Every Single Time Rhaenyra Has A Plan It Is So Fucking Looney Tunes I Cannot Take Her Seriously. What

The amount of ppl who don’t realize that Alicent choosing Helaena’s safety over her sons and Helaena willingly giving up her son to protect her daughter are direct parallels drives me crazy. LIKE ITS SO OBVIOUS!!!!! And it’s such an important part of the message of the show and also Alicent’s character development!!!!

I think that’s why it makes me so mad when ppl berate Alicent in the finale for “choosing Rhaenyra”! Because she wasn’t choosing Rhaenyra, she was choosing her daughter! Her now being able to be at peace with Rhaenyra was an obvious benefit, because her love for Rhaenyra is also important, BUT she never would have made that choice for JUST Rhaenyra.

It’s all about making sacrifices as a mother. And how when it comes down to it, society wants you to choose your sons, because they’re the heirs, and they’re the ones who are “more important”. I mean, come on people, the reason why Aemma died is because Viserys was so obsessed with having a son. That’s a major part of the message about misogyny.

And so Alicent and Helaena choosing their daughters was their rebuttal against the patriarchy, and the only one they could really make.

And when it comes down to it, it was also Alicent choosing her younger self. This season also showed that Alicent really sees herself in her daughter, so in a way, choosing Helaena was also her way of making things up to her younger self. So, she also chose herself over her sons. Which again, she never would have done if she wasn’t protecting Helaena. But it annoys me when people call this selfish, because it’s like…. Yeah! She’s allowed to be selfish for once in her life. I was shocked by the amount of ppl who are self proclaimed “Alicent apologists” being annoyed once they perceived her as not a saint anymore. I also admired her love for her kids in the first season, but I’m also proud of how she’s growing to choose herself! And while she’s definitely not evil like her weird misogynistic haters make her out to be, she DOES have flaws. She’s a genuinely complex character, which is the reason why I thought everyone who liked her liked her in the first place.

But yeah it just annoys me when people say the finale was out of left field because I thought that Alicent’s actions in it made a lot of sense honestly. Idk maybe it’s because it’s different from the book and I’ve never read the book…

But during Blood and Cheese when Helaena chose her daughter I was like “I sense a parallel coming” … this is going to show Alicent something important… and I was not surprised when the parallel delivered 🤷

Once again, I have to remind everyone that a 14 year old girl was effectively pimped out to an old man by her father, then she was forced into giving birth to 4 children while experiencing consistent marital rape.

This isn’t Alicent’s first time experiencing misogyny, she has been a victim of it her whole life.

However, people in this fandom love to jump on the “hating Alicent” bandwagon without applying any level of critical thinking so they’ll have you believe that a child bride is the main villain on the show.

listen rafe can murder as many people as he wants but the reason i don't like him will always be because he's annoying

The Duffer brothers actually told me that Vecna sees how annoying Ted is and kills him and then brings all the dead characters back to life and then everyone dances over his grave (true story)

i am the biggest ted wheeler anti i hate that man so much. he doesnt get enough slander bc people think hes funny. im tired of it im going to become a ted wheeler hate page to create balance

No but like actually considering turning this into a Duffer Brothers hate account right now

i either see gay ships as my two fathers or my son and his stupid little boyfriend

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I feel evil today and thinking about this has me laughing like a maniac so now I need Byler just for this to happen.

i want byler to be canon out of spite. i want a bunch of homophobes to realize they've been watching a gay childhood best friends to lovers slowburn for 8 years. i want toxic macadamia nuts to be screaming and crying as the consequences of their actions come back to slap them

OMG OMG OMG THE UPSIDE DOWN WORDS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN OMG THATS SO COOL WHAT

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

GUYS WATCH THE BARBIE MOVIE ITS SOOOO GOOD