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the fact that arryk, who was a traitor to rhaenyra, got a dignified burial alongside his twin actually breaks my heart. this was definitely out of respect for erryk whose grief lead him into death but it's nice detail 🙁🙁🙁
rhaenys not having black hair was so unserious as if agot/got s1 didn't focus on how strong baratheon genes are so every single half baratheon child has black hair
if i'm honest emma darcy and phia saban were the heart and soul of this episode, they had very little dialogue but their facial expressions stole the show
i don't know why many people seem to think it was rhaenyra having sex what made alicent turn against her. because i watched that same episode yesterday and that's never implied
rhaenyra: my son is dead and my husband's a revenge-hungry maniac
daemon: my brother's dead and i never got to be his first choice
rhaenys: i've outlived my children
corlys: ive lost my family and it gained my nothing
jace in winterfell:
the house with the red door, if i look back i'm lost, ser willem darry, dany's dragon dreams, and every single core detail about dany's character was not included at all
do yall think robb and jon ever played as if they were robert and rhaegar during the battle of the trident so ned had to hear jon yell I AM PRINCE RHAEGAR TARGARYEN!
sweet dark haired targaryen heirs i'll save you sweet dark haired targaryen heirs.. no sweet dark haired targaryen heirs worry not you'll live.. you're not doomed sweet dark haired targaryen heirs don't talk nonsense
hbo casting a whole ass transphobe for house of the dragon no matter if their lead actor is a trans person? this is fucking disgusting.
@HBO
@HouseofDragon
i think it's actually saddening because even though rhaena's deeply loved by me there was something powerful about a common girl doing what no other noble targaryen could. she was powerful all by herself, and nettles is one of the dance's most interesting characters
"House of the Dragon" star Olivia Cooke hated becoming a meme with that Negroni Spagliato viral interview.
“It’s just sad how you work for eight months and it f*cking gets reduced to a f*cking TikTok, and that makes me sad...I did hate it for a very long time. I was in the pub.
viserys is a vile misogynist who wanted to rape his 13 year sister because he thought he owned her, you're not supposed to think woah this must be what house targaryen thinks about rhaenyra 😭
I find it weird how people try to defend the mental abuse Catelyn directed towards Jon Snow. Her abuse led to him hiding in a corner while his siblings played. Effectively ruining his childhood. He forfeited his life by joining the Night's Watch at the age of 14 because of her
“noooo,” cersei wailed, “father help him, someone help him, my son, my son . . .”
“brave they were, and dead they are, the both of them. my sweet boys.”
“my son … rhaego … where is he? i want him.”
[...] “the boy … he did not live, khaleesi.”
its sooo funny to see hotd stans accuse alicent of disrespecting targaryen's customs by implementing the faith's symbology as if this weren't an actual targaryen king
there are people who claim rhaenyra's not that smart or cunning, but i think that's because the scene in which her brain actually shines is often regarded as a mere cruel act from her: driftmark, or rhaenyra asking for aemond to be sharply questioned
rhaenyra's such a raw grooming portrayal because her loneliness has consumed her until a point she mostly finds companionship in older men — but daemon is who she needs because she's been conditioned to that. there's emotional dependence and the emptiness that comes from it
Excerpt From the House of the Dragon Script
"Driftmark"
— Season 1 Episode 7
Rhaenyra wakes up after having sex with Daemon to find herself alone.
#HOTDS1Script
i'm sorry but if you call sara hess a rape apologist for her opinion on aegon then i hope you keep that same energy for grrm who calls drogo and dany's first time consensual, or for how much he calls robert 'a good man'
crowning aegon was supposed to keep them safe...it was supposed to be a fait accompli...it was supposed to keep daemon from killing them....it was supposed to give them control over their own destiny...but it just led to more and more bloodletting, an endless spiral...
your black actors keep getting harassed by racists, your trans actor —especially your trans LEAD— keep getting misgendered but there's no word from you. you should be protecting them from this, this is shameful and disgusting
@HBO
@HouseofDragon
Showrunner Ryan Condal says there is no “right” side in the Dance of the Dragons:
“There are heroes and monsters that wear green and heroes and monsters that wear black in equal measure.”
the symbol of the mother in fiction (fantasy, if we really get into it) only exists as a foil for other male characters to shine — the hero's mother, and the hero's wife; but for daenerys targaryen, all motherhood symbolisms are used to demonstrate her status as a hero
i feel so bad for aegon the conqueror WHAT IF you united the seven kingdoms for the sake of humanity surviving the long night BUT your descendants lost the fuckass throne like 10 years before it actually happened and the usurpers are useless as hell so the kingdoms divided
i unironically believe that the targaryens are the least evil great house
because they have the most opportunity for destruction and very few targaryens actually gave in to that destructive ability
someone, and when criston ultimately reveals the truth to her alicent crumbled — because it meant otto was right. her blind trust to rhaenyra got otto removed as hand of the king, and rhaenyra's actions were a threat to her family for the first time
otto's manipulation played a
part, rhaenyra's well-calculated lie too... it wasn't the sex what made alicent turn against rhaenyra (although she did care, medieval times and all) but the fear of her family crumbling at the hands of someone she couldn't trust
alicent believed rhaenyra because she swore on her dead mother she didn't fuck daemon —and, well, she did not fuck daemon but criston instead—, alicent and viserys sided with rhaenyra and because of that otto got sent into oldtown
when larys implies rhaenyra did fuck
this fandom would give better analysis if they understood grrm wrote rhaegar and lyanna's story as a tragic romance and not as a cautionary tale about groomers
this is 100% unironically he kinda looks like a religious figure like. he's got a face you would only see in a catholic movie about jesus and his apostles
i wonder if alicent wanted rhaenyra to remember the time when she touched her with that same tenderness — for her to still remember those little love rituals they once had
i don't think this scene means daemon misses young rhaenyra because he's the
#1
pedophile — there are way more layers to this. this is the rhaenyra who once loved him, the rhaenyra who got named heir over him, and the rhaenyra he abandoned, this is daemon accepting he harmed her
ewan mitchell too powerful he's said he likes helaemond. he says there's a romantic element to daemon and aemond's relationship. he called what aemond feels for alicent a schoolboy crush. too incestpilled for hotdtwt but i'll always welcome him
aegon sitting on the throne and holding the crown but not wearing it — rhaenyra wearing her crown but sitting in no throne. aegon was forced into a throne he did not desire, and rhaenyra, who did actually want it, was taken from it
house of the undying. a book chapter that is so full of magical prophecies, that's incredibly written and one of george's best turned into terrible mad queen foreshadowing and a drogo scene we didn't need
game of thrones: stuff that’s better in the books than the show
RULES:
• must appear in both, no book-only stuff unless it pertains to the events of the show too
• overly broad answers like ‘everything’ will earn the replier my eternal scorn
• can’t say Sand Snakes, too easy
i do think both rhaenyra and alicent's relationship with motherhood is meant to be paralleled and compared, but not so much in a gotcha to alicent way. this is what happens when your children were forced upon you, when they're a byproduct of rape
why are there people reading a song of incest and fire + watching house of the inbred to then act surprised when people in the fandom enjoy said dynamics. fork found in the kitchen?