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The Dance of the Dragons version of A Huguenot by Millais. A girl tries to protect her lover by making him wear green but he refuses, staying loyal to the blacks and Queen Rhaenyra.

Queen Alicent Hightower

«Do keep trying, sir Laenor, soon or late, you may get one who looks like you.»

Team black on their way to argue with an iron chair

I swear to god the team black stans are gonna go wild/or silent when rhaenyra sits on the iron throne only to get more cuts than aerys and her father.

What are they gonna say, that the iron throne is sexist? Is the inanimate iron chair suppressing rhaenyras rights?

In all serious tho it would start cutting when she starts torturing people and taxing the smallfolk.

Like i fully believe aegon i's ghost is there and just living there as a spirit just to cut his desendants and as a warning to the people that the ruler is going too far.

Yess I get you. I only got into asoiaf this summer while watching House of the Dragon. I was like "this is so good! It would be even more amazing if I knew more about this world!" And so in August I started reading. Honestly, I'd wanted to get my hand on these books for so long, that when I actually got them I couldn't put them down. I read all of Agot and Acok in a month! I still didn't have to worry about school so I stayed awake every night till 3 am reading, it was insane. But once September rolled around and I ordered Asos school started and so I slowed down a lot. It took me like 2 months just to finish it and I'm still only half way through Affc. Also I took a break from the main series books to read Fire & Blood now. Have been loving it thus far

only getting into asoiaf this year is so stressful. im so far behind everyone and the books are so heavy i cant just blitz through them like id like too

If you had the chance to change something about the dance of the dragons (TV show or book), what would it be? For example, how a character dies, which team a house is on,or an entire character personally. How would you change it to make the story better, in your opinion?♥️🖤💙💚

Ohh anon i've got a list.

When it comes to the tv show there are a few choices the writers made that just don't sit right with me.

Laenor

I do like the characterization they went for, he's a pretty cool dude who really loves his weird, dysfunctional family. What I really don't like is how they handled his death.

See I truly can't stand it when a character is sugar coated just because they're the protagonist and thus must be righteous and always objectively correct.

So to witness the writers white wash his murder, having him flee to essos instead of being killed by Rhaenyra pisses me off. I get that after showing them being good friends it would be very odd to have her kill him.

But that's the thing, they should have opted for a more ruthless Rhaenyra in the first place!

Laenor's death in the books (at least for me) was the first instance of Rhae Rhae making morally wrong choices in order to pursue her ultimate goal. It was compelling! Here she just takes the easy way out, without having to make a tough choice.

Also his survival really fucks her up when you really think about it. Now all her sons are bastards since her marriage to Daemon isn't valid, and for the upcoming season 2, how are they going to handle Addam and Seasmoke? Laenor is still alive, his dragon won't accept a new rider. This doesn't make any sense and just causes plotholes what the actual fu-

Sidenote: After Laenor's very moving speech on how he was done goofing off and was now willing to really step up for Rhaenyra and their family it's super strange to imagine him ditching them all immediately afterwards Lol.

Rhaenys

My gosh, where do I even begin with this woman?

She too is pretty cool at the start, but then episode 9 rolls around and I roll my eyes.

She's so hypocritical. She tries to shit on Alicent for "toiling in the service of men." When that's all she does in the goddamn story!

She wants Baela to get Driftmark, tells Corlys about it, he shuts off the whole plan cause he wants a kid who he's not even related to on the driftwood throne, and when she complains about it he dismisses her.

So what does feminist Rhaenys do about it?

She... submits to her husband, something she conveniently forgets about when talking to Alicent. My god. Just remove this entire exchange, it hurts to watch.

And the coronation scene, Jesus Christ! It was so cool in the books, why did they have to ruin it? Had they replaced it with something better I wouldn't have complained, but this is just, the worst.

Rhaenys shows how badass she is by.... Brutally crushing hundreds of small folks to death and almost slaughtering the greens.

Cool, cool, absolutely necessary. Thanks Sara.

And you know what's even more infuriating? When she flees to Dragonstone to inform Rhaenyra of all that happened. She says she didn't kill the greens cause she didn't wish to start a war. I'm sorry what?

That would have ended the war at the start! As glad as I am that Rhaenys didn't barbecue them it makes absolutely no sense!

If she had killed them there would have been no dance in the first place!

I hate these dumb show only moments. They needlessly complicated an already complicated story and just mess everything up.

There's probably other stuff I could rant on, like how Aegon was made a rapist sorely to make the audience think:

Oh look! The greens are so baad, they believe a rapist alcoholic douche should be in charge instead of our empowered dragon queen, they sure do suck!

Or how house Velaryon was disrespected and mistreated by D*emyra but still somehow decided to support Nyra's claim.

They didn't really have a motive to be greens though, so I think they should have stayed neutral. Their fervent black support makes no sense.

The writers really should have given them more reasons to back up the blacks or had their beloved queen treat them better so that their loyalty made more sense ( I mean holy hell I wonder how they will handle the two betrayers and Corlys's arrest lmao).

But other greens have already shat on these awful decisions and I won't beat a dead horse.

Book

When it comes to fire and blood I surprisingly have very little complaints, except of course, the Jaehaera situation.

My poor baby deserved better, I've made a post about it in the past

(where I ranted and said stuff I kind of regret now, don't post while very angry guys I don't recommend it)

tackling how the little queen was unnecessarily killed off and how her death genuinely adds nothing so why was it added? God I get upset just thinking about it lol.

Some people say George did it cause he needed Aegon's kids to be born after Viserys's, and apparently he couldn't fathom a married teen not having kids until her 20s, which is veery weird.

The more plausible theory is that he got rid of her cause he wanted more Velaryon queens to showcase how close they used to be to the Targs.

Which is something I had understood already thanks to Alyssa, the sea Snake and all the Velaryons who were masters of ships but whatever.

🌪DESERVING MORE IS BENEATH YOUR POTENTIAL🌪

You do not realize what YOU HAVE, already!!!!! Right this INSTANT.

So- what makes you think that you deserve MORE right now? What makes you think that once you have more you will be able to do more and wake up to how much you actually have?

Your gratitude is half-hearted, and in a way, it is warranted, because you truly and simply have not woken up to the fact that you ALREADY HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH SOOOO MUCH TO WORK WITH TO CREATE YOUR DREAM LIFE. Not yesterday, but now.

And yet you keep feeling lack. You keep feeling like there isn’t what you need. Desperate energy is unenlightenment, and I don’t say this for you to shame yourself. NO!!! 🤍

I say this so that you can move through maya, because once you see yourself with NEW EYES and enough layers of bullshit gunk are wiped away so that you actually near enlightenment, you will see so C L E A R L Y that you are goddamn DIVINE.

And that you lack NOTHING (in this very instant) to experience what your heart sings for.

LEGENDS DO NOT FEEL LACK FOR THINGS THEY ALREADY HAVE, BECAUSE THEY REALIZE THEY “HAVE” EVERYTHING.

🧨🔥☄️💥⚡️🌈✨🌟🌪🔥⛅️🌥🌈☄️🌤☄️✨

Extra and basic nuances:

If you feel you aren’t able:

You get to take as long as you desire to learn this lesson, it is 100% OK, yet you will feel pain and suffering in the meantime. And that is OK too if you want it to be.

Oh:

Lacking nothing does not mean that you have zero learning left to do (there are always more layers of understanding).

Such a sad Story... and so well done! Thank you so much sunsetagainart! ♡

Baldur's Gate 3: Tabula Rasa (blank slate/empty sheet)

22 page comic.

Ship: Karlach/Sebastian/Haarlep + Ascendant Astarion.

Inspired by the bug of Raphael's resurrection after patch 5 and based on this ending.

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