they probably both felt like outcasts…a Velaryon who gets seasick and a Targaryen without a dragon…she knew he’d made a great lord of Driftmark…Lucerys and Rhaena I’ll AVENGE YOU
it’s kinda insane that in GRRM’s feudal society world, being fat is seen as gross/disgusting…like wait a minute being fat back then was seen as a good sign of wealth was it not ? 😭
GRRM’s post is a reminder that when fans go ‘it doesn’t make sense to cut so and so’ that we were right. Even the smallest detail can change the overall plot
@wtafpol
Jon in the books is only fourteen so his naivety about the night’s watch is more heartbreaking. Alongside how desperate he is for a sense of belonging…but he is also just funnier and more idk dynamic than show!jon
✨list of female characters that House of The Dragon cut/signficantly cut✨
why did HBO let a man run a story about a WOMEN being robbed of her birthright?
ngl it’s kinda crazy y’all are so stuck on this when Baela was the one to alert them about the Driftmark succession crisis in the first place…like it’s been clear she hasn’t wanted it.
When Sansa asked "What do dragons eat, anyway?" I SO wish Dany would've said "idk didn't your Maesters write down what they fed Silverwing for almost 6 months while she was here in the North?"
HOTD making a descendant of Saera being vermithor’s rider is such a good idea like too bad the general audience doesn’t know or care about why that’s so significant
will never forgive y’all for bullying emily carey off of this app! they were the sweetest to the hotd fandom, always interacted with us and now they’re not on the app anymore cuz y’all couldn’t separate fiction from reality!!!
@ZoeRoseBryant
ppl keep saying he was the villain/worse but negate that art showed a genuine interest in tashi and respected her game. yes he shouldn’t have tried to ruin her and Patrick’s relationship but art saw her as smth more than her looks which Patrick didn’t
Some of you guys are going to be really angry when rhaenyra starts getting nasty. She’s going to hate all women, she’s going to be selfish, she’s going to be incompetent, she’s going to be paranoid… not a fit ruler by any means.
The fandom has a clear problem with black characters taking a more prominent role over white characters. Baela and Rhaena’s screentime was almost non existent in season one, their scenes were cut more often than not…like why are y’all only complaining when it comes to THEM?
alan moore stopped writing comics bc of the watchmen movie for a period. and superhero movies a stain on the culture
Rick Riodian called the movies ‘his life’s work being put through a meat grinder’
Authors are allowed to criticize these things
hotdtwt: haha get them grrm he’s so messy ryan kys
people who actually work in creative collaborative fields: this blogpost is really odd and unprofessional and weirdly out of character
why are y’all so against grrm sitting down and talking to a fellow fantasy writer…Xiran Jay Zhao is literally the next generation of influential writers
GRRM is an artist, he's not a social activist. He doesn't owe an ending with the trite msg of "Monarchy is bad!" to any reader, esp since the themes of how common folks suffer under royalty is already there in the books. I don't expect mediocre YA writers to know this, tho.
both k1lled their older siblings that were next in line for the throne and have an arc about how to be a better ruler despite being young and inexperienced
✨ Baela Targaryen
Most of Baela's personality has been watered down in HOTD. She's been criticized as being too much of a cheerleader by fans and sadly it's true. Unless Baela is there to cheer up Jace or promote Rhaenyra, the show forgets she exists :/
Disagree! You can hate Daemon for grooming Rhaenyra as a child but to say she didn't choose to love and marry him as an adult is ignoring her personal agency. Also Daemon took out her biggest threat and died for it. Like it or not he's an important character in her story
✨ALYSANNE BLACKWOOD
Known as Black Aly, she was a fierce warrior for the Blacks and is rumored to have slain Amos Bracken to avenge her brother's death.
Since Amos has already bent the knee for Rhaenyra, it is safe to assume she's been cut.
✨Lady Meredyth Darklyn - wife of Gunthor Darklyn
A somewhat minor character, Meredyth becomes Lady of Darklyn after her husband's execution and alerts Rhaenyra when Aemond is terrorizing the Riverlands onto of Vhagar. When Rhaenyra is on the run Lady Darklyn provides shelter.
✨ Laena Velaryon
Largely her role in the show was to be neglected/mistreated by Daemon.
A scene of Laena claiming Vhagar was cut from season one due to the writers believing the audience wouldn't care about Aemond claiming the she-dragon.
✨Maris, Ellyn, Cassandra, and Floris Baratheon
Known as collectively as the 'Four Storms'. Maris is the catalyst for Aemond chasing after Lucerys after she taunts him by asking if Lucerys took an eye or his balls.
The show seems to have forgotten the Baratheons in general.
✨Rhaena Targaryen
Rhaena enjoyed a life of comfort at the Vale, as Lady Jeyne's ward. For some reason the show has decided that Jeyne hates her.
Most of the screen time they've given Rhaena has been related to Sheepsteeler, merging her character with...
✨ Lady Sabitha Frey
She is replaced by a character called 'Serena Frey', unlike in the show Sabitha never meets Jacaerys although she is a fierce loyalist to the Blacks. She seized Harrenhal after Aemond and Cole abandon it.
Was a rumored lesbian and lover to...
✨ Sisters of Harwin and Larys Strong
Were ladies in waiting to Rhaenyra, not a huge character thing but kinda odd that they cut them...is Rhaneyra not allowed friends?
✨Nettles
Nettles the rider of Sheepstealer, she gained its trust with providing it sheep each day. She stood out from the Dragonseeds, due to her non-Valyrian appearance and of being a commoner. Due to a rumored affair with Daemon, Rhaenyra calls for her head.
just gone...
show only stans for daeron targaryen kinda confuse me…like that’s headcanons only. y’all don’t even have a designated faceclaim it’s just a white skinny boy
Little Ghufran’s fundraiser has been stalled somewhere in the $38,000 range since a few days after it went viral.
Can we bring the momentum back? Every day she stays in Gaza is another day closer to her losing her vision permanently!
do you ever think about how Viserys II was a father at 13? how he never got a childhood. he was a child raising a child and his smile died after his abuser left him.
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