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nobodysuspectsthebutterfly · 11 months ago

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#the people upset about Criston being Dornish are constantly stating Dorne is white so why does it really matter? (via @thewitchqueenofharrenhal)

i say ‘i’d love to know why’ but i know the reason people on twitter are actually weird about criston being dornish is that they view media in terms of overwatch diversity points and the team with more overwatch diversity points is morally superior. same as the alicent wasn’t a child bride argument it’s a concern to concede like. abused(5points) woman(3points) dornish(7points) lowborn(6points) because, if diversity is morally weighted, that would imply you think the greens are morally defensible or even superior to rhaenyra. leading to this bizarre refusal to acknowledge these morally neutral traits characters have. anyway clubfoot(10points) so unfortunately larys still 🔛🔝

#shots fired #shots absolutely fucking fired #house of the dragon #asoiaf #criston cole #dorne #larys strong #the greens #oh fandom #but yes. the hotd team deliberately decided to do more diverse casting with criston and deliberately chose dornish heritage to justify it #(they didn't have to justify it. could've been as unexplained as that black extra at rhaenyra's visit to storm's end. but they chose to.)#and it's perfectly feasible within the history of the stormlands dornish marches from war crimes to alliances (for example beric & allyria)#again. it doesn't *have* to be historically/“pure canon” feasible for the casting and character change to exist. but it is perfectly so #however what this means for a man who is immediately visually judged as dornish to grow up in the stormlands is never actually dealt with #and that's the *real* problem with the casting. maybe they'll cover it more in s2. maybe it'll be a reason criston is Like That #but the bleed-black irrational tb stans don't see it that way. like the op said they're obsessed with having their team morally justified #and they're also using these moral points as “proof” that the showrunners are BIASED against rhaenyra/the blacks #so anything they judge as having more moral superiority points is a sign of this bias (conveniently ignored when they have more points #because that's just because their side is Good and True and Real and also More Accurate to the Book and Should Have Won)#which is why they're also obsessed about proving alicent isn't a “real victim” - either by going back to her book age #or when forced to deal with the fact that the show is its own alternate universe they go well she HAD to be Made Into A Victim because BIAS #it's very circular logic. the fact that it doesn't fucking matter because per the book both sides were idiot war criminals and both lost #and no matter what they do or say the story will end with a dead rhaenyra dead daemon dead aegon dead alicent dead dragons -#none of this makes a dent in that circular logic and obsessiveness and conspiracizing #it's honestly depressing as someone who genuinely does prefer rhaenyra / the blacks despite the idiot war crimes etc #though i have to admit the show's particular version of green idiot war criminals did hit me hard in my love of ridiculous villains 😅#(speaking of larys 🔛🔝 *cough*)#queue and me we're in this together now

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