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TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour, Swift City, Arizona March 17, 2023

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August sipped away like a bottle of wine

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TAYLOR’S GUITARS The Eras Tour — Glendale, Arizona (March 17, 2023)

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[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason

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so far hotd is doing an excellent job at showing how the system literally benefits no woman, no matter if she's "lenient" or rebellious. rhaenyra is named true heir by word of the king and everyone cheers but in truth nobody bothers once baby aegon is born. she goes missing for an entire day, gets attacked by a wild animal, survives, and no one bothers to look for her (the only person, criston, just happened to be nearby when she ran off) because of the stag (which, again, relates to aegon). alicent is pleasing and lenient to the king, but her words of "my love" hold no true emotion - they're plain and thoughtless. she was forced into this marriage, and it was not even for convenience, it was for the king's personal pleasure! ("if it was by convenience, you would've married laena velaryon!").

then her son is born and everyone is pressuring her to use him to strengthen his claim. she literally still vouches for rhaenyra but her dad insists on aegon, and insists on her being the one on telling viserys because it would be the reasonable thing for a queen to do, and it's the order of things and how it's always been.

and it's so sad because you can see alicent is deeply bothered by all of it. she wants to remain rhaenyra's friend but she can't because she's queen now, against her own will. and their friendship was broken apart by powerful men and their whims, and now they're being blamed for being angry and in despair. man.

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listen. listen. the parallels between rhaenyra and daemon in this episode. the alienation and rejection they both feel from viserys. the white stag and the white flag. the being covered in blood. viserys asking rhaenyra not to be like daemon a “thorn on his side”. it’s all about the gothic doubles!!! the doppelgängers!! the being the mirror of each other like emma d’arcy said!!

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Rhaenyra spotting the white stag and sparing its life; Viserys killing a false stag to fulfill the expectations of his lords.

Rhaenyra stabbing the boar to death with the ferocity of a dragon ; Viserys struggling to kill a stag with the support of an entire posse.

Rhaenyra proving herself a Queen worthy of the Seven Kingdoms and being utterly ignored ; Viserys being lauded and praised despite being an utter embarrassment.

I have so many FEELINGS.