Happy To Know That I'm Not The Only One Who Thinks HOTD Is Mediocre, Why Make An Adaptation If It Would

Lil Sketch of Baby! Aegon and Baby! Viserys at Driftmark

[I for some reason thought they were wearing winter clothing and re-read the scene only to realize I was wrong but I was in to deep so I just committed 😭]

The way some people would rather die than admit this, IT WAS THE GREENS THAT STARTED THE WAR, NOT THE BLACKS.

Even if you count usurpation a reclaiming of birthright rather than a declaration of war, it would still be the greens that started the war.

Not the event of Blood & Cheese. Not Daemon. And certainly Rhaenyra.

“Lucerys Velaryon died with his dragon. The prince was thirteen years of age. His body was never found. And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in earnest.”

Clearly stated. It was Aemond, a member of the greens that started this war. He killed a CHILD, a envoy to his rival, because his week male ego and pride was hurt.

Both Alicent and Otto are recorded as being of the consequences that will soon follow. The usurper thought this was “a good beginning.” Even throwing Aemond a great feast for killing a child.

The way some broccoli people are so in denial.... Rhaenyra being arrogant and not bending the caused the war? Daemon, Mysaria and Blood & Cheese caused the war? Please stut tf up🙏🤦‍♀️

Rhaenyra Targaryen | The Black Queen

Hair inspired by "Portrait of a Young Woman" (1480) by Sandro Botticelli.

"Rhaenyra did have the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, which she wore long and braided in the manner of Aegon the First's warrior wife Visenya."

Viserys II Targaryen x Visenya Targaryen before their wedding XD

Not TG fans thinking Alyssa Targaryen would support Aegon??? Because ‘she is a boy mom’????? And who do you think are the boys she's mom to are? Rhaenyra's two big supporters. Alyssa had two living sons Daemon and Viserys, those two loved Rhaenyra to no end. Alyssa for a fact would stand with her sons before anyone else.

Baelon as well, Rhaenyra was his only living grandchild, who came after miscarriages and stillbirths. And a girl too, this man is said to have wanted a daughter. He was a mama's boy, always by his mother's side till her death. Loved this dead wife for years, till his last breath. Loved her more than life itself.

This is so Aemma and Rhaenyra. Maybe Aemma telling Rhaenyra she's going to have a new sibling😫🥹. Before it all goes wrong.

Artist: Jan Portielje

Title: A song sweetly sung

You should go find the next baby youa re going to groom, what else can you expect from a pedo. How much of creep do you have to be to support darmyra.

I am the creep here? Wow

Alicent had her children didn't ask to be in this inbred snakepit.

So Alicent Hightower fell in love and married an inbred man, fucked him and had four inbred children. Two of them went on to get married to each other and had three inbred children of their own, Alicent's grandchildren. These inbred grandchildren would've been married to each other had they lived too. But again, I'm making all of these up, right? None of these happened? Just in my delusional mind, right? Dude be fucking serious right now.

Also it was a dragonpit, it only became a snakepit once Alicent came in.

'Rhaenyra Targaryen and her yellow dragon Syrax'

Not only is this AI generated but this is used as a reference for 'book Rhaenyra' all the time.

It is said "she never lost the weight she gained during her pregnancies, and she had grown stout and thick of waist at the age of twenty after her third pregnancy." NOT "she became super morbidly obese".

She went through THREE pregnancy before 20.

And the chances are this girl was short short, both Rodrik Arryn and Daella Targaryen are short, naturally Mama Aemma is going to be short aswell. Rhaenyra could very well take after her mother's side, and be short queen, therefore appearing fatter than she actually is.

And her being overweight somehow makes her less worthy of the throne? Her father King Viserys I was very obese, eventually dying because of it. Both Aegon and Helaena were fat.

Atleast Rhaenyra can say she is fat because of the pregnancies. What can Aegon or Helaena give as a reason. (before you come at me, both of them were described as being fat/plump BEFORE their wedding)

At the fact it would not have mattered if Rhaenyra was overweight or not, if not for her rivalry with Alicent, who is described as being thin 'even after four pregnancies'

The official portrait of Rhaenyra commissioned by GRRM himself

A few other official pieces of Rhaenyra once again commissioned by GRRM.

Again, she is not a skinny legend in any of these, but not some 300 pound(136kg) woman either.

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.