#em's ask backlog august 2024

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a small doubt! i hope i don’t bother you too much with it: what does the word talītsos mean? i tried googling it but it did not make any sense to me...

Hey, nonnie!

This is a word that means "little niece".

It is a combination of the root word 'tala' meaning daughter/female's sister's daughter/male's brother's daughter and '-ītsos', a suffix attached to nouns to indicate a diminutive (little).

Hope this helps!

[em-writes-stuff-sometimes]

I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but genuinely, the things I’ve seen said about Aemond these last few days disgust me. The bodyshaming is fucking insane. I’ve seen people say that it was more of a jumpscare/more traumatising to see Aemond naked than to see Jahaerys’ head reattached to his body. I’ve seen people say that he looked like Voldemort’s fetus when curling up against the madam. The fucking hatred against Aemond is in-FUCKING-sane. Hate Aemond all you want, I could not care less. But speaking about his body? Especially with so much hate?? Aemond does not exist, he’s not hurt about what you’re saying. But Ewan? The ACTOR PORTRAYING Aemond?? He is REAL and CAN be hurt by your words. I find these people disgusting. Hating the personality of someone, a bad or good person, gives you no fucking right to hate on their body. Whether they be fat, skinny, conventionally ugly or pretty, I do not care. As someone who was hurt because of such comments before, it’s infuriating to see. These people should be ashamed of themselves.

Anyway, sorry for ranting, I just really needed to get this off my chest. Love you <3

Heeeeey, nonnie!

Sorry for the delayed replay - to clarify, all, this is in relation to Episodes 2 and 4 (I think?) of the recent season, specifically with Aemond's nudie scenes.

I pretty much instablocked everyone either saying the gross things or the people making constant posts complaining about the gross things being said, so I didn't cop a lot of it on my feed. But I do think it's so very typical of just The Worst People TM congregating in the ASOIAF fandom to do this kind of stuff. Bodyshaming, slutshaming, shaming in general - it's what these arseholes do at this point, honestly. And it isn't okay. I found it all amusing too, in a weird way, because it just goes to show how insanely wrong people were about the direction of Aemond's character. Some of the fandom allowed themselves to forget the difference between headcanon and the actual story being told (and regardless of whether or not you enjoyed it, it is show canon now) and are now upset that they've raced ahead and filled in the gaps in a manner that is now wrong. Instead of going "oh, personally not a fan, oh well, will write fanfic differently" they jumped STRAIGHT to "I must be a terrible human being in my tantrum". It's gross, but so very typical at this point.

My advice, after having done the exact opposite of this in the past? Don't engage. You aren't going to change their minds. They've posted it on the internet because they are either so confident they're right or they're determined to stick to their guns regardless. Block. Bar them access. Eventually, their grossness will take itself out to the trash, where they belong.

Thank you for sharing this, nonnie. I hope splooting it in my inbox made you feel better! I enjoyed reading your thoughts!

[em-writes-stuff-sometimes]

Sorry for disturbing you but I have to get this out after watching the latest episode of HOTD… THE DISRESPECT THAT THEY PUT ON BAELONS AND ALYSSA NAME MUST BE ANSWERED LIKE BAELON WOULD NEVER!

NEVER apologise for disturbing me!!!

(Sorry for the delay in answering this: for context to those reading, I think this is in relation to Ulf saying he's Baelon's kid.)

And TBH I don't really know if I believe him..... I think it's likelier that he's just some nondescript bastard of a bastard of a Targ, and that he's invented the Baelon thing because he's a self-important dickhead.

BAELON WAS PUSSY-WHIPPED FOR HIS SISSSSSSSS!!!! DIS IS CANON!

Either way, though, I'll sigh and jot it down for 'things to rewrite in fanfic', haha!