moral obligation was to make sure that those at the Wall were ready) are the first line of defense, the Targaryens ( the lords of fire) are the sword. You can only do so much with a shield, and without a shield how do you safely wield the sword?

And so to think! To fucking think!!! you have Jon Snow at the Wall and Dany in the East and both of them coming together to be the shield and the sword! Like oof!! Oof!!! Ooooof!!!!

#like yaasssssd #Idk why I am suddenly so giddy with excitement but I fucking am #and then you have bran #bran who is the namesake of so many brans before #who is the namesake of bran the builder #and arya oh my darling arya #she who hears the dead #she who is favoured by the gods #and amongst all the beasts #all the magic you have one little man #standing as large as a giant #snarling like the lion of his house #tyrion lannister #can you believe how epic this is going to be

[killerchickadee]

You ever rewatch Game of Thrones and get really really mad at how fucking stupid the last season was?

I know I probably make this exact post every year or two but jesus fucking christ.

#character development? what's that? #actually being in character in the first place?. #don't know her #understanding the morals and motivations of your main characters? nope! #and like we know game of thrones is a drama and nobody is guaranteed a happy ending #but you realize NOBODY getting a happy ending is just shitty way to end a show people loved for years? #it's a DRAMA not a TRAGEDY #who has a better story than bran the broken FUCKING EVERYBODY #arya spent the entire series trying to find family and home and then she's like lol nah #jon wastes away beyond the wall and sansa is alone #don't even get me started on dany #so so so so bad #so stupid

[lemonbronze]

AU where everything is the same except Mitya has a purple glittery eyepatch

#bran draws #I was trying to doodle him to get his vibe figured out but instead this #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #Hubert voice: yes yes you’re a twisted fucking cycle path don’t worry sigh

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

The strangest thing when it came to bran's storyline was how his siblings just didn't care that their little brother wasn't their brother anymore and made no attempt to bring back "the old bran".

They were just like I guess our brother is just a robot now, whatever.

To be fair, his siblings were as out of character as he was. His sisters were busy catfighting and plotting each other's demise and show! Jon had a single braincell which made him say " I don't want it" every few minutes.

Up until this day, I'm not sure which one of the Stark siblings was done more wrong. I guess Robot Bran is top choice because D&D never cared about the character. At least, they cared enough for the other three to include them on every season - unlike Bran. Well, "care" is a strong word if we consider that they totally butchered all of their character development and storylines.

(By no means I'm implying that the character assassination is unique for the Starks. All got characters suffered from it).

#house stark #bran stark #arya stark #sansa stark #jon snow #anti got #a post of salt and salt #everytime I see a gif with any stark kid on the last seasons I go “who the fuck is this??”

[lagosbratzdoll]

bran is my second favourite asoiaf starkling and the way that #those men butchered him keeps me up at night. they took my sweet boy and turned him into a monosyllabic, inhuman, immortal god-king. and the fact that his siblings don't care. meera doesn't care. nobody really grieves for the boy who wanted to be a knight. the boy who wanted to repay the liddle. the boy who was sick of frogs. the boy who loved his siblings and missed them. the boy who put aside his desires to learn and grow. the boy who tried his best to be the stark in winterfell. the boy who kept forgetting to mark the tree. nobody grieved for the boy.

#mind you the last time they saw him #he was sick and dying #they thought he died when ramsay took the castle #their baby brother became an emotionless robot and nobody expressed the slightest bit of concern #fuck d&d #anti game of thrones #bran stark #brandon stark #he barely grieved his wolf #the wolf that was an extension of himself #he barely grieved hodor #or rickon

[ilynpilled]

another thing with denying jaime agency is that a lot of his character is initially constructed around what his physical power means when it comes to choices that he makes. physical strength and combat prowess, violence, is a specific form of power that he has over others and can choose to extend to other parties. it is an integral aspect of every power dynamic, be it with his king, his sister, the rest of society etc. the knight is also an examination of power and responsibility. that is why their oaths are constructed around protecting the weak. it is what’s so interesting with the kingsguard too, especially aerys’s. they are the most skilled in combat and physically powerful people in the room. they had a form of power to act and prevent what aerys kept doing. and they are on a leash through oaths, law, order, obeying authority, and a status quo, a different kind of power that functions to give the man with a crown, in this case a tyrant, absolute power. you are sworn to obey, not to judge. you have to abide by your role. that is also what makes him eventually killing aerys and breaking these oaths so transgressive and threatening to the westerosi paradigm. his motivations and the circumstances aside, jaime in specific killing his king as a member of his elite guard undermined westerosi order and framed power as something that resided with the man with the sword and not with the man with the crown or even the lords with bannermen and armies who won the war that they started. it breaks these constructs apart with the precedent it sets. and on top of that, he gets away with it because of his status and relationship to tywin, which is also a scary precedent in the eyes of many. it is huge when it comes to westerosi order and class stratification, but it is also threatening in general because, yes, it does make him a loose cannon in the eyes of other people. and yeah he stagnates and falls into cynicism and begins to reject ethics and law in a dangerous way and ends up abusing that physical power and causes real harm to people who do not deserve it. he does embody a dangerous kind of anarchy that is the product of the flawed and dysfunctional social order that he experienced with a front row seat with the absurdly cruel tyrant that was systematically enabled. everything was reframed in his head. if there is no justice and order you can have faith in, who cares? he doesn’t fear death, and that is combined with the belief he can cut through anything now, he has the power to do so. be it a king, a lord, or virtually any power over him when it comes down to it. how much can a crown be worth…? he even argues to brienne that robert tearing the realm apart with his war is worse in a pragmatic sense. he rejects the existing laws, ethics, and moral constructs of his society that have a monopoly on violence because he is disillusioned with them, and he operates solely by his twisted reconstruction of morality (also obviously affected by his trauma) that atp primarily revolves around love for his family, especially cersei. he chooses to become the sword of his loved one, having lost faith in the purity of everything other than this delusional idealized relationship that is the only thing that is sacred that remains to him. and ofc all of this is another layer that makes george stripping him of this particular power through his maiming so functional in causing crisis.

#jaime lannister #this is also why it’s important that he is so powerful and skilled #like he has to be that fucking good with swinging that fucking sword for so many reasons #like im so serious when i say its integral when it comes to his psychology and his themes #and hes fully aware like he says its the hand that made him a knight that made him a man that killed aerys that flung bran #jaimes story examines a specific kind of power and responsibility very thoroughly #him getting disowned and maimed smiles like he is progressively losing all of it #and then he loses faith in cersei and her love too #anyways my point id that anybody who tries to use a twisted version of the nuremberg defense with him doesnt really understand him #and this applies to the blaming cersei part #he always owns these actions too like