Elissa Flowers

@elissaflowers

ASOIAF enthusiast | GRRM apologist | Discourse centrist
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«Jon was slender, where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast».
«[…] Robb laughing, Jon silent and intent».

How could there be any doubts as to who is Jon Snow’s father?

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I’m surprised that no one that met Rhaegar didn’t spot him and thought he looked familiar. I know he looks like Lyanna but it takes two to make a kid and he must have inherited some feature of his father.

This may be the actual reason Jon ended up somewhere at the back during the welcoming feast in Winterfell. I mean, Rickon obviously was surprised that Jon wasn’t with them: he froze in confusion, and Jon had to wave him to go on. That means baby Starks can’t even imagine a situation when their bastard brother is left alone at the feast. So, Ned hiding Jon at the low table with the squires on this one occasion - a visit from Southern political sharks (who remember Rhaegar and Lyanna’s faces with various accuracy) - would be a logical thing to do.  

I always feel like we should have run out of iron by now. We've been digging that up for thousands of years. Like I know that technically the earth's crust is like 5 percent iron so we won't ever run out but like we made sooooo many swords out of that shit. Like basically it's all they had for fun in the iron ages was iron. I feel like iron should probably be all swords by now and we have to switch to a new metal.

the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end

There are other things you can criticise ASOIAF for, but GRRM sure knew how to let that sense of foreboding creep into the narrative so that certain deaths would have maximum emotional impact, first with Ned Stark - you can feel from the moment he enters King’s Landing that he’ll most likely never leave that place alive - and then with Robb and Cat - where everyone around her dismisses Cat’s concerns about the Freys as a mother’s anxiety, when in reality she is the only one there who’s politically astute enough to even have an inkling of what’s going on behind the scenes, and on some level the reader knows the wedding is going to be a trap

"pta mom cersei""pta mom rhaenyra" "pta mom alicent" the one true pta mom is lysa tully.she'd be rallying for gluten free sugar free chemical free school dinners and physically fighting cersei when she hears about cousin joffrey bullying sweetrobin.also she helps LF launder money from the school.

the Dead Wife/Mother in childbed before the story habit of grrm’s is my least favourite cos it’s just so casually sexist and contradictory to the main novels. wives in asoiaf have SO much agency and influence whether it be cersei and cat, or even background characters like dorna swyft’s effect on kevan, or the stokeworth women. why is jorah’s first wife, jon arryn’s first two wives, lyarra stark, why did they have no effect beyond their ability to procreate? yes, jorah’s can be explained by his own pathology vis a vis lynesse and daenerys, and the fact the arryn’s have no heirs is a plot point, but these are just the first three that popped into my head. there’s SO many. i can understand how male characters dont care to remember women, how women are erased from history, how they aren’t given the same opportunities as men. i understand this is feudalism, this is the HEIGHT of patriarchy. yet why is the unnamed princess of dorne even unnamed? she was the ruler of dorne during robert’s rebellion, the mother of doran, oberyn and elia. she SHOULD be remembered, she SHOULD have more influence than being remembered as a handmaiden to rhaella. it’s ridiculous! it’s laziness! scream! 

i was and am such a cregan stark hater but honestly being 22 and teaching high school has forced me to change my perspective cause some of those riverlands lads are 14. if you told me i had to storm the capitol with the kids in my class and then establish a new government in 48 hours i would act up too

mr. craig stark trying to explain that today’s learning objective is to murder criston cole before he can take his host back to king’s landing but kermit and oscar tully are playing cyvasse dot com on a glass candle, robb rivers asked to go to the bathroom 45 minutes ago and hasn’t come back, and benjicott blackwood derailed the whole thing by coming in tardy with a fantasy chicken sandwich that smelled really good and made everyone else hungry

On the topic of Sansa’s skills, fashion is one of Sansa’s skills that is often dismissed as her just “liking pretty dresses”. Yes, she can sing well, play high harp, dance, embroider, memorize facts and songs and poems, etc. and those are all impressive skills, but having an aesthetic eye and knowledge of fashion in order to appreciate different clothes and fabrics in depth is a skill as well. Fashion is an art, if Arya threw a fruit at a painting Sansa cherished then more readers would likely empathize but because it’s one of her favorite dresses she is “superficial” and “bratty” for caring about it. It’s a very weird and frankly misogynistic double standard.

Brienne & Sansa characters from Game of Thrones. I don’t usually do fanart, but I really enjoy this show. This print will be available for the first time at the 3 Rivers Comic Con in PA. 

8x10 Print available at Etsy