#it makes me so mad

[greenqueenhightower]

Why did I just notice that???

Do you see how Alicent is so dissatisfied in the scenes during the Green Council meeting in episode 9? How utterly surprised and somewhat disappointed?

It's not because she falls from cloud nine to discover the possibility of Aegon becoming king when she learns about the lords' "long-laid plans" from Tyland Lannister. She knew that it would make sense for Aegon to inherit the throne for both the realm and the survival of her family, and basically gave us hints she realized this as early as the hunt scene in episode 3.

More specifically, she understands that she might have to put Aegon on the throne during the scene when a heavily drunk Viserys laments his fears of making a mistake in naming Rhaenyra his heir since he now has a son, and reveals to Alicent his prophetic vision of seeing his son with the conqueror's crown. Even if at that moment, Alicent reassures Viserys he made the right choice, you can see that the doubt lingers in her mind, and in seeing Rhaenyra return from the hunt covered in blood in absolute and ruthless callousness, Alicent recognizes the danger.

It is a wake-up call: in the end, she might have to choose her son over Rhaenyra.

And of course, we know that as Aegon was growing up, Alicent spent hours musing these doubts and even confronts him with them in episode 6: "You are the challenge, simply by living and breathing. You are the king's firstborn son and what they know, what everyone in the realm knows in their blood and in their bones, is that one day you will be our king."

So what explains her dismay during the Green Council meeting??

As I see it, the cause of Alicent's distress during the Green Council among other things is not that the lords planned a whole operation to crown Aegon as king, but that they did so behind her back, as if she is not fit to be included in these discussions, let alone be consulted for her own son's future and survival.

She rightly says: "Am I to understand that members of the small council have been planning secretly, to install my son without me?" and right after that comes the condescending reply: "My queen, there was no need to sully you with darkling schemes."

No sh!t.

Remember how betrayed and distraught Alicent felt went Aemond lost an eye and everyone dismissed her concerns as that of an overreacting and overbearing mother? The Green Council scene gives flashbacks to this.

Once again, Alicent's wishes, her wills, her thoughts, and her whole person as a mother, queen, advisor, and woman, are sidelined and minimized by members of her own council.

So this is why I think it makes sense that episode 9 is called "The Green Council" which contrasts the name given to a different council meeting in episode 10, namely, "The Black Queen." Because apparently, Rhaenyra owns her council meeting, even if she has to shut down Daemon to do so. But Alicent is not yet perceived as her own council's queen.

I hope we can somehow see Alicent truly become her own Green Queen in season 2.

#it makes me so mad #olivia's acting in this scene is phenomenal once again tho #alicent hightower #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent #asoiaf #hotd analysis #hotd thoughts #rhaenyra targaryen #team greens #the green council #hotd episode 3 #hotd episode 7 #driftmark #hotd episode 9 #the green queen #hotd episode 10 #the black queen #the greens #queen alicent #greenqueenhightower #greenqueenrants #hotd meta #hotd themes #hotd rant #welighttheway #hotd season 2 #pro alicent hightower #web weaving

[papakhan]

every day i think about how Manny Vargas is the one who resisted the NCR's like military brainwashing; refused orders; refused to partake in a massacre; and dropped out of the military at the earliest opportunity when he became aware of just how bad it was. And yet Boone gets all the credit because Manny convinced him to leave at the same time

#txt #it makes me so mad #fnv

[satelarry]

everytime i watch the final scene of fellow travelers i end up crying and (leaving aside my own traumas) the fact that matt bomer didn't get an award for his performance is truly beyond me. the same goes for jonathan bailey like...they poured their hearts in it. i hope they have the recognition they deserve at the emmy's next year. the sad truth is that the industry claims to be pro lgbt+ but when it comes down to rewarding series, movies and artists that show the community's story along with people that are part of it they tend to look the other way, giving awards to stories or songs with trivialized content.

#it makes me so mad #we like to think many things've changed #but not really #fellow travelers #matt bomer #jonathan bailey

[kaliido-s]

WoF wing elbow finger hate post. You make no sense and I wish you didn’t exist.

#lord tell me how having an appendage attachted to a joint makes any lick of sense anatomically #they’re always so stiff in the art they’re just spokes sticking out of the elbows its so gross #it makes me so mad #wof #wings of fire

[notafraidtodissapear]

people will constantly hate on katniss (for her literally just being a traumatized teenager) and then claim that they are "peeta girlies"

#thg #it makes me so mad #like peeta would not want that #katniss deserves the world #everlark #let them be happy #you obviously dont actually like peeta that much

[taikova]

if you use image generating apps, no matter what you're using it for, you're actively training it. they're so unethical and until there are copyright-respecting rules in place about how the "art ai" are trained it will continue to be so. im sorry but its heinous, all of it.

if you're a person with their pictures or art or anything image-based like that online, you've been stolen from and you wont see a cent from it cause its such a wide scale theft that'd be impossible. and it IS going to be used to replace any working artist at these corporations and businesses' earliest convenience.

#it makes me so mad #it doesn't matter that the art is ugly - it can be trained to imitate any artist who can't stop the theft fast enough #because before these projects were released BEFORE anyone even knew about it #its getting muddier and muddier to get just how much people have been stolen from. the argument that ''its all samey and ugly'' is missing #the point #just. ugh #seriously considering deleting everything because of it

[alleyesonthehindenburg]

What drives me completely fucking mad is that, for all their (valid!) concern about House’s addiction issue, Wilson and Cuddy never help him come up with an alternative pain management plan. Yes, he’s an addict. But it’s about the pain, it’s always about the pain, and they think they understand that but their actions show that they don’t.

#house md #gregory house #james wilson #lisa cuddy #it makes me so mad #he’s in pain!!! that’s the root of the issue!!! HELP WITH THE PAIN

[autistic-ranpo]

saiki k watchers will see a canonically romance/sex repulsed character whose main goal in many episodes is trying to get rid of any and all potential romances no matter what and ship him with literally everyone in the fucking show

#GOD #IT MAKES ME SO MAD #THERES SO MANY OTHER SHIPS PLEASE #LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE #saiki k #the disastrous life of saiki k. #tdlosk #saiki no psi nan #sknpn #saiki kusuo #kae's nonsense

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

forever mad because like on paper a moe dragon maid girl simping over a cringe fail loser tsundere girl and them slowing starting to tolerate and eventually love each other and then starting a found family with a little kid dragon girl is a fantastic concept, shame about the. Pedophilia. and what not

#Yeah this is about #miss kobayashi's dragon maid #IT MAKES ME SO MAD #one lesbian show that doesn't have needless sexualization of everything PLEASE #ro talks #I haven't watched the second season yet lmk if it gets better or worse #Dragon maid #Tohru #Kobayashi #kobayashi san chi no maid dragon #Gimme lesbian anime recs plz #Wish it was more like urusei yatsura if that makes sense

[baeddling]

Have to say the flattening of Julia Serano's fairly nuanced views on gender into a nebulous "gender essentialism" by a lot of trans people (who tend to fit a very specific ideological category) is extremely transparent transmisogyny

#it makes me so mad #like it's so obvious the people making these claims approached her work w the sole intention of picking apart every word for #potentially problematic material and do not at all look at what she's saying as worth listening to and analyzing in it's entirety #and she talks abt behavior like this!! #trans women are subjected to incredible scrutiny for things that would be inconsequential if someone else said them

[shieldofiron]

I think the thing that bothers me most about the racism storyline with Billy is that it’s handled so poorly, it centers Max so much, that it becomes a “not all white people” storyline. Lucas is incidental to it, really, because at the end his feelings about what happened aren’t even discussed. He never gets to talk about it. The white people “fixed” the racism for him and now it’s done forever and we never talk about it again. Only Max even knows what Billy said? Who makes a racism storyline where the whole point is to valorize white people? What kind of seventh heaven ass storyline is that?

And I understand at the end of that story not liking Billy. It couldn’t be me, because I want Billy to learn differently and be better to Lucas. I want an actual resolution. But I guess I understand if you just skate on the surface, thinking Max is good white person and Billy is Bad white person and not thinking beyond that. Because the story doesn’t ask you to.

#billy Hargrove #it makes me so mad #all the time I walk around mad about it #harringrove #tw discourse #I’m getting a headache over it again

[sleaterkinnie]

resisting violent thoughts and urges whenever I see someone do a thrift store haul and have several bags of clothing and still preach sustainability and ethicality of shopping at thrift stores or whatever bullshit they say like BITCH YOU ARE STILL A VICTIM OF THE MASS CONSUMPTION MINDSET TF DO YOU NEED ALL THAT FOR AND WHY BUY IT SO OFTEN DONT YOU HAVE ENOUGH FROM LAST TIME WHY ARE YOU WIPING RACKS CLEAN AND HIKING UP PRICES ONCE A MONTH JUST TO FEEL TRENDY NOBODY EVER NEEDS ALL THAT CLOTHING. DAMN.

#it makes me so mad #like yeah its good to shop at thrift stores and yeah its cheap but its cheap because theres people who need it 😭 #its not cheap so you can buy a fuckton of stuff every few weeks to fit some new hyperspecific trend

[hariboz]

word on the street being that ot6 riize is filming their mv in portugal…i’m actually so sick of this how does seunghan have to sit out months and months of experiences and now a whole ass comeback for dating AS A TRAINEE? there’s so many idols that have talked about their relationships pre-debut, why is he any different? how does sm expect him to return and be accepted if they keep doing this? yeri has been in red velvet for NINE YEARS and there are still people who don’t see her as a member, and she didn’t even have a “controversy” she was just added a year late because of her age!! how do you expect seunghan to be accepted back by all these new fans you gain during your ot6 promo? & the fanmeet tour they’re doing now too…genuinely feels like sm has given up on him and it pisses me off so much

#maise’s mumbles ! #i don’t talk abt riize on here much but i’m actually a briize so #it makes me so mad #bring him BACK #i hate how spineless sm can be #they have the best talent in the industry ag their disposal #but they don’t have their backs ever

[johndoeappollogist]

everything post part 20 is punishment for Arthur saying fareo instead of lily

#It makes me so mad #Do want you said you would dick head #arthur lester #malevolent #Lily Malevolent

[horrorlesbians]

I HATE this way of marketing books/movies/tv “this thing is just like this other thing you probably like but different!!!” JUST DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS WITHOUT COMPARING IT TO ESTABLISH MEDIA

#🦌 #it makes me so mad #If you cannot describe your work without referencing something else it’s not good enough

[wolfstrong]

Imagine if you sat for 8 hours straight watching movies or like knitting or baking a cake or something everyone would be like “damn that’s a long time to spend on a particular activity!” Like I thinj it’s pretty crazy. OKAY SO TELL ME WHY ITS NORMAL TO GO TO YOUR JOB 5 DAYS A WEEK AND SIT FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT ON THE COMPUTER DOING WHATEVER BULLSHIT. ITS NOT RIGHT. ITS UNNATURAL. ITS NOT WHAT GOD INTENDED US TO DO. I BELIEVE TO THE CORE OF MY HEART ITS NOT GOOD FOR US AS A HUMAN RACE. ITS KILLING US AND ITS NORMAL AND ITS KILLING USSSS!!!

#fuckkkkkkkkkkkk #it makes me so mad