#but yet still some of yall would rather erase an existing black character(s) then have that outcome | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sukibenders · 4 months ago

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It's really tiring to see, when people are having discussions about Nettles and how integral her plot is, about how wrong with would be to give Rhaena that plot while ignoring/diminishing the one she originally had, about so many of the black characters are done dirty and disrespected in comparison to their treatment in the book (though they were white in the original text) to have all these necessary conversations, only to be met with responses "Oh, It's not bad/serious, you're just complaining/making things up" or about how grateful we should be to just have these characters, as we if don't have the right to critique how they are portrayed. Like, at this point, if you don't have anything of value to add to the conversation, then just stay out of it.

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd critical #rhaena targaryen #baela targaryen #laena velaryon #nettles #laenor velaryon #like some of yall will be quick to want to erase the yte characters worst traits at the expense of the black characters #and even so the yte characters could still already be portrayed as bad or morally questionable and show that they get worse #but yet still some of yall would rather erase an existing black character(s) then have that outcome #“rhae behavior toward nettles makes no sense showwise she would never harm another women” (based on actually convos ive seen bc rhae is #the resident “girlboss” in their mind #but completely ignoring how rhae slept with her uncle at the funeral of his dead wife and unborn child while simultaneously dipping on thei #kids----idk but that already seems flawed for a girlboss but bc it happened to a black female character---#like you can have your characters (yte in this case) be flawed without it being at the expense of black & brown characters #then disrespecting nettles and ignoring her impact---yall just say you don't want her around & go rather then create bs think pieces #anti blackness

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