I don’t think Aemond ever truly controlled Vhagar.
People act like Storm’s End was the first time he realized it.
Vhagar only accepted him because she was grieving Laena. It was a bond born out of circumstance, not the deep connection we see with riders like Daenerys or even Caraxes and Daemon.
And Vhagar never really let him forget that.
Even before Storm’s End, she constantly felt difficult to handle. At Rook’s Rest she was impatient, during the chase after Silverwing she ignored what Aemond wanted more than once, and every time she was in the air it never felt like Aemond was commanding the largest dragon in the world but more like he was desperately trying to persuade her.
Storm’s End wasn’t the moment Aemond lost control, that was the moment he realized he never truly had the control he thought he had
Maybe the real rider of Vhagar was always Vhagar herself.
Helaena wasn’t a dreamer. She was literally the Three-Eyed Raven and I’m tired of pretending she wasn’t. Explain the visions, the prophecies, and her knowing things she had no business knowing.
Angus Cloud’s mother tells @TMZ her reaction to his appearance in the final episode of ‘Euphoria’:
“The massive public emotional outpouring on social media honoring my beloved son’s beautiful soul says everything.”
One time I asked my brother why he tended to only play/make characters that were women. He said “If I’m gonna stare at a screen for hours, I’d rather it be at a cool girl than a dude,” so I think this is a personal problem.
Hear me out:
If #GodOfWarLaufey takes place in the afterlife of the Gods, and the game occurs concurrently with the events of the 2018 game, imagine if near the end of the game, we get a confrontation between Faye and Baldur. Faye was Baldur’s original target in the first game.
My neighbor accused me of stealing her package.
She posted my photo in the community Facebook group.
Called me a thief.
Hundreds of comments.
People I’d never met were sharing my address.
The package was a limited-edition designer bag worth $2,000.
She swore she saw me take it from her porch.
I told her she was wrong.
She didn’t care.
The police showed up at my house.
I handed them my doorbell camera footage.
At the exact time the package disappeared, I was 30 miles away at work.
Case closed.
Or so I thought.
A week later, the police came back.
Not for me.
For her husband.
Turns out he had taken the package himself.
He’d secretly sold the bag online to pay off gambling debts.
The tracking records, sale listing, and payment trail all led directly to him.
My neighbor had publicly destroyed my reputation without a shred of proof.
So I sued her for defamation.
And I won.
The court ordered her to pay damages and remove every post.
The judge said something I’ll never forget:
“An accusation posted online can travel farther than the truth ever will.”
The money was nice.
But watching her pin a public apology to the top of the same group where she called me a thief?
That was priceless.
a few years ago i took a late-night uber home from the airport and accidentally left my ipad in the backseat.
the next morning i opened “find my” and saw it pinging from a suburb almost an hour away.
i tried messaging the driver through the app but got no response, so i remotely locked the ipad and put a message on the screen:
“hey, i think i left this in your car. please text me at [number].”
about ten minutes later i got a text from an unknown number.
it wasn’t the driver.
it was a girl named maya who had taken the same uber right after me. she said she found my ipad wedged under the passenger seat.
then another message came through:
“i think something is wrong. the driver went offline in the app and he’s driving away from my destination.”
a minute later:
“i’m serious. i’m scared. please keep tracking the ipad.”
y’all.
for the next two hours, i sat on my couch staring at the moving dot of my own missing ipad while relaying locations to the police and texting survival advice to a girl i had never met in my life.
at one point she stopped replying for almost eleven minutes and i genuinely thought i was watching someone disappear in real time.
then suddenly:
“red light. jumping out now.”
she managed to get out near a brightly lit gas station.
the cops swarmed the car less than five minutes later.
we never actually met in person because the precinct handled returning the ipad to me afterward, but every year on the anniversary of that night, maya still sends me the same text:
“thanks for keeping the screen on.”
we shared the most terrifying night of our lives through an apple device link.
everyone in the replies so shocked & appalled by the fact that a 10 year old can be depressed is the issue btw. why yall have adopted this mindset that children & teens can’t feel emotions so deeply to the point where they can consume you idk. no matter the age they’re humans
So I got my period at work today with absolutely no warning and went around asking all the women in the office if anyone had anything and nobody had a single thing.
One of the guys overheard me and said he had pads in his car because he keeps them there for his girlfriend for emergencies.
And then he went out to his car and came back and handed me a pastry bag.
This man had put the pads inside a pastry bag so nobody would know what was in it. To save me the awkwardness of walking through the office visibly carrying pads. He thought about that. On his own.
And it wasn't just one, he gave me two because I had an eight hour shift and he did that math himself apparently.
I was not prepared for......
Everyone hypes Vhagar like she was this untouchable god of war, but if you actually pay attention to how she fights, it’s basically the same strategy every single time
She has an overwhelming size obviously so she uses pure intimidation. And for most dragons, that was enough.
The problem is Vhagar got older, slower and way more predictable.
Huge turns, heavy movements, everything head-on.
Which is exactly why Caraxes was such a horrible matchup for her.
Daemon didn’t try to overpower Vhagar instead he was smart enough to exploit her with Caraxes, a faster dragon, more reckless rider, less predictable fighting style.
That’s why the God’s Eye fight is so interesting to me because it wasn’t “small dragon beats big dragon,” it was speed and aggression punishing brute force.
I honestly think fans mistake fear for invincibility when it comes to Vhagar because in ASOIAF, overwhelming power usually becomes a weakness eventually. And Vhagar might be the best example of that
Ruth Becker was 12 years old when the Titanic sank. She was on deck when it happened. She watched the bow go down. She watched the stern lift out of the water. She watched it snap in half.
70 years later, in 1982, she told this story at a Titanic Historical Society event.
The treasurer of the society a man who had studied the disaster for decades grabbed the microphone. Told her, in front of everyone, that she was mistaken. The ship sank intact. The engineers had confirmed it. Her memory was playing tricks.
September 1, 1985. Robert Ballard's team finds the wreck. Two pieces. Bow and stern. 2,000 feet apart on the ocean floor.
Every survivor who said it broke in half had been dismissed for 73 years. Because experts decided their testimony was less reliable than theory.
Ruth Becker lived to see herself proven right. She died in 1990. Five years after the man who corrected her was proven wrong.