My Lord

happy ides of march to julius caesar and jared padalecki!

it's much easier to stan (read: use as a self interest) a character with no apparent personality traits or flaws

The fact that Elia Martell has more stans than Oberyn or Arianne Martell, who both are characters who appear on the book series and actually have a personality will never stop being funny to me.

One day we need to have a legitimate discussion on how Jace and Luke weren’t even bullies and how Aegon was Aemonds biggest torturer. And that day is today.

- Alicent herself knew this was true. “You may cuff him about as you wish at home, but in the world we must defend our own” she says after trying to frame Jace and Luke as “savages.”

-Alicent refers to Jace and Luke as Aegons “playthings” in the same scene. What kind of power dynamic do you really think was at play here? Aegon clearly liked to toy with his vastly younger nephews and influenced them.

- Mind you, Jace and Luke were 5-7 years old and NOT aware of the feud that ran in their frayed family. They lack the awareness of characters like Aemond and Aegon who are repeatedly reminded by Alicent that Rhaenyra’s family is a THREAT and that they are bastards who are beneath them in station.

-In contrast, there is not a single scene of Rhaenyra speaking about Aegon, Aemond, or Helaena in derogatory ways to her children. Even in the books, it’s evident that the feud between the children is entirely one-sided with the Greens growing up and *learning* to resent Jace, Luke, and Joff.

-the teasing in and of itself was so mild. What makes Aemond upset is that he doesn’t view Jace and Luke as his equals.

-to Jace and Luke, this was normal teasing. From Aemonds perspective, he’s being emasculated by younger boys who he views as sub-human and unworthy despite having dragons of their own because he’s been TOLD and ASSURED that they’re bastards.

- THIS IS WHY THE TEASING ACTUALLY SETS HIM OFF, NOT THE SEVERITY. Need we be reminded how strongly Aemond feels about “blood purity”? In a show about the Targaryen dynasty, he’s the only character to mention it.

Bonus:

- Aegon hating and wanting to tease Aemond is so on brand for them as characters. Aemond is a momas boy and Aegon is the disappointment. The allure to make his life hell is there.

omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this

Darrow: while you were out partying 🤪😖, I studied the blade 🤨😠

Aerys allegedly killing Brandon "for threatening Rhaegar" vibes

𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎𝚗, 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛. 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠, 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚊𝚔 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚊𝚔.