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tereshkina

clickbaiting him

rhaemonds

LARYS + ALICENT + CRISTON ↳ LARYS + AEGON, CRISTON + AEMOND

#those first two scenes side by side. god #hotd

visenyaism

Lesbians hate him! Local man is irritating

mummer

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

#i'm sorry but 'history will paint you a villain' worked for me #and rhaenyra saying they'd call her maegor aghh

goldcrescent

I like how Daemon doesn’t have a stealth mode whatsoever so his master plan to deceive someone has every single time been “find an innocent civilian, burn them beyond recognition, and pass them off as a different dead guy”. And it always works bc who would suspect Daemon of not killing a guy when given the chance

goldcrescent

true

seikilos-stele

Ursula K. Le Guin

House of the Dragon (Condal 2022-)

“Rhaenyra Triumphant” 3x03 / “Tumbleton” 3x04

#yippee!#hotd

alicenthightowerdaily

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

#i need to know what she was reading here #i’ve always imagined she has a penchant for poetry. and while i don’t know much about manuscripts…#those look like stanzas to me!#also this nightgown is everything #alicent hightower

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

#walk with me here. it’ll come together by the end i pinky promise…#also i wanted to include rhaenyra sewing back on jahaerys’ head at the beginning there but it ended up taking away from the #daemon trying to grasp a bleeding star imagery.#*jaehaerys’#on another note here’s to me discovering #that #sometimes learning looks like applying what you’re reading to your favorite dragon melodrama #hotd #house of the dragon

visenyaism

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

visenyaism

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.

#it’s so fucking good.#visenya ormund daero maegor the kind stocks are up people 📈📈📈

alvsanne

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.05 // 3.04

#i did not know what i wanted #i made you queen of the seven kingdoms / i will make you king of the seven kingdoms #would you have wanted it otherwise

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.

#here’s some a little tipsy post ep4 ramblings #can you tell i was moved by criston cole waxing poetic about home #hotd #asoiaf #alicent hightower #daeron targaryen

House of the Dragon (Condal 2022-)

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

#for a while now i’ve thought that #whenever helaena is talking about a bug she is also talking about alicent. eg. the caged cricket that ‘stopped singing’ in s2 is alicent #choosing to stop singing her father’s and husband’s song and leave it all behind.#so i cannot tell you how vindicated i felt when saw that the butterfly in her journal is called an ‘alicuini’.#anyways i think this show is doing some really interesting stuff with dynasty and empire and self mythology and i find it very compelling #that despite her best efforts as a child bride alicent is this person who is never welcomed into the fold of house targaryen #and neither are her children.#she tries very hard to assimilate into the family and wants very badly to be apart of the family but is kept outside their dynamics and #is punished when she intrude on them in 1x05. her choice to wear green to rhaenyra’s wedding was the culmination of the persistent #alienation she experienced and rhaenyra’s ’betrayal’ was only the tipping point.#to me the green dress scene is the epitome of tyrion’s ‘Never forget what you are for surely the world will not.#Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it and it will never be used to hurt you.’ it is a call for #‘war’ and cry for help and the only means alicent has to say ‘if you will not accept me as one of you i will be my father’s’#she is an inverse of the butterflies of naath. they are native butterflies poisonous to those who are not from naath. she is an outsider #among the natives and that is part of why her children were doomed from the beginning and why everyone she loves is going to die around her #idk! just some nonsensical musings that i hope to one day be able to articulate is a text post #also larys saying all of this to her with the fucking lemon tree mural right behind him. if they make oldtown alicent’s house with the red #happy hotd sunday from my queue!! i’ll be back on tumblr monday and be watching the new episode monday night <3 #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #web weaving

visenyaism

Some day we are going to do circle time discussion questions about this. But probably not today

visenyaism

Actually here. Circle up.

What is the story of the dance of the dragons as depicted in fire and blood about?

What is the book attempting to communicate about war and this dynasty and how it worsens the existing gender and class disparities in Westeros?

In the book, whose “fault” is it? Why?

The first mention of a lot of these characters is actually in a feast for crows and a dance with dragons in the main series. What are those books trying to communicate about war and history thematically and why would they reach back to the dance to do so?

What changes NEED to be made to take something from a collection of contradicting histories in text to a television show? What changes SHOULD be made?

Is house of the dragon trying to tell the same story thematically? How does it engage with the concept of history?

How is it different? What do you think the show wants to be about?

Do the differences successfully tell a different story? Does it come together?

In the show, whose “fault” is it? Why?

What gets lost when an adaptation changes the meaning? What could be gained?

How do you tell a story about the experiences of women in patriarchy without engaging in sexism?

#this made my day lol

visenyaism

what did you think about the scene between alicent and jaspar wylde in this episode?

I understand why many people found it upsetting because it was upsetting and I think they could’ve handled it a little more deliberately than just having this guy show up at her room. What I understand less is the amount of people who seem to be shocked or surprised that the show that has been about institutional and interpersonal sexual violence and its effect on the women who attempt to be power players within said evil patriarchal system would do this. I won’t defend it as 100% loadbearingly necessary for the plot but that’s the theme that they keep doing.

#i think the scene in writing and concept is fine but i found the execution pretty awful because the way it’s shot #and edited spot lights jasper's interiority over alicent's. but to add on to your analysis i think the scene is trying to underscore #alicent’s vulnerability as a woman who married into the dynasty who is not herself a targaryen dragon rider #and who’s claim to power is not by virtue of her own blood but her husband’s and her children’s.#it’s notable to me that we get these almost back to back scenes where jasper and daemon frame alicent and mysaria’s #political success and agency as infiltration in the same episode that daemon is like get that hightower shit out of here this is ‘OUR home’#jasper calls alicent an “industrious little creature” and daemon calls mysaria a “slipper[y]”“eel.” they’re viewed as having encroached #upon a sphere they do not belong in “i remember you snaking your way into the halls of power when you were just a girl”’ vs #“i left you here a prisoner…you’ve wriggled your way toward the crown like an eel.” i think the show is imploring us to think about how #women who exist outside the targaryen blood line are understood as political agents. how they are doubly othered and seen as external to the #“natural” political order. the show has actually been doing this for quite some time.#in 1x02 when viserys announces that he’s going to marry alicent and corlys jumps up and says “this is an absurdity. my house is valyrian the #greatest power in the realm. .” he’s literally like this person is implicitly a bad match because she is not valyrian you #are an idiot for passing up on marrying my daughter which would reinforce the power you and i both derive from the spectre of old valyria #when daemon says he’s going to marry mysaria otto says “this is an abomination. with every breath #you soil your name your house and your brother’s name.’ otto’s emphasis is on class and respectability but i think #the similar phrasing is meant to highlight otto’s hypocrisy. and how you know. the whole point is that these men s #selectively invoke the language of honor and blood when it serves their interests.#<- obviously it’s all more complicated than i’ve been able to articulate here but hopefully this makes some sense #some sense i had these quotes on hand in my notes app and wrote this all in one go #hotd

rhaenicentdaily

"Seeing the shift in Rhaenyra's face and whole body as she sees Alicent. This breaks something in her. From this scene onward, Rhaenyra changes in a way that she doesn't even really completely understand in that moment." – Clare Kilner

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

#that clare kilner quote wow #rhaenicent