#this isn't a post against alicent but it is a post against her hardcore stans

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

I have nothing against Alicent sleeping with Criston Cole. Even if it's revealed that she started sleeping with him while Viserys was still alive, I will still have nothing against it. She was in a loveless marriage with a man she did not choose so if she managed to find love somewhere else, good for her.

I do find her comments on Rhaenyra the previous season hypocritic, though ( and Cole's insults on Rhaenyra as well, but this post isn't about him). Girl, you shouldn't accuse a woman for having a relationship out of wedlock when you are doing the same thing! But I guess when I look Alicent as a character her hypocrisy makes sense, many conservatives are the same. They talk about virtues only they possess and that their opponents lack according to them, only to be revealed that they are as human as the rest of the world with the same weaknesses and that they do not possess the supposed "virtues" they preached about.

What I do find interesting is how many of Alicent's fans have fall for her hypocrisy. They try really hard to justify why Alicent's case isn't as Rhaenyra's instead of admitting that their fav is a hypocrite. In a show like Hotd which features rapists and child murderers being a hypocrite is far from being the worse offense. So let her be that way. She's more interesting as a person with flaws, instead of a mary sue who can't do no wrong as some of her stans trying to make her be.