If Catelyn Starks doesn’t have any Fans I’m de@d
Seeing a lot of (show-verse) fanfics missing the point about Catelyn's promise to Jon when he was sick, and that frustrates me because that was genuinely one of the best decisions the show made for her character when it wasn't making her engage in a petulant stubbornness contest with her teenage son. Having Catelyn make - and then subsequently fail to keep - a promise to her own Gods to treat a motherless child as her own was a great way to impart the sympathy for her character that you lose by not having her inner dialogue a la the books, and then to see so many fics with a summary akin to "Catelyn keeps her promise to Jon" is just such a *sigh*. Y'all don't get it. It says so much more that she couldn't. Not wouldn't. Couldn't. Don't ruin the one good change the show made for her!!
alicent and gwayne's convo was the best scene in the episode. actually siblings talking, not speaking fancy lines at each other. and it's fairly long, not half-baked, consisting both of some chatter deepening the existing world and the important bits. it characterises gwayne, alicent and even daeron a bit. and it has emotion, tells something new about their relationship. that was delightful
The only thing that’s keeping me from stopping watching the show is Daeron.The more they talk about him during the episodes,the more they mention his name,the way they said that he's kind and loyal,that he has a dragon and that he's ready to fight,are the only things that i care about.
This new season,for me,is slow and boring asf,i've lost the count of how many times i check how long the episodes are going to last because i can't take it anymore.Thankfully there are only two more to come out and then it's over.
writers do better.
Of course they are going to blame Alicent for how Aegon and Aemond turned out to be, and say that is why Daeron is kind; completely ignoring that:
A.Helaena is also a sweetheart and
B.Viserys is also their parent, and he did little no nothing for these boys
He is so me
septon eustace giggling and kicking his feet while writing his self insert oc daeron targaryen into the histories
alicent realizing that viserys deathbed confession to make aegon king was a giant misunderstanding and now there's nothing she can do about it because her sons are out for blood and she has no power over them anymore. she's now doomed to be haunted by her own pre war decisions for the rest of her life
There’s something so poetically evil about Sansa embodying everything the realm wants a proper lady to be and then them all hating her for it. She cares about knights and songs, sewing and pretty dresses. And she’s scorned for it, naïve little girl who isn’t equipped to deal with the horrors of life. Because they don’t prepare women for the horrors of life despite the fact that they have to live in the same reality as all of the terrible deeds. Sansa embodies everything a young lady is supposed to and it ruins her life. The same way women are meant to bear heirs but they don’t tell them beforehand how it happens. It’s this sick fetishization of an ideal of women that they can never truly achieve because life isn’t ideal. Sansa is the picture of what they want women to be and it can never be enough still.
sadly to inform i am indeed a stereotypical fangirl. a horny bisexual woman who giggles when she thinks of her little made up men.
me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later
Luke and Jaehaerys watching Rhaenyra bringing up the "a son for a son" bullshit like nothing happened:
Cr: @prettymuchteddy
Since I’m part of the Asoiaf side of social media and not the Got/Hotd part I’m a much happier person
I miss the good old days when Rhaenyra and Alicent could hate each other in peace, as GRRM intended. They were never friends, there was a 10 year age difference between them and they really hated each other. Not to mention Alicent could be a conniving b*tch with a real agenda. No “doe eyes”, no “misunderstandings”, no nothing.
Since HBO took over, we have to endure some sort of twisted queerbaiting and a complete downgrade of Rhaenyra Targaryen because oh dear women simply hating each other for good reason is just not in accordance to today’s political agenda.