Tinky-Dinky's Blog

Tinky. 29. Autistic. Dyspraxic. Fuck ton of issues. Ko-Fi here: ko-fi.com/tinkydink

[tinky-dinky]

If your post, art or whatever is about one Westerosverse show, can you not tag it with the others?

I am tired of going into the HOTD tag and seeing AKOTSK or GOT posts and vice versa.

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Tinky Dinky’s Targaryen King Rankings!

1. Jaehaerys I 2. Aegon I 3. Daeron II 4. Aegon III 5. Aegon V 6. Maekar I 7. Aerys I 8. Jaehaerys II 9. Viserys II 10. Daeron I 11. Baelor I 12. Aegon II 13. Aenys I 14. Aerys I 15. Maegor I 16. Aegon IV 17. Viserys I

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I’m back!

My account is un-terminated!

Wahey!

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I cannot believe Rhaenyra stans are still arguing that the scene where she completely ignored Criston's verbal refusal and obviously uncomfortable facial expression and body language was not rape.

They're also trying to argue that Rhaenyra's age means Criston was taking advantage of her. First off, Rhaenyra is at least 17 or 18 in that scene, so she's an adult by Westerosi standards and of legal age in most of the real world. Second, Rhaenyra being younger doesn't negate the massive amount of power she holds over Criston, a half Dornish steward's son, as the favoured child of the King.

He said stop. She holds life or death level power over him. It was rape.

[tinky-dinky]

Hello all!

I just wanted to let everyone know that my account was hacked for two days (from Monday 20th to Wednesday 22nd) so any communication you received from this account in that time period was not from me. It was a scammer.

I've got my account back now, though, so all is good.

[tinky-dinky]

Um hey just making sure that u weren't trying to scam me lol?

My account got hacked by a scammer. It wasn't me, I promise!

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If I were Alicent, or one of Alicent’s kids, in the aftermath of the Driftmark incident, I would be terrified. It’s just been made abundantly clear that Viserys does not care at all when one of his children not named Rhaenyra is seriously injured.

Not only does that give Rhaenyra and her bastards free reign to harm any of Alicent’s children again- if Viserys didn’t care about Aemond being disabled and mutilated for life, he’s unlikely to care about broken bones, for instance - but who knows if that lack of care is a general thing. Does it extend to someone else harming them?

If some lord tried to sexually assault Helaena, for example, would Viserys care? Or is it only when it’s Rhaenyra or her bastards do the harming that he stops caring? What about Daemon? Would Viserys care if he harmed Alicent’s children?

It must be terrifying to realise that not only does your own father not care when you’re seriously injured, but that that leaves you and your siblings extremely vulnerable.

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I’ve been thinking about Laena’s funeral, way back in season 1, and specifically about Jacaerys’ line about that he didn’t get to mourn Harwin.

First of all, whining that you didn’t get to mourn your daddy at someone else’s funeral, within earshot of the deceased’s daughters, is an exceptionally bratty and selfish thing to do and it shows what an awful mother Rhaenyra is that she doesn’t scold Jacaerys for it.

Second, why the fuck does Jacaerys know Harwin is his father? Why would Rhaenyra trust a child with a secret like that? Jacaerys could have blurted it out at any point. Hell, his line here comes very close to outing the secret. If anyone had heard his whining, that’s it. There’s no way Rhaenyra could possibly explain that away.

Third, It’s implied later in the episode that Lucerys doesn’t know, which also doesn’t make any sense. Jacaerys’ whining implies he knows Harwin and may have even spent time with him- otherwise what’s to mourn? - so how was that explained to Lucerys? Did he just never question why some random dude was spending time with him and his brother? Did Jacaerys never call Harwin their father in front of Lucerys? Did Lucerys never notice that the random dude occasionally spending time with them looked far more like him than his supposed father?

Rhaenyra is stupid. This is very evidently true throughout both book and show. But even the show’s Rhaenyra, who is exceptionally stupid, isn’t stupid enough to take the risk of letting a ten year old (and not the eight year old, for some reason) in on a secret that could prove very ruinous for her if he let slip.

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Is this fucking show giving Rhaenyra Helaena's grief response?

Fucking seriously?!

Instead of having Helaena care at all about her dead son, they're making Rhaenyra so grief stricked she cannot look at her surviving son?

Why is no one other than Saint Rhaenyra allowed to care about their dead children?

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Alicent realizing Helaena is pregnant, after she told Rhanerya that she will have to do unspeakable things as she sits the throne, and knowing if that baby is a boy Rhaenyra will "need" to kill him.

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Why have you put need in quote marks? It's true. If that baby is a boy, which he will be because he's Maelor, he's Aegon's heir and Rhaenyra will have to kill him. Just like she has to kill Aegon, Aemond and Daeron and had to kill Jaehaerys.

If she and her bastards are to have any chance of taking and keeping the throne, all legitimate male heirs need to be dead. Hence Alicent's motivation for putting Aegon on the throne. At least before her characterisation was entirely rewritten to simp for Rhaenyra.

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HOTD fandom are y’all okay? Do you have eyes? Ears?? Are we watching different cuts of the show mayhaps? Because what is this collective hallucination that “Criston Cole said no multiple times to Rhaenyra”? Please for the love of all that is holy, I implore you to go and watch the scene again and actually pay attention. Not once does the word “no” pass this grown man’s lips. He says “stop” once. Once. While I wholeheartedly believe that a single refusal is obviously enough, if you actually pay attention to the tone of the scene (it’s heavily framed as him being concerned for her well-being after he realises she snuck out) his “stop” is his attempt to protect her honour and virtue. Even the actors have described the scene as being consensual.

Just say that you’re a misogynist that hates Rhaenyra instead of spreading misinformation that is laughably easy to disprove.

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Clearly you don't believe a single refusal is obvious enough given the excuses you're making.

His facial expression and body language make it clear he is uncomfortable.

Rhaenyra is in a massive position of power over him. Criston is a half Dornish steward's son who is only in the kingsguard because of Rhaenyra. The last kingsguard who was caught sleeping with a woman was executed, as was the last man caught sleeping with an unmarried princess. If Rhaenyra tells anyone, he is the one who will face consequences, not her.

If he says no, then Rhaenyra could still ruin his life. One word to her father- 'Ser Criston tried to have sex with me!' - and that's it.

There is no way that scene can be consensual. He tells her to stop and is visibly uncomfortable. She is in a massive position of power over him.

I do not like playing this card, but if the genders were reversed you would not be insisting it was consensual.

As for the actors saying it was consensual, so did the actors who played Jaime and Cersei of that scene in GOT, and the fandom agrees that was rape.

Just say you're a misandrist who doesn't take sexual assault against men seriously and go.

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I think Lucerys got off too easily. He should have suffered more.

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I will never understand team blacks underestimating Aemond like no he’s not just scary bc of Vhagar that boy trained everyday and was intelligent enough to be recognized by that intelligence he’s a mini Daemon lmao.

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Aemond is literally the only dragon rider on the show to have a dragon death count (two, Arrax and Meleys), and is shown to be a highly skilled swordsman, especially impressive in his case considering he’s only got one eye and therefore has limited vision and no depth perception.

Given he was able to defend himself pretty well in the 4 on 1 fight on Driftmark, before cowardly Jacaerys drew his knife, at age 10, and how easily he dealt with pathetic Jacaerys after his toast, I think it’s pretty reasonable to say he’s skilled at hand to hand fighting too.

He’s also proven himself to be considerably more intelligent than literally anyone on the Black faction and a considerable number of those on the Green faction (I love you, but a lot of you are very stupid).

Aemond is literally the only dragon rider the Greens currently have (Helaena refuses to ride and Daeron is like 12) and is still managing to hold off the Blacks’ dragons.

And he’s only 16.

The Black faction stans are idiots if they’re underestimating him or claiming he’s only scary because of Vhagar.

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the most nonsensical group of TB fans is that they think Rh*anerya wouldn’t have to kill Aegon, Aemond, and Daeron to take the throne. like there are people out there who think she could have taken the throne bloodlessly

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Let's be real, she'd have to kill far more than just those three.

I doubt Alicent, Otto, Gwayne and Ormund would sit quietly after Rhaenyra murders Aegon, Aemond and Daeron. So she'd definitely have to kill Otto, Gwayne and Ormund, and do...something with Alicent. She's a woman so I doubt Rhaenyra would outright kill her. Marry her off to some loyalist, maybe? Force her to join the septas?

She'd have to do the same with Helaena and Jaehaera. God knows what she'd do with Jaehaerys and Maelor. It's too much of a risk to let them grow up, but I doubt she'd want to be known as the queen who murdered children, so she can't outright kill them. Maybe send them to a loyalist and then claim there was a sickness or accident?

The rest of House Hightower is likely to rebel after Rhaenyra kills Otto, Gwayne and Ormund, so she'd have to kill them too.

One wonders if she'd allow people like Criston, Tyland Lannister and Jasper Wylde to live. If she decides to execute them, too, then that's House Lannister and House Wylde opposing her too.

That's a lot of people who have to die for Rhaenyra to take the throne.

The number of people who have to die for Aegon to take the throne? At most, Rhaenyra and Daemon. Maybe Corlys. Possibly Jacaerys if he's too stupid to stand down.

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why are people still mad about the Velaryons in HOTD being black? it isn't "accurate" apparently, even though the decision was green-lit by George himself. we can have magic and dragons and resurrections, but black people are where the line is crossed. i hate this fandom so so much sometimes

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Many people are mad because the writers didn't think through the implications of a lot of Daemon and Rhaenyra's actions towards the Velaryons.

The insistance that Rhaenyra's white bastard should be heir to the inheritance of the only black noble family, for example. Daemon murdering a black man for the crime of not wanting everything his family worked for handed to a white boy with no right to it and not facing any consequences for that blatant murder. Both Daemon and Rhaenyra treating Laena and Laenor as disposable stand-ins for their white true loves.

Corlys losing almost everything- both of his children, his brother, his wife, his ships, his money - because of them and not doing anything but meekly going along with it, at least until S3, when he does finally call out a small part of Rhaenyra's bullshit.

I don't deny there are racist asswipes that hate the race change because they're racist, but there are legitimate reasons to be angry about it.

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I hate when fans say Robert Baratheon’s line about children fight in response to someone bringing up Aemond losing his eye like, children fighting is much different than a child being permanently injured and disabled in a fight

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aemond literally tried to murder luke, he's lucky all he lost was an eye

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He literally did not.

He was defending himself after the other four attacked him.

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Can I be honest, I know GRR has had nothing to to with this season but the way Targaryen supremacists are being portrayed and part of the fandoms reaction to them being just ignoring that fact make me worry about the Aegon's Conquest movie because they have to be very careful to not accidentally state conquering is ok especially in this day and age.

Especially because of Dorne and how abysmal media has portrayed them until now

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Oh I’m deeply worried about the conquest movie. Given how first Daenerys then Rhaenyra and Daemon have been portrayed, it’s clear that both the showrunners/hbo and the fandom love ‘badass’ Targaryens. The conquest is not a positive time for the Targaryens. They are the villains.

I’m concerned that the Dornish, the Reachmen, the Westermen and all the other Westerosi are going to be portrayed as bad people for not wanting these randomers to take over their kingdoms. The sole exception will be Torrhen Stark, whose decision to bend the knee will be portrayed as heroic and noble and honorable, not the desperate move to protect his people it actually was.