"These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder."
they're so romeo and juliet for me š

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@rhaenyrage
"These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder."
they're so romeo and juliet for me š
trying to make a save file to play w maekar n company, so hereās my version of maekar š i think he turned out pretty good, heās not identical to sam bc I AM NOT GOOD AT THIS LMAOOO but he still looks gorgeous... also pls cut me some slack i made him while feeling sick š
sooo i had nothing to do and thought itād be fun to make helaena in ts4... okayyy iām not rly good at this lol š she didnāt turn out exactly like phia (like i wanted her to be) but sheās adorable anyway.
alsooo i put her n jacaerys in a world just to test my new mods and it was literally chaos š they were flirting w each other nonstop lmaooo
maybe i wanna do a legacy challenge w jace and helaena, but idk yettt š
theyāre so doomed siblings, they fit that trope so well honestly likee
HELAENA, I LOVE U SMMMM
sir, my autistic daughter asked for no pickles!
AERION BRIGHTFLAME TARGARYEN ft. @eikosim
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if i got a coin every time a targaryen was autistic coded to me (an autistic person), i'd have two coins. which isnāt a lot, but itās funny that it happened twice.
yeah, i do have this headcanon about baelor. helaena i donāt even think counts as a headcanon at this point š¤·š»āāļø either way, theyāre definitely not the only ones, iād say.
Very interesting.
Of course, Targaryens are fictional characters, it's a fantasy world and TV shows, so it's not "official" or medically legit, what I want to write, you know what I mean, but...
Haelena? She's my precious character, who I feel protective towards, and one I see neurodivergent glimpses of me in.
Now, for me, it's Maekar, who has made my neurodivergence-detector buzz a little, maybe, because he makes me think of my own father, whose neurodivergence-related traits have influenced my teenage and young adult years a lot. Basically, if my father grew up in a royal family, he would probably be similar to Maekar.
Now Baelor. On one hand, I cannot truly see it now, but on the other hand, two people randomly (and independently) noticed my own neurodivergence quickly some time ago, before I even started to think about it. So, maybe I just don't notice something important in Baelor. I'd love to get more insight into arguments here!
P.S. Although, I have myself claimed once that Baelor seems to enjoy giving lectures, "not unlike me while infodumping people" š š
damn, i just saw this reblog now and itās so sweet šš
i'm a neurodivergent person ā autistic, to be more specific! helaena is exactly how my friends usually see me, so i really have a lot of affection for her too, i love her so much!
iād never really thought about maekar as neurodivergent before, but itās really cool to see other ND peopleās perspectives on that and on these characters!
and about baelor ā i did notice some mannerisms in him, like how heās constantly moving his hands (something helaena does too), and even his hyperfocus on history, which makes him remember so many details ā something even maekar points out, if i'm not mistaken, in ep 1 or 2.
there are so many other targaryens iād say have ND traits ā iād even include daenerys here⦠honestly, for me, any character that a non-ND audience sees as āweird,ā āmystical,ā āout of place,ā or āquietā will always read as neurodivergent to me, bc those are traits i have too. and growing up, those same traits caused me so many problems ā things iāve only started to understand and deal with better now as an adult.
the truth is, whenever i see a character i relate to, iām going to say theyāre autistic, bc⦠well, i'm similar, so if they feel like me, i feel comfortable saying āto me, theyāre autistic ā the voices in my head said soā š
itās fun, honestly. it makes me feel like a 7-year-old again, seeing a character that feels like me in some silly story. it might sound small, but to me itās comforting ā those traits that ppl once treated like something wrong are now something i can see as meaningful, even special. it lets me romanticize my neurodivergence a little, bc even when you understand it and grow up, the difficulties donāt really get easier. they donāt go away. itās something you carry for life.
okay, today we got the first poster for season 3 of house of the dragon ā a poster of rhaenyra on the throne wearing her crown. we also know the first solo teaser drops tomorrow. i didnāt comment on any of it bc i'm honestly not that interested in what this show has to tell anymore, especially after grrm said it wasnāt his story anymore.
that said, my personal tastes and opinions arenāt enough to stop ryan (and the others) from opening their mouths about my favorite characters š and he did ā specifically about rhaenyra ā and damn, i have a lot to say, and none of it is good.
my sister and i ā and some people i follow on twitter ā had already picked up on the fact that ryan condal seems to be building a āchosen oneā narrative for rhaenyra. something like anakin skywalker, paul atreides, or show!daenerys ā where the idea of being chosen slowly turns them into tyrants, cult leaders, or fanatics.
and honestly? i donāt hate that type of plot.
i love how paulās story is written. i love anakin. i even love daenerys in the show (i donāt like her ending, but not bc she died ā for other reasons). i love slow descents into madness.
but that is simply NOT rhaenyra.
when he says, āHopefully, as with any character in a long-form story like this, you're seeing growth. Growth sometimes does not necessarily mean all positive, but you're seeing somebody evolving and finding their sense of self.ā ā heās not wrong in theory. but we only have two seasons. and in neither of them do we actually see meaningful growth beyond the actor change in season 1 and the shift from young to adult rhaenyra.
season 2 was completely stagnant for her. there was no evolution. the change that shouldāve started after lukeās death at the end of season 1 was dragged through all of season 2 until that moment with the targaryen bastards and the dragons. that āmadnessā appeared once. so what growth is he talking about?
we spent half the season watching a ghost of a rhaenyra ā indecisive, passive, doing nothing ā while other characters got far more development than she did.
then he says:
āRhaenyra began the season very much as a challenger to her own throne⦠you see this evolution⦠trying to find her footing in a world where she is the challenger, but sheās also a woman. And a big reason that she is a challenger is because sheās a woman.ā
there it is.
rhaenyra is a woman who suffered at the hands of her family and was ultimately killed. her death wasnāt justified bc of her crimes ā it was bc she was a woman. her story is about misogyny. itās about how men will override a woman at any cost to take what is hers.
the primary reason sheās a challenger is that sheās a woman. itās that simple. but it feels like heās pretending not to understand that.
book!rhaenyra commits wrongs. sheās not innocent. but when the show turns her into some cult-like, chosen-one fanatic, it creates a ājustifiableā reason for her death later: ākill the mad queen before she burns the realm.ā
it reminds me too much of dany in season 8.
thatās not Rhaenyra.
her āmadnessā should come from grief. from injustice. from losing her children in a war that never shouldāve started. thatās where cruelty grows. not from believing she was divinely chosen.
the issue isnāt rhaenyra doing bad things ā she absolutely should. the issue is why she does them. if itās to manufacture a justification for her eventual death ā something other than āshe was a womanā ā then that undermines the entire thematic core of her story.
ironically, this ācult leader / chosen oneā arc would fit aegon far better and couldāve been genuinely interesting. instead, heās sidelined and stripped of narrative weight in his own story. he barely has a compelling arc at all.
it feels like theyāre trying to recreate daenerys season 8 ā repeating the same mistakes on purpose, as if they believe theyāll succeed where someone else failed. but itās worse. itās rushed, underdeveloped, and poorly structured ā and thereās no time to fix it.
if game of thrones couldnāt properly develop that arc in eight seasons, how is house of the dragon supposed to do it in four or five?
it genuinely feels delusional to think this will land well.
i donāt even think maekar realized it was baelor when he struck him in the head and knocked him away (which ended up killing baelor), bc all he could see was his son being overpowered and he just wanted to save his baby.
how are we, doomed siblings enjoyers? how are we holding up today? ššš
Correct me if Iām tripping but I donāt think it was this blow that killed Baelor bc Maekar very obviously hits him in front of his helmet, and Baelorās wound was in the back. I think they actually kinda intentionally have it be implied as a different blow, so thatājust like Maekarāwe donāt know which hit actually killed his brother.
i say it was that one more out of obviousness (even tho what u said makes sense), bc like⦠a blow that took off half his skull couldnāt have happened earlier ā thereās no way that man wouldāve stayed standing and fighting for much longer after that.
i think it was that strike bc itās theoretically the last moment we see baelor in battle, and right after that aerion withdraws the accusation and the fight ends. then baelor goes over to duncan and we finally see the wound. thatās the line of reasoning i followed!
maekar throws baelor away, maybe combined with several other blows heād already taken, and then he probably hit his head hard on the ground ā that mustāve been what did it.
Yeah fairāIām just not sure because as Maekar is screaming for Aerion we see both Baelor and Lyonel dragging him off, so I kinda assumed they continued fighting?? You could def be right though, maybe the cast will have commentary on it at some point.
idk how to reply to u directly without reblogging bc im basically a grandma trying to use tumblr (even tho iām 22 š) but anyway, i hope i donāt come off as rude with yet another reblog.
i just wanted to say that yeah, maybe the actors talked about that moment in some interview ā maybe they even mentioned it in the episodeās bts (which i just remembered exists now and i still havenāt watched šš). if they didnāt talk about it there, i hope they bring it up in some interview.
SAVE ME PRINCE VALARR SAVE ME
i donāt even think maekar realized it was baelor when he struck him in the head and knocked him away (which ended up killing baelor), bc all he could see was his son being overpowered and he just wanted to save his baby.
how are we, doomed siblings enjoyers? how are we holding up today? ššš
Correct me if Iām tripping but I donāt think it was this blow that killed Baelor bc Maekar very obviously hits him in front of his helmet, and Baelorās wound was in the back. I think they actually kinda intentionally have it be implied as a different blow, so thatājust like Maekarāwe donāt know which hit actually killed his brother.
i say it was that one more out of obviousness (even tho what u said makes sense), bc like⦠a blow that took off half his skull couldnāt have happened earlier ā thereās no way that man wouldāve stayed standing and fighting for much longer after that.
i think it was that strike bc itās theoretically the last moment we see baelor in battle, and right after that aerion withdraws the accusation and the fight ends. then baelor goes over to duncan and we finally see the wound. thatās the line of reasoning i followed!
maekar throws baelor away, maybe combined with several other blows heād already taken, and then he probably hit his head hard on the ground ā that mustāve been what did it.
i donāt even think maekar realized it was baelor when he struck him in the head and knocked him away (which ended up killing baelor), bc all he could see was his son being overpowered and he just wanted to save his baby.
how are we, doomed siblings enjoyers? how are we holding up today? ššš
maekar charging at dunk like a dragon, screaming āmy boy! my boy!ā and having to be held back by two men ā and yāall still joking that aerion is the son maekar hates? y'all looking real ugly now š
AERION IS HIS DADDYāS LITTLE PRINCE, YOU DONāT KNOW MAEKAR LIKE I DO. AERION IS THE FAVORITE SON AND I CAN PROVE IT, YOUR HONOR!!!
not to be that person but rhaenyra stans fat-shaming hel reminds me of the idiom of pots calling the kettle black because rhaenyra was...you know....fat in the books
infact while hel is described as just plump at 13, we have a more definite description of rhaenyra at the time of dance, which is stout, thick of waist and big chest. not to be nitpicky but basically rhaenyra was fatter. and definitely not a warrior type. her being active in war is a show-only thing as is the divinely guided by prophecy thing. idek why some stans get mad at show!helaena being a dragon dreamer who was separately PRAISED by grrm but not at ALL the non-book changes done to support show!rhaenyra?
i rly don't get what the problem is with two important characters being depicted as fat. i don't like these terms like "plump" or whatever, just say the word: they're fat and it doesn't make them less beautiful! i'm not attacking u, esp since i agree with u, it makes no sense to call helaena fat in a derogatory way when rhaenyra herself (a woman who went through multiple pregnancies) wasn't thin and slender either, and that doesn't take away from their beauty.
this fandom, and i mean both got and hotd, carry so much internalized misogyny in them and it's honestly frightening. aegon can be as fat as he wants, i've never seen a single soul call him fat as an insult. this whole "queen of cakes" joke abt rhaenyra is so annoying and disgusting, just like this competition they make between helaena and rhaenyra over which one is fatter. is this important to the plot? NEVER has been. i don't get why they make it such a constant focus, it's ridiculous.
i hate almost everything abt this show, i honestly think this adaptation was a mistake (and grrm agrees with me lol) bc i feel like after hotd, no other series abt the targaryens will be free from these ppl. i just know that when the conquest series or movie comes out, these same ppl will be glorifying aegon the conqueror and being misogynistic toward rhaenys and visenya, acting like they hated each otherāthey didn't, they loved each other, just like rhaenyra didn't hate helaena.
it's really annoying when i wanna talk abt helaena being a dreamer and discuss that, only for rhaenyra fans to come at me saying she's a fake dreamer, retarded, blah blah blah. like, leave the girl alone and leave me alone too. honestly, i take it personally when ppl talk badly abt helaena, esp abt her personality, bc i really identify with her and seeing ppl call her retarded for traits THAT I HAVE is really hurtful. šš»
thanks for the ask, anon! feel free to send more anytime you wanna talk abt this stuff š«¶š»
ppl need to stop treating helaena like crap just bc sheās alicent hightowerās daughter and aegon targaryenās wife. sheās not a bad person and she never treated rhaenyra the way everyone else did! if āmisogynyā only matters when itās about rhaenyra, then you donāt actually care about it fr, bc calling a woman retarded just for not being on the same team as you is an insanely shitty choice.
ik i donāt usually bring this kinda topic here, i prefer being chill, joking around, being the fandomās court jester for asoiaf, but it genuinely bothers me seeing ppl talk about helaena like that, esp bc of her neurodivergent traits. in the show ā yes, the damn TV show ā she IS a dreamer, she DOES have dragon dreams, and thatās one of the very few good things (and praised by grrm) that this ridiculous show gave us! show!helaena is praised by grrm, just like phia sabanās performance. so can we pls stop treating helaena like sheās nothing and stop being misogynistic toward her?
itās honestly unbearable to read prejudiced shit about helaenaās traits when youāre an autistic person with similar ones. sorry if sheās not a second visenya or daenerys. sorry if she doesnāt ride dreamfyre burning innocent ppl alive. imo, a strong woman doesnāt need to hurt innocent ppl to be strong š¤·š»āāļø but apparently in this fandom youāre only a āstrong womanā if youāre carrying a sword.
i rly need to talk abt the misogyny in this damn fandom ā misogyny, fatphobia, and esp the way yāall talk abt / describe neurodivergent ppl. bc these characters might not exist irl, but ppl like them do. so maybe think for a sec before calling someone with neurodivergent traits retarded or shit like that, or using fatphobic and misogynistic insults. the characters arenāt real, but women like them are, and these crappy words genuinely hurt ppl, in case you hadnāt noticed.