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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).

stop asking who’s the man and who’s the woman in gay relationships and start asking which ones the serial murderer and which ones the one trying to catch them

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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IM SAYING IT DOESNT FEEL AT ALL LIKE WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN PROMOTING

okay, actually at this point i'm wondering whether or not vol. 2 actually was supposed to be something else. ignoring the queerbait, they literally didn't add the other things they were going to, for example, the incomplete letter and the "let's start a new party together, you and me" thing. also, mike never "tried new things" like finn said. like...what are they even doing?? it honestly feels incomplete...am i being vecnaed right now?? because holy fuck this is my worst nightmare.

💀 Now I understand why they think we r delusional

me trying to convince myself that two straight white men in their 30s are going to write the best (slowburn) queer love story ever made

no what’s actually wild is how byler doesn’t parallel lumax. lumax parallels byler. the hand hold? byler did it first. the calling out for someone during a vision? byler did it first. drawing something for the other person? byler did it first. the sitting next to someone in the hospital? byler did it first. lucas throwing his arm over max’s shoulders in s3? that seems pretty familiar. max finding a way to fight vecna by hiding in the memory of the night she kissed lucas? will found a way to fight the mind flayer thanks to mike recalling the first day they met.

a lot of the most romantic moments between lucas and max were first done by will and mike. it’s pretty interesting how the, arguably, most well written canon ship has so many parallels with byler

BARBIE IS LIKE ACTUALLY THE BEST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN OMG-

GUYS WATCH THE BARBIE MOVIE ITS SOOOO GOOD

if you were going to tell me i would be in tears at the end of an eight-episode mockumentary on fucking freevee because not only did they manage to find one of the most genuine men on the planet earth to be part of their entirely-staged story, but because every single actor who got to know him longer than we did at the end said full-stop they’d fallen in love with him and were so happy to be his friend and had so much fun with him and because everyone acknowledged that he just went above and beyond time and time again every time he was faced with a moral or ethical dilemma and proved people ARE inherently good actually!!!

i wouldn’t believe you and yet. here we are

Omg one more hour... Byler becomes canon in an hour I’m actually freaking out I feel like that meme from the Office where Micheal Scott runs around screaming “It’s happening! Everybody stay calm it’s happening!”

do you think alicent sees aegon as the nail in the coffin that determined the rest of her life. like she was married to viserys and that was bad enough but i wonder if she thought at the start of their marriage what reconciliation with rhaenyra would look like and how far away it was, how maybe if she was infertile or maybe if she only had girls maybe there was still something, some impossible chance that one day she wouldn’t have to face the choice that birthing a son would bring—to watch him either be put to the throne or rhaenyra’s sword. i wonder if every night of her first pregnancy chipped away at her hope. i wonder if when she had aegon she knew nothing could ever be the same and tried to bury it nonetheless. but then to watch him grow into this thing that he is and to love him because he’s her son but resent him because he’s a man who does exactly what other men did to you, and he turns other girls into the girl you once were, it’s like—when does the resentment overpower the love? how can they coexist? or do they have to coexist because every love you’ve ever had has been tinged by resentment and any other kind no longer makes sense? how else do you love? what do you have to do to deserve it? what does reconciliation look like, how far away is it????? and now on his deathbed the man who put you here, put your son here and never once cared, who hammered the nail in your coffin, tells you something that makes you believe that maybe it was all worth it. maybe the love can be bigger than the resentment, just this once. so rhaenys is standing in front of her on a roaring dragon and alicent would die for her son without question in that moment (in any moment, i think, but especially now) because despite being the worst thing to happen to her, he’s also the only evidence she has that what she went through meant anything at all.

his big doleful eyes and violently self-destructive tendencies have captivated me