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ASOIAF meme | [1/5] pre-series characters ►Visenya Targaryen

↳   “ Visenya, eldest of the three siblings, was as much a warrior as Aegon himself, as comfortable in ringmail as in silk. She carried the Valyrian longsword Dark Sister, and was skilled in its use, having trained beside her brother since childhood”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer (via quotemadness)

George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1949

is this not how the scene went?

Aerith: You worry too much! I’m not some princess who needs coddling.

Aerith: Shit!

The first step of a hero’s journey sometimes begins with a push.


At the start of Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic Dune, the young royal Paul Atreides prepares to leave the comfortable life he knows for a desolate, dangerous mining planet known as Arrakis, where his wealthy family will oversee extraction of a spice vital to the galaxy.


If he only knew the chaos and death that awaited him, he might be even more sorry to leave.


This is the first look at Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides on his native planet of Caladan from this December’s film version of the novel, directed by Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The 1965 book was so seismic in its influence that its echoes still turn up in sci-fi and fantasy storytelling half a century later. Still, it has stubbornly defied appropriate adaptation itself.


Tomorrow, Vanity Fair will provide an even more expansive exploration of Villeneuve’s quest to bring Dune to the screen, but today we begin with the central hero: Paul Atreides, a child of privilege raised by a powerful family, but not one strong enough to protect him from the dangers that await.


As the Atreides family leaves the oceanic world of Caladan to take over scorching Arrakis, they are also becoming prey to the brutal rival House Harkonnen, which seeks to exploit the desert world they are about to inherit. House Atreides is just one more part of the landscape to annihilate.


“The immediately appealing thing about Paul was the fact that in a story of such detail and scale and world-building, the protagonist is on an anti-hero’s-journey of sorts,” Chalamet said.


In other words, he’s not dreaming of adventure. He’s resisting it. Afraid of it.


“He thinks he’s going to be sort of a young general studying his father and his leadership of a fighting force before he comes of age, hopefully a decade later, or something like that.” Chalamet said. But fate has a different timetable for him. And he may possess powers even his trainers could not anticipate.


In the shot above, the transport ships descend to take the Atreides leadership to their new destination. At this point, Paul is being taught the ways of war by a veteran soldier named Gurney Halleck, played by Josh Brolin. Paul’s parents, Duke Leto and Lady Jessica Atreides (Oscar Isaac and Rebecca Ferguson), must not only manage the spice mining on Arrakis—but also the politics at play in the broader galaxy.


Beyond there fortifications on Arrakis, giant carnivorous sandworms rule the landscape, while a tribe of indigenous humans known as Fremen, led by Javier Bardem’s Stilgar, somehow survive in the crevices, fearful that their world is about to be turned inside out by those they see as invaders.


Dune, still set to open on December 18, is one of the blockbusters that hasn’t yet shifted back due to the coronavirus outbreak. “Dune was made by people from all over the world. Many of these people are like family to me, and they’re very much in my thoughts,” Villeneuve said. “I’m so proud to showcase their hard work. I look forward to a time when we can all get together again as Dune was made to be seen on the big screen.”


For more on Dune, see Vanity Fair on Tuesday.


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motherhood in asoiaf + margaret atwood

important jaskier content //  of banquets, bastards and burials

COULD SHE HAVE BETRAYED ME? NAY, NE’ER WOULD MY LOVE SPEAK FALSE. I MUST HAVE FAITH! SHE SHALL APPEAR IF I ONLY BELIEVE. AS THE SUN LENDS ME NO EAR, I PRAY INSTEAD TO THE TWIN MOONS! I BESEECH THEE, WONDEROUS MOONLIGHT, GRANT ME MY ONLY WISH! BRING MY BELOVED DAGGER TO ME!

“Darth” is to Sith lords what “Lil” is to rappers.

The Last Jedi resolved the intrigue surrounding the heroine of this new sequel-trilogy, Rey, and her parentage with a gracefully simple, bold assertion: Rey is… just Rey. Not the daughter of some space aristocracy or legacy lineage, but a hero of her own making. […] That Rey’s parents were ordinary people meant anyone from anywhere could be born a hero; what determined a person’s place in the world was who they chose to be, rather than their last name. “Rey is our protagonist. And the truth is, in the story, the toughest possible thing for her to hear is, you know, you’re not gonna get the easy answer that you’re so-and-so’s daughter, this is your place,” [Rian] Johnson told me after The Last Jedi’s release. “You’re gonna have to stand on your own two feet and define yourself in this world.”

Instead of taking the baton from Last Jedi and running with it to new heights, The Rise of Skywalker retreats right back into the safety of nostalgia. […] It’s as if Abrams and Terrio scrambled for a loophole specifically to mollify the “fans” upset that this hero—worse, this girl—dared to wield such incredible abilities with only her own strength […] Bookending the saga Anakin began with the story of a girl from nowhere who sets right what he helped unbalance might have been resonant. But who cares for that when there’s another billion-dollar franchise to set up and potential spin-offs to tease?

— Melissa Leon, ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Erases the Power of Rey’s Story and Surrenders to Sexist Trolls

The Loneliness of Science Fiction

Interstellar (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan)

The Martian (2015, dir. Ridley Scott)

Annihilation (2018, dir. Alex Garland) 

Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) 

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

Canon TLJ Leia fights TRoS Leia. 

A petty little comic in response to Chris terrio’s comments about the Skywalkers and Ben’s redemption

arianne nymeros martell — do you see the white star, quentyn? that is nymeria’s star, burning bright, and that milky band behind her, those are ten thousand ships. she burned as bright as any man, and so shall i. you will not rob me of my birthright!

for shay, @rhaenys-martell-targaryen ♡ from your @gotsecretsanta ↳best wishes for you these holidays, and here’s for a great start to the new year!

a very tired Geralt

palpatine: kill the girl, Kylo. My boy, my baby boy Skywalker, kill her and I’ll give you all the power, the galaxy. Kill her.

palpatine: actually, kill me Rey. Your grandpapa. That’s my girl, my little 👶 girl. Kill me. I’ll give you all the power, the galaxy. Kill me.

palpatine: actually, I change my mind again!- fight together, die together! I’ll kill you and give myself all the power, the galaxy. It was all for me all along! Kill you!

me: just fucking kill me. kill me, now.

let’s bring back romanticism i’m tired of trying to be rational, we’re all dumb and we all want love

something i scribbled really quick after watching tros

SENUA’S SACRIFICE | SENUA’S SAGA

ASOIAF Meme: 2/4 Characters Who Aren’t on the Show:

Val the Wildling

(Gaia Weiss as Val)

In the end, the brown dragon was brought to heel by the cunning and persistence of a “small brown girl” of six-and-ten, who delivered him a freshly slaughtered sheep every morning, until Sheepstealer learned to accept and expect her. Munkun sets down the name of this unlikely dragonrider as Nettles. Mushroom tells us the girl was a bastard of uncertain birth called Netty, born to a dockside whore. By any name, she was black-haired, brown- eyed, brown-skinned, skinny, foul-mouthed, fearless…and the first and last rider of the dragon Sheepstealer. – Fire and Blood