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Diomedes: That's Odysseus, cleverest of the greeks. He's probably concocting a wicked plan right now.

Odysseus *internally*: Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Penelope Pen-

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Antinous: None of us can string the bow, its clearly a Rigged Challenge! Make a different Challenge! Penelope: Skill issue. Antinous: I am serious, a different challenge now. Penelope: Fine, battle to the death. The last Suitor alive is the only one worthy of being by my side. Antinous: What kind of psychopath would agree to that? Odysseus: (Stabbing him in the back) Bet

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for those who know me, you know that I am a big fan of greek mythology, so when the epic saga by Jorege Rivera-Herrans came out I couldn't help but fall madly in love with it, his music accompanied and inspired me while I was working, and now that this long journey is about to end I couldn't help but leave a tribute to thank him for all the work he has done. he couldn't have left us a better christmas present under the tree! thanks again for everything.

ps: I already know that with the last song I will cry like a fountain!!

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My will is stronger, but Nedbert Yaoi is even stronger

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Rhaegar: hey just found out i've been abandoned by god which means he's not watching anything i do anymore, so like, you should come over Lyanna:

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Rhaegar: I need Arthur with me at all times Aerys: Why? Rhaegar: I need someone to glance at when people at court annoy me Aerys: Rhaegar: Also I'm in love with him

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srsly what is up with ppl wanting lyanna to like wallow in guilt or some shit. like yuckk

obviously she was scared at the end of her life. cause she was literally dying and was fearing for her son. her lover was dead, half her family was gone, and her lovers wife and children were just brutally killed. but none of this means she held herself solely accountable for something that was never her fault to begin with

why do you🫵🫵 want her to feel guilty for shit she didn’t do? she did not kill brandon and rickard. she did not cause robert’s rebellion either. her actions helped spark it, but so tf what? that does not mean she was directly responsible for it, and that does not mean she is responsible for all the death and destruction wrought across the seven kingdoms. i love catelyn, i love ned and sansa and literally almost all the pov characters. and guess what? most of them helped spark twot5k, which has been much much more terrible than robert’s rebellion. do i blame cat and ned for the state of their house and their children’s pain? neverrrr ever.

also, none of what i stated means lyanna wouldn’t have wished that she was there to change things or even just say goodbye. that’s only human and id be surprised if george didn’t write lyanna as someone stuck on ‘what ifs’. but so many people want her to feel guilty af as like retribution for daring to run away from a marriage she didn’t want. and that’s just eughhh on so many levels. but what’s even weirder is that whole ‘rhaegar only used lyanna for a womb’ crowd. those ppl are freaks who want her relationship with rhaegar to have been a failure and for her to have been tricked. it honestly comes off as them wanting her to have been punished for her actions. and that’s so so gross.

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I saw that tweet and knew I had to act (also my comms are open btw)

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arthur dayne obsession got so bad i feel like jaime lannister rn

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bro why are people calling jon snow selfish. asoiaf fandom has lost the plot

btw jon is mindful of his duty like rhaegar who was mindful of his duty like rhaella who was mindful of her duty

rhaella’s duty ended with the fall of her house and she died with it

rhaegar was like selfish once and boom shitstorm then he died with his beloveds name on his lips 🥲

and jon basically died like his dad. rip my king nothing was ever ur fault i think u should get back up rn and kill the losers who knifed u 🔪🔪🔪

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everyone starting a war because they think rhaegar kidnapped lyanna:

*meanwhile at the tower of joy*

gerold: if you were arrested, what would be the charges?

oswell: carrying drugs with me

rhaegar: theft

lyanna: being too iconic

arthur: actually I think it would be treason for all of us

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Why not just tell it like it is?

"I want Jon to react this way because I don't like Rhaegar."

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People in the ASOIAF fandom are very obsessed with passive women they can project onto. The obsessions with the characters of show!Alicent, Sansa, Elia, and Helaena are perfect examples of this.

In the show, Alicent is changed from a woman who actively seeks power and heads the scheming of the green faction into a passive victim who watches and reacts to the men around her. And yet, despite this being a much more boring characterization, the show version is vastly more preferred by her stans. They condemn her book character as simply an "evil stepmother trope" while completely ignoring how their fav is just as blank and tropey as they accuse her book counterpart to be. Alicent stans want her to be the show's blank victimized canvas.

Helaena is someone who the show changed very little in the adaptation, because both book and show Helaena have little impact on the plot other than to be victims of their surroundings. Both women are forced to marry Aegon at thirteen and have his children, go through B&C, and are the least active members of the green faction. The show only added elements to make her more tragic: her dreaming and autistic behaviors. Helaena's character makes her the perfect canvas for certain fans to project themselves onto as she simply exists to be victimized and play the dutiful wife/daughter despite her circumstances, just like the show version of her mother.

Elia Martell is a woman who we know very little about. She died thirteen years before the events of ASOIAF and, unlike characters like Rhaegar and Lyanna, she has no pov characters who think about her enough for us to learn anything about her. The only things we know are that she was loved by her family, was in an arranged marriage to Rhaegar, had his two (confirmed) children, and was brutally raped and murdered by Lannister men. She is an unknown character and, again unlike Rhaegar and Lyanna, has no known active role in the events surrounding the Rebellion. Because of these things, she is, again, the perfect blank canvas for people to project on.

Sansa is, despite being a prominent pov character in ASOIAF, a very passive character. She rarely takes action in her circumstances and simply reacts to them while trying to survive. There's nothing wrong with this, she's a young girl who has never had to fight for anything in her life, it's not unexpected or condemnable for her reaction to her circumstances to be this way. However, her passivity is something her stans obsess over. She is praised for being the "perfect lady" and they project their desires to see her rule onto her and how they view her story.

These women have been chosen by these fans because of their passivity and tragedy. They love that the women have suffered in the name of the "duty" they believe is higher than them. Because they love passivity, they hate the women of ASOIAF who are active in their own lives and fight to better their circumstances. Characters like Rhaenyra, Arya, Daenerys, and Lyanna are all massive influences on the world and purposely chose to challenge the patriarchy. Since they did not take their suffering silently, theses certain fans view them as wrong and hate them. They only love the women they can project on and who simply refuse to fight for better lives.

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I can't believe some of you are trusting Robert, one of the most delulu guys ever, to shape your opinion on Rhaegar.

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do you think when ned started obsessively investigating the parentage of the baratheon kids on the basis of them all having their mothers hair and eyes people at court thought he was projecting his fears about his own mostly red haired blue eyed children onto poor cersei. going yeah ned thats weirdd that roberts eldest son takes so much after his mothers side. same colouration as her AND her brother. and you say roberts bastard looks exactly like his father? exchanged glance