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lvcygraybaird · 9 months

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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN APPRECIATION WEEK

day 1 - favorite episode(s)- the heirs of the dragon & the black queen

#house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaeweek23 #hotdedit #houseofthedragonedit #rhaenyratargaryenedit #rhaenyraedit #asoiafedit #hotdgifs #hotddaily #1x01 #1x10 #hotd 1x01 #hotd 1x10 #mygifsets #mygifs #myedits #sorry these are late!!! but my tumblrinas didnt inform me this was happening and i didnt see it until yesterday :/#yall need to SEND me these things !!!!

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thequeenwechoose · 9 days

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Daemon Targaryen's grey coat in 4k

#house of the dragon #daemon targaryen #hotd #matt smith #hotdedit #perioddramaedit #costume design #hotd 1x01 #hotd 1x07 #hotd 1x08 #hotd 1x10 #4k #not sure if it is a coat but it's definitely not a cloak #he wears it to all three funerals and for traveling

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somefirewhiskeyfortheway · 2 years

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#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd spoilers #hotdedit #hotd gifs #vhaegar #aemond targaryen #viserys targaryen #lucerys targaryen #hotd parallels #hotd 1x01 #hotd 1x10 #hotd the black queen #rhaenyra targaryen

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sihtriggyr · 18 days

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House of the Dragon S01x01: Daemon Targaryen (1/2).

#every episode #unedited #matt smith is so expressive #daemon targaryen #pro daemon targaryen #pro team black #team black #house of the dragon #hotd #fire and blood #daemon targaryen edit #hotd edit #tv stills #matt smith #hotd 1x01

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mesillusionssousecstasy · 2 years

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Them speaking in high Valerian was everything we hoped for.

There was totally a sexual tension between them. At one point, I thought that he was going to kiss or caress her neck.

#hotd #hotd 1x01 #hotd season 1 #hotd theories #hotd thoughts #house of the dragon #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon x rhaenyra #rhaenyra and daemon

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gromlyn · 13 days

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My take on Rhaenyra’s tourney dress from 1x01! I based this off some 16th century French and Italian noble attire as depicted in my favorite costume history book. I actually don’t mind the original dress all that much, but this is more what I’d hoped to see when hotd was announced. I couldn’t help but think it was a little funny that these are Lannister colors so I made an alternate Targ color scheme for funsies <3 details below cut!

#hotd costume department give me more puffy sleeves I am begging #my art #asoiaf clothing #asoiaf fanart #hotd costuming #rhaenyra targaryen #young rhaenyra #costume design #asoiaf #hotd fanart #hotd #hotd 1x01 #house targaryen #house of the dragon #a song of ice and fire #hotd costume design #procreate #digital art #artists on tumblr

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z0rres · 1 year

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Dragon gifs (32/?)

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westerosiladies · 2 years

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1x01 vs. 1x10

#asoiaf #house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #milly alcock #emma d'arcy #parallels #hotd 1x01 #hotd 1x10 #coronation #rhaenys targaryen #eve best

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userkhael · 2 years

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1.01 x 1.08

#daemon targeryan #viserys targaryen #house of the dragon #house of the dragon spoilers #hotd 1x08 #hotd 1x01 #paddy considine #matt smith #houseofthedragonedit #hboedit #house targaryen #**#**gifs #userbecca

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arabian-bloodstream · 1 year

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I present: The Laenor Theory

So when the sixth episode of the first season of House of the Dragon aired, "Driftmark" it was called, I had a theory.

"The Laenor Theory," I shall name it.

I wrote this theory down before the episode itself aired because I had been possibly spoiled about the potentiality of what would happen to the character that the theory was named after. Now the first season has come to a close and I have reread the Laenor Theory and I realized something in hindsight. Something that I wrote in my original write-up that lends a much, much greater weight and potential merit to the happenstance of this actually occurring because of what happened in the final episode of the season, "The Black Queen."

However, first, let us begin at the beginning...

In the book, Fire & Blood, Laenor is dead, period, full-stop. However, the book is a biased historical retelling of what happened based on many sources told one hundred years after the fact. There is no definitive truth in that telling. In "Driftmark," by showing that Laenor lived to see another day, HOTD avoided the dreaded “burying the gay” trope and that is a good thing. However, in un-killing Laenor, it invalidated Daemon and Rhaenyra’s marriage. At the time I originally wrote my post, I believed this was beyond massive because by invalidating Daemon and Rhaenyra’s marriage it also made their children bastards just as much as it made her children with Harwin bastards. And making Daemon and Rhaenyra’s children’s bastards is BEYOND MASSIVE because it is one of their children through which the Targaryen bloodline will continue…

All the way to Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow.

Therefore, I believed that naturally something, somehow must be done, twist the story a bit into knots, add more layers, more scenes to preserve the validity of Daemon and Rhaenyra's marriage. This simply had to be done, otherwise, nearly two hundred years down the road neither Daenerys nor Jon (nor any Targaryen in-between) had a valid claim to the Iron Throne because again every Targaryen that comes after this current bunch comes through Viserys, Daemon and Rhaenyra’s son.

These were my pre-episode watching thoughts. And then the episode aired, and I adored "Driftmark" so very much in so many very ways... and yes, Laenor was un-killed. But, no, there was nothing done, no twisting of the story, no knots added, no extra layers, or scenes...

But for one. The scene between Corlys and Rhaenys in which they discussed their grandchildren, blooded or not. History doesn’t remember bloodlines (or unsaid in this scene the actual truth of marriages real or not). History remembers the name. And history will know and remember that Laenor is dead. That Daemon and Rhaenyra were married. That their children were legitimate. So, maybe, just maybe it doesn’t matter after all.

Still... to even go there. To even invalidate Daemon and Rhaenyra’s marriage is a lot, the legitimacy of their marriage.

So, I asked myself then, why? Why go to such an extreme to save Laenor? In the scheme of things, he’s a minor character. He fathers no children of importance, he’s a blip in the story, and holds no emotional or narrative weight. I’m sorry to this man, but it is true. And, yes, the 'bury the gays' trope is awful, and we hate to see it, but that’s not on Condal and Sapochnik. It’s based on the book, and saving Laenor, again, really mucks things up not only for this era—because Corlys and Rhaenys have good cause to hate Daemon and Rhaenyra and not join their cause, but literally for the entire Targaryen line and history as we know it all the way through to Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow.

So, why?

And here is where the Laenor Theory comes into play. The faking of Laenor’s death is being presented now in season 01 so that viewers are aware of this possibility, see it in action, know that it can be used, how it can be used and that it works. Why? So that come the end of the Dance of the Dragons when Aegon the Elder tells Septon Eustace to write in his journal that he killed Rhaenyra with his dragon, Sunfyre, and that his nephew, her son, watched it happen, that is what history believes.

Yes, yes, it is what history will believe. History believes, remembers what it is told. Not just names, but what is written down. It doesn’t remember blood, it doesn’t remember the events as they happen, but what is written down. It’s like the old saying, history is written by the victors. Which brings me back to my oft repeated mantra: Fire & Blood is an inaccurate historical retelling based on biased accounts collated a century after the fact by another (admitted) biased account. It is not the true story.

We are getting the true story now. History remembers not the truth, but what those who were there tell us was the truth. And we know that story one hundred years later because the archmaester who gave us that history in Fire & Blood knew that from the journals, and from Aegon’s retelling. And we knew that Daemon died because of stories told, but it was rumored that he might have lived.

So… perhaps, Rhaenyra and Daemon do live in the end. They both make their way to Dragonstone, but are captured by Aegon the Elder. In exchange for their lives, and the life of their son who will be the safest Targaryen of all as heir to the Iron Throne (as Aegon the Elder can have no more children), they leave Westeros, believed to be dead. Just as Laenor does. Rhaenyra has only this one child left (she believes as no one knew that Viserys still lived). To fight further could risk his life. To fight for the throne would put his life at risk. But *this* would keep him safe.

Even after Aegon the Elder died, and Aegon was named King, to come back would put his life in jeopardy because there would be fighting over the throne from different lords and vassals, and Rhaenyra nor Daemon (one would presume) would fight against their child. And so in Essos, they would live, believed to be dead by all in Westeros. Their son gaining the Iron Throne, their bloodline carrying on the Targaryen dynasty.

Now, think of that idea, ponder that... and THEN think of the last episode. Think of "The Black Queen." Think of Rhaenyra not wanting to rule over a kingdom of ashes. Think of Rhaenyra desperately wanting, striving for peace. Think of Rhaenyra desperately fighting to preserve that peace because of Aegon's dream that a Targaryen sit the throne. And think of that final shot of Rhaenyra when she found that she had lost her boy, her Lucerys.

NOW imagine a Rhaenyra later down the line, she has ruled briefly over a kingdom that has been burned, in ashes. So many dragons gone, all but one of her children left. And this, this would be the best way to ensure his safety, his life. Leaving him in the hands of her brother... and then on the throne as the ruling King himself, a Targaryen on the throne, ensuring that Aegon's dream has a chance to come true, for surely he will have the dagger, he will read the inscription someday. Surely he will have that chance.

Yes, then she would leave him. She would leave with Daemon, she would convince Daemon—who always listens to her, always follows her lead—to save her child, her one child still alive. "The Black Queen" showed us that. The first season in its entirety showed us all that we needed to see that Daemon and Rhaenyra could and would indeed have the Laenor treatment.

It was Rhaenyra, the adult Rhaenyra, who gave the opening voiceover in the first episode which took place after the events of the Dance of the Dragons.

We were shown the saving of Laenor, that it can be done and how.

Rhaenyra is very motivated by Aegon's dream.

Rhaenyra loves her children.

As she's matured, Rhaenyra has realized that she does not want to be queen. We saw that in episode 08, and episode 10. It is her duty, not her desire.

Whatever his chaotic, tempestuous damage, Daemon loves Rhaenyra and follows her lead. Periodt!

Daemon and Rhaenyra, whatever their toxic flaws, are very much soulmates in every sense of the word, and are THE OTP love story of this show, and frankly of ASOIAF universe.

I believe that the main reason we saw Laenor un-killed is because it was setting up viewers for the eventual un-killing of Daemon and Rhaenyra at the end of the Dance of the Dragons.

Thus, the Laenor Theory.

#daemyra #daemon x rhaenyra #daemyra positivity #fire & blood spoilers #fire & blood #sisters in daemyra positivity #the laenor theory #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #house of the dragon #hotd 1x01 #hotd 1x07 #hotd 1x10

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luna-lovethegood · 2 years

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Daemon Targaryen

the rogue prince

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archiveem · 2 years

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• like or reblog if you save/use <3

- episode 1x01.

#rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys targaryen icons #rhaenys #house targaryen #targaryen #house of the dragon #house of the dragon icons #eve best #eve best icons #hotd season 1 #hotd 1x01

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lady-phasma · 2 years

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Relationship goals: someone who looks at me like Daemon and Caraxes look at each other.

#resting his head on Caraxes is the sweetest #Daemon's long hair needs a comeback #caraxes #prince daemon targaryen #daemon targaryen #hotd #hotd 1x01 #house of the dragon

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ariadnethedragon · 2 years

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The fire’s found a home in me…

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mesillusionssousecstasy · 2 years

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House of the Dragon: Viserys vs Daemon

Same situation, different reaction.

#hotd #hotd 1x01 #1x06 #house of the dragon #hotd thoughts #viserys targaryen #viserys x daemon #daemon targaryen #hotd birth #birth #aemma targaryen #laena velaryon #vs

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gromlyn · 7 days

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Last up in the tourney dress redesigns: Rhaenys! The original is strongly “meh” for me, so I took the aspects I liked and fleshed them out more. In general I wanted this dress to feel more mature while still having a similarity to Rhaenyra’s. Also added puffy sleeves because there should be more puffy sleeves in hotd and that is a hill I’m willing to die on. Details below!

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