#they deserve better too

[ragana62]

Following up on my earlier take, because I recognize I put the good shit in the tags.

I don’t excuse her actions, she does fuck up her kids and casually try and stab children/her old friend. She’s also explicitly not behaving rationally in the latter moment, and quite frankly, just because she’s in the top 5 reasons her kids are fucked up that doesn’t mean she should get all the blame for them being fucked up while we pretend Viserys was father of the year, there’s a normal way to raise someone in line to be a fantasy nuke riding absolute monarch without making them a little fucked up in the head by modern standards, etc. etc.

People do bad things, even well intentioned actions have bad consequences sometimes, hurt people hurt people. Are you going to sit on a hill claiming you’ve never once snapped at someone when you were having a bad day (which like, I’m pretty confident saying 99.999% of people here haven’t had the kind of bad day where your preteen kid had his eye stabbed out and your abusive husband pretends it isn’t an issue until the kid minus the eye himself has to stand up and say ‘it’s cool, 86 the hit mum, I’ve got a dragon now so I’m fine with that trade’ just to keep the peace)? Are we going to pretend that Rhaenyra has never done anything wrong in her life ever, and Alicent has every reason to trust she would totally back her up and turn over her kid to lose an eye as well in the most literal interpretation of reciprocal justice imaginable, or even agree that some accountability should be taken?

She’s not a good person by modern moral absolutist standards, sure. But:

1. Nobody is. Nobody fictional, and nobody IRL. Nobody in that setting, and nobody in any setting.

2. The whole setting is just two groups of moderately to massively shitty people by modern standards having a nuclear level slap fight over a fancy chair so obviously she’s not somehow a paragon of modern virtue. If she was we’d be getting rants about ‘oh obvious Mary Sue/worst mother ever ignoring how her kids are mistreated by their dad and not demanding justice after one literally loses an eye in a fight with his nephews/nobody actually is such a moral paragon that they can smile and nod their way through this many betrayals, she’s so fake’.

3. This site makes excuses for every generic sexyman it encounters constantly, which is fine if that’s your kink, no judgement. If we can collectively agree that it’s ok to do murder/cannibalism/whatever the fuck we want to call the grooming ass bs Daemon did with bringing preteen Rhaenyra to a brothel if the guy is blandly hot enough and ‘morally grey is not only valid but sexy if he’s doing bad things for his imaginary or real girlfriend/wife regardless of her express interests or preferences’ because that’s the popular kink content in certain circles at the moment (and make no mistake, it is a form of kink content whether we tag it as such or not), why is it so impossible to accept ‘morally grey is valid if it’s a traumatized teen mom trying to protect her children when her abusive husband clearly won’t’ or any other version similar? Do we maybe just have a problem with complex characters who aren’t perfect paragons of virtue when it’s the (especially the traditionally femme) girls getting their hands dirty?

I just can’t take Alicent haters seriously when they pull up stuff like “oh she lashed out at Rhaenyra while the real reason why she’s suffering are Otto and Viserys !!!!” oh yeahhh I really wonder why she would lash out at her political rival and not at A) Her abusive husband who is the king and B) Her father who did her dirty but he’s one of the few people who are by her side right now .

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

[hansoeii]

[eszkayanelie]

kay faraday loves imitating her gay dad during her graduation (for a degree he paid for)

[xitsensunmoon]

You'd think after getting your dear daycare attendant out of the Pizzaplex you would live happily ever after, hm?

look who changed their mind to post the whole thing together oops

[arttsuka]

Oblivious

[diviedrawn]

“Why do you think Pony Express put a lock on the medical door but not in the sleeping quarters?”

[commander-revan]

The League of Villains - First vs Last Appearances

[mikakuna]

i see this jason todd who actually looks his very young age (instead of the 30yr old man that comics like to portray)

and feel my heart breaking just imagining bruce beating him up, almost killing him, mind-breaking him, and just overall being a total piece of shit father towards him.

a huge chunk of the reason why people don't view bruce's actions towards jason as abusive or wrong is because jason doesn't look his age. he's drawn to be this 35yr old father of three who looks even older than dick (and way too on par with bruce) that people see their fights as one between batman and any of his regular rogues. when they fight, it just looks like batman is fighting a man his age and not an actual young person. it doesn't look like batman is fighting his son who's barely even drinking age (and who def wasn't drinking age in utrh). their fights are portrayed in a way that eliminates the very real power struggle between them.

this applies to jason's entire character as well. a lot of people don't sympathize with how he died or his actions as robin or his fights with the other bats because he doesn't look his age. he always looks older and scarier than everyone else. tim has many sympathizers from the titans tower incident because jason just looked like a grown man fighting a 12yr old (even tho i disagree, tim was built and like 17 lmfao).

anyways, i just wish comics would actually draw jason to look his age, which literally ranges from 19 to early twenties. he's young- so young, and it's so annoying to see him drawn and written as someone older than even bruce.

[teem-boo]

Too busy looking at the bigger picture.

[floydtheflorist]

Doomed lesbians

[fishofthewoods]

while i'm imperialposting. imperial dragon lore that makes me want to tear my hair out. web weave

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Into the pit? More like into the daddy issues

[moonyswarmsweaters]

Regulus Black everybody

[effervescent-fool]

"too sweet is an objectively mid hozier song" well yes but also no. yes, it pales in comparison to the rest of his discography. but no, it is not a mid song. hozier is not capable of making a mid song and i am better than you actually

[iwasbored777]

Agent Stone when they left him alone with Shadow: