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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) S02E06 | "Smallfolk"

the funeral (a grotesque display of two queens’ grief, forced on them against their will) being interjected by images of aegon beating blood into a bloody ruin says something about how women’s grief is exploited and paraded around as a virtue while male grief is only allowed to exist in conjunction with violence.

female sorrow is expected to be public, dignified, and even noble, it serves as a symbol of quiet strength and resilience. otto uses it as a tool to gain sympathy for their cause. notice how he forced alicent and helaena into it, while he allowed aegon not to participate. wouldn‘t the king being at the funeral send a powerful message? yes, it would. but otto looks at aegon with contempt, the other councilmen and alicent do not know what to do with his tears. the realm cannot be allowed to see the king grieve. not like this.

male grief is denied its own space and validity unless it manifests in aggressive or destructive acts. aegon realizes this to some degree too— he lashes out publicly by killing the rat catchers. he shows his grief by being violent, by spilling blood.

the toxicity of it all is very effectively shown at the end when aegon is crying by himself. did he retreat there to be alone and finally let it all out? his mother is either letting him have that moment alone or she’s deeply uncomfortable with it and chooses to leave. no matter what motivated alicent in acting the way she did— the moment still reveals how male vulnerability is something people fear. it shows that even the most human expressions of pain are not acceptable for some.

do you think larys ever watched aegon jerk off through that window

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otto acting like he and alicent are the same generation grouping her with him as a wise measured older person as opposed to the hot headed younger men like her sons who refuse to see reason like them…… right after calling jaehaerys his grandson instead of his great grandson….. reaching lethal levels of daddaughter. when the targs are in an incest competition but their opponent is otto hightower

saw someone vague me and really not understand why I and others are pointing out the grandson thing because he was using it synonymously with great grandson…… [patiently] the ambiguity of the synonymous usage here is part of the established theme of the blurring of familial and spousal relationships within the targtower family unit. otto and alicent are father and daughter who act as husband and wife, while alicent and viserys were a married couple that acted as father and daughter. helaena and aegon are siblings who are married with children. aemond saw himself as above his siblings in his relationship with alicent, acting as her protector growing up as she emotionally leaned on him, and now he refers to her by her first name as opposed to calling her mother and sleeps with older brunette women who he has hold him like a child. aegon and alicent basically grew up together and are more the King and Queen than he and helaena are. otto calls jaehaerys a grandson instead of a great grandson, and this makes sense because he took a much more active role in alicent's kids lives than viserys did, and the covert incest of otto and ali place him in a parental role to her children

this is called a theme!

‘rhaenicent is gross pseudoincest bc thats her stepmother’ is suchh a funny argument. you guys are going to shit yourselves to death at every single relationship if you ever actually watch the show

eww thats basically stepmommy porn 🤢 emily carey is so disgusting for advocating for it. why can’t you just ship rhaenyra with her uncle or cousin like a normal person

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where was she? Where was she? WHERE WAS SHE!!!!? wHeRE waS sHE!!!!!!!!??????????

Team Green this. Team Black that. Blah blah blah.

Have you considered that maybe I’m team sexy people? Have you considered that maybe I’m a whore?

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Laena’s curls are so big and beautiful 🥹💕

My heart already bleeds for them and we haven’t even started yet 🥹💕