Stuff and Things

tysm!!!! here’s some more daemon with the same design 💕

I think this is why she remains a largely unsympathetic character. Mr. Bennet understands that he's in a loveless marriage and he wants to save at least his favourite child from the same fate. Mrs. Bennet seems to genuinely believe that as long as her daughers have money, they'll be fine.

She married for money and position and she got both. With 3 wonderful and 2 strange daughters on top of that bargain. Has her husband prepared their daughters or even herself for the future without him in it? nope. but that's what children are for! either the beautiful or the lively one will marry well and take care of her forever. So yeah, Mr. Bennet isn't perfect. He's a curmudgeon, he doesn't give a shit about her nerves and he always makes jokes nobody thinks are funny. But she is never hungry, she always has new clothes, she can go to balls and goddamnit - she made her marriage work, even if he has become more and more irritating the longer this goes on. She is still a youngish woman, and yes, thank you for asking, she and Jane could be sisters!

Her life isn't perfect - but then again, where does love take you at the end of the day really? love goes away but acres are to stay! And then her strange second daughter refuses that very same security? Yes, Mr. Collins is an acquired taste. But hell, every man is. Lizzy will have her house, 2000 a year and nobody needs to worry another day of her life.

FEMALES!!

or how hans capon taught henry to swim (they made no progress)

Alysanne can peace out when she and Jaehaerys fight yet she cannot tell him to stuff it when he wants their likely disabled daughter Daella married or sent to the Silent Sisters. The fact she doesn’t leave over this also tells us that she still operates believes in the societal limitations for noble girls; even if she tried to have Daenerys named heir.

Saera goes to the dragon pit after she escapes the Red Keep and her abusers because a dragon is the easiest way to gtfo. But having a dragon would also allow her to defend herself from abuse in the future. Jaehaerys rage as a result is two part 1) he’s definitely controlled who gets a dragon in order to keep dragons limited to the core line is succession and 2) she’s the daughter who humiliated him and threatened the paternal control over his “womenfolk” that he feels he is entitled to due to Westerosi societal expectations.

Rhaenys the Queen Who Never Was is able to take an active role in the Dance of the Dragon and therefore die in battle because she is a dragon rider. More importantly, post Great Council of 101, Viserys has to reintegrate Rhaenys’ family back into the succession partially if not mostly because Rhaenys and her children have dragons. Yet she is still the Queen Who Never Was not Queen Rhaenys because Jaehaerys/Vaegon/The Great Council refused to put a woman on the throne.