#ozymalek

[horizon-verizon]

Rhaenyra is not a feminist... and it doesn't matter

[alicentsgf]

why do you woobify a character who is a serial rapist? 🎤

i assume you mean aegon?

i dont woobify aegon. i never have. he deserved that slap and more from alicent and i've said as much multiple times. i dont think he deserves better at this point, hes earnt his fate.

but personally im very secure in my sense of morality and i know i can recognise what aegon is and that he deserves to die a horrible death whilst still seeing in him a great deal of complexity and sorrow thats worth paying attention to. hes a character, not a real person, imo you're meant to explore the different facets of him this way. thats what asoiaf has kinda always been about - exploring your own morality in grrm's fictional obstical course. i can know aegon for what he is and condemn it and still find empathy for the boy he Was and say that everyone failed him.

the only reason i dont bother viscerally hating on him/his actions on this blog is because i usually find it more interesting to consider a different perspective and the show already frames him as awful. i'd much rather hate on viserys for getting such good PR whilst being The Worst, or hate on Daemon for having the most annoying personality i've ever experienced and getting praised for it.

(p.s. everyone leave this person alone we may not see eye to eye but its just a stupid hbo show no point starting real fights over fictional people)

[thegayhimbo]

Sadly, I've seen plenty of Leftists say some variation of those words. One of the particularly nasty ones was from @ozymalek who thought it was perfectly acceptable to say this:

Talk about depraved. 😒 How morally bankrupt and devoid of empathy do you have to be to engage in suicide-baiting?

"they deserve to die" is something you should never hear a leftist say. if you do, run

[blackcat419]

You know how you can tell if someone actually understands ASOIAF if they like Sansa?

You can also tell if someone understands analyzing ASOIAF if they like/understand Hills Alive.

Cause even if you don’t agree with her conclusions, she lays out every step in her argument beautifully!

Anyways…. Davidlightbringer is a loser :)

(P.S. Phoenix Ashes is an abusive Dany stan that tells people to kill themselves and is very sexist towards women in general. They went by Ozymalek on tumblr before it was deleted)

Videos by Kevin Pendragon for proof on why Phoenix Ashes is toxic and should be shunned.

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

If TG wanna hate Targaryens and Daenerys, fine! Just stay consistent in your hatred. Stop stanning the Greens, they’re Targaryens and never once refer to themselves as Hightowers. Stop comparing your favs to Targaryens. Say goodbye to “my ship is just like Jaehaerys and Alysanne or Aemon and Naerys” and “my faves are like Aegon, Rhaenys and Visenya.” Stop wanting your faves to have dragons, I thought they’re weapons of mass destruction and nuclear bombs ? Stop giving them elements of Daenerys’ storyline, her quotes, titles and traits. No more “I’m no ordinary woman, my dreams come true” for Helaena, no “mother of dragons” titles for Alicent and Elia, no more “my fave will ride one of Daenerys’ dragons!” Stop stanning House Tully, Baratheon and Tyrell, they owe their relevance to Aegon the Colonizer, they are literally collaborators with a colonial government per your own arguments! Stop wanting Jon to be the son of Rhaegar, he was a colonizer who cheated on his Italianx wife, stop basing your arguments on Jon being Azor Ahai on the basis of being Rhaegar’s son, stop fantasizing about him riding a dragon or wielding Dark Sister. Stop wanting your favs to sit on the Iron Throne, that’s a Targaryen creation, and by the way they should not rule the Seven Kingdom’s either, this state was created by House Targaryen, let Westeros decolonize and go back to being seven backwards regions going to war under the smallest pretext! Stop stanning Young Griff, he’s a Targaryen and canonically doesn’t mention his Martell mother. Stop whining about the deaths of Jaehaera and Helaena, they’re Targaryens, shouldn’t you be happy that there’s two less ? Stop watching HOTD and don’t watch any future Targaryen centric prequels. Stop shipping Rhaenicent, one part of this ship is literally someone you consider a nazi colonizer whose ancestors genocided Westerosi, why would you want her anywhere near your pure Andal favorite ?

The truth is that the Targaryens are the coolest house in ASoIaF with some of the best characters and Targ antis know it.

"This ask is lifted from ozymalek/phoenixashes".

[thegayhimbo]

@ozymalek should take notes the next time she feels compelled to suicide-bait men and then pass it off as "feminism" 🙄:

That's also including how she believes suicide-baiting and bullying is justified:

What a truly vile human being.

Seeing someone with “ex-radfem, still unlearning” in their bio and “tmra/transandrophobia truthers” in their DNI makes so much sense.

So you’ve unlearnt the “vitriolicly hate trans women” part. Have you unlearnt the “women are better than men and always more pure and safe and good and men are always the aggressors and women are always the victims” part?

Bc that part is also bad. Y’know. Bc it leads to abuse, it leads to putting women on pedestals (something which like, is like feminism 101 sexist), and it leads to people denying the importance of intersectionality (ex. radfems claiming that black men hold systemic power over white women bc of the man/woman axis while completely ignoring the entire racialised component).

[hellshee]

to fellow greenie gifmakers be sure to block tumblr user ozymalek for they’re a weirdo who comments on gifsets they don’t like because they can’t use tumblr and think gifsets are an invitation to discussion AND think they have the right to criticize people’s gifmaking skills. 

[horizon-verizon]

No, “Dune” didn’t inspire “ASOIAF” (and Daenerys isn’t like Paul)

[ladymorghul]

heretic-child calling me a tradfem for saying alicent has a right to pursue her and her children’s interest after being maritally raped by a shitty king who didn’t gaf about her children and that rhaenyra is not the feminist they think she is while they reblog ozymalek’s takes who famously s*icide baits people that have different opinions and harasses gifmakers. the jokes always write themselves. 

[horizon-verizon]

Above is a couple of comments under a youtube announcement (below) of Phoenix Ashes' video about Rhaenyra decried for not being a feminist.

I don’t understand when people try to argue that Team Black isn’t the feminist option because Rhaenyra upholds the patriarchy in some ways, i.e. not trying to end male progeniture.

Like sorry that the woman living in a ragingly misogynistic medieval society isn’t trying to install 21st century feminism. Rhaenyra was usurped and her loved ones killed for the baby step progress of “kings can declare female heirs if they want”, and y’all expected her to push for MORE??? That’d have lost her the support that she had from those who sided with her because they agreed Viserys’ word was law. Her being queen is still an advancement for women in Westeros, it’s called setting a PRECEDENT and taking an important step towards equality you absolute dumbasses.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Well, I said “small”, but it’s grown into a big shitstorm seemingly within a day 💀 @/ozymalek made a wonderful video debunking @/hellsbellschime/Hill’s Alive’s notoriously biased Daenerys “analysis” videos, backed with sources from the book and some pretty well articulated counter arguments to the things HA (Hill’s Alive) says in a lot of her Dany videos. HA and her attack dogs found out about it and are now trying to swarm the comments, attacking @/ozymalek for everything BUT their argument 😂 Now the video has been posted on r/HOTDGreens (where a lot of Stansas have converted into Alicent stans) so there’s even more theatrics and insults being thrown around. But no one has attempted to debate anything addressed in Ozy’s video, so I guess that means that Ozy’s argument was just that good… or that Stansas know that they have literally no evidence to even begin to make a coherent argument. All in all, it’s been funny watching them throw petty insults in lieu of any coherent points.

Wow, that's...a lot. But also it's unfortunately not surprising because that's how Stansas like to operate. They have made it perfectly clear that they don't care about the source material, they're only invested in making their fave look good. I'll have to watch the response video and show some support. It's such a shame that there's so little space for actual discussions about the books. This fandom is really just a big popularity contest and stans seem to think they can "win" if they ignore canon hard enough. That's why they never back up their claims using the books. Most of them have probably never even read them.

I've only heard of HA and their videos very recently. I'm not surprised they never back up their claims considering their "proof" for Dany turning evil is that she kills slavers. Imagine arguing that kill slavers and abolishing slavery is a bad thing? Makes sense that they're a zionist just like their fave Sophie T@rner 🙄. I know these people hope and pray everyday that TWOW never gets released so that their delusions aren't broken.

Watching them scramble when faced with actual facts is hilarious but I hope the person who made the response video is doing okay. Even when it's by idiots, harassment is still hard to deal with. Youtube and Reddit are hellscapes full of biased stans and misinformation. I hope they aren't discouraged from making more, fact-based videos because they're desperately needed.

[the-king-andthe-lionheart]

Sansa’s stans try to compare Sansa to Elizabeth I because Elizabeth taught herself by observing the world around her. Her motto was Video et Taceo (“I see and say nothing”). 

Some of her decisions made early in her reign seem to be reactions to her siblings’ or father’s rule: Mary and Edward’s religious fanaticism had caused discord so Elizabeth favoured the middle road, Henry’s marriages had caused strife abroad and Mary’s had caused strife internally so Elizabeth decided against marrying to limit foreign influence, the obsession with naming an heir early in Edward and Mary’s reign had resulted in uprisings surrounding those heirs so Elizabeth steadfastly refused to publicly name an heir all the way to her deathbed, the clipping of coins in Henry and Edward’s reign had ruined the English economy and so Elizabeth implemented economic reform and essentially created the pound sterling (the basis of which were begun in Mary’s reign). It seems she carefully observed what was going on in the political world, makings mental notes on what decisions were successful and which ones brought disaster and then used that to learn how to rule effectively.

But the thing is, Sansa isn’t learning. She keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. She trusts Joffrey and Cersei and then Dontos Hollard and then the Tyrells and now Myranda and Petyr. Sansa is getting played by Myranda’s words into confirming she’s a Stark, (“Oh, and the Night’s Watch has a boy commander, some bastard son of Eddard Stark’s”, “Jon Snow?” she blurted out, surprised.) How would Petyr’s bastard knows who Jon Snow is ???And what’s funny is she comes to trust Myranda and sees her as a friend on par with Jeyne Poole so it’s something serious and she even recognizes that Myranda likes Harry but she genuinely doesn’t think her impending marriage to him is something that’ll make Myranda turn into the Joker. And Myranda has asked her about Petyr’s dick, like Myranda would not ask her that if she genuinely thought Petyr was her father. Sansa blushes but never stops to ask herself why Myranda would say that to her, anyone would’ve been like why are you asking such questions ?? I don’t know why her stans say Sansa is learning how to rule and knows political intrigue because if she did she’d have immediately understood that Myranda is suspicious. Sansa is NOT meant to rule and that’s OK!

Hello @daenerysne !

So I think this is in response to my response to @ozymalek 's ask a couple of weeks ago, which can be found here.

Exactly. Sansa might be there in the midst of all this political intrigue but she's not absorbing much of it yet. She is more aware about being more wary of people, but her judgement is way off on who exactly she can trust. She thinks she can trust Baelish (I say this because she differentiates between Littlefinger and Petyr on who she can trust or not) but she's wrong, and almost everyone she has ever thought she could trust outside of her family has not been trustworthy to some extent. And the ones she could trust aren't around anymore like Sandor. And her blindness to Myranda just kind of blows my mind, because LF warned her about Myranda. And it's really clear in Sansa's TWOW sample chapter that Myranda was trying to sabotage Sansa with that race they had. Myranda was hoping Sansa would look a mess when she met Harry the Heir. But the thing with Sansa is that she can be flat out told something, told a lot of things, but she never examines anything critically. I mean just look at the things Sansa knows. She knows LF got the Tyrells to poison Joffrey, she knows that LF convinced Lysa to poison Jon Arryn, LF told her point blank that he doesn't get his hands dirty himself, that he has other people doing his dirty work, she knows LF is forcing Sweetrobin to take Sweetsleep, something the Maester is warning her against, but she's pushing for it on behalf of LF, and then she learns that LF plans for Sansa to marry Harry the Heir and be Lady of the Eyrie, and he tells her Sweetrobin will die, yet she doesn't put any of this together? That LF is using her to do his dirty business and that if shit hits the fan he might blame her? Like she doesn't even contemplate any of this. Sansa is wilfully ignorant, forcibly blind to everything that disrupts her daydream worldview of fairy tales and romantic songs and valiant knights at the moment it seems, and I feel like this has just gotten worse since she left KL.

So yes, this is a far cry to Elizabeth I's observational skills and political accumum. And perhaps I would give Sansa the benefit of the doubt if this series was going to be longer than 7 books and if we didn't just see Sansa's willful ignorance get even worse in her sample chapter in book 6/7. Not to mention, Sansa has no leadership qualities or skills at this point in the books either. She's not a leader but a follower. So how does this translate to her becoming an endgame Queen REGNANT and someone equal to Queen Elizabeth I? It doesn't. Sansa is a lady, not a ruling queen. Perhaps one day she could be a ruling lady of a castle, but unless Sansa has major character and political growth in TWOW, that also culminates in her gaining her own autonomy and becoming more proactive and more of a critical thinker, I doubt she would be ruling lady of a castle at the end of the series unless there is a epilogue that spans years. Don't get me wrong, I really, really hope Sansa gets some amazing growth in the next two books, but considering there are only 2 books left and a ton of other characters and plots, I'm not sure that type of growth will happen. Also there is nothing wrong with Sansa's story if she doesn't become some ruling lady or a queen regnant. Sansa has never expressed wanting to be either of those things. Sansa wanting to becoming queen consort in AGOT is not the same as wanting to be queen regnant, and truthfully I think Sansa would be the type of character who wouldn't want to do something "a man is supposed to do" considering she's good with the status quo. I think the most important ending for Sansa is one where she is finally safe and relatively content and/or happy, and what makes Sansa happy is planning and attending splendid events like tourney's and feasts, and what she wants the most is to marry for love and have her own family. I don't understand why so many of her fans don't want this too, but then again these people think Sansa is in some kind of competition with Arya and Dany. *rolls eyes* They seem to think that Sansa has to win it all and become the main female character, but just because she's not going to become a ruler in the end doesn't mean her entire story and character is pointless and it won't be.

But it's like I said in the link, Sansa and Elizabeth I do share some parallels, but none of those parallels have anything to do with queendom or being a good ruler or even politics. When it comes to personality, they are absolutely nothing alike, in fact I think Sansa would disdain Elizabeth for not being passive and for ruling "like a man" and for refusing to marry and have an heir. And when it comes to education and intelligence and political accumum Elizabeth outstrips Sansa by miles and miles. Elizabeth I was pretty much a damn genius and knew how to employ the common touch. She was beloved by her people for listening and mingling with her subjects, lowborn and highborn alike. I can't think of anything Sansa would hate more than doing this. As I mentioned in the link, if anything Elizabeth's personality and political skills and intelligence is more on par with Dany and Arya if we are strictly speaking of main female POV characters, and not Sansa, at least not book canon Sansa. But then again, these people believe that their made up fanon versions of Sansa are the real deal. And since I know what they believe fanon Sansa is, my only guess is that if they think fanon Sansa is anything like Elizabeth I, then they really don't know anything about Queen Elizabeth I.

[horizon-verizon]

Number Four was when Viserys was talking to her about Daemon intentionally upsetting him by not denying that he slept with Rhaenyra in episode 4. He asked what the point of admitting to something he wouldn't do, and Alicent says what she says.

Another thing that is actually just so obvious to anyone who listens to Daemon speak to Viserys and watches their dynamic.

So again, no real wisdom, here.

This is like when that Paget girl from He's All That went up on stage to show how she "lies" about her own perfection in the middle of prom as if anyone cared or was troubled by her behaviour...we're supposed to think she's being brave?

A trait is attached to a character when that situation actually opposes the claim the scene/tone tries to impart to the audience. Honestly, it felt like I was being gaslit.

ALICENT HIGHTOWER APPRECIATION WEEK → Day 4: Favorite trait: wisdom

[scrapimmortal]

@ozymalek i'm not reading all that. congratulations, or sorry that happened to you, idk. my point is that liking team green characters says nothing about your morals in real life. if you believe otherwise, get well soon and fuck off

[moonyackertarg]

Hey! How you doin? I just sent you a friend request on twitter, my user is @NoeLit4. I like your tweets as much as your posts here on tumblr, I'm a team black supporter and I also love Daemyra. Sadly, I had to switch my acc to private bc of an incident I had with a Daemon hater. I just replied to your tweet about the ozymalek post, but we won't be able to interact because I'm currently hidden. I totally get if you're not interested, I just wanted to give it a try because I would really like to interact more with like-minded people than with haters, lmao. Have a very nice day🙌

I'd love for us to be moots!!! I just followed u back on twt and on here <333

[baelonthebrave]

Wow this ozymalek guy is really slandering you for liking Aegon and any of the greens. They should get a life.

HAHAHAHA I know right?! That was the first proper Tumblr Argument I’ve been part of in a long time, and by Tumblr Argument I mean a really stupid argument about something that doesn’t matter at all 💀 wanted to hit them with the ‘I’m not Team anything I have a job’