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4 months

Part of what makes Rome so good is its fascinating relationship to historical accuracy where like not a lot of the costuming or even the specific story is accurate but it is absolutely nails something incredibly true about Ancient Rome that a lot of other media fails to cover

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If the tv show Rome aired today, historical costume enthusiasts would be going off about the amount of tailoring in these pieces. Cutting and sewing and darting all over the place when that would not be the case in Ancient Rome.

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this is like 100% confirmation that she loudly yelled "rhaenyra" the first time they did it

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do not cry criston cole…

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"You have no idea what *sacrifices* were made to get you on the throne" what was sacrificed:

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@madeleinewintr

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I really liked how Lord Darklyn emphasized how much Criston was not deserving of the White Cloak, very meaningful for the Darklyns, who in A Feast for Crows are mentioned to have produced more members of the Kingsguard than any other House

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@madeleinewintr

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nobody has ever been realer than cersei winedrunk ranting to sansa about gender during the battle of the blackwater

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

Sometimes you just need a show about Ancient Rome where the relevant textual source isn't Plutarch but that graffiti from Pompey that says "Theophilus, stop eating out girls against the city wall like a dog"

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

I love that the Black Council is like just as bad as the Green one

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

HBO's Rome depicts the late Republic as a society dominated by ludicrous violence, insane political opinions, soul-crushing mommy issues and graft and greed and sleaze that was absolutely the case

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

I do feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding about Alicent and Rhaenyra's relationship in the first season into the second that comes from people not fully understanding Alicent's reaction to the Driftmark fight

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@madeleinewintr

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I think Alicent saying she actually didn't really care about Criston Cole at all surprised Larys quite a bit, he thought this was something he could kind of use against her but in reality, it never meant anything to her

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

i'm not over the way otto hightower said "your childhood companion" like it was a slur

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

sir lady knight

@medievalmusings

3 months

tis likely that i am nonbinary, but i hath a dragon to defeat so idrc about that rn.

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4 months

honestly who ever created that graffiti may be the greatest poster of all time bc its a 2000 years old post that lives rent free in my head

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

rip me making typo on this tweet that blew up but yes, there is actual Pompeii graffiti that says "Tiopilus canis cunnum lingere noli puellis in muro" which does roughly translate to that (i know not exactly, i've had one semester of Latin, I'm no expert)

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

rhaenyra: i feel like my father just wants to marry me off to the lord with the largest castle! the lord with the largest castle:

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

I'm starting to believe that reading Fire and Blood is actually detrimental to your ability to understand what is going on in House of the Dragon and that if you want to understand it you should just read the main series, specifically A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Lyonel Strong saw there was a fight going down and was like activate large son

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@madeleinewintr

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every time criston calls rhaenyra a whore i pray to the seven for his death

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

A major difference between the Dance and the main series is that unless you are a Velaryon sailor, you really don't have any martial experience, as opposed to almost everyone involved in the War of the Five Kings being a veteran of Robert's Rebellion or surrounded by them

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

@fabiola_liano its so funny to see people who are really invested in the fandom think that the general public's reaction is like driven by their ship wars or team issues with episodes but in reality these people just want to see dragons burn things lmfao

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@madeleinewintr

17 days

You can really tell who hasn't read the novellas when they say six episodes is too short for this lmao

Culture Crave 🍿

@CultureCrave

19 days

#GameOfThrones spinoff 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' has wrapped filming ⚔️ • Has 6 episodes • Starring Peter Claffey & Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk & Egg • GRRM is exec producing and very pleased with the project • Releasing in 2025

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1 year

as i said earlier, this is clearly the girl version of the world war ii guy who wants to tell you about how honorable and talented erwin rommel was

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

I love the detail that Rhaenyra pronounces "dracarys" differently than Daenerys, the former grew up speaking original Targaryen High Valyrian, the latter speaking Tyroshi Valyrian in the Free Cities

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

Is Aegon not...bad at this?

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

"It's a neat little trick you do, you move your lips and your father's voice comes out" - Robert Baratheon in Game of Thrones

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

the riverlands are kind of like the ohio of westeros, a lot of the story makes more sense when you realize this

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@madeleinewintr

15 days

anyways

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

i think it would more interesting if alicent was saved from suicide by basically anybody but criston

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@madeleinewintr

6 months

save me no dragons asoiaf show....save me

Max

@StreamOnMax

6 months

Send a raven. Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell will star in the new @HBO Original Series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, as Ser Duncan the Tall and Egg. Coming to Max.

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

"I did not give you leave to speak my name"

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

There's so much going on with this outfit, but I specifically want to talk about that chain that's around Alicent's chest, it's called a chatelaine and was used, since the days of the Roman Empire to carry small objects, keys, small beauty projects but also...knives

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

house tyrell getting twenty ravens from otto hightower explaining why they need to call their banners for aegon

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@madeleinewintr

4 years

this whole "anti-catholicism is at the heart of the opposition to Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court" thing is a societal-wide "inventing of a guy" delusion. just a deep freakout over a position no actual person holds.

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2 years

Fire and Blood is an unreliable narrative but at a certain point there are just things it's implausible to lie about.

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

otto hightower every time he looks at his daughter

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

@nikicaga The problem with rebooting Rome is that s2 ran through so much time that they'd basically have to entirely reboot the cast and start the next series like fully fifty years later to make anything interesting happen

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

I really liked the way Otto Hightower was fired, all that scheming, all the plotting, only to be fired for something you didn't really do

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

NEVERTHELESS ALICENT PERSISTS

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2 months

i seriously just want to send my head through a wall of concrete

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

Alicent is horrified by what happened to Aemond, and in a tangled mess of rage and unleashed repression, she goes at Rhaenyra with a dagger, frustrated at how little she seems to be taken seriously by this family, to the point where they're willing to let Aemond get mutilated

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

Viserys carefully sitting in the Iron Throne and getting torn up and getting leprosy from it while Aegon II just leans over the thing like it's a beanbag and is totally fine...I think the gods have spoken

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

people tell me hotd isnt funny but rhea royce telling daemon "i knew your couldn't finish" made me laugh harder than anything tyrion ever said

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

@fabiola_liano We Took 1000 Targaryen BASTARDS and Had Them Compete to Ride JAEHAERYS'S DRAGON!!!

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

Do they have straight people at Oldtown, serious question

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

But! When locked in with Rhaenyra, Rhaenyra says something I think is really important to Alicent- "Now they see you as you are"- but the reality is, this is not who Alicent wants to be, she's been a tool of Otto and his own ambition

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part of what's so frustrating about people getting mad at this (and aemond being responsible for aegon's injuries at rook's rest) is that they are absolutely 100% plausible interpretations of the incident in fire and blood but nobody thought about it that way in their headcanons

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It’s funny people are still mad that Condal and Hess made it so that Aemond killing Luke was an accident. Making it so that the whole scene has the energy of the drag race at the end of American Graffiti is a genuine master stroke imo.

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

goddamn it was rhaenys the beast beneath the boards

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

otto in hanging out in oldtown for 15 years leaving alicent to deal with all of his schemes

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

I will give Daemon Targaryen this, at least he told his brother "I wanna be the hand of the King, why won't you listen to me, you suck at this job, the Highlannistertowers are everywhere" instead of going home and moping on Dragonstone and saying "why me"

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Seeing mixed reviews of House of the Dragon where they're like "oh it's too grey oh there's too much lore oh they took all the reddit bullshit out of Game of Thrones" is only making me more excited tbh

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

Hugh pushing that woman aside and saying "here I am" endeared him to Vermithor I see

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

Fire and Blood is so vague and the characters are shallow, it invites the construction of these elaborate headcanons, but you can't fit the much richer show characters into these headcanons, so you end up just denying what you see on screen or melting down bc it's "wrong"

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

As a younger Alicent expressed earlier, Alicent dislikes being "Queen Alicent," this cipher for Hightower political power, and misses the days of being Lady Alicent, the Princess's childhood companion.

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Something I don't like is the framing that Alicent *chooses* to fight for the patriarchy while Rhaenyra chooses to fight against it. Alicent doesn't have a choice, she doesn't have anywhere near the same freedom Rhaenyra does

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@madeleinewintr

4 months

Everything about Daemon Targaryen makes sense when you remember he is just a cop

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

this was the exact look i gave my last boyfriend before leaving him for a woman

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

i'm shipping tyland and the trans admiral now

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

In all the violence, all the chaos, all the girlbossing, my favorite part of the episode was when Larys Strong owned everyone who said that a lemon tree couldn't grow in Braavos

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

why does baelon the brave have shooters

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

Daemon and Aemond and even Criston are really clueless about some basic aspects of war and if they were up against the Blackfish or Randyll Tarly or Stannis instead of each other, they would be losing very badly

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@madeleinewintr

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But now, with Rhaenyra returning to her and shattering this final order from Viserys, she feels like she has been betrayed by all of them, Viserys, Otto, the Greens....it's all one long scheme to keep her locked in this role and prevent her from any chance at actual love

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

stannis baratheon is to heterosexual men what jaime lannister is to bisexual women

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@madeleinewintr

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people comparing rhaenyra/mysaria to cersei/taena but in reality it's stannis/davos

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@madeleinewintr

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Aegon watching Alicent yell "trampled under your pretty feet again!" at Rhaenyra

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

But all being Queen Alicent can bring her is a kind of torturous suffering, endless acts of violence done in her name, a ramping up of bloodshed and herself reduced to a husk of the person she once was. She hates this, and plunges into religion to try to absolve herself of it all

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Is there like a youtuber or a podcaster I can blame for this infuriating tendency to view definitely patriarchal, definitely violent and definitely "intolerant" viking society as like the gay versions of the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything?

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@ISASaxonists White supremacist Vikings versus probably actual Vikings.

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

Cutting Rhaenyra lays the fact that in her distrust and built fear of Rhaenyra bare, she actually has lost "Lady Alicent," she has rejected the old part of herself in time between eps 5 and 7 and loathes herself for it

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@madeleinewintr

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I really like the theory that Helaena doesn't like to ride Dreamfyre not because she doesn't really like dragonriding (though she wouldn't be the first Targaryen to dislike it) but bc riding her gives her really vivid and terrifying visions

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@madeleinewintr

1 year

i think one of the problems the online left has when analyzing the democratic party is them not realizing that the centrist "liberal" prestige media that does constant soft apologetics for Republicans and the liberal Democratic voter/politician do not share the same agenda

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all of the "biden will pardon trump" jokes is more understandable when this is apparently a perspective that can get you published

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Top 10 most powerful houses: Dance Era (excluding Targaryen) 1. Velaryon 2. Hightower 3. Lannister 4. Baratheon 5. Stark 6. Arryn 7. Tyrell 8. Strong 9. Greyjoy 10. Tully

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Rhys Ifans is making Charles Dance proud right now

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@madeleinewintr

3 years

@KenzoShibata These guys seem cool and have significantly better vibes than 75% of people on here, would love to crack a cold one with them

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

can't believe someone unironically tried to push "alicent had a son on the first try" as an achievement. congrats on viewing her like otto does.

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@madeleinewintr

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convinced of my purpose now more than ever

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@madeleinewintr

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claiming dreamfyre is the targaryen equivalent of coming out

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

can we get a shout out to him tonight for making this all possible 🙏

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

Ormund Baratheon: I ask the favor Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was! Otto Hightower: you could have his head for that, your grace Otto's own brother two episodes later:

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

lack of unstable gay political leaders

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2 years

Why did human beings stop building things like this?

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This is why when we get to episode 8 we see Alicent at her most pious but also in an interesting political position- Viserys is totally useless now, so she takes up a lot of day to day running of the realm.

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@madeleinewintr

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she lost her lady love for this useless drunken idiot frankly she should have been meaner

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@madeleinewintr

2 months

I think Renly is fascinating for a lot of reasons, in part because he like represents the cynical political underpinnings of Robert's Rebellion and claim to the throne without any of the deep and powerful justice and loss based emotions behind it

Ahhhh… for CersBree | shame bat 🦇

@King_Margosha

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Quick!! Tell me your Renly takes! Spicy or neutral, in-depth or brief, I want ALL the Renly takes. I’m in my feelings about him, and would love to know what you think about my second favourite Baratheon Brother. I hope you’re staying hydrated and having a lovely day ♥️☀️

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@madeleinewintr

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"House of the Dragon isn't funny" ok explain lyman beesbury

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@madeleinewintr

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Rhaenyra being Queen means Alicent's days as Queen Alicent could actually be over, that's not the case for Aegon, where she will be forced into his court as Queen Mother. There's no liberation for her.

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

Jon's whole excursion with the Free Folk is sooo much better in the books it's actually disappointing in the show

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@RaxKingIsDead

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game of thrones: stuff that’s better in the books than the show RULES: • must appear in both, no book-only stuff unless it pertains to the events of the show too • overly broad answers like ‘everything’ will earn the replier my eternal scorn • can’t say Sand Snakes, too easy

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@madeleinewintr

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i agree that alicent is not a good mother and that she's jealous and hurt bc rhaenyra is better at than her bc this is the only role allotted to alicent, but let's not be obtuse and pretend that alicent and rhaenyra had children under remotely similar circumstances

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

pre-presidency he's biden, after becoming president he's brandon. it's like an octavian/augustus thing. more of a title.

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

In the first two episodes, every time Otto told Alicent to go to the King and say something, she didn't. In this episode, Otto tells her to make an issue of Aegon's succession with Viserys and she goes to talk to him...about ways to strengthen Rhaenyra's position

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

if alicent betrays the greens, i support her, if alicent sticks with the greens, i support her

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@madeleinewintr

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alicent should have killed him I'm ngl

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this was sooooo insane…. like actually crazy

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@madeleinewintr

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aegon hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… aemond hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… daemon hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… jace hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… otto hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… viserys hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… criston hate: 𝓭𝓶 𝓶𝓮… rhaenyra hate: muted helaena hate: blocked alicent hate:

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@madeleinewintr

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But I also think that when Alicent speaks to Rhaenyra again, without the layered hostility of episodes 6 and 7, honestly and straightforwardly, gently and tenderly, Alicent feels like she's her old self again and embraces the concept of Rhaenyra as Queen in her own way

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@madeleinewintr

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i agree that blood and cheese doesn't have the impact it probably should but like...this is also a problem with fire and blood, it gets referenced like twice afterwards and they spend like three pages relishing in how cruel the greens were in their reaction

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@madeleinewintr

2 years

my favorite part of the world of ice and fire is when all of aegon v's children reject their incestuous marriages and marry other houses, thus destroying house targaryen

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@madeleinewintr

3 months

I also think that you can't ignore in episode 8 that it is revealed to her that Aegon, always well, lecherous, is an actual rapist- this she reacts to with obvious disgust and its a disgust that is going to color how she feels politically going into Viserys's death

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3 months

She ends up acting as his de facto representative, and tries to act fully dutifully, that means no violent outbursts or lashing hatreds.

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6 months

how is alicent going to 🥺🥺🥺 her way out of this one *alicent easily 🥺🥺🥺 her way out of this one* ah. well, nevertheless...

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But unfortunately, Viserys dies right then, and Alicent- treated as soft to the enemy by Otto and the Green conspiracies- was left out of the plot. The prophecy Viserys gives her doesn't really matter in it of itself, Otto calls it a useful tool and that's all it is.

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Alicent kneeling at the Sept and lighting candles as Rhaenyra lights Luke's remains...their two religions intertwined...them intertwined at places of such meaning for them

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@madeleinewintr

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crowning aegon was supposed to keep them safe...it was supposed to be a fait accompli...it was supposed to keep daemon from killing them....it was supposed to give them control over their own destiny...but it just led to more and more bloodletting, an endless spiral...

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2 months

house of the dragon season 2 episode 8 "the queen who ever was"

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It gives Alicent one final act of duty to perform for Viserys, one last torment from her tormenter, one last act as Queen Alicent, and she tries it her own way and it's a way to keep her on board with this new regime that she really does fundamentally dislike.

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