#nettles f&b

[bohemian-nights]

People really are missing the point of a character like Nettles. Being the a non-Valyrian dragonrider is what makes her different(in every positive definition of that word) and helps to serve a larger purpose in this story.

Valyrian blood is not special. It’s not needed to do great things. No one is special because of what family they happen to be born into.

A non-Valyrian Nettles shows that we are more than the circumstances which we are born into. Our birth, our names, and our very blood does not define us. Our actions are what do. We can overcome so much and rise to become absolutely extraordinary with a little bit of determination, patience, and a dash of help along the way. Nettles exemplifies that to the fullest extent.

She's more than a Black Valryian. She doesn’t have to be Valyrian. She shouldn’t have to be Valyrian.

She’s a survivor. She’s a final girl. She’s a Black low-born girl likely without a drop of dragons blood that tames a wild dragon with patience that killed countless others who had dragons blood. She survived the Dance where others high and low alike fell and perished to become a firewitch to the Burned Men.

Her legacy is immortalized in the history books(and by the Burned Men cause they still worship her) as one of the last(if not the last) dragonrider(s) before Dany all without having any known Valyrian ancestry.

#nettles doesn’t need Valyrian blood to be great #nettles #hotd #hotd spoilers #nettles asoiaf #nettles f&b #hotd fandom critical #bncommentary #hotd commentary #nettles characterization #🐑🐉 #house of the dragon #netty #she’s not daemons kid guys #the dates don’t align for that but keep trying it #surprise surprise most of the ones cheering this crap on aren’t black themselves 🤦🏽‍♀️ #I see what’s happening here which is ironic because any other time she isn’t Black #but now she is because you can use that #how does having valyrian blood benefit nettles at all #how does it add to the story GRRM is trying to tell #she can be valyrian but it shouldn’t be requirement #that thinking is backwards #what did tyrion say? never forget who you are wear it proudly #nettles likely isn’t valyrian let’s be proud of her claiming a dragon without dragons blood #nettles is great because she’s nettles #no dragon blood required and I love that 🙌🏽

[daemonxnettles]

Maester Norren writes that "the prince and his bastard girl" supped together every night, broke their fast together every morning, slept in adjoining bedchambers, that the prince "doted upon the brown girl as a man might dote upon his daughter," instructing her in "common courtesies" and how to dress and sit and brush her hair, that he made gifts to her of "an ivory-handled hairbrush, a silvered looking glass, a cloak of rich brown velvet bordered in satin, a pair of riding boots of leather soft as butter." The prince taught the girl to wash, Norren says, and the maidservants who fetched their bath water said he oft shared a tub with her, "soaping her back or washing the dragon stink from her hair, both of them as naked as their namedays."

Fire & Blood🔥

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[kataraavatara]

i hate, hate, HATE when nettles “fans” say something along of “omg nettles got Daemon to leave his Valyrian wife for her 💅she’s just that girl” because IF (and I mean IF, because Daemon + Nettles is a highly contested claim within the text, so stop treating it as fact) IF Daemon and Nettles were together, this makes Nettles a victim, not some kind of girlboss. She is a teenager and he is an adult. “Haha she was so much better he left Rhaenyra for her” that is a tragedy, not a flex. How are you a “fan” of her character if you are cheering on something bad happening to her? The answer is you’re not, plain and simple. You do not care about her!!

#anti…do they have a ship name? dettles? naemon? netmon? #anti dettles #nettles and daemon #nettles #nettles F&B #fire and blood #daemon and nettles

[theothermaidoftarth]

My new moodboard for my as-yet unnamed Nettles x Cregan Fire and Blood au oneshot. The premise of which is basically, what if Rhaenyra sent Nettles north to ensure Cregan Stark’s support. And get her away from a certain someone who is a little too intrigued by her. Two birds, one stone. Or even, two dragons, one (very lucky) scorpion-shot.

#f&b au #fire and blood #nettles f&b #nettles asoiaf #nettles x cregan #nettles x cregan stark #rarepair #my edit #current wip #untitled wip

[venusintheblindspots-blog]

More on the dynamic between Rhaenyra and Nettles…

One of my biggest qualms of ASOIAF, is the inherent racism displayed in the text, and the fandom, when discussing characters like Nettles, Elia, Baela, Laena and Rhaena.

My introduction to ASOIAF was House of the Dragon, and after watching, I was an avid team black supporter ( still am, Rhaenyra was Viserys’ heir).

After finishing the main series, and watching half of Game of Thrones, I reread Fire and Blood, focusing mainly of the Dance of Dragons.

Of all the interesting characters during the Dance of the Dragons, the one that caught my eye was Nettles, the first and last rider of Sheepstealer.

Her introduction alone was enough for me to fall in love with her :

“Unlikely dragon rider”, “the first and last rider of the dragon Sheepstealer”, “fearless”, “cunning”

Very little is known of Nettles’ upbringing, as the accounts of Eustace, Munkun and Mushroom are biased with racism, classism, misogyny and second hand information.

I’m not particularly sure if it was George’s intention, but the language used by Gyldayn and the a portion of the fandom is a prime example of how black girls are robbed of innocence and agency when being accused of ‘wrong’.

Going back to her relationship with Rhaenyra, the two women are not on equal footing. Rhaenyra was awarded privileges even other noble women in the realm could only dream of,(not that she lived without suffering, she still faced misogyny & sexual abuse), as opposed to Nettles, who lived as a commoner with nothing to do but survive.

Coming around to the Dance of Dragons, Nettles fights for Rhaenyra’s claim as the rider of Sheepstealer. She grieves Rhaenyra’s children, and the loss felt in war.

Daemon and Rhaenyra’s are implied to have an open marriage in Fire and Blood.

Mysaria is Rhaenyra’s Mistress of Whisperers during the Dance of the Dragons, with no implications of animosity between the two. Yet, upon the hearing of Daemon and Nettle’s rumored romance, Rhaenyra is angered?

Rhaenyra’s disdain for Nettles reminds me of another harmful dynamic in real world history,- a jealous white woman, and a young black girl being cut by the blade of her vengeance. Rhaenyra dehumanizes Nettles, going as far as to call her a creature and demanding a brutal death for Nettles, so that Daemon could be free from her ‘sorcery’. She cannot conceptualize how Daemon could be attracted to Nettles, so she accuses her of using magic to bound him to her.

Their dynamic reminds me of the relationships between wives of white slaver owners and the enslaved women that their husbands would abuse sexually. The blame is never casted on the husband. Whether or not Nettles and Daemon had a romantic relationship or a father-daughter one, she did not deserve the treatment Rhaenyra gave her.

To close this, I still like Rhaenyra as a character. She’s interesting in a sense where, regardless of what she’s done, she was the better option for the Iron Throne, especially if we are going off of her character in the show. However, she still reads to me as the epitome of white feminism. Her fight is for no one else but herself.

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[green-ajah-aes-sedai]

Nettles

Hardly a likely paramour for a prince, one would think.

#I'm going to be so feral when we get her confirmed casting #i cannot wait to see nettles and daemon on screen together #don't you f this up hbo or so help me #nettles #nettles x daemon #daemon x nettles #dettles #nettles the dragonseed #nettles f&b #nettles asoiaf #nettles hotd #sophie wilde #asoiaf #got #hotd #asoiaf moodboard #asoiaf edit #asoiaf aesthetic #got moodboard #got edit #got aesthetic #hotd edit #hotd aesthetic #hotd moodboard #my edits #my faves #sheepstealer #nudity tw #kinda #slightly

[andfeans]

Nettles. 🐑🐉

#nettles #nettles asoiaf #nettles f&b #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #asoiaf #fuego y sangre #illustrators on tumblr #cancion de hielo y fuego #cdhyf #a song of ice and fire #fire and blood

[ariavar]

I need Tyrion to become a dragonrider in TWOW through horse girl hijinks just so I can repost this a thousand times

#“Tyrion will tame a dragon...” YESS #“...because he is Aerys' bastard” NOOOO #tyrion lannister #nettles #asoiaf #why do you think F&B dedicates like three paragraphs describing how cunning won over blood when it came to claiming Sheepstealer #if Nettles is supposed to be just another dragonseed #and why people don't think that is foreshadowing for another cunning character that will do the same in the main series #the point is to refute Targaryen ideals about being the only ones in the world capable to do it

[thetullystark]

Daeron and Nettles

#mine #my art #asoiaf fanart #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #f&b #daeron the daring #daeron targaryen #hotd daeron #nettles #hotd nettles #daeron x nettles #nettles x daeron

[bohemian-nights]

The interpretation that Nettles’ story ends in tragedy instead of triumph is rather odd to me. She’s a lowborn Black girl who came from nothing. Who’s thought of as less than nothing because of her background. Yet despite being on the lowest wrung, of society, she survives the Dance.

She comes away with her life, her dragon, and her independence, and is eventually worshipped and respected by a group of people who are weary of outsiders, yet that is a tragic ending?

She lives where those who sought to destroy her perished yet she's the one who we should look on with pity?

Does she wind up queen, knighted, or the lady of some house great or small? No, but the assumption that her story had to end with her gaining a title within the larger Westerosi society for it to be a triumph and a tragedy is inaccurate and once again missing the point of her arc. Her story is one triumph and not a tragedy.

#she overcame #don’t forget that #nettles #nettles F&B #netty #nettles asoiaf #asoiaf meta #valyrianscrolls #bncommentary

[snowprincesa1]

She’s messy but I love her anyway 💀

#house of the dragon #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #rhaenyra targaryen #nettles asoiaf #mysaria #hotd #I made this yalllllll #f&b #f&b spoilers #fire and blood #house targaryen

[daemonxnettles]

“God did not give me my life to throw away” -Jane Eyre📖

Nettles 🐑🐉

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[seaworthit]

Nettles!

#nettles #fire and blood #the dance of the dragons #f&b #asoiaf #anyway #NETTLES SWEEP!!!!!!!! #survived the dance dragon intact #her and Rhaena just a tier above #i wanna do a full sized illustration of her and sheepstealer #my art

[theothermaidoftarth]

World on Fire

Chapter 1 (of 3)

M/16+ | Nettles x Cregan Stark

Full list of cw on ao3

Excerpt:

One of the Northmen closest to her breaks her concentration, hefting a broad two-headed axe with ease in his large hand. “What was that!”

She leaves the cocoon of the roots to stand before the man, her back to where Sheepstealer shall appear. “I wouldn’t if I were you.” He’d take it as a threat to her, since she can’t turn him away.

The grizzled old lord scowls at Nettles speaking to him as if he were a boy reaching out to touch a hot pot. “And who are you?”

She circles closer slowly, near enough so his horse sidles away from her, away from the smell of dragon. For every step forward she takes, the horse trots back. A wicked amusement tickles her at the flash of unease upon the rider’s craggly face. Such a rush this power is, potent as mead on an empty stomach. And her stomach has been empty more oft than not. “You ain’t heard o’ me?” She locks eyes with the quiet lord she can now see wears a pale cloak trimmed with grey. Ah, of course. He is still; watchful… Almost as if — “He knows who I am.” She tips her head to him in ironic imitation of a bow. “Lord Stark.” This had not been how Nettles planned on making the Lord of Winterfell’s acquaintance but the gods did so laugh at the plans of mortals. She might as well laugh with them.

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[venusintheblindspots-blog]

A few fun facts about Netty

* Nettles survived as the lowest caste in society (more than likely on her own), for sixteen years.

* Every man who has tried to mount Sheepstealer has failed, including Alyn of Hull, a bastard of House Velaryon, confirming that he has Valyrian blood. Nettles has not been confirmed as a dragon seed, but she is the FIRST and LAST rider of the wild dragon Sheepstealer. Regardless of blood quantum, she did what most tried and failed to do.

* Nettles fought bravely in Westeros’ most deadly war, the Dance of the Dragons.

* She pursued Aemond One-Eye, arguably one of the best warriors during the Dance of Dragons, and was willing to meet him in combat.

* When Queen Rhaenyra had called for her head, she was defended by the Maesters and Lord of the Maidenpool, as well as Prince Daemon Targaryen.

* Her mount, Sheepstealer was one of the last known surviving dragons.

* After the Dance, Nettles was worshipped by the wildlings of the mountains who would bring gifts to her to prove their courage and coming of age as men.

* Of the many characters in Fire and Blood, Nettles was amongst the group of characters GRRM wanted to explore more.

#say what you want about her #but she will never be irrelevant #asoiaf nettles #nettles f&b #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #nettles asoiaf

[thesilverlady]

the first and last rider of the dragon Sheepstealer

#nettles #f&b #pre asoiaf #asoiaf #fire and blood #team black #asoiafwomensource #valyriansource #valyrianscrolls #nettles asoiaf #sheepstealer #graphics #my edit #fantasy edit #thesilverladyedit