I think the most ironic thing about how Alicent’s motherhood gets used against her is that the logic that everything wrong with the targtowers is somehow her fault, completely goes out of the window when people talk about Rhaenyra’s parenting. Everything they do is a reflection of how terrible, awful, and disgusting Alicent is as a mother. But jace and luke’s behavior/actions somehow aren’t reflections of the pitfalls Rhaenyra has as a mother.
Aegon being a rapist is just Alicent fault. Aemond’s anger and resentment is just Alicent’s fault (some people even blame Alicent for him losing his eye yes I’ve seen it). Helaena’s adversion to touch (despite the fact it’s clear phia made an acting choice to play Helaena as neurodivergent plus we literally get scenes of Helaena letting Alicent touch her) is all Alicent’s fault. The rotting, neglectful rapist they all have for a father has absolutely nothing to do with that. And then the goalpost moving. If Alicent doesn’t admonish and totally hate Aegon for being said rapist, she’s a rape apologist who doesn’t want any woman to have rights (a crazy thing to say about a literal victim of rape herself btw). But if she slaps him, she’s an abusive cunt.
But jace and luke, more specifically luke, having no regard nor remorse for bullying then disabling someone is *check notes* seen as cute and normal??? It is apparently not Rhaenyra using the same tactics her father did. So much guilt about the position you have put your children in that in response you will just let them do whatever. This sort of perpetual cycle of gaslighting and withholding information being painted noble or nurturing.
Then when you bring up that argument of how Rhaenyra puts her kids in danger just by having them (much like how people say the same about Alicent despite that not even being her choice), you get hit back with ‘so you wanted her rape her gay husband’ which is like ??? how did you get there lmao. It’s wild, but completely on brand for a fandom that picks and chooses based on who they like, that people can emphathize with the position Rhaenyra was put in because of her gender. But the child bride who literally just has her children to cling to is the worst mother to ever mother.
The sooner people realize that Alicent and Rhaenyra are working up the same rigid rules and crushing pathology of patriarchy, the better off we will all be. The only difference is the way they push back against those structures. Someone like Rhaenyra, a dragon riding princess, can maneuver very differently compared to someone like Alicent. Both are going to fuck up and make decisions that put people in danger/hurt people’s feelings bc they are playing a game that has been rigged for them to lose. So why are the blonde ones allowed more grace than everyone else 🫤
ok but can we talk about how fucking good chapell roans debut album is? like all of the singles were incredible but to have them all on an album with More incredible tracks? top ten album easily and i’m only one listen in
Got sent an image in my head about something that would be tragic.
In WolfyTheWitch’s animatics, Polites wears a bandana on his head and then he ... ya know. So now I have this image that every time Odysseus embraces Polites' "Open Arms" ideology, he looks down at the bandana of his friend (at this point he's wrapped it around his wrist/arm as a reminder to remember them, prolly during ... Remember Them)
Then? During "Monster" he tears off the bandana as a symbolic showing that he will be embracing the "Ruthlessness is Mercy" ideology instead of "Open Arms" ideology he's been trying to hold onto
back on my toshi ranting for a sec here! ^_^ can we tell the hyperfix is kicking my ass…
rewatching the kyoto goodwill event simply bc i missed him badly 😓 and i got to the ep where we get his backstory and when i tell you i GASPED.
so when it switches to older him having that conversation with whoever that woman is, he asks why the kamo clan took him in and she says bc his father’s ACTUAL wife (cuz yk toshi’s mom was just a concubine) gave birth to a child that didn’t have a technique.
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DO WE REALIZE WHAT THAT MEANS 😭😭😭 HE HAS ANOTHER HALF SIBLING…who we can assume is male based on how these clans function
personally i believe this child is older than noritoshi by at least a year for 1) the narrative and 2) the amount of sense it makes??? techniques usually kick in around 5-6 y/o and there’s no exact date for when it happens. could happen when you turn 5 or your last day as 6. so they could’ve most likely waited to be sure, but i feel like they already knew…
(unsure if kid straight up had no curse energy or simply didn’t have an innate technique; either way i don’t think it mattered to the clan)
but this kid doesn’t have the technique and toshi is brought in as the new heir. when i tell you the ideas started FLOWING. little noritoshi wanting to get along with his older sibling because they were family, but doesn’t realize his entire existence is an insult to this child. an insult to everything they knew at this point. THEY should be the heir, not serving tea to some bastard child who got lucky.
AND ARGHHHHHH THEIR RELATIONSHIP KINDA MAKES ME SICK??? IM SO NORMAL???
and then don’t even get me started on when he finds out abt his mother’s second son, his younger half-brother and he’s transported back to his youth and he feels so SICK. he now feels that exact feeling of being replaced and he just can’t actually go up to them. he can’t make that connection (NOT YET ANYWAYS!) and reach out…
he wants to hate that little boy for having a childhood with his mother, something HE never got. but god he can’t. his kid brother would be around the same age he was, wouldn’t he? he’s just a kid…so when toshi finally meets him, he refuses to continue the cycle. he loves that little boy and does his best at being a great older brother
…ARGHHHHHHHHH IM GONNA KMS 😹😹😹
noritoshi kamo…and ur relationship with siblingism and replacement…mmmmm i love u, u traumatized lil guy…
I feel like some of you doubt when I say things like I loved these games when I was a kid or I played them when I was younger. Well, in firing up Hotel Dusk, I finally have proof! On July 9, 2009, it was a month before my twelfth birthday.
Hotel Dusk was the first puzzle game I played that then introduced me to Ace Attorney, which then led to Layton. I have over 40 hours of gameplay saved on that file, and I remember buying it with my Christmas money, so I spent a lot of time in the world of Hotel Dusk and with these characters when I was still rather young.
scream pls whoever just unfollowed me after i started posting abt 911 in a row. glad you could get yourself out early xoxo won’t see you on march 14 xoxo
cancel culture is one of society’s worst downfalls because it just does such a good job of labeling moments of ignorance as actual bigotry and people who willingly try to learn and be better will be dragged mercilessly while the actual racist and misogynistic and abusive people who show us time and time again that they have not changed and will never care to change still have careers
I’m a big emo, I post a lot about Dan and Phil and Good Omens and that’s pretty much it :) I’ve been a phannie since early 2013, and a fan of gomens since s1 was released. I love all kinds of music but particularly alt, emo and gay pop like chappell roan <3
I’ll yap for days on here and then disappear for 6 months much like I do in real life