#i swear i'm not an angry person

[lilyharvord]

To the illiterate people with 0 reading comprehension that I have seen on tik tok today claiming that Maven deserved Mare, that it was stupid and "unfair" that he didn't get her, and that clearly with his trauma and what his mother did to him he deserved her:

I would just like to issue a sincere Fuck You to you and any future illiterate children you produce.

[rhaenin-time]

I find it very disturbing how in every Team Green fanfic, Rhaenyra is constantly written as this sex-crazed maniac without a brain, and her sons are all temperamental little monsters hinted to be mad and Ramsay wannabes. Oh, and looking back on every Team Neutral fanfic I've read, Alicent is still the victim, batting her teary puppy dog eyes, and Rhaenyra is still the wicked witch who is spoiled. At the end of the story, Aegon or Aemond is crowned king, while Rhaenyra's sons are either disgraced, sent to the Wall, or worse. HOTD fanfics that claim to be Team Neutral but are still Green sympathetic are something else :/

The problem is that in order to position yourself as "Team Neutral," you kind of need to deny the fact that the Dance was about:

The battle of two ideologies (oath vs. opportunism) in the absence of codified law and a "higher authority." Where the side that claims 'tradition' can more accurately be described as weaponizing certain 'traditions' and biases for opportunism. A battle that concludes with the clear message of, that while oath and honour might not always be enough, that you need to be careful and cannot assume everyone will act under that worldview, that it's the understandings we make between each other that ultimately hold society together.

Patriarchy (and unjust systems in general) punish everyone within them. You're punished for cooperating, and you're especially punished for pushing back. And women like Rhaenyra have to push back, else they'd never see power. But it's impossible for them to push back in every regard because, unless they decide to go Fire and Blood and be labelled a tyrant, they are ultimately still subject to that system. And they'll be punished for any move they make. It's not that "no one is worthy of the throne." It's that the system itself is unworthy. And those are not the same thing.

The problem is, when you examine the story with those two themes in mind, the Blacks are more in the right. GRRM makes it clear they're more in the right. That doesn't mean it isn't complicated. That doesn't mean the underlying system isn't wrong. But there's still a clearly "better" position. It's also clear that Rhaenyra is punished by the unjust system far more than her brothers are, and far more than Alicent is — because Alicent (especially show!Alicent) often makes her own prison.

So the only way to be "Team Neutral," the only way to view it as a conflict where "both sides are in the wrong," is to erase those two very essential themes. And obviously, that's going to be to the detriment of the side that occupies the "high ground" in those themes.

And that's why you get these weird narratives that often play into the very injustices, the very attitudes that the story condemns. Once you erase that condemnation, it's very easy, too easy, to start contradicting it. Because forms of those injustices persist to this day, and they're all too easy to embrace.

[hells-greatestdad]

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Gone are the days where I followed through with basically every interaction I got. I've had to become a bit more selective, or sometimes I just kinda... lose muse for threads and end up dropping them.

All that said. If you want me to respond to something, you can poke me about it and see if I'm still interested. I'll try and give an honest but nice answer if I can't or don't want to continue that interaction.

edit: also. some stuff just stays in drafts for a bit until my brain unlocks the ability to make words for it

[steakout-05]

how i feel about TBYS causing a shockwave effect of everyone dogpiling on and harassing Illymation and spreading extremely easily disprovable and malicious misinformation about her and putting her in a lot of danger for literally no legitimate reason

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I really want Christmas season to feel like Christmas season again this year. it hasn't for a couple years, I've kinda breezed right through it, but I want to try and focus on it this year.

[kalza]

Made this shortly after watching the latest episode...I have a bad feeling about this season and only denying the inevitable....

[eclarinet]

same soup... different day

[mishkakagehishka]

No but gen i think some of you need to relearn how to talk to people you don't know bc whether on the internet or not, that was just inappropriate. In my opinion.

[sherlock-is-ace]

we have fucking mice again 😓 i fucking hate living in this disgusting town full of factories, which they don't clean well (not food related so it's fine lol) and disgusting neighbors who don't clean their house or take care of their animals, and the neighbors on the other side who abandon their house for months at a time...

We spend so much time cleaning and keeping the lawn nice and trimmed, our only fault is the fact that how our house was built, we have space between the roof and a few walls where these fucking mice can hide... We saw 4 today (4 that we could count cause they were out at the same time) 😓 at least they're outside (for now)

[anto-pops]

How does one become your friend, queen of smut

KIDDING I'M KIDDING, I swear I'm not difficult to befriend at all !! You guys can literally just message me anytime for anything, I won't be bugged by it ! Most of the friendships I've developed on Tumblr started because someone just sent me a DM to chat and then we never stopped LMAO

I promise I'm not cool enough to warrant nervousness so don't be afraid to strike up a conversation with me at any point ! 💕

[selfshippinglover]

So I started talking with a HABIT bot....

And now we're at

[supernovasimplicity]

.

[deadtower]

i’m just so tired. and hurt. and upset. and it wasn’t even my fault this time

[bitseventimes]

now how the fuck am I supposed to be taking life decisions when every single month an organ in my body decides to wreak such havoc on my hormones and psyche that my thoughts and ambitions change drastically and I can't even recognize myself in the mirror

i didn't fucking ask for this

[chqnified]

I want to leave this place

[byanyan]

WHAT TYPE OF LONELY ARE YOU?

loneliness born of anger

you learned from a young age you are not like others, and others hate you for it. you've been mocked and tormented your whole life, and it birthed a violence in your heart. you yell at your younger siblings when they slip up. you don't want them to suffer the same fate you did. at once, you are both miles above and miles below your peers. you are not polite. people no longer dislike you because of you, but for your biting words. it's better this way, after all. at least now you know it's your own fault.

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