Viserys Targaryen, third of his name, the Beggar King, the Last Dragon.

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Viserys Targaryen, third of his name, the Beggar King, the Last Dragon.
How's my least problematic trainee? Well, technically, you're all pretty green, but you're growing on me.
need him to get sober so he can continue practicing and being her mentor STAT
Ser Criston Cole House of the Dragon | 1.06 "The Princess and the Queen"
That's his child too
"Most men would only have that kind of devotion toward a cousin, or a brother...or a son."
With you, I serve
With you, I fall down
Watch you breathe in
Watch you breathing out
(Epiphany by Taylor Swift)
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I started drawing this literally one day after finishing the funny comic about Jaehaerys learning the C word. What an artistic mood swing.
I've been rewatching some of the HOTD episodes again and one thing that gets me every time is Criston Coles reaction when he finds his king aka. son burned and broken in the forest. The one redeeming quality of this man is his devotion for the Targtower boys.
rotating criston cole in glue trap
i like that in acok theon thinks of victarion as being an old man now when vic is at oldest 42 and at youngest 30. ironborn have a standard life expectancy even lower than the rest of westeros
now realer than ever!
btw book ser criston became lord commander after ser harrold westerling's death, years before the dance and before he switched allegiances. he'd only been apart it the kingsguard for four years and presumedly was the lowest born member when chosen to fill the post.
instead, the show kept harrold westerling around so they could take what was a great achievement for ser criston and instead frame it as him getting to reap the benefits of the "evil greens stealing the throne"
criston cole is crazy good casting because he NAILS that weirdly detached vibe some really handsome, successful men have where they don't actually give a shit about anything
It's not even pretty privelege or a fuckboy because like a fuckboy cares about fucking women or a jock cares about success in his sport or a vain guy cares about his own hair or idk it's specifically THIS type of man, some real life men are this man and also Hollywood actors, like Brad Pitt gives me this
Where you are like barely looking at a human with a soul because he's been skating by on being perfect for so long and it's like
The human in this man left the building
It's not specifically all handsome men, it's this one type of handsome and I've never seen it portayed this accurately
criston cole i am SO sorry abt the fandom you were born into. you should have been some 30 y/o man's self insert dnd character......
instead of making a cinemasins ding list of every time cersei made a mistake in affc maybe u should tell me how you would have political geniused your way out of losing your regent son and powerhouse father and smart brother in the span of like a month. and how you would win without conceding to the tyrells
From Davos' wife's perspective, Asoiaf is kind of like The Odyssey. She waits at home with the remains of her family after her husband went off to war on foreign shores and presumably died. He has been hanging out with kings, nobles, pirates and an immortal(?) witch. Also he was last seen being sent to an island of cannibals and mythical creatures by a Merman Lord; but not before said lord declared to all the realms that he was dead.
Tell me, O Grrm, of the reliable knight who sailed far and wide...
making criston dornish was the most inspired hotd decision ever i fear. externalizing violence perpetrated unto him by the targaryen system and even his friends. plus a reversal of this spicy dornish lover thing the story has (with promiscuous bisexual oberyn, arianne, etc.) by making him desperate for love but willing to submit to the stereotype for affection. he's literally a race traitor cop who wants to be love are you kidding me
Though unjustly reviewed as a film that one suffers through, or that is too brutal to watch, I enjoyed my experience of The Nightingale (2018) very much, especially the developing friendship between the characters of Billy Mangana, an Aboriginal tracker who has decided that he will no longer work with the British, and Clare, an Irish convict in unwilling service to the colonial forces—both of whom lost their families at the hands of the British and who can never go home, one because the land and his people have been destroyed through genocide and the other because she was transported with no means of return, as a consequence of the class system that drove her to commit theft. The music and the nature stand out, the sounds of Tasmanian birds and marsupials, the vegetation and the geological features—one of the most subtle horror details is the appearance of an English farming village near to the end of the film, the consolidation of British lifeways in a land that was not originally empty but that is being made so, to create scenes of country life that would not be out of place in an Austen film.
It’s interesting that though it came out the same year as The Terror (2018) and they deal with similar topics it appears to have appealed to a completely different audience. Perhaps because one work is more subtle in its criticism of imperialism, while also being an adventure story among other things, to the point where those who choose to ignore it can easily do so, while for the other it is a central theme, and the violence employed to enforce the structures of the empire is directly shown. The Nightingale has good acting and writing, proper costuming, beautiful landscapes and music, all the things that made The Terror great—maybe people never heard of it, or were put off by hypersensitive reviewers, but it does surprise me that not many have seen it. Myself included! I only watched it yesterday. But why I didn’t do so before is a subject to explore in a personal journal, not a blog post, though if I come to a conclusion I would like to share I will certainly do so.
One of the biggest contrasts between both works is how the hierarchies of the Navy and Army are treated. In The Terror, it is up to the viewer to decide how they feel about these structures and those at its head. I can’t think of any character at the top of the hierarchy who is portrayed with more negatives than positives, even Franklin—whose presence in Tasmania is alluded to, but not dug into, an Easter egg for those who have read about it—is portrayed more as a pompous fool than the overseer of a genocidal colonial government, and while Fitzjames’ exploits in China are explicitly described and he dies as a result of injuries received in the First Opium War his character is sympathetically portrayed, to the point that like with Franklin it is often treated as just a bit of historical flavour. Class and rank structures are deeply ingrained in both sets of characters, but where mutineers in The Terror were interpreted as villains for sabotaging and breaking away from the group, and imperfect leader Crozier becomes one of the best loved characters, in The Nightingale we have Lieutenant Hawkins, who while initially charming and played by a conventionally attractive actor—he even looks similar to Edward Little, a popular character in The Terror fandom—consistently brutalises not only the convicts and the Aboriginal people, but also his own men. They are both loyal and afraid, like dogs abandoned, threatened and killed when they have fulfilled their purpose or no longer perform to the level that their superior expects of them. One could say, they are in it for personal gain, but after a certain point in the film there is nothing that he can give them, and yet they persist. Why do they follow him? Why don’t they run away into the bush? When I was thinking about this question, I remembered the character of Thomas Hartnell, who after being lashed does everything he can to please Crozier, the one who gave the order, but except a few people (you know who you are!) many viewers saw this positively in contrast to Hickey who developed a hatred of Crozier and ceased to respect the hierarchical order.
There’s also the fact that we see what happened to the Tasmanians after the British arrive, but we only see the beginning of what will happen to the Inuit. At the time that The Terror ends, only a few of the many search-and-rescue expeditions have made it to the Arctic, whose explorations led to the establishment of a stronger European presence in the North, with all that it involved.
So what was it? 126 white men syndrome, which makes this show attractive to people with an especial interest in men? Are more realistic portrayals of imperialism and colonialism too uncomfortable? Since many fandom participants are women, is it too heavy to think that women can be—and regularly were—assaulted under such circumstances? Are we not too different from the Reddit men who love adventures and the friends we made along the way, to the detriment of other themes important to the story? You decide. For me it’s a little bit of everything.
shows up to Starfall with a newborn and tells a pregnant unmarried woman (possibly his or his dead brother's ex lover) that he killed her brother. Ned's honor has taken him to places i wouldn’t go with a gun
criston is the antithesis to those kinds of fictional women who are hated but if they were a man they'd be loved. if criston was a woman the criscels would be a democratic majority in the united states election
criston is one of the few characters who wasn't paid dust in s2 and i hate that so much of the rhetoric about him is held over from last season like i think criston has profoundly changed as he realizes how little he means to anyone in that fucking castle and that no amount of guard dogging will make them love him. he was like massively less violent this season but not in a "ive found peace and no longer seek blood" way but in a "i'm in a spiraling depressive episode and nothing matters" way. anyway criston "redemtion" would be fun they would never do it but i would personally love it