me when the tumblr holy trinity exists
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ppl with septum piercings i love u
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he’s so eldest daughter syndrome coded
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long distance internet friendships are so frustrating like i want to go hang out at your place. i want to bring that snack u like if ur sad. i want to go to the cinema and watch a movie together. i wish we could randomly decide to drive down to the beach one friday night and look at the stars. we drifted apart and idk if you're alive. nobody would think to tell you if i died. i hope you're okay
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shipping scarian no matter the circumstances is so funny bc you get situations where grian sees This and thinks I need him carnally
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the most superficial perspective on the small council scene is that alicent is coming to terms with the realization that the leopards will eat her face as well, and she is being denied power for being a woman just as rhaenyra has been...
but i do think there's a more interesting series of realizations going on. season 1 went to great lengths to show us that alicent's motive for usurping rhaenyra was not rooted in the belief that women are not fit to rule. she is a capable political actor herself and she advocated for rhaenyra to be queen when she was younger at the expense of her own standing. even her conversation with rhaenys at the end of the season suggested a resignation to the way of the world rather than a judgment on women's deficiencies.
alicent had other reasons for wanting to supplant rhaenyra: daemon, whom she saw as a complete wildcard, would have been dangerously close to the throne if rhaenyra did assume power, and she believed that she and otto could guide aegon to rule fairly under their experienced counsel. however, in this episode, the small council she presided over as a competent administrator for years rejected her proposition to rule and chose in her place: her dangerous, unstable son who has already proven resistant to guidance and quite literally triggered the war. over her! because a woman could not be allowed to reign when another woman was usurped for being one.
this is not to say that alicent lacked the awareness on a more detached level that rhaenyra's womanhood was the pretext used to usurp her, but this makes it much more visceral. the people who facilitated aegon's ascension were not motivated by the things she was. in conjunction with her discovery that the prophecy was not about aegon ii -- the prophecy that would have attached some divine purpose to all of her pain, allowed her suffering to mean something -- alicent is really beginning to question why she is doing any of this at all.
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i love domestic batfam as much as the next person, but for the love of god can we stop pretending like there's any point in time that they'd all be able to sit comfortably in a room with each other as family, with no social or moral circumstance obliging them.
if it isn't dick having his total rebellion phase, it's jason and his tensions with bruce and tim post-utrh. if it isn't that it's tim and his conflicts with well. everyone depending when you look. or damian struggling to see any of them as family. or not wanting to. or bruce just being straight up absent. or alfred's death. or steph's fakeout. or babs' paralysis. or the petty argument two of them had over breakfast this morning that has everyone on their toes for the forseeable future. do u get the point
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