#netty

[tubbytarchia]

And here it is, our final night alive

Based on the Evo finale for Pearl, Jimmy, and Netty. Ends of SMPs that just kinda slowly die out have such end of the world vibes and it makes me emotional

I want Netty back

[ride-thedragon]

Black girls of ASOIAF.

Sarella Sand (half Summer Islander)

Bellegere Otherys (half Summer Islander)

Missandei of Naath (Naathi)

Chataya (Summer Islander)

Nettles the Dragonseed

Alayaya (Summer Islander)

Bellegere Otherys (descended from Summer Islanders)

[bohemian-nights]

People really are missing the point of a character like Nettles. Being the a non-Valyrian dragonrider is what makes her different(in every positive definition of that word) and helps to serve a larger purpose in this story.

Valyrian blood is not special. It’s not needed to do great things. No one is special because of what family they happen to be born into.

A non-Valyrian Nettles shows that we are more than the circumstances which we are born into. Our birth, our names, and our very blood does not define us. Our actions are what do. We can overcome so much and rise to become absolutely extraordinary with a little bit of determination, patience, and a dash of help along the way. Nettles exemplifies that to the fullest extent.

She's more than a Black Valryian. She doesn’t have to be Valyrian. She shouldn’t have to be Valyrian.

She’s a survivor. She’s a final girl. She’s a Black low-born girl likely without a drop of dragons blood that tames a wild dragon with patience that killed countless others who had dragons blood. She survived the Dance where others high and low alike fell and perished to become a firewitch to the Burned Men.

Her legacy is immortalized in the history books(and by the Burned Men cause they still worship her) as one of the last(if not the last) dragonrider(s) before Dany all without having any known Valyrian ancestry.

[daemonxnettles]

Maester Norren writes that "the prince and his bastard girl" supped together every night, broke their fast together every morning, slept in adjoining bedchambers, that the prince "doted upon the brown girl as a man might dote upon his daughter," instructing her in "common courtesies" and how to dress and sit and brush her hair, that he made gifts to her of "an ivory-handled hairbrush, a silvered looking glass, a cloak of rich brown velvet bordered in satin, a pair of riding boots of leather soft as butter." The prince taught the girl to wash, Norren says, and the maidservants who fetched their bath water said he oft shared a tub with her, "soaping her back or washing the dragon stink from her hair, both of them as naked as their namedays."

Fire & Blood🔥

[flamethrowerrandy]

another day of crying over netty and jimmy. bro basically got adopted

[selkiewife]

FANCAST of THUSO MBEDU as NETTLES HOUSE OF THE DRAGON || FIRE AND BLOOD

[amaltheas-garden]

Rhaenyra: Leave me again. At your peril.

Daemon: I could not. I have tried.

Nettles:

man sacrificed his life and betrayed his wife-queen for Netty but nooooo we can't have nice things :(((

[charbeloved]

just went down a rabbit hole.

MARTYN AND NETTY ARE MARRIED AND HAVE A KID???

AND NETTY IS STAMPY'S SISTER??????

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

I think Netty's story is so sad. She finally found a crew, but circumstances forced her to have to flee and be alone again. Even if she had Sheepstealer with her I bet she felt lonely. She most likely missed Jace and Daemon (her possible father) maybe Addam and the twins too.

[twiliartsdreams2017]

the hottiset animatronic females

ballora

netty

sari

sassy

suzy

toy chica

[ride-thedragon]

Nettles isn't boring.

You are allowed to not like her, but to say she's boring is crazy.

Claims a Wild Dragon and is the only person to do so using a method similar to the dragonriders of old Valyria. He was also the dragon that killed more people than all the others combined during the sowing.

Fights in the Battle of the Gullet and lives, mourning a prince in a way that only parallels his base born brother.

Is the dragonrider chosen to fight alongside Prince Daemon Targaryen to find and kill Aemond and Vhagar.

Becomes such a close companion to said prince that he betrays his wife and queen to ensure her safety.

Starts a Religon in the Vale, creating the most dangerous tribe in it.

At a certain point, words have meaning. It's okay not to like her. Just don't get racist.....

[hermitlifemuicals]

for paradise, I'm thinking of making it hermitcraft

Athena will be pearl in evo and the snippits of other songs will be lines referencing the different people and groups in evo, property Police, netty's treehouse, Taurus Republic, the Mafia, bigbs cookie house, etc

Odysseus is grian, he went watcher then ended up on hermitcraft knowing the dangers of the watchers and wanting to go back to help evo escape

Calypso will be mumbo, sometimes x, keeping grian in hermitcraft, not wanting him to leave, not wanting him in danger but not understanding his situation

[bohemian-nights]

-Fire & Blood 🐑🐉

[rosehearys]

“She was foul-mouthed, filthy, and fearless”.

Nettles.

[selkiewife]

I'm sorry. I promised you all a long post- and I was actually writing this whole elaborate meta thing about why I still think Nettles is coming even if Rhaena claims Sheepstealer but then... I just realized I was hurting myself lol. That's not to say I am completely giving up hope. I did see the end of the leaked finale and (the rest is under the cut):

Rhaena does NOT actually claim the wild dragon in the finale. She only finds him. He is eating sheep and he roars at her. I don't know if the dragon will be called Sheepstealer in the episode- or in the Inside the Episode. We will have to see if Condal names the dragon or addresses cutting Nettles in either the Inside the Episode or in the House that Dragons Built episode. Maybe he will keep it open? Whatever happens, the fact that Rhaena doesn't actually claim the dragon presents the writers with an opportunity to FIX THIS SHIT lol. There are four options I think:

The dragon is Sheepstealer and Rhaena tries to claim him in the first episode of Season 3 and fails- this whole story arc has been a plot device that both gives Rhaena something to do in Season 2 that KEEPS HER IN THE VALE- just as she was in the books- instead of going to Pentos like Rhaenyra wanted her too. After this attempt she becomes intense on hatching her egg (which will make the hatching of Morning all the more meaningful if we actually see her failing to claim a dragon.)

Rhaena discovers Sheepstealer has already been tamed by Nettles.

The dragon is actually Grey Ghost instead of Sheepstealer- the design looked both grey and brown to me- it could be a toss up lol. Rhaena claims Grey Ghost. Sheepstealer is still on Dragonstone and will be claimed by Nettles in Season 3.

Rhaena claims Sheepstealer (I mean it's probably Sheepstealer- I know that all dragons eat sheep, but with all the Vale and sheep talk for two seasons it would be weird if it wasn't Sheepstealer- also Sheepstealer ends up in the Vale at the end of the dance so...) BUT! Nettles claims either Grey Ghost or Cannibal.

Out of all the options, I like the first one the best.

Part of me wonders if they left it on a cliffhanger to test the fandom. Sort of like they are testing the waters, “can we cut Nettles? Will the fandom care?"

So let’s MAKE SOME NOISE NETTLES NATION!

[venusintheblindspots-blog]

More on the dynamic between Rhaenyra and Nettles…

One of my biggest qualms of ASOIAF, is the inherent racism displayed in the text, and the fandom, when discussing characters like Nettles, Elia, Baela, Laena and Rhaena.

My introduction to ASOIAF was House of the Dragon, and after watching, I was an avid team black supporter ( still am, Rhaenyra was Viserys’ heir).

After finishing the main series, and watching half of Game of Thrones, I reread Fire and Blood, focusing mainly of the Dance of Dragons.

Of all the interesting characters during the Dance of the Dragons, the one that caught my eye was Nettles, the first and last rider of Sheepstealer.

Her introduction alone was enough for me to fall in love with her :

“Unlikely dragon rider”, “the first and last rider of the dragon Sheepstealer”, “fearless”, “cunning”

Very little is known of Nettles’ upbringing, as the accounts of Eustace, Munkun and Mushroom are biased with racism, classism, misogyny and second hand information.

I’m not particularly sure if it was George’s intention, but the language used by Gyldayn and the a portion of the fandom is a prime example of how black girls are robbed of innocence and agency when being accused of ‘wrong’.

Going back to her relationship with Rhaenyra, the two women are not on equal footing. Rhaenyra was awarded privileges even other noble women in the realm could only dream of,(not that she lived without suffering, she still faced misogyny & sexual abuse), as opposed to Nettles, who lived as a commoner with nothing to do but survive.

Coming around to the Dance of Dragons, Nettles fights for Rhaenyra’s claim as the rider of Sheepstealer. She grieves Rhaenyra’s children, and the loss felt in war.

Daemon and Rhaenyra’s are implied to have an open marriage in Fire and Blood.

Mysaria is Rhaenyra’s Mistress of Whisperers during the Dance of the Dragons, with no implications of animosity between the two. Yet, upon the hearing of Daemon and Nettle’s rumored romance, Rhaenyra is angered?

Rhaenyra’s disdain for Nettles reminds me of another harmful dynamic in real world history,- a jealous white woman, and a young black girl being cut by the blade of her vengeance. Rhaenyra dehumanizes Nettles, going as far as to call her a creature and demanding a brutal death for Nettles, so that Daemon could be free from her ‘sorcery’. She cannot conceptualize how Daemon could be attracted to Nettles, so she accuses her of using magic to bound him to her.

Their dynamic reminds me of the relationships between wives of white slaver owners and the enslaved women that their husbands would abuse sexually. The blame is never casted on the husband. Whether or not Nettles and Daemon had a romantic relationship or a father-daughter one, she did not deserve the treatment Rhaenyra gave her.

To close this, I still like Rhaenyra as a character. She’s interesting in a sense where, regardless of what she’s done, she was the better option for the Iron Throne, especially if we are going off of her character in the show. However, she still reads to me as the epitome of white feminism. Her fight is for no one else but herself.