fractured; sentimental; incandescent with disaster

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[lemonhemlock]

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[thomas-mvller]

[mccleans]

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[mccleans]

liberté, égalité, éliminé

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[Neverafter - Brennan Lee Mulligan]

[lemonhemlock]

I've read your unpopular opinions on the lannister trio and I think my problem with arguing that jaime not feeling regret about pushing bran isn't antithetical to him having a redemption arc is that he didn't even do it out of love for cersei's children. When ned reflects on how far he would go himself to protect his kids, I feel for him because we've seen from his chapters that he does love them very much. But jaime doesn't seem to love cersei's children at all. He was indifferent to joffrey's death and thought that he would rather have his hand back than his nephew back. He later tries to form a bond with tommen only because he's the new king and he now takes his kingsguard vows seriously again thanks to brienne and he barely even thinks about poor myrcella. I wouldn't be surprised if tyrion has more thoughts on page about cersei's children than jaime does. So yeah that's why I can't forgive him for not feeling guilty about what he did to bran and will be pissed off if grrm lets him ride off into the sunset as a born-again man. It's not even like he tried to kill this little boy to protect the lives of other children he genuinely loved, he just did it to save his and cersei's lives.

hi, anon, i'm flattered you're reading ancient meta of mine lol. 🫡 now, since you brought it up, i do have to add that i generally am rather bored with discourse surrounding whether jaime or cersei "love" their children, i just think it's uninteresting and reductive. love is simply too complicated a phenomenon to describe with an "either/or".

anyway, you are right, though, in that jaime would have pushed bran out of that window just for cersei alone (in the scenario where the children didn't exist, so there is no debate about it). so the question here is, in fact: is the love for one's children purer or nobler than the love for one's partner or soulmate? (jaime considers cersei his wife). it's a moral dilemma. what "kind" of love, what kind of reason would excuse such an act? can it even be excused? it's something that jaime himself is contemplating. there are no easy answers here and each individual would have to calculate for themselves.

in all honesty i don't really care about the terminology. whether it gets called a redemption arc or not will heavily depend on the series' ending and rn we are nowhere near that.

it is very unlikely that jaime will ride off into the sunset or anything of the like, though, based on the simple fact that he is intrinsically tied to cersei. for symmetry reasons, if she dies, so does he.

[puryartist]

I love you

[lemonhemlock]

say what you will but group E was thee most entertaining group!🤌🏻 happy for ecuador 🫡 exasperated for allemania ☠️ gutted for curacao (god gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers) 🙏🏻 well-done CIV ✊🏻

it's the world cup!!!!!

[ilynpilled]

u guys can come for happy ever after marriage endgame shipper delusionals all u want but nobody will match jaime himself in this who is ready to send the stability of the realm even further into outer space and potentially fuck up everything for the lannisters and lives in idgafghanistan continuously reshaping reality in his own mind for his little jc macdennis in the suburbs marriage endgame

[ilynpilled]

maoist jaime

[ilynpilled]

and giving up all his lands and titles and inheritance rights for sister pussy and a shit job

[ilynpilled]

hed never say string of a bow bc of his fervent anti long-range weapon ideology

[coffincoitus]

a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

[camille-lachenille]

[lemonhemlock]

But then why do you think the messenger ignored him and Ormund told Daeron to take care of him as if he was a servant? People aren't treating him like a prince

this is like rhaenyra/rhaena being a cupbearer all over again. daeron is expected to act like a squire because he IS a squire. it's like an apprenticeship. how is he supposed to learn practical skills if he does not perform them? hopefully, such a job would also teach him humility and thus empathy. that's why he is standing behind his liege lord, because he is there to learn that not everything revolves around him. he is not being disrespected. it's a good thing!

even so, i doubt daeron is going to bathe the man himself. he is probably off to make arrangements, select the servants actually doing the work, decide where the man is going to stay etc

even the royal houses of today send their princes (sometimes even princesses!) to do military service. do you think they get preferential treatment in the army? probably to some extent, like perhaps not placing them in direct danger, but the principle is to teach them how the military is run if they will one day be the supreme leader of armed forces. and what better way to learn than starting off as the lowest of the low! it's a point of pride and an effective rhetorical tool: royals doing menial work, they're just like us! (lol)

[lemonhemlock]

If I was in Jace's place and my mother came into the council and said she came into an agreement with Queen Alicent, the Dowager Queen and leader of a decade long faction against my mother and called me and two of my siblings bastards, and in said conversation this woman, raised by Otto, who once tried to murder your little brother with a knife (hurting your mother) because Aemond got hurt in a fight, said would open the city to them and would give the lives of her sons in exchange for Helaena and Jaehaera's life, I too would have locked her up. The only difference was that I would say the grief was finally taking a hold on her and she had a moment of madness and would make a regency council with myself on top.

And I would say she imagined said conversation in her grief since no one stopped the Dowager Queen leaving a city supposedly under siege and enter and leave what should be the best defended island in Westeros at the moment.

you're right, rhaenyra's plan sounds crazy to an outsider. we only know alicent is not lying because we're privy to information the characters aren't. the writers are doing a disservice to both of them.

that being said, it is ridiculous how easily jace was able to do that. you (not you anon) mean to tell me that no one in the castle heard and disagreed with locking rhaenyra up?

[lemonhemlock]

do you have an opinion on the Daeron hair debate? do you think he's meant to be a natural redhead or do you think his hair was dyed to hide his identity like Sansa did?

i think his hair is meant to be natural. there is no point in hiding his identity since he has a dragon following him around that only he can control. likewise, he's been in oldtown for years. everyone knows who he is by now.

[lemonhemlock]

if you could change 5 things about s1/2 of hotd what would it be? not like huge plot points small stuff that bugs you?

this is an ask from march, so..... sorry about that, anon 😅

deer god. well.

the biggest destabilising factor in the show is the butchering of alicent's character. i have discussed this at length already but nothing she does makes sense. her motivations change at the drop of a hat. rhaenyra and alicent simply should not be friends anymore past aemond losing his eye. you can have them maybe regretting the loss of their friendship, of course, or having a soft spot for each other, but after vaemond's impromptu beheading, alicent should be very aware how threatened any of rhaenyra's contenders are.

introduce some conflict in rhaenyra's camp. they're all too chummy with each other. baela & rhaena vs luke & joffrey over driftmark. rhaenys & corlys suspecting daemon & rhaenyra of killing laenor. i'm not even saying they should be throwing knives at the dinner table, but some friction would be nice. squabbling is normal.

blood & cheese should have been a memorable asoiaf television moment. it was so watered down the general public dgaf. it has no staying power.

there is little to no politicking in this goddamn show. many scenes are just alicent or rhaenyra moping around. very little material is focused on actual alliance-building and backroom deals. what is the difference between aegon and rhaenyra's ruling styles? the winter wolves just show up to fight for rhaenyra, why?

aemond and helaena are basically one-note characters at this point. contrary to popular belief, you don't need hours of screen time to give someone a personality. steely pate is more of a memorable character than helaena, for instance. aemond could be so flashy and fun, but they made him boring and predictable instead.

[lemonhemlock]

Do you have any smutty/nsfw greencest headcanons?

honestly, not really. sorry, anon. i'm super uninspired atm

[lemonhemlock]

“aligon-through-helaena, like alicent having birthed the perfect wife for aegon and building off that”

Omg your mind! Alicent creating (by birth but also by training/educating her to be a beloved queen consort) Helaena for Aegon only to take Helaena’s place (acting as queen, raising the king’s children, being mentioned along side Helaena by Aegon as the true queens, etc.) once she’s no longer able to do so.

yes!! a snake eating its own tail. she gave him a replacement but ended up performing that role herself

[goldcrescent]

tis I the younger brother who studies history and philosophy