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House of the dragon is so funny because normally if there's a big gay ship full of subtext in a show the fans will go crazy making everything about the ship and twisting the narrative to fit it while the showrunners don't actually care and try to steer the characters away from it to avoid queerbaiting accusations. Meanwhile in hotd everyone from the writers to the actors to the directors is fully yuri pilled like Rhaenyra and Alicents dynamic is the heart of the show and the narrative doesn't work without acknowledging it. And a large portion of the fans are still stubbornly trying to ignore it two seasons in and twist the characters actions in another direction even if it makes no sense. It's so funny the showrunners went sorry no you're not getting a two dimensional Cersei rip off you're getting childhood friends to enemies who long to be lovers. And the concept just would not compute in the fans brains unless they cared about female characters and the dynamic between them, which we already know the majority of most fans do not.

lena-luthor

I guess the funny thing to me about so many people interpreting Rhaenyra’s reaction to Alicent’s “come with me” as mocking and incredulous, is that she should be! It’s an absolutely ridiculous thing to say and both of them know it.

Alicent just agreed to give up her son’s life so Rhaenyra can take her throne, how is she asking Rhaenyra to run away with her moments later? She knows it’s a stupid thing to ask, knows Rhaenyra would never say yes, but she does it anyways because what if! What if she could have Helaena & her child safe, be free, and have Rhaenyra too!

And Rhaenyra should laugh at her because, come on, after everything? After everything that’s happened, everything Alicent’s done, everything Rhaenyra’s done, it wouldn’t just be a far off dream, it’s delusion. But she doesn’t laugh at Alicent, doesn’t sneer. Because once upon a time, that’s all she wanted too. But she can’t afford to want it now. It’s too late for her. And they don’t know it yet, but it’s too late for Alicent too.

mswyrr

The director discusses pulling off Alicent and Rhaenyra’s reunion, those Game Of Thrones nods, and more.

I challenged myself to bookend the season premiere, so I went back and watched that the theme of it was sacrifice for duty. So I kept looking for opportunities to come full circle on that theme in the finale. It’s all in the writing because [episode writer] Sara Hess and Ryan had already spent probably a year making sure of it. So it’s just my process of understanding and finding my way through it visually. I also just wanted to make sure that the scene between Alicent and Rhaenyra was building off of the scene in episode three, which I also directed, I don’t think coincidentally. Maybe that was Ryan’s intention that we were all working together again.

[...] We wanted to feel as if there was that sacrifice made for duty and that Rhaenyra is pressing Alicent against the wall to do what she’s never done before, which is to take action. What’s interesting is that these two women were friends to begin with, and then it became an eye-for-an-eye type of relationship. Now there is so much pain behind them that this scene is a wrestling match with pain and forgiveness. They both were telling themselves, “I’ve moved on. I can’t feel anything.” But all we saw was emotion. All we saw were these two friends who still loved each other and yet had gotten a divorce.

[...]

And you ask yourself, Why are they both in this room again? It’s because they couldn’t stay away from each other. Yes, we can reason that it’s because of the kingdom and the realm. But when they come together, they are young girls again. [...]

idyste

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and ALICENT HIGHTOWER in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: Season 2, Episode 8 / ELIZABETH BENNETT and MR. DARCY in PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005)

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The Hunger Games (2012) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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lolaf87

#ngl one thing i adore about this series is that the girl is dark and brooding and physically intimidating and deadly with a weapon#and the boy is soft and gentle and generous and kitchen oriented and emotionally brilliant and manipulative#they’re foils in a very traditional way but the traditional gender role split is very neatly inverted#he represents home and domesticity and babies and he’s almost fridged#but he’s not soft in a simplistic way. he knows how to work the crowd by showing a little throat#these books are too stressful for me to reread but parts of them have really stuck with me#the hunger games#peeta mellark

yeah what maculategiraffe said

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inkskinned

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

adarkerbeamoflight

"How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting."

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tenebrare

Deus Ex // No comments needed.

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The world stands with Ukraine

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Russia Invaded Ukraine

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spacedewey

I think the most damage this site has done to me is making me think "It's fucken wimdy" when it is, in fact, fucken wimdy outside.

whatthefluffnightvale

I taught one of my ranching buddies “it fucken wimdy” and now he says it around his older more established ranching buddies

The exhilaration I get- upon hearing an old rancher (I’ve never met before) in cowboy boots and a cowboy hat while on a horse, grimly saying “it fucken wimdy” in a thick west Texas accent as he looks down upon his cows- is incalculable