Day 03 Martell Week: Favorite Moment

Day 03 Martell Week: Favorite Moment

Elia found it all exciting. She was of that age, and her delicate health had never permitted her much travel. I preferred to amuse myself by mocking my sister's suitors.

This challenge is more late than anything else, but I will finish what I promised. A nice moment of a happy Elia receiving the attention they deserve, the boys who court her are from the Chester and Grimm house. Elia's clothes are a combination of Westerosi and Dornish fashion at the time, due to her journey and her mother who was a friend of the queen.

Oberyn and her nose presenting the delayed week

because the fandom focuses so much on Rhaenyra's threesome with Daemon and Laena, when at that time Rhaenyra had her secret relationship with Harwin. Literally here they are invalidating both relationships.

And no, I've never seen them include Harwin so don't come out with "it's a polyamorous foursome", because of course Daemon x Laena are not as interesting without Rhaenyra, and how is Rhaenyra going to have pure love with someone who doesn't know Daemon?🙄

#Justice for Harwin and Rhaewin

I know a lot of people aren’t gonna love this but i got to say it:

Laena/Rhaenyra wasn’t sacrificed for Rhaenicent. It was sacrificed for the same reason Harwin/Rhaenyra and Laena/Daemon were sacrificed.

Daemyra

ASOIAF: The Book of the City of Ladies

Ruling ladies in the time of the War of the Five Kings 16/18

Eddara Tallhart, Lady of Torrhen’s Square.

A girl of almost ten years old, Eddara becomes the head of her house after the succesive deaths of her older brother Benfred at Stony Shore and of her father Helman at the Battle of Duskendale. Currently she is held captive by the ironmen at Torrhen’s Square.

“The woman is important too!”.

A Game of Thrones. Arya I.

Note: If you’re also interested in this unseen but nonetheless lovable character, here is a fine aesthetic about her.

Whoever sent this to Bethany needs to go FUCK THEMSELVES

Like I know the HOTD fandom is VERY comfortable with their racism and their general hatred but to send direct hate to the actors?? Woooow

On another note HER RESPONSE:

Also the fact that Anna is there 👀

One of the greatest crimes of Rhaegar that rarely anyone talks about is the reproductive abuse he did to Elia and Lyanna. He endangered both their lives just so he could have his prophecy children (Elia was bedridden after Rhaenys's birth and he impregnated her again too soon, and Lyanna was fifteen aka not physically mature enough). And how he abandoned them both without providing them what they actually needed, Elia needed good protection and Lyanna needed good healthcare. He was failure as a son, as a husband and as a prince. A complete loser.

He was a failure as a son, as a husband and as a prince. A COMPLETE LOSER!!

it's actually insane to me how arya stark gets so often misinterpreted as a character when she's so easy to grasp. she often gets criticized for being a 'not like other girls' type of character when she's just supposed to be a tomboyish girl living in an extremely patriarchal society that refuses to accommodate or accept people like her without trying to fundamentally change them. it's literally just it, a very basic concept, but she always ends up getting treated like she's a female misogynist somehow when that is simply not in the text.

arya never looked down on other women for being feminine; rather, she looked down on herself for not being feminine enough. she doesn't reject traditionally feminine pursuits, she's simply not interested and not good at them when she tries. she's introduced literally trying and failing to sew, then running away almost crying when she gets made fun of for it. she knows she's compared unfavorably to her sister and she resents that, being the 'ugly' one, being constantly mistaken for a boy. later in the series, when she says she's 'not a lady', unlike her sister and mother, it's because she thinks she's beneath the title, not the opposite.

this happens in great part because of how game of thrones adapted her (badly, she literally says 'most girls are stupid' at one point lol), but it bleeds into discussions of the novels as well and it always annoys me. i also think this stems from the urge to defend sansa from the undeserved criticisms her character frequently gets, which makes people more inclined to interpret arya uncharitably in comparison, but that's missing the point. both arya and sansa suffer under the patriarchal society of westeros and pitting them against each other in this context is laughable. the main reason why they could never understand each other when they lived together was precisely that, the pressure they felt to be good proper ladies (with arya 'failing' and sansa 'succeeding' at it) driving them apart