Rhaenyra Telling That Old Lady In The Tent In The Episode 3 How She Is Going To Change The System And

Screaming crying throwing up this is the best thing I've seen all day

"when you called me normal... that made me so happy."

"because you're the girl that saved me that day. the worst girl in the world."

I started off watching HotD without siding with either team, because come on, the Targs (black or green) are entertaining but aren't worthy of rooting for. In fact I like the idea of Jace on the Iron throne simply because he's bearing the y-chromosome of the Strongs. Basically, I'm just really really anti-royalist, anti-imperialist.

But the more I see how insane team Black is, the more I want to side with team Green out of a spite.

Team Green mostly recognizes the crimes of their characters and joke about mew mews and mommy's war criminal. Meanwhile team Black are rejoicing in the upcoming blood and cheese, because threatening to rape a 6 y.o. girl and murdering a 6 y.o. boy is what they deem as justice.

Team Black are so pro-racial superiority, it's kind of insane. The racist shit they say about Nettles. The romanticisation of incest as a way to keep blood pure, and how children of Daemyra are worthier of the throne because of their blood purity. How Hightowers, Velaryons and others are criticized for being ambitious yet Rhaenyra is praised for trying to put her non-Velaryon son on a throne he has no rights for.

"The Targaryens are the ones who created the iron throne!" Yes, with fire and blood, by burning and murdering people until they surrendered. It's like an nuclear country conquering non-nuclear countries, and creating a system based on racial superiority.

And did Strongs build a Driftmark for Lucerys to claim it? But he's a Targaryen, and "that's all that matters".

So no, I do not buy the whole "the blacks are heroes and morally righteous ones" shit at all. Fuck your Targaryen superiority.

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i don't really get how harwin won over criston in terms of quality of life.

criston, born a dornish stewards son, uses his talents to rise up in the world of knights and participates in many tourneys . after winning a fight with a prince, he is given a position in the kings guard. as a sworn celibate, he is put into an uncomfortable position when the crown princess attempts to have sex with him. he refuses at first, but they end up sleeping together- despite his protests- anyways. i guess the writers didn't learn anything from game of thrones and their questionable views on consent. he then later suggests that they marry and run away together so that he can preserve his honour. she tells him that he can remain a side piece, but that nothing will ever properly come of their relationship. not wanting that life, criston makes the decision to walk away. eventually the guilt over breaking his celibacy vows pushes him to attempt suicide. the queen catches him right before he stabs himself, and decides to appoint him to position of her sworn protector and shield. he forms a close bond with her and becomes like a second (or, well, a first considering viserys didnt do anything) father to her sons. he stays loyally by her side and trains her children in arms.

harwin, on the other hand, is born the son of the lord of harrenhal. being the first born male, he is heir to his homelands and set to inherit significant wealth. when we first meet him, he seems to have an interest in the princess. in a time jump, we find out that they have been sleeping together for many years and that they also have two sons. their children take after him and are viewed as obvious bastards by pretty much everyone but his boys (the catch on eventually). he has to watch another man raise his children while pretending to be nothing more than their trainer. his father is ashamed of the way he looks down upon low born people that have worked for the titles that he was handed at birth. at almost forty, he is still unmarried, depite being heir to a significant position. his younger brother murders him and his father in a brutal and horrific manner. he dies knowing that he'll never be able to tell his kids that he's their biological dad.

how on earth did criston miss out by not staying with rhaenerya???

Criston Cole representing all of us Aegon enjoyers falling to his knees in a state of shock like that

Nothing can convince me he wasn’t actually breaking the fourth wall and realising what terrible writers Condal and Hess are and that he and every other character in this show are at their mercy (or lack thereof)

Sara hess the bane of my existence is BACK

I'm thinking of the incredibly vital role Rhaenyra was given after her mother died, becoming the first ever female heir to the iron throne.

How revolutionary this was, and what an opportunity it presented for all women in Westeros (outside of Dorne).

How the sexist society she lived in was less than pleased of this title and how happy it would have been to strip her of it. And how easy Rhaenyra made it for them to do so.

She knew the importance of the title she bore, she knew that every noble man in the continent would look for anything to discredit her because of mysogyny, she knew that how she behaved would determine whether or not women would ever be considered capable of taking the weight of the crown and rule.

And she completely fumbled the bag by:

Being extremely rude and bratty to all of her suitors, refusing her arranged marriage, obviously cheating of her husband and claiming her bastards were true born, murdering said husband so she could marry her uncle (who has a terrible reputation) days after his own wife's death.

What was she thinking?

Didn't she even bother to wonder what the realm would think of her unlawful actions?

She literally proved the sexist society right, by being the most scandalous princess she could be, and that only solidified in the minds of everyone in Westeros that if you put a woman in a position of power she's gonna abuse it to do whatever she wants.

The girlboss black queen is the reason why no other Targaryen woman ever sat the iron throne after her, as her scandals and treachery turned the population against the mere though of a female ruler, in fear of having a new "Maegor with teats".

Luke and Jaehaerys watching both their families hesitating to fight each other even after their deaths:

Tell me I’m not the only one who's been thinking this

me, making this while in class: wow, im supposed to be super busy rn... anyways, im gonna make another tudor meme--

no one’s here for me

my poor pathetic meow meow returns