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oh i know that tom cringed so hard reading the s2 script seeing how they massacred aegon's potential 😭 and then he'll still sit there and talk about his own headcanons during interviews knowing full well that the writers have shit for brains and don't have the same vision he does… god's strongest soldier ����

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That's his child too

"Most men would only have that kind of devotion toward a cousin, or a brother...or a son."

With you, I serve

With you, I fall down

Watch you breathe in

Watch you breathing out

(Epiphany by Taylor Swift)

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I started drawing this literally one day after finishing the funny comic about Jaehaerys learning the C word. What an artistic mood swing.

I've been rewatching some of the HOTD episodes again and one thing that gets me every time is Criston Coles reaction when he finds his king aka. son burned and broken in the forest. The one redeeming quality of this man is his devotion for the Targtower boys.

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It’s always been a dance with you

May we have time for another

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Anora (2024) dir. Sean Baker

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Aegon and his daughter Jaehaera

by lopatafour on twitter

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"Why should I care about his feelings, when nobody cares about mine?"

- this line by sansa stark is more feminist than any of the tripe hotd has tried putting forward lmao

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Anora (2024)

dir. Sean Baker

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I know it's been months and we're all done complaining about House of the Dragon, but it was just such a wasted opportunity to not follow the book canon of the Greens being beloved of the people.

Even if they still wanted to frame the show with Rhaenyra as our star and character to root for, framing Aegon as a full blown antagonist just doesn't have the same dynamic storytelling that GRRM creates. Aegon being an inept king is absolutely not the same thing as him being disliked. Inept political leaders become populists and demagogues all the time. Framing Aegon as someone without real leadership or intelligence BUT with magnanimity and charisma makes him a much more real threat. Rhaenyra would be the better monarch, but as a woman and as less charming, she fails to get the support of the people. It's topical.

If they followed through on the scene of Aegon holding court, clearly reveling in the fact that the people love him, it creates a more interesting character motivation. Aegon didn't even want to be King, so the war to keep him on the throne feels wildly futile, but Aegon fighting to keep the love he's always been desperate for, that's compelling.

Plus, Helaena as a beloved queen would have furthered the themes around gender that season one created. She's meek and pleasant and pretty, so people love her. Rhaenyra as fiery and lusty and powerful, so people hate her. It's topical, it's dynamic, and it actually says something about the perception of gender as a performance in which you are punished for not participating.

And this isn't me saying "wow the show needed more misogyny; they needed to be nicer to the pretty princess" I'm saying it's a show about misogyny, so like, do something with that.

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The weight of the crown

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Hightower: We Light The Way🕯️

I am not super happy with this but kinda just want it considered done for now :) might redo it some other time

okay it looks really compressed on mobile so you need to click on it…love this app 🙃

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ANORA, 2024 dir. Sean Baker

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Mikey Madison as Anora Mikheeva — ANORA (2024) dir. Sean Baker

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MIKEY MADISON as ANORA

Anora (2024) dir. Sean Baker

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MIKEY MADISON as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva in ANORA (2024) dir. Sean Baker

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ANORA (2024) dir. by sean baker mikey madison as anora "ani" mikheeva

"I was excited about playing a character like this, because she’s very complicated. I always wanted an audience to recognize her pain underneath everything."

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This is definitely such an exhausted point in this fandom already but I feel like a feral fucking bloodhound (meaning I'm seething in rage) every time I'm reminded of the changes in Alicent's character. By that I don't even mean book-show discrepancies, but the sudden shift from the first to the second season.

They literally had my bitch go from "An eye for an eye" to "ah, yes, my queen, you may murder my sons. Why not take my father's head, too, while you're at it?"

It's complete nonsense and yet another attempt from the show runners at making every last woman in this show morally white and, therefore, uninteresting (mainly due to their poor choices in writing)

Argue about complexity and virtue all you want, but they set her up, from the beginning, to be the "family is all that matters to me"/"don't fuck with my children" character. It just feels contradictory to make this shift the culmination of her arc.

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BUT THE BOY IS FATHER TO THE MAN, AND BASTARDS ARE MONSTROUS BY NATURE.