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Always.

House of the Dragon (2022-)

↳ 1.05 ""We Light the Way" (dir. Clare Kilner)

↳ 2x08 "The Queen Who Ever Was" (dir. Geeta Patel)

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"Just how layered and hard and sticky the relationship is now especially in season two, but also a deep relief and comfort they still find in each other."

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"Just how layered and hard and sticky the relationship is now especially in season two, but also a deep relief and comfort they still find in each other."

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The House of the Dragon has always been a story of love against duty and duty against love — terms that somehow cannot mutually exist.

The tragedy of Alicent Hightower is not just in the life she was forced to lead, but in the love she lost along the way. Rhaenyra was the only one who ever saw her—not as a queen, not as a mother, not as a pawn in a game greater than herself, but as ‘Alicent.’

To be loved is to be known. Rhaenyra was the only one who met her with fire instead of expectation, who looked past the duty and the piety and found the girl beneath it all.

But love, when entangled with power, rarely survives unscathed. Betrayal rotted what once was unbreakable, and bitterness took root where tenderness had once bloomed. And yet, despite everything—despite the war, despite the years spent as enemies—Alicent still seeks it. She clings to the memory of a love that once made her feel “real,” made her feel “worthy,” in a life where she was always made to feel like she was never enough.

Perhaps that is the cruelest part of it all. That even when love turns to ruin, even when it curdles into resentment, it does not simply vanish. It reshapes itself into something unspoken yet ever-present.

Alicent does not let go—not of her anger, not of her grief, and certainly not of Rhaenyra. Because to let go would be to lose the only person who ever made her feel known.

Because no matter how much time has passed, no matter how bitter their hearts have become, she is still seeking the love that once made her feel real. And deep down, she is still waiting to be seen again.

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EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE "House of the Dragon" FYC Event at Saban Media Center (March 6th, 2025)

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"Just how layered and hard and sticky the relationship is now especially in season two, but also a deep relief and comfort they still find in each other."

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Strawberries & Cream | The Wimbledon AU

Written by: @havenmere

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professional tennis player alicent hightower’s ranking has plummeted, thanks to a prolonged crisis of confidence. working with a new coach, and with the british grass season getting underway, she’s desperate to find her form again. nobody believes she can do so more than her best friend: the wimbledon favourite, rhaenyra targaryen.

a tennis/wimbledon au

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Rhaenicent dungeon scene leaked

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Will you shrink from what you set out to do? Or will you see it through.. and make your sacrifice?

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Not Olivia Cooke sharing Rhaenicent fan art 😭

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i think i've been reading too many "Rhaenyra is the father" tweets

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rhaenicent: living on the aftertaste

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Pleased to report that House of the Dragon has me, a lesbian who loves both feudal political intrigue and doomed tragic narratives, by the throat.

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When @darksvster posted this scene (X) a few months ago I thought someone should definitely make it into a comic format... and I kept waiting but never saw one! (If someone else made one pls link me btw)

So I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the world.

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Sherlock and Irene

maybe in another universe

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