What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.
your journal can be whatever you want it to be!
DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.”
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Detail from Annunciation, Jan van Eyck, ca. 1434-1436.
robert baratheons bastards should unionise
Nathan Casey must've been devastated with teen titans 2003 bc ik i was
bla bla bla Aegon II is not the rightful heir!
bla bla bla Rhaenyra is not the rightful heir!
blablabla MY favorite fantasy mass murderers are actually the good guys!
Do you know who was not the rightful heir to shit? Who was very much not "the good guy"?
Aegon The Conqueror. The very reason why there is even all those debates through the series history, between this or that Targaryen, the reason why there is an iron throne in the first place, and for all the wars for it
In a monarchy, the truth of myths regarding divine rights of the royal and the noblemen is that those are nothing but justifications for the upholding of feudalism and it's social order. The only crime one can commit in a war of conquest or succession is losing it. "The rightful monarch" is the one who wins, because outside of that, there is no such thing.
History is told by the winners. Might makes right.
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, a shadow on the wall."
Have your favorites, have fun watching, it's entertainment after all. Root for whoever you want, for whatever reason you fancy. But do not fool yourself. They do not actually have the right to shit and you know it, you are not morally above anyone for rooting for this or that character and you know it.
Frankly I’m tired of Targaryen war criminals!!!!! Give me a substantially above average sized man with below average social skills and his emotional support bald kid with an attitude problem STAT
new filofax cover i bought on ebay. i feel the cracks on the spine give the leather history