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I love the argument of team black being a functional family as a reason to root for them instead of the greens, as if that's what makes the greens less likeable. The relationship between the greens is what makes them so interesting to me.

Aegon and Aemond don't like each other, but they'll still fight along side one another no matter what. Daeron doesn't have much of a relationship with his siblings, niece, or nephews, but he's willing to go to burn down a town in an emotional fit of rage for Maelor. Alicent's complex relationship with her children, especially with Aegon, and her father. Criston has been made to fill some sort of familial role, but can never do too much because of his station and the rules that go along with it. Helaena is obviously perfect and has a decent relationship with everyone.

They all care about one another but find it hard to truly express that, but when their backs are against the wall they'll fight together to save each other.

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Problems I have with HOTD so far:

• not letting Alicent be actually evil. Y’all already hate her for being a GOOD person, I can’t imagine how y’all would handle an actually evil queen. I wish she killed Viserys and made Aegon heir Herself!

• no perspective of small folk, closest we have is Criston who is still more well off then 90% of king’s landing. In GOT we got small folks perspectives on their rulers a lot and I hope we get that soon.

• taking away Helaena’s autonomy. Making her the cute autistic girl who does no wrong is such a bastardization of her that it’s laughable.

• casting with specifically Laena. Do not get me wrong, the actresses are gorgeous and Amazingly talented, but because they aged her up during Rhae’s wedding it makes her look even older than Rhae even tho they have at least a 3 year age gap.

• “and now they see you as you are” WHAT? They see a woman drop all decorum for her child? She their queen willing to personally handle situations? Like I genuinely do not know what this is suppose to mean.

• bulldozing the Velaryon family. Rhaenys does nothing when both her children die to the hands of the targs, no one does anything when Vaemon dies, even when Rhae tries to make Luke the lord of the tides no one brings up that his fiancee should be the true lord not him.

• the new promo saying “[team black] acts more like a family” maybe my family is weird but we don’t fuck each other or marry each other at all

• only truely giving team black’s dragon’s personality. We know Vhagar’s SLIGHTLY but Dreamfyre and Sunfyre are nothing right now

• no Alicent birth scene. We get multiple traumatizing birth scenes but the woman who was a mother of 3 before 20 doesn’t get one? Ok

Will add more as I think of them

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Not to get all conspiracy theorist but media literacy being at an all time low and western youth thinking the media they consume ties in with their morality is actually real because why did I just see a big Team Black account on TikTok trying to claim B&C was an inside job done by Otto of all people 😭

Like they really can’t handle the dissonance that occurs in their brain because they like morally ambiguous characters. They have to like the 100% angelic good guys to feel good about themselves because anything else cannot be computed.

Daemon Targaryen is not and has never been your uwu ACOTAR bad boy with a heart of gold 🥺

He’s a monster, a disgusting repugnant monster with some good traits and that’s what makes him interesting.

Just because he did vile things doesn’t mean you can’t like him.

God no wonder HBO woobified the shit out of Rhaenyra & Alicent they know their audience can’t handle the nuances.

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Otto and his favorite grandchild 🪲

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they're my roman empire...

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tbh it’s just what was coming for the writers after they didn’t put a scene of helaena being crowned (because the only woman who can wear a crown is kween rhae), so alicent still wears her crown but aegon is king, it’s all a mess and the proper titles are left unaddressed.

HBO just don't give a fuck, yeah?

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my mother taught me to crochet when i was young. she was left handed, so she taught me how in the bathroom mirror so her hands would be in the right position.

she learned to crochet from her grandmother, who was right handed. her grandma was the one that originally used the bathroom mirror to teach her granddaughter properly.

i find something poetic about that. here in this bathroom mirror, through generations, we adapt to our young who have a different way of learning and interacting with the world

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“king’s word is law!!!!” it clearly wasn’t when viserys went against jaehaerys’ precedent. which was not only his own explicit will, but also backed up by legal precedent, andal tradition, and law……..

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the funnest form of being a hater is hating something you actually have so much love for but sucks. it’s cathartic. corny people are always like ‘if you hate x so much don’t talk about it 😒 positivity always <3’ you could NEVER understand our WARRIORS BOND

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“we do things the right way” your existence should tell you that is a lie

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yeah aegon might be a cripple but he still managed to turn your precious queen into dragon food so what now

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I find it infinitely fascinating that Dany - even outside a purely Targaryen context - follows the footsteps of her female ancestors and is married far too young, is pregnant with a prophecy baby, and would have likely died giving birth to a deformed stillborn half-dragon fetus. A disposable vessel for a flawed incarnation of war and conquest, given no room for her own desires, her own inherent worth.

And a healer saves her from this fate. She helps her survive the traumatic birth even though she is in conflict with Dany and her people, has been victimized by Dany and her people. Dany is allowed to escape the cycle of birthing a conqueror. Is allowed to escape the cycle of dying for men's ambition.

And then she turns that healer into a vessel for her weapon of war, burns her alive to birth herself a conqueror. Mirri screams in agony to give life to Dany's ambitions. The maternal sacrifice to Dany patriarchical consummation of her body and life.

Dany could have chosen a painful lesson and freedom. She chose to uphold the oppressive cycle, with herself at the top now. The half-human dead child fully replaced by reptiles that will kill for her within a year.

Mother, she calls herself.

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thinking about how Aegon will constantly suffer from pain due to burns and broken legs, but he will always take Jaehaera on his lap and hold her as long as she wants, and he will ignore the agony in his body, because he will intend to compensate for all the time that he was an absent father with his only remaining child before he goes to his sons, brothers and wife-sister.

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DEFEND YOUR COUNCIL

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it’s not that cersei lannister is actually smarter than alicent hightower (she isn’t) rather that cersei lannister is not burdened by such trivialities as ‘empathy’ or ‘self-awareness’ or ‘the reality of the situation’; the idea that she cannot do something just doesn’t occur to cersei, ever, every societal norm and moral code is a personal inconvenience to her

oh and she is actually for real insane

it all enables cersei to just do shit to a degree that other characters can only marvel at

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Something striking about the relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent that the show tries to awkwardly scoot past is that time and time again, Alicent sacrifices her own interests and desires for Rhaenyra's benefit, while Rhaenyra never does the reverse. Alicent teaches Rhaenyra history, dresses and crowns her for her investment ceremony, comforts her after her mother's death, advises Viserys *against* naming Aegon heir, supports reconciliation between Rhaenyra and Viserys that ultimately gets her father and sole supporter fired, seriously considers switching sides to her despite the severe risk to her own children, and goes against her father to try and save her life. The most Rhaenyra gives Alicent is a few hollow words of praise in episode 8.

Though the show doesn't seem to realize it, their relationship isn't one of equals, but of master and servant. Otto and Alicent are parallels in this sense - both are in a sense, servants of the Targaryens who do not wish to merely serve. But the show buys into the expectation of their service and Targaryen masterdom uncritically: the great crime of Otto and Alicent is their attempt to subvert the natural order of things rather than meekly serving their Targaryen masters. It's why Alicent is most sympathetic when she is loyal to Rhaenyra, but the reverse isn't true, because why would Rhaenyra be expected to do anything for a mere servant like Alicent?

Which really just goes to show the big class blind spot the show has. By presenting "goodness" as solely a function of how closely one can follow Viserys' orders, they're regurgitating one aspect of medieval social customs to oppose another. With this context, Rhaenyra and Alicent's relationship feels less healthy and a lot more like a premonition of Alicent's relationship to Viserys, with similar power imbalances. Rhaenyra and Alicent love each other, but Rhaenyra sees Alicent as a sidekick at best, doesn't take her seriously as someone with her own inner life and desires, and is sensitive to Alicent's perceived disobedience ("questioning my virtue is an act of treason.")

I think it also gives context to Criston and Alicent's relationship, given that Criston is *also* relatively low nobility, and a servant to the Targaryens, who feels taken advantage of by them, and whose great crime is trying to be something other than a servant, to *make* kings, not just to serve them.