#Anti greens in Anonymous

[witchy-v1xen]

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE!?

[gojuo]

"I was riding it as if it were a horse," Glynn-Carney says of the buck. "When you're riding a horse, you neutralize the horse's movements with your body so you can stay as steady and with the rhythm of the horse as possible. But what they wanted me to do was be at the mercy of the dragon and let it throw me about.

I think it was maybe somewhere in their intentions to make Aegon look like he didn't know what he was doing, whereas in my head, I was like, 'I want to look heroic, I want to look great, I want to look like I really know my way around this dragon. Everyone else just looks so f--ing cool, and then you get Aegon, who's clueless."

Condal reallys just hates him like why?? how would that even be possible hes been riding sunfyre for a decade 😤 also how would aegon not know valyrian at least enough to command his dragon. Its just so cartoonish at this point

it's SO fucking cartoonish and manipulative and i very well noticed how it was only aegon who was speaking in english to sunfyre while the other two spoke high valyrian. this tb bias isn't even funny anymore it's literally offensive. condal can't keep it in his pants how fucking envious he is of the greens' love and loyalty to the family and their dragons.

[coffeebooksrain18]

While i do think Rhaenyra cared about Alicent when they were young, she was also a little too quick to turn against her if you ask me. She blamed Alicent for marrying Viserys as if she had any other choice. From the beginning it's painfully obvious that Rhaenyra is extremely spoiled and entitled. Viserys (despite being literally the worst at everything) was actually a good father to Rhaenyra, in my opinion. As a result, Rhaenyra grew up in a bubble thinking that other women had the same freedom as she did. The freedom to fuck whoever, to marry or not marry, not have children whenever with whoever. That is not Alicent's reality though. Alicent had no choice in anything, not even her own body. She didn't choose to marry Viserys or have his children. Alicent is a victim of Viserys but Rhaenyra is too self absorbed to see it. She turned her back on Alicent when she needed her the most, watched her birth child after child and still had the audacity to be mad at her. Tbh i'm suprised Alicent tried to maintain their friendship for as long as she did, i could never. Especially since how from that point on, Rhaenyra takes any opportunity she can to rub her freedom in Alicents face. Imagine doing that to the girl your own father groomed and raped. And TB wants us to think that she's a ''feminist icon''

*btw this is obviously about the show version of the characters

I completely agree, I've talked about how Rhaenyra and her stans completely disregard the fact that Rhaenyra has also hurt Alicent, that it's not just Alicent saying rude things.

Rhaenyra is spoiled, I think she is the definition of only child syndrome and rich kid syndrome, she doesn't understand others povs can't see from someone else's perspective.

I've talked about how Alicent had no power to say no to her father, or Viserys when she visited him and married Viserys. People forget she isn't a powerful woman in that time, at least compared to the power Rhaenyra has.

And yes it was clear it was the show version anon.

[infinitestalia]

where are you, thoughts on the mess that is hotd season 2?

Free from the shackles of HBO, didn't even bother tuning in.

From the clips I've seen, Aemond has become a one note moron who will single handedly lose everything for the Greens with his stupidity. Cole is the punching bag again. Alicent is quite literally the worst character ever put to paper, a complete joke, she should just go and defect to the Blacks so she can take up residence in Rhaenyra's colon the way she clearly wants to, because God knows she dgaf about anyone who actually loves her. Team Black was always dumb & boring so no change there, just more people clocking it.

Heard Aegon is the breakout character though and Tom Glynn Carney the performer of the season. Hmm, who could have predicted?? Lol imagine what could have been if they didn't make him a cartoon villain in S1 and hadn't wrote this garbage as Team Black fanfic. This show isn't fit to lace even GoT S7/8's boots.

[danyseastar]

It absolutely gets me that the whole thing about Rhaneyra putting her siblings to the sword was made up by Otto, Rhaenyra did nothing to indicate that she would; Alicent just fixated on it like- how do they forget that they literally pulled that crock of shit out of thin air? 😭

it gets me too, especially show-wise. the only time rhaenyra shows any bit of fire against her siblings is during the driftmark incident, where it is blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain that she was bluffing when asking for aemond to be sharply questioned. granted, should she have done it? no. is she also a mother trying her best to protect her kids? and not being a super uber-perfect person in the process? yes to both. this is yet another change from the book i don't like, considering alicent demands luke's eye in retribution first, and rhaenyra retaliates against that rather than starting it.

i'm also adding some significant points that make no sense in the greater context if alicent truly thought her children's lives were endangered; which is how she actively antagonizes rhaenyra. in both medias. she raises her children to hate rhaenyra, to view their nephews as inferior and subhuman to them due to their blood, she instills fear for their lives as a part of their everyday activities, she tells her children that aegon will be king no matter what (which is treason, so she doesn't seem to care that badly about her children being found out as participants of those efforts). she does not act like someone who believes her children are going to be murdered once rhaenyra ascends the throne. it's why i can't take her stans seriously. none of her actions make sense in the grand scheme of things. she purposefully makes an enemy that is (TO HER) capable of cold-blooded murder. what terrified mother would do that?

there's also this fetish for infantilizing and victimizing alicent and co. otto manipulated her when she was a teen, which is a fair take. otto was also ostracized from court for TEN years. ten years with minimal to no contact with alicent. she is no longer a child during that time, she is a grown woman with four children to raise and a perfectly good brain to use. we're not shown or told once that rhaenyra *ever* showed an ounce of violence towards her siblings, and at most, she was indifferent to them. it is stated, however, that during that time skip alicent bullied and harassed rhaenyra, to the point where she abandoned the capital to have peace of mind and safety for her own children. still not the actions of a terrified mother (she also wasn't manipulated into doing any of that; it was all of her own accord because she hated that rhaenyra was afforded more freedom and leeway than she was).

what's more, there is minimal, if any, precedent that rhaenyra would be forced to kill her siblings to secure the throne. viserys was only the fifth targaryen king, not exactly enough time to really establish any killing family as a basis. maegor is the only one to have done so, and he's reviled for it even up to the current timeline. it is even thought that his death was the consequence of kinslaying. it's not normal. there has technically been some sort of succession crisis for almost all the rulers up to this time: aegon the uncrowned and maegor, rhaena and jaehaerys, baelon and rhaenys, viserys and rhaenys/laenor. there are, once again, many ways for aegon, aemond, and daeron to renounce their claim to the throne (night's watch, kingsguard, maester); but that would take away the power alicent and otto wanted to have, so not an option.

i wouldn't even consider daemon that much of a threat if rhaenyra had ascended peacefully. they've changed his character significantly in the show, but daemon explicitly states in fire and blood that they need to find a peaceful way to end this dispute, and not resort to fighting dragons versus dragons (a line they gave to rhaenys in the show) because it would only end in disaster. he doesn't resort to any brutality until after the first blood is drawn by the green's.

basically, it's just another ploy, a 'red herring' if you will, to distract from the true reason why rhaenyra was usurped (and hook, line, sinker; it's working fantastically for some in the fandom).

[atopcat]

I really liked your post about Rhaenicent. What do you think of Olivia’s recent interviews in regards to Alicent’s character, she seems to be really pushing for Rhaenicent despite everything.

Just to start I want to make it clear that this isn’t an attack against Olivia Cooke, she’s a brilliant actress who is entitled to her opinions. As a fan however I don’t like her interpretation of Alicent simply because she’s made it abundantly clear she’s more invested in Rhaenicent than Alicent herself.

Olivia could’ve done a Lena Headey and unapologetically supported her character despite not being popular with the general audience, who cares if people think she’s a bitch, she’s your bitch and that’s all that matters. Instead she sought out the one part of the fanbase who supposedly like Alicent but also has a large universal following: Rhaenicent.

Here’s where it gets tricky, when it comes to ships such as Rhaewin, Jacegan, Laenyra, Daemyra, Jace/Baela, Alicole, Aemond/Alys, Helaemond etc. it’s pretty straightforward: you’re a fan of both characters, maybe one more than the other but you do genuinely like both. Rhaenicent doesn’t have this, it’s a lot more complicated mainly because it’s the only one that doesn’t exist in book canon.

The Rhaenicent fan base is split into three unequally distributed categories:

>1% who are genuine fans of both Rhaenyra and Alicent, emphasis on the genuine because although some claim to be they end up in either of the latter two. The problem with these fans is that they’ve succumbed to the trap of ��benevolent misogyny”, reducing both women to being nothing more than 24/7 victims of evil men. They rob Alicent of her ambition, Rhaenyra of her agency, they think these women will abandon everything and run off on dragon back because they’re still silly teenage girls who only care about cake and clothes.

14% are Alicent stans, the majority of them don’t actually like Rhaenyra she’s simply a self insert because there is no one else you can ship her with other than Criston but Alicole is nowhere near as popular because it doesn’t include a fan favourite. In Rhaenicent’s case the fan favourite is Rhaenyra not Alicent.

85% are all Team Rhaenyra, the only version of Alicent they’re interested in is one who is nothing more than a personal cheerleader for the Black Queen. They don’t want to hear about how Rhaenyra’s actions negatively affected Alicent, only how Alicent still cares about her and will do anything for her despite everything.

Both Olivia and Emily Carey faced a lot of harassment on social media, someone even came up to Olivia in real life and called Alicent a c*nt to her face. I know when you’re in a fandom bubble it’s easy to think Alicent and Team Green are just as popular as Rhaenyra and Team Black but that’s far from the truth. So although the vast majority of Rhaenicents are first and foremost Rhaenyra stans, they’re also the ones most welcoming to the actresses who are having a hard time because of stupid trolls who can’t differentiate between a character and the actor playing them.

Then it makes sense why Olivia will jump on board the Rhaenicent train, but it comes at the expense of her character. I’ve read some of her recent interviews, she’s throwing not just Alicent under the bus but also the entirety of Team Green just to maintain the illusion that Alicent’s no.1 priority will always be Rhaenyra Targaryen.

“Alicent is scared of Criston”, he’s her right hand man, the only one who has her back, he’s loyal to a fault and President of the Alicent Fan Club. But he’s also disliked by Team Black for this very reason, he’s openly antagonistic to Rhaenyra calling her a “spoiled c*nt” so Olivia wants to distance herself from Alicent’s most ardent supporter.

“she’s watching him [Aemond] grow up into an absolute killer, which is terrifying for her”, if Criston is President of the Team Alicent club then Aemond is Vice President. You see throughout Season 1 how close she is to her second son, how she relies on him for support, how he truly loves and respects her. He said he wants Luke’s eye as a gift for his mother, from Alicent’s four children she is definitely closest to Aemond but he’s also the one who killed Nyra’s precious baby so fans don’t like him. Again, Olivia is detaching Alicent from her own children so she can appeal to Rhaenicents who mourned their sweet boy Luke.

“That’s what the whole series has been about: trying to get back to each other” this coupled with her saying she pushed for a Rhaenicent reunion at the end of S2 really emphasises just how willing she is to destroy everything about Alicent’s character in order to warp her into the sanitised version of a Rhaenicent wet dream.

Alicent doesn’t care her grandson was slaughtered right in front of her.

Alicent doesn’t care her 6 year old granddaughter was threatened with r*pe.

Alicent doesn’t care her daughter went insane.

Alicent doesn’t care Team Black almost killed her sons in battle.

Olivia’s version of Alicent doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t revolve around worshiping the ground Rhaenyra walks on. So as far as she’s concerned there is “still hope” because her ideal ending is one where Alicent abandons her family, agency and ambition just so she can be Rhaenyra’s personal cheerleader for the rest of her life. The Alicent she’s envisioning is one who will set her own children on fire just to keep Nyra warm.

[la-pheacienne]

For real, idiots keep bitching about Blood & Cheese but in response to the people of Bitterbridge brutally murdering his toddler nephew, Daeron had the town sacked, much of its populace slaughtered, and then burned the rest with Tessarion. Lady Caswell (whose husband had earlier been executed by Aegon II for supporting Rhaenyra) ordered the hangings of three of people implicated in the death Maelor, offered to capitulate in exchange for a safe conduct for her and her family, but Daeron still wipe out the city.

Daeron literally destroyed a whole TOWN, when the people that were accused of Maelor's murder were already punished. Imagine throwing a fit like that as a prince.

Daeron Targaryen was a psycho, along with his brother Aemond and his brother Aegon. All three encapsulate the absolute WORST of House Targaryen, the madness, the cruelty, the inhumanity, the narcissism and the sadism that all antis associate with Targaryens. The same antis who stan these particular Targaryens out of spite. They fucking hate Rhaegar Targaryen of all Targaryens, he's the devil reincarnated, RHAEGAR, who's biggest crime was that he ABANDONED HIS FAMILY, and then they go and stan THESE CHARACTERS, I repeat. How does it feel being such a clown my god

[anon-anti]

Should we contact Marvin, Marvin the Magnificent as he calls himself? You said those don't feel like regular chains, a magic is keeping you in them, draining your energy. *holds out a hand* We can *help*

[short-wooloo]

The green party (and just about every 3rd) makes lofty promises but never delivers

Do not vote for them, do not vote for that tankie shit cornell west

(I do not understand why people think he's a better choice than Biden because he "supports" certain things that Biden allegedly doesn't, anyone can "support" something, what has he actually done? What policies has he enacted? What laws has he passed? What deals has he made? None, because he's not a politician, he's a performer, Biden actually has done those things, and he's damn good at it, because he's got decades of experience)

Vote Democrat, Vote for Biden, Vote Blue Down the Ballot, because if not, then you are helping the Republican fascists

i registered to vote for the first time ( i feel old) now that im an adult but my state has closed primary elections which i was wondering if you have an opinion about. my initial thought was that its bad because i had to register democrat (rather than my states green party which represents my beliefs more) just so i could vote between democrat candidates, which feels like being pressured into supporting the weird pseudo two party system we have. but then i looked it up and apparently a reason for this is so that people from opposing parties wont purposefully mess up the votes just so that their preferred candidates have an easier time winning, and i think that makes sense too. but is that actually the reason theyve closed it or is it just to force us dem/republican?? cause it feels strange

Okay, look. I respect the fact that you're a young person, and I appreciate that you have not only registered to vote, but plan to vote in the primaries, so I don't want to lecture you too much. That said: I am taking you out for coffee, I am sitting you down, I am looking into your eyes, and I am urgently telling you the following:

The Green Party is a scam. It is a scam. It has existed for decades in American politics as an empty shell corporation weaponizing the good intentions of young people like yourself, because all it theoretically stands for "it's good to save the planet maybe." Which is not something that any non-insane person seriously disagrees with, but there is no world in which that cause is actually furthered by registering/voting Green (you mentioned that you did vote for Democrats, which -- good, but listen to me here, youngun, okay?) It ran Jill Stein in 2016 to siphon more votes from HRC, and this election it plans to run Cornel West, a pro-Russian tankie who positively equated Bernie and Trump, as another spoiler candidate. It does not stand for "protecting the planet" or America in any real way. It has never elected a single senator or congressman, let alone a president. It stands for empty performance/grievance political theater by those people who feel too morally superior to vote for/affiliate with Democrats, often because the internet has told them that it's not Cool or Hip or Progressive enough.

If your main priority is climate/the environment, you're doing the right thing by registering as a Democrat and voting for Democrats. (Also: the adjectival form is Democratic. It is the Democratic party and Democratic candidates, otherwise you sound like the Fox News host who wrote a book literally entitled "The Democrat Party Hates America.") They are the only major party who has in fact passed major climate legislation and have made environmental justice a central tenet of their platform. As opposed to the Republicans, whose Project 2025, along with the rest of its nightmare fascist prescriptions, openly pledges to completely wreck existing climate protections and forbid any new ones, just because we weren't all dying fast enough under their death-cult rule already. That's the main logical fallacy I don't get among both the Online Leftists and the American electorate in general: "the Democrats aren't doing quite enough as I'd like, so I'll enable the active wrecking ball insane lunatics to get in power and ruin even the progress we HAVE managed to make!" Like. How does that even make sense?

On a federal level, the Greens have contributed nothing whatsoever of tangible value to American or international climate policy/legislation, environmental justice, or anything else, because as noted, they don't have any elected candidates and mostly focus on drawing voters away from Democrats. There might be plenty of good candidates on the local or city level, which -- great! Vote away for Greens if they're available, or the only other option is a Republican! But on the federal/primary level, please understand: once again, they are a scam. There is no point in affiliating yourself with them. You're welcome to register Green and vote Democratic, if that makes you feel better or if you prefer having another label next to your name, but once again, I'm telling you in my position as a salty Tumblr elder that they have done nothing but harm to the causes they claim to care about, because "environment" is such a nebulous priority and has demonstrably been hijacked to stop the American government entity, i.e. the Democrats, that is actually working to improve on it.

As for your question: nobody is "forcing" or "pressuring" you to vote in primaries. By your own admission, you made a conscious choice to register as a Democrat in order to vote for Democratic candidates. If you were just a regular registered voter of whatever party affiliation, you would vote in the general election for whatever candidate the primary process produced. But if you are sufficiently vested and committed to that process that you would like to have a say in who is running under that party label, it is not unreasonable that you would register as a member of that party. Nobody has twisted your arm behind your back and made you do so; you are taking a considerable level of initiative on your own. Likewise, open primaries can be both a good and bad thing. This falls under the "the political system we have is flawed, but we can't magically pretend it doesn't exist and act according to our own fantasyland versions of reality" thing that I keep saying over and over. So yes, if you want a role in shaping the Democratic candidates who emerge from a Democratic primary process, you will usually register as a Democrat, and nobody has forced you to do that. It's that simple.

Likewise as a general programming note: I'm trying to cut back on politics a bit right now, because I don't have the spoons/bandwidth/mental health to deal with it. I apologize. So if you've sent me a politics-related ask recently and haven't received a response, I'm not deliberately or maliciously ignoring you; I just am not able to handle it as much as usual and will have to put it on pause. However, I feel as if this is important enough to be worth saying, so, yeah.

[impyssadobsessions]

DPxDC idea/prompt Pen Pals

(Probably more idea but you can run with the concept... im so srry XD) Basically Danny and Damian are pen pals- until Damian receives a letter with Lazarus Water and Blood smeared on the page.

WHAT IF Danny and Damian were pen pals before Danny's accident. A school project for 8th grade. Damian was reluctant to participate but due to it being a grade and being pestered by his siblings that he would just scare the kid off anyways, he deciding to partake in this pen pal. Danny whose not suffering at school, just living a normal life at the moment, is being teased by Dash saying his pen pal could smell loser before even opening the letter. Asking Danny if his parents even let him open the letter or blast it thinking its a ghost. Which makes Danny who wasn't into this idea of writing a stranger more determined to do it. Besides they might only get one letter and teachers drop the subject. They might not even get it. So what the heck. Turns out they become the only ones that constantly wrote each other- even mailing it in person once the school ended the program. (Damian having a post box set up for letters)

At first it was awkward. Danny commented/asking if Damian really was their age or some teacher pretending to write back instead of sending out the letters. If so. He sucks at it because what kid writes perfectly grammar letters and big words to convey something is cool. Guess its better than pretending he knows slang. Damian furious writes back, offended! Also asks if he isn't younger, because everyone with basic english should know to capitalize their letters! This goes back and fourth. Danny writing back every chance he got, and Damian doing the same, even being told not to at the dinner table. It goes from offended at each other to being curious. Danny asking Damian more advice on english because it isn't his favorite subject. Damian asking more about how to sound like his age. Then it devolves to animals. Danny wishing he had one, but his parents didn't want one getting into the lab. Damian happily sending picture of his animals. Danny talking more about the stars.. etc. Until Accident happens- Danny starts having trouble writing the letters. His pen with phase through his hand and replies between them got longer. Danny justifying this by saying he's having trouble with schooling this year. Damian also been unable to send as many replies because he's been busy with teen titans and other heroics. Though he's encouraging Danny saying Danny is far smarter than that school even is aware of. Until one day, after months of not being able to reply. He finds Damian's letter again. It makes him feel better. Even if Damian didn't know him... this person still believes in Danny... Though Danny feels guilty about it- it compels him to write him again. He was about to finish the letter when he gets blasted by a ghost. He returns from the fight, beaten and bloody. He picks up the letter and sighs at the green stain left on it. Folding it up he stuffs it into his bag. Next day after hurrying off to school, his mother finds the letter after it had fallen on the floor. She read a little bit of it and immediately recognize it was to Danny's penpal. She takes the opportunity to try her knew anti-ecto spray and mails it for Danny. "Boy just like his father. So messy. I'll have to give him a lecture about ecto-contamination again." Damian just returned from a mission from Teen Titans, been gone for three months. Alfred informs Damian he had received a letter from his anonymous pen pal in his absence. Damian had almost forgotten about the pen pal- thinking his pal just didn't want to answer anymore. So eagerly he goes to his room to open the letter, but immediately blood drain from his face as his eyes zoomed back the feathery ink to the green blotch of lazurus water.. having almost evaporated.. leaving a water stain that glowed... and more importantly.. the human specks of blood that was revealed with the driest parts of the stain. Damian immediately rushes to the cave.. only to find out his paranoia was right.... and was it his fault his friend was harmed? Also the idea of Damian talking to Phantom in his robin suit. Asking how Daniel Fenton was.. and Phantom surprised and slips out a "Alive as much as he's dead." Damian glaring and Phantom corrects, "He's fine. He has parents that are ghost hunters is all." Stressing his situation complicated. Phantom just so shocked his pen pal is a hero- annnnd also cursing his mom for sending a letter like that. HE KNEW IT WOULD SEND IMPLICATIONS!

but idk if I figured out a good way for Damian to see the smeared letter. I just think it be fun. Also Damian thinking he's to blame for league going after the fentons when he wasn't. At least not as early as he thought. He's very focused on saving/protecting Danny Fenton.. which makes Phantom's job harder.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Now that the dust has settled a little bit on the arrests around the coronation, I want to talk a little bit about what this means for the future of protest and policing in England and Wales.

Firstly, I want to caveat this by saying the police have always hated protests. Getting arrested at a protest has always been a risk. Getting beaten up by the police as they try to provoke violence has always been a risk. At a recent anti-fascist counter protest I attended, two arrests were made. One of these later turned out to be “mistaken identity” (neither person was charged), but this is what we’ve always been dealing with.

However, I do think this idea of arrest for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance is dangerous. It’s essentially a thought crime. We think you might do something criminal, therefore we are going to arrest you. It has the power to significantly disrupt all sorts of actions, and we do need to be wary of it. The fact you can be arrested whilst walking to a protest, carrying a sign or a megaphone, and that this arrest *may* be legal (I hope some of those involved today try to sue for wrongful arrest, but we will see) means potentially some actions will never get started, and that is not good for the future of protest in this country.

I would never blame someone for their arrest- their arrest is the fault of the police and the police alone. That said, we know Republic were talking to cops about their plans. This did not protect them, and may have made it easier for the police to locate and arrest them. I think, on here, we all know talking to cops is a bad idea, but let’s say it again, louder for those at the back “DON’T TALK TO COPS”.

Now, the police say that the coronation is a once in a lifetime event, hence their response- blah blah- the police hate protest. If they get away with this, they will do it again, they will push things as far as they can to try and shut down protest they don’t agree with. This means we do need to be careful around OpSec etc. I also know people who don’t understand why e.g. antifa groups conceal their identity. But this is yet another good reason to do so. Black bloc, grey bloc, staying anonymous online, secure communications all of this is increasingly important- whilst also obviously trying to ensure good turn outs.

If the police are going to arrest you for walking to a protest with a megaphone, then what’s stopping us from being more violent/aggressive in our protest? I know some people are ideologically wedded to peaceful protest, but these actions are now potentially illegal too. So what’s stopping us? What is actually holding us back? If holding a sign is too much for them, if that’s on the level of smashing a window now, then what’s to stop us smashing windows?

Finally, I want to talk to the organisers of peaceful protests about police monitoring and post arrest support. In the past, many groups have felt this wasn’t needed. But now, it could be. If you’re organizing a protest of any kind, I strongly encourage you to get in touch with the Green and Black Cross for advice, and to arrange legal observers. Print out bust cards and distribute them. I’d also strongly encourage you to set up some post arrest support. It’s far better to have it, and not need it, than need it and not have it. If you’re concerned about police behaviour, you could also contact NetPol for advice.

Green and Black Cross: https://greenandblackcross.org/

NetPol: https://netpol.org/

[gojuo]

condal will frame the small folk riot to make them look like maga trumpers on january 6 to make rhaenyra look good lmaooo

nettles isn't gonna exist, rhaenyra's not gonna order for her or addam's heads on account of being bastards, no racism, no daeron clowning on her incompetent ass, no raised taxes on the smallfolk for the lavish party she wanted to throw for joffrey's installation as prince of dragonstone while they were starving and suffering for 2 years, no lady rosby and lady stokeworth inheritance issue, no dalton grayjoy rape requirement, no maelor and jaehaera bounties, no heads lining the red keep daily which led to the people comparing her to maegor the cruel, no tyland castration, the green council beheadings isn't gonna be on her orders, no corlys in the dungeons, no daemon abandoning her to save nettles, no sunfyre special bond bc that's going to her and bum ass syrax, no mysaria telling helaena of maelor's death on orders of rhaenyra to mentally torture her some more, no throne cutting, no brothel queens, no smallfolk rising up against rhaenyra for helaena's suicide, no "dear brother, i had hoped you were dead" / "after you, you are the elder" / "i am pleased to know you remember that. it would seem we are your prisoners ... but do not think that you will hold us for long. my leal lords will find me" / "if they search the seven hells mayhaps", no justice for the smallfolk after suffering through nuclear dragon war bc they'll be like you said equated to jan 6 protesters, and alicent will definitely poison aegon herself. it's over 🤣

[coffeebooksrain18]

they literally showed teen alicent pregnant while holding her first child in her arms and rhaenyra being an entitled little brat to her and we were supposed to be on rhaenyra's side?!??! like????? if you're mad girl, then take it out on your dear old dad who married someone who could not consent and proceeded to rape her multiple times. the writers of this show cannot be serious

yup and they proceed to say she needs "humbled" BITCH PLEASE if any of the two needs humbled its Rhae Rhae over here.

and yeah I've made many post about that episode in general but the way she threw a tantrum that it wasn't about her when it's not even her fucking nameday was the moment I started to hate her. I didn't care about her but that was the point where I finally let myself hate her (even when I was brainwashed to be TB FORGIVE ME!)

[infinitestalia]

What route do you think the showrunners will take season 2

Lol a bit late to respond now, but pretty much everything that has happened in terms of the bastardisation of Alicent's character. I said last season if she continued to bootlick Rhaenyra after B&C, she could go kick rocks. And somehow they've done worse than that. Doesn't give a fuck that her grandson was beheaded, doesn't care that Helaena's life is destroyed because of Rhaenyra, doesn't care that Aegon is a burned twig, doesn't care that all Aemond's villainy comes from being blinded in one eye by Rhaenyra's devil spawn. It's just boo hoo, I'm a bad mother, boo hoo, my bestie deserves better, boo hoo, I should be regent, hang on, let me drown myself after being the one to set everything in motion. Not exaggerating when I say one of the worst written characters of all time. I know S1E7 Alicent and that beautiful knife is rolling in her grave. This is the writers punishing her for daring to have one episode not hanging off Rhaenyra's ass.

I knew Aegon would be the most compelling character, despite these hack writers. I knew Team Black would continue to get pandered to. What I didn't see coming was them apparently axing Nettles for that boring ass Rhaena. Didn't see the complete idiot they've made out of Aemond- he has now been made the sole cause of almost every major Team Green downfall and don't be surprised when they make HIM responsible for Helaena jumping to further absolve saint Rhaenyra. But everything else is as bad as I expected.

[danyseastar]

I wouldn’t look too much in Aemond calling Alicent “a fool”. It’s pretty obvious this is going back to Ryan’s bs about there still being hope for Rhaenicent 🤮

Look at poor baby Alicent being disrespected by the men around her 🥺

This is why she’s going to abandon Team Green for her darling Rhaenyra 🥰

I know 😭 I’m at a point where I don’t give a fuck what they do with Alicent anymore, but they’re going to be in some deep, deep shit if it translates onto Rhaenyra. Especially since she’s the first person in the entire conflict to go through such extreme loss. Granted, i’m preparing for the ultimate wet mop off between them just in case.

[atopcat]

and I dare say, this pathetic Flop friendship between Rhaenyra and Alicent is what will ruin HOTD

The issue isn't the ship itself, but how the writers refuse to let go of it and are constantly prioritising it over the characters and actual storyline.

The only way Rhaenicent can happen is if one of them abandons their children for the other, seeing as Rhaenyra is the fan favourite it's going to be up to Alicent to "redeem" herself by betraying the Greens. Ryan is ready to screw over Team Green just to make this work.

You can be Team Green's biggest hater and still be mad at this because they are destroying George's work in a desperate attempt to save a sinking ship.