It’s so funny watching ASOIAF dudebros ramble about kings, lords, knights, and battles all day long, then a female character pops up and all of a sudden they start crying “monarchy bad, ruling class bad, war bad” like they just remembered they’re from the 21st century 😭
Mitch McConnell has repeatedly voted against federal paid sick leave legislation. He voted no in 1993, 2015, 2020, and 2022.
He has currently been on paid sick leave for over 7 weeks (if he is even still alive).
You dont hate politicians enough.
I said it before but the writing of Hotd is the product of someone who looked at Dany’s ending in GOT and thought the only problem was her final villain arc wasn’t developed enough, rather than the inherent misogyny in making her the final villain in the first place
They're making Rhaenyra "mad" because the showrunners are misogynist cowards who find it easier to justify killing a woman rather than adapt the actual point of this story: history was whitewashed, realm was destroyed, and dragons died because they wouldn't accept a woman ruling.
they want her femicide to be a satisfying moment the public will root for the same way they did with dany while spinning the same narrative that when a man is around power, he becomes wise and understanding but the woman becomes corrupt and crazy because women aren’t fit to rule
introducing missandei as a slave who she gets freed, decides to stay and fight with daenerys to free even more slaves, and ultimately becomes her closest advisor, only to have her die in chains, was sinister as hell.
notice how ‘girls mature faster’ is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.
grrm wrote fire & blood specifically to add context, to understand daenerys' narrative and position as a female ruler in the main story. seeing the injustice in rhaenyra's usurpation, the commentary on gender, patriarchy and women in power, is EXACTLY the intention of the author