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That being said even accounting for taste it is really funny to hear so many people complain about a fire and blood characterization being butchered and the characterization in question is like a teenage girl described as being really pretty and feminine in some kind of outfit sitting in a room doing nothing for years. Not great television that

#no litcherally...#hotd #do i miss nettles. YES!#is this objectively a better storyline for rhaena? yea #woman king rhaenyra is worth it alllll

Making Rhaenyra #kindofnonbinary is worth a thousand fire and blood realm’s delights and one.

House of the Dragon (Condal 2022-) / A Dance with Dragons (Martin 2011)

"The Heirs of the Dragon" 1x01 / "Second of his Name" 1x03 / "Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood" 3x01 / "Smallfolk" 2x06 / ADWD Jon ii

#always a hightower patriarch grooming their doe-eyed lamb for the sacrificial altar #if you a ginger in westeros they will abuse and KILL YOU #runnnnn #hotd

alvsanne

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.05 // 3.04

#yessss...#that final shot when rhaenyra is killed in front of alicent is going to kill me i just know it #hotd

House of the Dragon (Ryan Condal 2022-) / The Second Sex “Facts and Myths” (Simone de Beauvoir 1949)

“The Burning Mill” 2x03 / “Regent” 2x05 / “The Queen Who Ever Was” 2x08 / “The Black Queen” 1x10 / “Rhaenyra Triumphant” 3x03 / “Tumbleton” 3x04

Ursula K. Le Guin

i need to stay alive for hotd s4 when everyone’s dying out and becoming myths and we start to see history reshaping itself to the new world’s whims, and fire and blood’s “characters” start to form out of archetypes while the figures trapped in that history can only look on. Lol

did i or did i not just watch alicent hightower sit down in front of the lemon tree mural, as she told rhaenyra that she sent her last child to the house with the red door home she barely remembers so that he might grow up outside the suffocating walls of the red keep. so that he might live as a hightower instead of a targaryen. but in her attempt to keep him from becoming his father, she cursed him to become her instead. an outsider among the natives. who doesn’t know what he wants beyond his father figure’s desire to make him king of the seven kingdom’s. the blue queen in chains.

#hotd #the alicentdaeron of it all...#like mother like son...

alysmond

Daeron is stalwart. Clever. As adept with his lute as he is with a sword. And a feature in the fancies of many a young lady, I'll wager. He's kind.

Alicent saying Ormund acts fatherly to Daeron and then we cut to Ormund in fact acting how Alicent perceives fathers to act towards Daeron was also so awesome

#hotd #it really is grooming all the way down

Sending your last son away to oldtown as a babe in a desperate hope that he will avoid the fate of his Targaryen siblings only to have him get groomed into a dynastic tool for seizing the throne by his nefarious father figure like a Hightower AND get groomed into a tool of (re)conquest carrying divine magical purpose by a nefarious ethnic supremacist uncle figure like a Targaryen.

House of the Dragon (Condal 2022-)

“Queen’s Landing” 3x02 / “We Light the Way” 1x05 / “The Rogue Prince” 1x02

emmaziadarcy

I have risked much and more to raise you up. Surely, you do not wish to disappoint me.

DAERON TARGARYEN and ORMUND HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.04

#hotd #hm…

because Ormund Hightower getting in his teenage nephew’s face and coke ranting about the glory of the Hightower Reconquista that he has made up in his head that they are divinely ordained to accomplish to because of their special blood and no one understands but them IS exactly how Daemon was moving with fifteen year-old Rhaenyra in the first season of this show. kind of insane

wulfhalls

gwayne fighting for his life day in day out against cristons incessant cynicism 😭😭 gwayne: we have some disciplinary problems in the ranks can u get in on that maybe?? criston: some shakespearean soliloquy. gwayne: CAN WE HAVE ONE NORMAL CONVERSATION CAN WE PLS JUST DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS AT HAND THIS ONCE NOT THIS EXISTENTIAL BULLSHIT ALL DAY

wulfhalls

thats them

cottaqecore

jess keogh

alysmond

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 4, "Tumbleton"