Moomin

[ktb90s]

Me watching Lizzy & Theo this entire episode. Was that a dream near the end?

"Ask me tomorrow."

She said show me the Dukedom today.

I can show myself out.

[herinnerwolf]

the way they both went to the "she's my friend i'm just helping her find a husband- oh f*ck wait i want the husband to be me" school and aced every class

[mimi1503]

Rafe & Kiara | Loving you is a losing game

When her enemy is also her best friend’s brother & has a soft spot for her, it makes Kiara’s life very complicated & dangerous. 

Show: Outer Banks 

Song : Arcade - Duncan Laurence feat. Fletcher

[moomin19]

Why are people ignoring an important fact about Alicole this season? Don’t get me wrong, the writing has been problematic for many reasons and I can see why people are upset Alicent gave away Criston’s location. I’m not joyous about it myself. We’ve known Criston has felt more for Alicent than she has for him but people are really trying to make out she didn’t care at all?? People are ignoring that to Alicent, Criston betrayed her when he chose Aemond over her. SHE was betrayed/hurt/heartbroken by him first and they never got to talk it through properly. She doesn’t know he loves her as much as he confesses he does in the last episode. Criston is mad at himself for betraying Alicent and giving her the impression he doesn’t care about her or value her mind and ambitions (i.e. all of Alicent as a person, not just ‘the damsel in distress’ and to be honest he didn’t for most of s2. He was hellbent on war and making decisions for her). Alicent thinks he just wanted her body ‘has your loyalty faded or does it flee in the morning etc etc’.

All of team Green see that Aemond’s newest plan is a suicide mission for the soldiers; Criston says it himself. So whilst Alicent betrays Criston - she had to tell Rhaenyra some info that would convince Rhaenyra she was serious about her plan. Alicent and Criston know he will likely die anyway, that is what that longing goodbye glance was between them when he left.

All I’m saying is we can’t ignore the context that Alicent believed she had lost Criston as an ally and a trusted friend already. Do I wish it went differently? Yes. They were never honest with each other but no one is in this show and that’s usually an important part of how the characters are built. It’s quite a beautifully tragic (yet frustrating) series of miscommunications in a way though. They could have loved each other properly if they talked more. But yeah I’m not loving people acting like Alicent decided to betray Criston in a vacuum. It was a calculated sacrifice based on the belief she truly had no one left her corner and that he had a 99% chance of being killed already (which may never have been the case if Criston wasn’t so eager to go to war; if he didn’t conspire with Aemond’s tyrannical plans and ignore Alicent’s pleas for peace in the beginning of the season. Criston realises all of this too late - that is the point of his monologue in episode 8).

[motorway-south]

as a single issue larys voter i was completely satisfied like we got meddling, plots, being transparently jealous of ur gf's new bf, pitting them against each other, seeing ur gf's lack of care for her new bf as a sign she actually holds no affection for you nor any political power, trying to make a political disability alliance with her son, it failing, trying again with the other one, talking about how his father thought his disability was black magic, new swish outfits, hair gel, AND he went on a gay cruise <3

[thatrandomblogsays]

Low key want Aegon and larys and Helaena and Alicent to all run away to Essos purely so this can happen

[moomin19]

Gwayne being the only person to lovingly defend Alicent, even from herself - to see all her pain and all she truly is - despite getting to see her the least out of all her family (bar Daeron obvs) MY HEART

[nothoughts-onlywomen]

cole sitting here like “alicent is the beacon i follow” and gwayne just being like “i don’t give a shit. stop fucking my sister”

[bensoloren]

gwayne really saw criston holding his sister’s favour and said “gods let me kill this mf”

[littlegirlinvisible]

She saved my life. Twice.

[moomin19]

And if I said Alicent asked Larys to hide Aegon in case of an attack on KL?👀 Knowing Larys would have the means and would want to anyway?👀 All whilst knowing there would most certainly be a conquering because of what she was about to do?👀 Alicent playing-both-sides-mastermind era to save those she loves and avoid bloodshed?👀 Pretty please?🙏🏻😩

[greenqueenhightower]

Alicent offering up Aegon's life was the ultimate sacrifice, and there is no surprise that yet again, it is religiously coded. God himself offered up his firstborn "only-begotten" Son, Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice for the survival of humanity. Alicent's pain for having to do the same with Aegon is immeasurable. Did she think she was actually redeeming Aegon if she condemned him to death, thus giving him a new birth? Did she want to save him from a life of disgrace and disability? Is it his turn to become a sacrifice for the good of her family as she had become?

Like God, Alicent had to offer what she held dear for the survival of all her children and family. Aegon being her firstborn, the carrier of her flaws and the mirror of her psyche, was the only choice. His fate has always been so linked with hers that in sacrificing him for her and her daughter’s freedom, in severing the umbilical cord with him so abruptly, she condemns her own life to death in the process. That’s the only way Alicent can pay retribution for everyone's sins, and Aegon's messianic sacrifice can ensure peace, deliverance, and hope. She's the one who, like Viserys said, "must do this" and pay the highest price ever paid. She makes the ultimate sacrifice at the expense of herself and her son and in effect has done much more to unite the realm than Rhaenyra ever has.

[moomin19]

Put so perfectly. Rhaenyra may have gone to Alicent and begged for the war to be stopped but offered no plan, no solution. Alicent went to Rhaenyra and actually offered a solution. (…something about Alicent’s wisdom and experience being underestimated by everyone whilst actually being the most fit to rule but I digress…)

A solution to save thousands of innocent lives and her daughter in the process - all by the ultimate personal sacrifice of her first born son: her first beloved baby, a symbol of her prison.

[motorway-south]

i don't actually think that alicent/layrs/criston is six-way unrequited i think alicent is simultaneously like "wow larys would be a perfect boyfriend if he wasn't ugly and a blood pervert" and "wow criston would be a perfect boyfriend if he wasn't boring and a blood pervert" and both larys and criston are looking and a laundry list of more way to attract her through being blood perverts

[greenqueenhightower]

Although I loved Alicent's baptism and rebirth scene, the writers could have given us so much more. I wanted to see Alicent secretly escape the Red Keep from the hidden passages in her (and Rhaenyra's old) room. Alone. Finally doing the first thing in her life far away from the judgemental eyes of the court, her family, the seven. Just Alicent and the Kingswood for a bit longer. The redness of her hair and the blueness of her dress against all the greenness she let herself surround her. The whiteness of her underdress and the paleness of her skin against the cloudy sky. Let her breathe in the forest air. Let her taste freedom for the first time. Touch the tree leaves and the flowers. Run like no one's watching. Scream if she wants to without feeling regret. "It was an ugly thing, I regret it." Let Alicent strip away her definitions and find momentary peace in the power over her body she claims herself. Emphasize her disillusionment and her desire for freedom. I loved the addition of the bird emulating what Alicent wanted most at the moment: to fly away. I just wanted more of Alicent experiencing emotions she suppressed all these years for the first time.

[veloursdor]

larys and alicent are hades and persephone coded

[thatrandomblogsays]

I don’t have a poem but there’s something about Gwayne being the desired gender (son) but being abandoned by his father and Alicent being the favorite but only because Otto can use her. The sibling bond being so strong that despite years of separation and estrangement Gwayne puts aside his resentment to comfort his sister by telling her about her son. Assuring that if there is poison dripping through it is not from her but the prison she is also trapped in. I don’t have the poetry, but you get it.

[motorway-south]

at the end of the day criston's dornish identity/class, larys's disability, and alicents gender are what inform most of the other targ's treatment of them much more than any action we've seen them take

[moomin19]

EXACTLYYYYY and that is why they have this strange triangle going on between them. It’s toxic, it’s messy, it’s complicated but they are connected so deeply by the narrative, it’s endlessly fascinating.