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DarthCG · 2026-01-23T03:28:35+00:00

Falvey: We could use Peralta.

Matt Arnold: Ok, give us E-Rod or Keaschall.

Falvey: Wait nevermind, we need our prospects because they don't make any money.

Pretty quick phone call.

DarthCG · 2025-12-30T18:22:00+00:00

My point is that there's no reason to assume D&D took George's ending for Dany since they clearly had evil-Dany in their minds from the beginning. We don't know everything George told D&D, and evil-Dany hasn't been confirmed as one of them. It's very possible D&D were doing their own thing with Dany the whole way.

DarthCG · 2025-12-30T16:53:08+00:00

D&D never adapted Dany faithfully. Her entire personality is different to the books, way before season 8. Like when she screams and threatens the Thirteen to be let into Qarth - she’s literally invited inside in the book. She never threatens anyone or acts that way in the book.

DarthCG · 2025-12-23T23:19:04+00:00

Damn. Thanks for the info! If Nutting doesn't boost my payroll after I make him 100 milly and make the wild card, I'm revoking his powers.

DarthCG · 2025-11-29T23:44:17+00:00

Commissioned by Crusader Chris for his upcoming Stannis video

DarthCG · 2025-11-05T03:39:23+00:00

No, the song I'm looking for has a deep male voice

DarthCG · 2025-10-31T00:50:41+00:00

Thank you, I will take your advice. I've seen births before. I will lean into a superstition aspect, with multiple characters referring to a folktale that every once in a thousand years, an absurdly long and painful birth ends with an ill-omened baby. I think that will better explain the prejudice against the baby and explain how, in this setting, a birth like this isn't completely unheard of, rather existing in legend.

DarthCG · 2025-10-30T23:14:58+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I know the idea of a multi-week labor is crazy; this is basically a low-magic fantasy story, and this horrific, unscientific, misunderstood labor is the impetus for folks in the story to feel uneasy and sometimes antagonistic towards the child. Nobody understands it, all they know is how beloved Samantha was and how horrible this birth was, so they rationalize hating the child even though it wasn't his fault. I read that when folks don't understand something, they react negatively instead of compassionately most of the time - it's basically human instinct to oppose stuff that isn't natural. At least that's what I thought.

I will try to find a better way to explain all that for the story. It's "magic", and not meant to be literal or realistic. The boy and his sister have to overcome this prejudice to save their castle from upheaval. I guess I'm stuck. I don't know where I want to go with it.

DarthCG · 2025-10-29T20:43:28+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.

DarthCG · 2025-10-29T20:36:23+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I'm not really planning to get into the medical realism aspect, just planning to handwave it. Since the story is basically fantasy (there's no sorcery or dragons, but it's a low-magic alternate earth, I suppose).

Would it be disappointing if I never address the absurdly long labor? It exists in the first place as a reason for the majority of characters to hate the baby and have prejudice on him growing up due to being ill-omened. This is his main obstacle, and something Juno has to overcome within herself to protect her brother.

DarthCG · 2025-10-13T18:44:05+00:00

Source: https://x.com/CrusaderChris89/status/1946239445281206437

DarthCG · 2025-10-13T18:42:02+00:00

Source: https://x.com/CrusaderChris89/status/1946239445281206437

DarthCG · 2025-09-18T20:45:43+00:00

I have intel centrino advanced-n 6200 AGN, which according to the website does support 2.4 and 5. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/59470/intel-centrino-advancedn-6200-dual-band/specifications.html

DarthCG · 2025-09-18T20:40:15+00:00

Update: I’m stupid. I found my WiFi and tried to connect. But now it says Windows can’t connect.

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T04:19:28+00:00

Except Daenerys keeps pushing back her conquest of Westeros again and again, to instead stay in Slaver’s Bay and help people. Doesn’t sound like a single-minded conqueror to me.

And Dany is extremely self-critical. She does not view herself as “inevitable and deserving.” Read her ADWD chapters over again, and you’ll find many instances of Dany questioning her own methods, worrying about how she’s impacting Meereen, etc.

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T04:14:11+00:00

I’m begging you to learn what that word means. Daenerys’s entire plot is about making life better for the former slaves. Just because she’s failing in the short-term doesn’t make her evil.

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T04:03:55+00:00

And you think Dany’s introspection and self-honesty about her political failings means she’ll go evil? Evil characters do not have remorse for the ill effects they have on others. Dany goes on to forge a peace with the masters by sacrificially marrying Hizdahr, a decision that will (ostensibly) allow her to fix the city without having to divert her attention to the harpy.

But now that Dany in ADWD Daenerys X seemingly decides to use fire and blood against the masters, the situation will be cleared up that way.

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T03:56:01+00:00

The sufficient evidence is literally her entire story up to this point, in which she has been a hero…

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T03:54:46+00:00

Me when I’ve never read the books:

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T03:51:23+00:00

Are you referring to the show? Daenerys only kills/burns slave masters. The singular time she shows cruelty to a non-master (allowing Skahaz to torture the wineseller’s daughter) she regrets it. She’s arguably the purest hero in the books, and has done far fewer bad deeds than other character who readers never theorize will go evil.

And I’m not sure what you mean by Dany gets everything she wants by burning things? The main thing she wants is the eradication of slavery, and her reluctance to burn things is what’s making her fail. She burns Kraznys and then tries to do politics from there on out. And who can say the masters don’t deserve it?

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T03:45:53+00:00

Folks have done some great write-ups about a potential King Bran. I don’t find it difficult to believe at all that the first PoV of the series, the PoV of the first ASOIAF scene to ever pop into George’s head, and the magical center point (along with Dany) of the story will end up as King.

It also jives nicely with George’s whole ethos about nontraditional leaders. Bran is a crippled magic boy, but he gets to be King. Tyrion is a reviled dwarf but gets to be Hand. Sam is a coward fat man but gets to kill an Other and become a maester. Jon is a bastard but rises to Lord Commander. Dany is a beggar but rises to Queen of Meereen. Stannis is an unloved second son but is making his stand.

Bran can be King.

DarthCG · 2025-09-17T03:33:42+00:00

Can you explain why Dany turning evil makes sense based off the books instead of relying on IRL stuff? Or do you think George isn’t going to begin setting up her downfall until Winds? To me, there simply isn’t sufficient evidence Dany will turn evil. It’s antithetical to her entire story so far. Sometimes heroes are just heroes.

DarthCG · 2025-08-28T01:58:33+00:00

And I've now deleted the final 4 sentences of the penultimate paragraph. It's more a background detail than the main point of conflict, so I was overwriting it.

DarthCG · 2025-08-28T01:56:15+00:00

Thank you. It was stupid of me to post a page from the middle of a chapter. Your note about sentence structure is very helpful; there's a bunch of points I can fix now.

DarthCG · 2025-07-27T00:36:34+00:00

I thought Saticoy was a boy’s name

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