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....right, they weren't tolerant of slavery at all. They had a child slave army but they didn't tolerate slavery at all. Sure.

Let’s be real. His expense reports are widely known to be like this.

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Ah, the hypocrisy!

The Drakes being sucky parents is not fanon. They were so absent from their 12 year old’s life he was able to become a superhero without them knowing. That is neglectful, shitty parenting. It is, at least, borderline abusive.

You need to stop talking about things you know nothing about.

"So we all Tim Drake's a coffee addict..." & "So we all know the Drake's sucked and abused Tim..." Like no.. that's all just fanon bs. Stop talking about things you know nothing about!

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yes it's so ridiculous...they were just so absent from his life that he was able to become a superhero at 12 without them noticing. And Jack is absolutely emotionally abusive and borderline physically abusive (see the incident when he rips tim's tv off the wall). but so ridiculous. yes. absolutely.

I don't understand where did "tim has abusive parents" even came from this is getting ridiculous

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Because they didn’t think through the connotations a lot of the scenes take on.

Take the Driftmark inheritance situation and Vaemond. Before it’s just an inheritance dispute between entitled white people. It’s scummy of Rhaenyra to be insisting her bastard inherit from a family he’s not actually related to and of Daemon to murder a man for calling that out, but that’s it.

But now the Velaryons are black, it’s an entitled white woman stealing the inheritance- and therefore pretty much everything they own- of a black family via her white son and her white husband horrifically murdering a black man for trying to stop her.

It doesn’t help that Rhaenyra and Daemon are depicted as being Valyrian supremacists, considering Valyrians are very close to Aryans (white skinned, light haired, blue/purple eyes), so they’re uncomfortably close to being white supremacists.

These two continuously cause problems to the Velaryons- Laenor’s public cuckolding and fake death, Laena’s prolonged stay away from her family, hooking up straight after her death, Vaemond’s murder, Rhaenys’ death- but the Velaryons don’t do anything, just meekly follow along after them.

So you have a black family depicted as being subservient to the pair of close to white supremacists who keep fucking them over because they don’t care what happens to the black people. Yikes.

So I keep seeing people saying that making the Velaryons black is stupid because they didn't also make the Targaryens and Baratheons black, even though they're related.

Now, don't get me wrong, I do think it was stupid of the show to make the Velaryons black. But not for this reason.

The last Velaryon to marry into the Targaryens and Baratheons was Alyssa Velaryon, the mother of Jaehaerys and Alysanne Targaryen and Boremund Baratheon. She was Corlys' great aunt, the sister of his grandfather Daemon Velaryon.

So there's an easy solution to this issue: the Velaryons were white until Daemon Velaryon married a black woman, making his son Corwyn mixed race. Perhaps Corwyn also married a black woman.

Alyssa, and all previous Velaryons who married into House Targaryen, were white, hence why Jaehaerys, Alysanne and Boremund and their children and grandchildren are all white.

But Daemon's descendants, his sons Corlys and Vaemond and their children and grandchildren, are black/mixed race.

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There are many fics where Laenor or Harwin are present for the aftermath of Aemond's mutilation at Driftmark and they're all tagged with 'Good Parent Laenor' or 'Good Parent Harwin'.

Setting aside the delusion of Harwin being any kind of parent or being able to do anything in this situation, inevitably what this means is Laenor/Harwin essentially taking Rhaenyra's place in screaming at Alicent, completely ignoring that it was the bastards and the girls who started both the verbal confrontation and physical fight and arguing that no one should be punished for attacking and intentionally mutilating another child.

But that's not actually being a good father. That's being a permissive, spoiling dick of a father.

An actually good father would accept that his boys have done something awful and that they deserve to be punished. An actually good father would have some basic compassion/empathy for the child his brats mutilated and disabled.

Just once I would love to read a fic wherein Laenor or Harwin is actually a good father to the bastards and, therefore, actually allows them to be punished for their violent attack.

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So I keep seeing people saying that making the Velaryons black is stupid because they didn't also make the Targaryens and Baratheons black, even though they're related.

Now, don't get me wrong, I do think it was stupid of the show to make the Velaryons black. But not for this reason.

The last Velaryon to marry into the Targaryens and Baratheons was Alyssa Velaryon, the mother of Jaehaerys and Alysanne Targaryen and Boremund Baratheon. She was Corlys' great aunt, the sister of his grandfather Daemon Velaryon.

So there's an easy solution to this issue: the Velaryons were white until Daemon Velaryon married a black woman, making his son Corwyn mixed race. Perhaps Corwyn also married a black woman.

Alyssa, and all previous Velaryons who married into House Targaryen, were white, hence why Jaehaerys, Alysanne and Boremund and their children and grandchildren are all white.

But Daemon's descendants, his sons Corlys and Vaemond and their children and grandchildren, are black/mixed race.

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Today on 'Black stans need to learn the definition of words': Bastard.

A bastard is a person born to parents not married to each other. That's it.

It does not matter which parent they're inheriting from, which parent has more power, if someone publicly claims them or any other bullshit excuse you come up with.

Rhaenyra and Harwin were not married when Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey were born. Therefore, those three boys are bastards.

Bastards, regardless of whether it's their mother or father who has the title, cannot inherit, by dint of being bastards.

So Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey are bastards and do not have any lawful claim to the throne or to Driftmark. The actual lawful heirs to those are Aegon II for the throne and Baela for Driftmark.

And, no, it doesn't matter that Laenor publicly says they're his sons. Anyone with eyes and more than two braincells can tell they aren't. No one in either family (Targaryen or Velaryon) has brown hair and/or brown eyes. Even Book!Rhaenys has black hair, not brown hair.

As for Aegon III and Viserys II, in the show they are also bastards.

Polygamy is not accepted in Westeros, regardless of what religious ceremonies are used. The last time a Targaryen attempted to have multiple spouses, it was Maegor and he was exiled. His later polygamous marriages played a direct part in his downfall and probably his death as well.

Rhaenyra cannot legally marry anyone while Laenor is still alive. Her marriage to Daemon, therefore, is not a legal marriage in the show, meaning their children are also bastards.

This one, at least, is not visually obvious and is unlikely to be exposed seeing as it seems Laenor has died offscreen. But still.

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You are a genuinely awful person for continuing to spread the court proven lies of a serial abuser, therefore furthering her abuse of her victim, actually.

if i have not made it clear enough please do not be following my blog if you still support johnny depp. if having a “comfort actor” or whatever the hell is more important to you than real domestic abuse victims you are genuinely an awful person

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Yes it’s utterly baffling to think the woman who was recorded admitting to being abusive was the abuser. The woman who admitted to being the one who starts physical fights. Who couldn’t provide a single piece of evidence of her supposed abuse. Who was caught lying repeatedly. Who has a long history of abusing others.

Yes, it’s baffling to think that that woman was the abuser. The only reason anyone would believe that is misogyny. Not the court case she lost or all the evidence her victim provided.

Believe all victims? No, it’s believe all women. Who cares about men?

Deleted a reblog about how to not support the new HP show, which is all well and good, but the OP included some lines comparing it other things, including how watching Aquaman funds Amber Heard. I am never going to forgive people for the rampant misogyny they displayed during the depp trial and I am certainly not going to reblog someone who still baffling thinks Amber Heard was the abuser and not Depp

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y’all gotta realise that that isn’t how it works. It does not matter that she’s the heir. They are bastards and bastards cannot inherit. Not to mention, this ignores that Rhaenyra is pressing Luke’s claim to Driftmark, which is through Laenor, not her.

I’m team Rhaenyra. Do I believe she made mistakes and could’ve done better? Yes.

But y’all gotta realize even though three of her kids are bastards- they came outta her womb; she was the heir, not Leanor, so they are the rightful heirs and are legitimate in my eyes

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Team Black stans need to get it through their thick heads that 'birthright' has a meaning, and it does not apply to Rhaenyra and her claim.

When Rhaenyra was born, she was the great granddaughter of the King and was either third or fourth in line for the throne, depending on whether or not Daemon is ahead of her. And even then that wasn't certain, given the Great Council could have decided against Viserys.

She was not made heir until she was 10 (in the book) or 14 (in the show). Something cannot be your birthright if you don't get it until you're in double digits.

However, as Viserys' firstborn, legitimate son, the throne is indeed Aegon's birthright. He was the legal heir, and should have been considered heir, from the moment he was born.

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1. It’s entirely selfish to persist in joining the army when he clearly wasn’t fit for it. It’s wasting the time of everyone having to deal with him, it shows he doesn’t care about how him being in the army will effect others and makes it clear that he doesn’t actually care about helping the war effort, he just wants to be a soldier.

2. Him setting out purely for Bucky is selfish. Him not caring about any other captured soldiers but his best friend is selfish.

3. It is still incredibly selfish to put Bucky ahead of stopping project insight which is going to kill hundreds. That it worked out in the end doesn’t change that.

4. Except he doesn’t know that. That only happened because Tony found out in the worst way possible. If he’d sat down with Tony, with Rhodey and Pepper present for emotional support and Bucky not there, it wouldn’t have gone like that, especially since a big part of the motivation behind Tony lashing out was that Steve had been lying to him.

5. Yeah, and what Steve believes is that Bucky is more important than anyone else.

6. It wasn’t out of character. Steve is consistently portrayed as being unable to move on and uncomfortably obsessed with a woman he knew for less than two years 70 years ago.

So I saw someone say that Rogers is the most selfless hero in the MCU. Boy do I have a lot to say about that. Let’s go through it in bullet points for ease.

In CATFA, Rogers persists in attempting to join up for the US Army even though it is blatantly obvious that he is in no way fit for it. Though he says he just wants to help, Bucky calls him out in this as there are ways he can help that don’t include being a massive liability and getting yourself and others killed.

Also in CATFA, it is made very clear that Rogers is only interested in rescuing Bucky. He does not care about anyone else captured there. Rescuing the rest of the 107th was entirely incidental.

In CATWS, Rogers refuses to fight the brainwashed Bucky, even though he knows that there’s a very limited time to stop Insight from killing hundreds of people. He puts Bucky above these people, because he does not care about anyone not named Bucky.

Case in point: he withholds the truth about Howard and Maria’s deaths from Tony presumably to protect Bucky and/or to avoid losing access to Tony’s money and resources for the search for Bucky (in and of itself a selfish act. The man clearly wants to be left alone.).

CACW may well be called ‘Fuck Everyone Else, Bucky Is The Only Person Who Matters: The Movie’.

In Endgame, Rogers ditches Bucky so he can go back in time and get together with Peggy. Never mind that she moved on from him and fell in love with another man. No, no, what’s more important is Rogers’ happiness.

These are just the large ones.

Rogers is actually one of the most selfish ‘heroes’ in the MCU.

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….ok? I never said it was a good thing?

I don’t know why you felt the need to add this to my post.

I’m so glad the Thunderbolts movie (I haven’t seen it yet, no spoilers!) seems to be getting more people to like John Walker/US Agent.

The way he was treated both in FATWS and by the fandom has always infuriated me.

Bucky and Sam hate him and treat him like shit from the beginning, for the crime of not being Steve.

The fandom shits all over him for killing the guy he thought killed his best friend. The same fandom that wholeheartedly supports Steve essentially telling over 100 countries to fuck off, going on a rampage against security guys just doing their job and just generally being a raging, selfish asshole for his best friend. The same fandom who would be cheering if Steve killed someone who killed Bucky.

Gah. I just hate it.

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Hii I don't mean to be rude at all but just so you know it's typically courtesy to not tag an anti/critical post w the characters tag as it just means it lands w people who don't wanna see that x

I don’t mean to be rude at all but a) Rogers stans rarely respect that with their outright tony bashing posts and b) I wasn’t being anti. I was being critical, but I didn’t say anything that wasn’t something Rogers actually did. If you can’t handle seeing a list of things he did, that’s a you problem.

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So I saw someone say that Rogers is the most selfless hero in the MCU. Boy do I have a lot to say about that. Let’s go through it in bullet points for ease.

In CATFA, Rogers persists in attempting to join up for the US Army even though it is blatantly obvious that he is in no way fit for it. Though he says he just wants to help, Bucky calls him out in this as there are ways he can help that don’t include being a massive liability and getting yourself and others killed.

Also in CATFA, it is made very clear that Rogers is only interested in rescuing Bucky. He does not care about anyone else captured there. Rescuing the rest of the 107th was entirely incidental.

In CATWS, Rogers refuses to fight the brainwashed Bucky, even though he knows that there’s a very limited time to stop Insight from killing hundreds of people. He puts Bucky above these people, because he does not care about anyone not named Bucky.

Case in point: he withholds the truth about Howard and Maria’s deaths from Tony presumably to protect Bucky and/or to avoid losing access to Tony’s money and resources for the search for Bucky (in and of itself a selfish act. The man clearly wants to be left alone.).

CACW may well be called ‘Fuck Everyone Else, Bucky Is The Only Person Who Matters: The Movie’.

In Endgame, Rogers ditches Bucky so he can go back in time and get together with Peggy. Never mind that she moved on from him and fell in love with another man. No, no, what’s more important is Rogers’ happiness.

These are just the large ones.

Rogers is actually one of the most selfish ‘heroes’ in the MCU.

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I’m so glad the Thunderbolts movie (I haven’t seen it yet, no spoilers!) seems to be getting more people to like John Walker/US Agent.

The way he was treated both in FATWS and by the fandom has always infuriated me.

Bucky and Sam hate him and treat him like shit from the beginning, for the crime of not being Steve.

The fandom shits all over him for killing the guy he thought killed his best friend. The same fandom that wholeheartedly supports Steve essentially telling over 100 countries to fuck off, going on a rampage against security guys just doing their job and just generally being a raging, selfish asshole for his best friend. The same fandom who would be cheering if Steve killed someone who killed Bucky.

Gah. I just hate it.

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....I can't tell if you're talking about the book or the show, but either way Aegon was already in his teens when Rhaenyra went to Dragonstone. She had every opportunity to have a relationship with him long before that, but she refused to.

Not to mention, she went to Dragonstone after the Eye incident, you know, when her son mutilated Aegon's little brother and she wanted Aegon's little brother tortured. I doubt Aegon would want a relationship with her after that.

And, of course, that wouldn't prevent the war. Aegon's relationship with and feelings about Rhaenyra had fuck all to do with the war. It wouldn't change that Aegon, his brothers and sons were big threats to Rhaenyra's claim to the throne, her heir is an obvious bastard and her husband is a violent asshole no one wants anywhere near the throne.

You are right, though, that it was phenomally stupid of Rhaenyra to sit in Dragonstone and allow the Greens to politick and schmooze and make connections while she did fuck all.

Still can't get over how Rhaenyra flew the coop to Dragonstone. It was the easiest mistake to avoid. Stay influential in King's Landing, schmooze all the lords and ladies you need in your corner. Who cares if others spread rumors, they ain't gonna do anything while Viserys is still alive.

Plus she could've developed a real relationship with Aegon. Candy bribes and piggyback rides could have averted the war.