Aloe 🪴

Rhaenyra who never wanted to have kids. Rhaenyra who loved her kids more than anything. Rhaenyra who lost the kids she never wanted to have but who she loved more than anything.

Daemon asking Mysaria if she's jealous of Rhaenicent. Oh, we're all feasting I see.

It's been years. Nothing's going to heal the hole in my heart from Lizzie Saltzman saying she thinks talking about her feelings is the same as emotional terrorism.

"Rhaena riding an unfamiliar dragon into battle was stupid and bad writing" WRONG. She is FOURTEEN. She has been sidelined from dragons her whole life. The theme of controlling dragons being an illusion is stated at the START.

I'm about to get very opinionated about House of the Dragon and this is your only warning

So much of the HOTD fandom (I use that term very loosely) just refuses to interact with the material, and it is such a shame. There are so many delicious themes set up right from the start about trauma, motherhood, religion, misogyny, queerness, disability, racism, power/dragons, and miscommunication and people just ignore it all in favor of going "that's not what a fictional historian said :\" like a broken record as if that has ever been the point and as if they are incapable of creating a thought beyond that.

"Team Black or Team Green?" Babe, I don't believe in monarchy and Viserys didn't belong on the throne to pick a successor in the first place