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alicentwhore · 4 months ago

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Okay I don’t wanna sound like a dick cause it’s really not a big deal. But I guess because Medea as a play and character is like really important to me, there is kind of an amusing irony to the way I’ve seen so many edits and webweaves and stuff of Alicent with that “wretchedest of women” line from Medea (A line specifically about Medea choosing to kill her sons to avenge herself on Jason). Then those people being completely aghast and disgusted and pissed by the concept of Alicent sacrificing her sons. It means nothing It’s just kinda funny to me

#the line isn’t a general ‘oh I’m a woman who will lower myself for revenge’#it’s ’I’m willing to destroy even what I love most to kill my own kids for my revenge’#her vengeance comes specifically in the way she commits the ultimate perversions of expected womanhood in her culture #by killing the very sons she is expected to devote her life to #she betrays her father she helps kill her brother (and denies him burial) she retaliates against her husband and kills her sons #if you wanna focus on Alicent as a very family/child focused in her anger or whatever that’s fine #but Medea is a bizarre choice for that #like this is literally just me bitching because it was on my mind it’s not a big deal #and I use quotes outside of context too this one just felt especially ironic

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