lady hightower

editor rings of power & house of the dragon

[htony]

sorry helly r. I love when humans are married

[ladyofthehightower]

SEVERANCE — STOP ME JUNE

watch full edit: https://youtu.be/kF5LlbKlamI

[lunaartis]

Queen Helaena decided after her coronation, to relax at her favorite pastime while her dragon Dreamfire slices through the night sky🌑

Helaena is my queen🎀

[ladyofthehightower]

Hello! I wrote a book!

[ladyofthehightower]

whatever the hell that means???

[ladyofthehightower]

i don’t think people who say stuff like “otto wasn’t in KL for x and y, alicent did that on her own” or whatever understand the mental toll otto’s manipulation and everything that happened around her took on her.

the alicent we meet in s1e1 and s1e2 is not the alicent we meet even in s1e3, and i think most people agree on that, but there’s also this young alicent vs old alicent thing that i don’t really understand. because old alicent IS young alicent!

there are huge time jumps between many of the episodes in season 1, which people just... forget? ignore? "just last episode alicent did this!!!" well actually it's been three years??? alicent was literally manipulated for YEARS and made to think and feel a certain way. that isn't going to automatically go away because otto isn't in the same city.

[alkemylabz]

"writing about fucked up things doesnt indicate your values as a person" and "the way you write about things may indicate some of your values" are not conflicting statements if im going to be real

[lavendercoded]

I dont get how so many hotd fans hate Alicent considering that she literally had to watch as her best friend, the most privileged woman in the realm, did whatever she wanted while facing very few repercussions when Alicent spent her teenage years being raped by Rhaenyra's dad and raising his kids and her best friend didnt seem to care that much. If that were happening to you, you'd also snap and attack someone with a knife, let's be serious here.

[everayy]

replacement

[irlplasticlamb]

loyal past the point of sense.

prints + merch + commission info pinned to profile :)

[prettydeeryess]

oh sansa stark the living painting that you are

[silvervvings]

never not angry about how condal & hess went about b&c. blood was a former goldcloak who hated the Hightowers because he was fired for brutalising a prostitute under them but in the show he is a current goldcloak who just hates the Hightowers because reasons? because keeping blood a former woman abuser wouldn’t fit into the shallow narrative of “greens=misogyny blacks=feminism” the show is pushing.

[ladyofthehightower]

no, ryan condal and sara hess are not pandering to rhaenicents

*FROM MY DRAFTS

i just now saw a discussion on twitter heavily insinuating that ryan condal and sara hess are writing house of the dragon to appease/pander to rhaenicent shippers.

spoiler alert, they aren’t.

if you genuinely believe, that house of the dragon is being written to appease a tiny minority of fans, contained to social media, that didn’t exist when the show was first written, i fear you have lost the plot completely.

house of the dragon pulls millions of viewers per episode, and the majority of that is the general audience, and they probably do not care about rhaenicent at all, as a romantic relationship at least. they take the show at face value, and they probably have little to no knowledge of fire and blood. that is who ryan condal and sara hess are writing for! i fear twitter stan wars do not matter at all.

[sialater18]

People say this because it was directly stated in an article that they wrote the sept scene in season 2 for the Rhaenicent fans (at least that’s what I recall). I repeat, they made one of the most stupidly written seasons of the show, purely because they wanted to cater to fans

So maybe this argument would have some basis if we were still in season one, but the repeated interviews they gave during S2 don’t support it at all. Especially with the Dragonstone scene in the S2 finale that also made little sense, they likely guessed most viewers would be cheering for it (a lot infact, criticized it).

[ladyofthehightower]

i still think it’s genuinely dumb to think they’re sitting in a writers room thinking hmmm… what will the rhaenicents on twitter think about this one😛😛😛 these are professional people who know that, in the end, the target audience is the general audience, not twitter stans.

and it’s not like writers adding certain scenes here and there to make fans happy is a new thing. and it’s not something that’s contained to only rhaenyra and alicent. taking one quote about one scene and turning it into condal and hess purposely ruining a show to appease to twitter stans is… dumb.

[ladyofthehightower]

no, ryan condal and sara hess are not pandering to rhaenicents

*FROM MY DRAFTS

i just now saw a discussion on twitter heavily insinuating that ryan condal and sara hess are writing house of the dragon to appease/pander to rhaenicent shippers.

spoiler alert, they aren’t.

if you genuinely believe, that house of the dragon is being written to appease a tiny minority of fans, contained to social media, that didn’t exist when the show was first written, i fear you have lost the plot completely.

house of the dragon pulls millions of viewers per episode, and the majority of that is the general audience, and they probably do not care about rhaenicent at all, as a romantic relationship at least. they take the show at face value, and they probably have little to no knowledge of fire and blood. that is who ryan condal and sara hess are writing for! i fear twitter stan wars do not matter at all.

[ladyofthehightower]

helaena lowkey the most interesting character in house of the dragon and they’re doing NOTHING with her… wdym you have a character who can see the future and she isn’t in every single scene always????

phia is also a CRAAAZY actress

[silvervvings]

hate that the take away from Gwayne saying that Daeron is kind was that it was Alicents fault Aegon and Aemond turned out “bad”… the reason Daeron is normal is because he was raised in Oldtown with normal people away from his toxic Targaryen family. like no shit if Aegon and Aemond were raised there they’d be more well adjusted because they wouldn’t be around their neglectful father and their family who hates them. Alicent isn’t mother of the year but it’s getting old how people blame her when the problem was mostly the environment, if Alicent lived in Oldtown with her family that loved and valued her and not her abusive and neglectful husband and her stepdaughter/ex best friend who hates her than she would’ve been much better equipped to raise 4 children but she did what she could in the situation she was forced into.

[susellesie]

the small way that both rhaenyra and alicent's hearts break in this scene when viserys announces his new wife. not once is alicent consulted about becoming queen. rhaenyra is led to believe that viserys will wed laena, and goes as far as to comfort him and reassure him that she understands why he needs to remarry. and in one moment both of their autonomy is robbed - as rhaenyra loses what is essentially her only friend, and alicent loses her life. her entire life. and rhaenyra is a bystander to all of it and can only watch.