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rhaenyra embodies love is the death of duty

alicent embodies duty is the death of love

and this is why they are the ultimate yin/yang tragedy. they complete each other and oppose each other beautifully.

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hellsitegenetics

alright so first you gotta get really invested in some esoteric bullshit

tpwrtrmnky

Evaluating rpg character options through the lens of "what kind of toxic yuri-applicable issues would pair well with this"

jasperrwrites

“are they lovers?” worse. they were supposed to be and never got the chance to

letterful

actually, no, i do have something to add. if your work of fanfiction can be easily rebranded and sold as original fiction, then there’s a high possibility that it was never good fanfiction in the first place—and, in all probability, it won’t make for very good original (well, “original”) fiction either, instead remaining suspended between these two forms that each operate on a different paradigm. while i have a lot of love and respect for all kinds of derivative works (perhaps unsurprisingly, considering my perennial love affair with postmodernism), i also believe that the most rewarding fics are the ones that actively and continuously engage with their source material, therefore making it all but impossible for anyone—even the author—to simply file the serial numbers off and promote it as something else entirely; at least not without damaging the work’s internal integrity. something something mutualism (the derivative work deconstructing and expanding on the source material and so keeping it alive) as opposed to parasitism (thinking you can simply lift your blorbos wholesale and run but failing to realise that uprooting them from their respective stories will render them but a shadow of a reflection of their original selves).

angelamcss

1.02 | 2.08

alicentsgf

They didn’t add Maelor for one reason: Episode 8.

Rhaenyra needs the whole of Team Green’s male line dead. Her brothers are a threat to Jace’s claim, there’s no way around this plus Aemond committed the most unforgivable sin of killing Luke. She’s after blood, sure it’s cruel but at the end of day that’s war for you and they’re adult men whose own mother doesn’t give a crap about so why should she? 🤷🏽‍♀️

So Rhaenyra wanting a bunch of grown men dead? Yeah sure, it’s cruel but whatever.

Rhaenyra wanting a BABY dead? That’s plain evil! They’ve already had her clutch at pearls hearing about B&C, they can’t have her turn around and declare baby Maelor’s tiny head needs to be hoisted on a spike!

Likewise, their pathetic attempt at justifying Alicent’s treachery is that “men are bad, women are good”. Where does a male baby come into play? It’s bad enough they’re having her throw her whole family under the bus to save her own skin, but including a baby??? That’s too far, even for them.

So to sum up, Maelor doesn’t exist in HotD so that:

Rhaenyra can still be rightfully moral and just, she only wants adult men dead to protect her teenage son, she would never harm an innocent.

Alicent has some semblance of morality, she’s only sacrificing adults not babies!

Its always the same thing.

Like if you have to erase whole established story lines, (whole children!) to make rhaenyra look good. Then maybe it wasnt all "green propaganda" after all.