#hotd textpost

[lislemons]

asoiaf characters as posts that remind me of them pt 8

bonus hot pie mention

[hauntedbythenarrative]

[saintalicent]

[curseofaphrodite]

hotd ep 3 recap ft textposts

[el-is-green]

HotD as textposts bc I’m bored:

[mrsjadecurtiss]

The idea that it is somehow "bad writing" if rhaenyra has a better character than aegon imo is fundamentally misunderstanding the point of the conflict

The dance is not about two completely equal factions where you choose the one you prefer ro root for like a sport's match... the point is that rhaenyra's succession as the by far eldest child was set in stone by viserys, and yet people argue and doubt it and want to depose her exclusively on account of her gender; if she had been a man noone would even be having this discussion

The point is that even if Aegon is a s*x pest and not qualified and never even wanted to be king anyways people will still think he somehow is the one deserving of the throne over rhaenyra and call him the only valid king of this conflict in the annals of history, for no other reason than that he was the firstborn male child of viserys

And for sure Rhaenyra and her faction will do their own share of war crimes in the future once everyone starts playing dirty, but it is important that she is presented as just a normal person in the beginning; her succession is not doubted because she is uniquely bad of character, it is doubted because she breaks centuries of patriarchal tradition

[greenstexts]

tehee

[cruelsummergorl]

Why is it that everytime there's a Sapphic couple i love they either die or eat eachother or try to kill eachother. Can a girl not have anything

[silver-horse]

Aemond literally had that look on his face that little boys have when they fight “omg, shit, don’t tell our mommies what I did” 

[fang-venkas]

He’s so!!!

[lislemons]

asoiaf characters and posts that remind me of them pt 4 (hotd edition)

[hauntedbythenarrative]

[fineosaur]

[her-stars]

happy international men’s day to all the fictional men im in love with🥰❤️ especially aemond targaryen

[nightvyre]

just saw the hotd s2 plot leaks and i'm not liking it,,, yeah i'm taking it with a grain of salt but honestly considering s1's pacing i'm not surprised if the leaks turned out to be true

[mrsjadecurtiss]

Viserys and Alicents relationship fascinates me... He desires her company, especially in vulnerable situations (like after his wife's death, or when hes being medically treated), but it doesn't seem like he necessarily truly loves her or is that fond of her for her own self's sake... it's more like that in this medieval society, with him as a man and king, the emotional comfort a wife may give him is the only one he is truly "allowed" to have, and she is the one who is bound by law to be loyal to him and dependent on him

He cannot get comfort from and show weakness to his political partners even if he may consider them friends, as he needs to at all times project a sense of power and superiority as a man and king (comparable to how alicent says, ever since she became queen she has had " few friends" because her status changed so much); and all the family he has left is estranged or far away (and even if he was not on shaky grounds to rhaenyra, as a father hed be unlikely to want to put this emotional labor/vulnerability on her, as again he has to project a certain power dynamic)

So while he might confide in his maesters or trusted lyonel strong, in the end it falls to little alicent, who can't say no, who has seemingly no station or power to be dangerous to him or do political machinations with the gained knowledge, who is young enough to not be able to exert power over him, to give his soul the most personal comfort in the bad things he goes through...

A dynamic that depending on how the show adapts things might bite him in the ass in the future as alicent emancipates herself (as seen in last episode where she is suddenly nowhere to be found when viserys needs her, and no longer quite plays the pliable wife)