bohemian-nights Ā· 1 year ago
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For the life of me I canā€™t understand how people think itā€™s acceptable for House of the Dragon a show that is pushing for more diversity (making the Velaryonā€™s Black and Mysaria Asian) to race bend the only canonical black character. If they wanted to race bend any of the characters they couldā€™ve made Alys Rivers Indian. They could make Sara Snow Mexican and so on. Itā€™s just so frustrating to see this happen time and time again in media when it comes to the portrayal of WOC in general but especially black women.
Like I don't care if people ship Daemyra you know? If shipping those two makes them happy go for it. My only thing is I just want them to stop with the racist shit they say about all the WOC in Daemon's life. From his lovers (cause they've said some racist shit about Mysaria too) to his wife and to even his daughters. At this point I'm convinced half of them don't even like Daemon because if they did they wouldn't stay shitting on the women who at one point or another were/are important to him.
Idk šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø it's just very strange to me.
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The discourse surrounding Nettles is absolutely crazy and you can tell itā€™s being fueled by anti-black weirdos who are mainly Dumbnyra stans(lol Team Green have their issues too, but they arenā€™t the ones who are advocating to race bend Nettles šŸ™ƒ)
Honestly, I did not have a problem with Dumbnyra(and yes Iā€™m going to call it that) at the beginning of the show. I was indifferent to it. However, that quickly changed when most of the fans started to show themselves to be the racist psychopaths that they are. Down to them literally calling Laena the n-word and celebrating her deathšŸ™ƒ:
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You might say itā€™s just a couple of the more ā€œextremeā€ fans that feel that way, but literally go on their blogs, Twitter accounts, etc., and 90% are arguing some bs.
If itā€™s not bashing Laena(yes they are still doing this even though sheā€™s dead and according to them Rhaenyra was the love of Daemonā€™s life so it really doesnā€™t make sense to do all of this for a dead woman who paled in comparison to the ā€œlove of his lifeā€šŸ™ƒ) itā€™s bashing Nettles.
Boy, do they hate Nettles. I'm posting her picture cause this is the face of their nightmaresšŸ¤£
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If itā€™s not saying Daemon never loved her and she was just this ā€œgiant misunderstandingā€ between himself and the ā€œlove of his lifeā€ despite him literally going against his wife and queenā€™s orders to save her, itā€™s saying how sheā€™s Daemonā€™s daughter or Daemon saw her like a daughter.
Their relationship was 100% paternal or mentee/ mentor. Stop mentioning the bathā€™s which were father-daughter bonding time or the fact that they mightā€™ve slept in the same bed which was just done to comfort a frightened child. Daemon would never get with someone so black I mean so foul-mouthed in canon. Sheā€™s just his childšŸ˜…
Why do you want a bada** with a middle-aged white man? Youā€™re the one with the problem, not me even though Iā€™m trying to infantilize a young black woman and pidgin hole her into the ā€œstrong independent black womanā€ trope while supporting a white woman getting with her uncle cause I can relate to her. I refuse to read the books(or parts of the books) because every time I do I want to ripe out my hair when Daemon and Nettles' relationship is mentioned šŸ™ƒ
Anyway, if itā€™s not saying sheā€™s going to be cut and replaced with Rhaena(cause then they know that the relationship would actually be non-romanticā˜ŗļø), itā€™s saying and actively hoping sheā€™ll be race bent because they canā€™t stand the thought of Daemon being with a black womanšŸ’šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø:
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All minorities are the same donā€™t cha know šŸ˜€and we have too many black people on this show. What we have Corlys, his sons, Rhaena, and Baela. Yes, Rhaena and Baela are mixed, but they count as representation cause their skin isnā€™t white and I canā€™t relate because of that. Why add the only in-canon black person when we have a whopping 5 whole black people in a sea of whites šŸ™ƒ
Also, we donā€™t know what race Nettles is even though we have pictures of her in the lore and in the books as well as descriptions of her appearance that show that she is black, but again every time Nettles is mentioned I get triggered so I skip over her partsšŸ˜€
Moving on. If itā€™s not bashing Nettles they are blatantly ignoring that Rhaena and Baela are Daemonā€™s daughters and his only daughters. Theyā€™ll literally draw a million and one pictures of lizard baby (thatā€™s what Iā€™m calling it, cause again, these people donā€™t deserve respect) and pretend like it ever drew breath and that it is his only daughteršŸ™ƒ Or my personal favorite which is essentially Daemon is a good father because he didnā€™t abandon them on the side of the road (where they belong).
They were educated, clothed, and fed, children donā€™t need affection, stop complaining. The fandom loves Rhaena and BaelašŸ™ƒ. No one cares about poor Rhaenyra and her boys(who Daemon sees as his real children cause they share the same skin coloršŸ™ƒ). Thatā€™s why I draw, write, and gif for these poor neglected souls and completely leave out the black ingrates, I mean Rhaena and BaelašŸ˜…
Finally Mysaria. Oh, Mysaria, Iā€™ve got my own problems with her, but yeah they do bash her by pinning all of Rhaenyraā€™s psycho deeds on her(so much for your girl being a queen who has "agency"šŸ™ƒ).
Like yeah, sheā€™s not innocent, but sheā€™s not the only one who isnā€™t innocent, and while I definitely donā€™t think Daemon was ever that in love with her given how quickly he was willing to call her a wh*re, it hasnā€™t escaped my notice that the only reason why she isnā€™t that much of a focus is because they do regulate her to just a wh*re šŸ™ƒ
They hate Rhea too and try to make her into a groomer to justify Daemon murdering her, but we arenā€™t going to get into that because we are talking about how this fandom treats the non-white women of Daemonā€™s life.
Look, I could go on and on, but this ship literally attracts the most racist, white supremacist-leaning, self-hating fans(yes there are Black and other non-white fans who will literally throw their own under a bus for this shipšŸ¤¦šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø), and anti-Black fans by the boat load. And the thing is, they all hide behind ā€œfeminismā€ when called out for itšŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
Yeah, you can ship what you want, but itā€™s pretty obvious at this point itā€™s beyond shipping. If you are literally bashing every single woman and girl (especially the non-white women/girls) besides Rhaenyra in Daemonā€™s life then dude there is something wrong here.
They definitely arenā€™t Daemon fans(hell he probably has about as many actual fans as Nettles doesšŸ¤¦šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø). They are Rhaenyra self-inserters who are pissed off that their ship is on borrowed time and ā€œtheir manā€ is about to ā€œleaveā€ their self-insert in the dust for gasp šŸ˜± a black woman so they are taking all the shots they can to feel better about this Titanic ship šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø
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