Isaisacrackhead - Devaneios

“I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

Girl Arranging Her Hair (1918-19) by Abbott Handerson Thayer

“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”

— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius

Mystical Conversation (1896) by Odilon Redon

Lady Snowblood

bla bla bla Aegon II is not the rightful heir!

bla bla bla Rhaenyra is not the rightful heir!

blablabla MY favorite fantasy mass murderers are actually the good guys!

Do you know who was not the rightful heir to shit? Who was very much not "the good guy"?

Aegon The Conqueror. The very reason why there is even all those debates through the series history, between this or that Targaryen, the reason why there is an iron throne in the first place, and for all the wars for it

In a monarchy, the truth of myths regarding divine rights of the royal and the noblemen is that those are nothing but justifications for the upholding of feudalism and it's social order. The only crime one can commit in a war of conquest or succession is losing it. "The rightful monarch" is the one who wins, because outside of that, there is no such thing.

History is told by the winners. Might makes right.

"Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, a shadow on the wall."

Have your favorites, have fun watching, it's entertainment after all. Root for whoever you want, for whatever reason you fancy. But do not fool yourself. They do not actually have the right to shit and you know it, you are not morally above anyone for rooting for this or that character and you know it.

The Death of Sappho (1876) by Gustave Moreau

“The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.”

— Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

The Drowned (1867) by Josef Manés