

genre swap → game of thrones as a neo noir

Hogwarts Founders Modern AU;
She watches him, waiting for him to answer. Eventually, he replies, “I’m thinking.” Rowena rolls her eyes, sighing but good-natured all the same, and Godric smiles. “Whether I should be jealous or not.”
“Oh,” she goes.
The redhead nods. “I think I should be. I mean,” and his elbow juts out into the air as he scratches at his neck. “He is my best friend.” She meets his eyes, eyebrow quipped, and he nods again, “I know, I know. It’s not a thing between you too.”
Rowena hums in agreement but Godric says, “But it is a thing, too.”
(via audreyparkers)
Richard Madden in the “Robb Stark” character feature
Ashley: Hi. This has been a fun little adventure…but I’m going to have to call time on it. I want you to leave.
David: Are you sure that’s what you want?
Ashley: I know from the outside my life looks pretty pathetic and empty, lonely, but looks can be deceiving. I’m actually the least fucked-up person I know.
David: Well, you must have some seriously fucked-up friends, then.
Ashley: Oh, yeah.
(Source: narcissusroad)
Ashley: Is that how people see me? Vulnerable, lonely?
Ryan: Truth?
Ashley: Yeah. No, actually. Fuck, just say it.
Ryan: I think people look at you and they think to themselves, “He needs someone”.
(Source: narcissusroad)



‘I’ve always liked a bit of fantasy and sci-fi.’ His character, Robb Stark, is the eldest son of Lord Winterfell, ruler of the North, played by a heroic Bean. ‘There are a lot of parallels between myself and Robb. We’re both at that transitional stage of young men becoming grown men. His character really seeped into me,’ says Richard.
Game of Thrones gave Richard the chance to flex his muscles, fighting to defend his father’s kingdom. ‘I wanted my fighting style to be gritty, raw and practical. I was using a real sword in most of my scenes, for the weight and swing of it.’ He broke seven swords during filming: ‘When you’re looking someone in the eye thinking, “one of us is going to die”, it puts you in a very primal, animal place.’ It’s hard to imagine that Richard, whose father was in the fire service and mother was a classroom assistant, first got into acting, after joining a theatre group to help conquer his shyness. He was immediately scouted for a part in Complicity, based on an Iain Banks novel, which starred Jonny Lee Miller and Keeley Hawes. ‘My first job was being raped by a man in the woods, so I really did get thrown into the deep end,’ he recalls.
Emilia describes Game of Thrones as her ‘baptism of fire’. Her character, betrothed to the king of the Dothraki warriors as a young girl, quickly loses her innocence but Emilia is very cool about her graphic sex scenes (on the night of her marriage she loses her virginity on a rock by the sea). ‘Of course they’re daunting because I’m a young girl. It’s not something you dream of doing but for me it was integral to the character.’
She also had to learn the Dothraki language, created especially for the show. ‘I’d get the lines and map my English lines on top to get the intonations right. By the end it was second nature but if I got it even slightly wrong the whole thing would be cut and we’d have to start again’.
“Evening Standart”