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“-You have eyes like my mother. – he said. – Of all of my children, you would have been my father’s favourite for certain.”

———The Backs and the Greens by Sweetestpopcorn (AO3)

Daemon with his baby girl Visenya XD

#asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #the rogue prince #the princess and the queen #daemon targeryan #rhaenyra targaryen #princess visenya targaryen #daemyra babies #Baby Visenya is adorable

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(sigh) So, if you're a LGBTQ+ foster kid in Tennessee, you now have no protection at all from being placed with a family that hates a central part of your very existence unless DCS can come up with other reasons, outside of that, why the placement would cause you harm. Because Lee will sign this into law, just like he's signed every other adoption cruelty law that's hit his desk during his tenure.

#tennessee #lbgtqia #homophobia #transphobia #I hate my home state’s GOP dominated government

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We need to be paying better attention to what is happening in Tennessee

they are legalizing separate but equal again, this time under religious instead of racial justification

#tennessee #tennessee politics #religious discrimination

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Uncle Daemon causing baby Aegon to be on the verge of tears 24/7 XD

#aegon iii targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targeryan #fire and blood #the princess and the queen #asoiaf fanart #Baby Aegon’s definitely a mama’s boy #I love his chubby legs and checks 🥰

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#rings of power series #rings of power spoilers #galadriel x halbrand #galadriel x sauron #This is how I imagine Sauron in Rings of Power Season 2 #Sauron (to Galadriel): I killed Adar and brought you his head. Will you accept my proposal now?

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ANYA TAYLOR-JOY BBC Radio 1 interview

#anya taylor joy #anya taylor icons #feminine rage #anti hotd #anti ryan condal #anti sara hess

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Baby! Aegon and Baby! Stormcloud ft. Pregnant Rhaenyra 🫶🏽

[I used a Valyrian translator okay 😭🤚🏻 don’t come for me if it’s wrong-]

[Originally it was going to be more bittersweet 💀 it was Aegon telling Stormcloud that soon they’ll both have brothers-]

#aegon iii targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #stormcloud #Baby Aegon and Stormcloud are too cute #Rhaenyra did not fully hear what Aegon said #I love Rhaenyra’s long braid and dress #The Daemon and Rhaenyra dolls are so cute #Baby Aegon will met his best friend/brother soon

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Dance of the dragons period Targaryen monarchs and their favorites!

hint: [monarch] + [favorite]

#pre asoiaf #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #Rhaenyra was Viserys I’s forever favorite child #Rhaenyra was a fashionista even as a child #I love her dresses #I love the bond between Rhaenyra and her dream baby #Daemon with the son he wanted so long for #Viserys II should have been in the picture with Daemon and Aegon III #He is Daemon’s mini-me after all #viserys i targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #aegon iii targaryen #daemon targaryen #viserys ii targaryen #Syrax and Stormcloud are too cute #I love how they are protective of their riders #Syrax loves 🍖

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pre-dance Targaryen dynasty monarchs and their favorites XD

#pre asoiaf #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #aegon the conqueror #aenys targaryen #alyssa velaryon #king jaehaerys #baelon targaryen #aemon targaryen #Aenys is so cute and sweet #Little Jaehaerys and Little Baelon look like their great-grandson Viserys II #Rhaenyra got her eyes from Grandpa Baelon #While Daemon got his eyes from his mother #Older Jaehaerys also looks like Viserys I

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I have changed my mind about Francis after watching his redemption arc in Season 2. He is one of my favorite characters in the show now.

This is now a Francis Poldark hate account.

Words cannot describe how much I hate this weak, cowardly man.

#poldark #francis poldark #kyle soller #Francis went from a character I liked to one I hated to one I loved

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Reblog or your mom will die in 928 seconds.

I love my mom.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

sorry followers :(

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israel is blocking entry to al aqsa mosque and arresting thousands

i truly feel sick to my stomach

They are beginning this holy month with food shortages and under severe israel attacks and on top of that, they can't even pray in peace.

#gaza #free palestine #free gaza #gazaunderattack #all eyes on gaza #all eyes on rafah #all eyes on palestine #This is not even the first time Israel has done this

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Sebastian and Jeremy on set!

#the apprentice movie #ali abbasi #Sebastian Stan #Jeremy Strong #Why is Sebastian Stan playing Donald Trump? #Jeremy Strong will be great as Roy Cohn though #I better not see any Donald Trump x Roy Cohn fanfiction after this movie comes out #Same thing goes for young Donald Trump thirst edits and x reader fanfiction

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Viserys will regret it someday XD

#the blacks&thegreens #viserys ii targaryen #princess Visenya #This scene was so funny #MVP Viserys will regret calling his little sister a piglet when they are older #viserys II x visenya #Daemyra 2.0

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“And you have the most amazing eyes.- he said, and meant it.”

—————— The Rogue Prince and the Birth of the Realm's Delight by Sweetestpopcorn

#the blacks & the greens #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #baelon targaryen #This is so precious #Baby Rhaenyra already loves her uncle Daemon #Baby Syrax wants all of Rhaenyra’s attention #Proud Grandpa Baelon

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“-I love you!

Only after the words left his mouth, more in a scream than in regular volume, did his mind processed what he had just said. The people present in the rooms also chose that exact time to stop talking so his words sounded even louder, and everyone had their gazes locked on him and Rhaenyra.”

———— The Blacks & the Greens by Sweetestpopcorn

Baby Aegon traumatized from day 1 out of the womb XD

#the blacks&thegreens #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #aegon iii targaryen #The OTP and their OTB #Baby Aegon is not used to loud noises

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It's so confusing and weird that Bridgerton introduced in world racism both with Lady D and Simon in season one of the show and in Queen Charlotte and at the same time they also want the audience to accept that somehow Marina Thompson or the dark skinned Indian Kate Sharma has more privilege and power than Penelope Featherington?

Kate Sharma was also poor, so much more than the Featheringtons. She depended on Lady D to host them. The Sharmas were looked down on by the ton because Mary Sheffield married an Indian. The Sharmas were disowned and ostracized by the Sheffields.

Kate was also an unmarried spinster. No one was asking Kate to dance. As much as Kate wanted love and romance and to dance at a ball wearing pretty dresses, she got none of that. She was also the woman on the sidelines watching as others danced and fell in love.

Racism and colorism is also very much a thing in eurocentric notions of beauty considering the setting and characters of Bridgerton is 99% white.

We got so little of Kate's backstory, of who her parents where - we didn't even get their names!! - of the trauma (explained for both Simon and Anthony using flashbacks) that had Kate overlooking her own happiness for that of her sister.

Despite bragging nonstop about the diversity of Bridgerton the showrunners thought that the white Featheringtons needed more screentime in season 2 rather than the South Asian family.

And Kate was planning on going back to India and work as a governess to pay for her livelihood. Because, you know, there's more honest ways of being a 'working woman' than running the equivalent of the regency 'Daily Mail' dragging other women down. The modiste Madame Delacroix, Kate planning to teach and Sienna in season one are all working to pay a living. Black, brown and lower class women looking to alleviate poverty.

And considering how much harder Kate already had it as an outsider in the ton, it wouldn't have been easy with Penelope using her gossip rag to describe the unmarried Indian woman as ' a Spinster of a beast'. What did Kate do to Penelope to warrant this? Nothing. Just a way for Penelope to make money at Kate's expense.

That's the thing I dislike the most about the way the character of Penelope is written on the show - her victims don't deserve her vitriol and are often in much worse circumstances than her. From Kate Sharma to the unnamed seamstress who apparently lost all her customers because Penelope wrote falsely about their work in the her tabloid as a bribe for Madam Delacroix.

And I think that's what I find problematic about the writing of the show and even the discourse surrounding it - when characters like Marina Thompson (the poor black cousin who would have ended up destitute on the streets because of Penelope) and Kate Sharma arguably have it far worse than Penelope Featherington as per the show's writing and yet we are supposed to have the most sympathy for Penelope because her crush Colin didn't love her back and she's a curvy white woman?

I guess that's the difference between how I perceive this world and these characters as a woc and the majority white female audience for this show and it's such a huge disconnect for me. I guess this is also partly because the show has this badly written and 'strangely toothless racism' as Ash Sarkar beautifully put it. As in the racism is treated in this world as a little problem solved by handing out a few titles to black people instead of being a white supremacist ideology which treated black and brown people as inferior, serfs and slaves.

From what little we got from season 2, Kate Sharma definitely did not have it easy navigating the ton as a poor outsider and that certainly contributed to her poor choices. She is also put through the wringer, treated like the other woman, is miserable for several episodes, had to apologize again and again and nearly die before Edwina forgives her!

In contrast Penelope's actions have hurt so many and yet she gets a pass by both the show and a fandom that wants Colin to grovel before her because of a single offhand remark and because he didn't return her affections.

Also making it clear here that I am not comparing Penelope to the male characters who always get the better writing, flaws and all. I am comparing Penelope to the female characters of colour - Kate Sharma and Marina Thompson.

I mean, Marina Thompson gets so much vitriolic and sexist hatred for not having told Colin Bridgerton the truth of her pregnancy. How dare Marina hurt this privileged white man Colin Bridgerton. When she was desperate to not end up destitute on the streets or get raped by old white men. And yet Penelope gets a pass for hurting women like Marina and Kate.

It continues a trend of white female characters never being held to the same standard as female characters of colour. Daphne sexually assaults Simon in season one and that was not even addressed on the show. Male rape is apparently no big deal because Daphne wanting children is what's important. It's Simon who has to apologize and within one episode resolve his trauma and accept being a father. This is despite both Daphne and Penelope having more screentime and more writing that builds their character unlike the stick thin writing given to Kate Sharma in season 2.

So yeah, I will be checking into season 3 to watch the ten minutes we get with Kate Sharma since we got so little of her in her own season and it's so singular to get dark skinned south Indian characters in a period drama romance like this. It's just the way the writing on the show, the production and even the fandom treats it's characters, especially characters of colour has been disappointing to say the least.

#Bridgerton #Kate Sharma #Marina Thompson #fandom discourse #fandom racism #anti penelope featherington