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I will never forgive HOTD for making me sit through TWO Rhaenyra births and TWO Rhaenyra weddings…

But never having us see Alicent’s wedding or births. Scenes that would have forced the fans to confront the true reality of how despicable her situation is. It would force viewers to see a child, devastated, as she walks down the aisle to her creepy old man of a husband. It would force viewers to watch a little girl have a child. Completely unprepared and alone, crying for her mother and finding no sympathy. She has no father to protect her. No mother to guide her and comfort her. No husband who cares about her.

It would force team black to stop seeing her as the evil seductress, for even a moment. And see her true vulnerability. See how she doesn’t, and never did, want this. See how these are not consequences of her actions, but instead the consequences of the men around her that she has to suffer for them. Because they don’t care about her. Viserys doesn’t care about her.

These are scenes that are meant to bring sympathy to her character. To give Alicent a reason to be righteously angry at the family and system that broke her down and stole her childhood. It gives Alicent a valid motive to fight aside from fear. And it takes away the chances for team black to deny her suffering at least a little bit.

Because as the current narrative sits, it’s easy to ignore Alicent’s experience and warp it into a much more pleasant story. They see Alicent “seducing” the king and then she is already married. And then she’s pregnant and the babies magically appear. No screaming or crying or bleeding involved. All is good. The teenager definitely didn’t suffer at all. And by doing this some people can’t sympathize as much or they are given allowances to intentionally not sympathize.

Instead. The current narrative allows for Alicent to be the seductress, the crazed woman, the jealous bitch, and the villain. But if we saw what she actually went through. Alone, scared, suffering, neglected, and holding it all in. We would be allowed to see her as she truly is. The victim. Finally crushing under the weight of it all and lashing out.

(And the narrative would be all the better for it because instead of feminist icon team vs crazy trad wife and co (as far as team black sees it), we would have woman fighting against patriarchal narrative for her own claim vs woman fighting against patriarchal narrative to destroy the people who hurt her)

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"they should be at the club" "they should be at the farmers market" "they should be at the public library" well i should be in my lovers arms but im not am i. life is full of disappointments

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OUR PRINCE AEMOND TARGARYEN!

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whatever

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I love I hate it here so much. That song resonates with me deeply. I had fantasies about adult life when I was a kid, based on the books I would read then. Growing older, especially since after the pandemic, its beginning to sink in that the world is a terrible place. For a while, I was convinced that the century we live in is the worst, only to realise that its always been like this. The world has always been an incredibly cruel place and there is no decade, no century in the past that has been good. This is the reason why I prefer to spend most my time in a perfect foreign fantasies that I create in my head.

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it's time for you to get in your car and not put a seatbelt on and drive really really fast into a brick wall. bitch

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remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

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*gender reveal party video voice* I’m your peepaw and I HOPE TO GOD you’ll be a nonbinary barista

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im not defending myself against a vampire. suck away gorgeous

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3 signs a wizard has inflicted a curse on you:

vibrator dies mid use

roll a shitty joint

realize part way through your favourite song you weren't paying attention

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Maisie Peters, "Holy Revival" / art by Henry Wolf and Fletcher Sibthorp

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ASOIAF fandom try not to call teenage girls evil and irredeemable challenge (impossible)

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Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is

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