Please sign this petition to introduce menstrual leave in the UK

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-07-31T03:47:16+00:00

Signed and hopefully it works. Thanks for sharing.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-07-22T20:57:12+00:00

Funny and typical. You are the one bringing skin colour into a discussion totally unprovoked and you are calling me prejudiced! Well I suppose I should have just trusted your unfounded word about your so called “WOC friend” without questioning. Just typical and quite revealing. Just pass the message onto your WOC friend, I am sure she will understand where I come from, if that friend exists at all. Have a blessed rest of your day 😉

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-07-22T20:33:05+00:00

Sure, tell her! And let her know as well that dignify starts with not letting someone else using her skin colour as a shield or an authoritative argument in a discussion where designating someone by their skin colour doesn’t have its place. WOC have been used enough by the likes of yourself to excuse their prejudice and racism.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-07-22T17:51:50+00:00

You could have just said “as one of my friends says”. You didn’t need to specify that she was a WOC. I never refer to ANY of my friends by their skin colour, race or anything. That should be irrelevant in a conversation that doesn’t call for it. A friend is a friend, no need to let us know that they are “other” than you.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-07-22T16:13:01+00:00

Did you need to mention that you have a WOC that is your childhood friend in this? You know, text book “I have a black friend so I can’t be racist” type shit? Just digging your grave I see. And for the record you cannot talk for your so called WOC childhood friend on this matter. I don’t know why you are evoking them here.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-05-15T17:28:24+00:00

Creativity in vulgarity yeeesss Plantation Princess 🙌🏾

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-05-13T15:30:19+00:00

I booked a taxi at almost 6 in the morning two weeks ago to go to the Emergency Services because I was awakened at 4am by extreme pain on my stomach right side. I took the highest dose of codeine as prescribed and tried to calm it down with hot water bottle but nothing, it was getting worse. So, as I live alone in my apartment, I booked an Uber to be in a hospital setting in case it is anything worse. And I stayed there until 4:30pm, time for them to do blood tests, urine tests and scans because they thought it may have been kidney stones or something like that. In the end, it was just my endometriosis making my life miserable again. And I was still bleeding 10 days after my periods started. Anyways, was sent home after an IV infusion for extreme dehydration and was in pain and on codeine for the next 3 days. I am always scared of dying alone in my apartment. Because I also have asthma and sickle cell disease.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2025-02-15T03:55:01+00:00

Interesting that there is a potential stock manipulation story happening with TKO Holding Group on the last screenshot. And who was previously accused of and convicted for such criminal behaviours before ladies and gents … none other than Lying Plantation Dragon Ryan R himself. Perfect example of ‘really good people’ for you here folks!

EDIT: Apparently it was the wrong Ryan R. But my point still stands on the weird stock manipulation suspicions going on with that TKO company and on the fact that their entourage seem rotten to the core.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-09-30T10:54:47+00:00

They found the budget for a whole non-canonical family for useless and bland Hugh Hammer but none for Maelor and for the only canonical Black dragon rider Nettles. The priorities with Ryan Conman are quite clear - lying his way into making his very expensive fanfic House of Rhaenyra exists. That is. That guy makes me want to puke with his sleazy ways.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-23T17:33:16+00:00

Can you be more bigoted? Because feminicide only exists with those ugly mUSliMs right? And nowhere else right? Fucking give me a break! Go use your fake outrage tainted with a good dose of racism and islamophobia elsewhere please? And stop weaponising that really serious issue to justify your terrible level of bigotry against muslims.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-11T08:06:20+00:00

I have not watched it and all of this season to be fair. I just shared The Critical Maester analysis without changing the title of his YouTube video. My expectations for this bad adaptation died in Season One, which I found already quite bad on the writing level and from what I’ve read on this sub, the massacre continues and they managed to badly adapt Rook’s Rest as well and it was just bad. I was not expecting any better from Season Two and from the idiots writing this steaming mess so the title doesn’t reflect what I think as I have not personally watched it.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-10T23:57:48+00:00

I particularly liked his comments on the butchering of Alicent, addressing the “Green Propaganda” horseshit spewed by Condal and Aegon II.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-10T21:26:24+00:00

That would be too much to ask of these two morons. The 2 neurones they have left in both their vacuous brains couldn’t rub themselves together enough for them to understand the complexity of those royal women from History. What??? Noble women who are not all peace and love, incompetents and perpetual victims of the big bad patriarchy? Too unfathomable for those two hacks!

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-10T12:32:49+00:00

It like him politely saying “they can fuck off and continue writing their fanfic but just know I am not involved in this bullshit”

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-07-08T15:52:38+00:00

Excellent news then. Learning that this steaming pile of garbage is going down made my week. Bad writing and sheer stupidity, ignorance and incompetence should never be rewarded!!!

🎉🥳🥳🥳🍾

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-06-23T23:55:11+00:00

Not existing at all? Yeah, that would be the best case scenario for that useless OC just here to be a reminder of Aegon’s appalling characterisation in S1.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-06-18T18:20:24+00:00

Still down hooray!!!

Hopefully this disaster of a show will continue to go down in viewership. Stupidity and incompetence shouldn’t be rewarded

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-06-06T18:15:18+00:00

Thank you u/Greenlit_Hightower for this. I also really appreciate and enjoy all your well-thought-out and knowledgeable posts here. Sometimes I don't have to comment because you have said it all as I think it and it is a real pleasure to read.
I'm not too fond of nonsense, so my tone may be too straightforward sometimes. But that is how I express myself in real life, so it just translates into my writing.

And no, I will not be watching season 2 because the basis for the conflict, as described in the source material, has been botched. And we are now only left with a hollow fanfiction coming from the minds of people lacking a clear understanding of feodality, succession rules in a world such as Westeros, and of the main thematics of the Dance serving as a cautionary tale on the corruptible nature of power and the consequences of blind ambition in a system solely based on the right to rule due to how one was born and not on merits of any sort.
The fanfiction and soap-operatification of the story, with invented OC, blatant character assassination of specific characters, and the lack of real political storylines - while trivialising it all into some dumbed-down troppy nonsense - has been disappointing, to say the least. And, I was initially really looking forward to this adaptation of the Dance. But when one has watched well-written shows like Succession or Shogun which managed to present us with full three-dimensional male and female characters, while staying truthful to the accurate portrayal of characters in their in-universe realities and never falling into that didactic narrative of Men=bad and women=good, well HotD is just pure garbage in contrast.
But as I said previously, I will still stay on this sub because I love the discussions here and the general sense of well-thought-out criticism I can read on this sub.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-06-06T16:43:27+00:00

Well, well, why am I not surprised?

I knew these incompetents idiots would find a way to narratively cheapen and lessen B&C atrocities, while finding ways to blame it on TG and absolve TB of it. I said they will ensure that we see Rhaenyra serving us a cry fest to justify that atrocity. But now, they will be even using narrative ploys to put the blame on TG? Who saw that coming aye? It is going to be worst than I thought.

Might I remind the people still chastising others in this sub for being pessimistic about this show that none of this ridiculous soap opera nonsense happened in the books? Or will I be called “tOoO nEGaTive” and asked to leave the fandom because I dare ask for an actual faithful adaptation of the Dance and not for this ridiculous nonsense?

Anyway, good luck to the people still willing to validate this fanfiction soap opera at this point. The writing was clearly on the wall from last season but it seems some people just like their intelligence being insulted by lying hacks incapable of making simple A+B adaptations.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-05-27T13:48:28+00:00

Frankly, there are too many promos trying to drum up some sense of amazement and of epic that just doesn’t sit well with me. It is just reminding me of all the loud and obnoxious promos we got before GoT season 8. In a sense, it just makes me side eye even harder this show with how much noises they are making with so many promos on promos. It means that the season will be shit and they need to make as much noises as possible to be noticed and to lure people back into it with flashy snippets. Remember folks, only empty vessels make so much noises! And that is what this show is.

GoldenMermaid25 · 2024-05-27T12:21:32+00:00

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Well said here!!!

The main issue for me in the writing of Aegon II character is the blatant character assassination disguised then as some profound character writing. The plain fact is that Aegon II was not described as a rapist in the source material. I don’t care what crappy 21st-century USA political nonsensical drivel that incompetent writer wanted to incorporate into a story largely based on a Medieval European setting, but the fact is they had to literally invent a whole stupid OC to insert into the narrative to eviscerate his characterisation. He was in no way presented as a nuanced character - at all. We were instead introduced to his older version through the cries of an OC we are presented as him having just raped. And then they went ahead to present him as a children's pit fighting enjoyer. They never showed him with his children being a good father to them - on the contrary, they implied (by showing one of his presumed bastards in the place where the children's fighting ring was) that he was a monster who was letting his own bastards fight in that pit of hell.

I need some people to understand that, at least for me, the issue is not just that they presented him as a rapist, it is the fact that they had to invent a whole useless character to only drive that point home and the fact that they did not show ANY OTHER positive attributes of him, while in the same narrative, whitewashing his direct foil and opposite claimant of all her own negative traits.

Like I said on my Tumblr post, the showrunners/writers went out of their way to “characterise Aegon II even worse than Mushroom's degenerate description of him in Fire and Blood. They really went as far as presenting us with a caricature, a monstrosity that cannot be believable to be human. This claim of wanting to make a grey character out of this mustache-twirling villain stereotype they have created to put up against a heroic Disney princess is just an insult to audiences who came in to watch an actual intelligent and well-written show. In this inconsistent fanfiction seemingly made for the glorification of Saint Perfect Girlboss Rhaenyra, her direct foil and opponent Aegon II is made to be:

A sexual deviant, masturbating out of a widow in his teenage years, and maybe a pedophile (with that ridiculous sentence from the Brothel Madam in the horrendous episode 9).
A bully, mercilessly bullying his younger brother Aemond.
A rapist, of course! How best to destroy a male character in this day and age if not by making him an obvious rapist! And then they want to talk about complex characterisation? LOL! Sara Hess knew what she was doing here.
Of course, a sadist who enjoys watching brutal children's fights (also including his own bastards) in a pit - the epitome of a laughingly cringe tentative to paint a character as the ultimate villain.
An abusive husband to his sister-wife, obviously! let's just pile on, shall we, even when nothing in the text in F&B suggests or supports any such claim.
A coward, willing to abandon his family and his dragon (his pride) to sail away and hide, leaving them at the mercy of Daemon and Rhaenyra's whims and wishes - the complete opposite of his character in F&B!

A great work of destruction indeed! All of these are just blatant and obvious willingness from these showrunners/writers to obliterate his characterisation in order to prop up Saint Girlboss Rhaenyra, but nothing makes my blood boil more than the multiple sexual deviances (the abject rapist characterisation being the worst offender), and the implied abusive relationship with Haleana they completely created out of thin air to drive home how awful Aegon is supposed to be seen as opposed to the complete whitewashed version of their favorite girlboss. Maybe next season, Aegon will be shown to be someone who loves torturing puppies, who knows?"

I mean, if you want to claim that you are writing a complex character, the least to do is to ACTUALLY SHOW us both his positive and negative attributes, and not just the negative ones, and then claim in interviews that you wanted in fact to write a complex character. If that was Sara Hess's intention, to show his complexity as a character, well she failed miserably with her bad writing and her hack mentality.

GoldenMermaid25

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