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The goal is to laugh forever with someone you take serious.

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Alicent’s relationships with her children can never be perfect and healthy because they’re objectively broken from their onset. And I’m so tired of seeing brain dead takes comparing the “superior” relationship Rhaenyra has with her kids to Alicent and her kids as some sort of gotcha.

Alicent’s exposure to motherhood isn’t on her terms in any conceivable way. Her children are the products of marital rape and coercion. They are conceived and born when she is a young teenage girl 15-18, well before she is ready to have them. They are born in quick succession with no opportunity for her to recover. And, they are from a man that not only does she not love but who neglects and belittles her.

All these factors severely damage Alicent’s ability to connect with her children in their infancy. And can you blame her given the circumstances?

She’s not ready to have them at all, so she doesn’t know how to properly mother them. And she likely resents them at least a bit in the early stages because they are the physical manifestation of not only her rape but the life she is trapped in. And that likely compounds with severe guilt because these are her babies, why doesn’t she feel the love and joy she’s supposed to?

And yet. She still loves and cares for them. She holds them as babies (despite being a baby herself) and dutifully cares for them even though she could simply dump them off with a nursemaid. She charges with a knife at Rhaenyra for them. She stands between them and a dragon from them. She betrays her closest companion of her childhood for them. She defies the king and their father for them.

I know that Alicent makes some crucial mistakes that ends up hurting her children. And I know that the scenes we see with Alicent and her kids often show her lack of connection to them. But despite the fact that her relationship to them can be nothing but fractured at the onset. There is so much passion and love and devotion she has for them.

These are not scenes of a woman who is a bad mother. These are scenes of a mother who adores her children and would do anything for them. But who can only love them roughly because she never had an opportunity to love them gently. Their very existence was never gentle for her and never fostered through love.

Alicent’s relationship with her kids may be broken. But it’s not her fault that it is. And no matter what there is love and it is her motivation. So stop acting like she is a bad mother when she’s fighting like hell to breed a relationship with them that is fostered in connection.

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Anyways, we stan house Baratheon for going up against the crown not once, but twice in the history of Westeros and winning both times. Borros really said “Fuck these Targaryen inbreds” and Robert was like “Word, lemme finish what you started” and completely wiped them out of this earth, lol. The OG Baratheon boy, Orys, is probably rolling in his grave while miss princess Argella Durrandon is smiling down upon her descendants.

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Honest question, I've been rethinking the whole "Colin has done the same with Penelope Featherington" speech Anthony gave to Daphne and his mother in season 1 and the fact that when Colin talked to his brothers in 3x05 both Ben and Anthony were ilke "I didn't have a clue" and like... do we think Anthony spent the evening rethinking every single interaction he has ever witnessed between Colin and Pen and every single instance where he let things slide because "oh that's just eloise's friend?" and just banging his head against a wall as Kate laughs her ass off??

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the way they use criston's cape to showcase the nuances in his relationships with rhaenyra versus alicent is so fascinating to me. rhaenyra takes his cloak off without asking. alicent puts his cloak on, but only after criston asks her to. rhaenyra does not understand the weight of what she takes from criston; while criston trusts alicent to return what rhaenyra took. getting at the ways in which both alicent and cirston have been in unbalanced dynamics with viserys and rhaenyra respectively and how criston respects alicent because he knows she can truly understand what it's like for him in this regard.

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“now they see you as you are” — yes, they see her as a respectable and dignified wife and mother, who, seeing her children in danger and threatened with torture, does everything to protect them alone, against everyone else and without the support of her weak husband. honestly, this is the type of woman i look up to — not the depraved ones.

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I'm so glad he died

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jaehaerys and tyland during small council meetings

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all i want to see in this scene is aegon bringing out a baseball bat and destroy that fuckass lego toy table that his father had spent more time making that being with him instead

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"Traitors and villains!"

His family was never completely safe. not when the king openly gave preference to his daughter, whom he allowed to go unpunished several times after treason to the crown. not when he ignored his son's injury in favor of trying to incriminate his wife and punish her because of the truth.

His family was never completely safe. even when his family was doing their duty properly because his father and sister considered themselves above the law.

His family was never completely safe. Aegon knew that when his sister ordered the swords to be raised, he would be the first whose head would fall. but he was not prepared for the fact that the first victim would be his son, killed in such an insidious and cruel way.

His family was never completely safe. why did the gods give Viserys all the time in the world that he could spend with his children when he didn't need it, while Aegon, who really loved his children, had to bury one of them before he even had time to grow up?

His family was never completely safe. and Aegon hates and despises his father and sister for this reality. hates them because they put his family in such a vulnerable position, because they turned his life into endless grief for his child.

His family was never completely safe. years earlier, Aegon did not want to be a challenge to his sister, but now he wish only one thing and that is to spill blood.

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Aemond got over the fact that Luke took his eye out, he just hadn't got over the fact that he got away with it. When a crime goes unpunished, the world is unbalanced. Aemond's world more than anyone's. —Ewan Mitchell

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People like "Helaena deserved a better family" yeah a better uncle, sister, and father first of all

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People like "Helaena deserved a better family" yeah a better uncle, sister, and father first of all

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Then you cannot let one mistake define your entire relationship.

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Colin Bridgerton: Incredibly Prince Eric Coded

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COURTLY LOVE AT ITS FINEST!

This is Alicent giving Criston her handkerchief as a token of her love and affection and a symbol of remembrance as he leaves for war.

My pookies ARE IN LOVE

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I have no wish to rule! No taste for duty, I'm not suited!

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.09 — The Green Council / 2.01 — A Son for a Son