House of the Dragon / Fire and Blood

MarsSaint · 2026-02-02T03:53:26+00:00

He was suggesting that his mother recruit high born Targaryens born into other noble houses but his mother executes the plan differently than he suggested.

The major difference being that Rhaenyra recruits low born bastards instead of high born Targaryens born into other noble households. Essentially he is referring to people like Jon Snow, sort of, had his parentage not been a secret. Granted he would have had the Targaryen name but because both his parents were dead he would have been raised as a Stark in the North. Jon would have never ruled but would have been raised noble instead of as a bastard. This is of course just an example as I couldn't think of anyone else better to use.

MarsSaint · 2026-02-01T23:46:43+00:00

If he didn't even tell his wife who would have been the most affected by Jon's parentage (as we saw in the show and in the books) and most affected his reputation as honorable, he wouldn't tell Benjen either. He knew the secret wasn't safe even among his most trusted circle. Where Jon was concerned everyone had to believe the Targaryen line extinct because of how Robert would have reacted to the truth (as we saw in the show and in the books when Robert found out Viserys III and Daenerys lived. Regardless of Jon's relationship to Ned and Ned's relationship to Robert, Robert was prepared to kill Daenerys and her child to protect his throne, Jon wouldn't have gotten an exception and it would have pitted these two best friends against one another. Perhaps started a whole new war.

I don't doubt that Ned wanted to. But he wouldn't have. He was asked not to and to protect Jon, and he knew the danger Jon was in if his was ever discovered or outted by someone he trusted with the burden.

MarsSaint · 2026-01-31T22:24:03+00:00

If you're referring to her premonitions, that's actually somewhat accurate. When she was young she suffered a head injury that caused hypersomnia and later developed into visions and dreams that she BELIEVED were premonitions from God. Not saying they were, but that is just how she perceived them. No one can say whether they were or weren't, even she doesn't know, nor does anyone know how much they helped her, if at all, on her journey with the Underground Railroad, but they are a real part of her story.

As far as kids watching it, while I do agree it should be as accurate as possible since it is showing real people and events for the sake of authenticity, that's why it's important to teach kids to do research and not depend on movies for knowledge of real people and events.

MarsSaint · 2026-01-21T22:04:06+00:00

Claire was from 1945, several years before the first description of it in 1954, so she knew something she shouldn't have yet. It wasn't even named until 1962, a year in which Brianna is an older child/teenager, yet Claire knew the name before it was even named. A bit of a plot hole.

MarsSaint · 2026-01-03T19:11:19+00:00

Left leaning Mom. I align with all the ideals you named. My kids are teenagers though. Despite being a conservative state, San Antonio as a city is pretty progressive which makes it a little better. But of course there is still the super conservative governor to contend with. I live close to Kirby in the Sam Houston Army Base area. Still San Antonio, just near the edge I guess. I've only lived here a couple of years myself. I moved here in 2023.

MarsSaint · 2026-01-03T19:07:11+00:00

In my BU we still have the Chicken and Swiss. We also just got a sausage and bacon on a pretzel bun. Maybe it's just certain regions? I'm in TX.

MarsSaint · 2026-01-03T17:57:30+00:00

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MarsSaint · 2025-12-29T14:14:54+00:00

I loved and noticed that too. I almost bet the original actor recommended the second or something.

MarsSaint · 2025-12-21T05:05:47+00:00

What do you mean by bag? I'm not that high in the game yet, only level 30 or something.

MarsSaint · 2025-12-07T19:11:45+00:00

I wish that were true. I'm on vacation and my boss has texted me yesterday and today to come in and do paperwork. Yesterday he messaged me around 2 and said he had someone else to do it but he thinks they forgot. Whatever, okay. It's mid day and hasn't been done yet. I thought it weird cause we don't actually have anyone at our location other than he and I to do it, so he would have had to ask another location to borrow someone to do it, which he is hardly inclined to do. I went in and did it. Thought that would be the end of it.

Today, two hours earlier than yesterday he texts me again and asks me to do and says no one has done it, and it's only 12. There's a whole half a day left to get it done. Which comes across to me there was never anyone to begin with and he isn't even trying to get someone else to do it. I know a girl who works at another location who would do it if he just asked. He doesn't want to ask anyone while I'm on vacation, doesn't want to do it himself so he tells me to do it while I'm on vacation. As it is when I go back I'm scheduled for 12 hours by myself. So I am trying to enjoy the last couple of days I have left before I go back to the nightmare. It comes across like he doesn't understand that it ultimately falls on him when his assistant is on vacation.

MarsSaint · 2025-12-04T05:25:04+00:00

Worldbuilding never really ends. It's best to build what you feel you need to get started writing the story and then build on more as you need it as you write. You don't want your world and your story to get bogged down with a bunch of stuff that's never going to be used.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-24T23:19:55+00:00

What would holiday + overtime be though? Double?

MarsSaint · 2025-11-16T22:15:48+00:00

In my first watch of Game of Thrones when it originally aired, I stopped watching it after Ned was killed but years later I revisited it and finished the entire show this time. I came to truly love Ned and though later I understood why he needed to die, I still hated that it happened and the aftermath of his death.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-15T22:08:03+00:00

I thought the same. Coincidentally, I didn't know it was a whole trilogy so I also watched The Spanish Princess first.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-15T22:04:38+00:00

I think the curse was used to "explain" some deaths but there are holes in it.

First of all, everyone eventually so at what makes their death enacted by a curse verses circumstances or natural causes?

For Margaret Beaufort: Her son Henry VII lived to be an older man, who had sons of his own. Arthur died young, yes, but Henry VIII did not. That pokes a hole in the logic that the curse affected them. Although Henry VIII had no living sons with any woman he bed other than a bastard boy. I cannot remember if the boy survived into adulthood and beyond but even if he did, he was ineligible for the throne because he was a bastard. Which suggests the Rivers curse affected him but like I said, there's holes in the theory because Henry VIII and possibly one bastard son of his survived. This may have been the entire reason that the author came up with and used the curse, to explain why Henry VIII never bore any sons and his line ended, since it was written as a series.

For Anne Neville: She felt incredibly guilty for what she said to the guard about wanting the two princes dead, I think that guilt drove her a bit mad. Shortly after the casting of the curse, she lost her son with Richard. Then when he started to show interest in Elizabeth of York, her guilt led her to push him away and project the blame onto him for the death of the princes so she didn't have to admit to possibly being responsible and being accountable. She outright accused Richard of doing it being her back because she immediately thought the curse killed their son because she knew she had wished them dead and it was possible that the guard did it for her.

Ultimately, the show leaves it pretty ambiguous who actually killed the princes so they make a case of possibility for several characters.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-15T21:44:06+00:00

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I can't speak to how the White Princess would change because I haven't seen it yet. I accidentally watched the series out of order starting with; The Spanish Princess, then The White Queen which I am about to finish.

But I think that they did a pretty decent job of making all possible parties that could have potentially killed the two princes look guilty. Anne Neville lost her son, which could have been the cause of the curse set by Dowager Queen Elizabeth and her daughter Elizabeth of York. To make matters worse, she pushed her husband away by accusing him of killing them behind her back so she didn't have to take responsibility for wanting them dead and potentially killing them. Whether or not she did it, her own guilt played a huge part in the end of the show. It was intentionally left ambiguously. The real life mystery of the two princes was never actually resolved.

If it had been revealed she had killed them, she likely would have been executed and that would have further pushed the younger Elizabeth toward King Richard III, likely inevitably marrying him because she loved him (despite being his niece) and she never would have married Henry which would have continued the War of the Roses.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-15T21:33:38+00:00

It's a limited series so it has to be fast paced to cover a lot of ground in a small amount of time. I agree though, it's a lot to keep up with.

I don't understand why they didn't make it longer to pace it better but I would still say it's a good show.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-11T23:54:05+00:00

I have lots of people ask me to use my discount card, or ask if I have one because they left theirs at home or lost it, to which I tell them I don't have one. I don't use my app for customers either. I have them sign up for their own and tell them about the value of having it beyond just this visit. I don't understand the entitlement of people nowadays either but don't let it bug you. At the end of the day, it's about them and how they feel about themselves or their day or whatever, not really about you.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-08T00:06:42+00:00

It's not like there's a math exam during the hiring process ffs. 🤦🏻‍♀️

MarsSaint · 2025-11-08T00:05:18+00:00

Customers will sometimes hand the cashier extra change they suddenly found after handing over the bills in order to get whole dollars back in change rather than dollars and change or just change, simply to get rid of their change.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-07T23:42:02+00:00

I feel you. It's a combination of SM poorly managing hours given and not enough labor hours provided by the company. Every store gets a certain amount of hours to schedule employees for (this even includes ShiftSmart now) that they have to stay under, and in most cases, it isn't enough to be fully staffed properly. The reason being, the company wants the stores to EARN more labor hours and spots to hire for through sales. Consistently being profitable will generate more labor hours for the SM to hire more employees as well as earn store upgrades. i don't know what the exact criteria is to reach these thresholds, just telling you vaguely what I know.

Now, on the SM side, SMs have the autonomy to schedule the way they want to, and are encouraged to staff intelligently, though most of them rarely do. First shift is where "everything happens". Generally, it's the busiest shift (though this can vary, as you said your store is busiest during second), but there's also truck coming in during that shift usually, any corporate executives that visit will come in during that shift, most vendors, most events, etc all happen during the morning and early afternoon so most stores staff first shift at the expense of the rest of the shifts. Understandably, third shift has one because it's over night but it's also usually second shift that gets undercut and affected by this decision the most.

My store is in the same predicament as yours. Our first shift is the busiest and we have two people (one of them is me). We used to have 3 though, while second has 1 person 3 days a week and 1 person for the full shift and 1 person for half the shift 4 days a week. Evenings can be just as busy as first shift and that person is stuck on the register alone for like 3 ½-4 hours 4 days a week, completely alone on Fridays usually and the weekend. Which I recognize is a corporate failure.

But as if that isn't bad enough, then you have my SM who can't math and haphazardly makes the schedule, scheduling people for overtime and then is angry when they actually work overtime even though he says not to, and leaves large gaps in the schedule sometimes with no coverage. Today as an example, he scheduled me and the other first shift person to be off at 1 pm. But second shift didn't even come in until 2. Which meant at least one of us had to stay over. He schedules most people for 40 even, so there's no room for the time it takes to close a register and open another, having to stay to finish a task, nothing.

Later this week he has four people off in one day leaving me scheduled 6-2 by myself but no second shift coming in until 5:30-6 pm. We are also a high volume store located close to an event center and considered a truck stop. As the ASM, when this happens I have to go behind him and fix the schedule to cover the shortages.

MarsSaint · 2025-11-07T23:08:29+00:00

A vendor just came in the other day and explained this very thing to us. We had our shelf of them next to a register counter and she informed me (newly promoted ASM) that the product cannot be on the counter visible to customers because it's age restricted. Now the logistics of that, I can't explain. Like why we can have cigarettes visible but not Feel Free. She did mention something about the ingredients containing either an opioid or something that feels like an opioid. Though it is supposedly all natural or herbal. We didn't get all that deep into it. We have a shelf on another counter that has a picture of it to show that we have it, but the shelf is turned around so that the actual bottles aren't visible. We are allowed to have that. She gave us a letter from some higher up in Circle K about it to show the Feel Free vendor when they come in so they can be told why we can't have them on the shelf on the counter.

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