beneath the velvet courtesy he shows the iron mail

Drew this for my Aegond fic "Hypnagogia" which you can read here!

+ Version where it's just the Landscape of the Gods Eye and Harrenhal beneath the cut

There's a lot that i dislike. The main thing is that it makes so many unnecessary changes to the source material that seem to show disrespect and even distaste towards the story as GRRM intended it. The explanation people who never even read F&B often give is that "the Dance is just a bare bones outline in the book" which is NOT accurate at all and even if it were true, it does make the show runners' changes an improvement upon the original story beats.

For ex: in NO WAY shape or form does F&B's "lack of detail" make the complete erasure of Nettles reasonable. And based on the most recent episode I don't consider show!Rhaena to be even a shadow of Nettles beyond sharing the same dragon. "Nettles isn't that important because she's not a Targaryen" <- exactly why Nettles existed in the original story + how she challenged Targ/Valyrian supremacy and how she was discriminated against for it by our very own Rhaenyra...

I find this entire situation so reminiscent of GOT from seasons 5-6 where they started taking liberties (cutting Stoneheart, cutting Young Griff + JonCon, cutting Arianne) where people would defend the decisions by calling these things bloat and then later complaining that GOT became bad because it "ran out of books" ??? It's the same shit happening here. They don't adapt the Dance as it is outlined, they remove many things, and then say well the book was too vague for us to adapt it as it was so we had to add all this random shit. The show also thinks it's being profound by removing agency from its biggest players for no reason. It's become a joke now that everything in HOTD happens by accident but it's beyond parody atp. Aemond kills Luke by accident (this is probably the only one I liked honestly LOL), Alicent names Aegon king by misinterpreting Viserys' words rather than acting on her own ambitions and beliefs about succession, Daemon gets baby Jaehaerys killed by accident in a hit on Aemond rather than literally trying to get payback against Aegon for the murder of Rhaenyra's son, and now the entire mess of the Gullet. The Gullet really upset me for many reasons. One of the questions ASOIAF readers have always asked wrt the Dance is why Rhaenyra never fought in any real battles (excluding fall of KL) while Aegon did and what it says about her character. The reality is, neither Rhaenyra nor Aegon should be fighting in the battles realistically, as they are too strategically important and the stakes are too high. Look at what happened to Aegon in a dragon battle (both book and show). Rhaenyra is smart to not want to fight herself, and selfish for instead sending her teenage son Jace to fight for her. She is not a warrior, although she wants to embody Visenya, wearing her braids and dressing in armor. It's a contradiction in her character and it says something about her. What's more, Rhaenyra is not as physically able in the book as she is in the show. She should be injured from her VERY traumatic miscarriage. It's also worth mentioning that Rhaenyra is fat in the book, in contrast to the athletic show Rhaenyra. You can ask yourself why they would choose to make Rhaenyra skinny. Would she have been more unlikable to general audiences if she got fat? GOD FORBID!!!!!!!!!!!

Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957)

This is now your Pokémon Partner. Whatever you would want to do in the Pokémon world, your Result goes with you. It would be your Ace in Battles and/or contests or they might just help you around with your regular Not-Inherently-Pokémon Job or just hang around your house as your beloved Pet. If you really really want to BE a Pokémon than this is the Pokémon you just turned into.