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the entire jonsa fandom rn:

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that time when sansa & arya didn’t give a fuck about joffrey’s death because their big brother was dead too.

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You’re Fucking Her Uncle in Ten Easy Steps

Chapter 16: The Consequences of Your Actions

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61452235/chapters/167192263

It’s time for Alicent to finally face the music…

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You’re Fucking Her Uncle in Ten Easy Steps Chapter 13: Are You Illiterate?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61452235/chapters/166675423

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You’re Fucking Her Uncle in Ten Easy Steps Chapter 12

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61452235/chapters/165282985

Daemon does something and Alicent has a reasonable and calm reaction to it :)

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i mean this in the gentlest possible way but if 75% of what you're posting for a given fandom is fuming rage spirals then maybe just maybe it's time to take a step back and consider whether or not you're actually having any fun with this optional thing you do for fun

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Physical touch is their love language

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JonxSansa (canon post war) sansa decides to move on when she finds out jon does not reciprocate her feelings. Jon misses her attentions and realizes that he does have feeings for her. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Her chamber door slammed open and in stormed the King Beyond the Wall. His large hands fisted at his side as he halted mid movement in her doorway.

Sansa couldn’t help but just stare at him from her throne once the initial fear had subsided. Her ladies in waiting, summer children who had never known the touch of war or men, were scrambling from the surrounding chairs to their feet. Their embroidery long forgotten on the floor as they moved to get away from the raging man before them.

Jon looked so different from the last time she had seen him, gone was the stubbled chin and short unruly hair. Now he stood before her somehow taller, with a beard, scattered with grey, and his hair still unruly but tied behind him, with curls threatening to escape at every angle.

It had been over ten years since she had been in his presence, sending him beyond the wall so the seven kingdoms may know peace and she knew that her own appearance had changed in that time. 

No longer a child and somehow more crone than matron these days her own hair was fading from the auburn of the Riverlands to a colour that matched the never ending snow. 

They had exchanged ravens for the years, little notes about the kingdoms, about trade and about their lives.

“Get out.” he seethed at the girls, Sansa couldn’t help smirk as the girls all turned from him to her awaiting her instructions. 

He might be the King Beyond the Wall but she was the Queen of the North and she held the power here.

She nodded for them to leave and they quickly gathered their belongings, curtsied at both King and Queen before escaping the room that was quickly becoming stiflingly warm. Sansa knew they would not be far, listening in through the door, waiting for all kinds of gossip to share later with their companions. 

Once the last girl had closed the door Sansa gestured for him to sit, still silent and without rising to show him any formalities. They had been raised under the same roof, she saw no need to be Queenly now.

Jon sat gingerly on the edge of a seat, his large frame devouring the wooden structure.

Sansa’s last letter to the man had been a farewell, he had ignored her last three, having his own men respond to her questions about trade but anything in relation to his life or responding about hers was left unresponded too. 

So she had written him one final letter before handing the job of communicating with the men beyond the wall to one of her advisors. The letter, like many others had been responded to by his own men, and left her the knowledge that much like most of the relationships from the war this too had run its course.

“You are well.” She finally stated, looking at her nails instead of the king.

“You do not wish to write to me any longer.”

Her eyes rose to him, her brow perfectly arched in question.

“You wrote me a letter, telling me you wished to no longer speak.”

“I wrote you a letter, explaining that I was no longer the person to speak about trade and my advisor Lord-”

“I do not wish to converse with your Lords, I will converse with my Queen!”

“You do not converse with me at all, Jon, you have had advisors responding to me for the last seven moons! I am only confirming that I will follow your lead.”

They fell into an uneasy silence, both unable to be the next person to speak.

Sansa fiddled with the hem of her sleeve, an old habit from her childhood before she sighed deeply.

“I meant you no offense, you must know that. Time has robbed me of so many people, I just thought you were one of them. Arya is gone, only the gods know where. Bran is South and will not venture North. My family is scattered to the winds and I am tired.”

Jon nodded slowly, and suddenly time slipped away and they were children again, sitting in this throne room talking about the war to come. His face is so uncomfortably young.

“It hurts to speak with you, to think about the possibilities of what could have been.”

“What could have been?”

“Us, Winterfell, peace in the castle we both grew up in.”

Sansa swallowed her heart, which now beat rapidly in her throat.

“You never wrote back.”

“And I never knew how much I missed you until your letters stopped. Sansa-” he breathed out, her name on his lips less a familiar name and more a prayer, “I am banished to beyond the wall, to never return to the South. And I thought I was fine with it, accepting my lot in life because I had your letters. We were redrawing the lines between the South and Beyond the Wall. And I thought that was it.”

“Jon, I will not stop trade between my people and yours. The North is flourishing-”

“I do not care about trade Sansa! I care about you!” 

He fell from his chair and knelt on the ground, his hands grasping at her skirt.

“Jon-”

“I miss you Sansa! More than anything in this world and the next!”

“You have a funny way of showing it, you ignore my letters and now come here and demand my attention.”

“I have made many mistakes in my life, but setting you aside was the worst.”

“Jon-”

“Please Sansa, let me apologise.”

Sansa stared down at him, the King Beyond the Wall kneeling at her feet, grasping her skirts as if she was the only thing stopping him from drowning. 

“Let's have tea and we can speak of it more.” she said, her regal voice returning, and she flicked her wrist out to call for tea with the bell on the wall.

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You’re Fucking Her Uncle in Ten Easy Steps

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MATT SMITH as DAEMON TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | 1.01 ‘Heirs of the Dragon’

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You’re Fucking Her Uncle Chapter 7

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How to Tell Your Best Friend You're Fucking Her Uncle in Ten Easy Steps Chapter 6

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hotd purposefully making all the greens look incompetent af to highlight how great their TB protagonists are in return backfires so hard it's actually funny.

in the book the greens were a powerhouse, they had the best warrior, the bigger army, great political minds on their side, the bigger dragons and strong competent riders to ride them. they were a threat. the show making them all stupid makes rhaenyra & the rest of tb look so weak and stupid in return. like you can't even win against those guys? really? also it shows how rhaenyra is a poorly written character - it is necessary to ruin other characters like alicent, aegon, daemon and aemond for her to appear smart & capable.

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Wow.

Just reading that rant made me feel better. I'm not even watching the show and I hate what I come across.

the more i think about it the more i'm annoyed with cowardice of house of the dragon's writers, when it comes to writing women, which obviously is the most visibile in the writing of two main female characters. they want to write powerful women™, but actually refuse them autonomy and are afraid of humanizing them by giving them truly unlikable traits (and in case when they can't avoid it, they diminish those traits).

hotd writers wanting to write strong women, but also acting like they have to be likable and can't be really criticized, bc you can't criticize women, that's misogyny /s, resulting in these female characters not being fully fleshed out, but instead flat as a pancake and actually dehumanized. it's pathetic tbh and giving "we have cersei at home".

rhaenyra said she and laenor really tried to get a child and it is portayed this way in the show without really being confronted, but that's actually a bullshit. besides being gay, laenor was traumatised at the very day of their wedding, bc of his secret lover getting brutally murdered. he was definitely not in the mental state for trying het sex and some heir making. after the wedding tv show does one of many time skips without filling in even with lazy dialogue exposition, which creators apparently love so damn much, so it's safe to assume that what's being in books applies, and that is sad laenor leaving to high tide, while rhaenyra stays at court and they see each other few times at some special occasions. now the timeline: their wedding happens in year 114 ac, jacaerys is also born in 114 ac, which means that even when being generous and putting wedding at the very beginning of the year, the birth at the very end and assuming that she got pregnant during her first time with harwin strong (even tho it's a universe with plan tea, so she could have prevented this) it would mean she and her side piece started having sex only 3 months after hers and her traumatised husband's wedding with an emphasis on being generous with this timeline math. and bc of that her traumatized husband went through 6y of being called cuckold x 3 behind his back. but no, let's just believe her when she said she and laenor really tried.

and 6y later she does pretty much the same, if not worse. laena (of whom, according to the books rhaenyra was "fond and more than fond" - some real ocassion to make rhaenyra bi, that went down the drain with little to no laena screentime) dies during labor in early 120 ac, laenor dies soon after also in 120 ac. in the show they don't even wait for laenor "dying", she and daemon have sex right after funeral of his wife and child. they marry in secret and already in late 120 ac aegon is born. according to the books there is suggestion they got married so fast, bc she was already pregnant. and viserys was not really pissed, bc it was daemon, but bc it was so disrespectful that they couldn't wait even those 6 months after deaths of their spouses, which is a custom in this universe.

rhaenyra is a selfish, spoiled asshole, which if allowed to be fully shown would create flawed, complex character, when put against scenes of for example her being good and loving mother, like the one with jacaerys after the death of lucerys.

as for alicent writers keep making her just straight up dumb and with no autonomy. she says to her father that he she was a pawn in his hands handed over to viserys, but this also doesn't get confronted, when it ain't fully right either. yes, her father did tell her to go dress up pretty and talk to grieving king, who just lost his wife, wink wink. and even in the tv show it is clearly implied, that she understands why her father asks her for this, she's not clueless about this. however she does try to make king like her on her very own. if she didn't want to get all nice and cozy with the king, she could've easily make him dislike her by acting childlish or annoying for example. they were meeting only on their own, so it's not like her father would know, how she acted. and later, if he would ask how it went, she could say that king isn't really fond of her, she must not be his type, after all targaryens are weird about this, marrying each other etc etc. but she didn't, she very much worked on getting into that queen role on her own, so twisting it later and putting it on just otto, takes away her agency.

she was also fully aware of viserys not being of fully sound mind at the end of his life in the show, constantly high on painkillers, she and her father are basically ruling in his place. and she knew that her father wanted her son to be the next king. so to make it look as if she genuinely just misunderstood mumbling of a dying man, went with it to her dad and then is surprised that it actually means war and she doesn't really want it, bc she cares about rhaenyra, it's just making her look fucking stupid. it would make much more sense to give her some unlikable cuthroat traits of "my son is king's firstborn son, so he deserves the throne and i'm gonna get it for him" or "my son is king's firstborn son, which means he and his siblings are in danger now, so i'm just gonna hit first", esp that build up for that was already done. but no, let's make her look completely dumb and naive and bad things just happening out of her reach.

uwu poor powerless victim, who for an unknown reason(jk, it's bc writers couldn't figure out how to write this without sounding competely ridiculous) ends up in some blackmail situation with master of whisperers jacking off to her feet as if she's not a goddamn queen of seven kingdoms, who can easily get him killed off. but no, we have to feel bad for her, so let's pretend she's so poor and helpless and would totally allow this and not push him off the stairs even on her own and say he tripped, after all he's limping due to his twisted foot, so it's very probable and also no one would really bother, especially that his closest family is dead, bc he killed them himself.

rhaenyra is clearly creators' bias, so she gets the bestest girl absolved from any wrongdoings treatment. creators are also against team green in general, but alicent is a woman, so to keep greens at fault and not put it really on alicent, they make her dumb. if anything bad happens it's the fault of the men in each team and creators want to make it clear so much, that some male characters, like criston cole, become a ridiculous parody. but women are so strong and powerful and in charge, trust us bro.

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And this is how I learned that he referred to himself as the "Lorekeeper" 🤣

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The fact that Geeta Patel doesn’t know that F&B heavily implies that Elissa Farman took the eggs that would come to Daenerys’ hands and that Rhaena carries three eggs to the Vale, with one of them hatching to a dragon, thus leaving only two, and that GRRM made this decision purposefully, so that we know that Daenerys’ eggs don’t come from Rhaena, is disconcerting.

I’m starting to believe that the writers/producers/directors/showrunners have either never read Fire & Blood, or lack basic-level critical thinking skills.