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[maythe4th]

GAME OF THRONES (2011–2019) 6.05: THE DOOR

[barbieaemond]

GAME OF THRONES S2E7 "A Man Without Honor"

[alicents4lawyer]

[oleworm]

“But this is not that king, nor is this his song.”

Aegon, inspired by this portrait of Stephen of Blois. Drawing by my friend. They also wrote some meta about it, under the cut. The quote is from The Green Knight (2021).

“His name should be “the Unfortunate.” Or, perhaps, “the Unready.”

In his behaviours, crimes and heroics, he feels like a quintessential local king. I have too little care for the ethics of feudalism to pretend that one bleached flea is more moral than another, I am not going to justify this fictional fool or any of his fellow ticks on the bodies of kingdoms.

I like his story though. The way he viciously rejects his heritage and embraces it at the same time, more Andal than Valyrian who still holds the strongest bond with the physical manifestation of Valyrian ideas, something that both upholds and discredits their predatory traditions. A king doomed by others to become a king, the one who doesn’t want to rule but grows into it to the point of giving his all. He’s ready to fight and burn among his people when they show him loyalty but turns cruel and unstable when they defy him. His future is bleak, his past is disgusting. Remember those lines in The Green Knight film? “Is this all there is?” - “What else ought there to be?” He’s not Gawain, of course. Please give me Plato’s number, I’m going to telephone him to hear his hot take on this shit.

But I find a pleasant fatalism in that he’s not only chosen by his family to play a role of a contender, those who then wash their hands of it, but also in how his story comes from a faux chronicle of events long gone, done and decided, a story that might be tweaked here and there, but will not be rewritten. It’s almost like he is aware in a fun way that he is long doomed—and tries to flee unsuccessfully, cowardly, violently even, only to be brought back into the cycle that must continue like the chains on his neck. They imply Rhaenyra is one of the prophecies, but him fleeing his destiny and fitting it so well resembles one of the many doomed kings from the old tales, the crowned blaze in the shape of a man doomed to face his grim fate no matter how far he has gone to escape it. But he is not that king. His song seems of a different breed. The unwilling and unworthy man cursed with the scourge of greatness. I think he should die in a public mass cannibalism incident.”

[rhaenyratheecruel]

Oh, who would ever want to be king?

[westerosiladies]

[t2towers]

Bye brat(s)ummer

This has been their summer sorry. Anyone who says otherwise is a hater idc

[alicents4lawyer]

[livmondcole]

The Greens new photoshoot

[ashleysjohnson]

RHAENICENT APPRECIATION WEEK Day 5: Tragedy

[wolfienation]

god help me

[marysblo0d]

even depressed they still serve face

[sadmortician]

heavy is the head

[debustee]

While I'm still busy with commissions, here's another sketch of modern Targaryen siblings🥲

[debustee]

Don't worry about Daeron, he's in the car with his favourite uncle💙

#DaeronTheDaring

#GwayneHightower

[abigaillazaar]

But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time 'Cause it was never mine

[onyxstorms]

"I, Ser Simon Strong, castellan of Harrenhal, swear fealty to Rhaenyra of House Targaryen, the First of Her Name. I swear this by the Old Gods, and the New"

House of the Dragon Season 2 Appreciation Week: ↳Day 5: Favorite New Character

[keepingupwiththeboltons]

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