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[m00na333]

Late to the party but the "I may have the weak and feeble body of a woman, but the heart and sould of a king" line makes me angry everytime i remember it.

Like, it's a line that already exists in ASOIAF. Cersei, who is notoriously well-adjusted and comfortability with her gender and sexuality, already has a similar line. "She had the heart of a warrior, but the gods in their blind malice have her the weak body of a woman.". You are not supposed to think that Cersei is enlightened, or that her conceptions are valid.

In history, it was said by a woman who never experienced child-birth. Rhaenyra has experienced this 6 times, in a world in which a guy with poultice and a saw is the best doctor around.

Also, her capabilities as a warrior are never in question. No one has ever said "Rhaenyra, dragon-battle is no place for a woman." And book!Rhaenyra would not have a tantrum over this.

Instead, it has always been: "Rhaenyra, you're the figurehead of our faction. The council of 101 established that the principle of proximity is tantamount when female lines are considered. Therefore, if you die, we have no legitimate claimant."

Why is Rhaenyra not being able to go into battle a moral failing? She isn't Joffrey eschewing the battle of the black-water because he's too cowardly. She's just lost a father, a son and a daughter, is experiencing severe hormonal turbulence and suffered through a traumatic miscarriage in which she birthed a scaled baby.

[m00na333]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Major Character Death, Underage Sex Relationships: Kiera of Tyrosh/Valarr Targaryen, Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)/Original Female Character(s), Lyonel Baratheon/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Kiera of Tyrosh (A Song of Ice and Fire), Dunk | Duncan the Tall (A Song of Ice and Fire), Valarr Targaryen, Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen, Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I), Maekar I Targaryen, Daeron Targaryen (Son of Maekar I), Aegon V "Egg" Targaryen, Gwin Ashford | Androw and Robert Ashford's Sister Additional Tags: targaryen princess, Baratheon Overstimulation tent, targ daughter syndrome, POV Original Female Character, Age Difference, she's 17 sorry, but i won't mention it, Older Man/Younger Woman, toruneys, We're sleeping on this man, I'm making this aesthetic and adding moodboards later, PROMISE ME you'll come back and check it out, Maekarlings | Maekar I Targaryen's Children, Bratty Princess, but in a nice way, no beta we die like baelor, Timeline What Timeline, Warning: Lyonel Baratheon, kinda Dark Lyonel, but not really, Period Typical Attitudes, Period-Typical Sexism

  Summary:

Arriving at the Tourney of Ashford, Princess Maelithelle, Aerion's twin sister was resigned to her fate.

Sit and look pretty before she's tucked back into the jewellery box or her brother asks for her hand.

Isn't one night of rebellion her right? Isn't it expected of a Targaryen princess to flee her cage, to eschew her responsibilities, the deference that comes with her title for one night?

[maryboullan]

Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia Borgia The Borgias 1.02 The Assassin (2011-2013)

[m00na333]

HATE when I google search a fanfic by name and the AI overview appears... like i don't mean to break the fourth wall and presume the panopticon but it's sooooo embarrassing. yeah great the surveilance state knows all my habits and is reading them out to my in souless computer prose.

[m00na333]

made some canon x oc akotsk fanfic (lyonel) anyone care to read?

What the hell, sure

Not really

Voting ended on3h

[halidki]

mamas boy

[irlplasticlamb]

mom, i’m tired. can i sleep in your house tonight?

prints + merch + c0mm 1nfo pinned to prof1le :)

[m00na333]

The fact that all of Daella's letters to her mother were written by intermediaries, and the only one in her own hand was the one in which she expresses fear and uncertainty and that she became pregnant a year and half into her marriage so that old man kept fucking her?? No one in this situation is seeing paradise

[m00na333]

Marital rape in hotd

To be completely honest, i've always found the discourse around whether or not Viserys maritally raped Alicent to be uninteresting because:

The no camp is intellectually dishonest. They hide behind the facade of "actually, it's ok because in their religion and culture, consent does not exist in marriage. I refuse to comprehend that the medieval setting is in fact a social commentary." Tell any of these people "Ok! so therefore Cat's treatment of Jon is justified because their religion preaches that bastards are covetous and devious," and see how quick that line of thinking evaporates.

It's a moot point.

It's so clear that it is nigh impossible for Alicent to meaningfully consent to sex with Viserys. He's ~ 25 years older than her, her father's employer and her best friend's father, she lives in his house, and he's the king, as well as having years of sexual and romantic experience whilst her value is tied to her virginity.

It's not interesting or important whether Alicent could convince a jury of her peers under their legal and moral framework that she was raped. I do not believe that is how we are expected to digest and engage with the time period.

The far more interesting question is this: What does it mean to experience this injustice in a world that does not give you the vocabulary to rationalise it?

I hate HoTD, but in my opinion, it actually succeeds in raising this issue. s1 Alicent dresses very conservatively as an adult, suggesting shame. She is disconnected from the children the union produced. She self-projects onto Dyana. She is visibly distressed and frightened when he summons her to have sex, and when Rhaenyra alludes to it. She reacts very negatively to other women having sex. She becomes obsessed with the idea of duty.

Imho, Cersei is another example of this phenomenon, in that she victimises other and "fawns" attempting to use sex to gain power.

See also, Tyrion and Theon.

For a work that so deeply explores themes of trauma and how unaddressed it festers and corrupts; it baffles me how this is the one issue that people quibble over.

Guys, i think some sections of the fandom hate women.

[m00na333]

B-but why is rape worse than murder?!?

In response to a sentiment I see a lot from greens, and generally permeates online discussions. ( I need to stay off of reddit, ik) There is a trend of bafflement that the general audience is less forgiving of Aegon ii, who rapes a servant girl, and Daemon/Rhaenyra.

To be honest, I don't believe that this confusion is genuine. To me, it reads as reactionary in nature; greens fans attempts to display blacks as hypocritical and overly emotional. Even perfucntory.

The willingness to forgive crimes such as murder and disregard for life and unwillingness for rape and sexual assault is simply a natural expression of a sentiment that is commonplace: Villains which are intimate and personal are far more reviled than impersonal.

Murder, as portrayed in media, is often viewed as a necessity or means to an end. I need you dead so I can [goal]. This is much more justifiable and impersonal in the minds of an audience as the calculus is "your life is less important than [goal]'. I know how this sounds to defend, but the majority audience will never be in a position in which they have to forfeit their lives. It is, in a twisted way, a recognition of agency. An acknowledgement of the humanity and personhood of the victim.

Rape and sexual assault - on the contrary - are intimately cruel and dehumanising. The calculus is "your happiness, security, safety, wellbeing are less important than my temporary pleasure." The stakes are compounded in a medieval setting such as Westeros; in which contraception is largely non-existent and a woman's worth is tied to her virginity. Hence,, it is inherently dehumanising.

This doesn't even need to weigh into sexual assault. Joffrey's torment of Sansa is inherently personal and serves no larger purpose, which makes him far more hated. Theon murders two miller's boys to maintain his occupation. Joffrey is hated more than Theon. Hate to bring up HP but Umbridge's crimes are far more detestable due to the condescension, and Voldemort is a nazi.

Of course I hate the man who decided that a young girl's wellbeing, safety, health and position were less important than him getting off than the man who callously murders for political necessity.

[m00na333]

You're a scion of a Westerosi house, unable - through temperment, physicality, convention - to be a knight, a maester, septon, to pursue any form of self-actualisation or empowerment. As a "burden" to relatives desperate to rid themselves of you, are married off to an older, more politically powerful house as a favour to your house and your fortune is tied to theirs. They make all the decisions regarding children and only view you as your base political function; "Facilitate connection with your house. Ease a political headache." You are provided no mental, social stimulation.

Does this sound like a story that is in anyway remarkable in Westeros, a fortune in anyway a deviation for the noble lady? No?

WRONG I was talking about Androw Farman.

He's a failure and a terrible loser king, but an example of how alien and how oppressive the Westerosi system is, that the second a man - someone not brain-washed by septas to accept it - was thrust into it, he snapped.

the fact that it went over asoiafreddits head and we have Rhaena haters is hilarious to me. It's so obvious.

[ghostinwinterfell]

asoiaf fans: jon is a stark. jon is a targaryen. jon is a dayne. jon is a secret prince. jon is a blackfyre. jon will be legitimized.

the actual books: never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. I scream that I'm not a stark, that this isn't my place, but it's no good, I have to go anyway, so I start down, feeling the walls as I descend, with no torch to light the way. tyrion lannister had claimed that most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it, but jon was done with denials. he was who he was; jon snow, bastard and oathbreaker, motherless, friendless, and damned. was ever a name more ill-omened? we look up at the same stars, and see such different things. and if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as I am? you should look behind you, lord snow. the moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall. I offered you a name. I have a name, your grace. “snow,” the bird kept screaming. “snow, snow, snow.”

[m00na333]

can american hitmen have better aim

[nosafeanchorage-deactivated2023]

my top three theon fake facts

fandom ‘knowledges’ that you’d think are canon the way people talk about them but are in fact not so when u search for them in the books :

1 theon is never described as tall. he even thinks of himself as “smaller than most knights”. he is also never described as handsome by any pov character thinking about him. (only jeyne tells him he “used to be handsome”). the things he is described as most often are: a) smiles a lot b) dark c) lean.

2 theon is never shown insulting jon, bothering jon, belittling jon, bickering with jon, nor does jon or anyone else remember such a thing. (jon complains that theon usually ignored him).

3 it was asha started flirting with theon directly upon engaging him (“that’s a pretty smile!”), and when he eagerly reciprocated and escalated, it is also asha who first touched him sexually (she grabbed his cock).

[nosafeanchorage-deactivated2023]

ALLLlll of these i find psychologically(?) fandom sociologically(?) extremely interesting in how come people end up so convinced of all this, but nr 3 is maybe the most interesting. something about gender that fandom rescripts this scene for asha to have been more passive! also for this moment to be something that should be embarrassing to theon but a win for asha. it’s not! (not really).

obviously, wtf george, wtf, to get the obvious out of the way, but this scene is not (just) meaningless weird kink, theon’s subsequent upset and nausea (he feels violated) serves to establish his mistrust of asha, which will matter later when she will come to winterfell to offer him an out and he can only think of the ways she might be fucking him over. it also tells us something about greyjoy fam, something we will learn more about later, with aeron and euron: asha for some reason thought it would be fun and also expedient to handle this situation like this.

it’s also, after aeron & balon (arguably) the first instance of the theon punishment theme, the he-had-it-coming theme. he’s been a shit to the captain’s daughter and he is indeed unpleasantly overeager with his quest of bedding random women, so it serves him right that something like that would happen to him. right? right? the way we’re introduced into, invited to, even, this line of thinking, with theon, and it builds up, and eventually leads up to adwd, where it’s, oh, shit

[m00na333]

Unabashed unnuacned targ-hater son or unrelenting targ-glazing daughter or great empire of the dawn lionisng nb child choose

[m00na333]

Raymun Fossoway telling Dunk "I though you would have gone with Ser Lyonel" meaning he offered Raymun the same deal and got rejected twice do we think he offered Robyn Rhysling the same deal or cut his losses?

[baratheonpilled]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1.04

[m00na333]

need him in a way that is concerning to feminism