@RachaelEWrites Could you IMAGINE if Rhaenyra had to sell out Westeros to foreign, enemy slavers to compensate for her lack of actual westerosi support?
my favorite part about targs when they CONQUERED Westeros, they made everyone worship volcanos, speak valyrian, burned books, they cut the trees, tossed Septons & Maesters into volcanos, ALL of them and everyone had to marry their brother/sister. No exceptions.
To be clear the only reason people gaf about her death is because they fear it means the GREENS are coming and they're about to share the fate of Bitterbridge and Tumbleton at the hands of the brothers Helaena enabled.
Pointing out Helaena is complicit is not "misogyny". Maintaining that she MUST be wholly "innocent" simply because she conforms to patriarchal values, even when her actions help victimize other "less innocent" women, that is misogyny.
So here. Women more "innocent" than Helaena:
valyrians abusing fire magic ended in the doom, their punishment, the others abusing ice magic will also end in their doom and the twist of irony is it’s going to be dragons to bring it about which will lead to the balance of the two, almost as if it’s the song of ice and fire
i wonder why but my general take is that it’s bc these asoiaf youtbers tend to “discuss” safe theories that are already semi-confirmed by other sources instead of actually putting the tinfoil hat on and talk about things that we know little to nothing about – eg. the others
Agot: fire (dany & dragons) is needed to keep the others / acok: dragons are needed to keep the magic & balance / asos: dragons are used to free slaves and burn slavers / adwd: dragons are lightbringer (which is needed for the long night)
Helaena might not have burned innocence but she sure as shit SWALLOED "innocence" with her strategic silence and threw "innocence" out the window when she let her faction use her dragon for deterrence—preventing Rhaenyra from taking the city and ending the war before it starts.
my problem with the "team smallfolk" argument in asoiaf is that it's only ever used against rhaenyra because "what about the common folk", but when daenerys starts freeing people using violence against the slaver's bay aristocracy then suddenly everyone cares about nobility again
The virgin jaehaerys refusing to abolish the First Night because he -the king of seven kingdom and rider of Vermithor- is scared of some lords vs Chad daenerys abolishing slaverys with cat sized dragons and making herself the target of all slavers
- It makes more sense for dragons to be the weapon against the Others than a simple flaming sword
- dragons are described as a sword in the books
- you don’t know exactly what happened in the first Long Night
- literally George RR Martin :
Rhaenyra in the books is a much more interesting character because her actions, even the wrong ones, are completely understandable. In the show she behaves very strangely and illogically.
Never understood asoiaf fans who think the existence of dragons is a negative thing and the world is better off without them. Tf were you reading to get dropped off at that conclusion