“Do you think that every good thing has always had a good conscience? — Science, which is certainly something good, entered the world without one, and quite destitute of pathos, but did so rather in secret, by crooked and indirect paths, hooded or masked like a criminal and at least always with the feeling of dealing in contraband. The good conscience has as a preliminary stage the bad conscience — the latter is not its opposite: for everything good was once new, consequently unfamiliar, contrary to custom, immoral, and gnawed at the heart of its fortunate inventor like a worm.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 90
TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERINE HOWARD
THE TUDORS (2010)
“The mind requires some relaxation, and cannot always support its bent to care and industry.”
— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
— F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
“There had once been a girl more important than Lyanna Stark”
King Robert reunited with his oldest child, Mya Stone
sketched by: euronswife on twt
Colored in hair version and regular sketch because I wasn’t sure if people would be able to tell it was Mya. I know she has short hair in the series, but this is set a little bit before AGOT since Jon Arryn is still alive (so she could have cut it since), and my biggest interest in ASOIAF is historical influences so I tried to find a way that her hair is sort of short but still influenced by Tudor(ish) fashion in Europe. Her hair is to her shoulders, but because she’s hunching her shoulders in discomfort, her hair looks longer than it is.
The idea for this piece is that Jon Arryn has found out suspicious things about the legitimate Baratheon children that is leading him to believe they are not Robert’s biological children. He still wants to be subtle and not outright tell Robert until he has irrefutable proof, because someone is sure to feel Robert’s wrath and he doesn’t want it to be him. Bringing Edric to King’s Landing means letting Renly know about this (and Renly can’t keep his mouth shut) so he summons a known bastard of the King from his own realm, Mya Stone, to illustrate the differences between children of Baratheon blood and the children of Cersei Lannister. He dresses her in a stuffy yellow dress that she’s not used to, and puts jewels in her hair like Cersei likes to do with the other handmaidens. Mya is worried that the King won’t recognize her after so many years, she was a toddler the last time she’d seen him, after all. But as soon as she enters his chambers and he sets his eyes on her, he sends away his whores. He clasps Mya tightly at the tops of her arms. He seems as if he might cry, and Mya doesn’t know how to feel. She’s hurt from all the missed time, but she wants the King’s approval as well. And the fact he’s so emotional is a sort of emotional release of all the feelings that have been weighing heavy on her heart all her life. She still doesn’t know why he would have left her, why he stopped loving her, what she had done.
Mya and Robert one of my favorite tragic father and daughter, I can’t help it.
I adore this awkward big boy ;-; #Ragnarok #MagneSeier
Marcus Aurelius
The continual victims and losers of the Targaryen Dynasty:
1. Women
2. Dark haired Targs
3. Blackfyres
The final Targaryens:
1. Daenerys Targaryen
2. Jon Snow
3. Young Griff
La Femme Nikita (1990)
i think its a little underappreciated that grrm allows his main characters to be disabled and hurt. tyrion's dwarfism and bran's paralysis are obvious but also dany's infertility?? jon's pains and scarring after he burns his hand fighting the Others?? ned's broken leg plagues him for months and the scars on cat's palms consistently ache and phantom pains haunt jaime through out asos and the arrow brienne took to her leg does actual harm instead of just leaving a neat scar and when biter chews off brienne's cheek she's visibly disfigured afterwards. theres no brushing over any of their injuries and all of them are consistently affecting them even after they heal. or don't heal. lady stoneheart and beric dondarrion carry their injuries even after they die. the gashes on stoneheart's face stay even when she comes back and beric never regains his eye. dany stays infertile thats not something that can be reversed. the same way tyrion's injuries after the battle of the blackwater cant be reversed and jon's scars can't be erased bc at the end of the day when ur disabled theres no cure for that. u just have to Deal with it no matter how difficult it is and i think its nice when fictional characters still find a way to push through it the same way we do
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