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emilykaldwen · 2 months
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👀 + myranda/robb + tears (they can be happy ones or sad ones, it's up to you)
i just want to know a bit more about myranda
Send me Eyes, a pairing, and a word/words for a short drabble!
(MY BABY GIRL! MY SADDEST GIRL IN WESTEROS)
Myranda couldn't breathe, water filling her up, the murky face of her brother above her, his hands around her throat. She thrashed, she tried to scream, but only bubbles escaped her desperate attempts.
The fourth time she tried to scream, it ripped through her like a battle cry, joined quickly by Grey Wind's panicked bark as she shot up in bed. Hands grabbed her and she instinctively struggled, tasting salt on her mouth. Was she still under water?
"Myra!" finally, the brogue cut through her panicked gasping, and large, dark eyes caught on her husband's. Robb was frantic, Dacey and several other guards shouting. He called them off, dismissed them as it became clear that there was truly no danger.
She clung to him, choking for air, as she pressed her face into his neck. Robb's arms were tight around her, his voice soothing.
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west1rosi · 8 months
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STARTER CALL: MAIN TIMELINE.
like   this   post   for   a   starter   from   one   of   the   muses   of   main timeline of asoiaf.   if   you   are   a   multimuse,   please   specify   your   muses.   make   sure   to   also   choose   one   of   mine   or   at   least,   choose   a   few   for   me   to   pick   from.   only   liking   and   not   specifying   will   be   ignored.
muse list of main asoiaf timeline era:
lord tywin lannister. faceclaim : charles dance.
lady elyra brax (oc). faceclaim : jessica alexander.
king viserys iii targaryen. faceclaim : harry lloyd.
king robert baratheon. faceclaim: mark addy.
princess orysa baratheon (oc). faceclaim : jennie jacques.
gendry baratheon. faceclaim : joe dempsey.
theon greyjoy. faceclaim : alfie allen.
captain indya sunderly (oc). faceclaim : jessie mei li.
lady myranda royce. faceclaim :  yuliya khlynina.
lord ned stark. faceclaim : sean bean.
lady catelyn stark. faceclaim : michelle fairley.
queen jeyne westerling. faceclaim :  synnove karslen.
lord asher forrester. faceclaim : liam mcintyre.
lady mara mormont (oc). faceclaim : matilda de argelis.
lady jeyne poole. faceclaim : elinor crowley.
wylla manderly. faceclaim : alice agneson.
val of the free folk. faceclaim : frida gustavsson.
prince doran martell. faceclaim : alfredo castro.
prince oberyn martell. faceclaim : pedro pascal.
princess arianne martell. faceclaim : yvette monreal.
lady regent, allyria dayne. faceclaim :  marina moschen. 
lord edmure tully. faceclaim : tobias menzies.
lady roslin tully. faceclaim : rose williams.
ser patrek mallister. faceclaim : aneurin barnard.
marq piper. faceclaim :  jose ramon barreto.
alerie tyrell. faceclaim : joely richarson.
olenna tyrell. faceclaim : diana rigg.
lord willas tyrell. faceclaim :  gwilym lee.
ryna hightower. faceclaim : danielle rose russell.
elinor tyrell. faceclaim :  isabela merced.
margaery tyrell. faceclaim : natalie dormer
lady mina redwyne. faceclaim : claire ferlini.
lady desmera redwyne. faceclaim : charlotte hope.
meredyth crane. faceclaim : caitlin stasey.
jocelyn swyft. faceclaim: tamsin egerton.
addam marbrand. faceclaim: toby stephens.
lady alyssane lefford. faceclaim: sarah bolger.
lady shyra errol. faceclaim: holliday grainger.
alys karstark. faceclaim: gevenieve gaunt.
marei hill. faceclaim: eloise smyth.
ardrian celtigar. faceclaim : tony leung.
syrenia celtigar. faceclaim : dianne doan.
harras harlow. faceclaim : daniel sharman.
ser jorah mormont. faceclaim : iain glen.
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clutchofmuses · 1 year
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OKAY! carrd has been further updated (I still have to downsize abby's bio to fit on her smaller profile here, so if you want more information on her, let me know). I officially have the following muses:
Canon:
Helaena Targaryen
Jaehaera Targaryen
Alicent Hightower (Testing)
Margaery Tyrell (Testing)
Alys Karstark (testing)
Sara Norrey (canon divergent Sara Snow)
Rhaenys Targaryen (wife of Aegon I)
Semi-Canon:
Abrogail Strong (unnamed Strong daughter of Lyonel)
Myranda Greyjoy (unnamed Greyjoy sister of Dalton)
OC:
Laerryn Rogare of Lys (the same family who kidnapped Viserys II)
Let me know if you're interested in any of them! I'm currently working through drafts that I've transferred over from Abby's old blog so I'm sorry in advance for all the spam.
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ao3feed-sansan · 6 years
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Loving you, not for the first time.
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2IUlXeU
by LaMorenadelAtl
No, his eyes were that of a simple heavy rain, dark and bothersome but entirely natural. She wondered what it meant that she's always been fond of the snow. - Sansa mostly loves Jon. She mostly loves her job. She's mostly a good person. But Sandor makes her question it all. Doctor Sansa and Sandor. Businessman Jon. PoC cast. No endgame in sight. Modern AU. Double post on here and ff.net.
Words: 1239, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M
Characters: Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Sandor Clegane, Tormund Giantsbane, Jeyne Poole, Theon Greyjoy, OC - Character, Willas Tyrell, Myranda Royce, Arya Stark, Gendry Waters
Relationships: Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark, Jon Snow/Sansa Stark
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Humor, Angst, PoC, AU, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Hospital
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2IUlXeU
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ao3feed-jonsa · 6 years
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Loving you, not for the first time.
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2IUlXeU
by LaMorenadelAtl
No, his eyes were that of a simple heavy rain, dark and bothersome but entirely natural. She wondered what it meant that she's always been fond of the snow. - Sansa mostly loves Jon. She mostly loves her job. She's mostly a good person. But Sandor makes her question it all. Doctor Sansa and Sandor. Businessman Jon. PoC cast. No endgame in sight. Modern AU. Double post on here and ff.net.
Words: 1239, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M
Characters: Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Sandor Clegane, Tormund Giantsbane, Jeyne Poole, Theon Greyjoy, OC - Character, Willas Tyrell, Myranda Royce, Arya Stark, Gendry Waters
Relationships: Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark, Jon Snow/Sansa Stark
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Humor, Angst, PoC, AU, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Hospital
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2IUlXeU
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wendynerdwrites · 7 years
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I don't know if you're looking for writing prompts atm ...but for next time .... a fluffy fic of jon attempting to make lemon cakes for sansa!
Okay, why the Hell not? Warning: the first major chunk of this is from the perspective of a sassy OC.
Mistress Githa, or ‘Missy Githa’ as she grew to be called once she reached a certain age, is one of the only surviving servants in Winterfell to have served since Lord Rickard’s days.
After many early years in the woods, with her Mum and Nanny, she’d known starvation. Things got better when winter ended and her Nanny and Mum were able to teach her their secrets, then send her off at fifteen, bonny, lusty, and clever, to White Harbour and serve the Manderlys.
She remained in their service long enough to learn her letters— Lord Manderly insisted all his servants learn to read and write so they might effectively spy on his guests. Then she made the mistake of letting Lord Manderly bend her over a barrel of onions. The Lead Housekeeper was the lord’s chief mistress, and made life Hell for any lass she saw as a threat, and Githa decided after her bend-over that the man wasn’t worth the risk, and got out before the trouble truly started.
When she started serving the Starks, it didn’t take her long to catch the young Lord Brandon’s eye, of course. And Githa had an advantage as far as bedmates went in that unlike her former mistress, she was never the jealous type. As opposed to sabotaging other young wenches who caught a lordling’s fancy, she encouraged them. And she was good at it. She came to Winterfell with family-old recipes that she came to… enhance over the years. As she got older, she did her best to look after the lasses of the court, eventually earning herself the unofficial position of court matchmaker. She curried enough favors and fed the court well enough to be made Head Cook to Lord Eddard and Lady Catelyn.
But she never forgot what it was to starve. The sort of hungry that made you feel as if you’d swallowed a demon desperately trying to claw its way out of your insides. So she’s never had the slightest bit of patience for wasting or nicking even a speck of food. She was similarly opposed to withholding food (outside of circumstances she deemed appropriate).
This is something she reinforced to every Stark (with varying degrees of success) as she watched them grow.
She had only three great shames over the course of her service to Winterfell: the first is arranging and engineering the turncloak shit Theon Greyjoy’s introduction into manhood. The second is failing to get all the women of the household out when the stupid shit turned his cloak and sacked the castle. Of course, some girls — ones like Myranda, the kennelmaster’s daughter, were obstinate and refused to go. But considering the lass’s fate, Githa feels she should have hog-tied and dragged the poor, stupid thing out.
The third is not being about when poor little Lady Sansa was brought to be Ramsay Bolton’s bride. Githa had left a few of the older servingwomen back in Winterfell as scouts when she fled, including Lora, who had been the second eldest person in Winterfell after Old Nan. Lora, brave thing that she was, tried to get Lady Sansa out, and ended up flayed alive for her trouble. Thankfully, one thing Lora left behind was a certain recipe of Githa’s that the Boltons found that purported to be fertility enhancing. That’s because Lora mislabeled it. The pie was made to prevent pregnancy, rather than ensure it. Given that Lady Sansa was at the very least spared an unwelcome visitor to her womb, it seems the ruse worked.
Missy Githa returned to Winterfell upon the Boltons’ fall, and Lady Sansa, now Lady Stark, wasted no time in embracing her and re-appointing her to her old position. Lady Stark, much like her mother, was the best sort of lady to have. She stayed out of the way except to go over the books, inform the staff of pertinent developments, and make special requests and she always made sure that she gifted the kitchen with extra helpings once a week and after any large banquets. She’d also had special apartments right by the kitchen built for Githa.
Mostly, she stayed out of the way.
Githa wishes she could say the same of their new king.
Missy Githa loved Jon Snow as she’d loved all the Stark children, but she did find him sullen and snobbish in his own way. When he was not allowed at the family table, he made no secret of how degraded he felt to eat with lower members of the household, including servants, all while decrying how unfair it was to be seen as lesser. He was too much a child to realize the irony of this.
But he was always a good boy, otherwise kind to servants and highborn alike. But even before he was crowned, he spent his first few days home again barging into the kitchen to “check up on” things, despite acknowledging Lady Sansa as the true ruler of the castle. During the brief period in between his crowning and his departure for Dragonstone, he insisted on Lady Stark performing “check ups”, along with a food taster. —A practice that ceased the moment he left the North. But before then, despite having no training in the actual affairs of household upkeep, he butted into everything, effectively slowing down work since he required every manager and overseer to halt things to explain and demonstrate their process to him.
There’ve been mad grumblings since he left, as Lady Stark was left with the actual business of ruling the kingdom during the king’s absence— the best thing King Jon has done. Life and work improved exponentially. Lady Stark was trained in Household and Court affairs, and she knew best how to judge good craftsmanship. With the king looking over her shoulder constantly, major decisions regarding what was technically her own household slowed to a snail’s pace, something intensified when the king insisted all able-bodied persons between ten and sixty drill with weapons for half a day, and Winterfell ended up woefully understaffed.
Once the king was gone, however, Lady Stark was free to go through with her own decisions without barriers and evaluate and appoint a proper household staff.
Lady Stark proved to everyone that she would have likely been the better choice overall as ruler of the North, handling the affairs of the whole kingdom in addition to her lands. Githa didn’t have to know much about statesmanship to tell, she merely had to observe the reactions from the lords and ladies around who did. King Jon might be a fine commander and they may be facing war, but that’s why you appointed such a man as a commander, not a king. How was he to keep the actual kingdom running if he was on a battlefield the entire time?
And the King was gone for much too long. His absence was extended in part thanks to him chasing an alliance with, of all people, the Lannister woman, going as far as to venture Beyond the Wall to capture a wight and bring it to the Red Keep to prove its existence to the Mad Queen. A mission which ended up resulting in one of the Targaryen woman’s dragons dying and being resurrected by the enemy as an Ice Dragon. All so Cersei Lannister could ultimately (and predictably) betray them.
There were grumbles, alright. Grumbles about the king being too close to the Targaryen woman, of leaving the North for a foreigner, possibly surrendering their independence to her. Of him staying away even after he got what he set out for— the dragonglass, and bringing in an Ice Dragon.
The war might be won now, but there are still grumbles. King Jon isn’t even Lord Stark’s son, as it turns out. And while he served well in the war, and the North is still independent, he’s still a Targaryen and everyone knows it was Lady Stark who brokered that deal, anyways. Lady Stark’s kept ruling, keeping those armies intact along with the rest of the North, for the past three and a half years. And she is a true Stark, and more responsible, they say, for the fall of the Boltons than King Jon was.
Githa doesn’t love the king any less for being a Targaryen. But she doesn’t think he has much business being king.
So even with war over and the king back, it’s no secret who is truly, properly ruling the North now.
Of course, not that Githa listens to such things. She’s not the sort to concern herself with politics. It’s not her expertise or place.
Githa’s place is the kitchen. It’s from the kitchen that she more or less keeps her eye on and maintains the whole whole court, really. After all, everyone eats, and war or peace, winter or summer, it’s food that will always be demanded. She leads all the cooks, all the maids, all the servers, and hears every word said over every table —- not that she would ever try to listen in, of course, but one cannot help what one’s staff report to you. The only one more important than Githa in Winterfell is Lady Stark, and that’s only because Lady Stark knows her place as well.
Githa thinks the King could do to follow their examples.
Especially now, when he’s in the middle of her kitchen, getting flour everywhere and yelping when the juice from the lemon he’s cutting squirts into the cut he’s acquired cutting said lemon.
Perhaps it’s growing up as a bastard —- half high-born, half common, or perhaps it’s learning that he isn’t really who he was that has gotten him all mixed up, but the man does not know his place. Or, more sadly, perhaps he’s like all too many other lads who return from years of battle, struggling to adjust to life where one isn’t constantly dodging arrows and cracking skulls. And perhaps that’s why Githa Ogg hasn’t taken her spoon to him yet.
It’s not that she’s afraid to hit a highborn. She’s taken her spoon to all the Stark children in her lifetime save for the current Lady Stark, as Lady Stark, even as a girl, was always too much a perfectionist to nick food from the kitchens. The rest, however… While Jon was never the worst —- Lord Robb and Lady Arya were in constant competition for that titles— she’d caught him at it as a lad. And the rules were the same for anyone caught nicking from her kitchen— they got a strike from her spoon. She’d even taken her spoon to Lord Eddard, after becoming Lord of the castle, once.
King Jon isn’t stealing, technically, she supposes. But he is most certainly wasting, which is just as bad (but not as easy to punish a highborn for).
He, like all the Starks, grew up with Githa’s recipes. Including some of the more… enhanced ones, even if they weren’t the same enhanced ones she served to wives who experienced a lull in the passion of their marriage or a maiden who sought not to become a mother in seeking her pleasures. But she’d given them ones for when they’d taken a sniffle or were refusing to sleep.
Githa was taught to read by the White Harbour Castle Maester — one of the good things one could say about Lord Manderly was that he was good about giving his folk the opportunity to advance, and that included arranging lessons for servant children. And not too long after Lord Eddard became Lord Stark, Lady Stark proposed she record her recipes in a book. And so Githa did.
And it’s this book, two decades old and not exactly in mint condition, that the king has open on the great wooden table in the middle of the kitchen, covering the pages in flour.
Stains are hardly alien to Githa’s book after twenty years in this kitchen, but the king’s technique in handling foodstuffs is doing the damage of a moon’s turn of banquet preparation.
There are, in fact, two copies of Githa’s book in existence: the Right One and the Wrong One. The Wrong One contained all the right recipes, but lied about what they were for. The source of the “Fertility Pie” that had kept Lady Stark free of Bolton seed finding purchase within her. Githa left the Wrong One behind deliberately, with instructions to Lora on exactly how to use it. She took The Right One with her.
Now the Wrong One is locked away in her cupboard — after all, a weapon such as that is far too dangerous to leave out for just anyone to find. And the Right One is on the center table, being pelted with ingredients.
There are more problems with this situation, of course. The king isn’t merely wasting ingredients or dirtying her book, he’s also wasting space and, most importantly, her time.
The King’s place, as far as Githa is concerned, is to sit in the Lord’s Chair and do as Lady Stark tells him until a new conflict carries him off to command their armies. Instead, he’s in her kitchen, attempting to bake.
As King, though, he of course must have the best table, best tools, best ingredients. And he cannot be attended to by just any worker. His royal presence requires the Head Cook herself, by right of deference.
Hence why she’s stuck nearby, only capable of devoting half her attention to her true job. Worse, his royal presence is disruptive beyond the issue of space. It sets the kitchen staff on edge and makes them act… inefficiently. Twice she’s had workers spill pounds of potatoes and onions onto the floor because they saw the king and instantly bowed while carrying an open sack or crate.
Another problem with the king came from the man himself. He was the sort who absolutely hated to feel dependent on others. To the point where his efforts at resourcefulness ended up becoming outright arrogance. He has never taken advice easily —- Lady Stark ended up being the one to assemble a proper council after he left since the new king refused to appoint proper advisors beyond her and his Hand, Ser Davos. He seemed to have even greater difficulty, as most men did, in taking advice from women. The only woman he seemed to listen to was Lady Stark herself, and only after years of her running his kingdom for him, and even so, the Lady has to employ her own special charms to get him to cooperate.
He can’t help being a man, Githa supposes. It’s their nature. It’s why she has only a few male workers in the kitchens.
But it’s even worse now. Because the king is a man on a very particular mission, and he is determined to do it on his own and not have Githa “do it for him.”
The problem with men, rulers, and most of all, men who are rulers, is that they often can’t tell the difference between being helped and being carried. Being served, well, that they understood all too well. But anything that involved another person displaying a greater understanding of anything… well… They had to be tricked into that most of the time.
Githa isn’t sure whether to blame herself for things coming to this or not. On one hand, the king has come here because he’s reached a point in a journey that Githa has surreptitiously helped him along. On the other, how could she possibly have predicted this?
The King truly does not know his place.
Lady Stark does. She wouldn’t dream of invading like this, of taking food into her own hands. She knows that until the food was literally prepared and put on a platter before her, it doesn’t belong to her. It is the domain and property of the cooks. She knows not to get in the way.
She knows that the last thing the kitchen staff need is to be responsible for allowing flour or sauce or crumbs to get on fine, high-born clothing. If that happened, it only ended up provoking conflict and tension between the kitchenfolk and the laundresses. For a common person, angering the launderers was every bit as risky as angering those responsible for your food. Their version of spitting in your ale was letting your shift out in the damp. When you’re a kitchen, you need your aprons and cleaning rags  in good condition. That cannot be jeopardized. The inner politics of a household are delicate. And a meringue stain on a doublet of lamb’s wool could ignite a hidden war between the domestic departments, wielded with scrub-brushes, mildew, stale bread, washboards, shovels, spoons, and, most dangerous of all, time.
Lissa, the Head Laundress, well, Githa had set her up with her husband, so she’d never order reactionary strike, but the lass who’d be tasked with cleaning the meringue stains might not be above causing mischief. Mischief that would escalate until both section heads had to be drawn in if only to keep their own people from rioting.
It’s not a thing a King would understand. It’s not a thing that highborn men are taught to consider. Running a household was never their destiny.
It’s why Githa always had less patience for little Lady Arya Underfoot than the others. Having a high-born might running this way and that under your nose did no favors when you’re carrying laden platters. And Githa has no time or patience for anyone in her kitchens who isn’t there to work a full day. Anyone else just takes up space.
But Githa knows what led to this, and the part she’s played as well.
What could she do? It’s not like her to meddle— never! No one could accuse Githa of meddling! Especially in the affairs of the highborn. And if there was ever a sort who needed meddling less, it would be Lady Stark, who was very nearly as clever as Githa, with a head on perfectly straight, a good heart, a body and face made of dreams, and proper schooling.
But… Well…
Githa doesn’t gossip, but she hardly can begrudge the lasses and lads under her from doing so. She knows as well as any how dull and depressing the work can get and how sometimes, any spare bit of observance can end up benefitting someone in the end. And she can’t help what they tell her, or say in front of her, or say close enough to her even when they think they’re not. Can she?
She serves the Lady of Winterfell, and it is her duty to do the very best and very most for her lady. Her place is in the kitchens. But she’s earned her place in the realm of hearts as well.
And it’s not meddling so much as… helping things along.
A duty, is what it is. Lady Stark still has years and years of youth ahead of her, as does the king. But there are few greater tragedies in the world than even a moment of youth wasted. Sure, the Lady would probably get around to it eventually… but months, perhaps years would be wasted by then.
With all the work and struggle the poor lass has been through, she can hardly allow that to happen.
People underestimated the power of commonfolk. They choose to believe that all power resides in the lords and ladies, gleefully slipping poison into an enemy’s cup. But a cook can poison even more easily. A servant is expected everywhere, never noticed, and therefore, hears whatever they like. And it’s the people who serve and assemble who make sure that the right people are accommodated in the right way.
Githa is as powerful as a person can be, in her humble opinion. If she wished to, she could have easily arranged for those dragons the Targaryen woman had to be fed spoiled meat.
But she’s not the sort to use her power that way. No, she’s a good woman. She makes love (lots of it) not war (except when circumstances force her hand).
The King fumbles about the table. Both he and said table are covered in flour. It reminds her of a prank he and young Lord Robb had played on the other children years ago. It involved Lord Robb bringing the children down to the crypts and Jon jumping out at them, covered in flour, pretending to be a ghost.
The only thing Githa hates more than a young moment wasted is food wasted, down to the slightest flake. Oh, how she’d given Jon Snow a beating for that! He’d coated himself in half a cake!
He has again, only this time, it’s not intentional. Githa has already arranged for one of her maids to grab his discarded clothes later on and give them a rinse before the launderers get their hands on them. It’s a mercy he’s not wearing gloves, given the amount of yolk on his fingers.
The king mutters to himself and he squints at the page. If she has to guess, she’d say he’s mixed up the batter and meringue again.
If the king were to take a break from squinting at the current page and perhaps turn a page or two, he might possibly discover Githa’s part in all this.
Just a few pages down from the lemon cake recipe were other things. Such as the Boar Tusk Surprise, or the Yams in Passion(ate) Fruit Sauce, or the Asparagus, Fig, and Spring Grass Salad, or the Honey Cinnamon Pumpkin tarts.
Or any other number of invigorating dishes Githa has made sure to serve the king and lady during their private meetings and suppers together.
Githa’s book was used by workers who didn’t know their letters, so of course every recipe came with appropriate picture diagrams. Including renderings of the finished products. She also made sure that The Right One was truly accessible, so many of the, well, enhanced dishes came with descriptions of their intended effects, in both symbols and text.
The recipe the king was currently failing at, thankfully enough, was the non-enhanced lemoncake recipe. But it was in the back of the regular section of the book, with the desserts, mere pages from the enhanced snacks, appetizers, and entrees. Not that the non-enhanced version is any less than superb, certainly superior than the lazy, lackluster, half-formed bars of pastry that other courts served. These are the ones that Lady Stark yearned for all those years as she had to settle for the Southernors’ confectionary abortions. The ones with the cream centers and meringue toppings.
Some of the rivals Githa had back in White Harbour accused her of witchcraft. Some newcomers to Winterfell have done the same, only to be quickly silenced by the glares of more seasoned staff who had benefitted from the Head Cook’s artistry more than once. As such, those suspicions have always avoided the lords and ladies of the castle, and Githa prefers it that way. Lady Stark might be understanding, but she’s not sure the others will. Even poor Lord Bran, with his visions and such, was otherwise uneasy with anything that seemed supernatural.
Not that this was. No, this was science and art. Cooking. Just the right ingredients for the right job. No different than anything a maester might prescribe, aside from the fact that her products worked better.
She truly hopes that the king doesn’t turn too many pages.
It might be her own fault, though. She may have gone too far. Added a bit too much nutmeg here, introduced bananas a little too soon. It’s just that both the lady and the king were so restrained! Lady Stark was brutally purged of all the romantic ideas she’d fancied as a child years ago, and Jon Snow never had any whatsoever. He’d volunteered for the watch at four-and-ten, for pity’s sake!
She never expected them to take to things so passionately, is all.
Meeting them again as adults, she barely recognizes them as the children she knew. The only thing she does recognize is how perfect they are for one another. How that happened, she’ll never know. But it did.
She never expected that somehow, the king would turn out more starry-eyed, soppy, romantic, and fanciful than Lady Stark ever was a girl. She of course knew how he loved the Lady. Anyone with a decent pair of eyes and a lick of sense — that is, the staff and maybe Ser Davos, who was raised in Flea Bottom— could see it plain as day.
But she always read King Jon as the sort of man who shored up his passion and let it erupt only once the doors were closed, who kept his love like a secret, who didn’t care for grand gestures.
Those sort could and often did make for the best of lovers — generous in all the ways that ultimately count the most. But they didn’t.
They didn’t do things like grow sick of having their lady loves make them things and have nothing to make her in return. They didn’t do things like try to rectify this perceived inadequacy by tearing the kitchen apart to make their lady a platter of her favorite foods.
They didn’t do things like insist they make them themselves, because that’s the whole point.
Problem is, even if the king manages to achieve his goal and make them himself, they’ll probably be subpar, and he’ll likely have interrupted too much work and the preparation of the important, daily foodcrafting by then. So he’ll be presenting his lady with a subpar desert while explaining to her whole court why supper is late.
Or, rather, present his lady with a subpar desert and make Githa lie about why supper is late.
The Cook decides that she can’t take it anymore as she watches the king look back and forth between the two bowls of yellowish fluid. “The meringue is the darker, more orange stuff!”
The king spins around to face her. “I know that! That’s not what’s confusing me!”
“What, then?”
He scowls. “It’s nothing to do with your recipe, Missy Githa, it’s a private matter.”
Missy Githa looks around at the staff and barks at them to get back to work, which was code for ‘Leave’. They do. She waits until the final clatter of a door before facing her king. “I prepare your meals, Your Grace. I prepared the first meal you ever had that didn’t come from your wet nurse. Nothing’s too private for me.”
He groans and turns back to the table, gesturing for Githa to come close. She inches up to his side, spoon still in hand.
“The baking is easy enough, but for one matter,” he says, reaching into the pocket of his breeches. He shows her the contents of his palm. It’s a packet of herbs she immediately recognizes as a mix of tansy, mint, and wormwood.
“The… The lady I… Well, she hates the tea, you see,” he murmurs, “The taste is—”
“—Bloody distinct.” Githa knows all about it. Tansy tea is something always downed with a wrinkled nose.
“I want her to take what she needs in a more palatable form. Something that might kill the taste. Not to mention, something that looks less obvious. But I’m not sure how to work the ingredients in properly so it tastes right and does its job.”
Githa’s face splits into a grin. Her anger towards the royal sot melts away. If anything, she’s touched. It’s not many men who will exert the time and effort to help their lady with family matters.
The Cook takes the packet from him and tosses it in a nearby fire. The king yelps.
“Forget that,” Githa says, “I’ve got an alternative that taste as nothing and works much, much better.”
“But the tea is what the Maesters—”
“—Maesters are a bunch of stupid men in baggy dresses who spend more time with their heads in books written by other stupid men in baggy dresses than actually near a woman’s body proper. They don’t know a thing. Moon tea wears at the walls of the womb, causes cramps, longer and more painful bleedings, and can fail. No…” Githa leans over and begins flipping through pages. “I’ll help you, but only on the condition that you not bother me. Do that, and I won’t say a word about this.”
The king nods. “Very well.”
She finds the proper page. “There we are. My Fennynel Syrup. Got a vial of it in the back of the larder. You add two drops to every cake. Tasteless, gentler, but more effective. I left the recipe behind for your more loyal household when the Boltons took over. They used it to keep that Bastard from breeding the lady. Have her eat one at least an hour before you… engage.”
“Thank you, Missy Gytha,” he says, sounding so much like he did as a boy, when she handed him a treat.
Githa glances at the table and is surprised to see properly whipped cream prepared. Interested, she sticks a finger in the meringue bowl and brings it to her lips. It’s perfect. She tries the batter. Heavenly. She looks at her king in wonder. “Everything’s perfect so far.”
The king blushes. “I’m glad to hear it.”
She takes this opportunity to grab him by the ear as she did when he was a lad. “Just so we’re clear, Your Grace, you’re going to do right by our Lady Stark, correct?”
“Who said anything abo—OW!” He yelps when she twists his ear.
“I’m not stupid, Lad, and I’ve been watching you lie since you could first speak. You were never good at it. You think I don’t know what’s happening? Now answer me!”
He whimpers, but doesn’t fight her off. “I swear, Missy Githa! I have the best of intentions! But I promised that we’d wait until she was ready to marry again! And she’s not said a word!”
“Have you been asking her every day?”
“Well, no, I—”
“Get on it, then! You ask her every day, tell her you love her every hour, and if she holds out another month, get her something shiny, you hear?”
“Yes, Missy Githa!”
“Good!” She releases him. “I’ll put these in the oven for you and place the syrup. You get out of my kitchen and get to your king-ing, you hear?”
“Yes, Missy Gytha!”
“AND GIVE YOUR CLOTHES A RINSE BEFORE THROWING THEM TO THE LAUNDRY!”
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Jon:
The cake nearly falls from her fingers and mouth as her eyes widen in horror.
“You made these?”
“Well, I made the batter, meringue, and cream,” Jon says, “It was Missy Githa who baked them and put them in the heart shapes.”
“You… You actually put these together, though? Meaning you… You went into the kitchens?!” She lowers the cake, swallows what made it to her mouth, washes it down with Arbor gold, then gapes at him. “You made all this… in the middle of Missy Githa’s kitchen.”
Jon smiles. “Technically, it’s our kitchen, and I am king.”
Sansa purses her lips and gives him a look. It clearly says, We both know the reality of things, why bother claiming any different? There are no kings in any kitchen where Missy Githa presides. They’ve known that since they were in nappies.
He relaxes his shoulders. “She did eventually order me out. But she helped me first. These are your new alternatives to Moon Tea.”
Sansa looks down in the plate in surprise. “I always heard rumors, but… really?”
He nods. “Truly. Oh, and she did in fact twist my ear.”
“Of course.”
“And gave me orders. From now on, I’m to ask you every day if you are ready to marry me.”
Sansa stares at him from across the table. “So she knows—?”
He shakes his head, chuckling. “Of course she does.”
Sansa cups her brow. “Oh, Gods. And you’re saying these cakes…”
“…Are laced with a syrup designed to prevent any unexpected visitors, yes.” He thinks for a second, then grins at her. “Oh, I was also instructed to tell you every hour that I love you.”
Her face melts and she rises. Sansa walks over and falls into his lap, wrapping her arms about his neck. “My Love, you invaded Missy Githa’s kitchen for me. I don’t need to be told.”
“Well,” he says, leaning into brush his lips against her neck, “I want to anyways.”
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ao3feed-thramsay · 5 years
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Eggnog
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by Nanners (nanjcsy)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here is a merry tale of the Boltons Christmas Party! I am sure that nothing will go wrong.
Words: 1356, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Characters: Domeric Bolton, Roose Bolton, Theon Greyjoy, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Arya Stark, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Robert Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon, Jaime Lannister, Tywin Lannister, Kevan Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Olenna Tyrell, Margaery Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Lysa Tully Arryn, Robin Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Harold Finch, Harold OC, Bob OC, Jeyne Poole, Damon Dance-for-Me, Myranda (Game of Thrones), Gregor Clegane, Sandor Clegane, Ramsay Bolton
Relationships: Domeric Bolton/Ramsay Bolton/Roose Bolton, Ramsay Bolton/Theon Greyjoy
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Sorry Not Sorry, Christmas, Dark Comedy, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Thramsay - Freeform
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ao3feed-tywin · 5 years
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Eggnog
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ChtELL
by Nanners (nanjcsy)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here is a merry tale of the Boltons Christmas Party! I am sure that nothing will go wrong.
Words: 1356, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Characters: Domeric Bolton, Roose Bolton, Theon Greyjoy, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Arya Stark, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Robert Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon, Jaime Lannister, Tywin Lannister, Kevan Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Olenna Tyrell, Margaery Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Lysa Tully Arryn, Robin Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Harold Finch, Harold OC, Bob OC, Jeyne Poole, Damon Dance-for-Me, Myranda (Game of Thrones), Gregor Clegane, Sandor Clegane
Relationships: Domeric Bolton/Ramsay Bolton/Roose Bolton, Ramsay Bolton/Theon Greyjoy
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, Sorry Not Sorry, Christmas, Dark Comedy, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Thramsay - Freeform
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emilykaldwen · 4 months
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hi ily can I pls have five facts about baby girl myra greyjoy
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HI! ILY too!
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1. Myranda is the youngest of four children to Victarion Greyjoy and his salt wife, Briony Marbrand.
2. She is not a reaver like her eldest sister, Helya or brother, Dalton, nor a seer/priestess as her other sister, Gwyness (I feel like I’m spelling that name wrong). She is good with sums and knows how to read and write, so she that’s where her talent lies. Don’t mistake her preference for a quill as a lack of understanding of a blade because she is also more than capable of cutting a bitch.
3. You know how in The Force Awakens, Rey was like ‘I’ve never seen so much green?’ That is 100% Myranda when they land in the Riverlands. She’s never been off island.
4. Myranda is skilled at archery, blade work, net making, and Helya taught her how to wield a hooked spear that doubles as a walking stick around the stony paths.
5. Storms would scare her because she was afraid Pyke would crumble into the sea in the middle of the night and they’d sink into the realm of the Drowned God.
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emilykaldwen · 4 months
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Stillness & Day for Myranda, perhaps? I've had her for a day, but I love her
the way I got all giddy when I saw this. Misa, thank you!
OC Asks: Character Design Edition
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I had to make her a pretty character banner that I'm gonna forget to use 90% of the time
stillness: How does your OC act while still? Are they fidgety? Do they have any common gestures or tics? Does their clothing affect how they hold themselves while at rest?
Myra's default state is still. She is an animal frozen in hopes that the larger beast does not see her. She's watching, waiting, hoping for the moment that she can melt back into the shadows and hide. On Pyke, she wears trousers with long tunics, kinda the... Ironborn version of dress with leggings? She's not a reaver so she's a little less... fighty worthy, but navigating the castle and the rocky surroundings demand a good pair of pants and good boots. I think she very often wraps her jackets around her as if she needs to stay warm. I feel like Myra is always a taut bowstring. She's always tense, hunched shoulders when she's not thinking. I don't think this child has known a day of relaxation in her life.
day: What does your OC wear on a normal day? Why do they default to those clothes? Do they wear similar things, or do they change it up?
I DONT KNOW MISA I guess we're gonna find out! Regardless, Robb is into the way her titties look.
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emilykaldwen · 4 months
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that is all for today's plotting
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emilykaldwen · 2 months
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lore dump on the love of my life myra?? pretty please??
Okay first off, this is the sweetest thing ever thank you ;-; Thank you for this ask! Love to start the weekend off this way.
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So originally, Myranda Greyjoy was a House of the Dragon OC that was going to end up with Aemond (Aemond flies to the Iron Islands instead of Storm's End AU). I made a gifset and everything which I'm ridiculously proud of... but the story just wasn't happening. I didn't know the plot, I had this wonderful character but it was just... not working.
Then I remembered this boy existed:
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And all suddenly started to click into place.
Myranda Greyjoy is the youngest daughter of Victarion Greyjoy and his wife, Briony Marbrand, a salt wife captured during a festival along the coast when she was a teenager. She has three older siblings: Helya, a Reaver of great and terrifying repute, and her twin siblings, Dalton and Gwenys. Gwenys became a priestess of the Drowned God (The Driftwood Bride) for a lot of reasons, mainly to... escape the abuse of Dalton.
Myranda is a quiet child, probably the least 'Iron Islander' of her siblings. She has no desire to reave, would keep to the shadows, quiet as a mouse so as not to be noticed. Her elder cousin, Asha, is amazing in her eyes, but she is the closest with her mother, Briony. Briony taught her to read and write, and while her other children fall into the culture of their home, Briony hooks the last bit of goodness and innocence she has into Myranda. So when word comes that Robb Stark has declared himself King in the North, and that Theon is on his way to treat with them, Briony cracks open a plan:
“You’re going to marry Robb Stark.” Myra’s chilled fingers gripped the pot in her hand tighter, the hairs on the back of her neck prickling. The only sound in her mother’s room was the wind whistling through the cracks, the sound of the gulls and the waves on the other side of the lead paned window. Briony Marbrand had pushed the blanket that draped over the rough hewn chest, mermaids carved into the driftwood. A gift from her father. “Why?” was all Myra could manage, watching her mother dig through the fabric. “Because marrying him gives power. Power you will never find here. They won’t let you find it. They’re not made for it.” Her mother’s hands paused. “It’ll get you away from your brother.” Ice trickled down her spine and Myra could not help the flinch, the curl of sick in her gut. “If Asha wants the Seastone chair, she’ll need help. Helya will go with you.” “Hel will never forgive you.” Her mother shrugged and pulled a red wood box from the depths of the fabrics. “I will not mourn that on my death bed, and neither will she.”
It's a gambit, but Myra, if quiet, is clever too and she knows and understands what is at stake. Her people are on a crash course for another annihilation. Asha with her shadowed eyes and the complete loss of her family has always clung to her.
And Drowned God Help Her, she's never seen so much green, and Robb gave her flower for their wedding. She loves flowers.
Basically, Myranda Greyjoy is Westerosi Mary Lennox and The Saddest Girl Next to Sansa Stark and she's a budding blossom that I'm looking very much forward into diving into. I've put her tracked tag in this post so you can take a look!
Thank you, truly and wholeheartedly, for this ask! It means the world to me!
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emilykaldwen · 2 months
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(@queen--kenobi) I feel like Myranda would love blue flowers? Like I think she'd love all kinds of flowers, but I feel like any sort of pale blue flower and sunflowers really make her happy
Send me an OC + and something you think is true about them and I'll tell you whether you're right or wrong.
MYRA LOVES FLOWERS! She adores them!
She's given flowers for her wedding and is just so utterly enchanted by them. And in Robb, it spurs this need on to, wherever he goes, within the horrors of war, he tries to find flowers. It keeps him grounded.
She adores the blue winter roses, she adores sunflowers, roses, dandelions, anything, and everything. A big thing for Myranda will be the glass gardens at Winterfell. She finds peace and home among the flowers.
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emilykaldwen · 3 months
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Good evening how're you doing what's good- EXCUSE ME PROJECT IRONWOLF???
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Project Ironwolf!
So I came up with Myranda Greyjoy last year as a HotD era OC where she was gonna hook up with Aemond and I sorta couldn't really figure out a story there and I already had such a huge canon divergent AU so it ended up sitting on the back burner.
But after poking around a little and discussing GoT era fics with some friends, I was like What if Myranda and Robb Stark hooked up?
Project Ironwolf is the WIP title for this AU since I don't have an actual title for it.
The long and short of it:
Myranda Greyjoy is the youngest child of Victarion Greyjoy and his salt wife, Briony Marbrand. When Theon comes to implore Balon to ally himself with Robb Stark, Asha and Briony concoct a different plan: overthrow Balon. Basically, Asha's like this whole rebellion idea is fucking stupid and this time I have people who also agree how stupid it is.
So the idea is for Myranda and Robb to get married (breaking the frey betrothal) and thus there's an Iron Island Civil War issue on top of... the rest of the Westeros Civil War.
I'm still figuring out.
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emilykaldwen · 4 months
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Sidebar update for new story that I'm slowly working on
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Robb Stark x Myranda Greyjoy (Victarion Daughter OC)
Yes, yes it's Myranda Greyjoy from the House Greyjoy gifset I did. Will be adjusting her to the GoT timeline!
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emilykaldwen · 16 days
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⭐star⭐ - any easter eggs so to speak that you are excited about from project Ironwolf?? <33
Director's cut meme!
ONE DAY MIRANDA! ONE DAY I WILL WORK ON IT!
Bonus: So Myranda Greyjoy is actually showing up in Arc II of Maiden since I needed a Greyjoy.
But as for Project Ironwolf, there's so much that's still up int he air, but something I'm excited about is exploring how Tywin Lannister lost the support of the Marbrands the moment Myranda steps to shore and they're aware of her existence (Myranda's mother, Briony, is Addam's sister and Tywin didn't go to rescue her because she'd be 'ruined scraps' by the time they got there). Briony Marbrand is everything to me and I adore her and she's lost every bit of softness and the final vestiges lie locked away deep in Myra's heart.
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