Alicent Didn’t Choose Rhaenyra Over Her Kids

What should’ve happened in that episode 😞

There’s a lot of ways to make someone drop a knife

Alicent's vs Daemon's treatment by the audience

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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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.

el listens to jolene and thinks about max in the gym with mike and how she totally could take her man if she wanted and how she has flaming locks of auburn hair and ivory skin and eyes of emerald green blue and she seethes and ponders and plays the song over and over again until one day max goes “yeah, dolly parton was, like, totally in love with jolene” and then el’s brain short circuits

The only correct way for the show to end 😌

the ship solution

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

rhaenyra feeling powerless and turning to masculine symbols of power, alicent feeling powerless and trying to appeal to men through her femininity. we are circling a theme and point here people!!

What is or isn’t a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

“Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma” doesn’t contain a slur, but “What are you, some kind of fag?” does.

“Queer studies”, “the queer community” and “I’m queer”? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a “dirty queer”? Slur.

“Be gay, do crimes” and “He’s gay” ≠ slur, but “Ew, that’s so gay” = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking “q slur” bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren’t using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.