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@academyofbrokenhearts sent me this and I think I am gonna die laughing, so sharing.

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Emilia Clarke responds to the fundraiser that Daenerys fans started for her charity SameYou, post Game of Thrones Season 8.

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YoU dAnY sTaNs ArE jUsT mAd YoUr ThEoRiEs DiDn’T cAmE TrU-

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REPEAT AFTER ME

Daenerys Targaryen going darkside is not misogyny. Accusing the show of being sexist because your favorite didn’t end up being a glowing hero is a disservice to the other female characters on the show who didn’t burn an entire city to the ground.

Say it again, but slower:

DAENERYS TARGARYEN IS NOT THE ONLY FEMALE CHARACTER ON THIS SHOW.

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This! Exactly this! 

Sansa and Arya Stark fed a man to his dogs, killed people and baked them into pies, but that’s all alright, because those people deserved it. Dany burned and crucified people, and that’s alright because they were slavers. Except… it’s not?

You know what the difference is? Why the writers want you to believe that Sansa and Arya are morally superior while Dany was somehow a piece of shit? Why Dany was made to lose everything and die by the hands of the only man left she trusts, while Arya survived with fireproof plot armor and Sansa insisted on keeping the north independent out of sheer xenophobia and got her wish, being rewarded with a queenship she no longer deserves?

Because Arya is the kind of “feminist” who says “most girls are idiots” and denounces being a lady, and Sansa’s brand of “feminism” is the one that gets to where she is by being nice to men, even while they abuse her, until she takes what they have, and then being thankful for the little she was given. Now, am I saying that’s wrong? No. Am I saying Sansa is anything less than a survivor? No. Am I belittling what she survived? No. But compare her “If it weren’t for Ramsay and Littlefinger I would still be a little bird” to Dany’s “The only thing that kept me standing is faith in myself.” 

Sansa gave credit for where she is to the men who abused her, while Dany said “fuck that noise”.  That’s why Sansa’s stans told Dany to “Get over it and stop complaining” when she mentioned all the hardships she went through. 

Daenerys Targaryen never made herself palatable for men. She never bowed down and thanked Viserys, Drogo, the khals, the slavers for abusing her.  She never gave them credit for where she is because they don’t deserve it. She was too strong, too big, too smart, too intimidating for these men (both her adversaries and the writers), so they tried to weaken her, dumb her down, shrink her into nothing, take away all that she has worked for. Their fragile masculinity and their peanut-sized dicks couldn’t bear to have a woman be that unapologetic about her power.

And even though their final sick, misogynistic vision is what was given the screentime, it is all too transparent. Even the people who never particularly loved Dany saw through it. The critics, the reviewers, the audience, we all saw through it. Those final three episodes have tainted the show forever with their legacy. That’s why HBO is in a panic, calling up actors to insult Daenerys and try to sell us that she was evil all along. But no one is buying it except the incels and the Sansa stans, and neither of them has any credibility.

Daenerys Targaryen ultimately won. She showed us what men are all about. She refused to go down without dragging the whole ship down with her. We all saw through the contrived moral superiority of the rest of the cast of this show who are all murderers in their own right, and hung on to our love for Daenerys for dear life.

And oh, does it hurt them.

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All time favourite!

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Funny how Daenerys not reacting to the death of her brother (that abused her, mistreated and would sell her in a heartbeat) after he had just threatened to carve her unborn child out of her stomach, is meant to be a sign of her madness- even though she names a dragon after him (an actual piece of physical evidence that she mourned his loss and has loved him).

And yet Tyrion Lannister can strangle the woman he loved after she betrayed him and then proceed to seek out his father and shoot him to death with a crossbow without flinching.

Apparently madness just means being a woman in the world of GoT

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The most relatable mood since Sunday’s episode

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I still would like Miran to suffer far far more. Not to mention feel a little bit unworthy of her at this point. But hopefully we are going in the right direction. 

Reyyan turning out to be an Aslanbey will be hilarious. 

He may be a psycho, but he is her psycho

You know - Miran is a mess who in real life would need a lot of therapy before being a viable boyfriend (and honestly, if this was real life, I’d tell Reyyan to run far far away and not see how she could ever forgive him) but unlike Reyyan’s worthless family, he will protect what he views as his and he views her as his. It’s a very “I have no idea what I am feeling or doing but if reyyan won’t look at me the way she did before, I will die” attitude, but it’s the first time Reyyan had someone so much in her corner and even in the depths of her understandable anger, you could see it sink in and the shock she feels someone believes she is worth defending.

I do have to say, abusive evil grandpa, for all his abuse and evilness, asks the right questions - if you are willing to die for her, why did you dishonor her? Because he’s a total mess, grandpa.

Or this scene - one of his guards manhandled her and Miran’s rage is barely contained (makes me think of Kuzgun telling Dila that he will break the arms that shot at her in Kuzgun - clearly I have a fictional type.) And once again, Reyyan can’t believe it.

Miran may not know how to love, as he says. But he knows how to protect, which is miles more than her family ever managed.

PS wouldn’t it be awesome if Reyyan turned out granny’s granddaughter and Miran the son of Hazar? Delish.

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I understand the criticism of Hercai but I still like it for some reason. I think the fact that she shot him did help. My only preference would be for them to show that Mirran would do all this even if there was no potential for them to ever be together again. Imo, love for the other and character growth should be completely exclusive because then the relationship can advance in a positive way because the motivations towards each other would be inherently selfless. Otherwise what would stop him from reverting to his old self if the object of his affections is not around.

Am I the only one who feels kinda disgusted and angy about miran flirting with her? How she tried to burn herself and was draggend into the crowd and how she got slapped and hit and how she got forced to marry that old man and how she again got frightened because she thought she will be shot... the list goes on and on. Im so angry because even when he seems sincere he really hasnt apologized and I dont fucking care about him being shot what reyyan was put trough was hundred times worse...

I am sure people share your views - I’ve seen them on Russian forums, for sure.

I think they both almost died multiple times (and honestly for me it all got wiped out when he stood there and let her shoot him) plus I love dysfunctional relationships so it doesn’t bother me but mmv. I mean, people shipped the otp in binbir gece like mad and I found it creeptastic so everyone has different triggers.

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I was thinking that Gonul’s dad might be Reyyan’s dad. And that’s why Hazar took her in (in some way to cleanse his sins from the past). Also it would explain why Nassuh hates her so much. 

I just warched the first episode and read your thoughts on hercai but I think theres another possibility... I dont know her name but that bad bitch (yarens mom) said that reyyans mother got pregnant with 17. What do you think about the option that reyyans mother was raped by mirans father?

I don’t think the timeline works. Miran is at least 27 because he said he’s been taught revenge for 27 years and no way is Reyyan 27 because in her area that would make her an extreme old maid and nobody treats her that way. Plus it doesn’t explain the death of Miran’s mom. But then it’s a show so who knows.

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I mean I’d prefer her to divorce and leave as well. When I initially started I felt the same way you did. Annoying doormat behaviour instead of realizing that Miran wasn’t really worth it. But then I started thinking the culture that they grew up in its not really a realistic thing for a woman to walk away like that. Plus this is basically the equivalent of an arranged marriage-- so you don’t really expect love before you get together. It sounds like Miran wasn’t averse to spending the wedding night with her. So maybe she thought that once they slept together formalizing the marriage everything would change for him. Also in the conversation he had with Gonul before he married Reyyan, he never really made it clear that they didn’t have a future. So she has sort of been building up this hope for years. So that’s why I kind of feel like he led her on. 

I mean there is a degree of pathetic behaviour here no doubt. But I feel she is kind of a victim of this scheme as well and maybe even more so than Miran. Granny may have emotionally tortured Miran.. but she also had no hesitation slapping Gonul, handing her a gun, almost choking her. In contrast to Nassuh being unable to even slap Yaren. Miran probably had a lot more agency to do what he wanted. I guess I am just a little conflicted  for her. 

What’s your impression on Mirran and Gonul? I feel bad for Gonul because I think she was led on a bit by Mirran agreeing for the marriage. Yeah it wasn’t his decision but still they are married.

I think of a russian saying «Насильно мил не будешь» which is a lot less pithily translated into English as “you can’t force someone to love you.”

I am pretty sure that long before he fell for Reyyan, Miran showed zero interest in Gonul. If you are married to someone who cares for you about as much as he does a shrub and who only married you because granny made him, and then is fine using you to snare another woman who he plans to bed as family revenge, and gets annoyed that you are upset, what you have is the opposite of a keeper.

I mean, I love Miran, but he is a dumpster fire of a human being.

And the scene where she is all dressed up and ready for sex before he’s even washed off the smell of another woman from him? That’s freaking gross. And doormatlike. But also gross.

She also clearly cares not at all her husband just basically had sex with an innocent under false pretenses, which in some places is a felony known as rape by trick. And that the woman he did that to is likely to be shot in the head as a result. (And while Miran spent years having granny mould him into revenge gigolo with no countervailing influences, I am pretty sure granny paid little attention to Gonul, so she should be less warped.)

Wanting love? Or respect? Or even that the man she is with has a moral center? Or a gram of interest in her? (Whatever else Miran is guilty of, he never led her on.) Nah. All she cares is she finally gets laid. With a man who was revenge banging another less than 24 hours before.

I have zero respect and little pity for Gonul. I think she needs to divorce and leave and if she doesn’t, all her future miseries are her choice.