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The Rantings and Ramblings of a retired student president of the Carleton College Science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance who is also studying to become a medievalist. Home for this year, but hopefully resuming my M.A. Program in York next year if all goes well.

Martinus (RL: Ross). 23. Male. Massive geek and nerd of many descriptions. Singer (but can't read music). Writer (fanfic). Chronic meta writer. Catelyn Stark/Samwell Tarly hybrid and proud of it. Callsign: Stan.

Resolute and stubborn stan of cerebral protagonists (and antagonists at times), honor-bound soldiers, flawlessly flawed 'righteous' warriors living in fear, walking identity crises (often of the morally-grey variety), children-at-heart, lost souls looking for somewhere to belong, lost souls who keep running, and those characters who take 'working inside the system' as a challenge, not a limitation.

This is not a spoiler-free blog for anything not currently airing.

I love nothing more than when characters reveal themselves while talking about someone else. And there is nothing more innately human than hypocrisy born of fear.

voices in the wilderness

RAVENCLAW
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HOUSE TULLY OF RIVERRUN
{ GAME OF THRONES }




drogondracarys: Until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

drogondracarys:

Until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.


“You may call yourself a squire,” she told him, “but I’ve seen pages half your age who could have beat you bloody. If you stay with me, you’ll go to sleep with blisters on your hands and bruises on your arms most every night, and you’ll be so stiff and sore you’ll hardly sleep. You don’t want that.”

“I do,” the boy insisted. “I want that. The bruises and the blisters. I mean, I don’t, but I do. Ser. My lady.”






Why should I live? he thought as tears blurred his vision. Gods be good, why? My sons are dead, Dale and Allard, Maric and Matthos, perhaps Devan as well. How can a father outlive so many strong young sons? How would I go on? I am a hollow shell, the crab’s died, there’s nothing left inside. Don’t they know that?

Why should I live? he thought as tears blurred his vision. Gods be good, why? My sons are dead, Dale and Allard, Maric and Matthos, perhaps Devan as well. How can a father outlive so many strong young sons? How would I go on? I am a hollow shell, the crab’s died, there’s nothing left inside. Don’t they know that?




♞ To be a True Knight one must be brave and just, and must defend the young and innocent, and women who cannot defend themselves. One must be cleanly as well as godly, and must act with military courtesy to any and all.


Guys really though I don’t mean to bully anyone, and I’m sorry if it’s coming off that way. 

I just have very strong feelings about Stannis and his role, and his character as a deconstruction of the righteous warrior. 

I mean I think I’m right, that this is what the text is telling me. It is possible I’m wrong. I’m not discounting that. I’ve certainly been wrong before. 

But I think it’s important, vital even, to consider the downsides of Stannis Baratheon as part of appreciating who he is. And you can think I’m being overly critical or harsh or whatever. But I don’t. 

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No but seriously I do genuinely love the character of Stannis Baratheon. He and Davos are in my top 10 character list easily. 

I’m a Tully/Stark at heart, but there is a lot about Stannis I find both compelling and sympathetic. 

But a good act does not wash out the bad. Defeating the wildlings does not erase the fact that Davos had to convince him to come in the first place. Forgiving Davos for absconding with Edric Storm does not erase the fact that Stannis was intent on burning him, a child, in the first place. Renly claiming the throne based on popular support and not legitimacy does not erase the fact that Stannis’ closest ally used a shadow demon to murder him. Cortney Penrose stubbornly holding out out of loyalty to a dead king and his order to protect Edric Storm does not erase the fact that Stannis knowingly deployed a shadow demon to kill him. Marching on Winterfell to defeat the Boltons and rescue ‘Arya Stark’ does not change the fact that his entire army is in danger of perishing because of his refusal to give in. 

With Stannis, it’s all or nothing.

And that is simply not a good way to run a kingdom. 

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