#hotd s3e6

[queenaegon]

telling rhaenyra about helaena’s dreams was possibly the worst thing alicent could have done. that woman is DESPERATE for signs and portents right now.

[0nlybitt3r4may]

how i felt seeing rhaenyra put her HANDS on my sweet helaena like GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY FUCKING DAUGHTER SHES PREGNANT DONT YOU DARE

[ridiculusmus]

Hi my name is Rhaenyra Targaryen, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm and I have long platinum blonde hair (that's how I got my name) that reaches my mid-back and icy lavender eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Emma D'Arcy (AN: if u don't know who they are get da hell out of here!). I AM related to Viserys Targaryen, he is my dad and he made me heir before he died. I'm the Queen and I was always meant to be. I have pale white skin. I rule from my seat in King's Landing where I've been ruling for the past few weeks (I'm thirty-two). I'm a dragonrider (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black and red. I love my seamstresses and I get all my clothes from them but sometimes I destroy them. For example today I was wearing a black dragonriding outfit. I was wearing no needless ornament. I was wearing a chain to symbolise my enormous gravitas, black dragonriding boots and a magnificent gold crown. I was sitting on the Iron Throne hearing petitions because my ex-childhood-bestfriend/step-mother/enemy/situationship Alicent left the gates of the Red Keep open for me, which I was very happy about. There was a shortage of tallow and a septa said one of her girls was kidnapped so I said I'd light a candle for her. A lot of smallfolk stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

"Your Grace!" shouted a voice sexily. I looked up. It was …. Mysaria my Mistress of Whisperers!

"What's up Mysaria?" I asked.

"Nothing." she said shyly.

But then, the smallfolk gave me a migraine so I had to go away.

[raya-rhaenyra-ahsoka]

Rhaenyra and Baela kissing their uncles after their husband/betrothed died is so very Targaryen of them.

[gameofthronestrack23]

Ormund telling Gwayne “I’m sure you found solace with some if your brothers at arms.” Thinking Alicent raised Daeron wrong. Hating on Otto. The competition for biggest Hightower hater is strong

[moonsandsmiles]

moon if you’ve watched the new ep of hotd (its so ridiculous) i NEED to know your thoughts

I had to force myself through it and I had to fast forward some bits because it was just exhausting.

I mean, I don't know what else to say. The same issues I've been pointing out ad nauseam are once again present here: Alicent going all Assassin's Creed on her damned son, Helaena's depression stemming from her imprisonment, whatever cringe-fest Aemond's Harrenhal plot is, Rhaenyra being so absurdly incompetent, it's like she's in a cartoon. Oh and that god awful, out of nowwhre Baela/Alyn kiss. I almost turned off the ep right there because that was genuinely the most forced thing I'd ever seen (and it comes off the curtails of them setting up Baela/Addam last ep. So what, we now get the world's most underwhelming love triangle with no proper set up? And no, I'm not an upset Jacaela shipper, cause despite what people say, I never thought they had any chemistry either. It was clear the show was never interested in developing their romantic connection and they always read as nothing more than siblings who ended up engaged to each other. But they at least had a prior relationship. Baela and Alyn shared two scenes the second of which is when they kiss 🥴)

It's a jumbled, inconsistent mess that drags on without end, and can't keep it's own continuity straight. The only positive is Daeron and Gwayne, of all things because they feel like actual interesting characters with a good dynamic. Everyone else, I genuinely don't care about and can't wait to get them off my screen (except the CGI dragons. Those are still cute).

Like even Cole's death was underwhelming, and not because they cut out the "I'll have no songs sung about you" line, because let's face it, show Criston hasn't earned it. He's been this messy, underdeveloped stock incel NPC who was suddenly given a nihilist turned Rambo plotline with no proper buildup or a consistent throughline. Him being proclaimed the architect of the usurpation wouldn't work cause he was just... there. He put the crown on Aegon's head during the ceremony, but nothing else. He played no role in convincing him to take the thing, nor was he a particularly instrumental player, beyond being a military grunt.

His death is only satisfying in a sense that this annoying scorned nice guy has finally died and that's it. And yeah, that's about all I have to say about it, I'm off to scribble my fic, to wash the taste out my mouth.

[kyidyl]

Ok, so, something occurred to me about tonight's episode of HotD.

Corlys's last words are "Who are you?". And it took a minute but I realized we all know the answer to that question. We've known it for years now. We learned it in a building on the water in Braavos. Who are you?

No One. He's No One.

[mifrr]

rhaenyra praise kink episode