#it says so much about alice

[7-oh-ta1]

Bro I was watching smth and it reminded me of a good part in pandora hearts so I got that shit out and now I'm surrounded by books becs this whole fuckin series is FIRREEEEE like the way it uses symbolism and metaphors to ask a question at the beginning, dissect it halfway thru, and then give it answer without ever feeling on the nose or feeling like they're holding your hand while also clearly communicating the themes likevRARAGDRWYQASHRARAGRWHHGHHHGG read these books

[abessive-art]

*Archives your Magnus*

[alvsanne]

Listen to me, daughter. The King will die. It may be months or years, but he'll not live to be an old man.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S01E05 | "We Light The Way" S02E05 | "Regent"

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Lilia reading freshly thirteen year old, completely innocent and oblivious William Kaplan’s future and being like:

Okayyyyy lemme just un-know that real quick so it doesn’t haunt me forever🥲

I can’t properly express how much I love her

[cangrellesteponme]

i don't think wonderland is ready for those alices

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Requirements to be in the coven of Agatha Harkness, most infamous witch in the world:

gay

[kazz-brekker]

interesting to think about whether jace's willingness to entertain the idea of finding new dragonriders from families that intermarried with the targaryens is because he knows that he himself is only half valyrian and could still claim a dragon

[vannss4206980085]

playing DBH again and i feel like nobody has really discussed the full range of implications that arise from how normalized child androids are in the world. like. it's wierd asf! and insane that they let cyberlife do that.

and rationally i know it isn't really discussed in game outside of the two magazines (only one you can actually read) and the little boy in jericho bc (idk if this is confirmed but) i think alice and kara's storyline had a lot of changes in dev and was probably pretty rushed. but i have so many questions. like why does the other alice in jericho at the enr of the game have the exact same outfit? how did the little boy android even end up in jericho (surley there's some kind of return protocol for parents who got a child android to 'trial run' parenting or for other temporary reasons. or maybe there isnt which is insane). i would just like to know more about all of it.

and the fact that a SELLING POINT of the child androids was that they were customizable to be more lifelike, yet had no real needs and literally only existed pretty much as an accesory. not to be morbid but if we had something like this even now people would make it wierd asf really quick.

also the question of alice being a deviant at all or if child androids can deviate in the same sense. or, in a world after androids succeding in a revolution, what happens to the child androids?

idk DBH is one of those games that throws a bunch of things at you at once but never really dives deep into any of it. the subject matter is pretty dark no matter how you play it as long as you think about it for a few seconds, but nothing more than surface-level stuff is really fleshed out. makes me mad

[watcherintheweyr]

desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

[slugpup2]

oooh more of them

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[mykingdomforablog]

When Alicent said "I'm so sorry" to Viserys in 1x07 and he dismissed her with "We will speak no more of it."

When Alicent said "I have sinned" to Otto in 2x02 and he dismissed her with "I do not wish to hear of it."

When Helaena told Alicent "I forgive you" in 2x03, before Alicent could even get past saying Helaena's name.

The men in Alicent's life do not care to hear her out. They don't care for her attempts at making amends or soothing her conscience. They shut her down and cut her off before she can get past the first sentence. But not Helaena. Where Otto and Viserys both shut down Alicent's attempts at discussing incidents where fault lies with her, Helaena forgives Alicent for something that was only incidentally her fault, but also more fatal and traumatic for everyone involved. Forgiveness only comes from Helaena, who has every right not to forgive Alicent given that her mother's preoccupation with Criston Cole at that precise moment inadvertently contributed to the brutal death of Helaena's son.

Alicent's feelings of guilt have been shut down and ignored by her father and her husband, but not by her daughter, who has every right to not forgive. But she does it anyway. And you can see how earthshattering that is for Alicent, because in every instance up to this point, her attempts at broaching these subjects never end in forgiveness (or even chastisement), but in cold dismissal.

[spacelesbiandisaster]

I just learned what is a ALICE Drill.

First of all: What the fuck???

Second of all: Do you guys think Jedi younglings would have something similar during the Clone Wars?

I not saying I agree with this madness, but I imagine the younglings had to be trained to hide in case of a attack on the temple. On revenge of the sith we saw youngling closed in the Jedi council chambers, hiding behind the chair and only showing up when they saw a Jedi master there.

On the Kenobi series we also see Reva's classmates immediately go behind their teacher, always together and pretty orderly. It makes me think they were prepared for it. And is sad was fuck

[paldogangsaan]

the most frustrating part abt the scene with alicent and rhaenyra (other than it being ridiculous) is the attempt at portraying alicent as a passive victim with zero agency (TO BE CLEAR she's a victim of both otto and viserys, that's not a question, she had no choice there. she did, however, have a choice in other moments and those are what i'm talking abt in this post). the writers essentially made her go "oh i thought he was talking about MY aegon. well, it's too late. i am a tragic figure who never wanted war. oh no" like ?? some of us have eyes and can see that alicent has been actively trying to gain power, undermine rhaenyra, and divide the family even before the time skip. she shows up to rhaenyra's wedding late and wearing green, she sows discord between their kids, spreads rumors of rhaenyra's children being bastards despite knowing it could get them killed (+ in the book the only ppl yapping abt them being bastards were alicent and criston cole bc the point of spreading rumors was to undermine and hurt both them and rhaenyra, if it was true or not was irrelevant), and she literally hits aegon and insists that rhaenyra will kill him to cement her claim to the throne even when there's been no indication that she would. alicent did not have to do any of those things, she actively chose to

and rhaenyra was willing to leave all that in the past by marrying helaena and jace thus ending the (then metaphorical) war between their sides of the family, but alicent refused bc she wanted power and for rhaenyra to not have any, so she made active choices to ensure that, and didn't care for the consequences. now her son is the king, she never prepared him for it so he's shit at it, she can't control him, she has no power, and the only person surprised is her (and otto). but again, these are choices SHE made or helped make. making an enemy of rhaenyra, and everything that came bc of that, was a choice. she would've helped put aegon on the throne whether viserys quoted the prophecy to her or not, be it usurpation (which it was) or not. that was a choice alicent made. stop portraying her as a passive victim of the dance when that role belongs to helaena

[tooteadoo]

How exactly does that line prove Armand was stalking Daniel? I genuinely don't understand.

maybe someone in the world can help me explain this better but heres how i think about it Daniel doesn't strike me as a super open guy in the sense that he's not sharing his business or whereabouts with anyone who doesn't need to know so for Armand to know the date location and time that Daniel is doing this interview he had to have been watching him.

We also don't know why in universe Armand decided that random time to lock him in the bathroom and 'interview him' but because the devil's minion chapter exist we can assume that the writers want us to assume that Armand was stalking him.

If you don't know about the Devil's minion chapter, the part that's relevant here is that after Armand tortures him for however long ( i can't rmr) he tells daniel he'll be watching him. As daniel tries to go about his normal life, Armand just pops up sometimes just watching other times directly engaging with him its really funny but terrifying..

[ragnarssons]

i don't get people saying that they ruined alicent because they made her "grovel" at rhaenyra's feet in the last episode... erm, what did rhaenyra do on 2x03? didn't she grovel too? 🤷‍♀️ she literally was begging alicent for a way out of this war.

[mcpostinghours]

Another messy sketch page! Howdy gets distracted pouring Barnaby a drink. Barnaby is amused.