"Alicent Resents Rhaenyra Having The Freedom That She Never Did." This Is A Pretty Common Hotd Take Which

Labour by Paris Paloma is for Alicent Hightower and Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo is for Rhaenyra Targaryen. Just for if anyone was wondering.

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girls who learned all their vocab from books and are now constantly embarrassing themselves by pronouncing words slightly wrong in conversation

And also the way Barbie and Ken are role playing heterosexuality without any inherent sexuality of their own, without any understanding of what it means, or even any genitals at all! Just pretty-girl + handsome-guy = obviously a couple. And the way it fucks them both up! Because they’re both stereotypes, neither of them is a specialist version, no brain surgery or pilots license or Nobel prize for either of them. They’re just assigned the roles of Every Man and Every Woman. And Ken ends up doing Way Too Much because he’s hanging his entire self-worth on being important to Barbie. And Barbie just isn’t interested in him, she was assigned a boyfriend she didn’t ask for and doesn’t want and doesn’t know what to do with, just because that’s what society expects of men and women, that they will necessarily couple up and fall in love because… that’s what they do. Regardless of any personal quality of either party.

It’s about heteronormativity and amatonormativity and the unrealistic expectations society sets boys and girls up for from infancy. Barbie and Ken are every pair of toddlers sharing a sandbox while the adults around them call them each other’s little “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” even though neither party understands or is capable of understanding the implied meaning of that. Or wants to.

It’s a literal funhouse mirror of that weird pressure put on kids to perform heterosexuality from an early age. It examines how that leaves us unprepared for the complicated reality of actual relationships even if it turns out that you are heterosexual and do want sex and romance. Boys and girls aren’t really allowed to be just kids on the same team, so they grow up into men and women who generally want very different things from each other and are trained to look for it in everybody because anybody is better than nobody, and try to force it to work.

Barbie and Ken letting each other go in the end was perfect. Barbie the Every Woman realizing that she doesn’t have to be special, she just has to be, and Ken the Every Man realizing he has to seek validation elsewhere and lean on his fellow Kens for emotional support, WHICH THEY GIVE.

Truly a movie of all time.

Every word that starts with an N should have a silent G in front. Gnorway. Gnuclear. Gnervous system. Gnipples.

This along with Ronance and Steddie and Elmax but honestly I like Lumax too so that ones iffy but definitely for the other three

I sincerely don’t care what is canon, the duff brothers can pry byler out of my cold dead hands!!😀

beginning of byler fixation: i'm worried i will get my hopes up and be sad when there's no byler :(

middle of byler fixation: thank god, it's so clear byler is happening i don't have to worry

late byler fixation: i'm worried i will get my hopes up and be sad when there's no elmax, ronance, and creelarke :(

If Myrtle has a million fans I’m one of them 💯

If Myrtle has ten fans, I’m one of them 🗣

If Myrtle has one fan, that’s me 🙏🙏

If Myrtle has no fans, that means a car hit me🚗🪦💀

If the world is against Myrtle,I’m against the world ❌🌍

Thinking about how it’s canon that Viserys knew Otto was forcing Alicent to read to him and comfort him and talk to him and yet he was so selfish and so pleased by the fact that she was giving him attention that he just…went along with it?

Like he knew that marrying Laena, a girl three years younger than Alicent was wrong, and he KNEW that Otto was forcing Alicent into that position and he just…didn’t care. He forced her into a marriage she didn’t want, forced three kids on her before she turned twenty, and then proceeded to not only ignore her but ignore his children by her because they didn’t turn out the way he wanted them to.

Thinking about how he started to resent Alicent the moment she showed up in Green at the wedding because she dared to have a mind of her own. And how that led to him neglecting her and her children (because they are hers) for sixteen years.

I hope Viserys Targaryen is rotting in the depths of hell.

TEN MINUTES- OMG OMG OMG OMG

Oh and guys if we turn out to be delusional for real, let’s just agree to still stick together :)

These tags have been my safe space over the last two months so yeah

it's fun to joke about will becoming a villain, but it's very confusing to me that there are people who genuinely believe that's a thing that might happen (and would even want it to!) since:

1) one of the two gay characters being a villain would be far worse than him being sad over unrequited feelings. not to mention how awful the part of the audience that already hates him for no reason would get once they feel validated in their contempt.

2) he deserves to have a moment where he stands up for himself (or someone else), and i would hate to see that villainised. it'd be such an important step for his character, and he deserves it to be framed as something positive!

3) if henry tried to manipulate will into joining his side by pointing out all the similarities they share, but will refused (highlighting how different they are when it actually matters) that would make for a much better story, a much stronger message, and would make much more sense for will's character.

4) unless he was being controlled again, will just wouldn't do that. he's loving and selfless and he'd never hurt his friends or family (or fight his sister) out of his own choice. which is not to say that he isn't allowed to feel hurt and hopefully even talk about how upset he is but.. not in some villainous monologue.

writing a fic or joking about it is one thing, but in reality making will a villain would be even more unfair to him than being sidelined. meanwhile having him play an important role in defeating vecna would be super interesting, and would actually make sense!