#missandei icons

[fromtheseventhhell]

"Arya" Wedding Dress

"Dracarys" // 2025 bridal collection, by Kim Kassas Couture [x]

[cecilyneville]

just got up to dany iii on my asos reread and my god what a belter of a chapter! just an absolute masterclass in close third person pov!

[faithconsumingcope]

i feel like if missandei is your favorite character in game of thrones (the tv show not the books) there is like a 95% chance that you have either had copious amounts of gay sex (taken cock up your ass), taken hormones (most likely estrogen), or changed your sex. or you’re just a complete f-slur in some way or another.

anyways missandei is my favorite character in game of thrones the tv show

[chucksrus84]

They say coincidences can be interpreted as clues to our destiny. Well, today, I'm counting down four amazing coincidences that would make you do a double-take. Let's start with Game of Thrones alums Jacob Anderson and Nathalie Emmanuel.

As Game of Thrones fans, we're all familiar with Grey Worm and Missandei's ill-fated love story, but did you know that the former co-stars went on to star in separate projects as vampires? Yes, you heard that right. Jacob Anderson, formerly known as Grey Worm, lassoed a lead role in AMC's series, Interview with the Vampire, as the complex, forlorn vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac; enticing audiences with his and his co-star's (Sam Reid) electrifying scenes. Similarly, Nathalie Emmanuel was featured in the gothic horror film The Invitation, as the descendent of an ancient vampire family. To say the least, it would seem coincidences have a way of leading these two actors to where they were supposed to be, but it doesn't end there.

Like rings circling Saturn, sometimes it takes years, if not decades to lead one person to the role they were meant to play. Take for example, Sam Reid. When Sam Reid snagged the role as Dido's love interest (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in the 2013 historical drama, Belle, he never imagined he'd be playing one of Anne Rice most iconic characters ten years later; turning a role played by several actors into the most memorable and awe-inspiring incarnation to date. To watch him as Lestat, you'd think he was absolutely possessed but I digress. The coincidences I noted doesn't end with Reid but actually begins with Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Black Mirror.

Earlier, I alluded to the fact that like the rings of Saturn, sometimes people are traveling towards a predetermined destination. In Gugu Mbatha-Raw's case, that's double true. In 2016, Gugu along with her co-star Mackenzie Davis starred in a Black Mirror episode called San Junipero. It was the fourth episode of the British syfy and it featured vivacious party girl Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) falling head over heels for shy, homebody Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis), in a 1987 virtual reality simulator. It was a fantastic…no, beautiful love story between two women with a happy ending and one of Black Mirror's most popular episodes.

But what struck me about the role that Gugu played was not only the affect it had on fans of the syfy show but also the affect it unknowingly had on propelling her former co-star (Sam Reid) to land a role in which the dynamics of his characters relationship with the lead who played opposite him (Jacob Anderson) as well as the dynamics of the relationship between the actors themselves, were strikingly similar if not the same. Watching Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid interact pulled me back to the days when San Junipero dropped on air and drew accolades from critics in television and film. There's something magical about it, as if Gugu and Mackenzie stepped through that door of possibility so that Sam and Jacob could fly. You know what I mean but I'm getting ahead of myself. That's not the only coincidence there is. The next and last one will absolutely blow your mind.

Last but not least, our fourth amazing coincidence has to do with co-stars Jacob Basil Anderson and Bailey Bass. Did anyone in the #iwtv fandom know that the stars that play Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia have the same birthdate. That's right, Jacob and Bailey were both born on June 18th, 13 years apart.

I don't know what it is, but these talented actors seem to be destined for something big. From my vantage point, the stars seem to be aligned in their favor and that's all for today, folks.

Thanks for reading.

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Valyrian Girl Name Game for a Jonerys Baby

Pick your most preferred Valyrian based girl name for Jon’s and Dany’s child. The top three picks will move on to the final round where we determine the best girl name overall.

This is not an exhaustive list, but I tried to come up with names that have meaning for one or both parents.

NOTE: These are arranged in alphabetical order so be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom. And if you haven’t already, go vote for your favorite of the Northern based names.

[shemisery]

thoughts on her scar? i like that they added that detail of the scar on her neck. it wasn't as visible in the first season or it was different anyway but now it's clearly there and even rhaenyra mentioned it. a nod to her lys days i think.

I think yeah they made it more visible, while making icons i saw it during episode 9 of season one but it was more faded , but they made a point of making it more prominent this season which yes, i do think it's to her lys days as a slave, using a slave collar. we have seen other characters in the show that were slaves using collars to cover them up (mysaria in s1 used mostly dresses with collars or that cover her neck, melisandre was also sold as a child and has her necklace and missandei i believe too).

I do fear this means she is taking the place of nettles as nettles has a scar that is important and was made for stealing, it was one prominent features. it wouldn't be the first time the show combines characters into one. if that is the case then i will wait to cast my judgement but i do like the detail and that she now doesn't cover it.

[loisfreakinglane]

GoT!

HAPPY DAY AFTER GOT FINALE ANNIVERSARY DAY

The first character I first fell in love with: 

i was in love with sansa from second number ONE

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

absolutely theon. what a fukcing JOURNEY we went on with him like good god

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

god. a lot probably? jaime's on this list lol. he's fine but i'm not emotionally invested in him at all. idgaf

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

she's loved by many now but my god stanning sansa was a fucking WAR back in the day. otherwise tho? catelyn my love. oh man and ppl turned on samwell SOMETHING FIERCE toward the end there but i adored him all the way thru. hizdahr was right. cersei was an iconic villain i love her. MIRRI MAZ DUUR WAS THE HERO OF THE LHAZAREEN PEOPLE.

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

100% dany. it was wild going back to my s1 liveblog bc i really was rooting for her initially. but her slow descent into villainy wasn't in a fun baddie way alas

The character I would totally smooch: 

robb. grey worm. margaery. missandei. OBERYN

The character I’d want to be like: 

master of disguise, lord of secrets, always in a fun outfit, secretly playing the long game for the good of the realm? LEMME BE VARYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The character I’d slap: 

my hand would fall off from all the slapping i'd do in this show. and it would be worth it.

A pairing that I love:

sansa/happiness

A pairing that I despise: 

every single sansa/gross elderly man ship. every last one. also i haaaaaaaated what jon/dany did for both of those characters. it's a yikes from me

[thewingedwolf]

my problem with most asoiaf analysis is that like the writer himself, everyone is steeped in their homophobia and racism and misogyny to an extreme degree, and i simply do not care to entertain it. there’s all this “well of course he’s gonna be that way in his writing” yes but that doesn’t mean you have to take it further in your analysis nor does it mean you have to assume the worst of the story he’s planning. that’s what the ~transformative~ part of fandom is about you absolute fuckin losers.

like, obviously, grrm has his prejudices (several of which he simply refuses to acknowledge, to the detriment of his writing at times) but he also isn’t nearly as prejudiced as people seem to accuse him of being. yes, there is misogyny in the way he writes cersei in comparison to her brothers, but there is genuine care in showing her suffering, her anger, her helplessness, and even love there in writing her downfall! there is objectively less information and thought into the crafting of the martells, and yet, you cannot look at the prose in Arianne & Hotah’s chapters, the pain on the page, and not see he feels for their losses just as keenly as he does for the Starklings, for the Tullys, for the smallfolk in the Riverlands, and the Wildlings of the North. One of the most iconic scenes in the series involves Oberyn turning his back on the man he is fighting and demanding Tywin acknowledge his raw pain, his fury, his unending grief, at the butchering of Elia, Rhaenys, and Aegon. I have always disliked the way Stannis is given so much more complexity by both fandom and the narrative than Renly, who is mostly written off as a vain idiot, and yet two of the most well known lines about love in the series are said by gay men, about the men they were in love with (Loras’ ‘when the sun has set’ line about Renly, and Jon Connington’s ‘i rose too high’ line about Rhaegar) and one of the most explicit love stories in f&b is between Rhaena the Black Bride and Elissa Farman. There is a whole hell of a lot to criticize but sometimes people have such a bleak idea of what his endgame is and how it’s going to be rife with racism, sexism, and homophobia, never mind that this is the same man who wrote Brienne’s “no chance and no choice” scene or Catelyn’s entire character. This is a man who spent three years writing one of the most beloved spins on Beauty and the Beast, and got on the mic to specifically defend the casting of a Black actress in Nightflyers but also kind of shaded the original casting of a white woman in the original movie. am i saying i expect something as deeply moving and complex for the Martells or the Unsullied or Missandei as like, the “and a man breaks” speech and his anti war/war critical stances? obviously not! But I think everyone has spent so long obsessing over small details because we haven’t gotten any new content wrt the main series in a decade, people have ascribed significantly more prejudice to his mindset, and they let that affect the way they see the characters.

[horizon-verizon]

Collection of Race, the Medieval Ages, and the ASoIaF Franchise

🔗 LINKS, LINKS, LINKS!

Game of Thrones & Race  

(Guardian Article) “There are no black people on Game of Thrones’: why is fantasy TV so white?”

(Tor Article) “Game of Thrones’ Complex Relationship to Racism and Colonialism”

House of the Dragon & Race 

A) 

(Harper’s Bazaar Article) “Fantasy Has Always Been About Race”

Excerpt

But fantasy has always been about race. And medieval fantasy is not history, but a reproduction of history and its metaphors. The West cannot tell itself about itself without the inclusion of race. As a European invention emerging from colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade, race is the story of Europe’s encounter with difference, and the West’s primary way of organizing the world. The racial hierarchies of our world get translated into fantasy races that reflect the measure of one’s humanity. Race is the dominant social system in The Lord of the Rings’ Middle-earth, and as the blueprint for “high fantasy” literature, its racial allegories are reproduced across the genre: In fantasy book series, role-playing games, and films written in its tradition, race is the social hierarchy and source of conflict; in Game of Thrones’ Westeros, race is more of a political geography. It’s even the first decision (race, gender, class) a player must make in creating a character for any campaign in the iconic Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games. In fantasy, race is not just part of world building. It is the world.

B)

(Cosmopolitan Article) “‘House of the Dragon’ Cast Black Actors Only to Toss Them Aside, Like I Knew It Would”

Excerpt

I didn’t have high expectations for diversity when watching HotD—I mean, it’s a TV show about dragons, and Black characters historically haven’t appeared outside slave or servant roles (Grey Worm and Missandei from the original Game of Thrones come to mind). So when Steve Toussaint was cast as Corlys Velaryon (aka the Sea Snake), I felt slightly apathetic. Game of Thrones had already fumbled its two Black characters, so I believed the prequel would do the same.

[...]

Nowhere in the first season does HotD mention the Blackness of its few Black characters. All we’re told is that House Velaryon has blood from Old Valyria, which means they are really close to the Targaryens and often marry each other to keep the bloodline “pure.” Nothing wrong with that, but since the Velaryons are Black, shouldn’t all Velaryons have Afrocentric features? The casting department didn’t think so, apparently. One of the main storylines in the first season is the denial that Rhaenyra Targaryen’s children are bastards even though they have white skin and loose curly black hair while their “father” is Laenor Velaryon, a white-haired Black man with dreads. The book Fire & Blood (which the show is adapted from) also follows this plot point. But the Velaryons aren’t Black in the book, meaning it’s somewhat believable or at the very least plausible that Rhaenyra’s children are Leanor’s. I know this is a fantasy show, but there’s something really cringe about (1) trying to pass three obviously white children off as Black and (2) making the one Black family on the show the center of a *checks notes* paternity scandal. Even if House of the Dragon were only following the book’s plot point—the question of the legitimacy of Rhaenyra’s children—the decision to cast House Velaryon and thus Laenor as Black means that race and racial connotations needed to be introduced as well. You shouldn’t cast a white character as a person of color and then ignore their racial identity.

I’m not saying the showrunners did a disservice to fans of color by trying to diversify. But they did checkmark casting by beginning and ending that effort with casting Toussaint as the Sea Snake. If the showrunners took real time to consider how color-conscious casting could alter the show, maybe Black viewers like myself wouldn’t be disappointed that the only Black family in the series has mostly not survived. There’s a scene in episode 4 where Laenor, Leana (the Sea Snake’s daughter), Corlys, and his wife Rhaenys are walking down a flight of stairs into a wedding scene. That three-second clip SCREAMED Black excellence. Watching it gave me the tiniest hope that maybe the showrunners had it together. But three episodes later, the majority of the Black characters had been killed, with only two Black Velaryons still on our screens: Baela and Rhaena, Corlys and Rhaenys’s two granddaughters.

And I get why the characters were killed off—Laena and Laenor don’t survive in the books, so why would they live on in the show? But the showrunners could have shown the Black Velaryons for more than 10ish scenes while also sticking to the source material. Instead of rushing to the main conflict of the Targaryen civil war, we could have seen the development of Laena and Daemon Targaryen’s relationship or Rhaenyra and Laenor’s struggles at King’s Landing. I’m just saying the show had options, k? They chose to cast House Velaryon as Black knowing Black fans like myself were excited to see Black fantasy representation onscreen, only for said representation to be sidelined in a span of three episodes. Like, damn. Can Black folks have anything? Maybe the showrunners will do better with their “diverse” representation in the upcoming seasons. Probably not. If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that fantasy series can have dragons, White Walkers, and dreamers who can see the future. But Black folks? That’s where they draw the line, apparently.

Other Articles about Black People/Territories in the Medieval World (c.400s - c.1400s)

The Table of Contents for the Public Medievalist’s “Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages” Series

Perfect Victims: 1096 and 2017

“Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages: Tearing Down the ‘Whites Only’ Medieval World”

“Uncovering the African Presence in Medieval Europe”

“A Brief History of a Terrible Idea: The ‘Dark Enlightenment’”

“Who were the African people living in Medieval and Tudor England?”

Finding Islamic Culture in a Christian Space

Introduction: Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Middle Ages

“Ripping Anti-Semitism Out by its Roots”

A Tale of Two Europes: Jews in the Medieval World

Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think

Were Medieval People Racist?

Fascism and Chivalry in the Confederate Monuments of Richmond

Guardians of White Innocence

Is “Race” Real?

“Race” in the Trenches: Anglo-Saxons, Ethnicity, and the Misuse of the Medieval Past

A Vile Love Affair: Right Wing Nationalism and the Middle Ages

Recovering a “Lost” Medieval Africa: Interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, part I

Race: the Original Sin of the Fantasy Genre

Race in A Song of Ice and Fire: Medievalism Posing as Authenticity

Game of Thrones’ Racism Problem

Improving Dungeons and Dragons: Racism and the “Barbarian”

[westeroswisdom]

Game of Thrones had Black characters such as Grey Worm, Missandei, and Xaro Xhoan Daxos. But in House of the Dragon they are front and center from the very start and their identity is pivotal to certain plot elements.

Some racists were whining in 2022 about House Velaryon being predominately Black. But that aspect of the family turned out to work exceptionally well in the dispute over the paternity of Rhaenyra's three oldest sons. It wasn't just a touchy-feely and do-gooder gesture, it's something which strengthened the story.

House Of The Dragon, the spinoff to Game of Thrones, serves as a prequel (200 years before Daenerys Targaryen), but it also changed the game by adding Black characters in the main cast. Of course it caused a bit of stink from the haters, but we are now into the second season, so nobody cares about dead air. “If we believe in dragons, and shapeshifters and direwolves, we can believe everybody in the story is not white,” Ryan Condal, showrunner for House of the Dragon tells TheWrap. In the franchise lore, the Velaryons are described to be closer to the gods than to men with their iconic silver hair and giant, daunting dragons. The time period for HOD starts 110 years after the ‘Doom of Valyria’ and ended the reign of House Velaryon. The creators planned out strategically for House Velaryon to be Black “because that felt like the most fantastical race in the show, and it felt like ... these were people from a lost continent that we don’t really know that much about,” Condal said. “And it always stuck with me, this article ... where George had talked about, at first when he set out to write these books, considering making all of the Velaryons Black. ... Black people with silver hair — and that always really stuck with me as an image.”

[venusintheblindspots-blog]

Now tie this in with how the fandom treats Nettles and Elia Martell, two woc who have not even been on screen (yet).

They don’t even acknowledge their importance in the narrative at all.

They either make them subservient, (in Elia’s case they insist that she was complacent with Rhaegar’s plans despite her having no reason to be, with Nettles they suddenly start to care about age gaps and grooming despite shipping Daemon with young Rhaenyra or Laena).

Or they demonize them with their racist headcanons, (I’ve seen people complain about Nettles being a homewrecker/mistress, but then go on to romanticize Lyanna/Rhaegar, Harwin/Rhaenyra, etc.). They will find every excuse on earth to justify why they hate her, and conveniently ignore F&B Rhaenyra being racist towards her.

Remember, these are two women who literally haven’t been on screen. We don’t have POV chapters for them, all we have is others’ perceptions of who they might’ve been.

And whenever you call out their obvious racism, they’ll point to House Velaryon and Missandei & Show!GreyWorm, to seem less racist.

But there’s a reason why those characters don’t cause the same controversy as Nettles and Elia do. They don’t pose a threat to the white women in the story, instead they follow them, and exist as props to give them brownie points.

And don’t get me wrong, I like Rhaenyra and her premise as character, but House of the Dragon has turned her into feminist-hero-icon that she never was.

People only care about House Velaryon as much as it pertains to creating this upotian idea of racial neutrality. However, when you press to say the optics of whiteness perpetuating a form of ethnic cleansing in the House, everyone is blind. They can't see that, and the reason is because whiteness can never see itself as anything but ulturistic. People cannot comprehend, nor can they write anything that treats non-white characters as people with their own motivations, beliefs, and sense of morality because then they'd have to stop using them as tools. Laenor Velaryon is used in this way in fandom to prop up the Targaryens narrative concerning white supremacy, colonisation, and classism. It's ludicrous that's there is no fanfiction or meta or anything interrogating the possibility that House Velaryon could be justified in their dislike of the succession crisis Rhaenyra causes or that Laenor may be upset with her. He is never more than her gay best friend because that is the only role a gay biracial man can play for a white woman.

This is problematic in as much that making a biracial man support someone who is representative of systems of oppression in any which way without critical engagement is dangerous and an oversight. Making House Velaryon black could have been interesting. Instead, it's invited white people on mass to prop up black people as support for their racist fantasies. By that, I mean any writing/headcanon/thought experiment that sees House Velaryon just be Rhaenyra's strongest supporters without explaining why, is just erasure and tokenism. (Sidenote, no one ever gives a why and I think in part it's because media literacy is dead and whiteness has become so ingrained as the standard people cannot fathom why you would never just support the main white character no matter how asinine they are. There is no good argument, and no one wants to do the work to try to create one. Fair enough, no one can demand your labour, but it leave black characters in a sidelined and tokenistic position that supports white people taking them out for brownie points when needed.)

Laenor isn't a person, he's a mesh of plot relevant reactions and external support to make Rhaenyra and the writer by extension look and feel better. Both Laenor and Laena are shown in fanfiction and the TV show to be useful by the very act of their disposal, and no one pauses to wonder if that is a violent act. (It is. It's antiblack and plays into hegemonic violence against black bodies).

Also, the breeding kink of the white supremacist line of thinking shows itself in the way in which people argue the importance of Rhaenyras line continuing by blood, but conveniently saying that the choice to adopt on behalf of House Velaryon is progressive and their blood doesn't matter, choice does. The parallels between this argument and the likes of the Tuskegee experiment or sterilisation of non white persons with vaginas in hospitals and prisons whilst encouraging white people who are capable of giving birth to do so are immense. The willingness of people to fall into white supremacist lines of thinking when arguing for a fictional character is astounding, however its ultimately a pet peeve on my behalf. There are very few critical spaces in which blackness is welcomed in life, and existential alienation extends into the digital and fictional worlds. People are comfortable with prejudice and white supremacy ,it's is the basis on which the West builds legitimacy and precedent, it is not remiss then to say that the inheritors of these social precedents replicate the behaviour and line of thinking.

This is not to say people are unaware, but often the "fun" of whiteness is to be able to not have to worry about the likes of Black, Indigenous, Asian or Pacific islander people because preservation of white happiness is more important. White people get to live in a utopian ideal all the time when it pertains to race and have the freedom to say that discussions on such topics harsh their vibe so they do not have to engage.

But whatever, who cares what I think, I'm just a Black person on the Internet.

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