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KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU!!!!
Lord forgive me but I’m faded as hell off that toxic yuri cart😮💨😮💨
SHAUNA SHIPMAN and JACKIE TAYLOR YELLOWJACKETS — 2x02: “Edible Complex” (2023)
olivia cooke! it was a tough field but you have once again been awarded with the nobel prize for the facial expression of looking like you would want to kill yourself if you knew the possibility existed but it could not even occur to you since you must fulfil your duty and responsibility to your family and station which you have accepted since you were a little girl and you are also gay
I think it's fair to give hotd shit for quite a few things, but I still think that how they chose to change Alicent's character was genius. To look at her and ask: what if she was young? What if she was scared? And then, in turn, to have this scared young girl, that was pushed into the cycle of violence and abuse that is feudalism, grow up into a scared wary woman, that doesn't stop the cycle for her children but instead pushes them into it as well, because it's the only way the world works that she knows. Because when her father pushed her into the cycle, he kissed her brow and called it duty. And now she makes her children wed each other and ursurp a throne, continuing all the abuse and violence, because she was told as a girl that if you just follow the rules enough everything will be alright.
And that's also what makes her relationship with Rhaenyra so fascinating. It's love, but it's also resentment. To Alicent Rhaenyra is free. She doesn't follow the rules, flaunts some of them openly. And still it seems like there are no consequences for her. She doesn't follow the rules and still Viserys loves her in a way he never did his children by Alicent. While Alicent breaks and reprieves herself in an attempt to do everything right, but it won't save her.
Just between us, I remember it all too well.
“In the script, there's nothing specific as far as them saying ‘I miss you.’ so it's a wonderful challenge cinematically and in performance to bring them together without words.”
— Geeta V. Patel, House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty
Gay people are so crazy… what do you mean you married her dad but you’re thinking it could maybe still work out🧐🤨
oh hbo the television network that you are
no thoughts, just "where is duty, where is sacrifice" and the way that alicent clings to abstract constructs like religion, honor, duty and sacrifice because her material life is so concretely terrible and empty. to have loved someone so dearly, and watch them be what you perceive as free while your entire personhood is reduced to a womb and made to serve the realm, a vessel for the rotting king to use and abuse. to not exist as a person for yourself but in only in service to others as you are ordered by your father under a patriarchal structure..........and then the contrast of that quote, which summarizes all of alicent's anguish and agony, to the classic, "what is honor compared to a woman's love? what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms...we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.".................but alicent doesn't have love, not anymore. duty, honor, these concepts - they're all she's got, and the lack of the very elements that make them meaningful has corroded her inside and out. so: honor, duty, sacrifice, all without love. and here we are.
it makes me laugh when I go on twitter or tiktok and see people complaining that alicent and rhaenyra were the only two posters to be released first because it’s just like….people still don’t want to acknowledge that this is THEIR story at the end of the day. everything in this plot revolves around these two women and their relationship with each other. everyone is simply a side player to their show
i hear my heart breaking tonight do you hear it too?
”they’re making the dance about alicent and rhaenyra when its supposed to be between brother and sister weh weh weh” god forbid lesbians have anything
they are so i can see you coded tbh…