maidenvault:
fictionaladyfeels:
“You sound like a bloody woman”
except brienne would never say that
brienne has nothing but the greatest respect for women
brienne who actually compared dying in childbirth to dying in battle and lamented that no one sings of those women
CAN WE JUST NOT, WRITERS
UGH GOD this makes me even more upset than “Most girls are stupid.”
I mean it’s just pointless rationalizing at this point to actually give the writers any credit for this kind of reasoning, but at least Arya, like it or not, does sometimes have insulting thoughts about typical women. When she’s told about how Ashara Dayne threw herself off a tower and killed herself she’s quick to dismiss her as pathetic (which I’ve always found beautifully ironic considering one of the rare examples of Sansa acting exactly like Arya would in her place is when she was going to shove Joffrey off that tower along with her).
But no, not in a million years would this come from Brienne, who we’ve generally seen able to connect with other women more easily than with men even if connecting with anyone doesn’t come easily to her. And these words would mean nothing to Jaime so pshh.
Like, thanks writers for summing up his growth here as “Jaime learns to man up and stop being such a spoiled priss.” Thanks writers for having a WOMAN suggest that a WOMAN doesn’t know anything about misfortune and suffering in a world like this. Really good job.
(Source: thewaroffivequeens)
fictionaladyfeels:
“You sound like a bloody woman”
except brienne would never say that
brienne has nothing but the greatest respect for women
brienne who actually compared dying in childbirth to dying in battle and lamented that no one sings of those women
CAN WE JUST NOT, WRITERS
(Source: thewaroffivequeens)
maidenvault:
“I could serve you. If you would have me.”
Catelyn was startled. “Why me? I am no battle commander.”
“But you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps…A kind of woman’s courage.” The tall girl knelt awkwardly, unsheathed Renly’s longsword and laid it at her feet. “I am yours, my lady. I will shield your back and give my life for yours, if need be. I swear it by the old gods and the new.”
As she clasped the other woman’s hands in her own, Catelyn could not help but smile. “And I pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you dishonor.”
If I were a woman, I’d be Cersei.
(A storm of swords)
(Source: queencersei)
It’s really vitally important to me the way women are portrayed. As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity and what it is to be a woman. It’s still something that I don’t have all the answers for but I would like to make a bit of a difference; do something, anything, that causes people to have more sense of equality….
Imagine; I used to have really long blonde hair, always wearing heels, lots of make-up. I had been someone who was highly feminised and had chosen to look that way, partly because I was 6ft 3in but also I was into that aesthetic. I knew it had to be stripped away. I knew this would be an important part not just for my work but in terms of my own development, because I would be confronting elements of myself that I didn’t want to confront. It was actor’s vanity and personal vanity. To see yourself displayed as unattractive, large, masculine, it’s quite tough… But I know it’s just perspective. A social conditioning that causes us to view these traits in a woman in a negative way, but it’s still hard to watch myself even now. (x)
(Source: aeferg)
onlyalittlelion:
whitewomanking:
sigh looking at all these gifs i remember that jaime and brienne are my otp
#i can’t believe there are j x c shippers out there who hate the ship like wut do u want to stunt jaime’s development and narrative f u
I ship Jaime/Cersei and Jaime/Brienne both like mad and since Cersei and Brienne are just both kind of doubles for Jaime in opposing ways then clearly they need to have some kind of a wacky triplet threesome
This is the only viable solution to my tangle of Jaime-ship feels.
(Source: barbreyryswells)
Then I am yours, my lady. Your liege man, or…whatever you would have me be. I will shield your back and keep your counsel and give my life for yours, if need be. I swear it by the old gods and the new.
(Source: epitomeofhyperbole)
‘Ser Jaime?’ Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman. ‘I am grateful, but…you were well away. Why come back?’
A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged.
‘I dreamed of you,’ he said.
(Source: klaroness)
