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The best part about being an adult, is that I can spent $14 on two premium Hello Kitty mobile games to play when I'm sad and lonely and no one is around to tell me to grow up except perhaps my phone bill.

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the rest of westeros to dany like yep. get in line. at this point you have a harem of individuals ready to marry you as soon as you say the word

jon knows it which only makes him more protective but also smug like she’s mine

Jon is legit ready to bash people away with a stick. Also Dany being like "im the rightful queen of course she will be mine" only to have to contend with Margaery "if anyone is going to steal her away from her husband it will be me." Meanwhile youre in the corner feeding the baby without a thought in the world on the matter.

In reality, as far as people who are genuinely attracted to you is actually limited. Many find you attractive, but they mostly want to marry you for political gain, considering who you are. There is a short list of those genuinely attracted to you, and I'm not even sure if any of you actually know who they all are besides Jon and technically Euron.

The flip side is though, as many people want to marry you, twice as many people want you dead. So it's a literal fight to the death for your non existant hand at this point.

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I’m all for anti Jonerys except I think it would be so funny if against all odds (if Daenerys was a vital part of hotgw plot) that she ended up having a crush on reader instead 😭😭😭 like

i hate her so much with jon, even the thought of her crushing or scheming to get him is a nooo, but with reader?

too funny not to think about

reader starts getting self conscious and worrying she’ll steal jon (even though we know that would never happen)

just for her to be the one dany wants all along 😭

Dany would be in for a hilariously rude awakening. Just being like "I'm gonna bond with her over my dragons" only for reader and Drogon to take one look at another and instantly Danys gotta stop him from turning you into dinner because Drogon could sense the "I fucking hate you" vibes right away.

Just confusing your understanding of your sexuality but not in a fun way like Margaery would. You're just confused and now angry because it's a fucking dragon riding Targaryean whose looking at you this way.

Rip Danys final moments though, the reader would not even entertain speaking with her after the burning of Kings Landing the way they pretended Jon would. She's making her way to that woman possessed with the spirit of Robert Baratheon.

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btw book ser criston became lord commander after ser harrold westerling's death, years before the dance and before he switched allegiances. he'd only been apart it the kingsguard for four years and presumedly was the lowest born member when chosen to fill the post.

instead, the show kept harrold westerling around so they could take what was a great achievement for ser criston and instead frame it as him getting to reap the benefits of the "evil greens stealing the throne"

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it's just me and the other five viserys third of his name understanders against the rest of the world

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I see alot of the dresses you post that reader would wear in Kingslanding, what fashion do you imagine her in while at Winterfell?

More reserved more covered up. More things her style because in Kings Landing she dresses with an expectation of who her family is, whereas in Winterfell she can be more comfortable. These the sort of things I imagine:

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i'm one hour 43 minutes into the playlist that i told you i'm making, and i keep saying there's enough songs in there, but i keep adding more 😭😭 and what's worse it's that now i'm too scared to share it with you because what if you don't like it hahahaha

I promise you I will love it. Unless it's literally 2 hours straight of Rains of Castamere just to torment me, nothing you could put in a playlist would disappoint me! I would absoutely love to hear it, but don't feel pressured. It's totally alright if you decide your not comfortable with sharing it, but just know if you do, I 100% will love it!

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Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand. If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father’s killers … Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three.

jon snow week | day two: favorite quote

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jaime lannister GAY moments

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“Whoever Jon's mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away.”

Of course knowing the truth of Lyanna makes Neds choices about Jon more understandable and touching, but I think from Catelyns perspective there is an easy point she might be passing over. Which is maybe Ned just doesnt want to send Jon away, simply because Jon is his son and he loves him.

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Back when I first got into asoiaf and heard talk of Bloodmoon, my assumption, based on the shallow bits of information we got, was that it would be set in the Night's King era, during or just before the reign of Brandon the Breaker.

What lead to this idea was that the setting must have been early Age of Heroes since the Casterlys still existed, but after the Long Night since the Starks also existed and were reputable enough to be able to arrange a marriage with the unfathomably rich House Casterly. And then Martin implied that the Others would show up too, and that's what convinced me that it was set during that era specifically, because that's the only time during the Age of Heroes but after the Long Night that the Others threatened to make a comeback.

For a while, I imagined what kind of storylines the show could follow and how they would be handled, starting to hype myself up and raising my expectations.

Since the Casterlys still existed, Lann the Clever would be a nice plotline to include. A Casterly woman was cast, and her description was 'A noblewoman hiding a dark secret' or something, so I was like "Holy shit, what if she conspired the downfall of her house with Lann" or maybe she would be the Casterly girl Lann ends up marrying in some tellings of his legend, or what if he was her secret bastard son or something - I don't know, I just thought that there were a lot of fun and interesting potential storylines that they could follow.

As far as I remember, two Starks were cast, a man and a woman, and according to my previous assumption about the setting, I believed they would be Brandon the Breaker and a sister of his. Through them, we'd get a glimpse into the political environment of the North during the Age of Heroes. Maybe we'd get to see what the Night's Watch was originally like, before it became a penal colony for the kingdoms, and crumbled down under Targaryen rule - And maybe a hint as to the origins of the Wildlings, and who and how they were during that era, since if they're going to tell the story of the Night's King, Joramun needs to be there as well. I imagined that we'd get to see how the alliance between Brandon and Joramun came to be, the negotiations and how they ended up agreeing to it, and so on.

The Children of the Forest were somewhat involved, so I believed we'd see more of their Green Magic, and how they tought the First Men to use ravens for long distance communication, their cultural exchanges and the friendship between the two peoples build - both on a personal and political level. Maybe even a flashback to show us a glimpse of the Pact, and the 'wise men' that agreed to it.

This went on and on, my imaginings about the show eventually became something of a fanfiction in their own right, my expectations were decently high and I was excited.

...And then it got cancelled and the dragon show got approved.

I know that all of this hype was just what I assumed the show would be based on what superficial info we had about the story, the show itself very well could have sucked just like hotd does, but I was excited about it dammit :(

(Now that I think about it, I'm kinda tempted to write an actual fanfic based on what I imagined Bloodmoon to be - since we're probably never getting that show and my expectations ended up being so specific that, at this point, only I can satisfy them.)

There is just so much rich history in Westeros that is disappoints me that they keep going bsck to the targs. The Dance of Dragons, Aegon the Conqeuerer, Dunk and Egg. Like asoiaf is not just the Targaryeans. They are in fact a very tiny portion of this world and series that should never have been the focus. I liked Fire and Blood because it's framed as an in universe history book on the early years of the realms recent united monarchy, written after that dynasty has been destroyed. It's a reflection.

But all the shows being made is just glorifying them as the series main characters when say what you will if you like them or not, the main characters of this series is and has always been the Starks. But they get ignored, and I've never understood why HBO does not consider their history to be a viable source of adaptation.

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reader knowing jon will break that pattern with their daughter 🥹🥹🥹

That's even worse, is that she never doubted Jon would love your children, daughter, any of them, all of them. It's you that you doubt. Will you once more fall I to the curse of a Baratheon failing as a parent, constantly worried you will just be a terrible mother.

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We need a prequel of Stannis and Jon Arryn in kings landing uncovering the truth about the Lannisters. Shittiest buddy comedy of the year.

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that gif makes me sad because then I think about hotgw and how reader never experiences the same father shireen does because stannis is righting his wrongs with his youngest and never had the opportunity to undo the harm he caused his firstborn

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That actually is something I've enjoyed writing this series. Being able to recontextualize Stannis and connect some dots between the differences of the book and show character. Book Stannis is the man he started off as, show Stannis is the man events in hotgw turned him into. I can take what doesn't make sense about the show character, by reframing if through the relationship with the reader, same with Selyse.

Stannis tried raising you as a son, he wanted you to be a son and after you were born, Selyse lost 4 boys in the womb. Before Shireen was born, he didn't even know if he'd ever have another child. And so he tried raising you like an heir. Sending you to ward for another Highborn Lord as many do with their sons, giving you more of a Lords education and letting you fall slack on your more Lady lessons as you grew older because it was more benefical to him to teach you his way. He didn't bring you to Kings Landing like Ned did Arya and Sansa, just two girls getting to live and learn in the city. But training you alongside him to do a job women almost never do, and putting you in charge of things requiring you to earn the respect of the men around you.

But, you're still his daughter. He knows he has to marry you to a highborn family one day, and whatever children you will have there take priority over you inherited Dragonstone from him. He knows he is leaving you conflicted and lost and the presssure he puts on you is impossible to live up to as a woman.

Then Shireen comes along, and he can try again. Sure, he's distant from her off and on while he's in Kings Landing, but, he can keep you there and work in his stead while he visits Dragonstone and spend time with her. He doesn't raise her like a son, he lets her be his sweet daughter and doesnt put that pressure on her the way he knows is already crushing you.

At Shireen's age in those gifs, Stannis never sat down with you and talked about books and history and your opinions on those sorts of things. He was already piling lessons upon lessons on you to make sure you followed in his footsteps properly. You didn't have quiet one on one talks at that point, those hadn't happened since you were a little girl.

But he has them with Shireen, because he's raised her to have that chance to do so. And now that Shireen is gone, it's a difficult thing to realize that while you two don't hate each other and aren't enemies, he might have burned the bridge with you too far.

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The Dance of Dragons. It’s the story of the fight between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon for control of the Seven Kingdoms. Both of them thought they belonged on the Iron Throne. When people started declaring for one of them or the other, their fight divided the kingdom in two. Brothers fought brothers. Dragons fought dragons. By the time it was over, thousands were dead. And it was a disaster for the Targaryens as well. They never truly recovered.

— “The dance of dragons”? Why is that a dance? Doesn’t make much sense.

That's just what they call it. I think it’s poetic.

GAME OF THRONES 5.09 — The Dance of Dragons

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We could have had Bloodmoon! We could have seen the days of the First Men, and the Stark princesses, and Lann the Clever, and the fucking Casterlys!

I mean, Bloodmoon had problems as well, mainly because it fell into the racist and dehumanising trope of casting inhuman characters as black, and depicting indigenous peoples as forest creatures instead of... Well, people - But that was the pilot. Now, I don't know much about the filmmaking industry, but I feel like those are things that could be fixed, especially if caught early on in the production.

They could have the actors who were supposed to play the Children of the Forest be, like, First Men scholars instead (Or bards, or greenseers, or literally any human person from any possible proffession.) The First Men don't have to have been homogenous, perhaps they started out as different tribes from different areas of Essos, uniting under a single 'First Man' identity later on, leading up to them having some diversity to their names when they eventually settled on Westeros.

Whatever, sorry for rambling, but I'm still upset at the executive decision to make every single asoiaf adaptation be centered around the racist dragon people, instead of literally anyone else.

Showing stuff with the Children of the Forest would be so interesting. Give a chance to explore the concept of Greenseeing, how in depth that sort of thing goes. Show how while the First Men likely had more advanced ways of waging warfare, they were nothing compared to the powers the Children had. Explore how prevelant and important the Weirwoods are.

The First Men make plans in front of them, and the Children watch and listen and begin toying with their minds, putting thoughts and images in their heads they don't understand but send them on a path away from the Children.

Show exactly HOW the peace treaty came about, whose idea was it to conduct one on either side, why they decided on the Isle of Faces. Explore how important the Gods Eye lake really is, and establish the Order of the Greenmen as the Children who stayed on the Isle to honour the pact. Show us what happened to the Arm of Dorne, how the Children destoryed it and how it related to their pact.

Leaving us breadcrumbs of what was to come when the Andals invade thousands of years in the future and how their arrival is what ends the Childrens ability to live harmoniously with the First Men.

Build that up even to the Long Night, and show us the true scale of apocalypse it really was. Establish exactly why the North 8000 years in the future will still take it seriously.

They could even have fun, and have us follow protagonists that only have one name and build up to reveal we've actually been following people who would become the first offically named of House Stark.

So much if that early time in Westeros is so interesting, but they refuse to go that far back because there is zero way to incorporate literally anything Valyria related, since it didn't even exist yet.

Or, what led them to following what we know as the Old Gods? Did the First Men come to Westeros SEEKING the origins of a religion they already followed? Or did they adopt the gods the Children of the Forest worshipped? When did that happen? Was it gradual leading to the peace pact or was it a result of the Long Night? Why did they come to Westeros and why were they the only people to come here that beleive in the same gods that the Children do but no one else did?

There's just so much to explore there, but they never will.

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I mean they handled the dragon budget very well in Game of Thrones. But to do so, they sacrificed giving a single scrap of meaningful screen time to the direwolves to the point they would find ways to write them out of the story just so they didn't have to animate them (Ghost abandoning Jon in season 2 is the most blatant example of how much writing them out ruined their importance.)

I think they could do this show with the dragon budget they need, but the people running these shows seem to have a monumental failure in understanding of how and where to allocate their visual effects budget and why. The best scenes in Game of Thrones were two people sitting in a stagnant room talking, and they knew to save their special effects for more important moments (i.e saving the season 5 budget during the bulild up to Hardhome then going absoutely ham on the visuals during that episode).

I refuse to beleive that a show that spent $20 million dollars per episode in season 2, couldn't find the budget to actually incorporate the dragons. They either don't know how to allocate the budget for visual effects which makes them stupid or they were just too lazy to bother figuring out the logistics of how and why to do so, which makes them monumentally stupid.

Listen I'm just gonna be honest, if it was going to be to expensive to properly film scenes with all the dragons, then maybe they shouldn't have chosen to adapt the "story about dragons" part of Westeros history.