[heterogendermannerism]

some football stuff from the past few days

[rma-gifs]

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Helaena & Alicent in 3.06

[m00nstrvck]

blood and fire

[ormundaeron]

ormund's fostered an environment through codependency where daeron cannot receive any other influence. "and devour me from within until there's nothing left" is insane to me. daeron is verbalizing that he's being shaped by ormund to his liking, that he'll lose himself by the end of it all and retain nothing of his autonomy. "then who will protect me then" to rather and knowingly discard your identity because no one else is there to love you, no one else would care for you or fill that parental role you have needed to be filled your entire life

[ormundaeron]

everything about this armor nails down any single bit of characterization because it’s sculpted to fit his zealousness in displaying how he’s nobility in an ongoing war just by the sheer absurdity of detail involving his house’s ideals. the hightowers are expected to look grandiose And he's their representative in this time, so he's physically carrying and proudly showing the weight of that title & responsibility

[ormundaeron]

ormand specifically using a pomander to carry around and shamelessly huff in public is simultaneously hilarious and interesting to me. it recontextualizes it as "i'm a man of the faith to ward myself" rather than "i fucking hate the smell of everything around me right now." he's presumably convinced himself to depict his sensitivity to smells as a trait that elevates himself above everyone else rather than a disability. i also wholeheartedly believe his hyperosmia is a result of neurodivergence and/or a disorder

[ormundaeron]

ormund intentionally putting daeron through the hightower Psychological Horrors because he knows that regardless of what he does each and every time daeron will still look for his affection, and ormund, in a twisted version of it, will offer and provide those needs.

there's a push and pull of daeron needing fulfillment and ormund needing self satisfaction. daeron endures because his only source of love is from ormund and ormund fosters their relationship because there is genuine affection born from pride in raising a son the way he's done

[ormundaeron]

ormund presumably has children but this isn't stated in show canon aside from norton's comment on how ormund does have some type of family in oldtown. daeron is the most important person in ormund's life (another statement by norton that he quite literally phrases as such) daeron himself carries multitudes of concepts that would contradict ormund's ideology, but he doesn't acknowledge any of them. he instead claims that all the best parts of daeron are due to how he's raised him and all of his "faults" are due to his ancestry/lineage. ormund feeds into his narcissism through self ideological praise, because this would mean he as a hightower has "cleansed" or saved daeron from becoming another "vile" targaryen. he's developed a savior complex from raising daeron and to him that's the biggest reward of it all; no one else could claim they've done the same feat

[driften-sea-snake]

ormund was worried that his grooming victims might unionize so he used a time-honored union busting tactic that the citadel employs against TAs: call one of them gay

[tagreek]

HOTD showrunners were like what if we give Daemon Targaryen’s groomerism and supremacy complex, Dalton Greyjoy’s war crimes, Otto Hightower’s manipulation strategies, Tywin Lannister’s ruthless and perverted sense of justice and Ramsay Bolton’s freak to one character and name him Ormund Hightower? genius, right! 👊

[kingalicent]

james norton having time of his life on house of the dragon is so funny he’s kicking his feet giggling twirling his hair while gushing about how much of an abusive groomer ormund is.

[notalicent]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.06 | "Faceless Men"

[alvsanne]

TESSARION, the Blue Queen House of the Dragon | S02E08

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.04, "Tumbleton"

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.02, "Queen's Landing" 3.04, "Tumbleton"

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.05, "Unbowed and Unbent"

Perhaps sending Daeron away was my truest act of motherhood.