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AEGON II TARGARYEN + tags

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I see a sapphire sky

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This is what Rickon looked like when Ned said that he was too old to be afraid of horse-sized mythical wolves btw

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a jon & ghost silly <3

i’m not very good at dogs (or direwolves for that matter) but i like these guys

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Thank you to @womprat00 for bringing this to my attention. I am obsessed.

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EWAN MITCHELL & TOM GLYNN-CARNEY as AEMOND TARGARYEN and AEGON II TARGARYEN House of the Dragon 1.08

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favorite artists (1/10): gustave moreau (1826-1898)

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Cutie

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Nyra with her snotty little brother Aegon 2

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send this star to your favorite accounts to show you that you love them! time to spread the love! ⭐️

- @ewanmitchellcrumbs 💕

THANK U BBY!!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍👏

i check your blog every night like a feverish stalker

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funniest cat moment of all time is when robb shows up married and is like "oh yeah the weirdest thing happened my soul dog didnt like her uncle" and cat who has been in soft prison for weeks is like like "robb PLEASE kill that man without trial! and never forget to take your soul dog with you again...."

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"He was a handsome young man, though he had a sullen look to his eyes and a pouty mouth. Aegon had a wispy mustache instead of a beard."

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AEMOND TARGARYEN at Harrenhal House of the Dragon 2.04 (requested by anon! <3)

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House of the Dragon, the Targaryen family.

Private commission, please don't use.

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I am not going to liveblog my reread of game of thrones but I do think it’s very funny that Robert is like “can’t stand my brother Stannis bc he’s a rigid uptight prude with no sense of humor. Anyway time to hang out with my bestie Ned Stark”

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jeyne poole came up with "horseface" for arya AND "ser horror and ser slobber" for the redwyne twins. queen of giving out mean nicknames. i NEED to know what bitchy things she's calling ramsay in her head

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i like overthinking this sorry ok so what’s interesting about the whole jaime sitting on the throne “just to sit down” bc it is just a chair bit is that yes, jaime has a particular disillusioned relationship with that symbol of power, and the thing is that that chair is like a gazillion meters up in the air or whatever so i do think it is a bit more complicated than just him having to sit down after #allthat, he could have very well just sat on the stairs lol. so u can argue that there was a more conscious decision being made on his part.

and this whole exchange is more about parallax, about an outside interpretation rather than what is canonically going on in jaime’s head. and i get that a lot of people think it is mostly “a remnant from the original outline”, but i do not think that means george wrote it with the intention for it to lock on a specific trajectory, i think it is a seed that can be gardened however he pleases, especially because of some heavy foreshadowing with him in agot already for many things that i think are pretty incompatible with that original outline. i do think there is a reframing happening in asos with that action and we can still make sense of it. but neither ned or robert were correct imo.

jaime’s experience leaves him with a very interesting mindset when it comes to “right” to absolute power and the throne. the image of a king figure gets torn down in every way: aerys obviously becomes a destructive person who was still born with right to that power, and him having that power has devastating consequences, but what also sticks with jaime is that contradiction in his death. how he dies in such an ugly human way. there really is nothing differentiating him from the lowborn rossart, in fact, rossart seems to have died with more dignity. the whole “equal in death/not equal in life” thing. i do find the “sword across the knee” bit interesting, bc it does mean denying guest right in the north. i wonder if u can read that imagery as him guarding the seat in a more symbolic way, and sending a message with his existence (especially considering what his role and the whole wildfire plot in the story being stopped and a king being murdered by a kg means on a less personal scale: the whole analysis of ‘what is power and who holds it?’ that permeates this series), almost like a warning, considering what goes through his head before he climbs up there. anyway, i do read it as an act of conscious ‘defiance’ of some kind. if we go beyond what a 17 year old jaime can fully grasp at that point, he did break the social order by murdering his king as a kingsguard and that has implications in their world. that is an interesting precedent. and then jaime is so disillusioned by social contracts of this sort that he sees no difference between his act and the act of robert, ned, & co, which is why he is so particularly frustrated by what he views as hypocrisy. and then ofc with ned’s commentary of “he had no right to that throne”, like this is just the mindset of society, it is built on these constructs of rights and oaths etc, and they all serve a purpose in reinforcing a status quo. jaime all throughout the present text shows no concern for, or even an active rejection of, this construct of ‘right’ to that throne. like he does seem to view the whole thing like: “you can win that power with swords, power resides where people think it does, what does the rest matter?” (as per his targ romance with cersei delusion passage) so many of his thoughts and actions imply this rejection of the construct of right to that power, especially through birth. he also does not view it as something with that much ‘worth’ in terms of what it means for the individual. it gets as overt as it can with “how much can a crown be worth, if a crow can dine upon a king?” etc. i do think him sitting on that throne is a symbolic gesture, maybe even a form of taking back control through diminishing its value, even more hard-hitting considering he does not want the throne himself, and then belittles it even more with his words afterwards