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navree · 1 year ago

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"princess rhaenys targaryen would have made westeros a better place to live if she had been chosen as jaehaerys's heir" how? literally how? what material evidence can you point to in the character of rhaenys that shows a desire or even remote interest to use the throne to better the lives of the people or the state of the country in any way? what proof can you even attempt to give that rhaenys being installed as heir would have made life better for westeros at large? how, in specific, would rhaenys being queen have made life better for the people of westeros as a whole and made it a better place to live for everyone, not just courtiers in the red keep?

#personal #like misogyny as it relates to inheritance laws and all that is important and it clearly affected her #and it's a conversation to be had #but the mere act of 'westeros has a reigning queen instead of reigning king' isn't going to automatically make it a better place #she shows none of the desire to better people's lives we saw in alysanne #or any of the political shrewdness and soft politicking we saw from her namesake #like she wants to be queen because she's the oldest that's it #she actually kind of has really bad instincts along with absolutely no desire to better things for people #how is killing peasants in a needless confrontation going to make westeros a better place to live #how is deliberately using provocative language that misrepresents the situation to rhaenyra going to make westeros a better place to live #god rhaenys being the heir likely wouldn't have even changed anything in regards to inheritance laws for anyone else #since they could just as easily add it to the concept of the targaryen doctrine of exceptionalism #'yeah targs are allowed to do incest and also absolute primogeniture but that's just cuz blood of valyria and dragons'#'the rest of y'all can't fuck your siblings and need to allow eldest trueborn sons to inherit first'#like viserys was a bad king for the future of the dynasty but there's no evidence he was bad for the realm as a whole beyond causing the da #*dance #and unless 'better place to live' is meant to refer solely to it being a better location physically #with no dragonfire but all the other myriad of problems that come with living in westeros #then this is just literally Not True #god this fandom has two modes and it's either that the show isn't about misogyny at all and any reading of that is incorrect #or that it's about how misogyny would be cured forever and vanish from the face of the earth #if the ruling class put a woman in charge for a couple decades one time

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