[justmylittleblogoffandom]

The whole thing about Rhaenyra letting Alicent and Helaena roaming free around the castle is so stupid, it's not only makes Rhaenyra seem weak because she is too forgiving to her enemies but also it makes no sense? Helaena lost her son, isn't she supposed to be scared for her only child left? (I doubt if she even remembers who Jaehaerys is) I know the show doesn't want to work with toddler but in the book Helaena is depressed and stayed in her room all day, Alicent is the one raising Jaehaera. In the show...none of them care about anything

I kind of feel it is a cop out the show saying they don't want to deal with a toddler. The actor who played Jahaerys was a six year old boy, so why not offer him the chance to play Jaheara.

They are meant to look identical which is why blood and cheese couldn't tell which was which

Letting Alicent and Heleana wander around makes Rhaenyra seem weak AND undermines her position as sole soverign. Rhaenyra is queen who has to keep turning to the queen dowager for advice on how to be queen, might as well just make Alicent queen if she will reign through Rhaenyra.

Helaena is meant to be kind and gentle and innocent, but she seems callos shrugging off her son's death with 'children die'. Yes they die, but it is usually of sickness not being murdered in their bed having their head chopped off while alive.

The casual dismissal might have made sense with the show's disregard for women if there was a plot twist and it was actually Jaheara that died and the hightowers are pretending it is Jahaerys, but that is not what happened.

Heleana is meant to be devastated and spiralling towards her end, but now we have the twist of she is pregnant with Maelor just for the newborn to be killed.

[cloudyysworld]

The misogynistic writing of HOTD and why Helaena Targaryen is not a good character

I want to talk about the confusing portrayal of Helaena Targaryen in season 3 of HOTD and previous seasons.

As we see, after she lost her son Jaehaerys in season 2, the writers left her grieving for just ONE EPISODE. ​​But along with that grief came the attitude, "Children always die, I'm no special." After that episode, nobody (except Daemon, ironically) mentioned Jaehaerys again. Hell, the audience even forgot about Blood & Cheese and cheered for Daemon as usual in this season.

Ryan condal said, "Children are probs, they are not characters," so I'm not surprised he is treating every toddler in HOTD as disposable . BUT the adults are real characters, so why didn't he treat them like one? Helaena's son died in a brutal way, but the writers only let her grieve for 5 minutes, and then she turned back into her default setting: A head in the cloud girl who doesn't care about anything around her. Why did they write Helaena that way? Because the show already marketed her as an "innocent, likable Targaryen." If they write her to me mad, depressed like in the book, they afraid that the audience will turn on her because she is not the "innocent manic pixie dream girl" and "the perfect victim" anymore.

In this show, women can't do anything "morally wrong", is always the evil men fault. So a character like Helaena, a tradwife archetype, can't be angry, have an outburst, or do anything "unattractive."" She suffers in silence like an obedient woman cause how else can the audience is gonna go "Oh poor her" "she deserves better"?

In the book, after Jaehaerys death, Helaena is so traumatized and depressed that she didn't eat, didn't bathe, she couldn't even look at her kids in the eyes because of the guilt she carried. Alicent is the one who raised Jaehaera like her own. But in the show? She shed tears for one second, and in season 3, she talked about raising chickens and playing with bugs in the forest while her family is fighting in a WAR. I'm sorry, did she kind of forget who Jaehaerys is? Did she feel revealed when she finally got rid of that boy?

Why didn't she confront Rhaenyra about Blood & Cheese, why Otto is the one she brought up while HER SON IS GETTING MURDERED BY THE BLACK?

Pregnancy porn and The Perfect Victim

We all know Helaena is gonna die this season, and from the latest episode, she is pregnant with Maelor. There is no doubt that after GRRM criticism about the erasure of Maelor, Condal panicked and added the pregnancy in the last minute . We have seen the giving birth scene of her in the trailer, and if my prediction is right, Helaena will have a miscarriage or losing infant Maelor, and that's will be the reason for her suicide. With that change, the show, throughout 3 seasons, has FOUR (4) women (Aemma, Laena, Rhaenyra, Helaena) going through a traumatic birth and then lost her life immediately after (except from Rhaenyra).

Why did they do that? Why add another scene of a woman going through pain in childbirth? Because the writers didn't know how to gain empathy from the audience with their female characters if they were not assaulted or gave birth in pain. If they showed Helaena was already depressed and traumatized in season 2, then they wouldn't have to add the pregnancy subplot to "justified" her suicide. A woman losing a child by murdered? It's ok, she can get over it. A woman losing a child in childbirth? She immediately thought of killing herself right after. ✅️

Let's see how they will write Alicent reacting to Helaena's death cause I bet she will just cry for one episode and then go back to giggling and smiling with Rhaenyra again

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

For Heleana and Alicent there is also the question of WHY aren't they putting up more of a protest about only seeing Jaheara one hour a day, why aren't they arguing to keep their daughter/grand daughter with them or questioning if Jaheara is a pawn to keep them in line.

Worry about How she is being treated and how isolated she is. Jaheara went from having her family around her and her brother with her always to being alone constantly. There are no other children for her to interract with as Rhaenyra sent her 3 boys away.

Rhaeynra has shown she is weak when it comes to Alicent; she keeps popping by for casual visitys wanting advice and sent Otto's body back to oldtown at Alicent's request so why doesn't Alicent ask for more for her grand daughter?

[lesbianalicent]

i am in tremendous pain 👍

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Is Jaheara being used as leverage against Alicent and Heleana to keep them in line? if not then why couldn't the poor girl just stay with her mother and grand mother.

Rhaenyra sent Viserys and Aegon away, has only just summoned Joffrey back from the vale. so the poor girl is alone, hopefully with someone caring watching over her.

but why can'r she stay with her mother

[writingdose]

to be clear, I believe younger artists and minors can write good fics (not to say “fanfic must always be good” either because it is a hobby and I still believe that as long as it’s done with love and the artist’s joy, it is good) and I believe it’s good when younger artists and minors start making art at young ages.

that said, a lot of fanfics out there that you read and love are done by adults with kids, jobs and responsibilities. adults who have years, decades of practice under their belts. adults who don’t let life and responsibilities take away their joy in creating.

someone’s love and passion don’t suddenly go away the second they reach a certain age. so if anything, I feel sorry for people who say “adults shouldn’t write fanfics or make fan art” because what these people really say is that they expect themselves to stop having fun and finding comfort in things that bring them joy and comfort the second they reach a certain age. it’s sad that they put an expiration date on their own fun and source of comfort.

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

People who say 'adults shouldn't write fan fics' clearly seem to forget most of the original media fanfiction is written for; the books, the shows, the movies- were written by adults with target audience of various ages.

If adults shouldn't write fanfictions of works created by other adults; who is going to be creating that content in the first place for there to be a fandom

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’ve come across 5 separate people in 3 different fandoms that have changed their fic dates so that they reapear at the top of the ao3 page(?).

One of them was a 30+ year old woman, who I used to admire, until she would do this monthly with at least 3 of her fics, so she was constantly at the top of my bookmarks, despite the fics being finished months ago —> so it’s not just kids that don’t understand fandom etiquette and think ao3 has an algorithm. (She also would sell fanfics but that’s another topic for another time.)

Have you noticed this becoming a new thing? Is this something people do now? :(

it’s not something I come across often, so I don’t notice anything, but it’s definitely always in poor taste when people try treating ao3 like it’s a social media. and I don’t think I’m interested in reading the works of anybody who does this.

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

The only time I think changing your dates might work is if the fic is completely re-written and is vastly different enough from the original, but with the same plot.

it could be considered a new work- but even then a disclaimer would be nice of 'hey it used to be this date but i re-wrote it'

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

So i have been watching Strange new worlds and it is apparently meant to be a true prequel to TOS in that timeline, but how is that possible?

Pike [the character not just the actor] is already older than he was when he had the accident in TOS. He was 47 when he was rendered disabled and went to live on Talos IV, Pike in Strange new worlds is in his 50's and the accident is years ahead of him.

As for La'an being Khan's great-great-great- great grand daughter, wouldn't any children and direct relatives of Khan have been contained and put in the cryosleep as they too were augments?

They kept his family name and her connection to Khan is known

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Now Alastor is free from his contract with Rosie, i am curious how soul contracts work and how it affects the chain.

Niffty Husk and who knows who else are soul contracted to Alastor, Alastor was soul contracted to Rosie. Overlords get a great deal of power from the soul contracts they make, so how does it affect an overlord for a soul contract to be released and that person have soul contracts.

What impact did it have on Rosie's power for Alastor to have found a way out of his soul contract to her? and in doing so Alastor took the souls contracted to him with him

[yeneviveisme]

You say I mean the world to you to keep me on my knees.

Rand Bites the hand that feeds

Halsey & Amy Lee Bite The Hand That Feeds

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

OOOh love this song not so much the mess of a love triangle

[ireneyaccapella]

Lanfear x Rand - Forever Winter

Here’s my Fanvid for Randfear shippers. I chose this song because the lyrics made me think of Mierin:

Now can you give me something I need?

Just one memory from the past

Just one to light the shadows I only see.

[ireneyaccapella]

A very personal Lanfear x Reader piece. More like a piece of my mind.

Stepping out of the plane, my head hurt intensely. My ears buzzed louder than the engine. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being lied to. Who planted the poisoned seed of Wanderlust in me? Who once said to me “life is but a collection of our experiences”? The wheel spun on and all I’ve accumulated in life was mileage.

“Y’all settling down, aren’t you? What about me? Have you thought about me?!”

“You know, the friends you thought you had, they weren’t real.” A voice spoke. Cold drops of moonlight. Scent of nightshade. A raven’s gaze from behind.

“Who’s there?” I asked.

I looked around, there was only me. And a girl who looked exactly like me, floating with her eyes closed, asleep.

Now the girl moved slightly as if she was waking up.

“Are you going to wake up?” The voice spoke again.

“No.. No!” I yelled as if clinging to dear life.

“Good. Now come with me. There are faster ways to travel. I know you believe in me.”

[jaydebolton]

Rand see’s beyond the person Lanfear had become, down to the slumbering woman she once was. 

Her soul is numbed but rand can bring her to life Wheel Of Time Amazon Prime- Lanfear and Rand. Bring Me To Life Katherine Jenkins cover

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Question. A damane can not touch anything she believes can be used as a weapon against her suldam- so how was Egwene able to touch an A'dam collar let alone put one on Renna as she intended to use it against her?

[kaiartx]

you are presented with one of the forsaken, spin this wheel to know which one it is

what are you doing?

kill

marry

fuck

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[wildcreaturedragon-deactivated2]

Asmo, I think Rand and me know what we are doing.

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Don't worry beautiful, I'll help you get over Lews and Rand.

Like a woman with ambition and drive, lets overthrow shitty Shai'tan and the creator together. screw the pattern

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

The season 2 car scene when Wednesday threatens to eject Pugsley if he can't hit the stop sign even though he DID i was kind of expecting her to do it anyway

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Randomly pondering the irony that the descendants of Manetheren became peaceful-ish farmers, while the Aiel people who were once peaceful farmers became a warrior race.

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

I love how much this is a metaphor as much as it is a physical challenge.

Morticia and Wednesday fighting to break the other's heart is in both the physical and emotional sense. Morticia is terrified of what Wednesday will do to herself with Goody's book and using the shortcuts the black tears. to give the book back and give Wednesday back the key to her destruction would break Morticia's heart

Wednesday on the other hand desperately feels she needs the book to hone her abilities. The book is all she has left of Goody Addams who was meant to be her spirit guide. Wednesday is desperate to save Enid and feels she can't do that without the book. her powers are on the fritz and the book is the only thing she knows of that can explain. Having the book burned would break her heart.

[justmylittleblogoffandom]

Liandrin Guirale -Feed us your girls

Liandrin Guirale of the black Ajah knows all about what it is men want with little girls in Tanchico. Former childbride herself she gatecrashes a wedding and 'saves' a girl

Feed Us Your Girls- Lydia the Bard