Alicent My Beloved

She/They Not team black or green just team Alicent Main is @mistoffeleesisawitch Also gonna be a ton of HotD Spoilers ahead

[alicentwhore]

Just another Tuesday in the Torment Nexus for one Alicent Hightower

[yenvengerberg]

#it always comes back to rhaenicent

[eternalandinfiniteinmoon]

Our fate sister, we are the same fire, the same blood. sister, we carry the same grief, the same fate.

Dragon Twins

Baela and Rhaena have lost the same people throughout their lives: their mother, their grandmother, Lucerys, and now Jacaerys. Who else will they lose? Or is it that love isn’t meant for them—only grief?

[lesbianalicent]

liv at the s3 premiere!

[noheteroexplanation]

We have literally never been more back<3

[multiverse-of-multifandoms]

A HOTD + The Onion/Reductress Headlines gifset a day until S3 (Day 6 of 18) 1.06 - 'The Princess and the Queen'

[westenraskiss]

Olivia is in white because Rhaenicent will elope in season 3 finale 🙂‍↕️

[344j3]

“you’re doing so well” and then they kissed her. right in front of a camera and god and everyone. if i were olivia cooke in that moment i would’ve done something that would’ve gotten me banned from interacting with the public ever again

[344j3]

like…

[zendayacolemann]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 1.02: The Rogue Prince — 1.10: The Black Queen

[boundwithpurple]

i just don’t think alicent is fundamentally opposed to violence or war. she is practical about having to use violence to advance a goal, and does it herself - she just has unacceptable limits that she hits, like rhaenyra’s murder or sending helaena to war against her will. but tellingly, in both cases she orders violence or accedes to violence to achieve the goal she herself seeks. she tries to stop one instance of violence unacceptable to herself, but must permit other kinds of violence to occur to do so. to save rhaenyra and her family in 1.09 she has larys burn down mysaria’s spy operation, and though the show is a bit frustratingly vague on this, it seems clear that this is done with the intent of killing the people who work for mysaria - just destroying the building wouldn’t achieve much. she agrees to aegon’s murder in 2.08 to save helaena. i think she experiences significant distress at both acts. she has an abhorrence of violence that is a thread throughout the show, from her anxiety at the bloodshed at the tourney in 1.01 to her horror at the violence of her own outburst in 1.07. but she does do them, and accept she has to do them, to acquire the (often limited) power to achieve her specific ends…which is exactly what she’s telling rhaenyra she’ll have to do in all we’ve gotten of her s3 so far!

she is a power player in a very violent political system that she has survived for a long time in, and regardless of her ambivalence, i just do not see the figure criston’s partial and sexist view conjures - a woman too tender and good to confront violence as a reality, and therefore unfitting to head a government prosecuting a war. it’s equally telling her moments of resistance, of using power for herself rather than others, are centered around the love of women, and work against the goals of the men who try to control her. but it can’t really undo the patriarchal power structure, as it is often posited to do via a richean lesbian continuum kind of framework - she has to work within it, always. none of alicent’s relationships with women can ever be extricated from hierarchies of power or said to be working against it in any neat way, at least so far. alicent saves rhaenyra’s life, but the only way she can do that is by seeking and affirming power for aegon. it doesn’t disrupt monarchal power, it actually affirms it, while working to strip rhaenyra of power. she later capitulates to rhaenyra for helaena, but it entails affirming rhaenyra’s pursuit of power, because safety for helaena is dependent on rhaenyra gaining power. these female bonds do not have any straightforward, inherent political purpose or function. they always affirm power as much as they disturb it, they might redistribute it or fight specific unacceptable ends, but they are too tied up in this system for it to ever fundamentally disrupt it. but that has great meaning to me! life is often not made up of radical acts or breaks, which most of us have few real opportunities for, but a more complex negotiation of accommodations and resistances that can still profoundly shape lives.

[weirwould]

House of the Dragon, (Condal 2022-) / "[...] the cry of a woman keening. It came from the bog': (Re)presentations of the Bog in Nineteenth-Century Irish Gothic Fiction", (Galiné, 2018) / A Storm of Swords, Bran II, (Martin 2000) / A Feast for Crows, Brienne IV, (Martin 2005) / "Rural Ghost Walks", (Bevan 2023) / Fire and Blood, "The Dying of the Dragons", (Martin 2018)

[noheteroexplanation]

The shot of Rhaenyra in the Sept from the new trailer is framed in an interesting way. As shown below, whenever Rhaenicent are there together they each sit on the same side. Then when they are there separately, space is left on the matching side where the other one would be.

Something something their absence in each other's lives leaves them with an aching void something they are each other's other half something something.

[abigaillazaar]

Ovid, from Metamorphoses

[mistoffeleesisawitch]

Rhaenicent Death Becomes Her AU. It’s cooking in my head it’s cooking. Let them kill each other for real and then spend eternity tied to the other in hate and love and never let the other go

[thewebspinner]

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower - House of the Dragon S3 Trailer 2

[gameofthronesdaily]

New still of Alicent Hightower and Helaena Targaryen in Season 3 of House of the Dragon | Premiering June 2026

[anakintargaryens]