coming back from the abyss of being offline to be salty and say that fans who complain when the targs aren't depicted as beautiful enough are in fact the weakest link
every time someone brings up rhaenyra being the rightful heir as a reason to be team black i wanna laugh, like sure the characters might care but *i'm* not in westeros, *i'm* not a monarchist, why should someone's so-called "right" to rule over others even matter to me
finally caving and starting magnificent century to fill the current "siblings from different mothers murdering each other in pursuit of the throne" void hotd has left in my life
watching a fandom creator who seemed rly nice and mature develop a full on victim complex abt shipping of all things can rly be so humiliating, like i cannot believe i misjudged you this badly
she sees much and more, my alys.
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i just find it so strange to act as if that one reading of the story is the only or the "correct" way to consume it, esp when grrm's writing tends to center around how there are so few clear-cut heroes/villains
@sunfyred it's wild to me how some stans manage to constantly romanticize the necklace—i've seen so many edits and posts gushing over the scene & how she always wears it & fiddles with it for comfort—yet simultaneously insist there was nothing between them before she was all grown like ???
@ABlackWomyn @AemondZafiro the issue is the tweet you chose to build that convo upon is one that is 100% a joke where the punchline is just "haha isn't alicent's view on sex sooo weird." making the case that we must think alicent is above criticism just bc we find the og joke disrespectful is misguided.
generally speaking ppl find it distasteful to make jokes abt alicent having a warped view of sex because obviously she does, she was raised in a society wherein women's sexuality is repressed and her only experience with her own is being maritally assaulted by a man twice her age