This Along With Ronance And Steddie And Elmax But Honestly I Like Lumax Too So That Ones Iffy But Definitely

I GOT RICKROLLING 💀

Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

I’m interested to see what the results are lmao

Alicent being a victim to a council of misogynist men being a 'gotcha' moment for some fans really shows their true mentality. This isn't about feminism to these fans, Rhaenyra is just a shield they use to hide their own misogyny with feminism. Otherwise Alicent's circumstances are so clear to even casual watchers (especially in an episode where both her and Rhaenyra have parallel scenes having their council speaking over them). A child bride forced to operate in the patriarchy to protect her kids, that girl getting thrown aside by men, isn't 'payback' or karma.. it's just the patriarchy wheel going on, crushing woman after woman under it. People enjoying Alicent's 'downfall' simply fail to understand the victims of patriarchy or do not care about them (which is why for many of these 'feminists', Rhaenyra's worth is tied to Daemon and not as an individual).

Bye I just saw someone who’s entire personality is shipping Rhaenyra and Daemon say that Rhaenicent is toxic

I’m actually losing my mind over here

community is like au fanfic bc sometimes when you're watching a show you're like man i wish these characters were little gay detectives like law & order AND THEN IN COMMUNITY THEY ARE and the episode is called wolf pee or whatever

L and Light are the funniest pairing to me bc they could’ve literally fucked in canon and it wouldn’t have changed the story like at all

U guys r making my mind explode FJJFJF guess I’m delusional again lmao

Mike knowing what Will meant in the van scene is not a POSITIVE thing actually is the OPPOSITE. It means that the Byler storyline is over and that Mike is homophobic towards Will and that he actually meant what he said to El in the monologue

No it doesn’t? Lmfao what? The entire reason Mike even gave that monologue is because Will told him to. He literally had to be told to tell El he loved her by Will. That is literally canon 😂🤨 idk how you melvins are happy with this. Will is canonly the only thing holding that ship together LMFAOOO

Mike gives an ILY confession to El because of Will’s coded love confession. Mike’s monologue is literally a direct response to Will’s monologue????? Mike surely knows Will lied about the painting or at the very least he suspects it, or suspects will is talking about himself, but there are many reasons Mike might not confront him about this lol, because what if he’s wrong? Then he would expose himself.

like seriously? Look at the way he LOOKS at Will here. Really bro? He looks: scared, shocked, unsure, nervous, hopeful, happy? The way his eyes subtly shift back and forth like he is SEARCHING for an answer. He at the very least suspects, but it would make sense if he is doubting himself, especially considering it is Will that literally tells Mike to say what he said to el…. Mike would not have given that monologue otherwise. Mike is confessing his love to El, a DIRECT RESPONSE to Will’s confession where he pretends to BE el…. This is not very subtle subtext lol.

Will pretends to be El in his love confession. Will confesses he loves Mike as El. Mike then confesses he loves El back, where Will is the one actually pretending to be El the entire time. Come on now

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hmmm it's called house of the dragon but we got surprisingly little dragon content. house of the crazy bitches more like

"Alicent resents Rhaenyra having the freedom that she never did." This is a pretty common hotd take which is complicated by the fact that Rhaenyra doesn't actually really have that much more freedom (she also has to marry and have children, and also ends up in an abusive marriage). So I'm wondering what if Alicent knows that? What if her resentment isn't that Rhaenyra never has to pay the price for her transgressions/freedoms, but that Alicent and her family are the ones who pay for Rhaenyra's freedom. When Rhaenyra goes out with Daemon, putting her reputation and marriage prospects in jeopardy, it's Otto who loses his job (after he saves her from likely having to marry Daemon). When Rhaenyra has obvious bastards that will create multiple succession crisis's, it's Aemond who loses an eye and is threatened with torture, and Vaemond who gets murdered. Alicent spends most of the series under the assumption that if Rhaenyra has to choose between giving up being queen and murdering her half brothers she'll choose the latter, gaining her freedom by harming Alicent. In this context her resentment makes a lot of sense and is more than just spite and jealousy (though I'm not saying those aren't present).

This also has me thinking what if Alicent is the more self aware one of the two of them? I think she knows how shit her situation is in a way that Rhaenyra might not until episode 10 when Daemon chokes her. Alicent at least by episode 9 recognizes her father for what he is and in her own small way able to fight for what she wants (Rhaenyra's survival and peace). She at least knows she's in a prison and is able to build a window in it, as Rhaenys condescendingly described. Rhaenyra on the other hand might truly believe that she's the exception to all the sexism in Westeros. That her name, her dragon and her father mean that she isn't like all the other girls. And for a while that's true. She gets to do things that no other woman in Westeros could get away with. She either doesn't see the cost to Alicent and Criston and Otto and Aemond and Vaemond, or she see their fates as their own faults. That all collapses in episode ten when she sees how completely alone she is. The men who are supposed to be obeying her seem more inclined to listen to Daemon and Daemon will not place her needs above his own or at least won't without first assaulting her.

This then allows for an interesting thesis of the show if it was intentional. We're given two women who have very different responses to patriarchy, but neither approach can save them. Obedience won't save them, promiscuity won't save them, a dragon won't save them, the right husband won't save them, the right father won't save them. The only thing that could have maybe saved them is solidarity, something that we see Alicent give up on in episode 5 (whether Rhaenyra has ever considered using her position or privilege to help another woman is an open question).

Obviously there's no definitive proof of this idea, but I find it interesting and that it adds depth to the tension and bitterness between Rhaenyra and Alicent.

Guys I started reading Gone Girl yesterday and I’m already on page one hundred. This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read and I’m not even that far in yet. I’m a busy person so it usually takes me a long time to read books but I was hooked immediately it’s hard to put down. Anyways, I highly recommend.