“The “well-informed” Think They Know Something About Matters That The Experts Are Reluctant Even

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) dir. TOSHIYA FUJITA

“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.

UMA THURMAN IN 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1' (2003)

Now is a good time to tell you what I know about death: Nothing goes away but becomes something else. The story goes: God watched the son go down. Or, God was the son going down. Or God was gravity. Or God spoke in the voice of the people so to bring that man down--he went and became a lamb cut open. He went and became August sun. He went and became. He went and became. My brother sat up. A holy future passed us by and surrounds me now. Brother, we're going down. Brother, get up.

Lily Greenberg, from "Good Friday"

Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah in The Favourite (2018)

Lee Yeong-ae, Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook, 2005

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

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.

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) dir. TOSHIYA FUJITA