#And His Mother

[wilsons-three-legged-siamese]

Meeks is the SPITTING image of his mother my god

[lemonhemlock]

What r ur thoughts on jace/baela and luke/rhaena

I've talked more about my feelings on Jace and Luke here. My issue with these pairings is that Baela & Rhaena are basically subsumed within Rhaenyra's abusive takeover of Driftmark.

Jace and Luke are bastard children who know they are bastards, as well as everyone else around them. As the eldest child of the eldest child, Baela is the one who should inherit Driftmark, even by Andal law. If Baela is unable, for some reason, to carry on her duties as Lady of Driftmark, the seat passes to Rhaena.

Rhaenyra inserts herself in the line of succession by placing Luke as the ruling lord and relegating Rhaena to the position of wife. She takes Rhaena's inheritance and gives it to Luke instead. I would have a problem with that, personally. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't anyone?

Black stans refuse to view this relationship through the lens of feudalism and patriarchy. Rhaena's power in Driftmark is dependent on the goodwill of her husband and how well they get along. If Rhaena dies in childbirth or by some illness, Luke can marry whomever else and place his non-Velaryon children on the seat of House Velaryon.

Baela & Rhaena also have many Velaryon relatives disgruntled with this arrangement. In the books, Rhaenyra orders Daemon to murder Vaemond and feeds him to her dragon. Viserys then orders the tongues of other additional five Velaryon cousins removed. How do Baela and Rhaena accommodate that very brutal abuse of power within their betrothals to the two people for whose benefit this abuse occurs?

Very prevalent is the notion that they have the potential to become two loving, respectful relationships. However, an honest appraisal of these pairings shouldn't seek to sweep these circumstances under the rug. It's a very valid source of conflict.

Another gripe of mine is that neither Jace, nor Luke, seem preoccupied in any way with the girls' actual feelings on the matter. They should be aware that this outcome is unfair for them, yet they have no reaction other than being pleased to be betrothed. This may be due to screen time limitation or it may say something damning of their characters. We will see if this develops somehow in S2 with Jace. He is fighting in an actual war for his mother's inheritance, yet he was/is willing to deny his future wife's sister her own claim on her inheritance?

I'm not saying that Jace/Baela and Luke/Rhaena wouldn't have personalities that would mesh or that, on a personal level, they wouldn't get along, but we couldn't and shouldn't divorce their relationships from this socio-political context that affects all of them directly.

A student of the Jace/Baela & Luke/Rhaena dynamics should, therefore, pose the following questions, when regarding these pairings. Are the girls content with this arrangement? Why? If not, how do they manifest their disgruntlement? Both of them seemed very willing to side with Rhaenyra; Baela even wants to fight on dragonback for her. Why?

You might say that Baela gains an advantage from this whole exchange, because she gets to become Queen at some point. Is future queenship for Baela a fair price to pay for denying Rhaena's status as an heiress? It would have been fair and lawful for Baela to become Queen AND for Rhaena to inherit Driftmark. Instead, Rhaena cedes a considerable amount of power in order to cover up a lie.

I have also seen the argument that, at least in this situation, Rhaena "gets something". If Baela inherited Driftmark, she would get "nothing." But how true is that? Rhaena is the daughter of Daemon Targaryen and Laena Velaryon, not some random nobody. She can make a good match for herself in the marriage market, REGARDLESS of what Baela does or does not do. Rhaena will inevitably marry anyway and became a wife. How is that different from being Luke's wife? It's the same position with the same amount of privileges. My point is that Rhaena could have become Driftmark's ruling lady and now she is consigned to consort. Which she would have become anyway, albeit for a different man.

[naetles]

HASSIAN

[thecasualfkfan]

Things I really liked about the Bed friend ep8

-no extra filler drama

-no blackmailing krist bullshit, opening up the whole thing to the whole office

-uea's boss taking uea's(the correct)side (no nepotism) and giving him the therapist contact

-Uea's aunt

- ✨️THE COVERSATION✨️

-✨️THERAPY✨️

- King asking uea before doing anything about his stepdad/assaulter

-no victim blaming

-"I'm beautiful"

-the we are dating scene

-this is not the last ep

Feel free to add something which I missed

[aetsiv]

You guys don't understand my pain, I wrote an entire rant thing on Jesper and his power as a Fabrikator to post while I was half asleep and I forgot to save it to my drafts so it's lost forever.

I'll probably rewrite it and post it again sometime this week or not, it depends on how much time I have and if I'm able to put it into words.

[missjackil]

Supernatural Battle of the Episodes!!

Looks like The Purge edged out Road Trip in a very good battle! Two episodes I like so either would have been alright with me! Let's see how far it can go!

Who's up next Chuck?

Chuck: Next episode in line is Captives: Sam and Dean are still angsty but go on a mission to save Mrs Tran. Zzzz ZZZ 😴

[junipum]

HE'S SO PRETTY

I KNOW HE'S CRYING BUT HE'S SO... BEAUTIFUL

[lykosog]

Just saying not every interaction has to end up in a ship, gods now my boy can use some friends.

[media-burns-deponia]

snakes are fun pets

[terris-mayweather]

Just hit the 'dinner with the Byrnes' section of The Smoke Room.

Jesus fucking Christ

[lo-cinno]

Thinking about Malleus

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[stickyvoidpaper]

Dick : Jasons been more, relaxed lately. It's unsettling.

Tim : Yeah, I've started spiking his water with mood stabilizers.

Dick : What

Tim : I've been thinking of doing it to the wider gotham water supply. Think about the crime rates.

[sunnythedawg]

Happy late mother’s day to the guy that brothered so hard he mothered

[wolfythewitch]

son. my son

[soldierboys]

THE BOYS 4.02 Life Among the Septics