#stan the meme team

[theflorasdiary]

Rhaenyra: “A son for a son”

Alicent: “okay”

Jaehaerys hearing this shit in heaven:

[maglors-grief]

me when I see the hundredth post or comment from team green stans about how much of an evil bitch Rhaenyra is in the show 🥱

[urdeftonesgrrrl]

"A girl must say a name."

Me:

Team Black stans

Criston Cole haters

Daemon Targaryen stans

[bee-unknown]

[dreamfyre-beautiful]

I don’t understand why Rhaenyra cares about the Gods and their wants at all. Like we’ve never see her care about the Gods and if anything she dislikes them (can we seen when she returns to kings landing as an adult and side eyes all the stars of the seven) and has no respect for them (dressing up like a sister and threatening Alicent in a place of worship)

And if she was just anti seven I would like that more! Or if we see her struggle with religion versus her Targ title. But they didn’t do that, instead it’s just randomly brought up this episode that Rhae believes the Gods want her to be queen.

[skitskatdacat63]

Roleswap anyone??

Tell me Fernando wouldn't make a fantastic general/emperor, and that Napoleon wouldn't make a fanastic driver/tp!!

[fatum679]

Fandom says I have to choose between Rhaenyra and Aegon

No thanks

[rosielefay]

modern hetalia aus are so great because you have to decide how culturally present everyone is. like, obviously they're watching the euros and eurovision and the superbowl ect

but do you think they're having a brat summer rn? watching hotd and choosing team green or team black? who went to see challengers as a three?

the nations are all meant to be around 19-26 so imagining them indulging in the media which is dominant around that age range is so funny to me. as someone in their early 20s i can tell you most people come full circle and go straight back into the interests they had when they were teenagers, but without half the shame and poor levels of media literacy.

[helaenasaegon]

And they’ll be like: “At least Alic*nt spent time with her kids!!!” Yeah... while controlling, manipulating, and abusing them. Who would prefer an abusive parent over a neglectful one, and how is that better in the slightest?

They are truly something else. 🙄

[soyboywenzie]

man oh man i cannot wait for darksvster to leak the scripts for this season my gGODS

[theflorasdiary]

Rhaenyra: “I intend to fight this war a win it!”

Also her when her sons,her husband and allies fought and died while all she did was stay at home:

[molter-writes]

dude i have a question that might be considered out of pocket but i need your brilliant take on it

i was rewatching the finale last night (because i like to cause myself pain) and i got to the part where aemond said he wanted to make a gift of luke's eye to his mother

so my question is

genuinely, what the hell do you think alicent would have done if aemond returned with luke's fucking eye😭😭😭

lmao welcome to my entirely unrequested character study of aemond. short answer: she'd be horrified, and that scene more than anything speaks to the beautiful fraught asymmetry of alicent and aemond's relationship, palpable and tragic and woefully understudied.

alicent does not desire violence and does not particularly respect violent people. e.g., we can imagine characters who might have been heartened or reassured — even if interspersed with guilt — that larys had been willing to kill to advance their interests. alicent is never shown to appreciate this silver lining; she is deeply remorseful and properly disturbed. the end of the season finds her attempting to stave off catastrophic violence surrounded by men who are effectively unbothered by the thought. aemond is one of these men. he is also her favourite man. i think this breaks her heart a little.

i'll preface this by stating again how much i sympathise with aemond, who is really neither a slick badass — his facade — nor a calculating psychopath — his caricature. aemond spends his childhood awash in a feeling of inescapable, humiliating powerlessness, and everything he becomes is a direct response to this experience, including his unfailing loyalty to his mother, his sole childhood advocate and ally. but aemond clocks alicent's powerlessness, too; and probably at no other time more palpably than during the quarrel at driftmark. viserys leaves her in the lurch; cole backs out when the rubber hits the road. when he tells her i gained a dragon, i don't think he's actually saying it was a fair exchange; clearly he doesn't really feel that way — he's still seeking his revenge years and years later (and fair enough). rather, i think he's telling her — and importantly, telling the people he perceives to be her enemies — we have real power now. we're safe. i got you.

aemond consistently strives to be alicent's one reliable ally. aemond also spends his life trying to make himself more powerful, and, if i were to really speculate, probably hasn't determined within his own heart whether he's done so to protect himself and his mother in the conflict he's seen presaged at driftmark, or in excited anticipation of that conflict as an opportunity to seek revenge. herein we find the crucial difference in how alicent and aemond each perceive safety, and perceive power — alicent thinks safety is found in the absence of violence, and power is the ability to be free from it; aemond seems to believe safety is found in a monopoly on violence and power is the ability to do it. it's entirely unrelated, and not to be insensitive by mixing factual and fictional tragedy, but i think sometimes about something prince harry once said about his childhood experiences watching the press chase and torment princess diana — his frustration knowing he would one day be a man, that he would one day be able to protect her, but not yet — and the anger, the frustration that caused. i append to aemond, though fictional, a very similar pain.

regardless, to whatever end, aemond's intention is to be feared and to be dangerous. he tells cole i don't give a fuck about tourneys for the express purpose of tipping us off: aemond is trying to become as effective as possible at killing real opponents in a real conflict. two things here: first, though aemond may not care for tourneys like the knights Rhaenys calls green as summer grass, he's equally inexperienced; he also doesn't know — cannot know — the true meaning of war or the costs associated. (see, e.g., his crucial misunderstanding of the nature of vhagar.) and second, tragically, though he's probably (if perhaps only partially) done so for her, he's become exactly the kind of man who has left alicent feeling trapped and perpetually terrified. olivia cooke somewhere noted that alicent lives in trepidation surrounded by 'psychopath men', and part of this fear seems to be what these men will do in her name and under the guise of advancing her interests. e.g., she knows larys' murder of lyonel did double duty. Tis only a look of pride, Ser Criston. Larys is the new lord of Harrenhal. to have become somewhat afraid of aemond — apprehensive, at least, of his adult nature — will likely only grow harder on her and harder to ignore. and the same will likely come of aemond's unintentional killing of lucerys, and would come had aemond returned instead with his severed eye: horror at the act; guilt and terror and frustration at the knowledge — however deeply buried — that aemond would have done it not for her, or for their family, but for himself; and that once again, she has been made the unwilling catalyst for the very violence she strives so painfully to prevent.

[capsiclesteebrogers]

legit saw a team bl*ck stan say that alicent is a terrible mother and maybe she should have mothered less because her children are either horrible or hate her. are they really that idiotic? do they really think alicent can just say no to viserys WHO FORCED THOSE CHILDREN ON HER? they assume she had a choice when she did not. she never did.

[leavememorieshere]

Guys… I have a confession to say…

I was… (probably still am, dunno tho)

On team DANIEL MILLER 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️

To be clear, I was 8/9 when I watched every witch way so I don’t remember most of the plot, I just knew Daniel dropped a banger (it’s always you) he was spelled, he was forgotten and he deserved better honestly.

Btw I made the picture, it was fun ngl, you guys can use the picture, it doesn’t matter to me if you give me credit or not but if you do want to give me credit than I added my username on the next one below:)

It’s barely seeable but I like it!!

I will also post the picture without my username on TikTok:) so you can find it on there too!!

[the-daily-dreamer]

No offense but hating on Lucerys is pretty idiotic the same way refusing to admit that Aemond is not a good boi TM. Have we read the same book? I mean, Aemond fangirls who haven't read the book are fine, stay clueless ladies.

Awww. Look guys! I found an insecure black stan who sends anon hate because they’re embarrassed to publicly stand by their comments.

Anyways…sorry sweetie, but I couldn’t hear you over Vhagar having a snack

Stay pressed babe <3

[livetogether--diealone]

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