#hotd s1e10

[bbygirl-aemond]

one thing that jumped out at me right away in episode 2 was jace's physicality. look at jace's movements here in season 2 episode 2:

and compare this to daemon's movements in season 1 episode 10:

in this scene with daemon, he's just drawn his sword and pointed it at otto hightower. he's angry and grieving because he just lost a child, and in that anger and grief he seeks to take action against those who he blames for this happening. but rhaenyra does not want this, and she quells him with a single look, and he obeys her, but he does not hide his reluctance. the grip he adopts on the pommel of his sword is a clear signal he has switched out of fighting mode, but he still remains at the ready, still physically grips the sword, still holds on to everything the sword symbolizes. he's backing down, but he still wants rhaenyra--and everyone else--to see what he truly wants to do.

in the scene with jace, we see something extremely similar play out. jace is mourning his brother, not his child, but he is similarly angry and wishing to take action. rhaenyra denies him just as she denied daemon (albeit for a different reason). and it's just so fascinating to me that the way jace reacts here is such a perfect match for how daemon reacted back in season 1; so much so that my first reaction to seeing him move that way was to immediately say "that's 100% daemon right there." jace, too, reaches for his sword, and he too adopts the same grip.

jace and daemon are obviously very different characters but i do think the ways in which they're similar is fascinating, particularly in the way they respond to rhaenyra denying them, in the way that they both obey immediately yet still display their disapproval of her command. i actually think this makes their loyalty to rhaenyra seem more powerful, in how readily they obey her even and especially when they really don't want to.

tldr: i'm like 99% sure harry collett saw all the jokes about him and daemon having the same awful posture and said "bet i can work with this"

(gifs are from @jace-targaryen and @thequeenwechoose respectively, but i did crop the jace gif to zoom in on him further and i removed the first few frames of the daemon gif so it lined up more with jace's movement)

[cynicalclassicist]

A dark comedy, but a comedy.

hotd is a comedy, actually

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.10 The Black Queen ⬩ insp.

[peachysunrize]

"Vhagar is a hungry girl" - TGC

s1*e10 | The Black Queen s2*e4 | The Red Dragon & the Gold

[gifharbor]

— Vhagar sensed his coming first. Guardsmen walking in the battlements of the castle's mighty curtain walls clutched their spears in sudden terror when she woke with a roar that shook the very foundations of Durran's Defiance.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | 1.10 'The Black Queen'

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

#rhaenyra having the moment of 'oh. i understand my father now.' #[this specific instance of him smothering her at least] #and then pushing through it #giving her sons the agency she was denied #and then loSING ONE OF THEM FOR IT (via @meyerlansky)

1.02 // 1.10

[quietsamurai98]

Watching House of the Dragon now that I've finished Game of Thrones, and I have to say, I wasn't exactly expecting a show all about political intrigue, but I'm definitely enjoying it!

Also, seeing Matt Smith playing such a dark character is fascinating to me. I'll admit, I haven't seen him in anything other than Doctor Who. Most of the time, I'm able to see Daemon as just Daemon, but there's this very specific tone that Matt Smith uses for righteous fury that I associate quite strongly with the Eleventh Doctor, and every once in a while, Smith will use it while playing Daemon. Especially when Daemon is emphatically making a case to do something that the Doctor would use that exact same righteous-fury tone to argue against. And it makes me think of that time Matt Smith said he'd be interested in returning to Doctor Who as The Master, and how incredible he could be in that role.

[anamazingangie]

text posts + House of the Dragon, episode 10 (x)

[lavenderinoz]

Hāros Bartossi is the song Daemon Targaryen sung to Vermithor in HOTD, S1E10 (2022)

Voice of Matt Smith, with cover arranged & orchestrated by Christopher Nas.

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Valyrian

Drakari pykiros Tīkummo jemiros Yn lantyz bartossa Saelot vāedis

Hen ñuhā elēnī: Perzyssy vestretis Se gēlȳn irūdaks Ānogrose

Perzyro udrȳssi Ezīmptos laehossi Hārossa letagon Aōt vāedan

Hae mērot gierūli: Se hāros bartossi Prūmȳsa sōvīli Gevī dāerī

English

Fire breather Winged leader But two heads To a third sing

From my voice: The fires have spoken And the price has been paid With blood magic

With words of flame With clear eyes To bind the three To you I sing

As one we gather And with three heads We shall fly as we were destined Beautifully, freely

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[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

oh god. just… oh my god. 😭

But re that HOTD book prop that says Daenys was Balerion's first rider: I am just about certain the text comes from Ti Mikkel, who is GRRM's assistant, and is the official ASOIAF lore expert for HOTD. For example, she's the one who wrote Shrubbery and also “Haros Bartossi”, the lullabye Daemon sings to Vermithor in s1e10. (DJP translated both to High Valyrian.)

I don't know if that means the info comes from GRRM, or if Ti just wrote it in a very ASOIAF-style way. The AWOIAF wiki is treating it as slightly less than “semi-canon” for now, pending finding out from GRRM whether it is his ideas or not. However, it has long been theorized that Daenys did ride Balerion, and it makes perfect sense, so hey I'm all for it. Even if it does bring up the Daenys-Aerea-Valyria connection. 😭

Thoughts on Daenys claiming balerion?

do you think in his old age when balerion took aerea to the doom he thought the little girl climbing onto his back was daenys finally come to take them back home

[cr3atur3-of-th3-night]

A Song of Obnoxious Commentary on “House of the Dragon”

I did this exact thing with my watch of “Game of Thrones”, but posting eight seasons worth of commentary on Tumblr was far too much work, so, here are my thoughts on season one of HotD!!

(Key)

Italics: me lusting after characters/talking about how pretty and/or adorable people are

Bold: Particularly silly commentary

S1E1: The Heirs of the Dragon

S1E2: The Rogue Prince

S1E3: Second of His Name

S1E4: King of the Narrow Sea

S1E5: We Light the Way

S1E6: The Princess and the Queen

S1E7: Driftmark

S1E8: The Lord of the Tides

S1E9: The Green Council

S1E10: The Black Queen

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

He didn’t break his oath but he broke my heart 💔 - by Rachel Hoo (raychelwho)

[alittlelaudanum]

House of the Dragon S1E10

My favorite screenshots.

reblog/like if you use!

[darylandbethfanforever9]

Aemond is just so hot

Wait, my Lord Strong. Did you really think that you could just fly about the realm trying to steal my brother’s throne?

[peachysunrize]

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.10 "The Black Queen"

requested by @theoneeyedprince <3

[banefort]

The more I think about it, the less opposed I am to the decision to make Luke’s death an ‘accident.’ While I agree it’s part of a larger issue with the show runners being too afraid to make the characters reprehensible and condemn them for any ill-actions (which is an issue on its own), it isn’t an illogical decision given the fickle nature of F&B. 

Also symbolically, I do love the idea of the Targaryen’s downfall being rooted in the source of their victories. That the hubris of dragon riding and the Targaryen exceptionalism which it brings are nothing but socially enforced concepts - that the Targs are just men in the face of such colossal power. That their vanity in placing themselves so supremely above others (by virtue of their dragons and supposed bloodline superiority) is the direct precursor to a horrific spiral into doom, having trapped themselves in this impossible need for power and violence. 

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Here you go! "Hāros Bartossi (With Three Heads)", written by Ti Mikkel (GRRM's assistant, consultant to HOTD), translation by David J. Peterson (conlang creator of High Valyrian, Dothraki, and other fictional languages on HOTD and GOT).

can we get the lyrics to that song daemon was singing to vermithor