”The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. Big and brown and full of fear.”
Tag: asoiaf
The Targaryen Dragon Pit during the Dance of Dragons.
#tagging u bc i know this will make you smile savagely for a moment hahahaha
Aw, honey, you know me well.
The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman
who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid,
stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.
All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned shewolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn.
The Death of Meraxes by Chase Stone
from The World of Ice and Fire
Whether he was one man or fifty, we know that in this time the kingdom extended its writ far beyond Storm’s End and its hinterlands, absorbing neighboring kingdoms one by one over the centuries. Some were won by treatay, some by marriage, more by conquest–a process that was continued by Durran’s descendants.
Pre-ASOIAF Meme → 1/2 Founding Stories: House Durrandon
Catelyn and Ned’s first years of marriage (requested by anonymous)
She remembered her own childish disappointment, the first time she had laid eyes on Eddard Stark. She had pictured him as a younger version of his brother Brandon, but that was wrong. Ned was shorter and plainer of face, and so somber. He spoke courteously enough, but beneath the words she sensed a coolness that was all at odds with Brandon, whose mirths had been as wild as his rages. Even when he took her maidenhood, their love had more of duty to it than of passion. We made Robb that night, though; we made a king together. And after the war, at Winterfell, I had love enough for any woman, once I found the good sweet heart beneath Ned’s solemn face.
Princes of lost kingdoms // Bran & Theon parallels
Game of Thones: Brave AU
– lady–catelyn-stark and worshipsonlydeath+Fate be changed, look inside. Mend the bond, torn by pride+
When Arya’s Mother discovers her practising with Needle, a sword given to her by bastard half-brother, Jon Snow, Catelyn immediately demands the sword be handed over. It is both dangerous and inappropriate, and despite Arya’s protests, Catelyn vows that it will be melted down to it’s original steel. Angry and upset, Arya tears the dress her Mother has had made for her before running to the Godswood in heartbreak. There, she speaks to the Olds Gods, wishing for change, for her Mother to change, to understand. But wishes are sometimes heard and in the power of the Godswood, Arya’s wish is granted. Catelyn, while in her search for Arya, is changed, but not in the way expected. Exchanging two legs for four, red hair for red fur, Catelyn is transformed into a wolf and Mother and daughter must work together to understand one another, and undo the Gods’ magic, before the change becomes permanent.
Since I’m doing a Wheel of Time re-read myself at the moment I was just wondering how you think WoT and ASoIaF compare in feminist terms? Things like how the female characters are written and treated, how the books deal with in-world misogyny, whether or not you think the authors approached the books with a feminist mindset and if they at all succeded? This is probably a big question, but I love your take on ASoIaF, so was curious about your thoughts on WoT. Sorry if you’ve answered this before!
I wrote a really long, really rambling thing here, and I think I said the most important thing at the end, so I’m just going to repeat it up here for the TLDR crowd and leave the ramble under the cut:
Does fantasy better serve us by showing us our future, a world where equality between women and men already exists, a world to which we can (hopefully) aspire? Is it important to normalize the idea of equality between men and women? Or is fantasy better off showing us the excesses and horrors of our past, and how we as a civilization aren’t very far removed from problems like medieval rape culture, and how humanity “still has a long way yet to go” in terms of its treatment of oppressed groups, given that so many women can see themselves in women like Brienne or Cersei or Catelyn or Sansa or whoever? Is it even the case that one of these is better than the other?
I tend to think that both stories serve different yet equally important purposes, and they’re valuable for different reasons.
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