ALL THEY HAVE SOWED NOW SHALL THEY REAP. (BLACKCELS ANTI)

🐲greenies and greenies🦋

[birdplushie]

i love a morally grey ruthless woman who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals (that she believes are for the greater good) and is also constantly wracked with guilt about what she's had to do but can't show it so she just comes across as cold and unfeeling to everyone

[alphard-hydraes-blog]

The sheer audacity of saying they're "keeping certain threads from the book alive" after cutting those threads in the first place 🤦🏻‍♀️

Well, at least he's finally openly admitting that HOTD is their version of the story.

[disinherited-dornishman]

The fandom's universal centering of Rhaenyra regarding Criston's motivations and actions like he has no real agenda, personality, or life of his own separate from hers and the invalidation of his grievances with her is so revealing of how real life prejudices translate into media consumption, specifically americentrism and eurocentrism. Many of these people suffer from main character syndrome in real life from being white and/or born in the imperial core. They're used to stripping racialized brown people from the global south of their agency and painting them as hostile caricatures why wouldn't they do it to a brown character who insulted their White Protagonist Princess™?

[sansa-stark-is-me]

Nettles isn’t just about her connection to Daemon and Rhaenyra.

Nettles isn’t irrelevant she challenges one of the biggest assumptions in Fire & Blood: the idea that dragonriding is an exclusive Targaryen.

People really act like Nettles just showed up claimed a dragon and then did absolutely nothing. Meanwhile this girl spent a huge chunk of the Dance actively campaigning, flying patrols, fought during the battle of the Gullet taking part in military operations hunting Aemond with Daemon in the riverlands for months.

She bond with a wild dragon through patience and intelligence. Instead of approaching Sheepstealer the way a targ prince might she studies him and learns what he wants. She brings him sheep every day until he gradually accepts her presence. It’s one of the most grounded and practical dragon-taming stories in the entire franchise.

Maybe Just like zoo guardians do with wild animals gaining their trust with food?

Nettles’ role complicates many things. Whether she’s a dragonseed or not, her presence in the story forces/pushes us to question the Targaryen-dragon bond really is and what its limits are. If the bond was shaped, engineered, or selectively cultivated over centuries by the Valyrians, can it still be called purely natural? After all, many traits we think of as natural today originated from ancient mutations.

Lactose tolerance for example spread because of mutations that proved advantageous in certain populations. Blue eyes, also trace back to a genetic mutation that appeared thousands of years ago in a single ancestor. They’re natural now, but they still began as specific biological changes.

The same logic could apply to dragonriding. Even if the ability originated through blood magic, magical experimentation, selective breeding, or some ancient Valyrian process, centuries later it might function as an inherited trait. That doesn’t necessarily make Targaryen claims of exclusivity true it just means the origin and the current reality aren’t necessarily the same thing.

So Nettles forces readers to ask questions that the Targaryens themselves don’t want asked. Is dragonriding truly exclusive? Are dragons responding to blood alone? Or have the Targaryens mistaken a tendency for an absolute rule? Nettles doesn’t destroy the theory of dragon blood but as i said she complicates it and sometimes a single exception is enough to make an entire ideology look a lot less certain than its supporters claim.

Rhaenyra calling Nettles “common,” insisting that she has “no drop of dragon’s blood,” and using “spells” she treat her once she is suspected of a sexual relationship with Daemon. This is a clear example of racialized hypersexualization combined with accusations of witchcraft, both of which have deep roots in real-world misogynoir the specific targeting of Black women through intersecting racism and sexism. 

Why other dragonseeds are also lowborn, but they are not treated with blood purity language and witchcraft?

Addam was legitimized and recognized. Even after rhaenyra turned against him she still calls him “Ser Addam.” He is ordered arrested, not immediately executed. Hugh and Ulf were knighted and granted lands, the (white) dragonseeds were offered advancement because their ability to ride dragons was politically useful.

Nettles never receives comparable recognition. There is no discussion of legitimizing her, granting her land, arranging a noble marriage, or giving her a noble title. Instead, once suspicion falls on her, the language used against her emphasizes that she has “no drop of dragon’s blood” and must have relied on “sorcery”

This is why Rhaenyra treated her like shit, feared her and attempted to commit racialized femicide.

Rhaenyra's hatred for Nettles isn't just about betrayal or jealousy it's deeper and more personal than her suspicion of Addam and Alyn after the Two Betrayers. She struggles to justify it, theres an internal conflict. Her reaction reads as fear/anxiety of an outsider “isn’t one of us” (meaning pale-skinned westerosi with Andal-Valyrian blood) getting access to power that’s been treated as exclusive to Targaryens like bonding a dragon but also having Daemon’s protection.

Any powerful systems built on exclusivity tend to react badly when someone appears who blurs the line between insider and outsider. Aristocracies panicked when commoners gained access to privileges that were supposed to belong only to nobles. Slave societies feared enslaved people who became educated or politically influential because they challenged the idea that status and ability were naturally linked.

The threat isn’t always what the person does sometimes it’s what they "represent." Nettles represents the possibility that the walls around Targaryen power aren’t as solid as everyone assumed. If a lowborn brown girl can ride a dragon, then maybe - just maybe - dragonriding isn’t as exclusive as the ruling dynasty claims. Maybe the distinction between "dragonlords" and everyone else is less absolute than the mythology suggests.

And because systems built on blood and exclusivity depend on clear boundaries. They need a clear “us” and “them.” Nettles exists right on that boundary, and her very existence raises uncomfortable questions.

[sansa-stark-is-me]

So you decided to remove the only black character because infidelity and cheating is unnecessary but sexually humiliating alicent is necessary?

[goldcrescent]

#neverstophating

[shylo-vitari-apologist]

Cannot believe I’m saying this but Daeron the Daring character assassination?

[gojuo]

reminder of canon Daeron & Ormund's introduction and relationship in case yall are larpers

[alayne-stones]

my favorite genre of asoiaftwt

[sirtobybelch]

“Wake up, Sunfyre. I’m here.”

[gojuo]

"they made alicent a victim and sympathetic!!" no, book alicent was a victim of viserys' & rhaenyra's & daemon' awful life choices that put her and her beloved family in an impossible situation and she had my sympathy. what they did to show alicent inatead is making her a team black rhaenyra dickrider more enthused about killing her own family members than the scumbags who ruined her & her children's lives. literally the worst writing decision to have happened to my green queen

[tagreek]

HOTD showrunners were like what if we give Daemon Targaryen’s groomerism and supremacy complex, Dalton Greyjoy’s war crimes, Otto Hightower’s manipulation strategies, Tywin Lannister’s ruthless and perverted sense of justice and Ramsay Bolton’s freak to one character and name him Ormund Hightower? genius, right! 👊

[alicentflorent]

This was truly peak Alicent Hightower. She was too powerful in this moment so condal and co took everything that made her a complex, even somewhat sympathetic villain. He took her complex character traits, her love/support for her children, her faction and desire for power, her aura, even her hair.. He took what could have been a “fuck these targs I’m taking what is mine” moment and turned it into catholic guilt and a string of misunderstandings that lead her back to supporting Rhaenyra for reasons no one can explain.

[gresthetic]

i care for all daerons, fake or otherwise.

[alicenthightowerdaily]

ALICENT HIGHTOWER + her children

+ Bonus:

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[45cementry-gates]

[!spoilers (kinda) for hotd]

So, the show has decided to completely rewrite the canon.

Rhaenyra and daemon's crimes are whitewashed, she's turned into a saint caring for the common folk and mysaria goes from a sex trafficker to a voice for the ppl.

Rhaenyra canonically taxes the commonfolk, throws a grand party for Joffery, orders the killing of all dragonseeds including alyn (who was always loyal) and even orders nettles (loyal and only 16) to be killed, thereby violating guest rights.

Daemon repeats his creepy grooming tactics with nettles, gets attached to her, let's her go to live out her days peacefully and goes on a suicidal battle against aemond.

Meanwhile greens -

Alicent doesn't care for her sons. She doesn't care for her grandson. She is a victim of patriarchy who exists to get assaulted to show how evil the men around her are.

In the books she loved her sons, was a very powerful and cunning politician, an important green council member and fought to the bitter end. She ordered larys to learn blood and cheese's real names so she could bathe in the blood of his wife and kids. She wept when she heard of Jaehaera being safe. She went mad with grief and resentment towards the end.

She was respected and was basically the evil stepmother archetype for Rhaenyra.

Aegon is turned into r@pist, a bad husband, watches children in fighting pits and a bad brother.

In cannon, he loved his brothers, shared rooms with haelena, listened to Alicent's advices and SPARED kids after the war ended.

Aemond literally DIED for the green cause. He sacrificed himself/vhagar and took out daemon + caraxes. Aegon celebrating Luke's murder by throwing a feast tells you everything you need to know about their bond. Aegon orders golden statues to be commissioned for aemond and Daeron. He loved them and they clearly loved him and fought for him loyally.

Haelena's trauma and death triggered the rebellion and caused Rhaenyra to flee. She was a BELOVED queen, Rhaenyra was NOT. the literal author states this fact. Haelena also advised aegon and he listened to her council. She was a normal girl who was well liked by the ppl of the city, not an infantalized, clueless idiot as shown in the show.

Daeron had targaryen features and hair just like his siblings. He EARNS the name 'Daeron the daring' by winning battles for the hightower army and getting Knighted by Lord ormund Hightower.

Speaking of ormund, he raised the largest land army to March for AEGON II. He was a very good military commander and his death in battle caused confusion and chaos in his army.

I'm not even going to talk about other green council members right now, and members of blacks have been lobotomized as well.

[billyvell]

House of the Dragon is not a real show that you watch, it's just a collection of face claims for Fire & Blood characters.