yeah i can fly

Okay we've seen the upper limits of what an astronomical budget for filmmaking can do. Let's cap the budget at $500,000 for a few years and see what film teams forced to get creative and utilize unknown actors produce.

the genre of asoiaf fans that are like. ew who wants to read about Tyrion/Theon/insert other complex well crafted we’ve spent multiple books following. IM obsessed with some random Targaryen who appears for two pages in fire and blood and is characterized as being brave outgoing and generally likable before dying tragically young. Girl who cares about Prince Visaegerion…

What percentage of the Kings Landing population got herded into the dragonpit by the gold cloaks for Aegon Coronation Dragon 9/11 in season one AND got herded by the velaryon troops into the high sept to witness Rhaenyra coke ranting about being the Prince that was promised against the northern apocalypse in season three AND will in two years go onto storm the dragon pit in season four do we think

this is my fleabottom resident OC the unluckiest girl in the world. Her mama was a white worm informant and died in that horrible fire. Three days later, on the way to the market with her five year old half-sister, they got herded into the dragonpit for Aegon’s coronation by the gold cloaks and separated in the rubble of dragon 9/11. She never found her again. Her betrothed leaves her to sneak out of the city because he thinks he’s a dragonseed and wants to try his hand at honor and glory by claiming a dragon and is summarily incinerated. Her oldest half-brother gets conscripted to die defend Rook’s Rest, which means that her stepdad has to pick up extra shifts as a ratcatcher to support her and her other half-brother, until Aegon hangs him for catching rats. The blockade is hard on her and her remaining half-brother both, but they manage to scrape together enough with him lying about his age to enlist in the gold cloaks and her lucking into a gig as a scullery in the red keep. Unfortunately for them Rhaenyra seizes the city, which means she gets detained, sharply questioned, and fired with the rest of the kitchen staff for perceived disloyalty. When she finally gets out of the black cells she learns her brother has been disemboweled on his first day on shift due to the treacherous machinations of Ormund Hightower AND also Rhaenyra never paid him so they’re broke. While figuring out what she is possibly going to do, she gets swept off the street and into the courtyard by velaryon troops and forced to witness Rhaenyra coke ranting about the icy northern apocalypse that ordains her to the throne or they are all going to die and also she killed the Pope so mass is cancelled. This does nothing but contribute to her decision to kill Dreamfyre with a rock the next year and die in the attempt. She will be forgotten by history but her contribution to creating a world without dragon warlords still matters.

oh and like any good house of the dragon OC her biological father is daemon targaryen she was conceived during his dead baby brothel sex party in the pilot but that’s hardly here or there really he didn’t give her anything but the family tendency to get caught up in things

I know we were always expecting TMK to result in a bunch of misinformation just bc of the bizarre way the plot is being transmitted to fandom but the proliferation of this ‘Rhaelya thought they would conceive Dany who would be the TPTWP and were confused when they had a son instead’ is just like. yall are making that shit up whole cloth sdhdkgh like im kind of amazed by how shameless it is

like I fear we as a fandom really are going to keep having the same conversations forever if EVERY time we get new material or a new interview that sheds a different light on stringently held beliefs, certain factions just start working overtime to paper them over w layers of denial. it was the same shit w the interview in January where GRRM talked about Tyrion’s fate - basically no one round here talks about it bc its implications are pretty alarming for the party line. swear to god man

the fact that people are in the odyssey tags criticising the nolan movie for its changes to the original myth (valid) only to then turn around and recommend epic: the musical of all things as a “more accurate” alternative is hysterical like please. let’s be serious now

I think the ideal mutual is someone with some solid common ground but who also has a bonkers niche interest that’s totally foreign to you. It’s like a friendly educational experience