#matt & hess

[eschercaine]

The Daemon Targaryen I know isn’t busy tripping balls and talking to a witch while there’s a war on his doorstep.

And despite his reputation of being a rogue, he wasn’t planning on usurping his wife’s claim to the throne. He’s her #1 supporter. Daemon Targaryen died fighting for Rhaenyra.

[reyloaddict55]

« Six men or sixty, he is still Daemon Targaryen. »

I want this Daemon back. I want my Rogue King Consort.

[darklinaforever]

I'm not Daemon's biggest fan but the way HoTD is so blatantly assassinating his character is infuriating. They've been effectively "silencing" him since 1x05, restricting Matt's charisma and not letting Daemon really express himself or be human. But this season it's painfully obvious. They were pissed that Daemon was THE fan fave so now they completely butcher him (and Daemyra). It reminds me of how D&D sabotaged Dany and it's just so incredibly unfair to both Matt and Daemon.

Completely agree.

[patashnick]

WTF Was that episode 😡🤬

Can we please stop the character assassination of daemon targereyn. There is a big difference between writing unpredictable character and writing inconsistent one. Matt Smith deserve better than this shit cause he is killing it in this role.

The irony of a show that is lad by a non-binary person, portraying all the main characters as cliche gender stereotypes, 'man are violent and reckless' 'women are calculated and nurturing' is soo boring. Alicent and Rhaenyra of the source material WOULD NEVER, Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke deserve better than this.

The episode might as well was called "the Fraud narrative" featuring adieus complex that come out of nowhere and penis envy in its most common way.

It's such bad writing. and it's butchering my enjoyment from the show. I wish I could stop watching, but I really really really love the actors. I will know pray for critics around the world to kill the writers.

[screamsinsilver]

yknow when instagram sometimes regurgitates really old posts at you?

I don't know what to do

talk about the inherent homoeroticism of being in a band

[mejcinta]

How Creative Differences Destroyed Netflix's Witcher

This situation has me concerned about the path House of the Dragon production team is on, because they seem to suffer from pretty much most of what the production of the Witcher went through:

Mismanagement (mostly of money and time)

BIG creative differences among crew and cast (director's vision being different from script writers', actors and showrunners' visions)

Disrespect of source material, including demeaning those with more knowledge of source material.

Hiring creative staff unfamiliar with source material.

Sudden departures/resignations of staff.

DID I ALREADY SAY I'M WORRIED??????

[navree]

no longer gonna have to see against my will absolutely dogshit dragon show takes that are the absolute pits of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, and inability to celebrate fact from fiction for at least two more years now

[witchqueenvisenya]

thank you to the cast and crew of house of the dragon for absolutely ending my investment in your show

[gabbagabbadoo]

Books Read in 2022

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read more books this year than I did last year.... which was 9 (lol) so, here they are:

(I also read more books cover to cover in a day or 2 than I ever have, and that is marked by *)

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami, Sonali Deraniyagala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster ⭐️/5

They Went Left, Monica Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Panic, Lauren Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Orphan Collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️/5

House Rules, Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Four Souls, Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐️⭐️/5

Four Three Two One, Courtney Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

We Are Lost and Found, Helene Dunbar ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

[krispyweiss]

Jorgen Carlsson Leaves Gov’t Mule on Eve of Summer Tour; Kevin Scott is In

- “We thank (him) for all his incredible work,” band says of departing bassist

After 15 years, Gov’t Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson is out of the band.

Kevin Scott, who filled in for Carlsson in 2022 when the bassist had COVID-19, will play with the group on its summer tour, beginning June 9 in Oregon.

Gov’t Mule announced the change in the third paragraph of a three-paragraph statement reminding fans about the tour and its new album, out June 16.

“Before we take the stage, we do want to let you know that our friend Kevin Scott will be joining us on bass,” the band said. “We thank Jorgen Carlsson for all his incredible work, including on Peace … Like a River and wish him the best.”

No reason was given and it’s unclear if Scott is officially Mule’s fourth bassist or a substitute. Either way, it’s an “honor - I have been a huge fan since I was in my early 20s,” Scott told Live for Live Music.

“I’m very excited for the future - to develop my own take on the catalog (and) also taking huge inspiration from (Allen) Woody, Andy (Hess) and Jorgen’s amazing bass work over the years.”

6/8/23

[screamsinsilver]

what will it take for someone to get matt and conor in a room together to sort out another bomens/erra tour

[themightyacilius]

Tweets of the Week: 26 March- 1 April 2023

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IDW Publishing celebrates the fifth anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog #1

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[hotdaemondtargaryen]

PHIA SABAN INTERVIEWED BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.

SO MUCH HAPPENED IN THE FINALE, AND HELAENA WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SO MUCH OF IT. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU FOUND OUT HOW MUCH INFLUENCE HELAENA WAS GOING TO HAVE IN THIS EPISODE?

"When I read the episode, I was so excited to be involved in that trippy dream sequence."

"I was hoping that I was going to arise from a lake of goo or something, or fly."

"But I was also really happy to stand there and talk."

"That was really exciting because we did that all in a green screen stage, just me and Matt, so it was really cool."

"I watched the last episode last night, and it was really cool to see all of that come to life."

"I was very pleased to be involved in that."

"My other thought was if she feels this kind of clarity in that scene that she has with Aemond, and that isn't historically how she's felt about her power and everything."

I needed to work backwards from there and try and work out what journey she has been on, for that moment to be so clear, when usually she's a bit more like, "Oh, there's a beast somewhere."

WHAT CONVERSATIONS DID YOU HAVE WITH SHOWRUNNER RYAN CONDAL ABOUT HELAENA'S EXPANDED ROLE AND HOW SHE'S GOTTEN TO THIS POINT IN THE FINALE? BECAUSE SO MUCH OF HER JOURNEY HAS BEEN INTERNAL.

"Actually, Ryan and [writer] Sara [Hess] and the writers, they very much left it to me as to how Helaena feels, how she connects to that side of it, and how it manifests for her, but it's an interesting one."

"The line between what I know and what she knows, I try and keep quite close together, so it's not always so helpful for me to have this really overarching idea of how exactly she plays in and what magic it is."

"Because I think every time when that happens to her, it feels like the first time."

"So I know as much as she does, in a way, but they were very keen for me to interpret it however I want."

"Then I think they're just going to weave it into the story in their magical way."

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PROCESS IN WORKING BACKWARDS FROM THAT CONFRONTATION WITH AEMOND. HOW DID YOU GET INTO HELAENA'S MINDSET?

"How I describe it is she has this amazingly strong intuition, and things come to her as gut feelings in flashes, but they're not always clear."

"She can't always turn them into advice."

"It's more of like a feeling that takes her over."

"That's where some of those really abstract things that she mutters earlier on comes from, but she also thinks of herself and knows of herself that she's quite a strange girl."

"There's a way in which her family lets her go and be her strangeness in her room and do all of her Helaena things."

But also she partially thinks, "Maybe if I didn't have these weird feelings or this strange intuition or this really intense experience that I have, then I could be a bit closer to people around me, or I could communicate better or it would be less strange."

"Part of her represses that stuff."

"Then I think with the trauma that happened to her in episode 1, essentially the worst possible thing happened, and there's a certain amount of dissociation and almost like a letting go of that, like trying her best to be the same as everyone else."

She has disassociated from the family reality, and maybe she has stepped in a little bit more to the other place, and she has more access because she's gone, "I can't abandon myself as well, so what is this?"

"She's given it the attention and the intensity it needed."

SINCE HELAENA BEING A DRAGON DREAMER ISN'T IN THE BOOK, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HOW YOU'RE GETTING TO CHART NEW TERRITORY FOR THE CHARACTER?

"It's really fun."

"I know that people feel so passionately and lovingly towards the original story, but I think that me, as a fan of things, I love a certain level of loyalty."

"Then I love the idea that I can be surprised or something could be subverted."

"It more flatters the audience's intelligence when you get to surprise them and subvert things, so I like the idea that people didn't see that coming for Helaena."

"Obviously, I can't watch the show as an impartial person."

I WOULD BE VERY IMPRESSED IF YOU COULD.

"[Laughs] I'd be like a psychopath, yeah."

WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING THE BRAN OF THIS SHOW?

"The thing is that I really have absolutely no idea what's happening next season."

"I think that moment in episode 8 is an example of how clear and how powerful she can be, but I don't think that's the beginning of now she can just communicate like that."

"I wouldn't be surprised if she walks away from Aemond, [mimes shaking her head and shoulders and blows out a breath], and she goes inside and goes to her room and that doesn't happen again for a long time."

"So who knows, but it would be really cool if I got to spend more time in that vision dream world."

"I would love that."

"There's that moment when Daemon's going over to the tree, and then there's a guy with a deer head or something."

"I think Helaena should hang out with him."

THEY SHOULD GO OFF TOGETHER HAVE THEIR OWN SIDE ADVENTURES. NEW SPINOFF IDEA.

"Yeah, exactly."

"That's what I want for the next season."

DOES THIS REVELATION THAT HELAENA IS ACTUALLY A DRAGON DREAMER MAKE YOU RETHINK YOUR CHARACTER AT ALL?

"Yeah, I think it's fun because it's essentially development, which is what you always hope for when you play someone."

"I just really hope that there's momentum from this, that we see her change more and more and keep on being surprising."

WHAT WAS IT LIKE FILMING THAT SCENE WITH MATT WHERE HELAENA KNOCKS DAEMON DOWN A PEG AND REALLY HUMBLES HIM IN THE FINALE?

"It was fun."

We were there on the green screen going like, 'What the hell is this going to look like?'

"But it's great to do work with the people from the other team because at this point the relationships are so bad that you're really only going to get Helaena and Daemon together in a vision."

"They're probably not going to be having lunch together anytime soon."

"[Laughs] I'd love to go and hang out with Harry Collett and Bethany Antonia and Phoebe Campbell next time."

"I'd like to go and hang out with Alys Rivers [Gayle Rankin], all the people that live in different castles."

"Maybe I could meet them in dreams."

"That would be really good."

"It'd be like ... did you ever play Club Penguin?"

[LAUGHS] I HAVE!

"It could be Club Penguin."

It's like, "Meet me here at 3 p.m. by the igloo."

That'd be so fun if Helaena could just be like, "Let's go and hang out in dreams. Go and touch the tree, and I'll be there."

NO ONE HAS EVER LISTENED TO HELAENA UNTIL DAEMON REALLY TAKES HER WORDS TO HEART AND CHANGES HIS ENTIRE COURSE. DOES HELAENA FULLY APPRECIATE OR EVEN KNOW THE PART SHE'S PLAYING IN THIS WAR NOW?

"No, I don't think so."

It's all so intense for her and so immediate that I don't think she even is always like, "I have this overarching understanding of the story."

"I think it comes to her in moments."

"Maybe it muddies the water more, but I feel like that whole dream stuff is up for interpretation as well from the audience."

"How much is she a projection of his guilt, or how much did he just need to hear that from someone?"

"It's this magical realm, so anything could be possible."

"Maybe that's something that she could say in a moment, and then she's gone from there again, and it's just like she was just being channeled through."

"Who knows? Maybe we'll find out more."

I think to her it's just, 'This is my really intense experience of being alive,' and that's enough self-analysis for anyone in that moment.

It's like, "What am I going through?"

"And then there's this clarity."

"She's got a lot to process this season."

"Bless her."

WHAT WAS IT LIKE FILMING THE SCENE WHERE HELAENA STANDS UP TO AEMOND AND REVEALS SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HE DID? THAT'S ONE OF THOSE RARE MOMENTS OF CLARITY FOR HER.

It's really fun to work with Ewan — yet again, I'm answering the question in an annoying way because I'm like, "I just like working with those people!"

"[Laughs] That was really cool."

"God, this is really the first time... it's the most eye-contact she's ever made in both seasons."

And she's really going like, "Don't fuck with me."

Basically, "Because I have this knowledge that's on a higher realm and I cannot and will not go and kill people for male ego and toxicity."

That's the other funny thing with this family: Yes, he's the Prince Regent or whatever, and her husband/brother is the King.

But actually to each other it's like, "You're my brother and you can push me and you can push me, but I know you."

"That is more about a sibling dynamic."

"Actually, I think that Aemond ironically is one of the people that Helaena feels she can communicate with a little bit better."

"They have this sort of affinity."

"It's just fun to play with those dynamics because she doesn't have a lot of long chats with anyone, so it's fun for me."

YEAH, THE LONGEST CHAT SHE'S HAD UNTIL NOW HAS BEEN WITH HER BUGS.

"Exactly, and they don't really answer back."

"This is very new and very overwhelming."

HELAENA DOESN'T WANT TO RIDE HER DRAGON INTO BATTLE, BUT DO YOU? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MISSING OUT ON THE BIG DRAGON BATTLES SO FAR?

"Yeah! It's House of the Dragon, and I've got a dragon, and I haven't got on it."

"I'm rusty."

"I really wanted to get on the dragon."

"I went and watched a few people on the buck this season, and I was so jealous."

"I'd really love to get on the dragon, or at least have a scene with Dreamfyre."

"Dreamfyre, like Vhagar, she's super ancient and big and cool."

"I'd like to see Helaena and Dreamfyre having a sort of spiritual connection, but I'm not complaining."

"I'm just happy to be here."

[horizon-verizon]

🔗 Ryan Condal’s words here in this NY Times article. My POST #1 and #2 having the pics of said article.

🔗 Sara Hess’ words in this HollywoodReporter article.

QUESTION: Who is your favorite character to write in Fire and Blood? GEORGE R. R. MARTIN: Daemon Targaryen, the Rogue Prince, is one of my favorite Targaryens. He’s very charismatic, he’s very changeable. You never know what he’s gonna do, what side he’s gonna come down on. Is he gonna do something appalling? Is he gonna do something heroic? He does both in the course of this, and I like that kind of complexity in my characters. I like people who have a little humanity to them. Because I think all of us have both good and evil in us.

Meanwhile, the House of Dragon writers...

RYAN CONDAL: I’m having trouble understanding it. We established right out of the gate, in the pilot, that Daemon is a fascinating guy, but he’s not Ned Stark. To me, Daemon is the antihero of this story. He’s a character with a real darkness to him, who’s dangerous and charming in equal parts. I knew people would be fascinated by him and latch onto him, but I figured they’d do it in the way they did with Jaime Lannister or Bronn or the Red Viper. I did not think they would oddly apply this sort of super-fandom to him and try to justify every single thing he’s done as being intrinsically heroic. It simply isn’t. It’s not the case. I see Daemon as having heroic aspects to him, and I understand why people would. I mean, he’s incredibly charismatic, he’s handsome, he looks great in that wig, he rides a dragon, he has a cool sword. I totally get it. But if you’re looking for Han Solo, who’s always going to do the right thing in the end, you’re in the wrong franchise, folks. SARA HESS: He’s become Internet Boyfriend in a way that baffles me. Not that Matt isn’t incredibly charismatic and wonderful, and he’s incredible in the role. But Daemon himself is… I don’t want him to be my boyfriend! I’m a little baffled how they’re all, “Oh, daddy!” And I’m just like: “Really?” How — in what way — was he a good partner, father or brother — to anybody? You got me. He ain’t Paul Rudd.

[fantasybuff96]

Matt Smith stating that Daemon loves Rhaenyra multiple times and when asked again this summer while shooting season two who Daemon loved the most. He answered with ‘Rhaenyra’

Ryan Condal - ‘He loves his family, particularly loves Rhaenyra.’ And also stating on another occasion that Rhaenyra is the woman that Daemon actually loves.

Geeta Patel saying that the entire production discussed it and wanted to show that daemyra are deeply in love with eachother, and called their love sexier then sex.

Even Sara Hess who hates Daemon admitted that Daemon and Rhaenyra belonged together.

GRRM himself said not too long ago that Daemyra is one of his favourite things about Daemon.

I could go on and on with more examples, yet I’m supposed to take random online users with nothing but headcanons and self inserting for their ship’s opinion seriously when they say that Daemon doesn’t love Rhaenyra? Be ever so serious.