HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"
trying to keep track of every sneaky feastdance adaptation in house of the dragon. fake daeron swap obviously being faegon but more importantly myrcella. alicent doing princess in the tower arianne… hers was a gentle prison. rhaenyra doing annoying municipal bullshit as dany in meereen/lord commander jon. rhaena having a dany at the end of adwd moment. criston broken man monologue. larys and aegon getting to do a coveted riverlands travelogue. crazy weirwood blood dreams. a manderly attending a rat king feast*. am i missing anything
we got daemonomics this episode!!!!!!!!!!
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in years….
Daemonomics: the state exists for purposes of aura farming and violent imperial conquest that contrary to popular belief is completely decoupled from the economy so you better not spend any fucking money. Except when I’m in town in which case the state exists to facilitate epic parties and I am running a supply-side bribe network of my jackbooted thugs so extensive one could call it Keynesian. 
Aegonomics: hide the money yall there’s WOMEN around. Usurping my his sisters birthright and claiming the throne did kickstart the largest and most effective jobs program for young men that humans have yet to come up with which is prolonged land war. Is there an opposite of supply side economics where you kill everyone in a certain profession and see what happens.
Rhaenyromics: the lowborn will be elevated when it is personally politically expedient and food and coin will be distributed among the masses. not really power though unless you’re my bastard cousin in which case have a nuke. Zero structural changes. Pay your taxes eat your rats. I’m sure trying to completely eliminate the middle tier of nobles will do nothing to threaten my position at the top. It’s just me and my peasants.
Marqsism-Mysarism: peasants of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains. Some of you will die while I create the material circumstances necessary to facilitate an uprising but I am in the room, telling the targaryens that you are important.
Trying to do a good job as status quo restabilizer monarch when your three advisors are your uncle who groomed you who is your husband saying “BURN EVERYONE WE WILL INVADE DORNE AND ESSOS AND YI TI AND CROWN A NEW EMPIRE OF THE DAWN WE SHALL RULE AS GODS anyways I’m leaving see you never, your girlfriend who is your uncle’s ex girlfriend whispering about how the most important factor in maintaining monarchical power is of course just consent of the peasantry you are governing you ought to alienate yourself from your minor nobility completely and permanently to appease the people, and your middle school girlfriend you are repulsed by the thought of displeasing going you have to do shit that makes me mad to rule effectively but I will be mad. and also you have no fuckingggg money
Women lowkey live in a mass fawn response and while most understand that male aggression like rape, coercion and abuse is obviously patriarchal and harmful, we've still internalized that male aggression is natural and proof that a 'worthy' man truly, undeniably desires a woman. And that's often why ultra masculine or morally corrupt coercive male characters/dynamics/kinks end up so popular. It's a way to experience being desired by scary powerful men but not the true consequence of that violent coercive desire.
It's like wanting to have our cake and eat it too, which is somewhat possible when it comes to fiction, but systems of oppression like patriarchy don't care why you like male violence, or in what form you accept it, as long as you like and accept male violence. As long as women continue to feel desirable using patriarchal dynamics, in any and every form, the system lives on.
One of the best ways to immortalize a system is to incorporate it into sex culture, so now every criticism becomes very easy to dismiss on the basis of personal freedom, pleasure and popularity 💔
rhaenyra: alicent i’m holding you hostage. i’m giving you food and water and a maid and also i’m gonna come and talk to you every couple of hours (you’re still hostage) also i can’t think straight unless im with you please talk to me
That's almost large enough to saddle two. It is odd to be here with you.
rhaenyra’s harem being her literal uncle, her uncles ex lover, and her stepmother is INSANE. only in the targaryens truly
"I acknowledge the struggle. But I dispute that I must become what I am not." "Time will tell." HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, Season 3 Episode 3: 'Rhaenyra Triumphant'
"Mysaria is maybe the first truly romantic connection. She offers a window into a type of hardship that opens Rhaenyra’s eyes to a portion of experience to which she’s had no access." — EMMA D'ARCY
RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & MYSARIA HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3
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women will describe the most unempathetic, uncaring, detached behavior from their boyfriends and then be like "idk should i say something to him?" like babe i think you should kill him
if she killed him, it would simply be self-defence
Like either way I do hope he is never seen or heard from ever again
I believe this is less detached than you think, he is emotionally abusive at best. He is doing this intentionally. He is attempting to gaslight her. She revealed something exploitable about herself, and he's exploiting it. Abusive men start with "small" arguments that seem impossible to have as a rational adult, and so the reaction from the victim is usually "I must be missing something...maybe if I explain." This is the purpose, to start making her feel detached from reality. This is why they come on reddit to ask if they're overreacting - his abuses are working. He has slowly moved the needle to the point she losing grasp on what is rational and true. I can't be sure, obviously, but I would bet the pillow thing is just one of many, many, many things he is doing to slowly skew her reality.
I only say all this not to say OP or anyone in the notes are wrong, but to remind people that the knee jerk reaction you have, of listening to a woman's bizarre situation and going "huh?? what are you talking about??" that's by design from the abuser. He wants you to believe she's crazy and out of touch and weak minded, and that he's just some oaf she's too stupid to dump. He doesn't mind if you think he's an oaf, if it gives him more control of her in the long run.
leftists are well aware that male supremacy is the original form of exploitation. that it existed in classless societies, that it existed in societies without private property, and that it will exist in their ideal world, too. that it arose globally and independently of cross-cultural exposure. leftists have to lie about this historical fact, because they need women to participate in leftist organizing if they want to defeat their fascist rivals (not enemies—communists and fascists are mere rivals).
the right can afford to be openly male supremacist and still garner the support of women who comply, such as “trad wives.” the left cannot do this. the left cannot successfully pontificate about freedom and liberation while being honest about the fact that they too want women to remain in a subservient set of chains like their rivals do. only the orientation of the chains differ between the two rivals. so, the left has to obfuscate their male supremacist aims so women will still participate in organizing and building the left’s preferred utopia, a utopia that is bereft of social injury to men.
leftists generally don’t say “men ought to lead and dominate,” “women are inferior,” like their rivals do. leftists prefer to be wolves masked as sheep. instead, they’ll say “abolishing capitalism will put an end to patriarchy,” (translation: solve the problems that oppress men first, ignore misogyny, and we pinky swear we’ll help you after we get what we want at your expense), or “feminism is bourgeois” (translation: feminism is the enemy to working class men who want to keep their porn, wives, surrogates and prostitutes).
leftists are not uneducated. leftists do not need to be convinced of 12,000+ years of female subjugation. leftists simply need YOU 🫵🏿 to comply with their preferred brand of male supremacy, so they’ll placate you with falsehoods and platitudes about how feminism must wait, so you’ll be complacent. the reality is they want feminism to wait, indefinitely. men and their apologists are simply acting in the self interests of men. in our society, the only injury is male injury, which is why they will support every movement that improves men’s social status and reject the one thing that will abolish it.
ideally, men must never ever have their sexual access to women be compromised. this contempt for female sexual boundaries and contempt for female freedom from male supremacy animates our entire concept of morality. left, right, center, diagonal, up, down, no matter the political perspective—every movement is a male grievance movement first. only the aesthetics differ, never the result.
my type of carrying on, radical feminism, emerged when an increasing number of leftist women realized these facts of male supremacy—that the right was not our only enemy as women. this is the ultimate rupture of “left-right” liberalism. leftists resist feminism as much as the right, possibly even more, because our refusal to comply with their misogyny is extremely dangerous to the success of their movement. any sort of popularity or sympathy towards real feminism is extremely dangerous to the status quo. leftist men have no choice but to oppose it if they want to keep their wives, their porn, their prostitutes, and their sexual control. the rise of feminism in leftist movements has consistently, globally, led to defections, enabling us to create movements that dared to acknowledge the injuries committed against women. our ability to opt out of their political project after unraveling their trickery has always made us public enemy number 1. tee hee.
this cycle will continue until we as women remember the political bravery and political risk we once exhibited on a global scale. to stop allowing ourselves to be controlled and suppressed by these various male grievance movements. and they are all male grievance movements. even the ones you like!
House of the Dragon might be the first show that has ever done a "show so misogynistic it can only be explained away by toxic lesbianism" and you know what? RESPECT
To explain what I mean by this... the reason this show is so misogynistic is because it hardly allows it's female leads (aka Rhaenyra and Alicent) to be grey, fleshed out complex people with complex motivations, they don't get to be ambitious, they don't get to be bloodthirsty, they don't get to be cruel. They get to be... sad mothers, and as such they want peace, because what else could a woman and a mother possibly want? But peace so that her children are happy?
Rhaenyra doesn't actually get to be angry and seek vengeance that her crown was stolen from her, it just happens. She gets sad a bit when her children die but she doesn't want to kill anyone over it, she doesn't ride her dragon to burn anyone, she doesn't even particularly seem to want her crown. She just wants peace. In only the first two eps of the season, she was prevented from going into battle by her TEENAGE SON and her guard listened more to her son than to her, his literal queen so all she did was sit in her room and cry, literally disgustingly pathetic. When she had to kill Otto, in front of her enemies and the people she has to now rule, she cried in front of everyone, because see? If she doesn't show emotions, she will be seen as a mad tyrant! Meanwhile male characters can kill people right and left and still be seen as sympathetic. This is just misogyny.
They even gave her a speech similar to Queen Elizabeth I's about "having the heart of a king" but she said it like a petulant child while trapped in her room by her teenage son while the real Elizabeth I did it while addressing her troops who she was sending off to war. Why does a woman from the 16th century have more agency and dignity than a fictional woman in 2026? It's so misogynistic it's embarrassing.
On the other hand, Alicent doesn't get to be ambitious either, she doesn't get to want to steal Rhaenyra's crown for her son, she just "mishears" what Viserys said, she doesn't lead a coup for it, she's merely an spectator, the whole time they were doing a coup she was like "okay... but we cannot murder anyone in this war we just started" which again, is deeply pathetic and misogynistic. And then, she is just a puppet. At least end of last season and this season she has taken some action and betrayed her own side, but you know, she has done it "for peace" because she is a mother and mothers want peace because they’re simple, pure creatures who never had a bad thought in their lives? She doesn't get to do bad things she then regrets, she's just good.
So this is the canon reason why they are the way they are and why they keep reaching to each other across the war and why they're so obsessed with peace.
But, if you're looking to enjoy the show and make it make sense to you from a Watsonian perspective the only way to do it is to pretend in your head that actually Alicent and Rhaenyra are like this because they’re obsessed with each other. Their split is the reason for the war and yet despite it they keep reaching across enemy lines to be with each other, everytime they say they want peace it means "i want her to be safe" (also their kids, but whatever, fuck them kids) but they can hardly admit that to themselves. This interpretation makes them imo so much more interesting characters than what the writers are actually doing and makes them the focal point of the story in a VERY badly written show.
Of course, they could still be obsessed with each other like that but in a show in which they were actually complex, fully developed characters with ambition and who were able to be morally grey. But well...