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theleavesofwesteros · 10 months

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Retribution | Aemond Targaryen x OC!Visenya Velaryon

A/N: I guess I'm writing for Aemond now??? I'm absolutely petrified because I think he is such a fascinating character and I can only hope I do him even a bit justice in this fic, HELP. Oh also, I moved up the ages a bit oops idk if Aemond is truly 16 in the TV show, but in the timeskip of this fic he will be 20 </3

I'm also posting this late at night and I'm tired so if it's shitty I'm really sorry I just really wanted to post thissss and I love him and ugh

Also i'm so sorry this is my first time using dividers and idk where to find good ones so I used a random gif idk if that's alright

Okay ilyyyy

warnings: targcest (specifically niece x uncle, oops), mention of Aemond losing his eye, talking about sex and about dick, blood, that's it??? I think.

Visenya Velaryon was a feisty girl. She was the older sister of Jacaerys and Lucerys Velaryon, and the only daughter of Rhaenyra Targaryen. Though she looked like Jacaerys and Lucerys in the nose and mouth, she was a pure Targaryen otherwise; with her silver hair and violet eyes. Visenya never got a dragon as a child, so she was mocked by her uncle Aegon, but her brothers were more hesitant to do so, because she would shoot them a disapproving look and they would stop. Aegon, Jacaerys and Lucerys did have one person that they mercilessly mocked for having no dragon though; Visenya's other uncle, Aemond.

Visenya enjoyed Aemond's presence much more than Aegon's. Aemond resembled her, seeing as they were both observant, fiesty, quick to anger and well-read. They spent most of their childhood reading together in the library, sneaking off into the kitchens of the Red Keep in the middle of the night, and protecting the other from cruel words. Of course, good things never seem to last.

When Harwin Strong was removed from the King's Guard, Visenya confided in Aemond about how upsetting it was that Harwin Strong was being punished, but Aemond sided with Ser Criston Cole and even let slip a 'bastard' in Visenya's direction. Visenya hit Aemond across the face and left for Dragonstone with Rhaenyra, Laenor and her brothers.

Soon after, Visenya and her family went to Driftmark for Laena Velaryon's funeral. Jace was upset at the prospect of being there and not at the funeral of Harwin Strong. Visenya agreed with her younger brother, though she did not voice that opinion. She felt eyes on her throughout the entire ceremony and she knew who was watching her. She did not approach him, there was nothing to say. He'd made his opinion about her known. Visenya found herself hoping she had a dragon, a dragon who could scare Aemond into apologizing, into bowing at her feet and begging for forgiveness. Visenya held Baela and Rhaena's hands, comforting them as much as she could, but also secretly holding onto that feeling of hands in hers, and using it to deal with her own grief. She could obviously tell she was not Laenor's biological daughter, and if her brothers' resemblance to Harwin Strong was anything to go by, she knew she would much rather be at a different funeral.

Visenya went to bed early that night, desperately clutching onto Lucerys' little hand. Lucerys still did not understand why she and Jacaerys were so upset. He likely assumed that they were simply very empathetic towards Laenor's loss. After she'd fallen into a deep sleep, she was awoken by Baela and Rhaena talking to Jacaerys. Someone had stolen Vhagar. With the feeling of dread in Visenya's chest, she already knew who had done that.

Her feet carried her quickly through the castle and into the tunnel leading out towards the shores of Driftmark. Unfortunately for her, all that ensued never reached the outside world. It seemed to all be caught up in a secluded tunnel, almost as if the event itself knew that it would have been best to bury down under other family secrets and misfortunes. Obviously, with such visible ramifications, the event could never be hidden away.

Once the entire family, minus Laenor, had gathered to discuss what in the Seven Hells had happened, Visenya's hands were shaking, and her white nightgown was stained with blood. She had never thought her little brother Lucerys would ever do that. She only remembers running to Aemond to try and help, but he had pushed her away, calling her a bastard. Now, Aemond was sitting in a chair, his face bloody, his left eye closed and swollen, and Queen Alicent and Rhaenyra were arguing. Visenya kept looking at Aemond, kept begging and praying to all the Gods that this was not real, that this had not happened.

Queen Alicent requested that Lucerys give up an eye as well. An eye for an eye. Visenya felt herself get nauseous at the thought. Words were thrown back and forth, insults, accusations. It was an ugly affair. Visenya only looked towards Aemond. Eventually, his only eye made its way to her face as well. He scowled, but did not look away. They kept looking at each other from across the room, Visenya staying by a bloodied Jacaerys and Lucerys. Shockingly, Aemond and she had not engaged against one another. She only tried to stop the fight, so she'd only ended up with a few bruises and scrapes.

As the conflict escalated to dramatic heights, and Alicent cut Rhaenyra, King Viserys took hold of the situation. He had noticed how Visenya and Aemond had been looking at each other across the room, and last he knew, Aemond and Visenya were very close.

"Stop this madness! I am your King and I demand it to be so! Lucerys will not be giving one of his eyes."

Alicent ground her teeth at his words and looked away, shame and tears in her eyes. She and Aemond were holding one another, Aemond's eye yet again watching Visenya as if he was expecting her to finally pounce on him as well.

"The solution to this problem is easily obtainable." King Viserys continued, all eyes on him.

"Aemond has been injured, and requests retribution from Rhaenyra's children. Visenya has always been close to her uncle. I think it is obvious what must be done. I shall have Aemond and Visenya married."

Eerie silence followed in the room. Aemond and Visenya looking at each other with hatred on their faces.

"No chance at all-"

"Father-"

King Viserys simply held his hand up.

"Enough. Alicent, Rhaenyra, I know you are mothers, but I am King. My decision in final. I shall give you until Visenya turns eight and ten. Then, she shall return to King's Landing and she will marry Aemond."

"Father, I have no need for a bastard wife. I have earned a dragon. The greatest dragon in the Seven Kingdoms. What will Visenya offer me? She is dragonless. A simple bastard." Aemond said coldly, eye unmoving from Visenya's face.

Visenya scowled and was about to insult Aemond, but Viserys spoke again.

"Enough, boy. I am doing this for you. She is not bastard. You will marry her, you will strenghten our House, you will have your retribution for what has happened to you, and our family will be united once more. I will hear no more complaints."

Visenya said no more words for the rest of her short stay on Driftmark. She was glad to leave and go back to Dragonstone, for once in her life. Once home, she was furious at Aemond. He had a dragon, and he insulted her because she did not. They'd both grown up without dragons, and yet the second he obtained one, he allowed himself to mock her just as he'd been mocked. Visenya carelessly and out of pure spite, found the wild dragons on Dragonstone and through sheer ambition and fury, claimed The Cannibal. He feasted on the corpses of dragons, and Visenya knew exactly whose corpse she would offer to The Cannibal next.

"I don't give a shit about tourneys. Nephews...have you come to train?"

The tension in the training yard was palpable. The crowd had parted and Jacaerys and Lucerys found themselves staring at Aemond. He had grown tall, lithe, his hair had gotten much longer too. His voice had gotten deeper, one could practically hear his evil intentions within it. A sliver of silver was visible between Jacaerys and Lucerys and Aemond smirked.

"Little wife, have you finally come to me?"

Visenya pushed her two younger brothers aside and walked up to Aemond.

"Uncle." She said simply, her jaw clenched in fury.

"Niece," Aemond said, his smirk not having left his face.

He took in all of Visenya, admiring how she'd grown into a young woman. She had always been beautiful, but now, Aemond found himself slightly thankful of the match his father had made.

"You look angry as ever. Happy eight and tenth name day. I have no gift for you, but fret not, I shall be gifting you with something on our wedding night."

Visenya narrowed her eyes at him.

"I was not aware that three inches was considered a gift, uncle."

Aemond's jaw clenched momentarily, his eye blazing with fury, before he quickly composed himself, smirk back on his face.

"We shall see, niece. I believe you will find yourself begging for those three inches quite quickly." He got close to her so he could whipser in her ear. "You will also find yourself begging for the rest of me quite quickly as well, little wife. Fret not, if you are good, I will give you what you need."

Visenya pushed him away with a sound of disgust and eagerly left the training yard, opting to get ready with her brothers in order to strenghten Lucerys' claim on Driftmark. Before she left, she looked back at Aemond, who was already watching her.

"The Cannibal is eager to meet you, uncle."

Aemond only watched her, his amusement evident.

"Vhagar is eager to meet The Cannibal as well, I assure you, ābrazȳrys. Only then, shall we see who truly deserves the name of cannibal." wife

Visenya looked away from Aemond, showing him the middle finger as she walked off, leaving Aemond's cackle to be heard throughout the entire training yard.

#aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #hotd aemond #aemond fanfiction #hotd #house of the dragon #they are cunty #he is so fine #they love each other #but they won't say it #oops #they want to frick #aemond x oc #aemond targaryen x oc #aemond x fem!oc #aemond fic

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lazylittledragon · 4 months

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can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!!#how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

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dazzlerazz · 7 months

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Screw terfs n all but are you normal about transgirls who don't want to medically transition? Are you normal about transguys with boobs who don't wear binders? Are you normal about the trans people who only want to socially transition because that's what's right for them? Are you normal about the transgirls with beards? Are you normal about the transguys who love their curves? Screw terfs, but are you normal about trans people?

Important Edit!!!!!

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Please consider donating to his fundraiser (linked below) or donating via PayPal ([email protected]) with a note that it's for the GoFundMe

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Thank you for those who have donated so far, it means the world to him and to me!

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#queer #keep seeing people say 'I won't respect you as a trans person until you look cis' n shit #fuck you I love my body and I'm still a guy #I come to tumblr I post stuff about being queer and then I drink two cups of coffee and have a cheese pizza #10k #20k #30 #40k

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ot3 · 4 months

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i can't believe that we're doing 'i use bro/dude in a gender neutral way' discourse in 2024 because even without the blatant transmisogyny of being unwilling to make incredibly minor linguistic concessions for the sake of not casually misgendering trans women, 'dont call people things that will upset them' is a concept literal kindergartners are capable of grasping. if someone says 'don't use these words to refer to me, i don't like it' and your response is anything but 'sorry, i won't do it again' then the kindest possible interpretation of your behavior is that you are a huge asshole that nobody should want to hang out with.

#'i call everyone dude/bro/man its equality' is just the transmisogynistic version of 'i dont see race'#like yeah i also call everyone those things. unless they say they don't want me to. and then i won't do it. huge!

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mysticfemme · 4 months

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Thinking about...

"Oh good girl, you're so good for me."

"Fuck baby, you're so tight."

"I know, I know baby, it's okay, just breathe for me, come on, just breathe."

"You take me so well, fuck, you're making such a mess, angel."

"Look at me. Look at me when I'm talking to you. Good girl."

"God, you look so pretty underneath me like this."

"Come on baby, just one more. There we go, that's it sweetheart. You can do it for me."

"Oh darling, you thought we were done? We've barely even started."

"Fuck princess, oh fuck, you feel so fucking good, you're so fucking wet for me, fuck-"

men dni

#butches saying any of these phrases? i'm already on my knees #what i would give to hear any of these during sex #begging on my knees actually #vocal butch doms who won't shut up during sex >>>#mysticfemme's post #lesbian nsft #butch daddy #wlw nsft #wlw domme #wlw sub

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uncanny-tranny · 6 months

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It's honestly frustrating that I've seen non-Russian queer people almost bragging about how they would be illegal in Russia, labeled an extremist or terrorist. Russian queers are in danger, their government has made it clear where it stands, and it's made this effort for the better part of a decade (even longer, perhaps). This will kill people, don't mistake this for a quirky little proclamation from a government, akin to somebody saying the sky is pink. Russian queer people were already expressing their fear, and the least we can do now is express our love for them, and advocate with them.

Russian queer people, I love you. I love you all so much. I am so sorry, I cannot begin to express the grief that I feel, and I hope that you are safe. Words cannot encapsulate how I feel as a non-Russian, and I cannot hope to comprehend how it feels to actually be in this situation.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #ofc this has been brewing for a long time and it has been really troubling to say the very LEAST #honestly i have seen russian queers joke about the situation which feels different. honestly it's almost admirable #i just can't find it funny to see non-Russians do it simply because the threat of prosecution or death for people is too high in my mind #it feels almost voyeuristic when non-russians joke like that to me #like i've joked about the state of (us)american queer rights when it feels too bleak but i live here #i guess when people only joke about it it tells me they don't think it's a big deal or that it won't affect queer people...#...because it won't affect them as an outsider likely #it's just shitty. all around. and it's the type of thing that i'm not sure what to do #queerphobia #queerphobia tw

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1eos · 10 months

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'tumblr is full of 14 year olds' wrong tumblr is full of 24 year olds who just don't do anything. and that's okay

#its not weird to be a virgin or to not smoke weed #it IS weird to have an emotional reaction to someone else not having sex or doing drugs #like if fucking n smoking was sooooo cool u'd be doing that rn!#and ofc vice versa mx robotpussy is so real #bc of who i follow i see more of the shaming ppl who don't have sex but ive seen the weird terminally online ppl #who haven't killed the cop in their head trying to police ppl who are just doing things with their own bodies #and i can say from personal experience ppl who do drugs are so chill abt it if you don't wanna smoke they won't pressure you #like it's ok to have sex it's ok not to it's weird if you care like they're not not fucking you keep scrolling

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ja3yun · 2 months

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PARK SUNGHOON???? LIKE HELLOO???

#ohhh park sunghoon #i won't get over this #i have it on repeat #repost reblog retweet bookmark #his voice is deep when he says it too like 🫠#sunghoon #enhypen

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14dayswithyou · 1 month

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💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖

For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!

The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^

What's been added to the 3.5 version?

📺 Streamer Mode!

I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.

Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh

This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!

⚙️ Custom Pronouns!

It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;

Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!

💗 Choose how others perceive you!

You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.

For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!

📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!

You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3

Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!

I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;

I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao

📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!

You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!

Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!

I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;

It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)

🖤 Additional Scenes Update!

Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!

If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.

After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga

🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!

I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!

I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.

Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.

How to download and play the update?

(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!) To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!

Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)

Enjoy!!

#14 days with you #14dwy #💖 — 14 days with queue.#🖤 — updates.#🖤 — spoilers.#I'm not gonna say much about my current doxxing situation because I've got it under control now + it's being handled privately #Plus I don't wanna give it/the people involved any unnecessary attention. I just wanna announce the update and Get Back To It™️#(''it'' bein the grind 💪 It never stops lmao /silly)#OG followers will also know that these topics aren't the vibe I normally have on this blog (or any of my accounts); so I don't think I'll—#—make ANOTHER public post about the situation and bring more attention to it (when I just want everything to be over and put to rest ^^;)#However I also don't want people to think that I'm... ignoring?? the situation entirely (because gettin doxxed is a very endangering thing)#So I DO want to quickly acknowledge it here and say that it's all currently handled + I'm safe and okay + this won't stop me from—#—continuing to work on 14DWY (and other future projects). I also don't want to give these awful people more power and incentive to continue #—this kind of pathetic behaviour; so the less attention and encouragement being shown will ultimately be better in the long run :3 #Aaaaaanways!! 😮‍💨#My other accounts will be restored shortly and my askbox will be opened once I feel comfortable. I'll get around to following folks—#—again in my own time; so please don't feel offended if I unfollowed you during a moment of vulnerability and anxiety!!#This is all EXTREMELY overwhelming and scary for someone with SAD/AvPD; and I /gen can't handle seeing it all over my timeline ;v;#Sorry this got ranty and personal again hjdsgjsdh T_T I said I wouldn't say much; so I'll shut up now hehe #🖤 — shut up sai.

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heritageposts · 20 days

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Updates from Al Jazeera's live feed (24 May 2024):

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #israel #gaza #icj ruling #i doubt this will do anything to improve the situation in gaza short term (israel is already saying they won't comply)#but blatantly ignoring UN-backed demands will further ostracize israel and add to the mounting pressure to cut economic ties

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lazylittledragon · 5 months

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Hello I love your bg3 content and your Dorian is so lovely! Can we get like an alternative reality with Dorian and Ascended Astarion? What would your headcannon be for them? 🙇

something like this, probably

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tavstarion #ascended astarion #tw blood #long post #i may have gotten carried away with this #the only good thing dorian got out of being vampire lord astarion's concubine was a lovely bedchamber and a dramatic robe #i think dorian's attitude to a lot of things is 'it can't be that bad' until it is very very very bad #'maybe he won't be that bad' until you've been locked in a palace for decades and there's nothing left for you to love anymore #i got nauseous writing this i HATE him #it was such a delicious prompt though and i can't say i never thought about it #also i didn't realise until after i wrote it that this was how interview with the vampire ends. nvm

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rapidhighway · 20 days

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HI, i'm just gonna drop this in your lap and run actually, a future AU

Part 2

#this is an au #idk what im gonna do after i post this #i mean i know i have assignments to do #im literally just trying to be ambitious if i finish this it won't be long hueueue #OK BYEEE #shadow the hedgehog #art #comic #sonic #sth #sonic fanart #HHEHHEHEHEHEEEE #say something to me ask me something im literally so nervous rn fdsefdfrgdfc #i hope posting a spread like this will work i just #think it's cool when the two pages connect together and stuff #hope everything's visible if not i'll post normally later or something hnngg #tw blood #ok this will be short i prommy idk when i'll do page 3-4 but it will be simpler than this one #IF i'll draw more HHAHAHHAHAHAHA

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winters-rose-daughterofcain · 23 days

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It's actually so important to me how flawed Penelope is you don't get it. She's complex and she's kind and sweet and caring and loving and bitter and manipulative and insecure and she's young and hurt and fucking up and making mistakes and hurting people and loving people and handling things in the worst way possible with the resources she has on hand and she's allowed to.

So often for a fat (and I say that within the context of the show, Pen is a fat/pus sized character within the narrative even if Nicola isn't) character to have any storyline outside of mother or joke they have to be the perfect victim. To be fat is to be victimised by society to some degree, it is to be told you are unloved and unwanted and unworthy without anyone saying those exact words, we all know this even if we don't want to except it. It's why almost every fat character is bullied in some way even if it's passed off as a joke, and they are just expected to take it because to actually acknowledge the pain and hurt and damage that causes is to acknowledge their humanity.

There is no space for complexity when you do not recognise the humanity of a character, there is no room for mistakes or grace or forgiveness in a narrative when the character is presented as lucky to simply be there. This goes doubly so for romance, as rare as it is to even see plus sized girls as a romantic lead, when they are there is no room for mistakes, the standards they are held to are so vastly different because they can't fuck it all up, they have no room to make mistakes when people question why they're even there in the first place.

But not Penelope. She fucks up so many times over, she creates half her own problems trying to fix things or make herself feel better. It dose not shy away from the damage and underlining issues and insecurities the life she has lead has left her with, and it's sympathetic to be sure, but what she dose with it isn't. Because fat people do not have to be the perfect victim and honestly most of the time are not. Because when you tell someone how little they are worth and how out of place and undesirable they are at every turn and expect them to internalise that, especially a young girl with very little power at her immediate despoil, it doesn't always come out in a very nice palatable way. It doesn't always create nice sweet uncomplicated people who cry a little when insulted but otherwise brush it off. It creates people like Penelope, it creates anger and resentment and bitterness and a need for control.

Whistledown is so many things, not all of them negative, but it is the cause of so many problems in her life after she made it as an attempt at a solution. It has caused her to hurt people and betray people and lose some of the very few genuine connections she actually has. She manipulates people and misleads them to keep her secret, because keeping a secret like that will always result in that. Her motives are sympathetic, she rarely dose anything to bad without reasoning, she has all the excuses in the world and still at the end of the day she fucked up. Her and Eloise are the second love story of the season for a reason. She adores that girl so much and she is absolutely miserable without her, as Eloise is without her. They love each other so much and there is so much pain between them now, they're practically crying every time they look at each other. And even tho the situation was complicated an messy and not completely her fault, she did in a way cause it. She's hurt people and she's hurt herself. And I love that.

Because she's a main character. We know her and Eloise will make up even if it isn't the way it was before (arguably a good thing but that's a different post.) Because she's a romantic lead, because we know, even if we don't know how they get there yet, that she will get her happy ending with the man she absolutely adores and who loves her just as much. It will not be easy I don't want it to be easy, Colin has every right to be angry and hurt and betrayed and he deserves to have the space to say whatever it is he's feeling and to have a negative reaction, but he will forgive her. Part of that is just because of who he is and the relationship he has to her (mandatory Colin appreciation moment) but it's also because the narrative has given her room and grace to be flawed.

There is so much to love about Penelope. She's so intelligent, and she's funny, she's a good listener, she makes people feel heard and important, she's kind, she's attentive, she's romantic, she's creative, she's beautiful. She is a victim and people and society do hurt her, but that's not all she is. She's given the space to be more and still be forgiven and loved just like anyone else. Because her actions is what she's apologising for not her existence. She dose not need to earn her place in a love story just because she's fat, it's her actually flaws and mistakes that exist in abundance no matter how sympathetic some of them might be, that she has to make up for. And I adore that and her.

You take away so much of her character and her agency and her complexity when you say she did nothing wrong or that she's the absolute devil. Let her be flawed, let her be someone trying their best and failing at it, let her make mistakes. But give her some grace, for once the narrative is. Her happy ending will come Bridgerton is a romance show, but she'll have to work for it. Colin and her will work for and earn their happy ending together, because they love each other and because of who they are and what they mean to each other they will find a way to make it work, but also because the writers let them and her find it.

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