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“The Shepherd drank deep of the anger, proclaiming that the day of doom was nigh at hand, just as he had foretold, and calling down the wroth of the gods upon “the whore queen” Rhaenyra, “this unnatural queen who sits bleeding on the Iron Throne, her whore’s lips glistening and red with the blood of her sweet sister Helaena.” When a septa in the crowd cried out, pleading for him to save the city, the Shepherd said, “Only the Mother’s mercy can save you, but you drove your Mother from this city with your pride and lust and avarice. Now it is the Stranger who comes. On a dark horse with burning eyes he comes, a scourge of fire in his hand to cleanse this pit of sin of demons and all who bow before them. Listen! Can you hear the sound of burning hooves? He comes! He comes!!”
Grrm — Fire & Blood
“In Christian myth, even the apocalypse is female. The book of Revelations prophesies that the end times will be ruled by a lustful queen, who carries a golden chalice “full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.” She appears drunk on the blood of saints, covered in jewels, and riding a scarlet beast with seven heads: “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
The monster, the woman that exists outside of our acceptable roles and definitions, must be killed, or the system will collapse. The dragon will burn the village; the Whore of Babylon will mount the Beast, and the abominations born of her lust will devour the world.”
Jude Ellison S. Doyle — “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power”
If only Hotd showrunners did not hate Rhaenyra and ever opened a single book in their lives, alas...