tumblrofthrones:

Thank you, with-eyes-averted! Much better cap of Brienne and Catelyn.

click to embiggen properly- you can see Brienne much better that way.

She looks positively fierce! C’mon HBO - get this up in high-def!

thestarkinwinterfell:

hanschens:

questionable-morals:

firebolting:

rex-manning-day | zaquiqui | firebolting:

Lol, she’s everyone’s mom. EXCEPT FOR JON SNOW. HEYOH

she’s everyone’s mom. EXCEPT FOR JON SNOW. HEYOH

This might be my favourite reblog comment on this post.

EXCEPT FOR JON SNOW.

^

ACTUAL TEARS.

Bwahahaha! …old news that Michelle Fairley is pretty much everywhere (I saw that a DL of the Ejiofor/McGregor/Grandage/Donmar Othello -so worth it- is even floating around Tumblr today and Hey! Misfits is on Hulu now which is much better viewing than when I caught it on YouTube last year -and, of course, Hollywood is attempting a fuck up remake) but Jon Snow meta-emo-schmoopiness will always get a reblog!

“Last night’s finale saw the completion of Daenerys’s transformation. Coming out of the fire naked, with her three young dragons, it was as if she’d been reborn. Though Daenerys loved Khal Drogo, she doesn’t need him anymore; she can raise a khalasar on her own.”

“Cersei has overcome the limitations Westerosi society has imposed on her by strategy and treachery, and though she’s far from sympathetic—this is, after all, a woman who had a boy pushed out of a window to protect her secret affair with her brother—it’s not impossible to understand how she became the cold-hearted woman she is.”

“But it’s Lady Catelyn who comforts her son after they learn of Ned’s death, not the other way around. And it’s Lady Catelyn who coolly, pragmatically defines out the Starks’ battle strategy for the ‘King in the North’: ‘We have to get the girls back. And then we will kill them all.’

“It’s both sad and somehow poetic that her survival rests on her ability to blend in as a young boy. Of course, tomboyishness is not the same thing as masculinity, and it would be a mistake to equate the two—Arya is every bit as female as her sister Sansa. But Westeros has a very specific set of rules for noble-born women, and Arya’s not interested in playing by any of them.”

“For a girl who’s been criticized by many fans as snotty and immature, it’s a turning point; when she looks on her father and handmaiden’s heads of her own free will, it’s an act of defiance, and of sorrow, and of guilt. Not so long ago, Sansa was naïve, but the scales have clearly fallen from her eyes—and as she stands, she’s the best-positioned Stark to strike back at the Lannisters.”

— ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale: The Powerful Women of Westeros

weruintooeasy:

The women are the strong ones, truly.

rivieres:

Catelyn lifted her face, and Ned kissed her. Her maimed fingers clutched against his back with a desperate strength, as if to hold him safe forever in the shelter of her arms.

- Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones (pg 201)

fuckyeahironthrone:

We kill them all.

Cat: “I won’t let him take you.”

Ned: “The King takes what he wants. That’s why he’s King.”

Cat: “I’ll say, “Listen, fat man. You are not taking my husband anywhere. He belongs to me now.”

…let’s just take a minute to make it even more sad!