#idc to tag them all

[chaoticstateofaffairs]

Ok, Alicent Hightower. (Show version)

Now, with young Alicent we see the abused, the shoved around, the victim of the patriarchy, the lost. We see her so confused over what to do, what to say, how to say it, when to say it. We see Alicent become a young mother, if we are being honest here, against her will. She's suffering from postpartum depression, which some people don't realize that or choose to look over it and continue to bash her. It's an awful thing, postpartum is. You see her with her children, acting robotic, not knowing what to do, desperate for someone to hear her, someone to see how she's begging for help, someone to free her from the shackles she was placed in.

Adult Alicent, we see she's still being abused & in her shackles, but she's embracing those shackles because she knows not what to do any longer, but now while also being the abuser. She gives what she gets but always to the wrong person. Her relationship with Aegon, her first born, is complicated, he's a Targaryen man through and through... alcoholic, abuser in many ways, a lousy father, and many more. He was the 3rd shackle put on her by her father in a way, along with the help of Viserys. Her relationship with Helena, non existent because her daughter sees what her mother has become, but I'm afraid she knows not why her mother has become the way she has. Aemond, her second born son, her 3rd child. That relationship is there, it's loving in a way, but as you see she fears him, fears what he has become all because of that faithful night, that horrible night when she realized how alone she really was. Not even the boys own father would stand up for him, he'd rather support his bastard grandson, the child of who he sees as his only child. She is alone, completely. She's trapped in a never ending maze of being used, being abused...being forever alone.

We see her stand against the obvious wrongs, what would be considered wrong at the time. The fact that Rhaenyra has birthed not 1, but 3 bastards, and would have them claim the throne under the false pretense of being a Velaryon. Making her way as she pleases, while yes shes in shackles as well but she has the freedom of being the kings daughter. All of the Targaryens being backed by a dragon...oh wait, no...being shielded by their dragons. If they had no dragons they would not last a day, but look at the woman who has birthed not only 1 but 4 dragons, who has stood alone in the midst of everything. LOOK AT HER! Look how powerful she is, she may be depressed, she may have no hope left after that crowning, she may be lost but she's still standing...for now. She may be a mother who knows not how to love right but will stand in front of the horrible man who is her child to save him from a dragon, she will still protect her children even though she sees them not only as her children but as her shackles. That woman stood in front of a dragon even though she knew not what was going to happen.

Maybe she was hoping Meleys would end her suffering, would free her from her shackles that she wears. Maybe Alicent would have been free of the pain from the relationship she has lost with Rhaenyra, for whom she clearly hold a great amount of love for. Maybe she was just being a mother who would protect her child, no matter how much pain having that said child caused her. Alicent loves her children in her own twisted way. Alicent is trying to stay safe as best she can in this Game of Thrones.

Alicent wants to fly on dragon back and cake, she wants what once was before this damn game started. Alicent wants her childhood back, wants her love and her friend back, but most importantly... Alicent wants to be free of the shackles she was placed in.

#1 tasked to win the game

The shackles that where first placed upon her young wrists:

#2 wed Viserys

#3 birth heirs

(I'm a firm believer in Alicent & Rhaenyra, you can't convince me otherwise)

[turnaboutstar]

THE TRIPS TO EUROPE TO SEE EDGEWORTH ARE ACTUALLY CANON????? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A RANDOM THING PEOPLE HEADCANONED

[super-un-stable]

Two cents. 1 failed evil experiment to another

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[kimtiny]

Need me a new Snow Flake day episode but they actually are wearing winter clothes

[starlitvick]

Antimachus core

[sunnibits]

potentially hot take but this is a pet peeve of mine

[birdcatt]

yet another v1 in a fishing shirt

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when a character says the name of the episode

[licebrain]

3 am but i needed to post….i foresaw this in a dream (my friend sent me the meme a few minutes ago)

[karaspal]

the superfam tag is just batfam 2.0 tag. where are the women??? where are the men of colour??? why is it only clark, kon and jon??? and why are they always in the presence of a bat??? WHY???

(i love the boys, don’t get me wrong. clark is literally my second all-time favourite character. but the superfam is more than three white dudes.)

[musturd-artposts]

to devour

[amaranthdahlia]

the one for all users actually had detailed backstories yall IM SO UPSET WE WERE ROBBED.

[trufln]

more zomboid au stuff

[chick-it-out]

if you had to pick... top 3 favorite pokemon? or more if you can't narrow it down that much (like me)

made em a team of 6 (plus one mistake missing no. in the corner):

:)

[simply-ask-games]

I am constrained only by the amount of possible vote options