#rhaenyra has cried 100 times more

[andreawritesit]

Having a tragedy happen to him does not suddenly make Aegon worthy of the Iron throne. I do not understand people who switch teams over B&C. The question was never of morality. Viserys declared his daughter as his heir. Period. Usurpers took her right away and shall pay the price, however gruesome it will be.

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Loved this Council meeting.

Princess Rhaenyra making a good point…

And Alicent drowning in her sorrows because she can’t stand Rhaenyra being right. But she doesn’t have any counter argument against her reasoning in relation to the Bracken - Blackwood incident, does she? She acts like a “mature” woman, rolling her eyes, smirking and drinking (*cough* Cersei 2.0 *cough*).

And then there is the matter of the Stepstones. Daemon is a war hero, fought hard and single handedly killed the Crabfeeder. He was named King of the Narrow Sea, but gave up this honor, gifting the Stepstones to the Crown. He deserves the utmost respect for that.

And some bearded idiot (I don’t even know who he is), dares to belittle his great victory. Alicent doesn’t miss the opportunity to put the whole blame of losing the Stepstones on Daemon (even though it wasn’t his responsibility) simply because she dislikes him.

And when Rhaenyra makes valid points once more, defends Daemon and rightfully scolds the Crown for not protecting their own lands…

This woman is desperate to prove her wrong and fails miserably. She doesn’t even present a counter argument to prove her reasoning that Daemon is to blame. She immediately moves to “We cannot afford it.” Aha. So you admit that it was the Crown’s responsibility to defend the Stepstones, not Daemon’s.

As for the costs, like Rhaenyra says, “Cost of war is greater.” One way or another, the people have to pay taxes. Either they pay a more reasonable amount for fortifications or they will pay a humongous amount when war is on their doorsteps. But Alicent doesn’t have the capacity to understand that, and doesn’t provide reasonable arguments, just unreasonably rebuffs anything Rhaenyra has to say. As if it would kill her to admit that Rhaenyra is 100% right.

How mature of her. She has no leg to stand on (they’re probably off to be polished for her special night with Larys), acts like she is the smartest person in the room (Cersei impersonator), and then cries that she needs her father, because no one else is partial to her.

The Realm suffered greatly under the time she ruled in Viserys’ place. She and Otto ignore the smallfolk (confirmed in episode 9) and have no other interest other than promoting those of House Hightower and advancing their family’s position.

They’re a bunch of social climbers who are truly simple minded when it comes to politics. Reminder: Otto made the same reasoning mistakes at the Council meeting in episode 1, when he was trying to undermine Daemon, and Daemon pretty much check-mated him. Otto has no counter argument and changed the subject to Rhea Royce just to try and get a rise out of Daemon. This just proves what terrible political minds Otto and Alicent actually have. I mean, what can you expect from a handmaid turned queen through deception and a power hungry father?

Alicent had a good time abusing her position to make Rhaenyra’s life miserable. Can’t wait to see the tables turned.

Rhaenyra has demonstrated diplomatic finesse, a good strategic mind and potential to rule, which is more than can be said for Alicent, her snake of a father or her “precious children”.

[taviamoth]

• Right off the bat Daemon Rhaenyra beheading nightmare

• Rhaenys touching Alyn's face like that? Rhaenys accepting of bastards? I don't think all women have to be niceys

• Alicent looks at a small stone dragon with its wing glued back on yet startled by the door, drops it again to crack it on the same spot.

• Alicent moon tea rumors were true. Yeah it's just for a friend <3

• Black council in tatters

• Criston the most incel army commander of all time

• Gwayne looking worse for wear

• The close-up on Aemond as Larys says Harrenhal is more crippled than himself & likely to drive daemon to madness as he tries to make use of it, which is beyond his faculties...

• Aemond speaking High Valyrian ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

• Aegon nervously trying to speak broken High Valyrian in response. "I can have to...make a...war?"

• Aemond is running this council

• Daemon is chasing himself dressed like Aemond ...?

• "I'm a barn owl" I loveeee Alys

• "A girl child you bounced on your knee" Get his ass!!!

• Now Laena is the cupbearer. If Alys will make Daemon will hallucinate every woman in his life then PLEASE show me Alyssa Targaryen

• "You all bore me" Is this a circus

• Alicent is reading everything in the castle after rhaenyra told her abt the prophecy

• Aegon venting to Alicent about no one taking him seriously & alicent is like your job is to do nothing let the more studied minds do things. His expression here 😭

• Jace is %100 insolent and disrespectful but also %100 right. Strength of character. Would've been a good King

• "You must send me, Your Grace" Rhaenys nooooooooo

• Aegon is a cat

• The broken flagon is golden colored and has a dragon on it. The biggest piece looks like a wing. Foreshadowing the injuries and demise of Sunfyre

• SUNFYRE SUNFYRE SUNFYRE SUNFYRE

• They're so cute. The most adorable dragon

• "We're off to battle again old girl" RIP Rhaenys RIP Meleys 😭😭😭😭😭😭

• "Aegon the Conqueror's dream. He called it 'The Song of Ice and Fire'."

• SUNFYRE'S CRIES

• Vhagar roasted Sunfyre along with Meleys??? Am I seeing wrong??? Has Aemond ever used this dragon without damage to his side. Is he a secret black. Is my fanfiction coming true

• Rhaenys has the opportunity for a clean getaway but decides to 1-1 Vhagar?

• Spinning like a ballerina...

• Vhagar crushes two soldiers under its foot and red mist flies up. One is identifiably a Rosby man who fights for the Greens. Dragon doesn't give a fuck

• OK Rhaenys DID NOT want to solo Vhagar it attacked when she was leaving I think

• RIP two queens

• Aemond looked so good here. (Kin)slay

• Vhagar loves biting necks

• It's sad though. I loved Rhaenys

• Now Alyssa and Meleys meet again in Targaryen afterlife

• Injured Criston touches a soldier on the shoulder to get his attention but it's just bones and ash under the armor which fall apart

• It ends on Aemond and Criston in front of injured Aegon and Sunfyre. Aemond will be regent now so congrats

[natividadmoon]

It's going to be long but I wanted to give an opinion on the whole controversy of Jace's couples

I feel that it is much more complex to speak than just accuse of misogyny or homophobia

ironic because Sara Snow is a character with dubious reality but she is the one who started all this, lets go

I've been with Sara Snow's label since she started hinting at her name since the previous season and I've seen how it all escalates little by little

I don't know who was the first to mention it but I know that the first response was from the Baela x Jace chargers, at that time Cregan x Jace were not very active, it began to become popular with chapter 10

That he gets with the speech of humiliation and debasement of the black woman before a white one by Jace and Alyn (mrd's speech in my opinion because Baela will not stop being a white woman from a racist society no matter what complexion the actress interprets her, the infidelities were made as a white woman) ironic that those were fans of Daemyra (they even celebrated the beach scene) and I saw few complaints with the treatment of Laena, which was the true crime of the series

"That how they were going to take it from Jace" as if his were a prize, etc, etc. They seemed to be more people who didn't read the book yet or didn't remember that Baela was much more than two lines with Jace.

So as a woman and a fan of Elia it was easy to see what parameters were used to have compassion for a deceived and despised woman if she was not a Targaryen (Rhea Royce vs Rhaenyra is a clear example)

The irony that later en masse they grabbed that Sara Snow did not exist and it was Cregan with a wig. and Baela x Jace chargers who cried that if there was love, now they also seemed to live with the fact that HE WAS ALSO UNFAITHFUL with a man.

What I am going to say should be taken into account that she is being a woman, not a man. And it is that I feel that many times women fall into the fetishization and invalidation towards male couples, seeing as a fantasy or "minor relationship" towards a couple of two men, not a real relationship. This is a larger study, but this is in regards to women reacting to male partner history, as well as personal experience moving in different fandoms that include M/M shipping.

Fortunately @atopvisenyashill gave a very good point of the perspective of a gay man (or bi man too) before the Cregan x Jace couple and that opened my eyes a little. I mean, I'm not a man, but I certainly like how a lot of queer men take that pairing and pray it's canon (I even edited them myself because I'm not necessarily against it) bbut I feel like that applies to real ones, (hate that connotation), shippers of those couples that are far from the conflict Jace x Baela vs Jace x Sara

Regarding Sara Snow in the life of Jacaerys there are two points that will not change:

The relationship (more loving than friendly, although the latter can also work) does work to give Jace more nuances. I'm not saying he's a bad character, for me he was the best heir to the throne and my personal baby. But I feel that his character without errors works wonderfully in a historical book, and Jace is also going to be an important character in the series and when he is in a space of real time it will be noticed that he is not 100% like that (because that is what attracts us to characters of similar ages like Jon, Robb, Sam, etc) He feels the pressure of being heir to his mother, he feels the pressure of being a bastard in the series, even after winterfell he drives the dragon seeds. There is a reason that can be explained beautifully, if he gets to know a bastard.

If he falls in love with Sara Snow in the book or series,it will be blamed on a boy who literally has all that on top of himself, and who finds how different a bastard's life is and what he could have been in another time, Could it be a step to later weave friendships more easily like the one possible with Nettles? possibly

I know many say but Sara Snow has no personality and she is only turning to Jace's narrative. well at that point those are many characters, mainly secondary or third. especially with Jace ending up young as a result of his tragic death. Not to mention Harwin Strong, it's not like much is known about his personality beyond possibly "comforting" Rhaenyra or being on the birthing bed (even being present in King's Landing and Dragonstone, we don't even know the name of his sisters or what happened with them) and yet we all love him in the series and even Martin plans to write a book.

I feel like the fight was never in the Cregan x Jace and Jace x Sara shippers. The conflict was always like the Baela x Jace shipper, and their reactions to those two 2 shipps