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Philipa Gregory going out of her way to demonize Margaret Beaufort, who was 100% a victim of child marriage and rape, while in the same breath romanticizing Edward and Richard will always be jarring to me. In the show, Edward attempted to rape Elizabeth to the point where she had to threaten suicide to get him to back off, but she still portrayed him as genuinely 'good' guy. Richard was behind the death of his nephews historically, but she made that vague, and then had him with his niece (????), but for the majority of the show he was portrayed as a 'nice guy'. IDK it's weird. It's weird when female authors have the ability to impact how historical women are seen in their literature, and instead of being kind to them, they are cruel. Gregory's writing has negatively impacted the portrayals of Margaret and how she is viewed in a lot of historical literature circles.

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I honestly don’t get people who call book!Alicent an “evil stepmother” or a power hungry woman who ‘seduced’ V*serys and then tormented Rha*nyra for years.

There is literally nothing in F&B stating or even eluding to Alicent even wanting to be Queen or seducing Vis or even having an affair with him while Aemma was still alive (which is heralded as a mere rumor).

For all we know, book!Alicent may have been in the same situation as her show counterpart: a young girl forced to be married to the king despite not having any desire to do so. However, unlike her show counterpart, book!Alicent seemed to understand that it would strengthen her family’s status and at least made the best of her situation and embraced the power she had if she truly was forced to wed the king (again, nothing in the book stating so).

As for the whole “evil stepmother” stuff, all that’s said is that Alicent and Rha*nyra started off with a decent relationship before they grew apart because of their own personal ambitions, and most likely because both wanted to be in Vizzy’s favor due to the fact that both girls desired to be Queen.

Also people love to talk about how Alicent “tormented” her stepdaughter (despite having no evidence) and having beef with a child, meanwhile Rha*nyra openly mocked her siblings at court due to them being a threat to her claim and Da*mon was noticeably cold towards his nephews because they pushed him further down the line of succession.

Book!Alicent was literally just a normal medieval woman who wanted to protect her children and was a little bitchy. That’s it. Honestly, compared to the atrocities committed by characters such as Rha*nyra, Da*mon, Mys*ria, and others, she’s really not that bad.

As for the people who liked Emilia Pérez and is defending the film, please do it under any argument except 'you are racist if you don't like it'. Mexicans are hating on this movie, the cast is not even mexican, the main actress has responded to mexicans who are pointing the flaws poorly, the director unashamedly said that he didn't need to do research because he already knows enough and it hasn't even been released here in Mexico for a reason.

It won an award but that recognition is not actually for Mexico or Latin America because the movie is french.

Mexico and latam in general have great directors and actors who are doing an amazing job in Hollywood and I encourage you to go look for their films and shows if your intention is to support and learn about mexican representation.

it’s so funny watching people hate on Alicent but try to pretend Visenya had some noble reason for usurping the throne “oh she knew Aenys was weak and just wanted to save the Targaryens” so close she actually just wanted her son on the throne just like Alicent.

like Viserys Aegon constantly disrespected Visenya and publicly favoured his other wife, like Viserys he publicly favoured one kid and neglected the other because of who their mother was. Aegon made it so his child with Rhaenys would be firstborn and therefor his heir even though as first wife Visenya should’ve been priority, Viserys went against tradition to keep Rhaenyra as heir over his son because he wasn’t Aemmas son.

this is why i can’t take it seriously when people pretend the conquerors were a functional throuple. “they better not put Visenya and Rhaenys in competition 😤” babes they’re already in competition and Aegon made it so, Visenya had no remorse *allegedly* killing Rhaenys son and usurping her grandson so i don’t think she was as fond of her sister as some claim.

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How was Isabel Neville portrayed in real life and TWQ?

In real life I feel like those who wrote about her, though I don’t know much about the matter, would probably reduce her figure to that of the heiress of Warwick and the wife of Clarence, whereas in TWQ… Let’s just say she doesn’t have a big role and she is either bullied by Elizabeth Woodville or manipulated by Clarence because “she does not know better, her silly little woman’s head 🥺” (or perhaps because she is in fact “evil” and mean too, even with her sole sister, just like Philippa Gregory seems to aim to portray all the Neville women).

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I think the thing that shocks me the most about the discourse, if you can even call it that, around book Alicent vs show Alicent, is the idea that people think book Alicent had full autonomy over all her choices and she wasn’t a “victim” like show Alicent.

Now first, I put victim in quotations bc the way people who do not like her have almost bastardized that word. Alicent is a victim, and those things (rape, abuse, neglect) were done to her. That says everything about the men who did that do her and nothing about her. But people are hellbent on throwing Alicent, a woman in a violently patriarchal environment, being victimized back at people as if it is moral flaw of hers. Which is just terribly ironic bc the same folks who say Alicent “did it to herself” or “deserves what she is getting” also seem to think the crux of the story isn’t about generational trauma catching up with itself, how far people will go for power, or even how all girls and women are harmed - albeit to different degrees. But more the fact that Rhaenyra is the only woman to be harmed - and the only harm done is not getting the throne easily. Those same people wouldn’t be caught dead admitting that Rhaenyra is also a victim in the way they shit on Alicent for being. From the father who sets her up fail, to the baby daddy that’s been eyeing her since she was barely 18, to the uncle that grooms her. It takes away from the fantasy projected onto Rhaenyra if she too is surrounded by men that use her and she never escapes that.

Second, it’s funny how F&B gets heralded by some as this exploration of how history is skewed depending on who is telling it. But people can’t read between the lines (you honestly don’t even have to do that much work) with book Alicent. Showing 14 year old Alicent being preyed on, 16 year old Alicent being pregnant with her second child, and 18 year old Alicent being raped is somehow the show needlessly making Alicent a victim. But reading about a 13 year old bathing, dressing, and taking care of a king who mistakes her for the daughter he abused and neglected, and then that same girl, at 18, marrying another king that killed his previous child bride is just girl bossism on book Alicent’s part?

People hate conceptualizing the idea that (even book) Alicent is caught in patriarchal trappings bc to some that takes away from Rhaenyra’s plight…. Bc they can’t wrap their heads around several women *gasp* all going through hardships, and that ultimately people will respond to trauma differently depending on tools/knowledge they have at their disposal. Alicent neither being gleefully evil nor picking herself up by her bootstraps to somehow end years of patriarchal violence is not the neat box they want for her.