The More You Bunch Of Weirdos Dehumanize Rhaenyra, The More I'm Gonna Love Her

Catelyn Stark, Lady of Winterfell!

A war being mutually destructive and devastating =/= both sides being equally in the wrong. The Dance progressed to a point that victory couldn't be anything but phyrric and the two factions came undone yet that doesn't preclude us from identifying the agressor and the victim. Who drove the realm to war by contesting the claim of the named heir, by explicitly going against the will of the monarch, by holding their coup in the dead of night and leaving the king's body to rot in order to preserve secrecy ? By murdering a prince under the peace banner, by allowing and applauding treachery and oathbreaking ? Intent matters. Acknowledging that conflicts aren't always a result of some inherent moral wrongness on both sides despite how the toll of war may deteriorate the participants also matters. The original will and motivation of the people involved is not made meaningless by the cost and evil of war. In the end, that's what's worth remembering.

Edit: Anon lifted @desaretaa’s twitter thread about this.

Exactly.

If that wasn’t enough, GRRM made it obvious in the story as the Greens' bloodline went extinct when Aegon II was killed, but not the Blacks'. Viserys II, son of Rhaenyra and Daemon, was succeeded by his son Aegon IV. Aegon IV was succeeded by his son Daeron II. Daeron II was succeeded by his son Aerys I. Aerys I was succeeded by his brother Maekar. Maekar was succeeded by his son Aegon V. Aegon V was succeeded by his son Jaeherys II. Jaeherys II was succeeded by his son Aerys II, who had a daughter with Rhaella named Daenerys Targaryen. Dany is Nyra’s descendant. It’s not a coincidence, there’s a message here guys about the fact Rhaenyra’s bloodline is still alive in the ASOIAF novels.

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I’ve always found it funny how people argue that “a bastard can’t be a king” or “a bastard can’t inherit” when it comes to Rhaenyra’s sons (officially recognized as Velaryons)—even though they’re publicly acknowledged by her and Laenor as legitimate heirs. But when it’s Jon, suddenly anything is possible. Somehow, he’s seen as having a stronger claim to the throne (and dragons) than Daenerys or even Young Griff, despite his status as a bastard.

And that is why I say fuck the lot of them. (It certainly helps them to believe Rhaegar raped Lyanna or at least just kidnapped her, and that she--unike Rhaenyra--was never a passive nor active claimant for leadership despite any laws they'd try to bring up and her own will was never a part of how Jon came to be.)

sorry my son lectured your son for watching the counter-revolutionary children's show "paw patrol", but to be fair it is copaganda

Alicent and Aegon

Jonsatin for day 3!

hell yeah I'm a catholic, I've been addicted to Catelyn Stark my whole life

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I think if Arya had a gun we would have wrapped this all up (not necessarily for the better) in book one (and it would be funny)

the purple wedding would have never happened bc she’d have shot joffrey during the first conflict with the butcher’s boy