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Lady Stoneheart lowered her hood and unwound the grey wool scarf from her face. Her hair was dry and brittle, white as bone. Her brow was mottled green and grey, spotted with the brown blooms of decay. The flesh of her face clung in ragged strips from her eyes down to her jaw. Some of the rips were crusted with dried blood, but others gaped open to reveal the skull beneath. Her face, Brienne thought. Her face was so strong and handsome, her skin so smooth and soft. “Lady Catelyn?” Tears filled her eyes. “They said… they said that you were dead.”    

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Did you see the leak of Helaena and Dreamfyre with Rhaenyra? I hate that they have to shoehorn their fav fav Rhaenyra everywhere. Helaena cannot have one scene with her beloved dragon without Rha*nyra its like the only Aegon and Sunfyre moment in which we had to hear her hideous voiceover ugh as if she has to steal other characters moments to stay relevant. Never seen a more insecure character.

Exactly. They’re not doing this because it serves the story, they’re doing it out of sheer obligation to their narrative darling. Everything has to orbit Rhaenyra like she’s the prom queen of Westeros, even if it means gutting other characters’ arcs to prop her up. We’ll probably get a single shot of Dreamfyre flying in that one episode, maybe another during the Dragonpit storming, and that’s it. Meanwhile, Helaena, who could’ve been this beloved, sane dragonrider adored by the people, gliding over King’s Landing on Dreamfyre, is reduced to a shaky, glassy-eyed “DragonDreamer” plot device. All so she can spit out some cryptic prophecy that has no place in the Dance and make Rhaenyra look like the righteous messiah. It’s pathetic. They’ve stripped her of everything just to feed Rhaenyra’s martyr complex.

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Rhys Ifans has so much talent but he doesn't take himself so seriously, each of his roles it looks like he's just having a blast and overall just happy to be there and not caring about the rest. I love that.

That man is absolutely having the time of his goddamn life in every role and I’m all here for it. He dives in headfirst, chews the scenery, and somehow still delivers gold every damn time. Zero ego, all vibe. We need more of that. 👍

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— Mark Doty, "White Kimono" in Sweet Machine

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𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: but the love lies buried to the point of suffocation under fear and self-reproaches. END ID]

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WHAT THE WHAT??!???!

SOOOORR.. I WAS SCROLLING THROUGH MY FEED AND CAME ACROSS WITH THIS https://www.tumblr.com/novaursa/791841110906601472/the-first-time-i-acknowledged-rhys-ifans-otto?source=share

AND I WAS LIKE 'OTTO (RHYS IFANS) WAS IN TASM?? HMMM 🤔 🤔 LEMME CHECK..' HOW THE HELL IM I JUST FINDING OUT THAT HE PLAYED CRAZY DOCTOR LIZARD MAN WHO WANTS TO TURN EVERYONE TO A LIZARD AND ALMOST HURT MY HG GWEN STACY IN TASM???????????? 😧😧 I WAS SHOOKETH! I AM FLABBERGASTED. I AM GOBSMACKED MAMA BCS I AM JUST FINDING THIS OUT NOW 🤨😫😭

AND OH MY PINKY TOE. IT GETS BETTER BCS AS I WAS LOOKING TO HIS MOVIES AND SHOWS, I SAW HE WAS ALSO IN HARRY POTTER TOO! AND I WAS LIKE 'OH DIP! FR?? WHO HE PLAYED?? 🤨🤨'

LEMME TELL U NO ONE—AND I MEAN NO ONE PREPARED ME WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT HE PLAYED LUNA'S DAD—THE XENOPHILIUS LOVEGOOD—THE FOIIIINE TALL BLONDE WEIRD MAN???!!??!

WHAT?!

I SWEAR I THOUGHT THEY WERE PLAYED BY DIFFERENT PERSON 😭😭😭 ITS LIKE MY BRAIN KENNAT COMPREHEND THIS NEW INFORMATION 😭😭😩

RIGHT?! It just proves how obscenely brilliant Rhys Ifans is. Man shapeshifted from chaotic lizard scientist to deranged medieval wine uncle to whimsical wizard dad like it's your typical Monday. He disappears so deep into every role that your brain has to reboot when you realize it’s the same dude. I love this energy from you, anon. Never change. You're discovering cinema-level whiplash and I am HERE for it. 😌

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Soooo at this point you’ve made your feelings about HotD quite clear (and rightly so because it’s a shitshow, hellfire, wannabee dreamscape even if I love the source material). At this point I’m wondering if it even could be redeemed and if so like what would it take, so hypothetical for my favorite writer. If HBO came and made you the show-runner right now from Season 3 on with complete artistic and directional control, what would you do to fix the show moving forward? Or would you just tell them it’s an irredeemable p.o.s. that should be buried in the deepest cave on Dragonstone to never see sunlight again?

Oh, I’d buried it.

Salt the earth and scatter the ashes. There is no fixing this bloated, tone-deaf disaster. It's beyond CPR, beyond resurrection. It needs to be laid to rest like the cursed abomination it is and started over from scratch as GRRM intended. If HBO handed me full control from Season 3 on? I’d hand them back a middle finger. You don’t “fix” something built on a corrupted foundation. You demolish it, give it a proper burial, and rebuild with source-faithful bones, not this self-indulgent, lore-butchered mess masquerading as aesthetic porn and bad wigs. 🙃

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Man took one look at the script, saw the chaos brewing, and peaced out like the wise legend he is. “Call me when y’all figure out what the hell this plot is.”

While we're at it can we get Commander Westerling there, too? Not that he was the most useful character but I have a crush on Graham McTavish...

Sure. 😂 Drag his confused ass into Tumbleton too. He can stand dramatically in the background, contribute absolutely nothing, and still outshine half of the people just by existing.

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looks like everyone and their mother is at Tumbleton lmao

At this rate, I’m expecting the Others to show up with a margarita and a party hat. 😂

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While we're at it can we get Commander Westerling there, too? Not that he was the most useful character but I have a crush on Graham McTavish...

Sure. 😂 Drag his confused ass into Tumbleton too. He can stand dramatically in the background, contribute absolutely nothing, and still outshine half of the people just by existing.

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At this rate maybe we should be expecting Laenor to show up?? I would not put this absolute nonsense past the writers... or maybe Sunfyre, crawling all the way from Rook's Rest...

Oh my gods, now that would be peak chaos. Seasmoke yeeting Addam off like “thanks for warming my saddle” and bolting straight to Laenor in the middle of the carnage. Meanwhile, Sunfyre drags himself in like a half-cooked turkey and just lights the whole place up like it’s Westerosi Hell’s Kitchen. Honestly? I’d watch it. 🙂

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looks like everyone and their mother is at Tumbleton lmao

At this rate, I’m expecting the Others to show up with a margarita and a party hat. 😂

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https://www.tumblr.com/novaursa/791871466235936768/jokes-on-the-showrunners-because-if-they-had-kept?source=share

I wasn't thinking at all about kid Rhaenyra, I was thinking as an adult, later on in life when her own kids were teens. I'm sorry I should have said.

Doesn’t matter. It’s still fucked up.

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Me n the boys sippin on era-appropriate hard liquor in the Tumbleton pub with rhe entire team green and team black (we put poison in all of their drinks, guaranteeing world peace)

Meanwhile, I’m passed out in the corner snoring through the whole damn thing. Because I’ve been drinking since sunrise, courtesy of Otto’s recommended vintage. If peace breaks out while I’m face down on the tavern floor, that’s still a win in my book. 😌

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And then he and Daemon have a full-blown dragon dance-off in the sky, high as kites. Vhagar doing pirouettes, Caraxes beatboxing with his throat sac. No one's winning that war, but the visuals? Spectacular.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Otto is also in Tumbleton. The man spent season 2 in the wine cellar sampling their selection for the party, that's my theory.

Wouldn’t shock me either. Otto probably crawled out of the wine cellar just in time to pick the table linens. Man’s been ghosting the entire war but you can bet he’s been curating the vintage for Rhaenyra’s little Tumbleton soirée. 😌

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Joke's on the showrunners because if they had kept to canon, fans would have likely shipped Alicent and Rhaenyra anyway, because some people will never pass up the opportunity to write toxic yuri ships for fun. But that ship should have only been fanfic, not some weird nonsensical dynamic the showrunners cling to like it will save their dumpster fire of a show.

If someone is seriously shipping a grown-ass woman like canon!Alicent yearning after a child like Rhaenyra (who was nine years old when Viserys married Alicent), then they’re just as fucked in the head as the showrunners who dreamed this garbage up.

Of course they couldn’t put that dynamic on TV without exposing how deranged it is, so they rewrote Alicent as a teenage sad girl to make it look palatable. But it’s still built on the same creepy foundation.

That ship belonged in the depths of untagged fanfic hell, not as a central pillar of a multi-million dollar “adaptation.”

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And whatever exotic spices Aegon is smuggling are probably banned in half the Free Cities and get you high just by sniffing them.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Otto is also in Tumbleton. The man spent season 2 in the wine cellar sampling their selection for the party, that's my theory.

Wouldn’t shock me either. Otto probably crawled out of the wine cellar just in time to pick the table linens. Man’s been ghosting the entire war but you can bet he’s been curating the vintage for Rhaenyra’s little Tumbleton soirée. 😌