#but wow i love rhaenicent

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

wow I love rhaenicent especially young rhaenicent but im not picky i love rhaenicent

[ribbitrrrbitxhs]

GOD, it would be just so nice if Rhaenyra and Alicent would just kiss.

[enobariasteeth]

YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR!!!

I????!?!

WHAT HAVE I DONE BUT WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF ME!?!?

FOREVER UPHOLDING THE KINGDOM, THE FAMILY, THE LAW!

WHILE YOU FLOUT ALL TO DO AS YOU PLEASE!!!

WHERE IS DUTY???? WHERE IS SACRIFICE????

IT IS TRAMPLED UNDER YOUR PRETTY FOOT AGAIN!!!

AND NOW YOU TAKE MY SONS EYE, AND TO EVEN THAT YOU FEEL ENTITLED!!!

EXHAUSTING WASNT IT??? HIDING BENEATH THE CLOAK OF YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! BUT NOW THEY SEE YOU AS YOU ARE!!!

[concise-cyan]

hmmm after the disappointment of got finale i thought i wouldn't be interested in watching hotd but now seeing on my dash that there may be *lesbians*/*potential lesbian shipping* involved - i am now intrigued

[strangerstarsthat]

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@gameofthronesdaily event 02: pride ↳ Rhaenyra Targaryen & Alicent Hightower

[snowblack-charcoalwhite]

I think that the misandry by the writers , especially Hess, is something that isn't discussed much. It's much deeper and dare I say, more sinister than just 'men bad women good' because the way she wrote the last episode shows that she wants to convey how Alicent's actions are commendable in a sense that her male children don't deserve her devotion and unconditional love anyway, while her only female child and grandchild do. It's framed as her liberation because she sells her own sons to another woman who is their enemy, but you know, it is good because Rhaenicent and reasons. As a woman, I'm appalled by this. What's worse is that I've seen takes here and on x like "Alicent regained her agency by ditching her sons for the woman she loves, her betrayal is understandable, go girl, you have my support" (and this one is tame compared to some others). Believe me, I'm not exaggerating. And I must be from mars because in my book that's not acceptable, understandable or commendable in any way, just the opposite. The problem, however, lies in the fact that the narrative and the writers' agenda support these vile and delusional takes. You don't even have to be a parent to see how evil and nonsensical this idea is, you just have to be able to understand basic human emotions and family dynamic. The writers and a big chunk of the fandom apparently don't.

Hello!

Thank you for this, really. The writers' (Hess' specifically) misandric agenda is absolutely crazy - and IMO crazy evident as well, so seeing so many people fall for it is baffling, sad and infuriating at the same time.

Don't they see that in HotD the women are the ones to blaim for something only when they side with men in one way or another? Don't they understand how forced, unsubtle and - because of that - cringe all the "you are a woman so you can't rule", "they don't respect me because I'm a woman" and "women suffer while men fight" are? House of the Dragon is one of the most force-feeding shows I've ever watched - and for some reason GA and even some people in the fandom believe it's alright. Media literacy is dead for real.

And the parent-children aspect of misandry you brought up is indeed one of the most atrocious things about the whole debacle. I am not a mother myself - but I have one, just as, I think, the majority of the viewers do. I refuse to believe that everyone who cheers for Alicent to abandon her sons has their own familial relationships so screwed that they are unable to understand the outlandishness of the opinion they are choosing to uphold.

Not to mention that in their quest for showing just how terrible Alicent's sons (minus Daeron - at least for now) are, HotD writers completely destroyed Helaena's personality, even the sparks of it she had in season 1. Now she is all about three things: bugs, clairvoyance and suffering (and I can't believe that the first point has been handled the best development-wise). Helaena is supposed to be good and kind: but what good and kind things have we seen her do? Taking care (kind of) of her crickets, offering a necklace in exchange for the life of her son (oh wow) and saying that she shouldn't really grieve for her child that much because the commoners' kids are dying all the time (how relatable for anyone who actually lost a child, right?). For most part she is just there, staring into the distance and saying something prophetic (or, again, suffering).

Just imagine a real mother saying to her son "You know, sonny, I love you, but you forgot to thank me for the pudding I made for your birthday plus you called my bestie an old cow - so I invited your school bullies to our house so that they could beat the shit out of you, you ungrateful jerk. They are in the backyard, go on, don't make your mommy wait".

Just imagine a real woman whose son has just been brutally killed say "You know what, there are so many children starving to death in the world. Why should I cry over mine?"

Honestly, I am beginning to think that people are steadily losing the ability to connect the things happening on screen to actual human emotional experience - as if the characters (in HotD in this case) are aliens to whom basic concepts that have been holding humanity together for millenia do not apply.

[southsidestory]

First Line Analysis ✍️

tysm for the tag @blue-disco-lights!

RULES: post the first lines of your last 10 fics/chapters posted on AO3 (if you have less than 10 fics posted, post the first lines of all your fics) and try to draw some conclusions.

If You Have a Problem | Gallavich | Rated E

Mickey knows he’s a piece of shit. It’s easy to forget sometimes, like how piss in the carpet stops stinking after it’s settled, but every now and then he’ll think something so awful that he remembers, Oh, yeah. Piece of shit.

The Valley of the End | SasuSaku & NaruHina | Rated E

There is a place where two legends once fought, a valley that saw their lifeblood spilled.

how many fathers should one girl have? | Jilco | Rated E

Jinx is an engineer, and her favorite projects are the ones she’s got to handle with care.

Unserendipity | SasuSaku | Rated M

Ino raised her cup to the group, a call for attention. “All I’m saying is, if Sakura doesn’t kiss him soon, I will.”

The Third Law | SasuSaku | Rated E

A century of war ended with the Uchiha Clan on its knees.

Lies My Teachers Told Me | Spuffy | Rated M

Buffy ran her fingers over a purple bite mark on Spike’s shoulder.

What the Water Gave Me | Zutara | Rated M | co-writer @mayimorr

The crystals shimmered, reds, greens, blues refracted in the light around them. A beautiful place to be trapped.

Between Heartbeats | Zutara | Rated E | co-writer @mayimorr

Ba Sing Se is unlike anywhere Katara has ever been before.

When the Stranger Comes Knocking | Helaemond & Rhaenicent | Rated M

It hurts worse than he expected, being slapped by Mother. 

Take My Love and Bury It | Spuffy | Rated M

“You’re not riding behind me again, and I don’t wanna hear any fuss about it.”

Conclusions: Wow I write for a lot of fandoms 😂 Seems like I have two methods for first lines: 1) A reflective opening that sets the tone of the story ahead, or 2) Jumping straight into the action!

Tagging a few folks to join in if you want!

@hamspamandjamsandwich @onthepyre @callivich @bawlbrayker @briarlily @sintari @prodogg

[greenqueenhightower]

I just finished watching Episode 3 and wow, that scene at the sept was absolutely gripping! the tension between rhaenyra and alicent reached peak rhaenicent fic levels. I just loved their mannerisms and the symbolism of it all: something something about how the real root of the conflict is lost in time and having that be the scope and focus of the episode in the general scheme of things with rhaenyra and alicent... in years to come who will remember the real reason the dance of the dragons even began? would anyone know about the fall out between two childhood friends? this made me think of Shireen discussing the events of the dance in got and how 'thousands were dead' and 'the targaryens never recovered' and how that was all that remained from a history's pov...

What an interesting take, anon! 💚

The scene at the sept holds a dear place in my heart because of the nuances it gives the characters and because Olivia and Emma did such a marvelous job with it. The tension and the tragedy are delicious and I loved the parallelism with Alicent and Rhaenyra's childhood scenes at the sept and the inference of how things have changed so much since then.

Rhaenys mentioned something similar to your point about when the real conflict actually began and the difficulty of pinpointing a root cause becoming even more obscure as the war develops.

The episode opening with the feud between the Blackwoods and the Brackens in the "Battle of the Burning Mill" is foreshadowing the development of the Dance since the root cause of the Blackwood-Bracken feud is lost in time, much like the root cause of the Dance will be. A mutual of mine @noheteroexplanation (I hope you don't mind the tag!) noted how the ending scene is shot with the circular sept spinning much like a burning mill with all the candles lit and aflame and how it emphasizes the idea that Rhaenyra's and Alicent's relationship has suffered irreparable damage and will definitely be one of the Dance's least memorable casualties since violence will only accumulate.

[peineperdu]

i didnt know there was a tag limit on here...

cant watch arcane season two act two yet. horrible

[top-vi]

Saw a confession speculating what will happen to Rhaenicent S2 onwards. Here was the take:

Alicent starts S2 slowly becoming disillusioned with Team Green, distancing herself from them.

This in turn triggers her redemption arc, leading to her reunion with Rhaenyra at Dragonstone.

Rhaenyra just lost Jace, she’s still raw from the pain and isn’t interested in making peace.

Alicent has to prove her loyalty and genuine remorse for what happened to Rhaenyra’s children.

She does this by helping Team Black seize Kingslanding.

Her only conditions are that Aegon is sent to the Wall and no harm comes to Helaena. She can’t ask for mercy for Aemond because of Luke, Rhaenyra will always choose her boys no matter what and she has to accept this.

As Nettles has been written out of the show, Alicent will be the cause for Daemyra’s marriage to start showing cracks. Daemon wants her dead but Rhaenyra refuses.

When Rhaenyra is killed by Aegon I it will be Alicent who witnesses instead of Aegon II.

Shell then avenge Rhaenyra by killing Aegon I herself.

Think it’s also better if she’s the one who proposes Aegon II and Jaehaera’s marriage instead of Corlys.

I can see this being Alicent’s storyline. What are your thoughts?

wow there's a lot here so i'm gonna go point by point

i don't think she's ever been fully illusioned by team green in the first place. i think she was scared and being pushed around and made a choice to crown aegon that she perhaps didn't even agree with while she was doing it

while i could see this being possible, i don't know. i think she's going to go to dragonstone to beg for peace, but i don't believe it is going to be a "redemption" arc in the usual sense

100% see this happening

no

no

though i like the idea of alicent waffling between both sides, i don't think she's going to go full team black like this. these terms may be a part of the original peace she attempts to broker, but i don't see her actively switching sides to help rhaenyra at the expense of her children

definitely see this happening. i think there are already a ton of cracks in the daemon/rhaenyra relationship just based on...everything about their relationship lmfao, but i do see alicent's life being a sticking point that perhaps sends daemon to harrenhall to hunt down aemond? juicy, unsure if it will happen, would find it hilarious if it did

i think you mean aegon 2 and 3 respectively, but i'm not sure. i think both of them can be there if the writers decide to have alicent present for rhaenyra's death

i honestly have no idea how they'll handle aegon 2's death. i could see alicent poisoning him for a number of reasons--from a mercy kill to resentment. i could also see someone else killing him (dyana perhaps?). despite it all, alicent does love her children, and i don't think she could bring herself to kill her first son in order to avenge rhaenyra, regardless of what he's done

could see this. don't think its that important tbh. all i know is that i'm waiting for the final line of the show to be alicent saying "i wish i were reading to rhaenyra under the weirwood like we did as girls"

i hope this made sense! i also hope i don't come off as dismissive or rude for some of these points, but i just genuinely don't see alicent as being able to plot against her own children entirely.

this is all speculation so take with a grain of salt haha

[molter-writes]

Wow…. Can I just say I completely fell in love with your writing? I find no words to describe my utter delight. I fell in love with the way you write Rhaenicent like I’m being newly introduced to them. I’m yearning for more. May I know if you’ll be updating bodhran beat? And if so then when can I expect it? Because everything about it is just delicious and I’m starved.

🥰🥰🥰🥰

all updates throughout this fall (and bodhrán is slated after L&B)

[mitchelljoni]

hi i wanted to say i am absolutely loving your rhaenicent fic! your writing style is SO good and literally everything is just perfect - the tension, the pacing, the atmosphere - i'm very much looking forward to the final installment (hopefully that's not too much pressure!) also i want to read august blue now since you mentioned it in your author's note - do you happen to have any more book recs for enjoyers of your fic? thank you for writing and sharing!

hi!!! wow this is such a generous and kind message, thank you so much!!! i'm so glad you're enjoying it and hopefully the final part will be up to scratch :))

i hope you enjoy august blue! it's a lovely book! it's probably one of the bigger influences on this specific thing bc of the subject matter , but some recs that i am always happy to give and which probably influence my writing massively/are generally apparent in this are:

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (and anything by Alan Hollinghurst, but this work on memory/writing in this is indelible I think!)

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (/the Neopolitan Quartet more generally) - I am just always thinking about this quartet I think! It has such a visceral beautiful quality to it, such an urgency of feeling - probably my favourite series in the world (and I'm aware I'm not unique for saying this lol)

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy - another Levy lol sorry but this is non-fiction, it's the middle one of her "living autobiography" and I think so truly moving and interesting, the microscope she takes to her own life, the prose is remarkable. I will never ever forget reading the last line of this book I think

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, which is objectively so far removed from the subject matter I have taken lol but the way she writes about union, connection, loss - it's so wonderful to me. And I take a lot of interest in twins more generally, this concept of being a half of a whole (which obviously in my fic is more romantic leaning but still) - so it's definitely somewhere in there. On that, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream were big influences on me not in terms of plot lol but the connections between the characters and how they're expressed - Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream in particular is a fucking freak, I love going back to her speeches because they are truly devastatingly insane

Possession by A.S. Byatt, my favourite book ever probably, the idea of obsession/possession/love for a thing or a person and what that does to you is so perfectly explored in this book and honestly I would just press it into the hands of everyone I ever met if I could so yea

also poetry: Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds, anything by Emily Dickinson probably, Let the World Have You by Mikko Harvey, literally everything by Frank O'Hara, Love and Other Poems by Alex Dmitrov - just what's been on my mind as of late :)

anyway this got super long, forgive me - thank you so much again for such a kind and thoughtful message and i hope you continue to enjoy!!!

[maxanor]

Wanted to let you know, that your blog among other stuff has me this 🤏 close to watching HOTD for rhaenicent, like wow they're so toxi yuri gay divorce (reasons I haven't watched it include being majorly disappointed by GOT years ago and also having read Fire & Blood idk if I can handle the tragedy of it all)

For now I have been obsessed with the rhaenicent gifs and fanfic, all I have to say so far is that I know I would love Alicent if I watched this show for the big wet brown eyes alone, like yes depressed and repressed lesbian babygirl I would do anything for you; also the knife scene yeah like that's cinema idk idk🫂 (haven't been this obsessed with a ship since maxanor and I haven't even watched this show help)

Anyways they should have hatesex in s2 and then I will be there to watch☝️

all of this is SO real !! first of i'll say as someone who never watched game of thrones and had no interesting in the franchise before a friend made me watch one episode and i was drawn in by rhaenicent, hotd is genuinely one of the most fun shows i've watched live in a while!! totally get being disappointed with the ending of game of thrones but i think having a complete story in fire & blood will make hotd go more smoothly <3

secondly, given that you're a maxanor fan i know that you automatically understand rhaenicent on a deeper level than 99% of viewers <3 there are soooo many maxanor/rhaenicent parallels it's genuinely insane. eleanor would say i will never be a son and max should have cut eleanor with a knife 😵‍💫

thirdly, the dungeon hate sex is coming in s3 trust 🙏

[unohanabbygirl]

Will rhaenicent ever happen in FMN?

Wow thats a great question. I-I wasn’t expecting that question

— Beyonce

No but honestly, Rhaenyra and Alicent’s relationship is so all over the place that even answering your question will be a big mess and probably won’t even be that clear cut. Sorry babes 😭

It’s pretty obvious that as teens they both had pretty big crushes on each other but Alicent’s romantic love for Nyra has always been…stronger on her side. So after marrying Viserys and having children that love only strengthened because she had no experience with romance which led her to continue pining after Nyra from afar. She was never given a chance to act on or grow out of that puppy love whereas Rhaenyra had a handful of involvement’s, lived, learned, and eventually moved on with time.

Its safe to say that even now Rhaenyra no longer feels anything more for Alicent than friendship and her partners know this. But if a confession were to happen she’d 100% go along with it and be that romantic partner thinking it’s for the best even though we know doing something like that would only end badly if Alicent found out the whole truth. No one wants to find out the person they’ve been head over heels with for two thousand years is only with you because of pity.

Que the Targtower kids pissed as hell their mom got played even if Rhaenyra was only trying to make her happy (this family knows nothing but drama and they’re all idiots)

What Alicent needs (and what I do plan to give her) is an acceptance arc. Coming to terms with her love being unrequited and learning to move on. Explore the dating scene, be romanced as she deserves, and explore her sexuality since she’s still figuring things out.

At the end of the day Alicent deserves to be loved.

[lesbianalicent]

idk if you take requests, but i read your rhaenicent fics and I gotta say wow! If you could write an angsty secret relationship where rhaenicent is secretly meeting each other while they are both married i'd be forever grateful

hi! thank you, i'm so glad you liked it. i'm not taking requests at the moment and the odds of me writing rhaenicent again are low, i'm very particular about how they're characterized and that makes writing them really really hard for me. but i'm sure someone else would love to pick up this idea!

[wlwocprincess]

HoTD?

Yesss! Thank you anon! ❤️

Favorite male character: Aemond, literally no contest bc the men in this show are trash

Favorite female character (s): Alicent and Rhaenyra (I really do love both) and I just WISH we got to see of Laena and her daughters and Mysaria

Least favorite character: Daemon, I don’t think I’ve ever hated a character more than his crusty evil ass. His brother ain’t no peach either.

Best looking characters: Criston, Alicent, Mysaria, and Laena but I think this show honestly picked the best looking crackers like wow all in one place??

Funniest character: Aegon, even if it’s unintentional and lowkey sad

Favorite season: obviously only one season is out, hopefully season 2 is even better

Favorite ships: Rhaenicent, I also have a soft spot for Rhaena/Aemond especially when I divorce her from Daemon in my mind.