"Lucky" by Colin Wilson
rippled rabbit reflection (+forlorn frog)
Say what you will about the politics of A Song of Ice and Fire, 'a feudal army marching through the countryside doesn't become any less horrific, abuse-filled and starvation-causing for the local peasantry just because they're the Good Guys' is really a point that like 90% of epic fantasy that's trying have any sort of serious/coherent morality could stand to learn.
THE MARTYR; hilary mantel / arch budzar / wikipedia / franz kafka / anne carson / pinterest / velázquez, christ crucified (image) / cohen 1988 interview / sweatermuppet
If trench warfare were made-up, it would be the most on-the-nose anti-war satire ever created. Bunch of young men shooting at each other from inside open graves, slowly rotting even as they fight to stay alive. Every so often, they get to move a few hundred metres to dig a new grave for themselves somewhere else and this is called a victory.
Matthew Needham in House of the Dragon (1.05) as Larys Strong
obsessed with the ugly little sigils at the end of the books they look so silly <3
THE YURI of Westeros !!!
How do you think cersei accidentally having robert's kid (she thought it was jaime's during pregnancy but it came out with his features) would end?
post-natal abortion probably. otherwise she could play the rhaenys targ/jace velaryon/any other brown haired targ card. but it would have been fun if cersei had her own little inverted jon snow who she resented among her bastard kids
What do you think will actually happen to jeyne realistically?
i can’t imagine any tertiary character currently in the north is going to thrive after the long night, i know i air on a more apocalyptic side of twow/ados but ultimately it has to shake up the status quo pretty significantly
William Heath Robinson (1872–1944)
“Exceedingly Odious and Hateful to Thieves and Robbers”
illustration from ‘The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais’, 1932
due to personal reasons i don't believe anybody
Horrifying that this sounds like the safest possible life for jeyne now.
i mean it is a sort of lollys/bronn situation where the marriage is generally passionless but not abusive and for certain women in westeros thats the best you can get. very funny that in this au bluebeards eighth wife runns off and marries his seventh tho