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S8 made a lot of targies very upset lol

I mean, some lowly willowy dress-making wench surviving the dragon warlord, not even kissing her royal feet, and then having the nerve to rule after her demise?

Like… independently from the targ-made throne too?.. HUH?!

Considering everything that we know about Condal and Hess as wr🤧ters and that hotd is just a big budget fanfic framing targs of all people as these godsent guardians of light… Would it be completely delulu to presume that the constant humiliation and “humbling” (just… what?) of Alicent kind of reads like revenge fantasy? About someone else in particular? Why does she have red hair again?

Remember, these are the people who very intentionally twist or get rid of everything that makes Rhaenyra look even slightly bad, starting with minor canon details and ending with whole characters. The same people who can’t help themselves but unleash ao3-tire punishment on fictional characters for the crime of opposing “the hero” when the story’s not even done yet and they are supposedly “the author”.

Rhae Rhae is their baby, guys. They’re not here to write an engaging story lol, just make sure this one doesn’t get stabbed after committing mass murder to her heart’s content.

I honestly think Condal and Hess were terrified of the S8 situation happening again, of the mere idea that the world would outlast their precious inbreds no matter how destructive, cruel, and greedy they are. That it would go on to heal while they rot in the ground with their dragons, survivors of their rampage sparing them no thought. Sansa embodies this idea quite effectively, which is why targies hate her so much.

And also why show da*nsa exists in the first place: to bring her down a peg, you know? If not force her to grovel at Dany’s feet and give up her agency again, well, at least make her care about her homeland’s invader, something, anything. Anything but allow Sansa to leave her in the past with all the other monsters she’s had to deal with.

I believe C&H saw glimpses of it all after season 1 with Alicent suddenly gaining strong support and the fandom being divided again instead of blindly glazing Rhaenyra, and knew their favored side would never maintain their pseudo feminist moral high ground if hotd were to follow the source material.

EXACTLY i want to know more about northern religious practices, i want to know annoyingly sparse details about all of cregan’s kids, i want there to be stans for random dead stark baby #12!!!!!!

​not to be a hater but like THIS is the actual main magic in the books, it’s northern magic, it’s weirwood based magic, it’s greenseeing, it’s skin changing, it’s the long night. the only other rival for most prevalent is not actual valyria is rhollor, and yes there’s crossover but the dragons & the incest are a footnote for dany. it’s as prevalent as like,,,, the ironborn magic. which is to say it’s THERE but it’s not actually the main thing we’re focusing on. and often i think people are very surprised when they get to the series & it’s mainly stark povs & lannister-baratheon politics - which is often influenced by what?? WEIRWOOD BASED DREAMS and stark politics & personalities!!! and when we finally get into essos, what are we focused on? it’s not valyrian & it’s not even rholloric it’s GHISCARI. dragons aren’t relevant!!!!

GRRM makes a point of suggesting how magic users get their commeuppance, so to speak, as punishment for breaking the natural laws.

Valyria is an extreme example of this. This question wouldn't exist if people read the supplemental material. Valyrian people performed some kind of sinister blood magic to create/bond themselves with dragons, then founded an entire empire on acquiring slaves to work their mines and serve as blood sacrifices to maintain this constitutionally evil way of life. They terrorized Essos in this pursuit, enslaved millions and even performed wild human-beast experiments in Gogossos. Nymeria's whole story is of a terrified people desperately fleeing their Valyrian pursuers, else they would have been condemned to a life on unspeakable horrors, just because the Valyrians needed meat to keep their Fourteen Flames going.