Flights of Fancy

He was always whining about how he didn’t have a son. Okay, I get it he was a king and he needed an heir. But when Aegon was born, he still didn’t change his mind, all because he felt guilty about the wife he sacrificed himself. Even though he witnessed himself how they refused Rhaenys a woman and named him as heir, he seriously thought that they would have just accepted Rhaenyra just because he said so?

And Let’s be real here he didn’t exactly choose Rhaenyra he rejected Daemon. And then she goes and marries her uncle the man Viserys didn’t want on the throne, which was the whole reason she was named heir in the first place

On top of that, Rhaenyra produces bastards. And I really don’t get this argument that, Oh, Rhaenyra had no choice because Laenor was gay. Before marrying him, she had every opportunity to choose whoever she wanted, but she refused.

SHEILA ATIM as Akasha

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

Not me rewatching Brutal Love for the thousandth time and marveling once more at the lyrics describing Lestat *feeling* Louis pulling on their joined thread. The bond. The cord. Yet Gabriella, also Lestat's fledgling, is rendered to nothing in that room. Everyone has disappeared and it's only Lestat and Louis.

The great love.