Jaime Lannister - Blog Posts
jaime and brienne literally make me heartsick. i have never felt so genuinely distraught at anything as i was at how they ended. like braime makes me nauseated and miserable and closer to tears than anything ever. i delight in it mostly except for the late nights where i burn at the unfairness of their ending and how brutally they massacred jaime's growth and the LOOK in brienne's eyes when she was writing his deeds in the book. the noise of anguish that was punched out of me the first time i watched their story through was unholy.
Show Jaime:
āI know I just slept with Brienne who I have a deep attachment to, and Iām about six seasons deep into a redemption arch but Ima peace out and get crushed by rocks with my sister wifeā
Book Jaime literally in the middle of reading a letter from Cersei begging him to come and save her:
āI wonder what brienne is doing right nowā
I think the thing thatās really striking about the got books as opposed to the show is the way Martin never shies away from how physically damaged everyone is left. In the show Tyrion gets a badass scar but in the books he looses half his nose, Briennes teeth are broken and a chunk of her face is literally bitten out. Theon looks like an old man, his body is completely wrecked -
But theyāre still not beyond hope. Their stories donāt finish with the horrible things that happen to them, their scars and deformities, they go on, and itās not pretty and tragic and romantic like a story
And thatās the whole point.
Every single book in the series makes a point about how violence and war is romanticised in literature and history and Martin makes his character a living testament to the reality of war, the ugliness, the trauma, and that depth is just another thing that got glossed over in the show where people stay pretty and everything that made the books special is watered down.
Let your characters be ugly. Let them get hurt. Let them be scarred, and watch them get up anyway.
I see what you want. I get what you mean. But Iām to ashamed to admit it (I got shamed by my friend š„¹)
u all need to wake up!!!!!! fight back!!!!!!!
au in which robert, the starks and the lannisters play monopoly instead of going hunting and pushing each otherās kids from towers.
tyrion implements a tax system to make things more interesting and fights cersei over the cat for a solid ten minutes.
around thirty minutes into the game, catelyn realizes that she has free will and stops paying taxes.
arya and sansa haggle over new york avenue, which ends up being bought by theon. this causes the two to completely cast aside their differences, ally and subsequently start doing everything in their power to make theonās life hell.
theon himself is quite severely stoned the entire time throughout.
ned enters horrendous debt pretty much immediately and, after two hours of being financially sucked dry by both cersei and his tax evader of a wife, decides to just place his figurine in jail and never leave.
jon, playing the dog, controls the railroads and makes jaime, playing the ship, go completely broke within minutes. being beaten by a bastard and officially the first to lose the game makes jaime so mad he spends the rest of the evening perched on the familyās ancestral armchair eating flaming hot cheetos and stifling sobs.
cersei is holding onto her last two dollars and her one house in atlantic avenue like a maniac and evades taxes like itās an olympic sport. she claims ownership of kentucky avenue on the grounds that red is her houseās color at least twice. after three hours, sheās consumed enough vintage red to kill a large mammal and keeps quoting the art of war. fascinatingly enough, she never goes completely broke.
robert, just as broke and drunk as his wife but not nearly as ferocious, proposes marriage for tax advantages to bran, who is in possession of the boardwalk and lets him dangle on his proposition for two rounds before accepting and feeling like a benevolent god.
sansa sees this and immediately proposes to arya, who accepts, only for them to be sued by their mother for public indecency (āyouāre siblings, jesus christ!ā). arya argues that this is just a game and that one could argue that robertās and branās marital alliance is just as if not even more inappropriate, considering that bran is seven and robert thirtyseven. sansa countersues her mother for tax evasion, who promises sheāll drop her lawsuit if her daughters let her keep hoarding perverse amounts of wealth. ālove wins!ā arya says, which causes jaime, still perched on the armchair but now eating old nanās home made whiskey truffles, to hysterically sob. cersei stares him down.
robb, in a rare moment of almost prophetic foresight, excuses himself one hour in and goes on a very, VERY long walk with grey wind.
tyrion, whose tax system has spectacularly backfired in his face, proposes marriage to catelyn, jon and cersei in rapid succession, who all turn him down. āi wish i was the monster you think i am. i wish i had enough poison for the whole pack of you. i would gladly give my life to watch you all swallow it.ā he screams before he leaves the table.
at that, joffrey, who has refused to participate and instead sits on the couch playing doom on his nintendo ds, starts hysterically laughing. tyrion turns on his heel and awards his nephew with the bitchslap of the century. this causes cersei to completely abandon the game and chase after him with a broom. catelyn makes sure that everyone is distracted by the lannister antics and then reaches across the table and bags cerseiās money and properties.
with a heavy heart, myrcella trades arya and sansa one of her limited edition bayala schleich unicorns for park place.
at this point, the game is between the tycoons that are catelyn and jon, the bran-robert alliance, the arya-sansa-alliance, and ned, who is still in jail and watching ice hockey on his phone under the table. that is when catelyn hears rickon gagging and discovers that he, in the absence of tyrion, the self declared bank manager, has managed to eat all bank notes from the box.
rickon gets his stomach pumped, cersei and tyrion have both been arrested, theon is still stoned, arya, sansa and myrcella have wandered off to go play schleich horses, and jon remains at the table, alone, content, and quietly considering himself the winner.
Game of Thrones Season 7 Character Poster
Arya Stark
Spoilers!!!!!! So did Arya snapped a face from the House of black and white or did she cut it off from the serving girl at Frey house? Was she the same girl who flirted with Jaime? And Jaime has a lingering look on the girl????
Yes! I'm surprised more people aren't commenting about this scene. Like I almost think she wanted to kill him just for being a Lannister. Maybe theyll end up traveling together after figuring out who gets to kill Cersei lol Arya always interesting traveling partners
Iām laughing because if Arya was trying to get Jaime interested in her to get him alone to kill him, she would literally have to kill Cersei and take her face to do that. Otherwise sheās better off walking up to him and trying to kill him.
yet anotherĀ ācharacters posing for a cameraā¢ā case
this time with siblings of the previous generation
Star Wars Asoiaf Crossover Fanart
Made only line art for now. Feeling a bit tired.
jaime and cerseiās whole thing is so much funnier when you remember theyāre fraternal. bitch u not even one EGG in two bodies much less SOUL
Highborn sisters and brothers Part 3! Finally with our dearest asoiaf twins :D Cersei and Catelyn are basically just grown-up versions of their (eldest) daughters.
Such adorableness and tragedy considering how each pair was torn apart permanently :( There is only hope for the sweet sansan reunion!Ā
Sketch requests part 2:
1. Theon for @damphair
2. Ned and Cat for anon
3. Sandor for @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly
4. Jaime with Princess Rhaenys for @wickedjaime
Bran and Jaime seeing each other again for the first time since Season 1:
Bran Jaime
i stopped watching house of the dragon bc i felt like something (jaime and brienne) was missing :/
Do you guys ever think that tyrion thinks that if he were not a dwarf he would spar and wrestle and do whatever brothers do together for fun with Jaime. But he isn't so they can't. That his father would've been proud of him. His sister would've tolerated him. But he is a dwarf at the end of the day. Maybe he could have a dragon instead.
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free me from the clutches of middle aged men with mustaches
jaime lannister threw the first brick at stonewall
When GoT finishes
Literally me after watching episode 5
Goodbye yāall, Iāll remember u in therapy
Why did they do this to them š
extremely underrated trope is the villain's sacrificial lambs that weren't misunderstood or being kept in the dark or mind-controlled when they were evil but are forced into a redemption arc because the villain betrayed them personally. former villains who only stopped because they failed or were caught. grunts that are discarded and switch sides only because they have no other choice. people who need to be force-fed morality to stay alive on the good team. people who improve but are never absolved. people who wanted to raise hell and only change their mind when they, too, are burned.
Although, I do not like the way they portrayed Daenerys in this episode, I could not help but notice the message portrayed during the celebratory dinner scene. Daenerys the breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, Khaleesi. The woman who freed countless men, gave them an option no other "leader" had, saved countless men, women, and children, helped Jon in the fight against a cold ass zombie apocalypse, the only known person who had access to not one but three dragons that would follow her anywhere. The woman who is quite the expert when it comes to riding a dragon discredited by men in front of other men, even the one she says she loves and not one man who knows what she is capable of, not even Jon stood up for her, her name or her reputation. In fact Jon only stands up for her when he argues against Sansa, which is never in public around other men, besides Bran.
I understand why Jon is the rightful heir and why they want him to take the Throne, but I also understand Daenerys' stance. Think about it. How hurtful would it be to watch someone else accept what you worked your ass off, watched your children die for, watched the only two men you were deeply close to die for, watched countless of brave men fall for? Not because the person has the same name and can fairly fight you for it but because they share the same name and have XY chromosomes, meaning they can automatically be given what you put in work for. I think that would do it for Dany, that would be the thing that made her lose her cool.
Plus, it was Daenerys who gave Arya her credit where it was due for doing what no man, not even Jon after many attempts could do, which was kill the Night King. Arya had never even seen the Night King and yet she destroyed him and his popsicle zombies.
Yet, another example of badass women having to have each other's backs, because in a world of men you save and hold doors open for while dragging their ass through it is still not likely that you'll get respect or credit where deserved.
"True power can reside wherever the hell it wants but not with me! Now let me swing my sword around" is the only acceptable answer to Varys's riddle from the sellsword's perspective and Jaime wins the game
itās soooo crazy that after jaime killed aerys they ASKED him who he was declaring king was he naming himself or tywin or robert or viserys. because so much of the power politics so much of the crown power is this long absurd constructed legitimacy oh the baratheons have a targ ancestor itās almost continuity thatās why itās ok. you canāt kill a king and get rid of all that power it was more inherent than that. but when the kings dead on the floor that doesnāt fucking matter at all ask the kid who killed him if heās king now itās a moment out of reality. he might as well be isnāt that the way it worked back then. none of that was real itās all violence might makes right and momentum and jaime says i donāt care name whoever you like. it wonāt be me
A concept:
Jaime, Cersei, and Brienne meet towards the end of the book. Jaime stands behind Cersei, and she smirks, knowing she has gotten her brother back. Jaime meets Brienneās eyes from over her shoulder, says,
āThe things I do for love.ā
and stabs Cersei in the back.
āGuards!ā he heard the wench shout. āThe Kingslayer!ā
Jaime, he thought, my name is Jaime.
Iād been procrastinating drawing Jaime in kingsguard armor bc I was loathing figuring out how I was going to make full plate match the aesthetic I had been going for with other westerosi stuff, but I went back and listened to some of the chapters for inspiration and sansa describes the kg armor as scaled! I decided to lean fully into that instead of plate bc I thought it was more fun :)
