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Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” from Lunch Poems

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Yaedi Ignatow, I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women; from 'We Were Love', ed. Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul B. Janeczko

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SOCIAL MEDIA:

The betrothal of Princess Rhaenyra and only daughter of the Hand, Lady Alicent Hightower, is announced to the world.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SOCIAL MEDIA part 2: the people wait with bated breath to see when their beloved Lady Alicent will post again.

AU: Crown Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen escaped from King’s Landing two weeks from her coronation. It was this same night that the daughter of the Hand, Alicent Hightower, disappeared. The two would-be Queens emerge from their exile ten years later.

BONUS:

part one here

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every writer in the world got nothing on this person!

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House of the Dragon social media part 1:

In which Rhaenyra Targaryen, Crown Princess of the Seven Kingdoms, flees her destiny on the night of her 18th birthday. One week before her coronation, the beloved Princess boarded a boat to sail across the Narrow Seas. Coincidentally, it was on this same night that the daughter of the Hand, Alicent Hightower, disappeared. The Princess was never to be heard from again — that is, until 10 years later, when the Princess emerged from her exile and decided to unveil the mysteries of her new life to the world.

part two here

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what ever happened to one-shots culture. what happened to joy and spontaneity and community. what happened to outsider povs. what happened to the world

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OO NGA PALA, HINDI HGA PALA TAYO; HANGGANG DITO LANG AKO.

House of the Dragon Season Two / Migraine by Moonstar 88

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HOTD’s rhaenyra and alicent can act and talk like (ex) lovers, can have the tension and chemistry of two romantically involved people, can follow romantic themes and have an established romantic dynamic despite being two women in a pseudo-medieval setting because they can’t truly be lovers in the eyes of the general audience.

the text (as in the show), showrunners, and actors can insist all they want on the purposeful nature of the romantic codes that inform rhaenyra and alicent’s relationship (knight and lady, star-crossed, disrupted connection, love triangles, paralleled lives, etc.) but the pseudo-medieval setting comes with certain expectations for mainstream Western audiences to buy and the depiction of an explicit, sensitive, tragic female homosexuality has not yet married with this genre.

the show has a fascinating freedom with their interpretation of this adapted relationship. it’s queer because it can’t be queer, not really! rhaenyra and alicent will never kiss or confess love or even touch lest they betray the perceived rules of this pseudo-medieval period and the narrative that literally revolves around succession and birth and reproduction. It’s easy to brush off the intensity of their bond as oh they are literally just like that.

a thorough exploration of queerness in HOTD is seemingly hampered by the setting and the established source material, not to mention the conservative fans. but at the same time the show is afforded the freedom to play around with these queer limitations because:

1. the source material is literally a history book

2. the GA on autopilot will blink and miss the subtle-not-so-subtle implications

3. the narrative is filled to the brim with men to distract from the very explicit lesbian divorce at the center.

anyways. rhaenicent romantic dynamic is trail-blazingly real and purposeful in a show so popular and expensive but only because general audiences can cajole themselves into thinking that this romance is in fact not real nor purposeful. I mean, there’s a war!

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I WON'T BE LATE FOR THIS, LATE FOR THAT, LATE FOR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

House of the Dragon Season One / House of the Dragon Season Two / Cleopatra by The Lumineers

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.07 || 2.06

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When Apollo 11 successfully landed and the images were released, ‘The Sun’ newspaper in Vancouver changed it’s name to ‘The Moon’ to report it.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.01 | 2.03

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House of the Dragon: Uncovering the Queerest of House Targaryen’s Queer Customs