#christon

[ak-liano]

Inktober day 1 - campfire

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[lunamond]

The disproportionate hate show!Criston gets is so bizarre. No argument I’ve seen his haters make sofar has made any sense to me.

He is outside of Mysaria the only siginficant lowborn character we meet. He rises up from the son of a steward of a minor house to the position of King‘s Guard thanks to Rhaenyra, who then pressures him into having sex with her, sth that could get him executed. Afterwards she not just rejects his proposal, but laughs in his face.

And when as a result of this experience Criston is shown to be emotional distraught and bitter, people call him an incel? (I assume that they refer to his ideology and not his actual status as a celibate, because not being celibate is literally what started this mess)

It really rubs me the wrong way, when people remove all context from this situation. A lower class person getting a well-off position from a person with authority, who they then end up having sex with is ALWAYS a relationship with a power imbalance (Obviously there are irl relationships like this, who work out and manage to be relatively healthy, but that doesn‘t remove the imbalance of power and the increased likelyhood of abuse).

We see Criston‘s reluctance when Rhaenyra makes her move. It does not matter if Criston was attracted to her or not. The simple fact that he is in a vunerable position makes him denying her a risk. It also does not matter that Rhaenyra had no malicious intentions, the simple fact that she ignores Criston‘s refusal and continues pressuring make this whole scene super uncomfortable. Her ignorance and naivety does not erase the impact of her actions.

Criston growing to hate her afterwards is perfectly justified.

As a man who grew up in Westerosi society, he inevitably holds misogynist beliefs, which is reflected in the insults he uses after this. But compared to the acts of every single character on this show, singling out his character is pretty ludicrous, when we have plenty of male (and female) characters who have done worse:

Like commiting SA (Viserys, Aegon), grooming young girls (Viserys again! I really hate this man, Daemon, Otto, Corlys and Rhaenys because telling your daughter she has to sleep with a grown man when she is 14 is pretty much the same thing Otto does to Alicent) and the only major crime Criston is guilty of sofar: murder (Daemon killed his wife and the servant in Driftmark, also he did large scale police violence which people love to forget about, Rhaenys killed potentially hundreds of smallfolk at the coronation)

Obviously, anybody is allowed to dislike whatever character they want, but a lot of people flatten Criston into just a misogynistic bitter incel who is just mad that Rhaenyra has sex, ignoring every bit of context we get for his behaviour.

This becomes escpecially weird, when those same people have no problem stanning Daemon, who calls his 1st wife a „bitch“, „uglier than sheep“ and then murders her, because he sees her as inferior as a none-valyrian. But Criston calling Rhaenyra, a person he feels personally wronged by, a „spoiled cunt“ is apparently a too far.

It is just really frustating when the character with the canonically lowest social standing gets afforded the least amount of nuance by the fandom (the writers are obvs not excempt from this criticism either).

[thequeenwechoose]

Daemon & Rhaenyra in 2x01 Hotd

[owarinaki]

HOTD S2 - Alicent & Cole

HOTD S2EP2 P1 / P2 / P3 / P4 / P5 / P6/ P7 / P8

House of the Dragon S2 all links

EP1 // EP2 // EP3

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[pigeonriot]

A FULL EPISODE WITHOUT CRISPY COLE SHOWING HIS FACE

[persephone411]

You can say about the men in house of the dragon what you want but at least they eat pussy and we should respect that

[evilcentral]

katjaherbers: Ohhhh only six more eps remaining of this season of this show??? Say it ain’t so. Hello, any streamer, paying attention to those Nielson stats that have us in the top 10 for months now?? Come make some money off us. We’ll all happily give you more.

Okay, let’s get to this Fun Stack of BTS. First pic is Mike and me with Yap Fong Yee, aka Mel, aka BuzzBuzz. She started out as our script supervisor, super important job on set, a good “Scripty” can elevate everyone’s work. She was so good at it that the Kings gave her her own episode to direct and then that episode was so good that she got another one & another one & another one... she directed 2 this season! The pigs one was hers and this new ep coming up. Here in this stack of photos you can see her in both her roles! What else is in here. Some much needed @patrickbrammall aka Andy taking us on a deep dive of his process of getting into character which involves A LOT of scotch tape. Who knew. Now you know. Normal. Also the late the great Peter Scolari who we miss so much on our show. He fit right into our nonsense and there wasn’t a day without a laughing fit. He was a genius actor and a light. And I don’t say that lightly. Then there’s @coltermikecolter doing a way too accurate imitation of my walk on the last slide. People who know me told me this is the truth😩🥴 And you can see our stand-ins/photo doubles sitting in for us while the crew builds the light. @coadyc has been my stand in all these seasons and I’ll take her anywhere. And Spelman, well, we wear his face on t-shirts for all that observe Spelman Day (slide 5). Hope you’ll like our next ep! We loved making it, it was ridiculous and there was room for plenty comedy in there. Excited to see how it turned out. Okayyyyy byyyyyeee you evil loving weirdos! Keep streaming us, it matters for a potential pick uppp 😜😘

[ak-liano]

Inktober day 2 - forest

+ ocs doodle!

[krispyweiss]

“Chicago & Friends Director’s Cut” to Air on Fantracks Starting Dec. 16

- Steve Vai, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Robert Randolph among guests

Chicago went back to its Transit Authority days for a pair of Chicago & Friends gigs, reminding themselves and late-coming fans the band once specialized in full-bore rock ‘n’ roll.

“If you didn’t listen to Chicago, man, you know, you weren’t hip,” James Pankow says in the trailer for the forthcoming “Chicago & Friends - Director’s Cut.”

There was a time that was true. And on Nov. 17 and 18 in New Jersey, it was true again.

Here’s Robert Randolph playing the solo and singing the long-in-dry-dock “Listen.”

There’s Steve Vai tapping his way through the even rarer “Poem 58.”

And just listen to Christone “Kingfish” Ingram recreating Terry Kath’s “Make Me Smile” solo.

Chris Daughtry, VoicePlay and Robin Thicke are among the other guests in the preview.

So forget about the waving cellphones in “Hard to Say I’m Sorry;” check out Vai playing “25 or 6 to 4” the way it was meant to be played.

The show airs Dec. 16-31 on Fantracks.com.

12/14/23

[wet-marvinboy]

Only god knows why I get so nauseous around girls.. perhaps it’s just anxiety? Nervousness of some sort?

Whatever it is, how do I explain to sweetheart I can’t, and I’m not good at being overly physical with her..?

[thequeenwechoose]

My Thoughts about House of the Dragon 2x02

Poor Haelena. No one cares about her or is with her. They only care about the dead baby. She is a victim too.

Otto taking advantage of a dead child is just cruel. He is only about propaganda against Rhaenyra.

Alicent asking Haelena if she has seen her with cole was just, ist that your only concern right now? Your daughter has seen her child being murdered.

The procession was a bit much for my opinion. Haelena having a panic attack. She deserves better.

The whole Rhaenyra saying to Daemon that she cant trust him and never has is stupid. Why did she marry him then? She said herself that her claim is stronger with him and now it's suddenly not? I 'm sorry but i m on Daemons side in this. To be clear i dont support the dead of the child. But Daemon has never lied to her why would he now? I dont know what Rhaenyras goal is she has not taken action so far and voiced it. And tahat is getting on my nerves. She is sitting the whole episode on Dragonstone and does nothing significant. Sending Baela instead of Jace to patrol Kings Landing i have a bad feeling.

That Daemon left after this i can understand. It was time that he got out of there. He should have been in Harrenhall since ep 10. She is triving her strongest ally away. In the book most of the people stood behind her because of Daemon. And here they argue about Viserys. The hard truth is that Viserys named Rhaenyra heir to get rid of Daemon. He is right. She wasnt named because she was better suited for the job she was 14 at the time. And he kept her because he was feeling guilty because of what he did to her mother.

Daemons flight off in the sunset was beautiful filmed. But he could have said something to Baela.

Criston Cole is official the worst character in the whole series and that includes thrones to me. He should chocke when he speaks words like honor and dignity. And now he has all the power in hands. Cant wait to see it backfire.

Otto was always a character that i despised from the very beginning. I have always thought that i would enjoy it when he gets dismissed as hand. But he was actully very reasonable in that scene. I must give it to him that he always tried to avoid blodshed. Rhys Ifans is a very talented actor. His little laugh when Aegon said that that his father wanted him to be heir.

The Erryk Arryk scene was very sad. No wonder they sent Daemon away so quickly. If he had been there it wouldnt have happened. They missed the opurtunity for a great book quote here.

"Six Men or sixty he is still Daemon Targaryen"

I'm very tired of Alicent fucking Chole.

Oh and Rhaenys should get more scenes next episode. Don't waste her like that.

The episode felt quite boring to me. Im quite disappointed. I think it was a mistake that Miguel Sapochnik got fired. The writing is not good.

Rhaenyras chamber is a waste of space and money. The room with the dragon on the wall was a beautiful bedroom. They should have kept it. I dont reconise Dragonstone anymore. I understand the libary set but not Rhaenyras bedroom.

[givemeasword-callmequeen]

The only good decision Christon Cole did this season was to turn his horse into a unicorn

[aboutoriginality]

Watch "Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - Empty Promises Live!" on YouTube

[bloodcrownedking]

Really fucking good blues can change your entire life btw

[melis-ash]

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