#book!rhaenyra

[snowprincesa2]

Trumpnyra after surviving one horribly executed assassination attempt 🇺🇸🦅

[femcelriddlr]

my take on Rhaenyra 🐉

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

"She did not always care for me-" BUT SHE DID, SHE DID IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL, SHE DID IN THE BOOK, SHE DID.

Rhaenys/Rhaenyra original relationship you'll be forever mourned by me😭😭

[lya-dustin]

The Realm's Delight

"At the center of the merriment, cherished and adored by all, was their only surviving child, Princess Rhaenyra, the little girl the court singers dubbed “the Realm’s Delight.”"

--Heirs of the Dragon, A Question of Succession

Gümeç Alpay Aslan as Şivekar Sultan in Magnificent Century : Kosem.

[sarcasticsweetlara]

I can't help but have another image vibe of Alicent's book depiction.

All my respect to Olivia Cooke, but Book! Alicent is slender and graceful to Show! Alicent who seems to try to hide herself, and Book! Alicent is so witty, sassy (a trait she passed down to all her children) and unafraid to use the power she has as queen consort and then queen mother in a manner that Show! Alicent could never be.

Whether you prefer her book version or show version is up to you, but you can not deny Book! Alicent is indeed more powerful and less maleable than Show! Alicent, the show runners wanted to make her more sympathetic but they didn't have to strip her of her agency.

Book! Alicent would have never showed Larys her feet, she would have made him give her information whether he wanted or not as Book! Alicent was in more control of her power, and the thing with the Green Council is that she initiated it! Alicent wanted to protect her children, yes, but that scene should have portrayed her power and control of the Council not this meek woman who everyone kept in the dark about their plans for her son that she believed in.

Also, Book! Corlys is far more proud than his suck it up version in the show - again my respect to Steve Touissant, but I feel like they failed in portraying that Corlys was not only ambitious but highly cunning, proud and clever that Show! Rhaenyra would have to do more than offer a random proposal (that actually was made by Laena when the children were toddlers) to get him back to her side, she made him her hand in the end.

In both the show and book versions House Velaryon fought for everything they have and Book! Corlys would not let himself and his family be humiliated.

And Book! Rhaenys is brave, witty and with a no-nonsense attitude that she would never let Corlys go over her like Show! Rhaenys.

I know all of them are complex and flawed but it's like the show is refusing to really portray that.

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen

[allovesthings]

Most relatable thing Rhaenyra does: playing with her rings when she is nervous.

[reignof-fyre]

you're not special by maggie lindeman is book!rhaenyra @ book!alicent everyone needs to listen to it pls omg

Oh, did I push you over the edge?

Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

I heard you screamin' that you want me dead

Is that what the voice says inside of your head?

You're gonna burst, so full of spite

Like I'm your personal parasite

I play the villain in your life

Whatever helps you sleep at night

it's so rhaenyra @ alicent I-

You think you're special to me

You think you can get under my skin

You stick your knife right through me

So dull that I don't feel a thing

I don't hate you, I don't care like that

Do you kiss your mother with a mouth like that?

I'm starrin' in your movie

But you're not that special to me

[alicentswig]

the textpost is so rhaenicent fated lovers/enemies coded its crazy I had to okay

[chipthekeeper]

“I was really surprised to be speaking about this big fantasy series and about a character who on both a personal and political level is somewhat at odds with the gender they were born in. That was something, as a nonbinary person, that resonates strongly....I think she’s always living in counterpoint to what her life might look like were she male.”

-Emma D'Arcy, from House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty

[meerabanerjee]

The voices (Rhaenyra and Amethyst Empress parallels) got me so good this time fanart was produced 😯

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

Everytime that Show!Rhaenyra's council talks back to Rhaenyra an angel loses its wings.

[mummer]

rhaenyra outsourcing motherhood to rhaena and assigning her that passive feminine role was REALLY interesting….. rhaenyra as a character is at her most fascinating when she is forced to navigate and ultimately perpetuate the gendered structures she despises and wishes she could transcend— the seeds of her tragedy already sewn here. just great character work

[dark-s1ster]

A happy mother excited mama bear mode on

to meet her new baby boy

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

everyone's joking about a lesbian love triangle being the focus of rhaenyra/alicent/mysaria's stories in hotd s3 but that will literally be what happens when mysaria acts to uphold and support the image of rhaenyra as queen (or rhaenyra's duty) and alicent is kept prisoner (or a hidden but unavoidable reminder of rhaenyra's love). and so the love triangle will serve to represent rhaenyra's internal conflict between love and duty

[define-bored]

Hotd logic is so fucking stupid mfs are okay with incest but draw the line when two women kiss.

GO TOUCH SOME GRASS 🙏😭