2.02 | 2.05

you know what else is a choice. rhaenyra looking alicent hightower in the face and saying 'still you imagine you can have all you want'

the same alicent who had to surrender her body, her autonomy, her future, her dreams, the same alicent who got eaten up by the crown and spat back out after having 4 kids in 5 years, and got shown time and time again by viserys/house targaryen at large that none of those sacrifices mattered

alicent isn't the one who spent the last 20 years doing what she wanted and getting all she wanted and facing no consequences. like she demonstrably isn't

ALICENT HIGHTOWER & AEMOND TARGARYEN s2e6 -> Small Folk

1.07 | 2.06

EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE House of the Dragon Season 2 Premiere, New York City

the writing in hotd has reached such a high levels of nonsense im kind of finding it impossible to have opinions anymore. I cant make sense of this writing. I cant figure out these characters. I cant follow their motivations. I dont know what this story is trying to tell me. One thing that stands out to me at the moment is it seems to be indulging in the myth of targaryren superiority (despite questioning it earlier in the narrative??) and indulging in the idea the greens are somehow less targaryen than the blacks when the whole point of the text is BOTH sides are targaryens. They're family thats the whole point. And the show indulging the warped propaganda created in-universe to imply one side was less targaryen is exactly that - Warped ! Not accurate ! Missing the point !! At the moment it feels like the real war is happening in the writers room. Someone get this creative team a divorce lawyer i need them to come to a speedy custody agreement.

Otto Hightower in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) 2x08 The Queen Who Ever Was

1x09 // 2x04

DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022) Season 3 | Episode 4

the funniest part of this episode is that after having probably the worst few weeks of her life, as soon as alicent turned and saw rhaenyra disguised as a septa she was in shock for maybe like two seconds before just immediately accepting this absolutely bonkers turn of her day. she's so exhausted that as soon as she sees rhaenyra decked out in religious cosplay she's just like "well whatever this is just might as well happen to me too"

team green this team black that fuck all that noise i'm team dragon. sunfyre's cries of pain and meleys looking guiltily at rhaenys as she died broke my heart way more than any of these blond bitches' deaths will i just know it