Biblically Accurate: Battle Of The Kingsroad

Au fucking revoir Mister Prince

sadly to inform i am indeed a stereotypical fangirl. a horny bisexual woman who giggles when she thinks of her little made up men.

hotd s2e8 spoilers:

what an absolute master class in the character assassination of alicent hightower. in one scene they stripped her of all integrity, made her a coward, and a traitor to her king and family. what was the point, the point of anything of it.

alicent's character is arguably one of the most changed aspects of hotd from fire and blood and for what point. they tried to make her more sympathetic, less of a villain, and seemed to have only succeeded in destroying her loyalty and backbone.

edit: want to clarify that this has nothing to do with whether i think alicent did the right thing or not, it's that it's a complete betrayal of who she is as a character and an insult to what she personally upholds, especially in terms of fire and blood

smut's fun. have you ever read soul crushing, heart aching, head throbbing comfort that makes your eyes burn out of your head to the point where you just have to crawl into a ball because your inner child feels so safe? haha... yeah smuts fun.

oscar tully is the prince who was promised

its been said but grrm timelines are wild as hell. The Starks have had an 8,000 year unbroken reign? For 8,000 years. 8,000. Old Valyria rose, made dragons, terrorized the world for thousands of years, and exploded in apocalyptic fashion, but before during and after all that the one constant in the universe was the stalwart guardian of the horrors: a guy named Brandon frowning dourly at his notepad as he counts grain being put away for winter

Love that we can say this now without getting de@th threats

it’s honestly very frustrating to try and see people paint alicent as some sort of karen and rhaenyra as some sort of feminist icon. newsflash: none of the women in this show are feminists. AND THAT IS OKAY!! we’re looking at a story that predates those sort of progressive ideals and it’s not fair to hold either character to such a modern standard.

rhaenyra is out for herself and for her own claim, she’s not fighting for the right of all women to sit the iron throne. this is pretty clearly spelled out for us when she tells rhaenys that baela and jacerys’ sons will inherit the iron throne. but this isn’t a criticism of rhaenyra, she’s a woman living in an incredibly oppressive time, and while it could make for a great story, it should not be her responsibility to fight for the hypothetical claims of other women. as the the legitimate heir to the throne, her only concern should be fighting to take back her crown from the usurper.

as for alicent, she can really only cling to two things: duty/honor and trying to protect her children. her whole life has been nothing but miserable. losing her mother, being pawned off to viserys by her own father, being forced to have four children while she was still a child herself. and in the aftermath of all this, she’s lost her best friend and one true love. so of course she’s bitter and resentful, and of course she’s so preoccupied with duty. all she’s done since she was 14 years old is give and give, and it’s been rotten, thankless work.

it’s pretty easy to understand why both of these women are the way they are, and to acknowledge their deep complexity. sometimes it feels like people are being willfully obtuse in order to stay loyal to their respective “teams”, and I know it’s not that deep and the end of the day, but it’s still very frustrating.

I feel like people don't get that these characters are complex and can do wrong. Like Rhaenyra having 3 bastards not the right move girly, or Aemond killing Luc, or Daemon always reaching for the crown, or Aegon being a drunk. Like they are more than those things.

A character can do good while still being evil, or do evil things while still being good. Like Luc took Aemonds eye and never got any consequences, doesn't mean Luc is a horrible person. Or how Alicent helped steel Rhaenyras throne, doesn't mean she's a bad person or doesn't deserve sympathy.

These characters are complex, cause they're people, I'm not a perfect person nor would I ever claim to be. People need to get that before trying to hide their favorite characters flaws in a dark closet.

btw i'm seeing some controversy and shitty behaviour in the asoiaf community regarding characters being depicted as not white and i'd like to make a statement. i think the hbo decision to depict the velaryons as black was cowardly. simply because they should've gone all the way and made the targs biracial to go along with it. they're right next to each other stop pretending daemon would be pasty white that man has melanin