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if you ever think that sirius black is some bad boy rebel who is effortlessly cool n’ dangerous, i would like to remind you that he could have chosen any alias in the world and he decided to go by snuffles

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 02.03 x 02.08

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I love Rowan as a partner for Aelin because from the moment they decide to be friends instead of enemies, she’s like it for him. 

Rowan Whitethorn isn’t out here with like a list of goals and ambitions, and if he does have a list it’s like:

how do i best protect and serve and worship my queen and goddess divine aelin

does aelin need me rn better go check

note to self: a e l i n

This is not a story of Rowan’s radical self improvement in order to be with Aelin. It’s a story in which they improve themselves together but don’t enter into a romantic relationship until he’s like, completely and utterly committed to her. And after they happen as a couple, rowan never makes his other issues (Lyria, feelings of worthlessness, guilt) aelin’s problem, nor does her ever try and alter her life in order to make her a better fit for him.

Aelin wants to be queen? Rowan’s going to help her get there. 

Aelin wants to get married in the middle of the night for no apparent reason? Rowan knows she’s got some shit planned but sure he’ll do it for her. 

Aelin gets possessed by a goddess who wants to take over her body? Rowan is like okay today’s the day i face down a literal goddess im okay w it

Aelin has issues she doesn’t want to discuss? Rowan won’t force her to discuss them but he will make sure she eats and gets on a regular sleep schedule!

Aelin gets captured by an evil demon queen? Rowan counts the days and minutes until he finds her.

Aelin thinks she has to sacrifice her life for the lock? Rowan is out here being the only SINGLE CHARACTER IN KINGDOM OF ASH who comes up with a plan to try and SAVE AELIN. 

It’s refreshing that his story never becomes more important or as important as hers. It’s nice that Aelin never takes a backseat to the romance between her and Rowan, that the plot is always about her, rather than about them. And part of this is because Rowan doesn’t want to make it about himself. In fact he doesn’t even think he can offer her much and in thinking this way he gives her the most valuable type of partner: a selfless one. 

(god just think about how few people aelin has had truly fight for her. I mean once she leaves Terrasen, it’s like Sam until her gets murdered, and same with Nehemia. Chaol and Dorian are largely confused and useless in CoM. Lysandra is the other person who fights for Aelin as much as Rowan and I stan her for it)

He’s very much her partner in everything, and he’s 100% completely comfortable with being a stay at home warrior dad/husband whiles she’s out running terrasen and killing her enemies. 

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𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐑𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍 & 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍

"I am meant to serve you to death. . .or until the end of our story."

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Young Rhaenyra wanting to run away with Alicent.

Adult Alicent wanting to run away with Rhaenyra.

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throws up and dies and dies and dies and dies one hundred million times

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Daenerys Targaryen (Daemon's vision) in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S02E08 | "The Queen Who Ever Was"

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This is Eman a Biotechnologist from Gaza. Asking for help is not easy. It's not easy at all. You have no idea how mentally and emotionally tiring this is. But when thinking that the price is my family's life, getting out of here safely and achieve my doctoral degree dream, it just pushes me more and more to do this until we reach our goal. I'm here as I try to reach out to more people asking for their help to support our family's campaign so we can survive while all you have to do is literally donating even by just the price of your morning coffee or maybe a simple breakfast, So I think I'm not asking for so much. We're really tired of living under these catastrophic conditions for a whole 10 months. Your generosity will not only change our lives but also remind us that even in our darkest hour, we are not alone. https://gofund.me/d597b8e2

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Love the idea of Silverwing and Vermithor being the dragon version of sunshine one and grumpy one

Vermithor: Fire! Death! Eat!

Silverwing: Oh look a friend!

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Lord Oscar told Daemon "you will have our armies with a side of humble pie or you will have nothing, King Consort" and then he said "you're the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met I fucking hate you you fugly slut" and then he spat on him I saw it with my own eyes meanwhile Lord Simon was standing there having ptsd flashbacks to the last time the crazy dragon dude lost his temper and strangled him

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

[ As an artist I wanted to do my part to contribute in any way possible, however small. ]

🧵🚨 A thread of useful information in some of the photos that follow. Please speak up. Don’t stay quiet in the face of genoc:de. Share information. Donate, protest, march, anything and everything helps.

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Jacaerys battling his imposter syndrome with simultaneous internalized bastardphobia AND delusional valyrian blood supremacist brain is such a great inclusion, he said “those people are MONGRELS” with every single Daemon cell in his body and doubles down on it because he has to lean into that hard to try to fill a role he and everyone else know is not his. And finally a confrontation about how Rhaenyra set her kids up for failure by having them fathered by a guy who looks absolutely nothing like her husband, fantastic scene

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“Daemon would have never let Jacaerys take the throne over his own sons.”

People seem to forget that Jacaerys was betrothed to and was soon to marry Baela (Daemon’s daughter).

Baela was set to become Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. If you honestly believe that Daemon would plot against his own daughter, you need a serious reality check.

Believe it or not, not everyone is like those two overly ambitious upstarts, Otto and Alicent Hightower, who didn’t settle for anything less than having their blood occupy the throne and take the crown of Consort as well.

People like Daemon Targaryen and Corlys Velaryon have proven to be open to compromises and are way more flexible.

Yes, of course, Daemon prefers his own sons. Any normal person would. But he never had a problem with any of his stepsons (unlike how Ryan Condal makes a point to create unnecessary strife between them on that show for some reason). He raised them for many years. They are Rhaenyra’s sons and his great-nephews, so they are of his blood as well.

As much as he would have liked to have his own son sit the throne, Daemon would have settled to have his daughter as Queen Consort.

And given the closeness between the Team Black children (unlike the Greens, who attempt to betray one another), Aegon and Viserys wouldn’t have done anything to try to undermine Jacaerys after he became King.