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"nothing's stopping you from getting a flip phone again just do it" <- I Get the sentiment but the world has become more and more (esp since the COVID) smartphone dependent.

last month my brother, a life long touchscreen hater, had to get his first smartphone because he couldn't pay his rent without one since his bank website no longer allows him to use his personal card reader (given by his bank) to make payments. most public transports outside the main city Require that you use the App to get tickets. the other day I went to a brunch place that wouldn't let me order food without going through the App.

I personally think smartphones have ups and downs, and I won't lie I really like having Small Games in my pocket at all times but the way smartphones have become a necessity/requirement to live in society is so fucking annoying and honestly fucked up.

vesperkyno

Jaehaerys and Alysanne's children

agentmilayawithshield

Sunfyre learning Common Tongue because Aegon never learned how to speak in Valyrian

lizzie-queenofmeigas

I was listening to Preston Jacobs videos on the Dance and he brought out some very interesting points about the Aemond claiming Vhagar situation.

First, what I think we all know. The scene makes no sense. Why are the royal children alone at all to the point they cross a castle makes no sense.

But he spoke of something even more interested. Joffrey was actually going with Aemond. The kid is 3! Aemond didn't know Driftmark but Joffrey did. Aemond could have told Joffrey he wanted to see Joffrey hatchling and the 3 year old fell for it.

The "you say away from her" clearly could be Joffrey also worried for Aemond's safety. How often parents tell children that? Perhaps Joffrey repeated what he had been told.

All we get from that that stupid scene is what Aemond told! Sure, he is also a kid. But he is 10 and clearly a risk taker.

And then he pushed Joffrey (Aemond admits it) to get to Vhagar.

It also explains why the rest of the kids appeared. It is likely Luke and Jace woke up and found their brother missing and asked the girls for help finding Joffrey. When they got to the scene Joffrey was on the ground. It also explains why Luke and Jace had swords on. And then the situation got out of hand.

It was not an ambush like I've seem many speak about. Which of course it was not... How would they even know Aemond would be mad enough to do it?

But ...honestly I blame the servants and guards!

It was on Dragonstone, the claiming of Vhagar. So it does make some sense that the kids can go around freely given how well-protected the island is, and that is Rhaenyra's seat.

Joffrey was probably going to see his hatchling when he found Aemond.

In my opinion, Aemond and Alicent are mostly to blame. Aemond is a bully, even if he is ten, that doesn't excuse it, and Alicent encouraged him.

vesperkyno

Old art from my old account

imbadwithprofilenames

Just realized that aren't Aegon and Viserys bastards too technically because since Laenor was actually alive Daemon and Rhaenyra's marriage would've been invalid

Maybe this was common sense but anygays.

littler3d

There is no way Rhaneys Targaryen, “The Queen Who Should Have Been”, knew that Corlys had bastards and didn’t castrate that man himself. Put some respect on my girls name

reignof-fyre

Since getting back into the s&b fandom, I've realised that I really don't like Alina, and I despise Mal, and I have more sympathy for Aleksander than anyone else honestly fuck baghra too I hate her as well

taragreenfield

"The Darkling should have told Alina the truth!" "The Darkling should have negotiated with Alina!" "The Darkling should have been softer and show her his human side!"

Why? For what? For her to run away screaming bloody murder or worse, turn him in to the king? For her responding to his every argument with empty exclamations, "Monster! Evil! Tyrant! Not faaaair!!" ?For her to dismiss any expression of feelings as manipulation because "he has no soul!"?

Reasoning with her is worse than arguing with a brick wall—walls are silent, at least. Negotiating with her is an exercise in futility, because she has nothing to offer. Opening up to her is a form of moral masochism—she'll dehumanize you, devalue your feelings, and make it all about herself.

Her treatment of Genya, her alleged "friend," proves every point: she doesn't want to understand Genya's reasons to work with the Darkling, she suggests Genya should go and seek help to stop him from her rapist. She notices that Genya is tearing up but never realizes that her disgusting, self-righteous behavior hurt her. She complains that Genya didn't risk her livelihood to deliver the letters for Mal, accusing her of being a bad friend (the irony), compares Genya's situation with her "not fitting in" in the orphanage, and then graciously "forgives" her out of her imaginary superiority she never earned. She's tone-deaf, delusional, and completely devoid of empathy. You let such a person into your heart, and they spit on the floor and take a dump in the corner.

For the aforementioned suggestions to be true, Alina would have to be a completely different person. Someone who is willing to listen and learn. Someone who gives a damn about Grisha. Someone who has the courage to question things they are told and people who tell them. Someone who can challenge his ideas, rationally criticize them, and offer a better solution. Someone who is willing to consider the problem from different perspectives before passing judgement. Someone who has the ability to empathize with another person even if they don't agree with them and don't approve of their actions.

Mind you, I'm not saying she should have immediately trusted him, believed his every word, and gone along with everything he wanted—that would make her a mirror version of the unthinking, spineless paper towel she already is.

The point is that if you want one side to make an effort in good-faith communication, the other side must make an effort too. Alina that exists in the books is a black hole of self-pity and willful ignorance, and no person in their right mind would realistically put their trust in her or waste their time trying to reason with her. One is not supposed to cast pearls before swine.

kina1551

I didn’t read the books, but this also seems to sum up the show-Alina as well.

sephynne

princess rhaenyra targaryen, the realm's delight

kina1551

the shading on the dress is amazing!!

lizzie-queenofmeigas

one thing about TG fanfics that rub me the wrong way is that they'll have a hightower oc who marries viserys instead and make that OC younger then Alicent or something just to make the OC victim and viserys a monster. Then they'll use her horrible life with viserys to make Daemon side with OC and abandon rhaenyra. I literally read a team Green fanfic where the author literally said it was fun taking away all of rhaenyras support systems.

I'm not gonna comment on what people think it's fun in fiction. But you know what I think about this type of TG members (the ones who think they're in the right)

I don't have any experience with TG fanfics so I'll just take your word for it. But I do know that they love to steal from TB members or adjacents. An example is one fic that wrote Alicent as a dragon dreamer and Maelor as The Prince that Was Promised.

delphianactuallydoodling

The heir to Driftmark (2025)

cloudyysworld

With Ryan Condall's fanfiction coming out soon, I just wanted to point out that no matter how the ending of HOTD is changed, Aegon III falling in love with and marrying Daenaera Velaryon is canon. No "fixing" in any adaptation will change that.

In the book, Jaehaera loved Aegon, but he didn't care about her, didn't even share a room with her. So don't come here with all the "Romeo and Juliet" or "potential" bullshit because it's a one-side-attraction from Jaehaera.

To those who say Jaehaera was suited for Aegon, she couldn't do anything but cried and locked herself in the room. And you think marrying Aegon was good for them both? She had no family left, even her servants hated her. Lady Cassandra Baratheon is even suspected for murder her because of resentment and jealousy.

....she found herself of little account in King’s Landing, and bitterly resented having to care for the weepy, feeble-witted child queen whom she blamed for all her woes

One of the queen’s bedmaids also came under suspicion, when it was found that she had stolen two of Jaehaera’s dolls and a pearl necklace. A serving boy who had spilled soup on the little queen the year before, and been beaten for it, was accused.

People even suspected that Aegon commanded the guard to murdered her himself. She is the daughter of the man who killed his mother after all.

“It was the king,” whispered still others. “She loved him with all her heart, yet he paid her no mind, showed her no affection, did not even share his rooms with her.”

"It would have been a simple thing for him to slip inside and throw the child from her window. If so, surely the king himself had given the command. Aegon had tired of her weeping and wailing and wanted a new wife, men said. Or perhaps he wished to revenge himself on the daughter of the king who killed his mother. The boy was dour and gloomy, no one truly knew his nature."

But in the end it's all a theory, none of it confirmed either her death is suicide or murder.

The true tale of how Jaehaera Targaryen met her end will never be known. Mayhaps she did take her own life in some fit of childish despair.

After Jaehaera's death, the Council urged Aegon to remarry and arranged many noble ladies for him. Aegon had no interest in any of them, but he felt more comfortable with Lady Myrielle than he did with Jaehaera. He even gifted her Jaehaera's doll.

Mushroom tells us that King Aegon said little as they ate, but “seemed more comfortable with Lady Turnips than he had ever been with Queen Jaehaera. Which is to say, not comfortable at all, but he did not seem to find her presence distasteful. Three days before the ball, he gave her one of the little queen’s dolls. ‘Here,’ he said as he thrust it at her, ‘you can have this.’

This diva

"When His Grace greeted Lady Myrielle by name and said not only, “It was good of you to come, my lady,” but also, “I am pleased you like the doll”

Also, Daenaera and Aegon III marriage IS NOT A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. Aegon truly fond of her at first sight and quickly put and end to any attempt to try to break them up.

Daenaera’s smile transformed her face, men agreed; it was sweet and bold and mischievious, all at once.

Daenaera represents hope and a new beginning. She has personality and is the one who puts an end to the dark times of civil war. In contrast to Jaehaera, who symbolizes the remnants of the enemy.

"Those who saw it could not fail to think, “Here is a bright, sweet, happy little girl, the perfect antidote to the young king’s gloom.” When Aegon III returned her smile and said, “Thank you for coming, my lady, you look very pretty,” even Lord Unwin Peake surely must have known that the game was lost."

King Aegon III Targaryen wed Lady Daenaera on the last day of the 133rd year since Aegon’s Conquest.

Aegon III and Daenaera are always end game, no matter what they are trying to change or fix in the live-action adaptation. You can make up your own headcanons, but don't twist what GRRM wrote and shoving "This is better!" Or "But they are canon in the series!". The book and the series are entirely different from each other.

brynnsasha191

This "gotcha" moment in comments under my previous ask is so funny. No, I don't think that Alicent was unhappy and should be pitied. She successfully married a king who was kind to her and, yes, allowed her too much. She's not a victim. As for Rhaenyra, was her first son born a year after her marriage? So how long have they been trying with Leanor - a couple of months? As a princess in the Middle Ages, she had to either give birth to her children from her husband or not give birth at all, and not think about "love" lol. Marriages at that time were unions for the sake of duty, not for the sake of feelings. Laenor should have realized this too, by the way, and found a way to impregnate his wife.

Hold on, I want to get @reignof-fyre on this one too.

So much to unpack here, imagine saying a gay man should man up and suck up his gayness to do something he is incapable of.

What you people don't realize, if it was at all possible for Rhaenyra and Laenor to have biological children together, they would have. It wasn't for lack of trying or effort. It was just the way the cookie crumbled.

Rhaenyra was not thinking of love when she slept with Harwin. She needed to provide two heirs to two great houses. And by your logic, if she couldn't have Laenor's children she shouldn't have had them at all, and then the men of the realm would see her as deficient and say stuff like "if she can't do a womens job how can she do a mans" so Rhaenyra can't win.

Corlys, Viserys, and Laenor all claimed them as sons/grandsons. The only people who were bothered by it was team green. In the book, many people who supported Alicent even admitted it wasn't likely they were bastards and it was just an article of faith she made them take. The lords of Westeros were racing to marry their daughters to the princes because they were princes. I'd rather be ruled by an illegitimate but good king, than a legitimate tyrant. But it doesn't matter because Jace is legitimate because Viserys says so!!!

reignof-fyre

Oooohhh boy.

By anon's logic, Rhaenyra should have kept pushing a gay, actively mourning man into sleeping with her when he's 1) utterly uninterested and likely cannot even get his cock hard and 2) mourning the man he loved and watched get his head beat in by crispy, who remained unpunished. By their logic, she should have continued humiliating herself and her gay, mourning husband by insisting they sleep together and likely remaining childless, until their luck won out?

No. Rhaenyra made the best of an impossibly bad situation, and by show!canon yes, Jace, Luke, and Joff are technically bastards, but officially they're not because Corlys, Laenor, and Viserys accepted them as Velaryons, so Alicent should have kept her forked, poison tongue behind her teeth and kept quiet. But she didn't, did she?

Rhaenyra chose to have her children by, for all intents and purposes, artificial insemination with Harwin. She didn't know her sons would be born with brown hair when, in the show, rhaenys has valyrian features when her mother was a baratheon with black hair, and Aemma, too, had Valyrian features when her father is an Arryn, who historically have brown/auburn hair.

Rhaenyra, as heir, could not remain childless so she had them, just not by Laenor. Her forcing him to keep trying would have cause resentment to fester between them and it would have ended quite badly for all involved.

In the books, I remain convinced that at the very least Jace and Luke are Laenor's biological children with Rhaenys or Aemma's coloring because the former has black hair, and the latter's hair color is never described, and rumors of bastardy were spread by Alicent and Green supporters to try and besmirch Rhaenyra's name, but they failed because jace and luke were 100% the men aegon and aemond turned out to be.

Rhaenyra did what she had to do as heir: have children. She tried for an indeterminate amount of time with laenor in the show where the boys are confirmed to be harwins, unlike the book, but can you imagine the utter shame and humiliation laenor must have felt, being unable to accomplish getting his wife pregnant?

By your logic, anon, everyone should just accept the situation their in and be happy with it without complaint. By your logic, you're advocating for Rhaenyra to literally rape her husband and for Laenor to by some miracle become aroused by a woman, when that's physically impossible for many gay men.

@brynnsasha191 is right when they say no one but the greens cared about Rhaenyra's sons legitimacy. Lords in the books were having fucking bitch fests about whose daughters would wed them, and even green supporters admitted that Jacaerys and Lucerys were good and true princes.

You insisting that Rhaenyra behave like a good little medieval princess is inconceivable because she needed heirs to solidify her place as heir and continue her line. Corlys and Laenor accepted them as trueborn Velaryons, and their opinions are all that matters. No one else's. Alicent was just jealous that Rhaenyra's "monstrous bastards" behaved better than her foul, beastly rapist and kinslayer sons lol

Also, you are aware that Edward IV was a rumoured bastard but he still became king, right? His brother Duke of Clarence tried and failed to use this rumour to overthrow Edward IV and failed because there was absolutely zero proof of bastardy save for rumours, and absolutely no one believed them as he was accepted by his father. So your argument that rhaenyra should have raped her gay husband under the illusion of "duty" doesn't track, sorry.

nrilliree

The funniest thing is that TG defends Aegon's impregnation of 13-year-old Haelena and calls it that "Aegon was theoretically raped", because he didn't want to, but had to, because he needed heirs. First - Rhea needed an heir, but Daemon never consummated the marriage, so... well, it's possible. Second... what heirs did Aegon need, when he, unlike Rhaenyra... inherited absolutely nothing. He didn't need heirs, but he is justified. But Rhaenyra should have raped her gay husband, because she had to have his children. But that doesn't surprise me, TG have a strange tendency to justify rapes.

reignof-fyre

@nrilliree yeah, they scramble to justify aegon being a rapist and also insist he wasn't a bad person when he, in the show, is a canonical rapist, and in the books canonically bet on a girls maidenhead and won. He also frequented rat pits and personally had children's teeth filed down for the fights.

But then team greenies will turn around and try and insist that Daemon is also a rapist because of...what? There's absolutely zero proof or accusations against Daemon, a man whose enemies declared Maegor come again, that he raped a single person. They then try and claim he should be declared a rapist because he went to brothels like....?????

They really do try and grasp at straws to make their confirmed rapist/abuser aegon look better when he's actually a horrible person lol

visenyaisthebest

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mostly-delusional

I find it ironic how Alicent's disdain for both Viserys and Rhaenyra is also rooted in the fact that Rhaenyra, as heir and the only remaining child of Viserys from Aemma, could do as she pleased while he defended her every action. That Rhaenyra had the freedom to openly flaunt her privilege while her dad cleaned up her messes for her. That she was a “spoiled brat” who hardly faced any consequences for her choices because her father turned a blind eye to everything. But we also see how Alicent does the very same thing when it comes to her own children. Aegon rapes a girl and Alicent shoves a bunch of coins at the said girl to keep her mouth shut. He bullies his little brother but somehow Rhaenyra’s children are the only ones responsible for it (remember the scene with the pig in season 1 was Aegon’s doing, he was an active participant in the bullying). Instead of having to face consequences for how horrible of a person Aegon actually is, his mother places him on the throne. Aemond kills Luke and it's because he's just angry about what happened to him as a child. Everything her children do, she justifies one way or another, just like what Viserys did for Rhaenyra. The sheer hypocrisy of it all.

visenyaisthebest

one word for that. She is a hypocrite. Entire team green is hypocrites.

kittenfangirl20

Team Green trying to claim that they aren’t misogynistic while calling Rhaenyra all sorts of misogynistic names, only care about Rhaenys, Laena, Balea, Rhaena, or Helaena when they can use them against Rhaenyra, ship Alys Rivers with the man that took her as his war prize, Alicent is the only woman they truly care about in the conflict when she has a lot of internalized misogyny, and think Aegon should be King because of what is between his legs.

lilacwine26

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