#anti-house of the dragon

[addaerontruther]

i've pretty much given up on house of the dragon and will only be watching to support clinton as addam because the show is all bad, most of the fanbase is worse, and there seems to be no end in sight, but daeron is my baby so i have to SAY SOMETHING

there's no way daeron can be criston's bastard without completely destroying his character and everything about him. i understand hbo doesn't respect anything that makes the targaryen's special (having an actual bond with the dragons, magic, being able to control them, etc) but you're either taking away the biggest part of his character or destroying the lore. why would you do either. just leave him out completely.

and not for nothing, but imagine spending the first part of your life listening to your mother, brothers, grandfather, and apparent illegitimate father preaching about how horrible your (fellow) bastard nephews are simply because of a birth circumstance you share with them and then being sent away forever? the resentment, the pain, the loneliness???? he's already an incredibly isolated and tragic character, whyyy would you want to strip him one the only period of familial happiness he ever knew?

no one who appreciates daeron as a character could want that. honestly, no one that appreciates any of these characters can want that? you love alicent but you want every word that leaves her mouth to act as a knife in her youngest son? you love aegon and/or aemond and you want their younger brother to remember the unkind things they said about people of his own birth rather than literally anything else?

idk. it's a terrible idea for so many reasons but as someone that genuinely loves daeron and sees what george's intentions with him were on the page, it's so upsetting to think about them being so careless with him to get the small percentage of audience members watching with their brains shut off to say "oooo" for 30 seconds and then forget about it forever lmao

[prideprejudce]

best hotd tweets so far

[adragonprinceswhore]

“He was fond of me”

“And I of him”

If the writers of House of The Dragon keep gaslighting the audience into thinking Viserys was anything better than a powerful man who stole a young girls future, dreams and physical body in the quest for a son he will never love, I will riot

[robynnnn311]

behind every art of modern rhaenyra where the artist draws her as masc or butch, theres always daemyras trying to prove that rhaenyra is this ultra feminine damsel because she wears pretty dresses and married a man whilst simultaneously ignoring all of rhaenyras established gender struggle at the same time, making their point so futile that they come across as repulsive people when it comes to the subject of lgbtq+ people specifically when it comes to women who don’t conform

rhaenyras story is based upon gender struggles already well set out in westeros i truly don’t understand unless you watched the show with your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears, every time this happens it instills in me that most people who say they like rhaenyra do not actually like rhaenyra because of their unwillingness to accept that rhaenyra is within herself wishes to be different

how do you watch her scene with mysaria in its entirety and including when she says daemon is everything she wishes to be INCLUDING a man and come to any other conclusion

[danyseastar]

rhaenyra not wanting to get married in the show and ‘do her duty’ has nothing to do with viserys ‘spoiling her’ or her being a ‘selfish brat’ but everything to do with watching her mother be forced into pregnancy over and over again, each time resulting in a dead baby and eventually DYING because of this; she views marriage as a death sentence.

[thesunfyre4446]

manifesting for a scene of aegon smashing his deadbeat father's ugly ass legos

[margoshansons]

Aegon and Sunfyre canonically having the strongest dragonrider bond

Aegon and Sunfyre being so connected we get the quote “who can truly know the heart of a dragon?”

Sunfyre being the most beautiful dragon in the known world

Aegon choosing his sigil to honor SUNFYRE

I’m so sorry they did this to you my babies y’all deserved so much better.

[silver-dragonborn]

Cole looking so horrified and heartbroken by what he just witnessed Aemond nearly do will never stop making me laugh. Sir, you practically raised those boys and taught them viciousness, cruelty, and dishonorable tactics in your quest to get back at Rhaenyra. You have continuously inserted yourself in the private affairs of the royal family and pitted your charges against their nephews without stopping to think about the consequences. You prepared them to wage war against their blood, spread misery, sow deceit, and commit kinslaying.

Don't look so surprised now that the fruits of your labor are finally yielding the shit you fucking planted all because a teenage girl wouldn't run away to be poor with you, you fucking twat.

[medusas-daughter]

This entire season is just Alicent realizing the patriarchy won't protect you just because you're upholding it. Yes girl, even if you help the council usurp the woman because of her gender, they won't see you as more than your gender. Yes girl, the man that started calling his ex a whore and a cunt once he was done with her will not respect you when he's done with you. No the problem was never the ex, the problem was always the man. Yes girl, if you teach your sons that they're better than their sister because they're men, they will think they're better than you because they're men. Proximity to men of power will never make you a man of power.

[pearls-n-opulence]

Also fuck Criston bc how are you gonna bitch and moan and get all offended at being Rhaenyra’s “whore” then turn around and be someone else’s.

Ok slut

[helaenamyqueen]

"fire and blood isn't supposed to be a completely true story. the showrunners can adapt things how they want, they don't have to follow the source material."

my brother in christ they are not even following season one

[tessarionbestgirl]

I feel sick.

[lovl3igh]

"Rhaenyra tried to put bastards on the throne"

[aryas-faces]

Is this a fucking joke?!

ALICENT has never sacrificed anything?!

Alicent has sacrificed EVERYTHING

She sacrificed her choices and happiness for Otto by marrying the King. She sacrificed her friendship with Rhaenyra. She sacrificed her bodily autonomy to give the king a male heir. She sacrificed her own safety for the safety of her children. She was prepared to die by dragonfire for Aegon, sacrificing her own life for his

But no. She has never sacrificed anything. Everything has been handed to her on a silver platter according to these writers

Meanwhile wtf has Rhaenyra sacrificed? A random knight so she could marry Daemon? A ton of innocent people for more dragons? Those aren’t personal sacrifices the way Alicent’s are. She’s sacrificing other people for herself

Not the same at all

And everything she has, she has been handed on a silver platter. Daddy named her heir, despite her treason in passing off bastards as heirs to Driftmark. She fucked off to Dragonstone and still was heir. She got the Riverlands because of Daemon, not anything she did. She got the dragons through evil means. Alicent offers her everything she wants

It it’s Alicent who has never sacrificed anything?

And now she’s being forced by the writers to sacrifice her son; the person she did all this to protect. Now she’s choosing Rhaenyra because this is redemption to the writers instead of the character assassination that it is

At least Olivia tries to save what she can by making Alicent have a panic attack

[spacerockfloater]

Aemond baby, get behind me.

[prideprejudce]

alicent taking the moon tea was probably the smartest decision she's made so far this season