[in-kyblogs]

“Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer.”

Judas kiss pt.2 // pt.1

[alysmond]

"He then realizes that he's got blood coming from him. He gradually gets weaker and weaker. By the time he reaches Alys, he's basically prostrate at her feet. And that is a sort of really great start to how that relationship evolves." – Clare Kilner

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

[once-delight]

[sadmortician]

⛓️

[arthurmorganist]

likely place for him to be

[rhaenyratargeryen]

GWAYNE HIGHTOWER + #1 Ormund hater 

[platoapproved]

Yet in the centuries of his long obedience, Armand kept two secrets to himself. These were his property, these secrets, more purely his than the coffin in which he locked himself by day, or the few amulets he wore. The first was that no matter how great his loneliness, or how long the search for brothers and sisters in whom he might find some comfort, he never worked the Dark Trick himself. He wouldn’t give that to Satan, no Child of Darkness made by him. And the other secret, which he kept from his followers for their sake, was simply the extent of his ever deepening despair.

— The Vampire Lestat

[starwarsblr]

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | 1977 dir. George Lucas

[mirandahamilton]

IWTV FASHION: claudia’s mardi gras gown

[daenerys-stormborn]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 Episode 5 — "Unbowed and Unbent"

[notalicent]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.02 | "Queen's Landing"

[gameofthronesdaily]

Three-headed Dragon

[rhaenicentdaily]

"Here are two powerful women, and in between them is the invisible presence of Rhaenyra, who is this person that ties them all together." – Philippa Goslett

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 5, "Unbowed and Unbent"

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"

[yenvengerberg]

"Will you stake so high a wager on the whims of a dragonrider?"

[tris-morreu]

nolan's the odyssey has such a fundamentally culturally christian understanding of religion and divinity that it is genuinely jarring to see characters in a supposedly ancient greek historical context describe divinity and its expression in those terms. characters wonder aloud why gods hide themselves (they didn't), question the existence of what nolan interprets the supernatural to be (they wouldn't) and talk of zeus's law (not real, and still somehow bastardized) in the same way we would talk about the ten commandments. it's so out of place. and it taps into that "defy the gods" thing.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

and it's such a beautiful way of looking at the world, and he just doesn't get that.

[demonpoppyseed]

I know I indulge in deeply parasocial behavior on here but there is a big, big difference between speculating and being silly with your friends in fan spaces, where any actor who sees what we're saying will know that they've chosen to enter a space where people are saying things that are not meant for their eyes, and going into the comment section of an actor's own account and acting like you know them. We do not know these people. It is creepy and disrespectful to go to someone you don't know and say "Hello total stranger, I know that the words coming out of your mouth are not what's in your heart and I'm so sorry that you are being forced to do something that you say you love when I know you're lying". Stop it.