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MISSING MY BABY GIRL SO MUCHHHHHHH WHERE TF IS SHE HBO STOP HIDING HER
#helaena the dreamer#helaena targaryen#house of the dragon#hotd#a song of ice and fire#house targaryen#game of thrones#hbo max
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I read somewhere that shipping Helaegon is ‘absolutely deranged’ or delulu and if that’s the case I don’t want to be sane. The beauty of Fire & Blood is its pretty much open to interpretation because it is a historical retelling of events from various and sometimes unreliable sources. Frankly, I am not a fan of how F&B was written (it was too boring for me) and prefer the novellas. We actually have only a few paragraphs from the books to describe their relationship. HotD is also an interpretation, and our headcanons and fics are not ‘less than’ just because we don’t have a whole TV production behind us. I stand behind the book than the show though it did have brilliant moments.
Aegon in S1 was introduced as a character in a very unfavorable and distasteful way and wasn’t at all necessary. Tom in an interview even said something along the lines how an actor wants the audience to root for his character somehow, and Aegon SA’ing a girl at the first scene will make it difficult.
And then this OC is still on season 2, I don’t know, maybe to make Aegon bad again. I will watch S2 with the lowest of expectations.
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For the girlies w mommy issues
#house of the dragon#hotd#a song of ice and fire#house targaryen#game of thrones#hbo max#alicent hightower#rhaenys targaryen#aegon ii targaryen#hotd alicent#team alicent
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About a year ago (early 2023 or so), we had leaks confirming that Queen Helaena was pregnant with Maelor and these scenes showed Aegon deciding to leave a meeting with the council to go check on her, because he mistakenly believed she was ill. I don't know if this is reliable information, but considering it was leaked along with Alys' audition, it seems to me that it is. If that's the case, the Aegon in this picture most likely got the news that his queen is pregnant.
The next time we see him is in a tavern. While it's a popular belief in the fandom that Aegon was there when b&c happened, I think he was there celebrating Hel's pregnancy (which makes it that much more tragic).
While it's obvious that this photo is after b&c, I'm sure we see the maid from Aegon's perspective. He's just returned drunk from a tavern after celebrating one son, only to find he's lost another. And we'll probably have a scene of him running all over the castle to make sure everything is okay, only to find Helaena holding Jaehaerys' body while Alicent hugs Jaehaera.
And then we see Aegon feeling guilty, thinking: "Why wasn't I here to protect my family? I am a King, untouchable, but I failed my wife, my children and my mother."
Maybe people will think I'm on some kind of strong drug after reading this, but the truth is I just based it on what you see in the trailer, some leaks we had about a year ago and my unreliable addiction to tragedy.
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Rhaenyra in the book Rhaenyra in the show
Aegon in the book Aegon in the show
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I can't believe they chose one of the prettiest man that I have ever seen to play Aegon but then they put all their efforts to make him the ugliest character in the show...
I mean dude is literally shining like an angel.
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Something striking about the relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent that the show tries to awkwardly scoot past is that time and time again, Alicent sacrifices her own interests and desires for Rhaenyra's benefit, while Rhaenyra never does the reverse. Alicent teaches Rhaenyra history, dresses and crowns her for her investment ceremony, comforts her after her mother's death, advises Viserys *against* naming Aegon heir, supports reconciliation between Rhaenyra and Viserys that ultimately gets her father and sole supporter fired, seriously considers switching sides to her despite the severe risk to her own children, and goes against her father to try and save her life. The most Rhaenyra gives Alicent is a few hollow words of praise in episode 8.
Though the show doesn't seem to realize it, their relationship isn't one of equals, but of master and servant. Otto and Alicent are parallels in this sense - both are in a sense, servants of the Targaryens who do not wish to merely serve. But the show buys into the expectation of their service and Targaryen masterdom uncritically: the great crime of Otto and Alicent is their attempt to subvert the natural order of things rather than meekly serving their Targaryen masters. It's why Alicent is most sympathetic when she is loyal to Rhaenyra, but the reverse isn't true, because why would Rhaenyra be expected to do anything for a mere servant like Alicent?
Which really just goes to show the big class blind spot the show has. By presenting "goodness" as solely a function of how closely one can follow Viserys' orders, they're regurgitating one aspect of medieval social customs to oppose another. With this context, Rhaenyra and Alicent's relationship feels less healthy and a lot more like a premonition of Alicent's relationship to Viserys, with similar power imbalances. Rhaenyra and Alicent love each other, but Rhaenyra sees Alicent as a sidekick at best, doesn't take her seriously as someone with her own inner life and desires, and is sensitive to Alicent's perceived disobedience ("questioning my virtue is an act of treason.")
I think it also gives context to Criston and Alicent's relationship, given that Criston is *also* relatively low nobility, and a servant to the Targaryens, who feels taken advantage of by them, and whose great crime is trying to be something other than a servant, to *make* kings, not just to serve them.
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I will never forgive HOTD for making me sit through TWO Rhaenyra births and TWO Rhaenyra weddings…
But never having us see Alicent’s wedding or births. Scenes that would have forced the fans to confront the true reality of how despicable her situation is. It would force viewers to see a child, devastated, as she walks down the aisle to her creepy old man of a husband. It would force viewers to watch a little girl have a child. Completely unprepared and alone, crying for her mother and finding no sympathy. She has no father to protect her. No mother to guide her and comfort her. No husband who cares about her.
It would force team black to stop seeing her as the evil seductress, for even a moment. And see her true vulnerability. See how she doesn’t, and never did, want this. See how these are not consequences of her actions, but instead the consequences of the men around her that she has to suffer for them. Because they don’t care about her. Viserys doesn’t care about her.
These are scenes that are meant to bring sympathy to her character. To give Alicent a reason to be righteously angry at the family and system that broke her down and stole her childhood. It gives Alicent a valid motive to fight aside from fear. And it takes away the chances for team black to deny her suffering at least a little bit.
Because as the current narrative sits, it’s easy to ignore Alicent’s experience and warp it into a much more pleasant story. They see Alicent “seducing” the king and then she is already married. And then she’s pregnant and the babies magically appear. No screaming or crying or bleeding involved. All is good. The teenager definitely didn’t suffer at all. And by doing this some people can’t sympathize as much or they are given allowances to intentionally not sympathize.
Instead. The current narrative allows for Alicent to be the seductress, the crazed woman, the jealous bitch, and the villain. But if we saw what she actually went through. Alone, scared, suffering, neglected, and holding it all in. We would be allowed to see her as she truly is. The victim. Finally crushing under the weight of it all and lashing out.
(And the narrative would be all the better for it because instead of feminist icon team vs crazy trad wife and co (as far as team black sees it), we would have woman fighting against patriarchal narrative for her own claim vs woman fighting against patriarchal narrative to destroy the people who hurt her)
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We were robbed of King Aegon II and Queen Helaena. Aegon acts on emotion and impulse but Helaena is the one who tempers him and acts as the voice of reason. I would like to see Aegon make 'use' of Helaena's visions and intuition, not for specific decisions but for her judgement. If making a decision is difficult with many opposing views, Aegon asks Helaena last and follows what she says. This wasn’t agreeable to the council at first, but time and time again Helaena is proven right that they come to trust her. I think they would work well as rulers together.
From Fire & Blood:
“The princess [Rhaenyra] must be made to see that her cause is hopeless,” Grand Maester Orwyle said. “Brother should not war against sister. Send me to her, that we may talk and reach an amicable accord.” … “But when the two queens—his mother, Queen Alicent, and his wife, Queen Helaena—spoke in favor of Orwyle’s proposal, the truculent king gave way reluctantly.”
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I think what makes the Greens appealing to me as characters is because of the abject horror and tragedy inherent to their situation. Their entire existence is made extraneous due to the choices of a politically inept king. If Viserys possessed any sort of forethought prior to wedding and bedding Alicent, or initiative after siring multiple sons that could prevent them from being exploited as political pawns, then it’s likely the dance wouldn’t have happened in the manner it did – if at all. The lives of his wife and children are forfeit because of his equivocating, and it’s utterly fascinating to me that the Greens are the ones who realize this and refuse to capitulate to the desires of someone who took them completely for granted, even if it’s to their own detriment.
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I think my biggest issue with house of the dragon is the message it sends. This show suffers from protagonist based morality big time and in the show rhaenyra, house targaryen and the blacks are the “protagonists”.
Anyone on team black can do no wrong, same if you’re Targaryen but on the “right side”. Anyone who’s not blindly following and supporting them is seen as the “bad guy” even if what they’re saying or doing isn’t exactly wrong and especially if they’re refusing to be blindly subservient to them.
When you think about it, some of team green are heavy victims of this but a prime example would be Vaemond, corlys brother.
With vaemond, he’s framed as a bad guy for daring to say rhaenyra’s children as bastards but he wasn’t wrong. Rhaenyra's sons are bastards born out of wedlock and thus have no birthright to anything related to the Velaryons. He also wasn’t interested in Rhaenyra's compromise of marrying Luke and Rhaena, and why the hell would he be?
The compromise boils down to publicly protecting and reinforcing Velaryon power while affirming their subservience to Targaryen oversight, as well as coddling the woman who has openly lied and usurped the family's seat just to protect herself from a little thing known as consequences for your actions. Not to mention the amount of infighting it would cause for house valeryon (in the books, vaemonds death at the hands of daemon causes this since he was killed for speaking the truth)
This is also another example of rhaenyra’s selfishness since luke didn’t even want the throne for himself and her hypocrisy as she fights when her throne is usurped but is totally fine with usurping the valeryon’s if it serves to benefit her but its not seen as this, instead we’re supposed to believe anyone should dare be against her is the bad one and everything she does is 100% justifiable.
He paid for his (brutal) honesty with his life here yet the writers want people to believe he was wrong? And so many believe he was even though he and most of those who spoke against rhaenyra/the Targaryen’s were 100% in the right.
Seeing this, i genuinely question how anyone can 100% be team black?
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Tumblr Tuesday: Farcille Fanart
Hello, Dungeon Meshi fans, but perhaps a particularly special hello to Farcille fans and artists. These two have really captured your imagination in a way that has us a little bit breathless. Here's a Farcille fanart collection for you.
(We had to be selective, but there is so much more. Please visit the #farcille fanart tag for the rest of the outpourings of genius.)
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Team Green Trailer Edit!
(I'm a newbieee so have mercy on meeee! Btw check me out on insta @loomingscion)
#house of the dragon#a song of ice and fire#hotd#house targaryen#game of thrones#hbo max#aegon ii targaryen#hotd alicent#team alicent#alicent hightower#team green#helaena targaryen#aemond targaryen#otto hightower#criston cole#rhaenyra targaryen#daemon targaryen
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