Reading a book in public is only performative to people that don’t read books. To a reader, every waiting room, park bench, and train carriage is another potential chapter.
Nothing can turn me against Rhaenyra because nothing the show has shown me is worse than this scene. The hatred that this scene caused in me against Alicent will never dull no matter how many pity plots they give her.
hating children and babies doesn’t make you edgy or cool it just kinda makes you a weird as fuck asshole. dehumanizing the most vulnerable population on earth and thinking they should be excluded from society is not the quirky take you think it is
i miss when romantasy was not an official genre and there were actually good fantasy books with romance subplots coming out instead of the slop that has saturated the market
“nonsense. it’s a chair made of steel blades. rhaenyra had wanted it all her life and sacrificed two sons for it, she likely gripped the damn thing too tight.” the smartest thing robert baratheon ever said