the character their biggest fan

Queen Helaena and Princess Jaehaera

“Everything that I do, everything that I live for, is for my children..”

—Olivia Cooke, In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast

Alicent and little Aemond

seeing helaena targaryen die on screen will require three months of silence and solitude away at a cliffside chapel near the sea for my health. I will not be taking any comments at this time

Everyone look at how happy she is

Pls someone get her away from the greens and let her be happy forever

Helaena is actually Alicent and Rhaenyra's love child... Rhaenyra literally told me herself

one day we need to talk about how helaena and alicent are glorified into these perfect little victims that can do no wrong and screaming sexist, misogynist, etc when you point it out, while calling rhaenyra a whore and minimizing what she went through simply because she doesn’t want to suffer as a woman in westeros. might it have to do with how rhaenyra’s suffering isn’t as male gaze and fetishizable as the forever victims?

It’s so far fetched for Helaena to be a dreamer in the book she’s just described as mad!!!

This is the funniest argument to see from the people who will cry and seethe when you mention the “Targaryen Madness” bs against their favorite Targaryens then and only then is it nonsense.

Even Aerys gets to be misunderstood 🥺 and woobified - “he was imprisoned” after all 🥺 he was probably not always abusive to Rhaella 🥺 What if he was plagued with nightmares about the Others 🥺 have you thought about that?

But Helaena Targaryen is just “mad”. Team Feminism really showing it’s true colors once again.

“𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫,

“… 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬

𝐀𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐌𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞.”

Me: The entire Blood and Cheese incident is a tragedy for both sides, an unnessarily savage act that is morally reprehensible and inexcusable.

Also Me, whose been Team Black for 15 years: fuck them kids.

imo the time jumps are where hotd gets messy, because they just really wanted to get to the dance by season two but that’s like having ned executed halfway through season 1 just so you can rush to the red wedding in season 2, i get the urge but pull it back a little babee, let the anticipation and tragedy build.

anyways, i think the biggest miss (and one of two that i think sinks the show from “excellent” to “great but i have notes”) is we don’t see alicent and helaena give birth because of the wacky ways they skip around in the timeline.

there are easy fixes for this tho. for the first time skip where you still have milly and emma, we should have seen alicent give birth to helaena. it doesn’t have to be the whole episode, but the end of it should be her giving birth to juxtapose with Aemma, and Helaena’s reception juxtaposed with Baelon’s, Joffrey, and Visenya. THEN you do the ten year skip EXCEPT it STARTS with Rhaenyra figuring out she’s pregnant again, go through most of the plot she goes through WHILE SHES PREGNANT, THEN a birth scene. second to last episode is laena’s birth scene & death, finale is driftmark fight, then a little jump at the VERY end where Rhaenyra gets the message about Vaemond and is like “guess we’re going back to court.”

THAT WAY season two can start with HELAENA having MAELOR and also we get more time with the little versions of the black & green kids. ALSO season two can then include aegon in flea bottom so we get LADY ESSIE HAVING GAEMON and a juxtaposition of how noble women are treated during birth and how smallfolk are!!!!!!

Helaemonds, I-

It jumped out. The helaemond jumped out fr *screams*

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HEAR ME OUT - Jenny of oldstones but its Alicent after the dance has ended , something like Alicent in the High tower

don't mind me i'm living in an AU where daemyra chose to kidnap jaehaerys and indoctrinate him as if he was their own child instead of having him killed. "a son for a son" logic but sideways and to the left without any child death. but can you imagine the hijinks that would ensue.

THE YEARS TO COME

rhaenyra targaryen x alicent hightower

Rhaenyra and Alicent, and their years together, from college to happily ever after.

I. 2022

Rhaenyra expects her first year at university to be full of parties, what she doesn't expect, is to lose her head over a pretty girl with big brown eyes.

II. 2030

If Aegon had stayed awake for just two more seconds, he would have noticed the confusion on his mother's face. And then the realization, which turned into sadness. But he had missed all that, already immersed in the world of dreams.