#nettles fancast

[bohemian-nights]

…..the girl was a bastard of uncertain birth called Netty.

-Fire & Blood🔥🐉

[daemonxnettles]

“God did not give me my life to throw away” -Jane Eyre📖

Nettles 🐑🐉

[westerosiladies]

Targaryen Week Day Seven: Favorite dragonrider/dragon bond: Nettles and Sheepstealer

[asoiaf-fancasts]

Nettles - Fancasts

Age: 16 - 17

Appearance:She was small, skinny with brown skin and black hair plus brown eyes. She has crooked teeth and a scarred nose.

Character: Naya

Actress: Amita Suman

Show: The Outpost [2018] [Season 2]

[ She’s 20/21 during this season making her a few years too old for Nettles during the civil war.She is small, skinny with brown eyes and skin plus she has black hair.She wears medieval ish clothes.]

Character: Sylvie Bodin

Actress: Thaliassa Teixeira

Show: The Musketeers [2014]

[I don’t know how old the actress is but I presume she was in her 20’s so a bit too old. She is skinny with brown skin and eyes plus black hair. She wears 17th century ish clothes.]

Character: Agatha

Actress: Sofia Wylie

Show: The School for Good and Evil [2022]

[She was 17 during filming so she’s the right age for Nettles. She is skinny with brown skin and eyes plus she has black hair.Some of her ‘masc’ fantasy clothes would work well for her.]

[ladystarksneedle]

Nettles

(Fancast: Jordan Loughran)

[mejcinta]

Crystal Clarke's angles scream NETTLES!!!

[dwellordream]

anyways saniyya sidney is still my nettles

[torchwood-99]

HOTD Fancast

Ruby Barker as a Nettles

She deserves to ride a dragon.

She’s prettier than Nettles is described in the books (but so was Gwendoline Christie), but that could be solved with a makeup, and an in-universe explanation of societal preferences for upper class, demure, perfectly groomed femininity. Picture her flying into battle on the back of Sheepstealer, it would be glorious.

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Something that confuses me: so it's ok for green stans to call someone racist for saying Rhaenyra was more important to Daemon than Laena or Nettles, but then these same ppl want Jace to cheat on Baela in the show, usually fancasting Sara snow as white; also hating on Daenaera for outliving Jaehaera. Show Daenaera is probably black like other show Velaryons whereas Jaehaera is white because show logic/genetics so far means dark skin is dominant over light skin for show version of Valyrian descendants. I'm sorry but the hypocrisy of fandom🙄

Very true.

That fandom of theirs is filled with hypocrites. They are desperate to hold on to any sort of “win” for their own team, that they start fantasizing. And of course anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a Valyrian blood supremasist, racist or whatever.

They don’t give a damn about who is white or black on the show. They don’t care about Laena or Baela. They are just using them against Rhaenyra. All they care about is promoting their own failed characters, who all end up dead anyway.

All of Daemon’s children lived on and Rhaenyra’s sons became Kings. Jaehaera didn’t survive and Daenaera became Aegon’s Queen and mother of his children. That’s the win right here. And the win belongs to the Blacks. It’s really not that complicated.

[ride-thedragon]

Lurked long enough to find a new Nettles fancast

[bohemian-nights]

How to tame your dragon: Nettles and Sheepstealer 👩🏾🐑🐉- Fire & Blood 🔥🐉

[daemonxnettles]

A fire witch🔥

Nettles 🐑🐉

[booksandchainmail]

Hugos Reading Progress:

Categories I will vote in:

5/6 of best novel nominees (missing: Nettle and Bone)

4/6 best novella (missing: Ogres, What Moves the Dead)

0/6 novelettes

0/6 short stories

3/6 lodestar (missing: Akata Woman, Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods. Also missing Dreams Greater than Heartbreak, but I disliked the first one enough to be willing to skip this one)

4/6 series (missing: Founders, Children of Time. Both are trilogies, which is manageable. Technically I'm not up to date on Rivers of London, but I think I'm okay voting from where I am)

2/6 astounding (missing: Naseem Jamnia, Isabel J Kim, Maijia Liu, Weimu Xin)

1/6 related work (missing: everything except Ghosts of Workshops Past. Looks like 1 translation project, 2 memoirs, and 2 histories?)

Categories I may or may not vote in:

Art categories (these are relatively quick to decide)

Fan Writer (this was fun last year)

Graphic Stories (lengthy! But I've been meaning to read Saga and Monstress for a while, and 3 of the others are standalones or first volumes)

Zine categories (every year I think I will vote on these, but I never get around to it)

Categories I will probably not vote in:

Fancast (same as zines, but more time needed)

Dramatic Presentation (time commitment!)

Editor categories (I have no idea what to look for in judging)

Chengdu WorldCon is in October, and I've heard that voting will run until sometime in September, I'm not sure exactly when. So I'm figuring on two months. Complicating factor is that some categories (Astounding, Fan Writer) pretty much require the packet to vote on. Other complication is that some works are currently only available in Chinese. I'm not sure if they'll try and get translations into English done for the packet? Hopefully so, it would be a shame to have to vote based on a machine translation.

[grace--le--domas]

Nettles fancast

I think Bailey Bass would make an incredible Nettles, just my two cents on the matter

[katrantsasoiaf]

As someone whose Admittedly Impossible Dream Fancast for Alys was like... Eva Green, but specifically with hair and costumes roughly styled after her all-too-brief performance as Morgan in Starz's Camelot (the show itself had SO MANY flaws, but damn if I didn't completely obsess over her in that role for the one season it lasted!), THANK YOU for being so refreshingly reasonable about Gayle Rankin's casting! I don't think I've ever watched anything with, but I've heard she's a good actress and she's great with eerie, witchy roles, and personally, I think that's all that should matter.

Honestly, my only complaint is that I would have LOVED for Alys' actress to have a bigger, more visible age difference with Ewan. Not just for the obvious "Aemond likes MILFs"/"Alys is more experienced and tops him" jokes, as amusing (and inspiring if, like me, you like that sort of thing in your ships... ;)) as those can be, but also because it would have just been so nice to see a 40+ actress play a seductive, powerful character hooking up with a cool, younger male fan favorite many people (me included, lol) find hot. I get that Alys is supposed to look youthful, but depending on context, "youthful" can mean anything from "so babyfaced they keep getting mistaken for a teen well into their 30s" to "they have such an energy and such a lively, charming personality that people keep forgetting their actual age" after all...

Then again, I, too, would have also loved for older!Rhaenyra and Helaena to be played by fat people, thus putting on screen two fat female characters whose problems don't revolve around them hating their bodies, other people hating their bodies, or whether their bodies are or can be considered attractive. Still, Emma and Phia are both doing amazing jobs, and as well-cast as everyone's been until now, I don't doubt it'll be the same with Gayle and I'll be able to enjoy her performance... while waiting for industry conventions to slooowly change!

i also watched starz's camelot and had very mixed feelings about the show overall, but i adored eva green as morgan pendragon so much. so she was always who i imagined as alys when i read fire and blood. and i understood why many people felt the same way about katie mcgrath after watching her also as morgana in bbc's merlin. alys rivers just has really big morgan le fey energy, right down to her son.

i have never seen gayle rankin in anything. but she is supposedly a good actress who has played roles with witchy vibes. an pictures and edits of her with black hair as selling me on her casting more and more. i am sure she will do wonderful in the role. my biggest issue was those posts comparing pictures of gayle rankin and a fancast for alys, which was clearly posing gayle as unattractive and dumpy compared to the more conventionally attractive actress. which is just gross. it was gross when they did it to emma, and it sucks that the same cycle is repeating with gayle. they both deserved better.

i am terrified for the actress cast as nettles.

in regards to the rest of the casting, i agree with you entirely. milly, emma, and phia are great, i love both of them and none of this is a reflection of my feelings about them as actors. but rhaenyra and helaena are the only targaryen women who are explicitly described as bigger than a pencil. grrm specified that rhaenyra was "pudgy" as a girl and "stout" as a woman due to her multiple pregnancies, but she is still considered desirable. helaena is similarly described as "plump", but is adored. their canonical descriptions being ignored by both the showrunners and fans is disappointing, but not surprising.

i have strong feelings about some of the casting, but i still found it to be one of the shows greatest strengths. and i have no doubt that these newest additions will continue to elevate the show (the only one i actually recognize was freddie fox as gwayne hightower, he was the king of sweden in hulu's the great and i am excited for him).

[mejcinta]

There’s also hardly any content or support for Gayle on certain platforms besides a few random people on Twitter who love her already. But the proof is in that fact that Instagram is literally full of videos and photos of Gayle that existed well before she was casted, and nobody digs them up like they do with Ewan Mitchell. The Alys tag on tumblr used to be updated constantly with fics, edits, and fancasts that suited everyone’s self-inserts. As soon as Gayle got casted, the tag went quiet and hardly anyone talks about her now.

I find it sad because I was really hoping the person casted was deliberately be unique and far from anything “self-insert-ish” because she’s a strong character on her own and not just a love interest for Aemond. But very few seem to agree.

Yes, it’s probably because it’s early and we haven’t see her as Alys yet, but nobody is “meat riding” this actress by any means. The people being really supportive of her are doing the bare minimum. And yes, there was no previous casting, and nobody has seen Gayle as Alys yet lmao. She’s gonna do fine.

I'm sure that once we get to see Gayle and all the other new cast on screen, there will be more content made for her and the rest of her fellow new coworkers.

But you're right. At first Alys was just a major self insert for most fans.

Aemond is a hot character. People go crazy for him, especially the girlies (me included lol).

Good thing is I'm more of a nerd than just a thirsty fangirl. I've been intrigued by Alys from the moment I read about her (a witch, come on now!)

And I was relieved!!! when we got the casting announcement because people had been swearing up and down Alys would be cut off from the story for some petty reason.

We need more badass women in the story, for crying out loud. Especially those that aren't highborn, you know. And Alys signifies that for me, together with Nettles and maybe even Sara Snow (if they allow her to exist lmao).

I really don't know much about Western actors but I didn't mind Emily Beecham either when the audition tape leaked.

However, Gayle won it and by what I see of her past work she is more than capable of embodying Alys. I am excited to see what she will serve. But in the meantime just be patient as the Alys fandom slowly but surely grows. 🙏🏾😜