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His words came, slow and hesitant.
"I lost my son."
"What was his name?", she asked gently.
"Jaehaerys," Aegon stuttered, nearly choking on his son's name. It felt wrong to be saying it out loud, and at the same time, it felt good.
"I had a boy, too", Rhaenyra spoke, quietly.
do not fool yourself: i love aemond, this is not a hating post on any of the green characters. i'm absolutely in awe with his layers. and i do love helaena, as well as aegon. their doomed relationships is something amazing to dissect.
this is so funny
i'm 26, a lawyer with 2 postgraduate degrees in criminal law, heading to a graduation in english literature and... god bless?
i'm now old enough to enjoy my passions unapologetically while drinking, fucking and paying for my comic con tickets and books
just making it clear: i don't like the “prize of war” arc. i enjoy this relationship because i believe they'll change in the show. alys doesn't seem that vulnerable and aemond seems to have a weakness for affection. they're different from the book (in my opinion). hope it's good!
and what if now aegon wants to be king out of spite. out of fear for helaena. out of rage for aemond. out of pain for alicent.
his rise shall be sweet.
it scares me how badly some want to watch helaena being tortured. "aegon is bad to his wife" "aemond is bad to his sister"
so far, both of them have treated her in protective manners. at the dinner with viserys, at the coronation, on the day she said she was scared of the rats
@DaemyrasEscort
omg not even daemyra is safe. daemon is married to her, father of her children, raised an army for her and they draw a line at "my love"? like, LET THAT MAN SHOWS HE LOVES HER, FOR FUCK'S SAKE
it’s so funny because she looks so over it but aegon didn’t ask her shit until she started talking, leave like you left when he was breaking down?! at least be consistent
i can't put into words how badly i'd like to watch a dark!jacaerys version.
yes, jace, be a threat. use politics with fire and blood. let power corrupt you. realize that you want the throne more for yourself than for your mother. be unhinged.
@MaverickMaya_
it's just... i don't care? like, i'm completely fine with that. the kid doesn't even have a defined end in the books. it was just funny how out of nowhere you came to bring daemon and rhaenyra in this tweet
let me tell you: i would have wished for no one but larys to deliver such bad news to aegon. he did with kindness. i don't care what his game is - in that moment, aegon needed those words. and larys gave the comfort and shaped him into a weapon. i TRUST in aegon's rising.
i don't know how to break it for the teenagers, but my darlings: your passions may not go away with growing older. if anything, it will get worse because now you're an adult and nothing is stopping you anymore
and i hope to god you all find the peace i've found in it. truly.
i think all this hate on TGC is, through and through, hotd writers' fault when they put that stupid, badly written arc with dyana.
that's the only argument. and the argument is a bad arc adrift in the show (they created a character to be abused and it led NOWHERE)
they could've had the most delicious slow burn hate-pining ever
they already ignored the book, why not giving them a heated dialogue
- our father CHOSE ME as heir
- before i was born, yes
- you'll never be baelon, brother
- and you'll always be the consolation choice, sister
@MaverickMaya_
the azor ahai is a joke. the littlefinger theory is just... a theory. a reddit post. a speculation about the riverlands. that's it. it's FUN to wonder about those paths and discuss it all, don't beat yourself up
i'm daydreaming about ewan and gayle on a live-cover for the entertainment weekly magazine........ like oscar isaac and rebecca ferguson did for dune.....
@HouseofDragon
The episode about Prince Regent had so little time for Ewan Mitchell, it's INSANE the calls you're all making. Where's his screentime? Less than 24 minutes in 8 episodes. Cut the useless scenes about Alicent and give it to Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, DAERON?
“Aegon froze in place as he listened to his sister-wife. Her soft, delicate face showed the wrath of an angel. A vengeful yet pure creature, one of the first ever made by the Gods.”
or,
the one where a mother’s grief set the realm on fire and changed the course of war.
husband she had been in love with her whole life, gave her children and an army and killed himself for her
versus
poor written enemy who begged to run away with a now-powerful queen with 6+ dragons under her yoke who said HELL NAH THANKS NEXT
man. you're all so weak.
oh, she's method as fuck.
gayle is definitely going to match ewan's freak about diving deep into the character.
alysmond, you'll always be loved by me and god bless, you're in good hands (the actors. the writers are a menace)
Kate Rhodes James on casting Gayle Rankin as Alys Rivers via the In the Envelope Podcast:
“We talked about [Alys] a lot before starting the [casting] process because she is so integral to this series and we knew she had to be otherworldly […] There is no other Gayle Rankin.”
Tom Glynn-Carney is one of the best expressive actors i've seen. charismatic and dominates every scene, able to express emotions perfectly while playing such an emotinally and physically demanding character.
A captivating and EMMY WORTHY performance indeed.
#HouseOfTheDragon
mootie just gagged me with “it would be nice if aegon's fear is about what aemond might do to helaena. he already realized that his brother is really crazy. he helpless now that he can't do anything, when before he could but didn't approach her” 😭
i hate how people lost the point in lolita. this was NOT a romance, jesus christ. the book is awesome exactly because it's disturbing.
i don't know which is worse: lack of maturity to read such things or sexualizing absolutely everything in a porn-induced way.
also, helaena is not that meek
when aemond tried to go near dreamfyre, she got pissed off - "he did it... again"
when that stupid scene aegon/dyana happened, she roasted his ass at the dinner - "he mostly just ignores you, except sometimes when he's drunk"
give her some grace
it's so funny watching team green and team black stans fighting on twitter. it really gives the same energy as the twinks from houses bracken and blackwood
maybe his kids and sunfyre were the only creatures in the world he ever cooed to. maybe they were the only to bring him happiness. to love him without any further, darker scheme.
oh, aegon.
i support people doing their arts - writing, editing. it's a refugee for many (i would know, since i've been into this for over 15 years)
i get many people think it's attractive certain shades of aegon or aemond being ruthless/mean. but it just erases helaena's own persona (?)
that punk ass dragon moondancer getting more space than the KING'S DRAGON. THE GOLDEN DRAGON. THE LOYAL DRAGON.
god, sometimes i wish i was Aegon's sworn protector just to deliver justice with my sword (a molotov cocktail)
how it feels to love helaegon (canon), alysmond (canon) and daemyra (canon)
they're all married and got kids and romance, angst, tragedy and/or at least ONE MINUTE of love from each other
not going to lie, as a (new) daemyra stan and as (an old) alysmond lover, i'm so glad about daemon and alys arc having nothing about sex. i'm truly happy about how their scenes together actually helped them to develop each other's characters
(it can age like wine or milk)
i can go out to a bar, kiss someone and read fanfic while they take me another drink
i can invest in my acting classes, go home as late as i wish, watch movies and series, read books and do it all without homework 🤪
what makes you think i don't LOVE every bit of it at my age?