aemond has a strict hair routine because alicent raised him right. you'll never catch him leaving the house looking like a mess. he's his mother's son.
aegon poisons his own drink. raises it. makes a toast. he looks around the room. he doesn't recognise anyone in it anymore. his mangled body aches one last time, he smiles and swallows the drink whole.
aemond said he'd give luke's eye to alicent. he would GIFT it to his mother. he never ever forgot how she felt that night. he never forgave the people who didn't stand by her. he keeps her close to his heart. he knows she loves him. she cried for him. he said, one day, one day
aemond really said 'ser erryk isn't the only one who knows aegon's doings' then proceeds to take them to (1) brothel and says ok fuck it, i have no idea and i don't care!
it's heleana's birthday. alicent gifts her a new dress. aemond and criston try to find new bugs for her. (they have no clue what they're looking for) aegon doesn't remember. otto gifts her 20 new books on insects, glass jars, fossil kits, notebooks, test tubes, display boxes, etc
aemond and vhagar truly love each other. she listens to him rant (they hate everybody), he feeds her well (rip luke), he caresses her, (she loves it), they have a blast (rip riverlands). just girl stuff. idk warms my heart
alicent has never been loved or desired as she is, only used for the needs of others. she spends her entire youth taking care of a walking corpse who can't even bother to make an effort with the children she gave him. she's a saint idc idc
photographer yelling at olivia cooke: "sadder! sadder!!! tragedy!!! tragic!!! doomed!! fucking damned!!!! nothing to fucking smile about in ur life!!!"
daeron's introduction to the show better be incredible. going to need a close up on his profile. slow shot of him entering the frame from the shadows. we can start at his feet then reveal his outfit which is all hightower green. then we get a cunty first line as a cherry on top
feel like aemond used to knock on alicent's door in the middle of the night when his eye was still healing. he would rest his head on her lap. she would stroke his hair until he fell asleep. maybe she stayed awake and held back tears when she would see the kind of pain he was in
can just imagine tom and emma's acting for the very end of the show is going to be unreal. rhaenyra at her end, losing everyone and everything. aegon covered in burns and broken legs, losing everyone and everything. the last spiteful words. end of the dance. ohh they're takin it
you have to give ewan so much credit. a lot of aemond's characterisation is based off of just body language. his walk. his straight posture. his subtle 'hmms' the 'tuts'. we can infer so much. how he carries himself as aemond floored us all. and ewan did that. that's insane
i think it speaks volumes in regards to her life of privilege and class. younger rhaenyra doesn't have empathy for alicent in that moment bc she cannot comprehend a life where there aren't options
We as a society need to talk more about Rhaenyra just completely ending the friendship to Alicent after finding out about the marriage. She didn’t marry him bc she was greedy, nor bc she genuinely felt anything for him, what’s not clicking?
as a child aemond must have been shocked to see his self-contained mother grab a dagger like that in front of everyone for him. wish we got a frame of his immediate reaction but we only see him after. he tells her to stop because he'll make it right. then he's on her side always
daeron throws wine in someone's face for suggesting they could be king. aemond knows he'd be a better king but never takes the title out of respect for aegon. aegon commissions statues to be built in honour of his brothers when they're gone. maybe if im dead this would hurt less
aemond chooses to marry alys rivers for love. not for some alliance or for station. he effectively chooses her over this part of himself that needs to be the perfect dutiful rule follower because he decides she’s more important to him than that and yes i’m obsessed
'i want my mother' 'do not mourn me, mother''i plan to make a gift of it to my mother''cole needs me, mother' 'i was merely expressing how proud i am of my family, mother' 'do you love me?' i present to you the biggest mama's boys in westeros
'aemond will be drawn to alys bc she's a dreamer, like helaena' / 'alys looks like lucerys, so that's why aemond wants her' how bout she's her own person actually and he wants her bc she's alys fookin rivers
aemond is the only one still nodding his head feverishly and taking notes when alicent recites a monologue about religion or duty. criston is in the back of the room trying not to yawn. aegon is asleep at the table. heleana is laser focused on her new bug
when they force alicent to watch as otto lowers his head on the chopping block. they share one last look. alicent is that young girl again. in the rain. watching as he leaves her there. this time for good. she's mouthing forgive me as his head rolls to the floor
alys gives birth alone. crying from the pain and exhaustion. she reaches her hand out without thinking. knows that aemond would have been by her side. when she finally holds their son in her arms she cries silently, alone, clutching the baby close ok ok i'm done
the fact that alys goes back to harrenhal after god's eye. back to the place she and aemond met. and she never leaves. she gives birth there. raises their son there. she never leaves. just in case. one day. maybe. he comes to haunt her. she'll be waiting
afterward she would not eat, nor bathe, nor leave her chambers. queen helaena sank deeper and deeper into madness, whilst the king raged, and drank, and raged.
#helaenatargaryen
#aegoniitargaryen
#hotd
targ stans truly writhing and seething that vhagar chose aemond. she loves him. that's her boy. that's her little war criminal. that's her baby. i cannot emphasise enough just how much she loves him. please cope it's getting embarrassing out here
as a father. as a dragon rider. how are you not beaming with pride when you learn that your son claimed the largest dragon alive. and how are you not completely shattered and enraged at the fact that at your son's finest, bravest moment, he got jumped and mutilated for it.
aemond, criston and aegon all hate viserys. they all thought about pushing him down the stairs once or twice when they saw how alicent cried that night and he did nothing about it
aemond puts on the conqueror's crown. he turns and looks at criston. criston nods in approval. aemond smiles and runs to alicent's room. he knocks. comes in crown first. peeks his head through the door. says, soooooooooo what do we think????
hope they give alys this long, dark hair. have it be her trademark. a feature she is proud of. aemond loves it especially. it's wild and it's long and it's hers. then after god's eye, we see her take his dagger to it. consumed with grief, she starts to violently cut it all off
he said y’know what maybe that white deer was just a white deer and went on with his life maybe y’all could take a page out of his book and stop buying into targaryen supremacy
my losing dogs, my sweet failures, my desperate twin flames, my dying yearners, my two halves, my birds in a gilded cage, my disillusioned knight, my disenchanted queen, my mother, my father, my babies
stanning aemond while also hating alicent/criston/alys is kinda silly because they're some of the only people in the world aemond ever loves before he dies
i get that the promo this season is gonna be all team this team that and i know hbo thinks its cute right now but it will absolutely only end terribly with the amount of psychotics and straight jackets in this space
alys is gonna hiss and growl and laugh at all the men around her while aemond's in the next room asking criston if he thinks she's impressed with the size of his dragon
every single one of the greens stood against that dragon. nobody ran away or looked for an escape. looked like they were ready to die. together. that is a unit. a squad. a crew. a family. une équipe, if you will
the mother knelt before the daughter, bowed her head, and said, "my queen" / ser criston cole placed the iron-and-ruby crown of aegon the conquerer upon the brow of the eldest son
#coronationday
#houseofthedragon
ewan doesn't care about wearing designer on the carpet. he doesn't care to do press. he doesn't know what a social media is. and he keeps to himself at work. this is a MAN for you
thinking about criston cole...grrm's lancelot with blood on his hands...chivalrious knight twisted into rabid attack dog...hanging on by a thread...functions only to serve and protect Her...there is no off switch but when alicent looks at him he can't even hold his head up
alys watching aemond and vhagar perish at gods eye. pregnant with his child. walking back to harrenhal completely catatonic. her heart becoming harder than it ever had been before. becoming a witch queen in his name. i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine
there’s a team of hair stylists on set watching that silk press wig like their lives depend on it. they spend all day chasing ewan mitchell around with clips and pigtails. begging him to stop bouncing
do you think when aemond first tried on that eyepatch in public he would stand around awkwardly to the side and pretend not to notice the girls snicker at him? then aegon would notice and stand beside him and say something stupid to distract him
this is so funny to me like imagine one day your coworker just squares up on you bc upper management is in shambles… like, bro, what about our shared smoke breaks :(( i made chicken parm for lunch the other night you said it was amazing :(
alys is pregnant and casually mentions that she's craving a piece of fruit that doesn't grow in the riverlands. she shrugs and continues on with her day. aemond waits till she's asleep and dons on his little cloak. he hops on vhagar and fetches a crate of that fruit just for her.
hotd should have made sunfyre the poster child for the show. they could have started the show with rhaenyra on syrax and ended this finale with a scene of aegon on sunfyre. pls think about your sins @ hbo
the way people expect alicent to be clapping and toasting with rhaenyra when otto’s head gets chopped off are you guys being for real or do you not understand alicent