#calling it rape apologia but then turn around themselves and say Aegon being a rapist ‘makes no sense’
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Hey, just wanted to say thank you for being one of the few writers that writes Aemond centric fics without feeling the need to bash the living daylight out of Aegon. It’s always so frustrating to see most fic writers drag Aegon through the dirt ten times over to make Aemond seem more likable.
no problem!
I do try to walk a very… delicate line with how I write/discuss Aegon. Because though I think it is fair to dissect the disparities between how narratives were set up, at least in s1 (Aegon vs Rhaenyra, team black vs team green, Alicent vs Rhaenyra), I do not want to slip into rape apologia territory. Which unfortunately, and I don’t think people are trying to but impact and intent aren’t the same, I do feel like a lot of people trying to ‘defend’ Aegon or just make sense of the choices the writer/producers made end up doing. It is entirely possible to write/discuss his character true to form without either erasing the bad parts (even before the events of ep 8) or exacerbating them.
Honesty, one of the reasons why it’s hard for me to continue with my Aegon centric work that I never feel like I have a good handle on his character. I try to do the characters justice and I’m annoying about my shit always, and it’s made worse when I can’t characterize someone right. It’s something I’m working on slowly but surely
#it’s just *my* soapbox but I just find it odd that people get on Sara Hess in particular#about the comments she made about ep 8#calling it rape apologia but then turn around themselves and say Aegon being a rapist ‘makes no sense’#I literally saw someone on Twitter essentially say bc we haven’t *seen* Aegon assault multiple people it’s up for debate if he’s a rapist#we saw a girl crying about it??? we saw Alicent (an sa survivor) have to grapple with her son inflicting the same pain she’s been through??#what more proof do you need#frankly they end up sounding like the daemon stans they don’t like when they do that imo 🤷🏽♀️#though I think Sara Hess could’ve worded it better#I don’t think essentially saying that a Prince that’s been able to get away with everything and saw his own mother be abused with no remorse#would think that behavior is ok or normal is a controversial statement#but in general this fanbase treats the writers/creators weird#it’s ok to have criticisms (I DO!) but the vitriol speficially towards the women…#but we’re all feminist right 🙄
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