#the unending and unstoppable cataclysm of womanhood

[daenerysies]

friendly reminder that the phrase ‘a queen for a queen’ does not, in fact, exist in fire and blood canon. it’s a saying made up by aegon meatriders in order to take away from and further ridicule rhaenyra’s death.

she was not murdered so that aegon could avenge helaena (whom he only *maybe* gave a shit about). it was a case of femicide. rhaenyra is usurped because she is a woman, rhaenyra is killed because she is a woman, rhaenyra’s entire LEGACY is rooted in her womanhood and what it ultimately ends up costing her.

her breast was cut as one final “fuck you,” by the narrative, “this would never have happened had you only been born a man.” aegon has her burnt and fed to an unwilling and dying dragon. her violent death is supposed to encompass all the woeful tragedy that it is to be a woman in that society. there is no universe where she escaped this fate. she was doomed from the start.