A toast to Eve Best. May the Mother bless you with joy, the Maiden with grace, and the Crone with wisdom. Thank you for bringing strength, dignity, and fire to the Queen Who Never Was. Though the realm denied you a crown, history shall not deny you greatness. Wishing you a very happy birthday and many more years of success. 🥂
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No. The Stonemen were not Valyrians.
Valyria fell centuries before Ser Jorah ever crossed those waters. The creatures he fought were the diseased, the exiled, and the forgotten souls cast aside by the world and left to rot among the bones of a dead empire.
Could some have carried Valyrian blood? Mayhaps.
But blood alone does not make a Valyrian. If it did, half the Free Cities would claim dragons.
First watch theory: Brand new day isn’t about a new or new villain……….. it’s about Peter finally becoming the spider man doesn’t need anyone to remember him. That lonely full time hero arc is about to break him or make him feel uncomfortable…
Who else felt that shift hit different #spiderman #spidermanbrandnewday
Let's take a look at the House Targaryen family tree during the Dance of the Dragons before House of the Dragon Season 3 arrives. 🐉🔥
My question is why are there strongs in Corlys' bloodline?
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the flames of Troy burned for a night,the consequences burned the Greeks for a lifetime. The Trojans lost their city,The Greeks lost their peace….Who really won?
It isn't that complicated, Alys Rivers is driven by violence, leverage, and serving The Lord of Light (Rhlloor) rather than mortal lords. She acts as Harrenhal's resident wild card, manipulating whoever holds the castle to align with her own cryptic visions.
First off, she operates outside traditional Westerosi politics entirely. Whether she’s messing with Daemon’s mind or whispering in Aemond’s ear, her goal is never power for herself, it's guiding the outcome of prophecy and ensuring Harrenhal breaks anyone arrogant enough to claim it.
Wait in Homer, it's Odysseus's OWN crew who eat the sun god's cattle, and every single one of them dies for it except him. Menelaus isn't even in that scene, he takes a totally different route home. So either the movie invented this, or I'm missing something huge. Anyone actually seen it confirm?
What makes it hit harder than most Targaryen deaths...the book deliberately leaves the exact cause ambiguous, giving multiple competing in-universe accounts rather than a clean answer. Even the timing is telling: the moment she died, her dragon Dreamfyre broke free of two chains and roared loud enough to shake the Dragonpit the only creature in the story that reacted like it knew.
It’s genuinely terrifying how many people watched The Odyssey and still can’t answer how Antinous knew it was Odysseus the second he plucked the bow.
He never took the cloak off. He never showed his face. Yet Antinous’ whole body language shifts into pure panic the moment that string snaps into place. The answer is simple and it’s right there in the movie if you were paying attention.
Antinous grew up around Odysseus. There’s a clear flashback of the two of them as younger men on a hunt. He knows exactly how Odysseus handles that specific bow. The way he braces it, the particular draw, the clean sharp pluck of the string that no other man in the hall could produce. That sound and that motion are as distinctive as a fingerprint to someone who spent years watching the real king use it.
So when the “beggar” does it effortlessly and the note rings out the exact same way it always did, Antinous doesn’t need to see a face. His body already knows. That’s why he bolts. Not because the disguise magically failed, but because the muscle memory of the man who used to own that bow just announced itself in front of everyone.
People acting like this is some plot hole either skipped the hunting flashbacks or simply weren’t watching. #theodyssey
What makes it hit harder than most Targaryen deaths...the book deliberately leaves the exact cause ambiguous, giving multiple competing in-universe accounts rather than a clean answer. Even the timing is telling: the moment she died, her dragon Dreamfyre broke free of two chains and roared loud enough to shake the Dragonpit the only creature in the story that reacted like it knew.
The Tragic De@th of Helaena Targaryen 🕊️🐉
Helaena Targaryen was one of the most tragic figures of the Dance of the Dragons. Gentle, kind, and gifted with prophetic dreams, she had little interest in power and found her greatest joy in her children.
Everything changed after the mu*der of her son, Jaehaerys, during Blood and Cheese. The loss shattered her spirit, leaving her consumed by grief as the war around her grew even more devastating.
According to Fire & Blood, Helaena later died after falling from a window in the Red Keep, though the true circumstances of her death remain a mystery.
Loved by the people of King’s Landing, Helaena became a symbol of the innocent lives destroyed by the Dance. She wasn’t a warrior or a schemer
she was a dreamer whose kindness couldn’t survive a world at war.
The dragon’s dreamer was gone, but Helaena Targaryen’s memory lives on. 🕊️🐉💔
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Menelaus and Agamemnon are both solid, experienced warriors, but neither of them belonged in the absolute top tier of the Greek army.
Menelaus was the better pure fighter of the two. In the Iliad he easily dominates Paris in their single combat and only loses the chance to finish him because Aphrodite intervenes and pulls Paris out of the fight. He later has a strong stretch of fighting while helping recover Patroclus’s body, and ancient sources credit him with killing around eight named Trojans. He is brave, competent with a sword and spear, and reliable in the ranks. He is not Achilles or Ajax, but he is a legitimate front-line fighter who holds his own.
Agamemnon was more of a commander than a pure swordsman. He does get his own killing spree (an aristeia) and takes down roughly a dozen Trojans, and Homer sometimes groups him with the better warriors. But the poem also makes clear he is not on the level of Achilles, Diomedes, or Greater Ajax. His real strength was leadership and authority, not unmatched personal combat skill. He could fight and he did fight, but he was never the guy the Greeks looked to when they needed the single most dangerous warrior on the field.
So the honest ranking is this: both were capable and dangerous by normal standards. Menelaus was the stronger individual fighter. Agamemnon was the more powerful overall presence because of the army he commanded. Neither was elite in the way Achilles or Hector were.
That being said, I would absolutely still love to see a sequel or spinoff movie of the Odyssey with these two being in the main characters. I hope somebody makes this happen. #Theodyssey
The fact that Daemon, a dragonrider who spent his whole life studying dragons, didn't test if Tessarion actually accepted that fake Daeron before bringing him to Rhaenyra.
People keep asking why Sinon’s face was covered in dirt in the underworld while Agamemnon’s stayed relatively clean, and the answer is pure Christopher Nolan.
In that sequence Nolan uses the simplest visual contrast to tell you everything about these two men without a single line of dialogue. Agamemnon is still the high king even in death. His face is mostly clear because the film wants you to feel the residual power and status he carried. The dirt never fully claims him. Sinon, on the other hand, is the man who lived by deception and survival. The dirt on his face is not random. It marks him as the one who stayed behind, who crawled through the consequences of the horse, who existed closer to the mud and the grit of the war. Even in the underworld that difference remains.
Nolan could have made every shade look the same. He refused. He gave each face a different relationship to the earth so the audience would instantly understand rank, role, and history the second they appeared on screen. That is the kind of decision I love from him. No speeches. No forced exposition. Just dirt and clean skin doing the storytelling. It is quiet, confident, and completely intentional, and it makes the entire underworld sequence hit harder because of it.
Helaena as an asset or as a threat sitting right next to a claim Aegon's faction could still rally behind. Recruiting your enemy's traumatized widow into your court isn't just a strategy call... it's a massive gamble on her loyalty actually holding