#alice is so done

[m0thya]

[kcrra]

it makes me literally sick to think about alicent's relationship to her children. like. they are all she has. she loves them more than anything and hates them just as much. each of them is a shackle around her neck. they are her babies even though she was a baby herself, forced to be their mother. she'll pick up a knife for them. they are her living prison. everything she ever does is for them. their very existence makes her sick. she understands them and yet doesn't know them at all. they are her future. they stole her past.

she was 15 years old tethered to a rotting body of a man entirely against her will, watching each of her children invade her body as a result of martial rape. how were they ever supposed to have a normal relationship!!!!!!!

[itsumonandodemo]

a menace to society (affectionate)

[theghooligan]

alicent *externally*: i’m fine, i promise—

alicent *internally*:

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

[cult-of-the-eye]

pov alice dyer listening to tma:

she has proclaimed to do sexual favours for Joshua Gillespie

she does not understand the hype behind Jane Prentiss but supports the bug fuckers

she DESPISES martin but in a "two sides of the same coin" way

she did proclaim to do sexual favours for Jonathan Sims until she found out he was ace, now she talks about feeding him soup and tucking him into bed

she creates entirely new swears to describe Elias e.g. shitweasel

she has learned the leitner rant off by heart

after every episode with tim after the end of season two, she has to go punch something

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Goootcha ❤︎

[dulcewrites]

I think the thing that shocks me the most about the discourse, if you can even call it that, around book Alicent vs show Alicent, is the idea that people think book Alicent had full autonomy over all her choices and she wasn’t a “victim” like show Alicent.

Now first, I put victim in quotations bc the way people who do not like her have almost bastardized that word. Alicent is a victim, and those things (rape, abuse, neglect) were done to her. That says everything about the men who did that do her and nothing about her. But people are hellbent on throwing Alicent, a woman in a violently patriarchal environment, being victimized back at people as if it is moral flaw of hers. Which is just terribly ironic bc the same folks who say Alicent “did it to herself” or “deserves what she is getting” also seem to think the crux of the story isn’t about generational trauma catching up with itself, how far people will go for power, or even how all girls and women are harmed - albeit to different degrees. But more the fact that Rhaenyra is the only woman to be harmed - and the only harm done is not getting the throne easily. Those same people wouldn’t be caught dead admitting that Rhaenyra is also a victim in the way they shit on Alicent for being. From the father who sets her up fail, to the baby daddy that’s been eyeing her since she was barely 18, to the uncle that grooms her. It takes away from the fantasy projected onto Rhaenyra if she too is surrounded by men that use her and she never escapes that.

Second, it’s funny how F&B gets heralded by some as this exploration of how history is skewed depending on who is telling it. But people can’t read between the lines (you honestly don’t even have to do that much work) with book Alicent. Showing 14 year old Alicent being preyed on, 16 year old Alicent being pregnant with her second child, and 18 year old Alicent being raped is somehow the show needlessly making Alicent a victim. But reading about a 13 year old bathing, dressing, and taking care of a king who mistakes her for the daughter he abused and neglected, and then that same girl, at 18, marrying another king that killed his previous child bride is just girl bossism on book Alicent’s part?

People hate conceptualizing the idea that (even book) Alicent is caught in patriarchal trappings bc to some that takes away from Rhaenyra’s plight…. Bc they can’t wrap their heads around several women *gasp* all going through hardships, and that ultimately people will respond to trauma differently depending on tools/knowledge they have at their disposal. Alicent neither being gleefully evil nor picking herself up by her bootstraps to somehow end years of patriarchal violence is not the neat box they want for her.

[soupy-sez]

ALICE [Něco z Alenky] (1988) dir. Jan Švankmajer

[notyoinara]

[chipthekeeper]

ALICENT + RHAENYRA - duty and desire, season one vs. season two

[vexedandperplexed]

bright falls alumni of 2023

[bblookyyy]

some doodles! was doodling deltarune, then went to listen to old undertale animatics/fansongs then landed onto cuphead and batim 2017 era fansongs too (I was in every one of these fandoms… cupsona and toon-sona eras :)

[anyatomy]

fanart of @realkeylogger s gerry and alice designs

[cruelempire]

since rhaenyra is now a confirmed bi icon i’ve been thinking she will never actually find true comfort in a man whoever he is bc not a single woman in westeros can claim more power than hers since she is the first ever female ruler

whoever she marries/stays by his side perhaps not everyone but at least some will see him as the one in charge and i’m afraid if jace got to grow up he could be seen more of a ruler than his mother (although he himself wouldn’t question her authority) it would actually be so fucking hard for her to be straight

so yes girl go on with cheating-on-your-situationship-making-everything-more-complicated kind of stuff it’s quite a relief to see her receiving a tiny bit of comfort (bc i believe the true and whole could be found only in alicent’s sincere embrace which seems almost impossible at this point)

[jacks-the-flower]

can we just talk about how heartbreaking sharon's, alice's, and lilia's deaths are knowing that it's just all billy's illusion. especially lilia- that episode fucking kills you on its own, but then ADD ON the fact that her sacrifice was for so much less than she believes; like she thought she was not only saving their lives, but their grand mission past the desperation of a hopeless situation. the fact that it was all created and perpetuated by the very people she saved just twists the knife doesn't it. like her whole life revolved around a singular day's worth of a magicked-up acid trip.

oh and alice, oh alice. at least the show captured the impact of her abrupt conclusion- to finally break free from your generational curse that destroyed your family for so long, just to be conned into dying not even a few hours later. her life just started and then it was over.