❝described As A Sweet And Simple Girl At The Time Of The Aance Of The Dragons.❞

'Tempio della Concordia,' 1955,

Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,

Photo by Konrad Helbig

god loves you, but not enough to save you

the thing about the dance is that. the entire pointless horror of it really shines through aegon and viserys. grrm took the pathos of the princes in the tower enigma from the war of the roses and reversed it. the tragedy isn’t that the children died - it’s that they were the only ones who lived. and so the kingdom rearranges itself around boy kings with gaping wounds for souls because that’s what feudal systems do - but what can you do with a targaryen king who cannot stand the sight of a dragon ? the magic is gone. the tragedy must degrade into a farce. and right on cue here comes aegon the fourth!

The End Of Autumn On The Seine Banks In 1955

Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone

“It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing.” — Beric Dondarrion

a storm of swords, g.r.r.m. / the surgery, dimitris anastasiou / christ displaying his wounds, giacomo galli / “the man with a hole in his head”, rick bursky / the limits of control, nicola samorí / the perjured city, hélène cixous

i wont lie i hold quite a bit of fondness for house manderly. like wyman manderly's meeting with davos skyrocketed him into being one of my fav schemers in this series. like yesss people in story assume wyman is a craven and an idiot who can be pushed into submission but thats not true!! he uses those expectations against people to disarm them into seeing him as not much of a threat. he even plays into these concepts like the pie scene is one of his most iconic ofc because like what a ballsy move to disappear three frey family members and then appear at a wedding with three massive pies and ask a singer to play the song about a man's son being turned into a pie and served to him. and the whole family playing into the mummer's show in the merman's court is soooo good too like okay his granddaughters are down to perform all this to backstab the people who killed their uncle. literally awesome. anyway merman sigil + "the merman's court" name + the fact all of the guards wield tridents and not spears. chefs kiss they have the pizzazz they know how to perform. definitely a house that resembles the families in the reach but are loyal northmen all the same.