**squees**

[yakalskovich]

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[_inbetween_]

Thanks, now I could read it.
Reading Thrones - no, suggests the lavvy. Redux? Rediscovery? Thronaton?

[yakalskovich]

I like thronathon -- name is short enough, and not yet registered, either. I'll see what, of anything, others suggest.

[_inbetween_]

I like how quite a few comms have been named by me and nobody knows! Half-silly suggestion that actually sound good. Good luck.

[yakalskovich]

If it does end up with that name, I'll say it was your suggestion!

[yakalskovich]

I'll see if anybody else has a different suggestion, else I'll make the comm tomorrow morning.

I especially loved the dragonet that was perching on her shoulder and crowing menacingly at the world. So small, so sweet, so powerful and deathly...

As for Cersei, I suspect that for some reason she finds the idea of sleeping with a man not related by blood quite abhorrent. Now I strangely suspect Tywin of all sort of unspeakableness...

[yakalskovich]

I want Joffrey dead with extreme pain and prejudice. Somebody should cut off his tackle, fry it with some slow-acting poison, than make him eat it and see whether he'll first bleed to death or die in horrible pain from the poison dissolving his innards...

Gah, the bloodiness of the thing is rubbing off on me.-

[alas_a_llama]

I felt so sorry for Cersei in that episode - which is an odd thing to say when she barely showed up, I know.

The thing is, she was clearly at least partly motivated by Robert having been abusive, certainly emotionally and probably physically (I don't buy that the time we saw him slap her was the first. She seemed entirely unsurprised), cruel and seemed to have a vendetta against her. Now her plan has succeeded, and her son is king, and she's having to face the fact that he's worse. His behaviour towards Sansa is every bit as much a vendetta as Robert's behaviour towards her, but he's exponentially more abusive and cruel.

Not to mention how he treats his people. In every discussion on ruling that we've seen Cersei have with people, especially Joffrey, so far, she's counselled strength with mercy. Now that Joffrey's in charge, he's going around killing and mutilating people left, right and centre.

[yakalskovich]

Robert's abusiveness was thoughtless; Joffrey's is malicious. What kind of creature he is, we first saw in the affair with the butcher's boy and Sansa's direwolf. He's still utterly immature, and he probably never lost anybody or anything really important to him. He always gets his will, and it's still the untempered spontaneous will of a child. He's worse even than Viserys Targaryen was in that respect.-

[alas_a_llama]

Aye. The only time I think Robert actually thought about his abuse was when it was directed at Jaime - some of the things he did, like stationing Jaime to guard his door whenever he was going to hire prostitutes, were arguably pre-planned. Jaime, after all, was offensive to him on two counts: He was a Lannister, and he had stabbed Aerys Targaryen in the back, which both Robert and Ned saw as dishonourable.

But look at the choice of victims there for their respective malice. Robert levels his at Jaime, a capable adult man in a position of power. Joffrey levels his at Sansa, a thirteen year old girl grieving the death of her wolf and her father, both of which he caused, who has no choice but to marry him.

He is worse than Viserys Targaryen, you're right, and Viserys was as mad as a hatter.

[yakalskovich]

Joffrey isn't really insane, even, which would be something of an excuse (if not much). He's just used to getting his way no matter what.