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“Strange pairs, Lieutenant… They can achieve the most unexpected things.”

—Thomas Hamilton, Black Sails in X.

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character of all time

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i saw it coming but was in disbelief that they would dare go there and even as it was happening i still held my breath then relief washed over me when they actually. went. there. and it was glorious. take your bow, black sails, you’ve thoroughly captivated me. this is nothing short of excellent television.

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you just had to be there for the absolute train wreck that was game of thrones season 8. you’d have had to be an avid supporter for years… slowly but surely witnessing the red flags but still charging through like a bull, like a moth to a flame. believing it would be worth it in the end… only to be stabbed in the back as well as your front and then finally hanged as extra measure.

“this is worse than season 8.”

darlings. sweetlings. take my hands and look me in the eyes. nothing could be worse than game of thrones season 8 (2019).

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4 episodes into black sails and all i can say is hell yeah

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the hottest a man has ever looked onscreen

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Chicago (2002) dir. Rob Marshall

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rhaenyra is making the same mistake that her father did—believing that their love for their children and heirs (a girl and a bastard) will protect them from the crows that would come to feast on their corpses. viserys only saw rhaenyra as his daughter in the same way that rhaenyra just sees jace as her son. this naivety would become their ultimate undoing. viserys chose her so the realm’s wants are of no consequence. jace took pride in having a dragon because it’s his proclamation to the world that he is a trueborn targaryen. after all, what is the merit of whispers about his parentage against him being a dragonrider, right? so what will become of him now when his claim has been severely diminished by the dragonseeds? please, mother, don’t pursue it. don’t lead me to the same doom as your father did you. did viserys know that he just all but sealed his daughter’s fate when he named her heir? does rhaenyra know that her birthright is also a grave? does jace? did the conqueror’s dream foretell this too?

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rhaenyra has witnessed death by dragonfire from complete horror, to enduring grit, and finally acceptance. she may not realize it yet but, right there in the dragonpit, her fate has been sealed. there is no going back. the only way out of this now is through fire and blood.

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Billy Elliot (2000) dir. Stephen Daldry

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Dirty Dancing (1987) dir. Emile Ardolino

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thing is no matter what you say about alicent, she has already thought that about herself. you can hate her, but not as much as she already does herself. you can jail her but she is her own blacksmith and executor. your words against her grip on the hilt of her dagger. in the end, this becomes her peril but also, in some way, her salvation.

this is my body to hurt, please, and use as armor.

this is my body, it is mine to take.

this will be my ultimate act of freedom.

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rhaenyra finally realizing that her attraction to daemon was based on gender envy + the green council wanting to marry alicent off to a greyjoy to forge an alliance because that’s all a woman is to them—welcome back cersei lannister!

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jace’s homophobic stare.

there can only be one explanation…

alicent, in the case of this child, you are the father.

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was it the court or was it their mother?

i’m sure you did your best.

nothing in the world is mine for free but my love mine, all mine, all mine…

my only daughter, my sweet girl, helaena.

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you were always his favorite.

my father is the worst man alive and i’m his favorite daughter.

but what they did to my girl… i forgive you.

mummy… i’m sorry.

have the indignities of your childhood not yet been sufficiently avenged?

…was it the court or was it their mother?

the apple’s rotten right to the core.

daeron is kind.

i’m sure you did your best.

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“Everyone is everyone.”

—Synecdoche, New York (2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman