Emilia Clarke standing by the fictional, magical fantasy character she played who killed people with a dragon isn’t promoting mass murder. I know you guys all have to share custody of your one brain cell, but dragons don’t exist. Daenerys Targaryen doesn’t exist. King’s Landing and its thousands of peasants don’t exist. The fire-breathing dragon that killed them doesn’t exist and doesn’t encourage real-world war crimes.
Daenerys as a character over the past years ten years represented strength for Emilia when she was suffering with nearly fatal brain aneurysms. When she temporarily lost her memory and even her speech, playing Daenerys was a motivator in her recovery. And until the 71st episode of Game of Thrones, Daenerys was an iconic heroine in a male-dominated genre of storytelling. She was inspiring to Emilia, like she was to millions of other people, and for Emilia’s own emotional wellbeing, she stands by Dany. In doing so she is in no way, shape, or form supporting mass murder or any other type of violence or exploitation.
On the contrary she is a philanthropist and source of positivity, generosity, and goodness in our world. She is not the problem.
If you’ve attacked Emilia here or written some desperate analysis of how problematic she is, YOU are the problem. You’re bad people and you should feel bad. Emilia hasn’t done anything wrong, but by saying she should be shot you’re promoting violence against women, a real person. Unlike Daenerys and her dragons Emilia is a real, living human with feelings and emotions and a life. Wishing she would be shot because you don’t like Daenerys is dangerously unhinged and indisputably shitty and wrong. Even the milder posts in your anti Emilia tag are embarrassing and disgusting.
In the past month from your side of the fandom I have seen:
Racists saying Missandei got what she deserved for talking back to Sansa
People attacking Dany fans with anti-Muslim rhetoric
Racists telling an Indian woman she doesn’t deserve an opinion on the show simply because she’s Indian
People telling POC they’re not allowed to like Daenerys because in doing so they’re complicit in racism
People saying Daenerys’s death should have been worse, like Elia Martell’s. Elia Martell, who was raped and brutalized
And that’s just over the past couple weeks. In my time on tumblr I’ve been insulted in every way imaginable by angry J0nsa stans. I’ve gotten the “kill yourself” anons, been called ugly, stupid, a cunt, a dumbass, been told that my husband should leave me, and more. The people responsible for all of this are the reason the fandom has been hell for years and this behavior is nothing new. But it’s more frustrating than ever to see it directed at Emilia considering how hard she works, how much she cares, and what she’s been through.
Stop attacking her under the guise of progressive concern trolling. And I know some of you attack her directly, too, since she mentioned recently that she doesn’t even read any Instagram comments anymore because of people insulting her there. You’re the most hateful and unbearable people most of us have ever had the misfortune to encounter. You don’t have the moral high ground on anyone, especially not Emilia Clarke.
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