#hotd finale spoiler

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

The parallels between Rhaenyra and Alicent showing how one of them is trapped in history and destined to bear a heavy burden while the other one is finally free

[bbygirl-aemond]

alicent being forced to choose between saving aegon or saving helaena in the exact same way that helaena was forced to choose between saving jaehaerys or saving jaehaera, and making the exact same choice helaena did to save her daughter, because the truth is that there is no saving her son no matter what she tries to do... the writers ate this one lil thing because the parallels are paralleling

[prettydeeryess]

RIP Robb Stark, you would've loved to see a stark army crossing the twins 😔😔😔

[birdmans]

oh i just did a backflip

[maxanor]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 7, “The Red Sowing”

[allyriadayne]

what killed me about the dinner scene was that jace was really trying to get over his resentment and anger. he defended rhaenyra against ulf's rudeness and took her side and always looked at her after to see if she approved. taking care to not undermine her in front of the dragonseeds. am i doing it right, mother? am it making you proud? but when rhaenyra receives the message she doesn't share it with jace as he expected or called him aside to discuss it, she only called addam to accompany her to harrenhal (!) when jace has been so outspoken about going there. this kills him!!! he turns back to ulf and hugh after addam leaves because rhaenyra just made them the same!!!! jace is just like another dragonseed!!!!

[nijigasakilove]

FROM RHAENYRA’S BLOOD COMES THE PRINCESS THAT WAS PROMISED AND HERS IS THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE — ALL HAIL QUEEN DAENERYS STORMBORN!

[aemond]

“if he’s as bad as they say, then i guess i’m cursed (looking into his eye, i think he’s already hurt)”

[bluerbell]

❝ she sees much and more, my Alys. ❞

a rough redraw of this old piece <3

[daenysthedreamer101]

HBO's security apparently:

WHY AM I SEEING LEAKS EVERYWHERE???

[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

[lady-arryn]

If dragons begin fighting dragons, we invite our own destruction. Fear of it is in itself a weapon. 2.03 — HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

[bbygirl-aemond]

the way ulf strolled right up to jace like "look at that hair" and "as dark as they say!" and "dragonriders both, you and i!" and "cut from the same cloth!" and i just know jace was standing there like

[homielander]

i'm sorry but hotd positing that all women are innately cautious and peaceful and compassionate while men are rash warmongers is not a feminist win! i could see the value in everyone being hesitant to go to war at the onset of the story because it intensifies the tragedy of this house tearing itself apart, but at this stage, rhaenyra has as much reason for bloodlust (if not more) as the men on the show. it's pretty heavily implied that the shock of her usurpation killed her daughter, aemond killed lucerys, and one of aegon's kingsguard snuck into her quarters with the intent to assassinate her. most importantly, she has felt entitled to the throne since she was named heir as a child. she should be incensed! rhaenyra's inaction in the season 1 finale due to a sudden aversion to violence was already stretching believability -- this is the same woman who expressed nothing beyond mild shock at vaemond's beheading, who plotted with daemon to have an innocent man killed to facilitate laenor's escape while declaring that the realm should fear her. to have rhaenyra insist on peace at this point in the story, when war is already well underway, is incredibly irrational.

this problem is not limited to rhaenyra. alicent ordered larys to kill mysaria's network of spies and any suspected traitors in the red keep, presumably without any due process, and neither of these decisions was depicted with the gravity they deserved for a character who was once horrified by any bloodshed. meanwhile, aegon had a few extra ratcatchers executed, and not only was the direction sufficiently ominous, but we also got a lengthy monologue from otto about how it would spell his doom. it is probably pointless to bring up rhaenys because she is written less like a believable human being and more like a mouthpiece for the writers to assert whatever political opinion they believe is correct in a given episode -- but she did very much kill dozens if not hundreds of smallfolk last season. she did do that and very clearly did not care. why is she an advocate against war? for both alicent and rhaenys, there is a strange dissonance where their actions are at odds with their attitudes about opposing large-scale war for the good of the realm. i'm not saying this dissonance cannot exist, but it should at least be acknowledged.

helaena raising concerns about the losses suffered by the smallfolk might have worked in isolation, but for it to accompany everything above is exhausting. can none of these women be allowed to feel for themselves?

[tanomoon]

“a targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing”

[maxanor]

Who was this woman? A serving wench who dabbled in potions and spells, says Munkun. A woods witch, claims Septon Eustace. A malign enchantress who bathed in the blood of virgins to preserve her youth, Mushroom would have us believe.

GAYLE RANKIN as ALYS RIVERS House of the Dragon | Season 2, Episode 3