Littlefinger Was Able To Get Away W Having A Bastard Daughter Who Looks Suspiciously Like Catelyn Stark

lmao so GRRM's notablog post criticizing Ryan Condal's writing choices has apparently now been deleted. 💀 the girls are fightinggg

"I have no idea what Ryan has planned, if indeed he has planned anything." 💅

Rhaenyra after Aegon is crowned: “As for my brothers and my sweet sister Helaena, they have been led astray by the council of evil men. Let them come to Dragonstone and bend the knee, and I will gladly welcome them back into my heart, for they are my blood and no man is as accursed as the kinslayer.”

Aegon after Rhaenyra is crowned: “I want her arrested, I want her attainted, and I want her dead.”

no hbo, i dont want rhaenyra to be a girlboss, her story is tragic and uncomfortable, stop making her gallivant around kings landing with her abuser. Stop making her have to be practically held back from hopping on syrax and flying to war. She should NOT be able to fight on syrax, her son is dead, her daughter is dead, her body should not be recovered from her miscarriage yet. She was physically and emotionally unable to fight because of what was done to her.

but sure, whatever way hbo is writing her is super feminist right?

this has been sitting in my notes for a while

A Quote from the book Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)

"Whatever her powers, it would seem Daemon Targaryen was immune to them, for little is heard of this supposed sorceress whilst the prince held Harrenhal."

And that my dears, is the summary of a whole fucking season of Deamon hallucinating in Harrenhal!

"If the writers of House of The Dragon keep gaslighting the audience into thinking Viserys was anything better than a powerful man who stole a young girls future, dreams and physical body in the quest for a son he will never love, I will riot"

Okay, I have one fundamental question for people who think that if it weren't for Viserys, Alicent would have a "future" - what kind? What kind of future would that be? If someone says "marriage and children of love <3" they're being ridiculous. I know the creators want to show that Alicent is THE victim, the truth is that you can count on the fingers of one hand the women in the world of ASOIAF who were not victims of an arranged marriage.

Alicent was the daughter of the second son, who despite being the Hand of the King (which he lost several times) had no lands or wealth, no army. Everything that belonged to the Hightower family didn't belong to Otto, but to his older brother, who was the Lord of Oldtown. If it weren't for Viserys, Otto would have married her off to some lesser lord... And that was it. There would be no wonderful "future", just the exact same life, but much less comfortable, because it would be hard to find a man who would allow Alicent so much disrespect and do whatever she wanted.

He [Ned] had never paid much attention to the names the children had picked, but looking at her now, he knew that Sansa had chosen well. She was the smallest of the litter, the prettiest, the most gentle and trusting. She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur.

-A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

Inspired by the painting Meekness by Eustache Le Sueur, 1650.

What i thought we'd get with alicent being Rhaenyra's age and "friend"":

An ambitious young woman who befriended the princess to be in the upper echelons of society and close to the crown/crown princess in order to manipulate her/be closer to viserys in order to manipulate his feelings before/after aemma in order to become queen and work hard and use the secrets/insecurities she discovered as the princess' best friend/lady in waiting against rhaenyra in order to have her son crowned king one day

What we got: a bland, boring 2D character with no agency or goals or ambitions who hides the fact her son his a rapist, who insists she's the victim of the story and chalks everything up to an unfortunate accident cause she's never done anything wrong ever and only ever been used by everyone in her life 🙄 (this is sarcasm i loathe show alicent more than any other asoiaf character)

Me when people say that Aemond is a better fighter than Daemon and is going to kill him

He was a bookish boy and much preferred the library, where he could often be found. Books were his only passion. Vaegon was quiet and wary as a boy. Even as a child, Vaegon was not well-liked, something which did not change over time. When he had to speak he was often blunt, though never intentionally cruel: he always dutifully performed perfunctory courtesies, but no more.

vaegon... you will always be special to me!!

Their little baby’s.

It's amazing how similar children are to them