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reading this for a second time is just being worried nonstop bc you know the pain these children feel now is nothing compared to the pain they will come to feel yet

oh, eddard… we’re really in it now, my dear… (also the idea of ned being so fucking young through all this is doing me in… 35! 35! what kind of age to go through all that!!!)

one always forgets that “my sweet summer child” comes from this work but that’s really what reading of ned’s valour and honour feels like… like oh, ned… oh, ned……….. widen your perspective……… expect the worst from everyone………… for the love of god

so it’s not happening yet and won’t for a long time but literally why am i sat for sansa/sandor… doors are being opened in my head that had been shut a decade ago but like sandor clegane guy of all time perchance… he’s kinda like if ned stark had a fucked up mirror version…

sansa rooting for sandor in the jousting against jaime is crazy sauce btw, it’s CRAZY sauce. george is a wizard

everything happening in these books is horrible. i feel sick to my stomach already and they barely killed that kid jon arryn had knighted before his death, the one no one cares about or remembers, the one we don’t even know if he died bc cersei wanted him to or bc gregor clegane just loves murder. god. god. why on earth am i reading this again. it’s BRILLIANT. it makes me sick.

catelyn and ned thinking tyrion sent an assassin after bran while we are shown clearly that he is not that man is just. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tyrion lannister, aren’t you one of the greatest characters ever imagined

the whole incident of how sansa loses lady is so fucking traumatising, man…

george had a knack for killing off literally every single character i liked, it’s fascinating… he’s so shameless about it, too…

one thing you learn reading epic fantasy that is this well thought-through and written is that sentence structure and word choice is the last thing you should be worried about. the things that really matter are pacing, and saying the unsaid