#house of the dragon text

[alannacouture]

Sigh. Okay, look, you wanna have an Alicent Hightower Appreciation Week, fine, go nuts. But you can’t talk about Alicent without mentioning the fact she’s a big ol’ hypocrite. Alicent’s entire personality the last few episodes revolves almost entirely around the fact that she is an extremely devout, religious woman (playing into the Madonna/Whore dichotomy between Alicent & Rhaenyra). But Alicent uses her body to get information. She might not like it, it might make her uncomfortable, but she still freely & of her on volition uses herself in order to get info from Littlefinger 2.0 (or Larys Strong, feel free to decide how you refer to him, because I literally had to look him up since I couldn’t remember his name). Now you might argue, “She’s just showing him her feet! He has a creepy foot fetish!”. This is true. However, you don’t get to preach at others & act all holy while using your body as payment for information. (And I want it made very clear I don’t have a problem with women who do this, both in the show & irl, as long as it’s consensual. In the HOTD/GOT universe, women had few options to make their own money. You either had to get married, so you had access to the money your husband was willing to give you, or be clever enough to use yourself as collateral for future earnings or information you could trade for better circumstances. We are introduced to many women who started as prostitutes, but made themselves invaluable to important people, therefore changing how they were able to survive. There is nothing shameful about this & these women should, frankly, be applauded for figuring out secrets were a more valuable currency than sex.) But Alicent’s ‘do as I say, not as I do’ behavior is straight up hypocrisy. Either you’re a devout woman who follows all the tenets of your star faith or you embrace the fact you’re willing to do whatever is necessary to get the information you need. But you don’t get to preach at others and pretend you’re somehow better than them when you’re not an actual follower of your faith. Alicent is a hypocrite. She’s lots of other things too, & I get why people are celebrating her, but you can’t ignore her hypocrisy while touting what a wonderful woman she is. It’s a lie. She’s a complex character with many facets, one of which is her hypocrisy. So just embrace it, Alicent fans! Embrace all of the complicated, messy aspects of an interesting character. Don’t ignore the parts of Alicent that make her such an fascinating player in the game.

[all-is-fair-in-love-and-war]

War

“What is our next move?” Helaena asked as she came into the tent, glancing around at the leaders gathered. A large map of Westeros sat on a table.

"We need to push our advantage." She said after being unanswered for several moments and walked over to the table and looked over at the map. She gripped the edge of it tightly as she looked at the progress of the war shown. They had recently won an impressive battle against Rhaenyra and their supporters.

[artistelily]

[dyingroses]

House of the Dragon (s1) + text posts and stuff

[alicent-archive]

something about how it took Viserys decades to construct his Valyrian city only for Aegon to destroy it in seconds. something about legacy. and for a legacy to truly BE a legacy. it must stand the test of time.

and how Viserys doomed the future by looking back at the past. the past that ultimately fell to fire and smoke and the culling of dragons. and how a son he always wanted but never loved. named after the conqueror he so admired. hacked the representation of his legacy in half.

something about dynasties. something about legacy. something about inheritance. something about the past becoming the future. because perhaps your family escaped the doom.

but the doom followed you.

[gaykingslayer]

"they’re making the dance about alicent and rhaenyra when its supposed to be between brother and sister weh weh weh” god forbid lesbians have anything

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

“I have trouble rolling my "r's" in High Valyrian. But that turned out interesting since Aemond doesn't flower up this beautiful language. He uses the language more lethally. The Council meeting is very much a public shaming, but switching to High Valyrian allows Aegon to save face, since only the two brothers understand it. It allows Aegon to recover.”

— EWAN MITCHELL ABOUT SPEAKING HIGH VALYRIAN IN EPISODE 4 FOR USA TODAY MAGAZINE.

[shaylogic]

Okay, so we know that Charles' polo goes red>burgundy>black and back by the end of the season.

Because there's so much going on, I always missed the exact transitions. This time I specifically tracked them down. (Apologies if this has already been done.)

Charles shirt is bright red through the majority of the Devlin House, even in Hope's Diary scene, when he opens up to Crystal.

Even when he first swings at Mr. Devlin and gets knocked back, his shirt is red.

The very subtle shift to burgundy is after he disappears and first reappears in the loop.

It remains burgundy throughout the entire lighthouse leapers episode and beginning of the two dead dragons.

I finally realized the very last moment we see of Charles in the burgundy is with Crystal. She tells him after the confusing makeout night, "But I think we should be friends," and kind-hearted Charles, of course, respects that and puts on a friendly smile.

It's difficult to see in the next scene with him because of his jacket, the angle he sits at on the ladder, and the lighting, but it's immediately after that when we first see him in the black polo.

My brother in death, you are NOT doing well.

here's another song from Jayden Revri's official Charles playlist, that I think is about this conflict with Crystal:

His shirt is still black during the "I don't wanna be a bad guy" scene.

After Edwin's affirmation of Charles' inherent goodness, it is directly after this scene that the shirt goes back to burgundy!!!

He's still wearing the burgundy during the confession:

BUT IT GOES BACK TO BRIGHT RED LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER EDWIN'S CONFESSION AND THEY ESCAPE HELL TOGETHER!

Yo I equally love Cryland and Payneland but the show canonly said "Crystal hit him in the loneliness and Edwin hit him in the loved"

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

Alicent and Helaena after Viserys' death based on the original script for 1.09 "The Green Council"

shoutout to @darksvster for the script snippets

[ughsahira]

To be an eldest child is to swallow all the words you have ever wished to speak and all the emotions you ever wanted to express.

[dearlyfetching]

I think what makes the Greens appealing to me as characters is because of the abject horror and tragedy inherent to their situation. Their entire existence is made extraneous due to the choices of a politically inept king. If Viserys possessed any sort of forethought prior to wedding and bedding Alicent, or initiative after siring multiple sons that could prevent them from being exploited as political pawns, then it’s likely the dance wouldn’t have happened in the manner it did – if at all. The lives of his wife and children are forfeit because of his equivocating, and it’s utterly fascinating to me that the Greens are the ones who realize this and refuse to capitulate to the desires of someone who took them completely for granted, even if it’s to their own detriment.

[thisismycursed3rdblog]

Aegon: Well time to rest and let my body heal up

*Door crashes open*

Larys: Time to get up and walk you little bitch! Aemond is doing fucked up shit again!

[all-is-fair-in-love-and-war]

Jace: You need to stop murdering people

Aemond: You need to start murdering people

Jace: What?

Aemond: What?

[artistelily]

[dyingroses]

Some House of the Dragon + text posts and tweet

[alicent-archive]

Aegon being accidentally correct about war strategy and having decent kingly instincts for someone who was only ten days into his blood ordained contract clause was certainly not what anyone expected of him and yet is exactly what happened.