I just saw this on Twitter and got reminded of how transphobic the hotd fandom is and it made me mad all over again. Emma D'arcy at the hands of this fandom has already gone through the wringer the amount of bullshit thrown at them all bc some people had this weird obsession with the young Rhaenyra/Milly and the character's rebellious, care free side that Emma's obviously could not have, and then on top of that there was almost a fetishization with Milly especially when it involved Matt/Daemon, Emma was harassed and got the nastiest shit thrown at them from comments about their looks, bc god forbid someone doesn't fit societies stupid beauty standard, to transphobic comments and misgendering, to hate comments on their acting when they were out here carrying this show constantly, and stealing the spotlight 99.9% of the time, their first appearance was a scene so well acted, so realistic it was jaw dropping how real the whole thing felt, then the last episode of season 1, another birth, finding out Luke is dead, that stumble, the whole episode in season 2 with no lines just their facial expressions and you want to tell me they can't act or that "Milly is better" literally fuck off, and even after all of this, bc nothing ever really stopped some things slowed down a bit but nothing ever stopped, but I guess this bigoted assholes were in need of another weird ass reason to hate on Emma and be transphobic towards them, bc now they blame them for the bad writing in the show and the direction the show has taken, basically anything bad that you don't like on the show, people are blaming it on Emma, how fucking mental are you, how sick do you have to be, not only is it not normal to hate watch a show, I'm sorry but it's just not, but to hate watch it, and then go on social media to spread hate after hate about it that you then let it get into hating the actors bc you're obsessed with a book, it's psychotic. And even saying that the writers are "forgetting that they are writing about Rhaenyra and not Emma" implying that Rhaenyra is too "tomboyish" and that is Emma's fault and when people call you out on the crazy transphobic shit your were implying with your tweet to say "oh I'm just saying this bc Emma is quiet and so is Rhaenyra" fuck off you know damn well what you were saying you just don't like that people called you out and now you're scared. So many of y'all are transphobes and it's clearly getting hard for you to hide