#anyway yeah. they're lying and terribly obviously embarrassingly so
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#REAL!! #how is the argument that people would like female characters more if they were better written #but then alicent was changed to be better written in the show and suddenly it was #well we would like her more if she was more shallow again :) (via @claraisms)
#they are LYING #they wanted it to be black & white they cannot stand a grey area character unless it is an attractive man #they cannot fathom liking a woman who isn't 10000000% in the right at all times #and they hate female villains anyway. they wouldn't understand book cersei if dnd had given her to us they already hate show cersei #if they were given he's in the walls i am a genius cersei they would just be ableist AND sexist instead of just sexist (via @ecce-felix)
‘alicent would be better liked if they’d just made her an evil stepmother’ stupidest discourse i literally don’t believe you. i’d love her like that book alicent is my friend but people couldn’t even handle her being a bitch after half a season establishing her as an absolute victim of targaryen power and her father. even in the book where she’s a manipulative harpy antagonising her stepdaughter she’s still explicitly in sexual situations with targs as a child it just isn’t interrogated as something that shaped her. ‘female characters just aren’t as complex/well-written as male characters’ but when they are the actress gets death threats
#i've seen these people whining and i entirely agree with these post and these tags#“i want alicent to be a bitch for no reason just like the canon because that's better written” oh please. come the fuck on#all the moreso when they bitch about her being too young. yeah. the character is 35 instead of 41. big fucking whoop#what they *mean* is she's too pretty and not the haggard hag they want her to be or the old lady pre-TRP art mistakenly drew her as#even though TRP TWOIAF and F&B asserted she kept her slim figure and her looks until her death pretty much#but they can't let this go because they want her to be ugly so that she'll be hated more. it fascinates and saddens me#same reason they bitched about emma playing rhaenyra because they're nb and most of their pre-hotd offset photos have little makeup or glam#you would think the *major theme* of asoiaf that beauty ≠ goodness would be something even targ stans would recognize#wait lol yeah nvm i started laughing at myself writing that sentence as soon as i got to “targ stans” oh god#anyway yeah. they're lying and terribly obviously embarrassingly so#also lol sorry but f&b is not written well. i wish it was. i deeply wish it was. i truly wish grrm had written it as a novel with povs#but the history book style is terribly flat and what characterization exists contradicts itself in multiple places...#anyway nvm i've ranted about this before sorry i'll stop now#house of the dragon#asoiaf#fire and blood#alicent hightower#cersei lannister#oh fandom#sigh#queue and me we're in this together now
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