The Complete And Utter Irony Of Aegon Waging War Against A Woman To Be The Ruling Monarch, Along With

the complete and utter irony of aegon waging war against a woman to be the ruling monarch, along with the only two battles he fought in being against women (well, one woman and a child); then being left with just a little girl as his heir at the end of it all, unable to produce any more sons and refusing to name his daughter as his successor. every decision he made, from agreeing to usurp the throne to murdering rhaenyra, concludes with her son being declared king, and his life ending due to a woman’s weapon. poetic justice if i do say so myself.

bearer of the curse

i hope viserra haunted baelon's dreams :)

This is my prediction for how the dance of dragons is going to go

“Dear brother. I had hoped you were dead.”

“After you. You are the elder.”

Ooh thanks for the reply! I’ve been thinking about this because my relationship to this is curious. Style has zero impact for male characters I connect with but it definitely is a factor with female characters. A small one. Removing all other factors, I will connect more with (aesthetically) gender nonconforming female characters than with (aesthetically) traditionally feminine female characters. I’d be most drawn to a character with style like mine (alternative/egirl/goth-lite) but that’s not common in a lot of stories.

This is interesting to me because I am not aesthetically gender nonconforming. I do not conform to mainstream trends. I have long hair and wear eyeliner and mascara most days. I wear skirts and dresses far more often than not (excluding days I have to do bench work in the lab in which case my outfits are determined by lab safety and not style). Some of my outfits even verge on preppy-feminine (for example, a black sweater, a red pleated mini skirt, black knee high boots, and my hair pulled back with a red bow).

So why, if the only options are classically girly feminine (like frilly white lace, soft pastels, a polished classy look) or gender nonconforming, why do I feel more kinship with the latter when my own style is closer to the former and I’d feel even more kinship with a character sharing my actual style? If I had to pick one of the two ways to dress, I’d also probably pick the former, if I was leaving the house. I’d prefer a fancy gown to a nice suit.

Perhaps it’s related to growing up with media where the mean girls always dressed like this, although in real life, girls were never mean to me—my bullies were only ever boys.

I’m just rambling really but I’ve been mulling this over and I can’t find an answer that feels right, so I’m curious if anyone else has similar feelings

Might submit this to the anonymous polls blog but they’ve got a huge backlog so for now if you see this please reblog and tell me, as a comment or in the tags or even a reply, does a character’s sense of style impact how much you connect with them and if so how does it relate to your own sense of style?