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Can you tell why the Targaryen line no longer had members named Rhaenyra and Aemond. There were many Aegons after, and Daemons, but only bastards.

Rhaenyra is remembered in Westeros, in the histories, as an oath breaking usurper who killed thousands to get a throne she couldn't even hold more than half a year... so it makes sense nobody wanted to invoke that legacy by naming anyone after her.

Aemond is remembered as a kinslayer who used the power of the largest living dragon of the time to single-handedly raze much of the Riverlands to the ground... so it checks out that nobody wanted to name someone after him either.

Most of the non-repeat names can be linked to some bad histories or legacies: Aenys was extremely weak as a king, Maegor was a kinslayer.

Compared to Aegon, the name of the conqueror, and Daemon, who in the histories was the Rogue Prince and a military leader who gave his life to slay Aemond... the histories have more so glorified these figures, and the names repeat along the timeline to invoke that legacy.

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Helena and Dreamfyre will meet Rhaenyra in season 3 in an original scene that never existed... THIS is the moment we'll get to see Helaena with her dragon... and who wants to bet they added this to show that 1) Helaena isn't even upset that Rhaenyra's side is responsible for killing her kid, she's been pretty okay with this whole war actually, not driven mad in her room or anything 2) Rhaenyra is an ultimate in-tuned dragon whisperer who breaks lore by bonding with every dragon she meets, further reinforcing she is *most* Targaryen of them all and deserves to rule and save the world 3) Helaena talks to Rhaenyra about how the throne was hers to take and everything was destined to go this way so everything in the war so far was totally justified including her entire family now being basically destroyed 4) Helaena doesn't blame Rhaenyra at all for her kids lives being destroyed and that's entirely disconnected to the reason she eventually will take her own life

Talk about toxic butterflies 🫠

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A Game of Thrones Issue #23 Cover Art, By Mike S. Miller

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Robert Baratheon by EtceteraArt

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wheres that joke post the other day that was like the smallfolk pray every day theyll have the honour of being crushed to death by one of the targaryen dragons that they worship and adore. anyway theyre saying that without a shred of irony on tiktok

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Dany and her silver <3 another day, another WIP

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it's so fascinating to me how every single youtube video essayist consistently concludes that the reason why house of the dragon season 2 was bad is because it only had 8 episodes and no battle at the end. i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 2 more hours of incoherent misogyny and extremely fake looking dragon battles was not going to significantly change our lives. game of thrones season 8 also had a battle at the end and was still bad.

call me crazy but maybe if you hire an amateur showrunner solely obsessed with asoiaf deep lore, you're going to end up with a show that largely ignores the original social stakes of the world and uses the characters as vessels to glorify the worldbuilding that he thinks is cool. maybe you're going to end up with a show completely devoid of any satisfying relationships, arcs, or touching emotional core

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young alicent hightower

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studies

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New hotd director just posted this meme on their Insta and you know what, I'm so fucking ready!! Alicent was butchered already anyway. She can stay far, far away for all I care. 🤷‍♀️

"Nothing burns like betrayal" lmaooooo.

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Castles of Westeros (1/∞)

Attilio Simonetti - Return to Mantua, 1870 // Joseph Mallord William Turner - Conway Castle North Wales // Ludwig Willroider - Mountain landscape with a castle // Carl Hilgers - Winter moated castle with a returning hunter // Karl Heilmayer - Zenoburg near Meran, Tyrol // Thomas Cole - The Past

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rhaenyra stans accusing alicent of turning her children against rhaenyra like nobody can possibly decide to dislike her without some evil manipulation at play. like no have you consider they hate her ass because she treated them like shit and offered to have one of them tortured?

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"kill them with kindness" WRONG. wild boar.

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Any advice on how to get back into ASOIAF after HOTD kinda ruined it for me?

It's been months and I still cringe at the sight of anything from this universe. And it doesn't help that fandom spaces are full of deranged TB takes now. I get that it's all just fiction, it's not that deep, but man... ASOIAF was one of my absolute favorite worlds, and now I fear I won't be able to touch it ever again

Rereading the source material helps to remember just how good this story is, and I have some YouTubers I'd recommend who are true to ASOIAF and rightly critical of its adaptations' shortcomings:

- Quinn the GM (great ASOIAF analysis, covers the source material and in particular loves Jon Connington and Young Griff analysis)

- TheEmpyreanSpeaks (great "what if" videos based in the lore of the world of ASOIAF)

- The Grease Goblins (ASOIAF analysis, HOTD critical)

- Critical Maester (Team Green friendly, HOTD critical, some new takes I haven't seen other places)

Many other YouTubers are good too. There are some I don't watch much anymore because of recent HOTD apologizing/GRRM bashing (Glidus and Alt Schmidt X) but if you can get past that their other ASOIAF content is mostly good and entertaining to watch.

Otherwise I search tags that align with my interests (pro team green, anti hotd, asoiaf, that kind of stuff) and sometimes I'll find new posts and communities.

Unfortunately with the adaptations being so bad and fans being so media illiterate it's hard to find good regular content in fan spaces, so I understand the struggle. That's why I've actually been more active in other fandoms recently. Sometimes you just gotta open up to other stories that tell similar stories in good and meaningful ways. But I know. ASOIAF is really next level and it's sad how a lot of it has gone wrong in the wrong hands.

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I spent more time scrolling your blog than I care to admit because of your grounded and reasonable takes on the absolute shitshow of HotD. Thank you for healing my sanity a little bit 🙏 It's great to see that media literacy and critical thinking still exist in this fandom

Happy to have helped, anon 😌🫡

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the reason all of the divine intervention and prophecies and magic saviordom work so well with Daenerys and not HOTD Rhaenyra to me is that Dany is an underdog. like teenage girl raised on the streets used as a pawn for her entire life until the moment she performed a literal world-changing miracle and she immediately decides to use the magic to help those even less fortunate than her. for lack of a better word it is magical the night is alive with the music of dragons.

however in HOTD the heir to the throne most beloved of her father established member of a dynasty that uses dragons as tools of conquest and state power having the same prophecy and magic just does not work for me because it is not anything special!!! the only thing she seems to want to use it for us to install herself and we don’t even really know why she wants power. Plus the dagger is goofy.