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Last episode was the final nail on Alicent as character btw.
Because now she has officially sold out all her children, she offered aegon's head, doesn't care what happens to Daeron, is on her way to assassinate Aemond, and told the enemy that her daughter is carrying the opposition's heir and that she is a fucking DREAMER.
I spent like four years wondering where the fuck Laenor was and if he was okay.
Now I’m like nvm, keep him and Qarl far away from this bullshit.
Fabian frankel right now
The joys of getting into an old ass fandom and having absolutely zero CAS cc for it in TS4 😂
So naturally, I pulled a thanos and added name tapes of characters I actually like anyway
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Captain Kirk!
I just found my USB drive from like twelve years ago in a box of stuff my mum brought before I moved overseas?? Hello??
Opening that thing on my PC was like lifting Excalibur! So many stories I wrote when I was like 16 that I thought I lost are just sitting here and I’m honestly in tears. I thought I lost this in Fairford somewhere, but… it’s here with me. 🥹
is alistair theirin good at his job (warden)
yes
no
cowards choice
* ‘good at their job’ does not necessarily mean ‘doing good/being a decent person’
is alistair theirin good at his job (king)
yes
no
cowards choice
* ‘good at their job’ does not necessarily mean ‘doing good/being a decent person’
(If you came for Jaheira: you need to know about Dragon Age for this read)
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Jaheira did not often use the name of her clan. It did not feel right to do so.
People placed too much weight on surnames. They would have called her Warden Mahariel, stripping her of her individuality.
Everything she did after leaving her clan to join the Grey Wardens had been her choice alone. Her decisions did not reflect the clan – nor the Order, for that matter. Jaheira followed her own will, bending and breaking rules when she deemed it necessary, earning the ire of her superiors one too many times. She spoke her mind without apology, and that defiance, more than anything else, defined her reputation.
It would not be right to have her clan associated with her. Best to let whatever consequences that followed her actions be hers alone to bear.
Hero of Ferelden was a worthy title, and her clan was proud. But a title would not offer absolution of everything. Even heroes were only tolerated so long as they stayed in line. Jaheira knew that one day her choices might place her at the center of a rebellion, and that history had made an example of elves who refused to bow their heads.
If there was a surname she would claim, it would be that of her mother's family. But she could not remember it.
She had been too young when she fled the slaughter, and what she witnessed had been too dark for a child to handle – turning all early memories distant and blurred. She grew up without knowledge of that name.
To this day, she did not know it.
She never went back to the alienage of her youth. She dreaded the thought. What had once been a home had turned to cinders, and now there were no vestiges of either – not of the life before, nor of how it ended. A grave might have brought more closure. But new houses had been built atop the bones of the old, as though the people who had come before had never existed. As though the pain and the loss had left no impression, the memories erased.
Leliana had offered to look into it, to find out her family's name. Jaheira turned it down. For so many years she had been "just Jaheira," what would it matter now?
There was no extended family left, none that mattered. They were all gone. Jaheira was all that was left of their legacy, and she wasn't sure they should be proud.
She could hold her family's name as a badge of pride, as a show of resilience, of defiance. But she had trouble feeling the name was hers, at this age. The person she had become was shaped by everything that followed. It was not the loss of her family, but the injustice of their deaths, that had cleaved the deepest mark in her – the anger towards humans hands that took elven lives for the smallest of grievances, as though their lives had no value.
Her family name was merely a concept, associated with faceless strangers. She could have claimed any other, and no one would even know. The name itself did not matter.
She was Jaheira.
She would instead fight for those who still remained. For her people — not as a name passed down through blood, but as a shared history of loss, endurance, and survival. What they had suffered was not unique to her family alone. It was repeated, systemic, and ongoing. Fighting for them felt more honest than clinging to a legacy she could no longer touch. And for that, no surname was needed.
just Jaheira.
Rewatching the Purge after 10 years and seeing Lena Heady is trippy.
I’m just like CERSEI?!
lewis pullman as robert ‘bob’ reynolds
thunderbolts* (2025) dir. jake schreier
Hot burning take: even if all the homeless people were drug addicts, they'd still deserve to live and have shelter and food.
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I find myself wondering why and how none of the Great Houses rebelled and declared independence after all the dragons died in asoiaf.
The Targaryens were feared because of their dragons. So when they lost those living airstrike weapons… why in the hell did no one think: “hey… we could like… be our own kingdoms again.”
Commenting on this because it's a question worth asking and observing. "Why didn't the other kingdoms declare independence after the death of the dragons". There are a great deal of reasons for this that I'm going to get into over the course of this post. As for why it didn't happen immediately, let's look at the direct aftermath of the Dance of the Dragons. The entire realm had been wracked with war and destruction. The commons were furious and starving, a great many houses were being ruled by widows and young sons. A kingdom seceding at a time such as this would mean that not only are they going back to war, they also receive no support for rebuilding the realm from the Targaryen Crown. Many houses that maybe under other circumstances would've rebelled didn't because of this (see House Lannister and the Westerlands, ruled by Johanna Lannister who was left struggling against the Red Kraken and his Iron Men for years after the war and who was only serving as regent for her young son).
Another major component to why they wouldn't rebel is what I'm going to lovingly refer to as The Balon Greyjoy Problem. Now, after Robert seized power, Balon decided that it would be possible to rebel against the central government in King's Landing, betting that Robert did not have the loyalty of all the other lords and regions of the realm. While he was probably correct about that in a sense, Balon lost that bet. No one else questioned Robert's authority or rebelled and seceded concurrently to the iron islands. This resulted in the FULL FORCE of Westeros's military setting sail to the Iron Islands and beating them senseless, reconquering the realm and making Balon bend the knee in less than a year. Lords never rebelled without the support of other lords and kingdoms because to do so would be starting a battle you have already lost. When Robb rebelled against the Iron Throne, he had the entire North and Riverlands behind him, he also had other advantages. Joffery really only had the support of the Westerlands and some of the Crownlands. Stannis had the loyalty of the other half of the Crownlands, Renly had the support of the Reach and the Stormlands. The Vale never took any action in the conflict and the Iron Islands were always liable to rebel in a time such as this.
Moving on to societal reasons not to rebel. Of those 8 houses that rule as lords paramount over their regions, 4 of them owe their high seats and status to House Targaryen. Though House Baratheon has the sigil, words and blood of House Durrandon, they were never Storm Kings and they would have a difficult time rallying their lords under an argument of a return to independence from the Iron Throne. The Baratheons have also historically been staunch allies to the crown, sharing blood with the Targaryens since the conquest. The Tullys were also never kings, they are lords paramount by Aegon's decree. They were put in charge because they are loyal to the throne and are able to make peace amongst the squabbling riverlords, but it is doubtful that they would ever get the riverlords to fully submit to their rule without the backing of the crown. House Tyrell is in a similar position to House Baratheon, sharing blood with the previous kings of the Reach but having no grand histories to pull from to encourage independence from the Iron Throne. Likewise, they rule by Aegon's decree, and were stewards before the conquest. The Greyjoys were also installed by Aegon Targaryen, though they have the benefit of having been chosen by the Iron Men themselves. This is why they have historically been the most troublesome house, as their culture and economy based around reaving, pillaging and taking thralls and saltwives isn't achievable when they are unable to attack the mainland, now 1 nation under the Iron Throne that they are also a part of. The Starks submitted to Aegon's rule without protest, and the North has largely prospered since the unification of Westeros. Despite displeasure with reforms in stated by Jahaerys and Alysane, the North was loyal and House Stark was loathe to break an oath. They never rebelled before Robb and as can be evidenced, they did fairly well for themselves when they had allies and the circumstances were right.
The other reasons are cultural. By the time the dragons were dead or dying, Westeros had been a unified country for over 100 years. Roads had been built and standardized. The economy was better. Just generally speaking, times as a unified nation were better in westeros than when they had been 7-9 warring kingdoms. Lords had more influence and reach than they used to. Minor Houses could more easily accrue power under the Iron Throne than they could under The Lions of the Rock or the Kings of Winter. Houses from different regions were inter marrying and forging alliances. Things were conceivably far more peaceful under Targaryen rule. The Seven Kingdoms eventually became so prosperous that Dorne, a kingdom that had previously been adamantly opposed to serving under the Targaryens, willingly entered the fold. To put it lightly, rule under the Iron Throne was prosperous and generally had more advantages than disadvantages. There are a cavalcade of other reasons but these are just the ones that popped to mind.
Oh wow! This was incredibly enlightening and I genuinely didn’t think about these aspects. (Though, I will admit that I hate that you’re right 😂)
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer this, friend! I hope your pillow is nice and cold on both sides every night ❤️
