[skulandcrossbones]

it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

[ohithankyou]

no you guys don’t understand how insane the skam experience was. if you weren’t in norway, you were literally waiting for one of the many norwegian angels to take the clips that dropped in real time on the skam site on a daily basis, and translate and upload them to a google drive so everyone else could watch them. i literally watched that show via google drive and it was all thanks to the regular fans who took the time to translate the clips so others could enjoy the show. a whole community was built via google drive. and then a whole universe was built with about eight different remakes of the show coming out of one little show that started in norway and was only meant to stay in norway.

[aliveaudiencegang]

kingsman the secret service is so good in so many ways but one of my favourites is how the movie takes everything we already know about eggsy from the beginning and shows how it affects him during his time at kingsman

eggsy pickpockets rottweiler’s car keys -> eggsy “slippery fingers” unwin switches out his glass of poison with arthur’s regular glass

eggsy doesn’t grass up his mates despite being told he’d get a more lenient sentencing if he did AND eggsy not telling dean who the man (harry) he was with at the pub despite dean threatening him with a knife -> eggsy risking getting killed by a train rather than spill kingsman secrets to who he believes is a madman that drugged him then tied him to train tracks

eggsy risking jailtime instead of hitting a fox with a car -> eggsy refusing to shoot his dog, the test standing between him and becoming a kingsman

there’s probably other little things as well that i can’t think of right now

[senblvd]

Aegon alone

[adreamerscrown]

imagine your son returns home heavily burnt and with broken bones caused by a desperate attempt to prove himself worthy (to you) because he feels utterly insecure and has been made to feel like shit (by you) his whole life — and this was your last conversation. the very conversation that finally made him snap

[autistic-pea-princess]

Yeah, no she won't feel any remorse or regret over her actions and words. I dare say she'll feel relieved if he dies. She doesn't care about him at all. S1 Alicent is long gone. This one I don't recognize and care anything about.

[bietrofastimoff23]

same. she will be more worried that she did not get the post of regent. the s2 made it all too obvious that she didn't care about Aegon.

[daenerys-targaryen]

House of the Dragon 2.01 x 2.02

[lauraneedstochill]

Viserys I Targaryen and his son Aegon II vs Aegon II and his son Jaehaerys

🔪 inspired by this tweet:

[jeyneofpoole]

also the implication that aegon isn’t doing his valyrian duolingo and has to command sunfyre in like. regular parlance. is really good. contrast that with jace’s intense obsession with getting the tiniest conjugations right and we might be circling in on some sort of parallel. don’t quote me on that.

[patolemus]

Oh, we are so circling in on a parallel. Not just in jaceaegon but in the whole family.

Alicent’s children look like Targaryens. They have the silver white hair, the purple eyes (in the books), the sharp angles and ethereal bone structure of Old Valyria. At first glance, they are all a Targaryen should look like.

But their dragon eggs didn’t hatch. Out of four children, only Daeron’s dragon was his cradle mate, and he’s by far the least influenced by the family since he’s sent to Oldtown at a very young age. They don’t know complex Valyrian or the right conjugations, their pronunciation is either wrong or they straight up don’t know how to say it (exhibit A: Aemond’s mispronunciation and incorrect usage of the word taoba when it should have been taobus. Exhibit B: Aegon doesn’t speak to Sunfyre in High Valyrian when he commands him). They don’t wear the colors of their house - they always wear green instead of red and black - and they don’t pray to the Fourteen Flames, which is the traditional religion of Old Valyria and the gods the Targaryen pray to.

Alicent’s children may look Targaryen. But look is all they do.

“The only thing that makes you different than the common folk is your tainted dragon blood,” Lucerys sneers, a nasty thing in an otherwise pretty face.

Rhaenyra’s children, on the other hand, don’t look like Targaryens. They have their pretty faces and ethereal beauty, but their hair and eyes are as brown as the earth, and the shape of their faces far resembles the one of a certain strong soldier, rather than an experienced sailor. In a family full of exotic beauties, they look much closer to the sons of the First Men.

But their Valyrian is flawless. They’ve learned and they’ve trained until it rolls off their tongues more naturally than the common tongue does. Their dragon eggs all hatched in their cradles, the bonds they have with their dragons is incredibly deep. They pray and call to the gods of Old Valyria, they honor their family’s traditions. Their red and black clothes proudly display their true allegiance to their house. They know their history, how they escaped the doom and why they are hailed as kings in this land. They also know the little things, the small rites and the lullabies to calm down the dragons, the ones they were sung from a young age because they are also dragons. The Velaryon children may look Strong, but they are Targaryen in every way that matters.

In the end, Alicent’s children were raised by common men, and Rhaenyra’s as true Targaryens. The way they behave and their priorities are clear depictions of that.

[jacenyra]

half-siblings? more like twins.

[alysmond]

AEGON II TARGARYEN & SUNFYRE in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[very-straight-blog]

I feel physically sick from this scene. Aegon had just lost his child - his son and heir, the ray of light in his life. And all these people around him, some of whom are his family, don't sympathize with him and don't grieve for Jaehaerys, instead they coolly propose to make the boy's funeral an act of propaganda. And that expression on his face when he looks at everyone, as if asking for help and support, like: "Are you crazy? Do you understand what you're saying?" And he doesn't find any of it. I just see that he's on the verge of a panic attack.

Gif belongs to @barbieaemond

[ophelieverse]

“i was abed” yeah sure😒

[serpentthecrow]

He was abed. Not his tho.

[patch-and-stringer]

the real joy of s2 ep4 of hotd is the personalities imbued in all the dragons. The look Meleys gives Rhaenys just before they die, the feeling that both of them are seasoned warriors like brothers in arms. The way Sunfyre appears to play push Aegon (as if they are friends more than anything) and wraps himself around Aegon’s mangled body as if to protect him while Sunfyre himself lays dying. The way Aemond tells Vhagar to chill the fuck out and she just flops back onto the floor like she couldn’t give a shit what they do! All the dragons had personality. It was both lovely and heartbreaking all at once. it makes the downfall of the Targaryen house all the more devastating and bittersweet to know these relationships between ride and dragon are being lost to history and time.

[agentmilayawithshield]

Sunfyre learning Common Tongue because Aegon never learned how to speak in Valyrian

[alvsanne]

Sunfyre was the name given this dragon of the golden dawn.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 -) Sunfyre in S02E04 | "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[asha-mage]

I think the thing that gets me about Aegon's season two arc is that he spent his entire life trying to avoid being King, insisting he wasn't worthy, wasn't suited, that he wanted no part of it.

But once he did become King he tried his best to live up to the mantel. He did everything in his power to try and rule justly, wisely, fiercely as a Targaryen King should and instead discovered that wasn't what anyone wanted. The council that usurped the crown for him, the grandfather who punished him constantly for being weak and 'unkingly', even the mother that insisted that this was his father's will- none of them wanted him to live up to the ideal. They wanted him to be weak, pliable, obedient. It was never about him. It was never about his claim. It was never really even about his gender. It was about their ambitions, their desires, their power- and how getting him on the throne would realize them.

It's no mistake that Alicent and Otto are suddenly nostalgic for Viserys and his reign. Daemon all the way back in episode 1 said it outright- Viserys was weak and let his council (and later Alicent) play him for their own ends, eventually simply surrendering rule to them whole sale as his health worsened. That's what they want of Aegon- to find his version of the Old Valyrian stone model and retreat to it so that they can rule in his name. Alicent was even convinced in the season 2 opener one it would happen soon- that 'ruling would loose it's novelty soon enough' and then she and Otto would take over again.

But it doesn't. Because their is a yearning chasm deep in Aegon's soul in a way their wasn't in Viserys's. Viserys had accepted that he wasn't the best suited for the throne long ago, maybe as soon as the Great Council had given it to him. But Aegon wants to believe, maybe has to believe, that he is suited. That he can rise to this burden. The moment the small folk cheered for him at his coronation, the moment they gave him that validation, he needed to chase it again. No matter how much his council ignores him, no matter how much Otto dismisses him, no matter how much Aemond undermines him or his mother tells him to simply be derelict the same duty she had always demeaned him for not fulfilling. He keeps chasing that feeling, of being good enough.

And that chase...leads to him flying desperately to the field of battle in an effort to prove himself.

[alysmond]

AEGON II TARGARYEN & SUNFYRE in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4, "A Dance of Dragons"

[fairysluna]

this is proof that Sunfyre is a big fat orange cat