#doublehex

[daenerystemper]

it's not even that people are necessarily defending daenerys's actions in season eight either; it's defending the very essence of her character. most people who defend daenerys are book!daenerys fans more than anything, who know that daenerys is good & just, who were expecting the worst when season eight's finale premiered. of course, there are people who strictly watched the show who defend her as well, but you can't look at her previous actions that were shown in a positive light only to then be overshadowed by tyrion's "everywhere she goes, bad men die" speech as if it was some revolutionary genre flip.

when you look at successful genre deconstructions, the "seeds" of criticisms they wanted to plant started early in their seasons rather than the last three seasons where a character who strove to do the just thing spends all her time ranting about wanting to murder to solve conflict instead of utilizing any of her previous plans. had daenerys still had the characterization of previous seasons or had tyrion remembered his great infiltration plan of casterly rock, i'm sure they could have used davos's beach to slowly begin infiltrating king's landing rather than wasting time not even besieging it. for example: homura akemi's descent into devil homura is believable due to her repeated trauma & glorification of madoka meanwhile daenerys is supposed to be "mad" simply because she grieved her losses openly. the back-to-back deaths of viserion, jorah, rhaegal & missandei while losing companionship with jon who turned a blind eye to the strange actions of his siblings/cousins would be enough to make anyone depressed, but being depressed doesn't mean daenerys is going to burn king's landing down no matter how hard varys tries to portray it that way in season eight.

the decisions d&d made to "humanize" daenerys's enemies, the lannister forces & to an extent, the smallfolk (who aren't really enemies, but rather fodder to be used for moral dilemmas when it suits the writers [notice how the sept of baelor's explosion should have been a turning point from the smallfolk tolerating cersei to hating her, only they come out in complete reverence of her depsite massive smallfolk casualties) was a pointed effort to encourage fans to hate daenerys just as the show-only mhysa is a master plotline. when robb stark was marching for northern independence, there were no scenes humanizing the freys/lannisters then for their crimes, but when daenerys comes to king's landing, suddenly we have arya being willing enough to share food & drink with lannister soldiers.

people defend daenerys because of barely hidden hatred from her. they planned on killing her as early as season three, a season after they bastardized her visions in the house of the undying further rendering her story plot's isolation to strictly essos when these visions give her a connection to her westerosi roots. you can say "oh it's horrible writing" but it's always been horrible writing & becoming "team smallfolk" just to criticize daenerys fans who have been calling out the shows atrocious writings since season seven aired (if we're being generous & giving seasons 5/6 the benefit of the doubt about being terrible too) is kinda weird.

also

Wasn’t the whole point of finding Cersei to kill her and torture her?

no i don't think daenerys's end goal was to "torture & kill" cersei LMAO. daenerys did have 163 slavers crucified in retaliation of their crucifixion of child slaves ( & in the books, did check a list of the great masters who owned slaves) but nowhere in seasons six through eight does she talk about wanting to sharply question cersei for her crimes. disposing a tyrant, similarly to how fans celebrate jaime's killing of aerys, is completely fair after everything that tyrant has done in a series that doesn't really have a judicial system similar to modern times. cersei blowing up the sept of baelor & killing the current queen of westeros leading up to the death of the current king is no different to the tyranny aerys personified during rickard & brandon stark's deaths.

I love Dany but lets be honest she was completely in the wrong to brun the citizens of Kings Landing.

The Lannister Soilders literally laid down their arms therefore she could’ve just arrested all of them and went to find Cersei. Wasn’t the whole point of finding Cersei to kill her and torture her?

The people literally surrendered and rung the bells.

I know it’s definitely a part of the horrible writing of Season 8 but still the fact people defend her actions in doing that is crazy!!!!

[the-lady-rae]

@doublehex

No lies detected 🤣

[chillyravenart]

doublehex replied to your post: As someone who hasn’t read the books, what’s wrong...

What about Willas and Garlan? They seem to be legitimately good people. Willas is still friends with Oberyn even though he got crippled by him. @chillyravenart

@doublehex SNOOOOOOORE 😴😴😴😴

[thelioninmybed]

doublehex replied to your post “are we?”

As someone who has never read any JaimexCersei fic, yeah, that is not canon

GRRM is infamous for subtly hinting at important information without stating it directly. Much like Renly/Loras, R+L=J, Frey Pies and F!Aegon, the text heavily implies this is the case but you need to read closely to pick up on it.

[naomimakesart]

doublehex replied to your photo “Finally finished these two! My first attempt at both Laena and Laenor...”

One thing I seem to notice allot is that your Valyrians tend to have a tan, or have a slight Mediterranean hue to them. Is that intentional?

I believe I’ve talked about this before here @doublehex​, so I’ll just redirect you to the answer! 

[lyannas]

doublehex

  petition to have Arya cut the man bun loose from...

Noooo, badass manbun Jon forever

my intense dislike of show!jon is directly correlated to when he began sporting a manbun, i need it to go away so that i can like him again

[madaboutasoiaf]

doublehex reblogged your photoset and added:

I did not ask for this. How dare you make me emotional at 10 PM on a Friday night.

Sorry not sorry

[joannalannister]

@doublehex reblogged your post:Hi there!

Jonerys is not even Joanna’s big ship, and yet she writes about it with more passion, honesty, sincerity, and conviction than the rest of us combined. She’s one hell of a writer.

Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say, though I’m sure there are many people in the Jon/Dany fandom who are much better writers than I am!

I love ASOIAF. I love the themes that GRRM is writing about. Jon/Dany just comes with the territory. 

[willorcs]

@doublehex replied to your post “@ HBO STOP spending your fuckin money on g*me of thr*nes, nobody wants...”

Game of Thrones is, literally, the most popular show on television right now. You could not have been more wrong than if you said 2 + 2 is 5.

LMFAOOOOO....popular doesn’t mean GOOD. GoT is an overrated show, probably one of the most overrated shows ever. I love A Song of Ice and Fire so much, and the first 3 seasons of GoT were pretty decent, but the rest of the seasons are pretty crappy....

[bitchfromtheseventhhell]

@ajax-daughter-of-telamon replied to your post “Things that fuck me up Theon is older than Brienne”

she's so young, it always blows my mind to remember it

same tho.  like i sometimes have to remind myself how smol she is

@doublehex reblogged your post and added:

wtf are you serious nope nope i call bs dont care what george says, no way theon is older than brienne. Brienne acts SO MUCH OLDER than theon, I always imagine her older than the Big 6 (Tyrion excluded).

yup.  theon was born in ‘78 or ‘79 and brienne was born in ‘80 according to awoiaf.  

@medievalcat replied to your post “Things that fuck me up Theon is older than Brienne”

my children who are both younger than me :o

s a m e

[jon-erys]

LISTEN if you haven’t read ‘A Song For Dragons’ by Doublehex, do it now!!! 

It’s one of the best jonerys fanfics I’ve come across!!! 

Read it, you won’t regret it!!!

[iceandfiresource]

I have some reccomendations for Jonerys fics you should add to the list. First off, DolorousEdditor's "Our Choices Seal Our Fates" and "A Time for Dragons". He is the best at AUs, and he is among the best fic writers in the fandom. My man SerpentGuy's "Dragons of Ice and Fire" is among the most kudosed fics under the Jonerys tag, even though Jon and Dany haven't met yet after 800 pages. "A Bane of Blood" and my fic, "A Song for Dragons" both ask what would happen if Jon went to Essos.

thank you! i'll add these to my to-read list :) SerpentGuy's fic is already there actually lol

[naomimakesart]

doublehex replied to your post “How do you respond to someone who is guilt tripping you about Patreon?”

Block em. You have every right to create an incentive for people to give you money. There is a limit to that, of course, but NSFW is not even close to that.

I think it may have been that they were confused about my Patreon process because they assumed (maybe because I am not posting as often) that ALL of my work was only on Patreon now, which is not true. I think there may also be a language barrier and the comment was phrased in a way that I felt a little guilty at first. After I explained to them I think they understood more what was going on because they haven’t responded. But that can always change haha

[yennefers-geralt]

doublehex reblogged your post: One way D&D could’ve made the Winterhell story...

Yeah, but I think the issue with that is animal CGI is very expensive and very time consuming. 

 I don’t think they took out Ghost because there were like “LOL who cares about direwolves when we have dragons”. I think with all the fight scenes going on, they needed post production to be as time efficent as possible. They probably could not fit in the wolves because of how difficult they are to produce when compared to the dragons. Which sucks because all of your ideas are REALLY fucking solid. But by now DND knew the reality of the situation when it came to the direwolves.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s why the show has neglected the wolves as much as they have. Otherwise Nymeria and her pack would be at Winterfell along with Summer and Ghost would be more than just a brief mention here and there.

[lyannas]

doublehex replied to your post “i really do miss making original content and sharing it with y’all–...”

Make what you want! Quick, without thinking, what is the thing you love most about ASOIAF?

the little veins of hope that shine through all the darkness and difficulty. throughout the series that little light never quite goes away, no matter how dark it gets. even when that hope is childish and farfetched, it reminds us that many of these characters are in fact still children. there is jon clinging to the belief that bran is still alive despite what he has heard, arya’s reminder to herself that no matter what she becomes she knows that jon will always accept her, sansa building winterfell out of snow because she refuses to forget the home she had to abandon, daenerys still dreaming of a quiet life in the house with the red door, bran looking upon a burning winterfell and taking heart from it, telling himself that he was broken but not dead, just like winterfell. you see it in davos’s staunch belief in stannis, jaime’s awe of brienne, in tyrion’s self awareness that he can be better than what he has become. i love these little reminders that these are human characters with human hearts, and they can be foolish and hopeful even in the worst of times.

[madaboutasoiaf]

Brynden Rivers and Daemon Blackfyre

He blames Bittersteel. It has to be Bittersteel poisoning Daemon’s thoughts. This is not Daemon. Daemon is not treasonous. Daemon has always been chivalrous, even if he did dwell on his mother’s claim being passed over so easily, even if he did crave the acknowledgement of their father.

He received more acknowledgement than was ever wise.

It will be war. Brynden knows it. He also knows what side he will choose. Never Bittersteel, with his lies and his hatred. Bittersteel has doomed Daemon and Brynden hates him all the more for it. Daeron will triumph because Daeron is the rightful king, no matter that Daemon is loved.

No matter that I love Daemon too.

Brynden hardens his heart toward his half brother. Daemon has made his choices, and he has chosen wrong.