In the first of two House of the Dragon Season 2 wrap-up episodes, LittleWolfBIrd is able to (finally!) sit down and chat with the delightful Felix of House O'Kelly. Felix is a sharp minded fan from London and ever understanding about #DaeronWatch and #Timeline and #TravelTimes because of his fascinations with Family Trees, especially that of the Estermonts. Together, LittleWolfBird and Felix talk about the general changes and consequences of the season as a whole, the magic and Gothic nature of Harrenhal, the specifics of the Finale, and The Now-Imfamous NotABlog Post from George.

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⁠Tales From Mistland & Other Oddities: Volume 1⁠

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At long last, you High Heretics have put together their thoughts and feelings about the finale of House of the Dragon Season 2. But they are not alone. Joining them for the first time as a guest and potentially not the last because she might become the third member of the Silent Sisters, is Dr. Kavita Mudon Finn. A third member!? Yes! Blue_Lemons and LittleWolfBird have decided that adding a third person to the writing team - a Ghostwriter if you will - will probably help ease along the hardest part of podcasting. That is, scripting. But not to keep them fully in the shadows, our Ghostwriter will co-host whenever they want to. And so we're trialing Dr. Kavita and she us. So far it's off to a good start, learning new words like "Plantagenot" or how to defend fanfiction by invoking the Doctrine of Varient Texts.

We three Heretics dive into Alicent's arc this season and how her actions in the finale make sense. Dr. Kavita poses an addendum to the Maester's Conspiracy Theory and asks the big questions about the King's Guard while LittleWolfBird gets hung up on on travel times again. We dive into Helaena and her prophecies once again and whether or not Daemon recognized her as his niece...and that's about as in depth into Daemon's vision as we get. Rhaenyra's rise as a messaionic figure has been a long time coming and the events of this season continue to cement in her mind that she is making the right decisions, thus propelling her to do more and go bigger. What ever could that lead to?! And, as we seem to be want to do this season, we dive again into a discussion about Class Warfare and the dynamics between characters that will inevitibly lead to literal class war.

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Credit to George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon

This time on the Silent Sisters', covering the penultimate episode of the season "The Red Sowing", LIttleWolfBird and Blue_Lemons are joined by returning guest and lovable devil's advocate, Pat Sponaugle, and first timer and drink-mixer extraordinair, Sean Pink! In a shocking and unplanned start to the episode, Pat and Sean stage a coup, take over the show, and drive your High Heretics headfirst into a Criston Cole discussion. We learn that it's all Otto's fault, oh and did you know he was a feminist? Alicent takes a much needed vacation to the Kingswood with one of the last remaining King's Guar knights and we all want to join her. Aemond dismisses Aegon's bff's, sending them to the wall while Larys and Jasper consult each other on whether to give the Prince Consort some perhaps dubiously sourced and potentially unreliable information. Sean blows our minds about Larys encouraging Maester Orwyle in gaming the system plus, perhaps Targaryan's have magical healing powers, question mark? LittleWolfBird once again goes on to question Addam's parantage based on Corlys' behavior this episode however, she concedes that it doesn't have to be Laenor and everyone agrees: this dragon claiming plan wasn't well ... well planned. Pat teaches us how claiming a dragon is not unlike coming upon a bear in the woods and Sean declares that Targaryan's have steaks in their pockets. And LWB concludes the episode with a lesson on the timeline...again.

0:00:00 Intro & Criston Cole

0:16:20 Summaries

0:24:29 Dragon Western & Poor Planning

0:45:15 Alicent

0:49:30 Aemond & the Smaller Council

1:13:21 Aegon's PT

1:31:26 The Call for Dragon Seeds

2:10:31 The Red Sowing & Aemond

2:18:56 Rabbit Holes & Hyperfixations

2:43:36 Conclusion

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Sean Pink: Twitter | Youtube | History of Westeros Podcast

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Credit to George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon

With a last minute guest change, Steven Stark once again but probably not for the last time, joins The Silent Sisters' Blue_Lemons and LittleWolfBird to break down House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 6 "Smallfolk." We go for the most part scene by scene, diving into topics such as how much lions eat and therefore how much dragons eat, the final nail in Alicent's coffin of lost power, Aemond's full debut as Regent, Aegon's terror, Daemon finally Asking Alys, at last some great PR on the Blacks' part thanks to Mysaria, Sandor and Sansa (although not at the same time, sad face), Schrödinger's Nettles, and of course Daeron and this fucked up timeline!

Oh, and go see Steven if you think this episode was filler. Spoiler: it wasn't.

Referenced Reading: HotD Has a Misogynoir Problem by BohemianNights on Tumblr | On Nettles in HotD by @will_nis on Twitter

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Mattstagraham⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Credit to George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

The Silent Sisters are finally old enough in episodes to rent a car! Happy 25th Episode to us!

We celebrated by bringing on one of our newer fandom friends to guest host with us, and boy did Ser Baelor Swyft aka TheRealEthanJoseph deliver! In this fun episode covering HotD S2E5 "Regent", LIttleWolfBird, Blue_Lemons, and Ethan dive into three major topics of this episode.

1. How this show is covering the different ways to fight a war: contrasting Daemon and Willem vs. Rhaenyra and Mysaria and the Dance commanders vs. the WOTFK commanders (yes, and we learn how to say WOTFK), and the how the use, or lack there of, of dragons changes everything...or does it?

2. Would we really be the Silent Sisters if we didn't talk about Helaena at all?

3. We discuss the loss of power for Rhaenyra, Jace, and Alicent.

Plus, for funsies, we talk about Aegon, Criston Cole, and just how messed up this show timeline is. And we wrap up the show by talking about this fun article Ethan introduced to us from The Ringer by Jodi Walker.

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Credit to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

If last week we had a whole new podcast, this week we have gone through a transformation and turned The Silent Sisters' into a D&D podcast!

Just kidding! Though it almost did.

Absent LittleWolfBird - who took a mental health day - Blue_Lemons and returning guest DM Steven Stark of Here Be Dragons! dive into House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4 "The Red Dragon and the Gold" to discuss Dungeons & Dragons, power dynamics, and effective rulers; determining that good rulers must be decisive and be open to questioning.

We've come to the conclusion - yet again - that Alicent (and Viserys!) are (were) shit parents and that Rhaenys is a boss ass bitch who should have been the Queen. Daemon be tripping, the writers make us feel for Aegon when we don't necessarily want to, Ser Willem Blackwood is awesome, Rhaenyra probably should have told someone where she was going last episode - just like Cole should have told someone about his ambush plan this episode (though we understand the need for secrecy at times), Alys Rivers ('nuff said), and we really want to know what Lord Larys Strong's motivations are because Power For Power's Sake in a character is, however realistic in our world, not very exciting in literature.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Profile Art by Mondongo⁠⁠⁠⁠

Credit to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

It's (not) a new podcast! Therefore, a great big welcome back to our dearest friend of the podcast, Lo the Lynx, who is also joined by our newest friend, Virginie! Be sure to check out their podcast, Ragman's Harbour. (Get it? Silent Sisters? Ragman's Harbour? We think we're funny.)

In this episode, we take a look at Rhaenyra and Alicent's last-ditch effort to broker a peace deal through the lens of gender studies. Is the show being a little too simplistic and gender essentialist when it comes to who wants war and who wants peace? Our guests break it down for us. Then we deep dive into a very haunted Daemon's weirwood dream, where dreams, magic, and reality seem to blur together. And what's eating Daemon and Ser Criston Cole? Could it be actual guilt for respectively earning their lady love's displeasure? Things aren't going so well in the Green's camp, with Aegon ascending his drinking buddies to the King's Guard, Larys Strong ingratiating himself to the king, and Aemond losing his one safe space to be vulnerable. Finally, we turn our attention to Baela, Helaena, and Rhaena. One experiences the thrill of helping the war effort on dragonback, the other processes the death of her child, and the last is entrusted with safeguarding the youngest of Rhaenyra's children.

Lo the Lynx: ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Wordpress | BSky

Virginie: Twitter | BSky | WordPress

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Recording, editing, and mixing were done by ⁠⁠⁠LittleWolfBird⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠Music by Mattstagraham⁠⁠⁠ * Remixed today by LWB

⁠⁠⁠Profile Art by Mondongo⁠⁠⁠

Credit to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

The episode of the numbers 2.

Picking up where they left off in the last recording, and after seeing this episode's runtime and understanding why this is a two-parter, Akash and LittleWolfBird delve deeper into the propoganda of House of the Dragon S2E2 and tie ideas back to other well known media including Lord of the Rings 3 - The Return of the King, and the original A Song of Ice and Fire books, as well as the other show Game of Thrones. We agree that if Rhaenyra had sent out a PR campaign against Aemmond after Luke's death, that Otto and the Green's slander would not be as successful; really if she had just hired Mysaria sooner... Whatever last bits of reservations we had in idtentifying Helaena as autistic have been put to bed and, yes we do talk about the Roman Empire and compare Helaena to Octavia. Akash goes on further about the Roman Empire to discuss the the rise of Nationalism and the End of Empires, Machiavelli, and how the Dance of the Dragons is really the beginning of the Decay of Targaryan dynasty.

Oh, and we're all just Bakers.

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Recording, editing, and mixing were done by ⁠⁠LittleWolfBird⁠⁠.

⁠⁠Music by Mattstagraham⁠⁠

⁠⁠Profile Art by Mondongo⁠⁠

Credit to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire & Blood, and related works; and HBO's Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.