Doomed From The Start

Doomed from the Start

If the Dance of the Dragons didn’t happen AU.

Prince Aemond Targaryen and Alys Rivers's son, Prince Viserys Targaryen, Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen, Lady Daenaera Velaryon, Princess Jaehaera Targaryen, Prince Aegon Targaryen, Princess Visenya Targaryen (daughter of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and prince Daemon Targaryen), Prince Maelor Targaryen and Ladies of House Hightower, daughters of Princess Rhaena Targaryen and Garmund Hightower.

[REPOSTED WITH PERMISSION. ART BY CRAZYTOM]

There’s this weird ass patriarchial mindset that comes into play re: Jon Snow being a Targaryen, as if who his biological father is what determines what his identity and surname should be. Jon is technically just as much a Stark as Ned’s trueborn children (50%!), was raised alongside them in the same way, embraced their values and their religion, etc. Yet it’s his biological father, a man he never knew or met, that is taking precedence in some fans’ minds over the man who literally raised him, Ned Stark. This mindset accompanies this sort of anti-bastard rhetoric as if being born out of wedlock is just The Most Terrible Thing and some sort of taint that Jon deserves to have scrubbed clean to make room for his brand new last name. If by this point you have not realized that being something stigmatized yet out of someone’s control like bastardy and physical disabilities is not what determines a person’s worth then you have definitely missed the point of Jon’s, Tyrion’s, and Bran’s respective stories.

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i hate how "being a girl's girl" has replaced feminism. I hate that enforced conformity has replaced genuine compassion for and solidarity with other women. I hate how women call each other "pick me's" for not conforming to femininity or for daring to critique something other women like. I hate how we just keep finding new socially acceptable ways to bully other women for being unattractive or outspoken or difficult or complicated or weird or ambitious or for not performing femininity. I hate those front facing camera "comedians" whose whole thing is making up a straw-woman to make fun of. I hate the obsession with "girlhood" and clinging to being a girl instead of a woman. i hate "the girl version of the roman empire" and "girlhood" and it's just consumerism and I hate the characterised of girlhood as passivity, niceness, sweetness, helplessness and frivolity and I hate the revival of gender essentialism even as a joke!!!

i know this is about Rhaenyra but Laena Velaryon!

Her death in the book showed us a really different side of daemon. I mean how fucking romantic it was that he held her up in his arms during her last breathes and he really loved her, the only woman he ever loved. She was loved by everyone in her life and lived a happy and good life as long as she lived.

But hotd refused to show that in favour of some daemoyra bullshit in the next episode...

Rhaenyra had a traumatic miscarriage like 2 minutes ago and now she's riding around on a dragon to look tough in front of Otto Hightower.

GIRL YOU HAD A MISCARRIAGE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU'D BE IN AGONY RIDING THAT THING YOU ARE NOT HOPPING OFF AND RUNNING AROUND ON TWO FEET AFTER THAT