#perkin the flea

[stromuprisahat]

Lord Borros found the city walls unmanned, the gates undefended, the streets and squares empty save for corpses. As he climbed Aegon’s High Hill with his banner-bearer and household shields, he saw the ragged banners of the squire Trystane hauled down from the gatehouse battlements, and the golden dragon banner of King Aegon II raised in their stead. Queen Alicent herself emerged from the Red Keep to bid him welcome, with Ser Perkin the Flea beside her. “Where is the pretender?” Lord Borros asked, as he dismounted in the outer ward. “Taken and in chains,” replied Ser Perkin.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

... a hedge knight named Ser Perkin the Flea crowned his own squire Trystane, a stripling of sixteen years, declaring him to be a natural son of the late King Viserys.

First he crowns his charge, then he sells him to save his own skin?!

I can't wait for Cregan to arrive.

[horizon-verizon]

Though in great pain, the king did not retreat to his bedchamber again, nor avail himself of dreamwine or milk of the poppy, but immediately set to pronouncing judgment upon the three “dayfly kings” who had ruled King’s Landing during the Moon of Madness. The squire was the first to face his wroth, and was sentenced to die for high treason. A brave boy, Trystane was at first defiant when dragged before the Iron Throne, until he saw Ser Perkin the Flea standing with the king. That took the heart from him, says Mushroom, but even then the youth did not plead his innocence nor beg for mercy, but asked only that he might be made a knight before he died. This boon King Aegon granted, whereupon Ser Marston Waters dubbed the lad (his fellow bastard) Ser Trystane Fyre (“Truefyre,” the name the boy had bestowed upon himself, being deemed presumptuous), and Ser Alfred Broome struck his head off with Blackfyre, the sword of Aegon the Conqueror. The fate of the Cunny King, Gaemon Palehair, was kinder. Having just turned five, the boy was spared on account of his youth and made a ward of the Crown. His mother, Essie, who had presumed to style herself Lady Esselyn during her son’s brief reign, confessed under torture that Gaemon’s father was not the king, as she had previously claimed, but rather a silver-haired oarsman off a trading galley from Lys. Being lowborn and unworthy of the sword, Essie and the Dornish whore Sylvenna Sand were hanged from the battlements of the Red Keep, together with twenty-seven other members of “King” Gaemon’s court, an ill-favored assortment of thieves, drunkards, mummers, beggars, whores, and panders.

Fire and Blood, by GRRM, pg 554-555

Aegon II after Rhaenyra’s Death – the Shepherd, Trystane Truefyre,and Gaemon Palehair Pt.1

[duxbelisarius]

Daeron The Daring after surviving 2nd Tumbleton

"You, Hedge Knight! What is your name!"

looks around awkwardly

Sees a dog with fleas

"Flea..."

Sees a Perkins restaurant franchise nearby

"Perkin ... the Flea"

[nightshadehoney]

Alicent Hightower Worst Mother of the Year Award

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I love listening to my Jane’s addiction cd for the fourth time

[thekylemeredith]

"No wonder we've broken up 10 times. We're crazy."

Dave Navarro joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Jane’s Addiction's reunion, their distractions, and and their break ups.

#janesaddiction #davenavarro #PerryFarrell

[thephantomcasebook]

What do you think will be Alicent's next move in season three? The last scene makes me believe they are setting up the Queen of Chains arc. But I felt that would be so underwhelming.

I know this for sure ...

They cannot do the "Queen in Chains" storyline anymore. The audience will not put up with Alicent and Rhaenyra scenes after the Season Finale shit show. The entirety of the audience, with the exception of people on the Rhaenicent tag of this website, has turned on anymore interactions between those characters.

If they're good writers - which I know they're not - or even just smart writers - I know, I KNOW! - then they'll pivot out of the "Queen in Chains" storyline. And do something else entirely with Alicent, divorced from Rhaenyra.

Basically, Alicent discovers that Aegon's gone and Aemond ain't leaving King's Landing after what Helaena told him about Harrenhal. And basically Alicent's response is ...

And then you have Alicent basically join Daeron on campaign in the Reach, that way Daeron has some sort of connection to his family that is tangible. Perhaps, have Alicent become so enamored with Daeron that she starts King Making again. Basically have Alicent replace Hobert Hightower as Daeron's second-in-command, a sort of Queen Militant on campaign. And have Alicent fall so deeply in love with Daeron - in a devoted toxic boy mom way - that she starts scheming to crowning him, swelling a grass roots support for her "good son" taking the crown, even though Daeron doesn't want it and remains loyal to Aegon.

Then, as Daeron gains victories and Rhaenyra's reign starts failing, she hears that Alicent is riding with Daeron and is openly trying to crown him. That is when Rhaenyra poisons the well by making public that Alicent tried to sell out her children for Helaena. Driving a wedge between Alicent and Daeron, with Alicent ending up in the Green Army's stockade as a traitor. Then you'll have a "Queen in Chains" but it'll be that she's Daeron's prisoner and is forced to face consequences for her betrayal.

From there you can do the Second Battle of Tumbleton in which Alicent escapes and watches helplessly as Daeron fights Addam and then later Vermithor. And have Daeron survive the dragon battle and have to put down Tessarion. Afterward, have Daeron dissolve both the Green and the Black armies and go to King's Landing on his own, with Alicent volunteering to accompany him.

Then, erase the Ser Perkin the Flea storyline and give it to Daeron and Alicent, in which they put Gamon Pailhair on the throne as a place holder with Daeron serving as Hand and Alicent as Regent as they restore order to King's Landing till Aegon arrives.

Then - and this is just my preference - you have Aegon exile Alicent for betraying him and their family. And Daeron - who is broken after the death of his siblings and Tessarion - retires as well to go with Alicent into the wild.

Then, at the end of the series, you watch Alicent and Daeron go into exile together, disappearing from history.

That's how you I'd do it.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Posthumous Characters GIF Sets → Cregan Stark

The poisoning of King Aegon II had denied them that chance. Lord Stark still marched his army into King’s Landing, but to a much different outcome. He had planned to punish Storm’s End, Oldtown, and Casterly Rock for having supported the king. But Lord Corlys had already sent envoys to the Rock and Storm’s End and Oldtown, suing for peace. For six days, while the court waited for news of Lord Corlys’ success or failure and the realm trembled at the thought of more war, Lord Cregan Stark held sway at court. This came to be known as the Hour of the Wolf. Yet in one thing, Lord Stark would not be dissuaded: the betrayers and poisoners of King Aegon II must pay the price. To kill a cruel and unjust king in lawful battle was one thing. But foul murder, and the use of poison, was a betrayal against the very gods who had anointed him. Cregan had twenty-two men arrested in Aegon III’s name—among them Larys Clubfoot and Corlys Velaryon. Cowed, the young Aegon III—who was eleven at the time—agreed to make Lord Stark his Hand. Cregan Stark served in that office for a single day, presiding over the trials and executions. Most of the accused took the black (led by the cunning Ser Perkin the Flea). Two alone chose death—Ser Gyles Belgrave of the Kingsguard, who did not wish to outlive his king, and Larys the Clubfoot, the last of the ancient line of House Strong. The day after the executions, Lord Stark resigned as Hand. No man ever held the office so briefly, and few left it as gladly. He returned to the North, leaving many of his fierce Northmen behind in the south.

[lemonhemlock]

Who really has killed Aegon in the book ? I'm confused about how many people Cregan blamed of Aegon's death. Like I can't imagine Aegon being that hated so he would have half of kings landing conspiring to kill him lmao, he is not hated that much like maegor or rhaenyra who people hated so much that they called her Maegor with tits because of that.

We don't really know who killed him, other than it was by poisoning his flagon of wine and that he must have died pretty quickly. Cregan executes a bunch of people that probably had nothing to do with it (some hero he is), but the main identified suspects are Corlys, Larys, Perkin the Flea and Maester Orwyle for providing the poison. Corlys confesses, but Larys refused to confirm. GRRM keeps it intentionally ambiguous.

[stromuprisahat]

Though in great pain, the king did not retreat to his bedchamber again, nor avail himself of dreamwine or milk of the poppy, but immediately set to pronouncing judgment upon the three “dayfly kings” who had ruled King’s Landing during the Moon of Madness. The squire was the first to face his wroth, and was sentenced to die for high treason. A brave boy, Trystane was at first defiant when dragged before the Iron Throne, until he saw Ser Perkin the Flea standing with the king. That took the heart from him, says Mushroom, but even then the youth did not plead his innocence nor beg for mercy, but asked only that he might be made a knight before he died. This boon King Aegon granted, whereupon Ser Marston Waters dubbed the lad (his fellow bastard) Ser Trystane Fyre (“Truefyre,” the name the boy had bestowed upon himself, being deemed presumptuous), and Ser Alfred Broome struck his head off with Blackfyre, the sword of Aegon the Conqueror.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

[horizon-verizon]

As Ser Alfred Broome crossed the drawbridge to Maegor’s Holdfast, where Prince Aegon was being held, he found Ser Perkin the Flea and six of his gutter knights barring his way. “Move aside, in the king’s name,” Broome demanded. “We have a new king now,” answered Ser Perkin. He put a hand upon Ser Alfred’s shoulder...then shoved him hard, sending him staggering off the drawbridge onto the iron spikes below, where he writhed and twisted for two days as he died. In that same hour, Lady Baela Targaryen was being spirited away to safety by agents of Lord Larys the Clubfoot. Tom Tangletongue was surprised in the castle yards as he was leaving the stables, and beheaded forthwith. “He died as he had lived, stammering,” says Mushroom. His father Tom Tanglebeard was absent from the castle, but they found him in a tavern on Eel Alley. When he protested that he was “just a simple fisherman, come to have an ale,” his captors drowned him in a cask of same. All this was done so neatly, swiftly, and quietly that the people of King’s Landing had little or no inkling of what was happening behind the walls of the Red Keep. Even within the castle itself, no alarum went up. Those who had been marked down for death were killed, whilst the rest of the court went about their business, undisturbed and unawares. Septon Eustace tells us that twenty-four men were killed, whilst Munkun’s True Telling says twenty-one. Mushroom claims to have witnessed the murder of the king’s food taster, a grossly fat man named Ummet, and asserts that he was forced to hide in a barrel of flour to escape the same fate, emerging the next night “floured from head to heels, so white the first serving girl to see me took me for Mushroom’s ghost.” (This smells of story. Why would the plotters wish to kill a fool?) Queen Alicent was arrested on the serpentine steps as she made her way back to her chambers. Her captors wore the seahorse of House Velaryon upon their doublets, and though they slew the two men guarding her, they did no harm to the Dowager Queen herself, nor to her ladies. The Queen in Chains was chained again and taken to the dungeons, there to await the pleasure of the new king. By then the last of her sons was already dead.

Fire and Blood, by George R.R. Martin, pg 565-566  [Aegon II’s Death PT.2]

[tefibetancourt]

availability / @sebastianvora setting / seb and cj's apartment, around eight pm.

work sucks and i want to go home! a refrain that had been going through tefi’s head daily for over a decade. it never stopped being true, no matter if she worked in retail, restaurants, or any other customer service job. even during the short stints she had as a tiktok influencer, fashion blogger, and failed actress had the same refrain in her mind. it was more of a mantra, actually. whatever it was classified as, it was always, always true. the waterway diner was no different. it wasn’t the worst restaurant she had ever worked in; the perkins she started out in back in philly was certainly the dirtiest and the hooters she briefly worked at seven years ago had the worst customers, but there was not a lot of money when it came to tips and the regulars in diners were often some of the crankiest sons of bitches tefi ever waited on. it was her fault for applying to the first restaurant she walked into last month, but diners were best for flighty tefi and her tendency to come and go as she pleased. there was more money in high end restaurants, but they expected too much out of her—and, of course, the nicest restaurant in blue harbor employed her fucking husband. 

so, yes, work sucked and she wanted to go home… but she didn’t have a home. not really. seb and cj were allowing her to stay with them, but as a veteran couch surfer, she knew her time was limited. eventually, they’d get sick of her always hanging around, no matter how often they said they didn’t mind her staying. that, or she’d get found out and they’d kick her out on her ass. yes, they knew about her quest for revenge against foster, but they didn’t know the true extent of her mission. that while phoebe was a very nice girl, she was going to have to be collateral damage. there was no situation in which she didn’t end up hurt and tefi didn’t end up the villain of the fairytale. she was fine with being the bad guy. she wanted to be the bad guy. the problem was that all her friends in blue harbor were friends with the hero of the story—namely, phoebe—and there likely wouldn’t be a single soul that would still be her friend once tefi was done with foster. tefi was prepared to ruin foster’s life. she wasn’t prepared to be hated.

so, that meant she had to enjoy having a place to stay while she could. walking through cj and seb’s apartment door after a long shift at the waterway, she had a takeout container full of fries and a ramekin of special ranch. every night she worked, she came back with some food in lieu of rent and to buy the married couple’s patience for one more night. “darlings, i’m home!” tefi announced herself, putting the food on the kitchen counter, then headed to the bathroom to change into something more comfortable than her work uniform—which was, in tefi’s case, a vintage green terry cloth romper from the seventies that she bought at a flea market years ago. finished with her de-glamourizing routine, she exited the bathroom and flopped down on the couch that doubled as her bed. when seb appeared in the room, tefi smiled and gave a vague wave of her hand towards the kitchen. “hey, boo. i brought some fries if you’re hungry.”

[letsreadlotsoffanfic]

Little Black Classics Box Set, pt 2

Continued from this post due to post size limits.

The Steel Flea by Nikolay Leskov - Original Russian English translation

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Short story. Collection

The Terrors of the Night by Thomas Nashe

The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy tale. Original Danish only has a few. The English translation of all of them is collected here. According to this site, some of his works were published in English in the US before they were even published in his native country Denmark, so it's tricky to find a Danish omnibus online that's free & legal.

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe by Richard Hakluyt - Hakluyt has a lot of documented voyages, it may be best simply to peruse his author page on gutenberg

The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer - Excerpt from "The Canterbury Tales"

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu. This looks like a recent translation of their works, or at least a recent collection.

Wang Wei - Original Chinese English translation

Li Bai - Original Chinese with English translations

Du Fu - Original Chinese with English translations

To-morrow by Joseph Conrad

Traffic by John Ruskin - Some of Ruskin's essays. Traffic is taken from The Crown of Wild Olive

Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo - Excerpt from the Travels of Marco Polo. Original Italian English translation vol 1

Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius - Excerpt from the Satyricon. English translation (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5225) Original Latin (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0001%3Atext%3DSatyricon)

Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling - A few short stories. Original Chinese English translation vol 1 & 2

Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poem. Collection

Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy - Poem. Collection

[imaginarianisms]

smth i& noticed is that. m.ysaria doesn't go with r.haenyra, a.egon iii & their party during the r.haenyra's flight to dragonstone. m.ysaria was killed by ser perkin the flea. i've& said this before but our& h.elaena's fate, whether it truly was a suicide or a secret assassination murder, we& purposely leave ambiguous, but the real question is... why didn't m.ysaria go with them when she had every opportunity to leave & go for her own perceived personal safety? how did r.haenyra react to m.ysaria being the one to tell h.elaena about maelor's death? i& feel like there's questions here that aren't being talked about & honestly i'm now more convinced that If h.elaena Was murdered, it was more likely than not by m.ysaria's hand rather than larys strong. bc l.arys was likely in the capital but m.ysaria was undoubtedly closer & she'd have more of a reason to want her dead than l.arys would, supporting her lover & queen r.haenyra over any of a.egon ii's children including his queen would be a threat to r.haenyra's rule & m.ysaria in the books is a lot more cunning & ruthless than her show counterpart is & was more than willing to arrange the whole blood & cheese assassination with d.aemon & tell h.elaena point blank to her face that her 2 year old son was ripped apart to pieces by a peasant mob.

[lya-dustin]

Arryk may not have seen him there but has heard of him being there by him or Aegon’s friends. Might be hinting at the stories Mushroom will make up for shock factor but also setting up arcs that will happen in later seasons

Spoilers for the rest under the cut

The pale haired bastard is likely Gaemon Palehair, Aegon’s bastard who is made king by his mother(a prostitue named Essie) and her lover, a dornish prostitue in the same brothel. His mother goes on to lie and say he is the bastard of a Lyseni sailor when Aegon tries to execute the kid because at teh end of the day, Aegon was designed to be or become so awful his own supporters have to kill him to end the war he already lost.

There is also Viserys' alleged bastard named Trystane Truefire who rises as king with Larys' help. He should be older, perhaps the same age as the targbros or Rhaenyra’s kids since he is still a squire (and knighted before he is executed by Perkin the Flea who was his protector)

Referencing this since we are at the start of Aegon’s downward spiral show wise and the moon of the three kings is gonna happen probably in season 4 or 5 looking at the pace of things and Gaemon has to be set up as well as the degree of cruelty Aegon will have that he will become okay with killing his own son after killing Rhaenyra.

The Valyrian coloring is more common in Essos, Saera Targaryen became a high end prostitue who's kids and grandkids came to Harrenhal for the Council, Maegor allegedly had a bastard named Silver Denys and actress Kika Green is playing the brothel worker named Copper Penny who is Targ looking and also we are getting the dragonseed(colloquial term for targ bastard)arc soon.

Do you guys think that the narrative about Aegon being in the child fighting pits is true? Genuine question.

In episode 9, I feel like the writers put in the whole “find Aegon scene” to hint that no one cares enough to know where Aegon goes on a day to day basis. The fact both parties spent the whole day trying to find him suggests they don’t actually know him well enough.

Ser Arryk claims the fighting pits is where Aegon goes, but yet when Otto approaches him and asks where Aegon is that day, he shrugs and says that Aegon commanded him to stay - which I’m going to take a guess and say this is something that happens often.

Ser Arryk claims that Aegon spends many nights watching the fights hence the reason they go there to find him, but he’s not there. So did Arryk really SEE Aegon there? Or did he just assume that’s where he spent his time?

Mysaria hides Aegon as sort of a favour to negotiate with Otto to put an end to the fighting pits… but if Aegon frequently went there, why would she help him?

Aegon also doesn’t seem to be the type that gets excited and hyped at the thought of violence. In episode 8, when Daemon slices Vaemonds head off, he just kind of frowns and grimaces at the blood. Apart from the Dyana scene - which I would say is the product of his own environment yet no less wrong or disgusting - he’s never committed or been seen enjoying violence at all.

As for the bastard with white hair… I’ve been hearing a lot of theories that this could also actually be Daemons bastard and not Aegons.

He frequented the brothels more than Aegon and it would be highly likely that he would have bastards too. We know from the books and the show that Daemon preferred virgins, and ones with silver hair too.

Mysaria also tells him in the first episode: “I could bring in a maiden, perhaps another, I could even arrange one with silver hair” - this suggests that the royal family are not the only people with white hair in the whole of kingslanding. I’m sure that a few bastards are roaming the streets sired from years of Targaryens dabbling in brothels.

This child could be Daemons with another woman, Daemons with a silver haired maiden, it could be a child born by someone else that is a bastard of the Targaryen’s.

But let me know your thoughts. If you have something that combats this thought entirely, maybe like a line where he admits it or something else please share. Please remember I try my hardest not to reference the book in my posts because they are two different things so if your ‘evidence’ is entirely based on the book, please don’t share in reference to this post lol.