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Fun fact: you can like both Alicent and Rhaenyra. You don’t have to pit them against each other just because the narrative does.
“But alicent did this” “but Rhaenyra” they would not have had to do those things if the men in their lives weren’t constantly pitting them against each other.
It is very much possible to be team women and say fuck you to the men who caused all these problems in the first place.
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.
It's so unfair how the show greens treat Aegon and Criston.
***They need a drink (Criston has water in a flask, because in the show he can't get anything good)/
Aegon is not the most competent politician, but he had good ideas: to break the blockade in the early stages, capture Harrenhal before Daemon, support the smallfolk, because success in the war depends on them, but everyone takes him for an idiot and eventually reaps the fruits of inaction (the KL is rioting, and Daemon gathered support in the riverlands). Not to mention the humiliation and condescension in every fucking scene.
While the others were cooling off in the castle, Criston was the only active force in the TG from the main squad for a considerable time. He proved his competence in military strategy by successfully capturing castles and forcing enemy houses to kneel before the king. But one chastises him for his "lack of loyalty" (when previously allowed their brother to tell him shit), and the other sends him on a suicide mission. His plan with the twins could have worked if it hadn't been for the plot armor in the form of Misaria, which turned out to be at the right time and place, but Otto exclaims about idiocy when he had an identical plan but even stupider.
In the essence, before the first dance of the dragons, Aegon offered more good ideas than anyone on the council, and Criston did all the work of recruiting other houses, but who cares when they don't live up to other people's expectations to be convenient puppets who should be silent and obediently nod when required?
I mean, it's clear that they are not spared from making mistakes, but they don't deserve such humiliating treatment of themselves from their team (Aegon ended up in this position because of them. wtf they have against him???).
At least they had each other's respect and support. It's not enough, but it's better than nothing.
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.
It's ironic that Team Black has been labeling Alicent as a religious zealot when the most she had done was what? Pray and put up some religious items around her home? While their queen RhaeRhae is out here preaching about the "blood of the dragons" and how their blood is superior, having an ancient blood marriage w her uncle and now is having a full blown messiah complex 🤣🤣.
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.
So are you telling me Tamlin was born from a tree? He didn’t loose a mother that day? He was hatched right?
This post is like saying it’s a five year olds fault for getting SA. Next time she should have SCREAMED louder. Abuse is abuse no matter what form it is. That’s why rapesands minions won’t understand that he’s called that because he mentally rapes people. And MIND RAPE is a real thing.
It’s stupid insensitive post like this that makes me know that people these days lack empathy and common sense. If the world was built on one ideology we would never progress. Thats why there’s good and bad NOT foolishness.
Once someone is dead there’s nothing you can do. But you know what? Tamlin has moved on for the better of his people even though his mums death will still linger. You know who’s being petty? Ratsand. And he is also basing his assumptions as well.
REMEMBER: we all don’t truly know what happened to those two then. Tam could be lying, Rhys could be lying.
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Eurylochus & Odysseus (EPIC: The Musical) are Toxic Yaoi!
Broke: We don't know why Eurylochus was able to resist Circe's charms.
Woke: Eurylochus resisting Circe's charms is proof the he is just as loyal to Ctimene as Odysseus is to Penelope, and considering Ctimene is Odysseus's sister the feeling is probably very mutual.
Talking to your sister after 20 years So Odysseus, where is her husband? Eurylochus was your brother-in-law and you promised Ctimene you'd bring him back. Where is he?
When I see: "Tamlin You Stupid Bitch"...
My brain says: "Rhysand You Raping Bitch"...
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Eury working his way up from poverty to become Odys second in command and wooing Ctimene is my roman empire all over again
ONG ODYSSEY TELEMACHUS WAS SO GIRLBOSS-
SPEAK YO TRUTH KINGGGGGGG 🗣️🗣️🗣️
FLOW IS OFFICIALLY AN OSCARS WINNER!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Love me a Sparta women
WE DID IT
FUCK EMILIA PEREZ
ALL MY HOMIES LOVE AND SUPPORT I’M STILL HERE
FLOW wins the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film
This is the first Oscar win for Latvia 🇱🇻
As Zoe Saldaña accepts that oscar I hope you all remeber she has endorsed and praised the racists Jacques Audiard and Karla Sofía Gascón over and over. She keeps defending the ofensive racist movie she was a part of and once again had nothing no say in her speech for the victims of cartel violence that Emilia Pérez exploits.
Absolutely embarrassing.
zoe saldana being the first person of dominican descent to win an oscar will be overshadowed by the fact that she won it off the back of a terrible movie written by a terrible person starring an even more terrible person
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.
there's some justice in the world
emilia perez lost the award for best director
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
If you despised " Emilia perez " (2024), you need to watch the mexican response!!
JOHANNE SACREBLU
A "musical" making fun of everything Emilia perez represent. I don't want to give spoilers but knowing that the freaking Miraculous Ladybug and Maria Antonieta appears multiple times sold this musical for me
I'm glad we're all against Emilia Perez, here! If you were disturbed by how little that movie cared about the families of people who disappeared, victims of unfair structures that cause fear in the populations in countries of latin america with no consequences or justice, please support I'm Still Here, the brazilian film about of a family fighting for the truth about the disappearance of their father at the hands of the military dictatorship.