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  1. Rec 7

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    Did anyone ask for a fan theory about the way post-canon history probably won't happen (but could!) couched as an academic conference paper? Absolutely not. Is that what this is anyway? Absolutely yes. Is this a way of me to drag GRRM for his medievalism? Also yes. Is it a way for me to express some of my big feelings about cultures of law and literacy (or the lack thereof) in Westeros? Also yes!

    "Examining how justice was understood, imagined, and enacted in the fourth century, I argue, can facilitate our understanding of what can often seem to be an overwhelmingly chaotic period, even to specialists. Moreover, analyzing the language and proliferation of legal documents in the fourth century can help fill a lacuna in the surviving chronicle evidence. I argue that formulae relating to the third hand or three hands of justice, frequently found in both charters and civic oath books, are connected to the sociopolitical developments that took place in the aftermath of the extraordinarily bloody period known to contemporary chroniclers as the Game of Thrones."

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    23 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    We had said: we must simply speak, and never touch; we’ve done it before already; that will be better than death, that will be enough.

    The woman who was once Teresa Galmier, who has walked in the footsteps of the Watchman, the Baldomerian, is now called the wisest of the alukites; though not by Christopher Illopoly. Never by him.

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    25 Sep 2023

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    People probably won't understand this if they haven't played the game and put two and two together, but IYKYK, and this is just beautifully written.

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    “Daenerys is a queen. Only a king can answer this message.”

    “A king,” Sansa echoes, finally meeting his eyes. “Or a princess.”

    In Westeros: war.

    To the east, the Targaryen queen has landed on the shores of Dragonstone, prepared to take back the throne stolen from her family. To the south, the lions of Lannister bathe in the blood and copious spoils of their war—unchallenged, undefeated. To the far north, beyond the Wall, looms an unimaginable nightmare led by a god of death, a demon who will bring eternal winter to the realm by means of his army of walking corpses. And in the middle lies the shattered and broken North with its newly-crowned king, a king given a choice between a dragon and a lioness.

    The only problem? Sansa thinks that negotiations aren't exactly her brother's specialty anymore and he is surely going to get them all killed.

    Or: Sansa goes to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys instead of Jon.

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    13 Aug 2023

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    Uncertainty looms over Westeros where King Aerys reigns. His sons and only daughter languish in fear, waiting for the only thing the Mad King cannot control: the march of time and the certainty of death.

    Princess Daenerys watches the world go by outside her window, resigned to her fate, when a dark shadow moves over the northernmost kingdom. Castle Black has disappeared, along with all the poor souls residing within its walls.

    Her father, the king, has stuck a deal - her hand in marriage in exchange for everlasting life.

     

    Written for a Daydream of Jon Snow | Day 2: Ancient Myth!Jon | hosted by jonsnow- creative

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    16 Mar 2023

  5. Rec 11

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    This is only a dream of a maybe, a pantomime of what-if. Whatever it was that had started to burn between them, whatever could have been…all of it died beyond the Wall with him.

    When the King in the North never returns from beyond the Wall, Daenerys Targaryen’s dreams start to become filled with visions of drowning. In the sea, she is haunted by her failure to save a man she may have loved, a man she has certainly lost.

    But through the abyss of the deep, she still hears him. She still feels his warm touch on her skin. There is a memory of a kiss she cannot and should not remember.

    She tells herself: Jon Snow is gone...

    ...isn’t he?

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    21 Feb 2023