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dare i say aegon saved the episode

Otto: Your other son, Daeron

Alicent and every audience member who hasn’t read the book:

God the Hotd fandom really got one crumb of its favourite divorced couple and rose from its tomb.

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.

Please can an artist draw Criston wearing the

"I'm not a step-dad I'm the dad who stepped up"

T-shirt cause that would literally make my day.

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Third of the Ego playlists, Anti! Breakcore, rage, weirdcore, instrumentals, and general Anti-ness abound in these tracks. 

The Death Waltz // Tobias Lija

A Lie Temporarily Becomes The Truth // Nero’s Day At Disneyland

Monsters // Electric President

Cradles // Sub Urban

Little Poor Me // Layto

COPYCAT // Billie Eilish

Imposter // zetly

eating my computer // elliotly

All Eyes On Me // Or3o

Sprawling Idiot Effigy // Nero’s Day At Disneyland

Something Very Bad // Hadouken!

Propane Nightmares // Pendulum

Demons // WE ARE FURY

Wrecking Ball // Mother Mother

Entity // Really Slow Motion 

Master of Puppets (Remastered) // Metalica

you should see me in a crown // Billie Eillish

Crocodile Tears // Jack Stauber

Moonsickness // Penelope Scott

Dear Mr Bundy // The Vancouver Special (not on spotify, but perfect for him)

Creep // Radiohead

Hunger III // Tobias Lija (Interlude)

Choke // I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Let Me Though // CG5

A Mask of My Own Face // Lemon Demon 

Mind brand // Maretu 

The Ghost // NIVIRO

Oh Ana // Mother Mother

People Eater // Sodikken

The Greatest Show // Rowdy Heart Music 

Second Handed Man // Ethel Waters

Erase // They Might Be Giants

Man With Whip Standing Vomiting // Nero’s Day At Disneyland

Cut the Cord // Shinedown 

Copycat // CircusP

The Mind Electric // Miracle Music

Come As You Are // Nirvana

HUSHH // AViVA

Black Sheep // Metric 

Less Than Human // The Chameleons 

Stuff Is Way // They Might Be Giants

Overcast // Aesthetic Perfection

Devil Town // Cavetown

Knife // Acrnym

Tardigrade Song // Cosmo Sheldrake

Big God // Florence + The Machines

Circus // Lindsay Mendez

I’m Everywhere (Dubstep) // Teknoaxe

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