#cancel this shi dawg

I am the son and heir

of nothing in particular

daenerys and missandei, moon and sun

“When he spooned an extra portion onto Jon's plate and gave him the crusty heel of the bread, he knew what it meant. He knows. He looked around the hall, saw heads turn quickly, eyes politely averted. They all know.”

And that’s why he may actually speak up about them fucking up because the show is too far gone now.

Okay but, as a professional historian, history is a bunch of competing narratives, sure, but some of those are still vastly more likely than others, and even though pure historical truth is forever out of our reach, your job is still to take a stance and, crucially, defend it. With evidence. And logic. Some sources are more reliable than others. And some events simply cannot be argued with due to their very public nature. So when F&B gives us different versions of a story, it's up to the writers to determine the most likely one based on the reliability of the sources and the inworld logic, not just pick the one they think would look "coolest". And that still leaves the instances where what F&B says is simply what happened, without a shadow of a doubt. Those things should not be changed. And any changes they DO make should make sense within the established rules of the universe.

Examples:

Aemond and Vhagar killing Lucerys by accident? Perfectly acceptable. We only know the outcome, we were not there in the sky with them, so it very well could have happened.

But Daemon being the one to kill Vaemond with no input from Rhaenyra? Simply not canon, because Rhaenyra feeding him to Syrax was a matter of public record at the time that no maester could conceivably later erase without a bunch of people going "wait, my dad was there when the Velaryons came to court to demand justice for it". Therefore, the show should not have changed that simply to make Rhaenyra more palatable.

Criston beating Joffrey to death instead of killing him in a tourney? Defies in universe logic, because a Kingsguard breaking guest right and committing murder during a wedding would have been executed.

“Oh it’s a natural character progression” I don’t care. There are better, more creative, and less sexually repulsive ways to signify a character has deep insecurity with their status as a second son in a medieval world and with their status in their relationship with their mother.

This all ties back into the whole sexual punishment thing that the writers have been doing to team green since the beginning. They’ve been placing Alicent in constant noncon situations. Making Criston an “incel” (though I still heavily disagree with the characterization). Making Alicent and Criston somehow partially to blame for blood and cheese because they had consensual relations. Having Aegon talk about how his nethers have been mutilated. And now having Aemond be a contributor to the constant sexual punishment the writers wish to inflict on Alicent and giving him a weird dream about her.

And what purpose do these scenes even have that couldn’t be done by simply giving Alys and Aemond more scenes and character depth? Alys can function as a proxy for Alicent just as easily as inventing Alicent appearing somehow to try to kill him (which is another topic that is so obscene because literally who even is this woman? Season 1 Alicent would never). Instead of playing this weird sexual degrading game they impose on the Team Green characters they could simply show Aemond’s deep rooted insecurity in his place as a second son and his craving tenderness from a maternal figure through Alys.

I’m not saying that the traits they’re conveying aren’t consistent or don’t make sense for the character. But what I am saying is that the way in which the writers are choosing to delve into it is suspicious as hell. They don’t care to delve into the interesting character subconscious they’ve created. They don’t care to expand upon the natural character progression of the character. They just want to shove shocking sexual scenes into our faces and obviously that can only be done to team green. Because sexual empowerment belongs to Rhaenyra alone.

.° [ #danyweek2026 ]

“the dragon must have three heads,” he wailed, “but i am too old and frail to be one of them. i should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me.”