In the darkness, there be dragons

Back on my asoiaf bullshit

[goldcrescent]

Daemon: Rhaenyra listen to me I saw a blond girl with dragons. A blond girl with dragons Rhaenyra. Now that may not seem at all unusual or miraculous to you or me probably because all our dragons are still alive and we have no reason to think anything is going to happen to them but would this woman who roofied me 58 times in a one week span have lied? Do you think she’d show me a tree man without cause? Do you think people are just blonde for no reason? Exactly. Now put your shoes on, we’ll avenge Jeremy

[driften-sea-snake]

broke: ormund dyed daeron’s hair to protect his identity

woke: ormund dyed daeron’s hair to be more like a pure hightower, rather than a “savage” valyrian

bespoke: ormund dyed daeron’s hair to make him look more like his previous grooming victim, gwayne

[toskarin]

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.08 | The Lord of the Tides 3.02 | Queen's Landing

[thewilddreamerrr]

Alicent sending baby Daeron away in an attempt to save him from the targaryen curse only to serve him on silver plater to ormund hightower and his right-wing vibes, all while the light of the seven plays in the background

[synkverv]

hightowers + violent rage

hotd 1.07, 2.08, 3.04

[visenyaism]

jacaerys is underrated. The heir to the throne made from swords and bound together with a thousand blood curses held down by a family of absolutely insane incestuous homicidal freaks being normal jake the 16 year old JV lacrosse captain is an outrageously funny bit come on

[visenyaism]

like everyone shows up to targaryen family dinner dressed like it’s the catholic met gala but evil, covered in blood dripping in gemstones absolutely plastered in valyrian iconography all of them doing shit like prophesying their own deaths and putting gemstones in their eye sockets and starting active violent conflicts at the table. but jake shows up in a gap sweatshirt and just does his AP valyrian homework at the table (he is getting all the answers wrong)

[visenyaism]

[jeyneofpoole]

the only reason they murdered otto was because of everything that he did. i’m fucking SICK we must overthrow the system of corruption that silences evil viziers !

[visenyaism]

They can kill you now just because you deserved to die it is so fucked what we are coming to

[ripley-stark]

the fictional immersion of the hotd fandom at large has completely broken down. every single week the fan debate and professional reviews aren't about the characters' choices or the world's stakes but rather praise for the acting and justifying or decrying certain writing choices. the blunt force of the writing doesn't allow for a suspension of disbelief that the chain of events presented in the show could be plausible.

i would also go so far as to say hotd is no longer an adaptation, nor is it viewed as such. even beyond grrm straight-up saying this isn't his story anymore, these debates of "should this scene have been in the show" and "what did this accomplish" (alicent getting sexually harassed, rhaenyra having her period on the iron throne, rhaenyra quoting elizabeth's speech, etc) aren't even about whether the events were in the book or if they accurately adapt what the book was trying to say anymore.

many of the remaining show defenders will justify the heinous writing by saying stuff like, "has any of the haters considered that the SHOW is trying to make a statement about [something completely opposite to themes grrm was exploring in the book]?" maybe we would've, but the show puts the game of thrones music and logo at the beginning of every single episode as a way to cling to respectability and notoriety. so forgive me for assuming that it'd attempt to engage with what grrm was saying (which, despite its flaws, is far more internally logical and compelling than the show) whatsoever. the hostility to the source material is rooted in intellectual laziness but disguises itself as superior reading comprehension

[ripley-stark]

this has been true for a long time but the majority of game of thrones fans are no longer people who ever read the books but rather people who watch 40-minute deep lore videos on youtube and think that qualifies them to speak on the book accuracy of the shows

[ladystoneshart]

I can't with the double standards in this fandom when olenna tyrell weaponizes her gay relatives to terrorise a blonde woman and put her bloodline on the iron throne everyone calls her "queen" and "woke grandma" 🙄 but when I, otto hightower

[gameofthronesdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E01 Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood

[ghostinwinterfell]

not a day goes by that I don’t think about the wasted potential of the dothraki characters. irri and jhiqui as direct narrative parallels to dany (the enslaved daughters of a fallen khal vs the enslaved princess of a fallen dynasty). jhogo being the first person to ever protect dany from viserys, being the first bloodrider to pledge his loyalty to her, and remaining fiercely protective of her aka the princess/bodyguard trope. irri and jhiqui having a thing for rakharo after noticing that he’s suddenly wayyy taller than jhogo and aggo. that one time rakharo tried to outdo quaro by eating more sausages than him and burping so loudly that dany giggles after weeks of grieving for viserys. dany kissing irri’s hand better after drogon bites her. dany wielding a whip just like jhogo does as she frees the unsullied. this wacky gang of teenagers taking down the institution of slavery with the power of friendship.

all of this potential for WHAT. where’s the depth? why do they all talk the same way? why are their characters so similar as to almost be interchangeable? like give us a dothraki pov or at least just let them be real people like the westerosi characters get to be !?! let them be more than caricatures please ?!?

[rhaegars-cervix]

estrogen COULD have saved her (finished this)

[rhaegars-cervix]

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[mummer]

just had a really fucked up thought about egg and summerhall

[mummer]

was rereading the end of a once and future king where king arthur is spiralling into guilt and terror at the depths of his failures and he starts blaming merlyn and being raised as commonborn and never being able to live up to his own ideals:

And i think in the sunset of his life aegon would start to resent dunk the same way. did it help anyone, did it change anything? being a brave idealist? or did it just make facing the actual reality of having to perpetuate cruel structures more painful? like—you raised me to be kind, to share in the struggle of the world, but i am the most powerful person ever and cant end that struggle. bc the struggle is that there are powerful people at all. a philosopher king is still a king. if i had been raised at court, all the same things would have happened anyway. policies shut down, no improvements made. right? progressive steps in the effort for which he had been bred…….. Who up thinking about broken nihilist egg tonight. hating dunk and hating his tiny child self and the crown that’s killing him. :(

[mummer]

And somehow this ruminating turned into a horrible and evil theory that’s not really a theory because it’s obviously not True but it’s an interesting idea. it’s just way too cruel. Which is that summerhall was egg trying to pull off an intentional murder suicide to end the targaryen dynasty in the bleak hope some new and better system could rise from the ashes. like what if it wasnt a last ditch attempt to increase his power, but an attempt to give up his power that went terribly wrong somehow. (Like… egg becoming dragon obsessed is an equally out of left field development right. no matter what he is Fucked up by the years.)

consider: aegon in his final years tormented with horror and guilt and becoming a bitter self hating bolshevik about it. Hoping in the rubble their subjects will find the bodies and finally understand that their kings are just men, flammable and fallible, their dragon eggs long turned to stone. And maybe something new would be formed. or at least something would change.

which would humorously imply that jaehaerys ii (one of the only survivors) would bd unable to admit that his dad turned into a radical anti monarchist so he just goes “uhhhhh he was researching…. dragon… stuff. He did a dragon ritual(?). Remember? We had dragons that one time? anyway we’re gonna do incest even harder than ever before” and aegon would be looking up from the afterlife going What do you mean my CHUD son was the one who survived and not my cool and infinitely more sexy abdicator son

[wittythunderwitch]

[ravellasmallwood]

This place belongs to the old gods still…