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hidden silly · 2mo

why were you in the comments of a biphobe cheering her on? “omg the biphobe allegations are rolling in” bc she is one??? rhaenyra is bi, she was genuinely attracted to both cole and harwin (and it’s even valid to claim she loved harwin as well). i don’t understand why you want to erase her bisexuality when you can still perfectly ship her with alicent just fine?? ngl you lost me with this

at some point y'all are simply going to have to swallow the hard pill that lesbianism and interpretations of it in media are not an erasure of bisexuality, and setting a condition that a female character's attraction to men must be acknowledged at all times in order to appreciate her love for women is not a championing of bisexuality but a conditioned instinct to define women by that male attraction, as they always have been by a patriarchal society.

i do not care if rhaenyra was portrayed as being attracted to criston and harwin (both of whom i legitimately like). neither of those relationships have had any significant or positive impact on her narrative, nor has she even spared a notable thought about either of them in who knows how long. you are not putting them on the same level as her and alicent's relationship, the very core of this show's storytelling, because of bisexual representation, but because you still need rhaenyra's existence to be at least tangentially connected to men in order to relate to her. being queer doesn't absolve you of that instinct, and lesbians interpreting her attraction to criston and harwin as compulsory does not erase you. i do not have the power to erase you, especially in comparison to the vast majority of the audience who have spent the past 2 years screaming that rhaenyra was Heterosexual to anyone who interpreted her relationship with alicent as romantic.

y'all are always out here fighting the wrong battles with the wrong people yet expecting community to be built around you. take your canon bi tantrums and shove them.

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