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Superman: “Mom, this is Diana. Diana, this is my mom Martha.”

Martha: “She’s so pretty Clark…and just like you.”

Wonder Woman: “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Kent.”

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

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Rhaenys Targaryen in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - present) ↳ S01E10⎮The Black Queen

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like... did they need to be this close? did they??

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Santiago Caruso - El Canto

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The Fall by daemontattoos

This artist on Instagram

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Rhaenys: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives.

Corlys: I wake up at 4:30am

Rhaenys:

Rhaenys: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.

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I'm sorry, their first conversation is when they are bored at a tourney, and you expect me NOT to love Corlys and Rhaenys? They're watching a guy's head being smashed in and just find it gaudy, uneventful and highly unimpressive...

RHAENYS: And the day grows ugly. CORLYS: I wonder if this is how we should celebrate the birth of our future king -- with wanton violence. RHAENYS: It’s been seventy years since King Maegor’s end. These knights are as green as summer grass; none have known real war. Their lords sent them to the tourney field with fists full of steel and balls full of seed, and we expect them to act with honour and grace. It’s a marvel that war didn’t break out at first blood.

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Guys, for the love of God! You can defend Rhaenys' right, think that she was usurped and that she is the true deserving of the Iron Throne without it offending Rhaenyra! Rhaenyra didn't usurp Rhaenys, Viserys did! Jahaerys, the Council of 101, Baelon and Viserys are to blame not Rhaenyra.

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200 DAYS OF HOUSE TARGARYEN ↳ day 36: rhaenys targaryen in we light the way

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The show did their big one with giving Daemon scars across his body. You know who else has a scar?

And making touching his scars a form of intimacy?

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viserys reaction to ‘the queen who never was’ vs rhaenyras children being called bastards is a lot of why i say viserys has low self esteem. like hes willing to defend rhaenyra but not himself

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what are five things you'd like to see from Corlys and Rhaenys in S2? Big or small. And why?

Oooh very good question!

In no particular order:

1. Being grandparents to their grandkids. We barely got any moments with them and their children OR grandchildren in season 1, and it would be so lovely to see them interacting and showing all that love and affection we know is there.

2. Rhaenys unleashing her Targaryen side. The woman has been holding so much in for years. She deserves to go feral. Give me the oldest, most experienced dragonrider alive showing everybody how badass she is. Give me THE WHIP.

3. Corlys being a BOAT BOY. I'm so excited to see the ship. We never got to see Corlys in his natural element in season 1. *sings Wild Uncharted Waters in anticipation *

4. The "It should've been you" scene. I know Steve will knock that out of the park.

5. The hottest couple in Westeros canoodling. I would VERY MUCH like a kiss; they deserve it. The episode 5 scene of them together lives rent-free in my head, and I hope we get to see more of them like that. Make use of all that chemistry!

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eve best in prime suspect (2006).

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They're talking about horse riding

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"Act my age? What the fuck is that, "act my age"? What do I care how old I am? The Ocean is old as fuck. It will still drown your ass with vigor."

- The greatest thing i have ever read

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I do find it funny how they say that Rhaenys always bends to Corlys will when his ass didn’t even want to join the war and only joined because she basically told him to. It’s a relationship lol. It ebbs and flows. The only time we’ve genuinely seen them disagree in course of action was in ep 7. Idc what anyone says but refusing that marriage proposal when Viserys hurled his dying ass across the sea would’ve been impossible.

So ok, he overruled her on the succession argument ( which I’m sorry technically he can because it’s his house and name) and then he didn’t want to join the war and she was like “nah we’re pulling up lol”. That’s super balanced so like how is she hypocritical?

H answers questions that have been in her inbox for far too long.

IT IS A RELATIONSHIP. IT DOES EBB AND FLOW. IT'S CALLED COMMUNICATION. SHE'S NOT HYPOCRITICAL.

With grace, I can vaguely assume why some people think there is a power imbalance. Just on a surface level. But I also think that those people are not willing or haven't actually considered the scenes and the dynamics that they are watching or the context of when these sorts of remarks are made, either.

Criticisms I've seen have generally gone along the lines of: she didn't want Viserys to marry Laena, but Corlys pushed her, she didn't want Laenor to marry Rhaenyra, Corlys pushed her and she didn't want Lucerys to be the heir, but Corlys overruled her. Very, very basic readings of what happens, with no more depth than that. For me, I can see how not only are those very, very different examples and moments, but they are also not examples of Rhaenys bowing down the whims of her husband. Just because she is not the active participant does not mean she is not a willing participant.

My main frustration with this sort of reading, certainly with the first and second examples that I've listened (the third is an outlier due to Corlys's monopoly on the subject), is that it dumbs down Rhaenys's complexity, cruelty and frustrated ambition. It also takes away her agency and her equality with her husband. I've said before how I view her perspective to not be against either move, but simply more realistic.

She's not going to cheer Laena marrying Viserys but she is going to stand by side with her husband and say that it's the strongest match Viserys can make. She can want that match and that marriage and still be a bit bothered by it. The two can live together and probably do. To her, this is how the world works, especially at that point in her life. So, of course, she's going to be present in that decision and advocating for that course of action.

And again, she's not going to be jumping up and down about Laenor matching with Rhaenyra because there's danger in the match as much as there is achievement. But, nevertheless, she's standing side by side, nodding and giving her agreement. She can still be seduced by the idea of elevating her children and wearing a fabulous frock and sticking it to Viserys, and take some satisfaction in her cousin having to beg. She doesn't actually express a wish to veto the betrothal. She just says that she's worried about the dangers of Rhaenyra's succession.

Her powerlessness against the "system" that she buys into and props up is not the same as her being powerless against her husband. By which I mean that, her acknowledging the negative impact of these political choices is not taking away the fact that she is making them alongside Corlys. He is at the forefront because he has to take the lead as a man. Not because he's having to drag her along with it all. It's a reflection of their reality rather than their relationship, if that makes sense?

In short: in political decisions and in public, Rhaenys plays second fiddle because she's a woman, not because Corlys forces it to be that way. These are deals for Corlys to make as Head of House Velaryon. He is on the front-foot, he is the public political power in their marriage because that's how society works. In other words, it's actually pretty redundant to analyse that because it's just... normal.

What isn't normal is that Rhaenys is side-by-side with him. That he values her opinion. That she speaks. That Corlys and Rhaenys often share looks and silent communication: most notably when it comes to the betrothals of their children. There is real implication that these two have spoken, at length, about these choices and come to a united decision about it. How else can they present such a united front to their adversaries?

We don't see Rhaenys and Corlys speak privately about Laena. We barely see them talk privately about Laenor. And with the succession thing, as you say, it's his name and his house. She has no power to meddle in that succession. She cannot declare the succession for Driftmark on her own. That's not in her gift.

And again, as you say, she yells at him, tells him to get his ass in gear and they go down and declare for Rhaenyra because that is what she wants to do. That is what she thinks is right and so he is doing it for her. It's clear as day when he looks at her and she smiles at him and Rhaenyra thanks her because she's painfully aware that Rhaenys is the one who made it happen.

Rhaenys's just never toiled in "service to men". Has she been affected and degraded by the patriarchy? Yes! Big yes! They took her birthright from her. They made her roleless in a society she should have been running. But she doesn't toil to Corlys. She has never toiled to Corlys. To say so is a degradation to their marriage, quite frankly.

And it's a degradation to the awareness that Rhaenys has of the political structure around her and the agency she exerts and free will surrounding her own mind and choices. She does things that prop up the patriarchy. Yes. All the women do. She definitely does things that, in an ideal world, she wouldn't have to do. But she does that because it suits her own interests at the time. Never because a man told her to. And never to the detriment of herself and her safety and her sanity. It's always her choice. For good or ill.