alicent criticism often strikes me as having the same vibes as the people watching a horror movie and going "i would have never done that, the characters died because they made stupid choices, i would have easily survived". alicent had her life stolen from her when she was a teenager forced to marry an old man and have his children. it's something so horrible that i feel like a large amount of people (and some characters, like rhaenyra) simply can't fit it into their worldview that something like that can just happen to you and instead go "well if that was me then it wouldn't have fundamentally destroyed me as a person. in her situation i would've turned out fine and my poison wouldn't be dripping through. i would easily be a good mother". i saw some people found it a stupid writing choice that rhaenyra thought alicent could stop the war because it is "obvious" that alicent has no control over what is going on, but i think that failure to see the real horror of alicent's situation is what destroyed their friendship and drove them apart. from the beginning rhaenyra thought alicent was choosing to marry her father. in return alicent failed to see the way rhaenyra was being targeted for grooming by daemon. i think they both engaged in victim blaming because "my friend is acting hurtful towards me, so i'm mad" is actually easier to deal with emotionally than "my friend had her entire life and personhood stolen from her and so have i"
perpetually torn between:
taking classic literature seriously and over analysing every detail so that I can deeply understand themes, motifs and references and absorb every poetic quote into my being OR treating classics as if they were just silly little stories about silly little gay people doing the most weird, unhinged and out of context shit ever (which they are)
Labour by Paris Paloma was written for Alicent Hightower btw.
The truth isn’t that Gabriel hates Marinette, it’s actually that he’s a Marichat stan and thinks that Adrinette is getting in the way of his ship
I mean can you see the excitement on this guy?!?!
Glad that y’all are living the toxic old men yaoi summer up but can we have a doomed yuri summer next year pretty please
Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer
Being a Byler shipper is hoping my posts age like wine 🍷 and not like milk 🥛
Alicent didn’t choose Rhaenyra over her kids
She chose:
- herself, her daughter,peace, and yes, Rhaenrya
Over:
-her son who tried to kill his brother, tried to send his sister to war, and started the war by killing a child
-her other son who she probably assumes is living a hell of an existence and may die soon anyway
no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched
“my favorite this season was the fruity four”
be more specific bitch
we’ve got pride parade
internalized homophobia
polyamory
and old spice
He/She/They 18 years old#1 Rhaenicent ShipperI love complex women
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