the way that some people talk about helaena is just disgusting.
you have the people that straight up say that they're looking forward to b&c & don't care about her at all. which is fine i mean at least you're honest (though can't understand why anyone would be looking forward to seeing a 6yo kid get brutally murdered but ok)
then you have the people who try and "claim" helaena as TB. they say that helaena hates her family & her mom & her family is the reason that her life was ruined - and not b&c and maelor's death caused by rhaenyra and daemon. and it's so obvs they're just using that as an excuse to justify their favs horrible actions.
helaena's family did not ruin her life.
in the book it was viserys that arranged her marriage to aegon. so don't go crying in the comments about "the book", in the show the alternative is jace - and alicent was not about to let her daughter become rhaenyra's unofficial hostage. the twins are obvs not 6 and were aged down so show!helaena gave birth prob at 17. (these kids are not 6) by marrying aegon, helaena gets to stay at home with her family.
helaena is not suicidal. there is nothing in the show or the book to indicate that she is suicidal or depressed. she's described as a happy girl in the book and in the show we don't really get a lot of scenes with her but there's 0 indication to her being depressed. helaena committed suicide because of her children's death. the greens did not kill her children.
helaena does not hate her children. literally stfu. you can claim that because she's a teen mom (rhaenyra was also a teen mom but i digress) motherhood is prob not easy for her. but the fact that some people say that she hated her kids as a way to justify b&c is disgusting.
helaena being portrayed as neurodivergent & sensitive to touch does not mean that she can't or doesn't love her family. this take makes me want to scream. one of my best friends is also extremely sensitive to touch. she rarely lets her mom hug her and that's OK. everyone has different boundaries.
stop infantilizing helaena!!!!!!!!!!!!! she's an adult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and all of these excuses are somehow supposed to make b&c and maelor's death look less bad & daemyra less guilty. oh, daemon had her child brutally murdered before her eye? nah, she hated her children anyway lol rhaenyra drove her to suicide? well, she was always depressed and suicidal so it's not that big of a deal... (and don't even get me started on the "why didn't she just go to rhaenyra on dragonstone" as if she'd ever betray her family & like her own sons weren't also at risk if rhaenyra became queen)
i really can't. mind you, these are the people that scream and cry misogyny but are willing to use another female character in such a cynical and sinister way to justify their favs action. and yes, i'm calling it sinister because it feels VERY sinister. the discourse about helaena makes me so uncomfortable. (and the discourse around jaehaera is also disturbing af)
sorry about the rant.
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i've been drawing, designing and redesigning rhinedottir and alice for a longgg while now, but i've only ever posted that stuff on twitter so here's my most recent designs for them two! alice on the left and rhinedottir on the right of course!!
i love my old women yuri. the second pic is a lil older but still somewhat the same as the most recent designs
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Hey, I wonder,,,
TRAILER KIDS:
Austin
Emmy
Alice
Davey
Carla
Monty
Cindy
Nugget
Ted(???)
ABSENT KIDS:
Buggs
Jerome
Ozzy
Billy
Lily
Felix(???)
Madison
Ron
Penny(???)
Plus the Janitor in the trailer but no Bob, Applegate in the trailer but no Danner, Stevie in the trailer but no KG1 Hall Monitor,, no Margaret or Agnes,,,
The cast seems to have been split almost exactly in half. Maybe the other kids are just at a different school? It's plausible. So many kids could be transferred to KG2 because they were already low on students after Madison & Ron were kidnapped and because they had such nice facilities. They could afford elevators and science practicals, different lunches every day and toys for the kids to play with. But this new school? Their principal is missing. The whole place is dripping with green goo. There's graffiti on the wall, a gator in the pool, and they didn't seem to even have a lunch lady until Applegate showed up. They're significantly more underfunded, and seem to be smaller (e.g. 1 classroom compared to 2 classrooms and a gym). Perhaps the others are just at Kindergarten 4.
It just seems a little odd that there are so many kids missing. Billy & Lily could just be investigating again, Madison & Ron recovering from being abducted, Penny is most likely dead for good and it doesn't sound like Ozzy's mom would approve of the state of the new school. Perhaps Buggs is just skipping, maybe Jerome is actually having a day to mourn. Danner could be dead, or went somewhere else since he could no longer help out with experiments. Bob is a janitor, he's not restricted to kindergartens. Maybe the KG1 Hall Monitor was fired for smoking or something. Margaret probably couldn't get a job here since the female principal only hired her because she was her sister, Agnes is a dumpster woman who'll probably just find another dumpster. But that is a lot of characters to cut out. Here's hoping we see at least a couple in the new game! :D
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