God what a loser. all she does is yearn & hope for something more. she was holding onto it with all her might, even after everything. all she thinks about is what could’ve been. she’s so miserable. i love her.
i can’t stop thinking about how pained her gasp sounds. like even the idea of being married off and having children again drives her to literal tears. there aren’t enough rings in hell for otto
when they both have forgotten they’re identity outside of motherhood.. both filled with indescribable sadness.. they try turning to their Gods in their most dreadful hours but are shunned.. when they both only find solace with the one person they shouldn’t
saying alicent would vote for trump is first of all disgusting & second of all so very wrong cause we were shown that she was a GOOD politician & definitely knows what makes a competent one. & she’d be british 😭
“She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Valentine's day gift for @/adwd on tumblr!
i don’t think alicent knows how to love properly she devours & wants to be devoured she settles the person so deep in herself so deep in her bones her heart she wants to consume & be consumed
& filmupdates will remain superior because the first loving touch after years of hatred & violence will always be more intimate. grabbing the arm opposite the one alicent has carved herself into will always be more intimate. they did more with the caresses of their thumbs ALONE
olivia cooke (the person who has worked on alicent’s character for years with the writers & has played her & will play her for years to come & has said that alicent never truly leaves her mind) knows more about alicent than all of u in the qrts btw
“The whole point of the story is people have been forced to pick sides and that’s why a civil war happens. We are imploring the audience not to do that, and to really empathize with every character and see inside their inner workings.”
—Olivia Cooke via Vulture
this is how i know ur a boring freak w a mind so rotted by ao3 incest til the point of it not being able to understand &/or sympathize w a complex character
this is why it’s disconcerting to me when people try to discredit alicent & rhaenyra’s actors when they put so much of their souls into their roles!! nobody knows them as intimately as they do, they care so much about them as characters & I am so grateful for them
the contrast between fandoms is astonishing bc why is armand getting called funny for beefing w a child but when book alicent does it they’re calling for her head
alicent stabbing rhaenyra… them obsessing for years… pining since childhood & being confused wether it was romantic & platonic… nobody gets the other like they do… them having a wedding ceremony both in the eyes of the seven & in the valyrian customs…
the five homoerotic love languages:
- intimate stabbing
- outright obsession
- confused pining
- “no one knows me like you do”
- lifelong promises that always sound suspiciously like wedding vows
pains me how some people can sit down & watch viserys grooming alicent & SHE’s still made out as the bad guy.. where’s that one tweet that said every bad thing alicent has done falls away when you remember she’s a CHILD BRIDE. she should’ve been fucking worse
olivia constantly thinks about alicent & the rest of her story she has literally nestled herself in olivia’s brain & refuses to leave.. seeing how deeply she understands her warms my heart & she doesn’t deserve to get hated for that
Excerpts From the House of the Dragon Script
"The Rogue Prince"
— Season 1 Episode 2
Rhaenyra confronts Alicent after news of her engagement and insults her.
(text in brackets is summary, not verbatim)
#HOTDS1Script
THIS is the nuanced relationship alicent has w her kids: she gave it her all & she loves them w the entirety of her heart but it wasn’t enough to give her the children (& relationship) she wanted
but rhaenyra did- that does not erase that alicent DID call laenor a pedo & f
@g
in front of everyone and taunted him for his kids not having his features, the tweet was a lil ki
calling rhaenicent queerbaiting is sooooo low iq. it is known that they’ll never end up together & all they’re stuck w is what could’ve been.. theirs is a complicated relationship which is what the entire show is about, & we all know what we’re in for
y'all tweet this everyday, get over it. also you know absolutely nothing like want to support the queerbating of the series without knowing anything about the books.
They look so… mournful. Alicent is mourning her childhood & what little freedom she had during it, & rhaenyra is mourning the loss of her friend, because nothing after this has been the same
🚨🐉 Another frame from the deleted scene of Rhaenyra preparing Alicent for her wedding ❤️ More deleted scene photos and descriptions coming in the future!
DID SOMEBODY SAY ALICENT HIGHTOWER STANDING MELANCHOLILY IN FRONT OF A RIVER?STANDING BARE IN NOTHING BUT HER WHITE GOWN EYES FULL OF TEARS & MIND FULL OF SUICIDAL IDEATION? SEDUCED BY THE WATERS & WANTING TO FEEL ITS COLD TOUCH EMBRACING HER BODY OHHHHHHH
the day i’ll b happy is the day when people stop discrediting olivia & fabien’s understanding of their characters. these people legitimately treat them as if theyre idiots that arent working w these characters day & night.. they’ll always understand them way more than u losers do
"It really wasn't choreographed at all," says Frankel of the attack. "I see it as more than his heartbreak and losing his cool. It's years of feeling oppressed by a hierarchical system that has been created by the Targaryens."
Emily Carey says her favorite scene to shoot was Alicent arguing with Rhaenyra after the proposal announcement. [Deleted Scene]
— via Emily’s instagram live
i’d see past alicent’s public image, see past her piety & her good dowager/queen act & see the wretchedness racking her frame & would immediately fall for anything involving her. would lay down my life for her.
just thinking about even when alicent had a friend, her only friend rhaenyra, she still felt so alone & unsupported through her grief. she comforted rhaenyra after her loss, but i wonder has her friend ever comforted her?
the seven pointed star over her omg she’s going to be ruled by it from now on the war will tear everything apart but her gods are the only thing in her life that are still whole Omgggg…
“Ultimately you have two people who desperately want that reunification. […] Without the love, the pain doesn’t work”
—Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, adult Rhaenyra and Alicent
their chemistry more explosive than azidoazide azide… got me feeling like i’m interrupting something… & like i’m about to ask them if they’d like a third
crossing out their first scene together is actually sick like that’s lesbian history…… it was that scene & lesbians against the whole world…. against qrts calling u an abuse apologist & citing every single crime alicent has committed in the book…. IT’S HISTORY I SAY!!!!!!!!!
“Rhaenyra and Alicent stand as close as they’ve been in fifteen years. They grapple against each other; eye to eye, breath to breath. […]
Alicent strives against Rhaenyra. They are roughly evenly matched, and the struggle is strangely intimate.”
— via the S01E07 script
ive been saying we need to stand untied & get to higher levels of hive-mind than tb because when i said Michelle Fairley was too old to play 40F Alicent Hightower ALL of them dragged me to hell face first even tho i was literally right…
they’re saying visenya crowned MAEGOR the biggest women terrorizer in all of westeros TARGARYEN to… uhhh… *checks notes*….. um get rid of the faith aka the root of misoginy and inequality in westeros….. everybody point & laugh
mind u nobody is embracing rhaenyra like emma is. by acknowledging all the nuances that come with rhaenyra’s character & not doing a disservice to her by just interpreting her actions as black & white & good & bad like dumbass people do
are they trying to say alicent (who is the same age as her stepdaughter) should’ve parented rhaenyra? like what😭… she was literally a child when she first married viserys & was still a child when she had children dpmo
Amongst THE CHARACTERS most shipped with Rhaenyra, which one of them has THE MOST genuine love for Rhaenyra as a person? (You can answer this based on both show & book or one of them only)
the lamb loves its wolf. the wolf turns all white and starts quivering out of love for the lamb. the lamb loves the wolf's fragility, and the wolf loves the frail one's force. the wolf is now the lamb's lamb, and the lamb has tamed the wolf. love blackens the lamb.
they’re talking about how alicent’s love for rhaenyra is the only pure & true love the only love that came without expectations & fully came from within them LIKE IVE BEEN SAYING.
i’ve been saying like she’s a once in a lifetime character, & she’s going down in history, like… only one keeping hotd on the map, absolute it girl behavior etc etc