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WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! another rhaenyra and alicent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOCK ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quoting this
RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & ALICENT HIGHTOWER House of the Dragon, Season 2 Trailer
The Bond
What once we had was pure and golden
The time had passed and we have rotten.
Who broke the peace? Who is to blame?
Who was the wolf? Who was the game?
Our bond untangled into worms
Presenting us in vile forms.
We bare our knives, we make our cuts,
We mend this bond by sharing scars.
the redhead with heart-eyes and their blondie that tries to run away is my favorite trope (i'm literally crying on the floor)
hotd tells the story of an undying love between two women which consistently overcomes the violence of war, feudalism, and patriarchy. the affection between rhaenyra and alicent weaves through the narrative to tell us something larger about misogyny, gendered violence, etc., that is far more compelling than f&b's incessant and arguably banal “male primogeniture is bad,” thesis. rhaenyra and alicent are not “codependent,” and hotd’s writing (with regards to this relationship) is not “misogynistic;” this relationship is a representation of the power of love against seemingly insurmountable odds and the consequences of rejecting adherence to duty in an inherently corrupt sociopolitical system. rhaenyra and alicent’s dedication to one another sharply contrasts the brutality of the dance, compelling the audience to contemplate the futility of the conflict, the pervasive nature of misogyny, and, ultimately, the faculty of love as a means to combat suffering.
Dare I say…. Rhaenyra AND Alicent
I will be coming back to this concept. We're not done here
If I had a nickel for every time I shipped a queer ship where I thought Character A was more heavily implied queer than Character B, only for the show to shock me by making Character B confirmed queer (but not yet Character A), I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s very odd that it’s happened twice.
I find it so interesting how this show at its core is YEARNING to be an understated brooding character drama that has a small but committed fanbase but due to the millions being poured into it every episode and the cgi dragon battles and its status as a legacy of the most successful tv show of all time, the audience it draws is just NOT the audience it’s writing for. how are you supposed to write a character drama about two women in love with each other pulled apart by a world that despises them just for existing and all the ways in which your good intentions will take you gently by the hand and lead you down a road marked ‘straight to hell’ when the bulk of your audience thinks that s8 was the only bad season of game of thrones. the dissonance is wild, the task is impossible, they can’t please everyone but hey they’re pleasing me so sucks to be the rest of you x
Idk if this is real or I’m just going crazy from sleep deprivation, but am I the only one that thought in the most two recent episodes Rhaenyra and Alicent were being paralleled in their internalized misogyny? (Not a hate post, I love both of them and I think it’s impossible NOT to have internalized misogyny in that setting. Just talking about something I noticed.)
Like in episode two we see Alicent having Helaena do the whole political funeral thing, and it’s so obvious that before, during, and after it, Alicent sees herself in Helaena. The whole thing is like Alicent reliving her earliest days as Queen all over again where not only was she also just a political pawn for the men in her life, but also where her biggest fear started. This fear being something happening to the kids she was forced to have. While the political pawn thing is majorly important too to the generational misogyny discussion, I think the more major relation that registers within Alicent’s brain is the fear of her children dying, and her consciously forcing Helaena to suffer through an extended version of that pain, and it is what will be relevant later in my post. Keep that in mind.
Similarly, in episode three, we see Rhaenyra narrowing Rhaena down to nothing more than an idea of motherhood. Rhaenyra basically tells Rhaena that her main purpose in the war is to take care of her children, even though Rhaena is less than enthusiastic about it. Even before I made the distinction that I make in this post, this whole scene struck out as odd to me, because my first thought was “teenage Rhaenyra would have hated to be told this,” yet Rhaenyra didn’t seem to care about Rhaena’s feelings at all. And then I realized that was the point. Sure, Rhaenyra’s fear of motherhood surrounded around childbirth mainly, but still, her greatest fear had been motherhood for most of her life, specifically being forced to mother children she didn’t want, and yet she forced it onto Rhaena without a second thought.
So. Alicent’s greatest fear, suffering the loss of a child, befell Helaena, and instead of comforting her in her time of need, Alicent furthered her daughter’s pain. Rhaenyra’s greatest fear, being forced into motherhood, was easy for her to force onto another young girl. It’s disturbing, and shocking, and upsetting, but it’s such a good decision for their characters. It shows how easily women can forget their girlhood fears when they come into more power, contributing to the misogyny around them. But that’s not all. Because then I realized something else.
Despite the idea haunting her for almost her entire life, Alicent never had to suffer the loss of a child. But Rhaenyra did.
And in the end, Rhaenyra did get to choose who the father of her children was, and when she had them. But Alicent didn’t.
They lived each other’s worst fears. It adds another layer of tragedy to them, because it would have been so easy for them to understand each other, their fears and grievances matching perfectly, but they never really got the chance because of how they viewed the other as having caused their issues in the first place. And even later, they get another chance to understand both themselves and each other through their daughters, but it makes no difference.
None of them will ever win, because they don’t help each other. Everyone complaining that “so-and-so” is better than “this character” because “so-and-so” is a true feminist and “this character isn’t” doesn’t understand the point of the show.
The point is that they won’t help their mothers, they won’t help their best friends, and they won’t help their daughters. If you think any of the men in House Of The Dragon are an ideal image of feminism…. I don’t even know how you’re on my page in the first place. And all the women in the show are only looking out for their own best interests. Which is totally fair for the time period theyre in, and I would probably do the same. But it all goes to show that they could’ve been so much stronger if they all stood together.
fellas is it gay when things like this happens? holding each other tightly while trying to stab them?
Happy lesbian visibility week, my fellow lesbians!
I don't want a "friends to enemies to lovers" rhaenicent fic I want a fic where Rhaenyra realizes both their dads are pieces of shit and defends her friend right now.
Bye I just saw someone who’s entire personality is shipping Rhaenyra and Daemon say that Rhaenicent is toxic
I’m actually losing my mind over here
Whenever I see someone claim that Alicent has a crush on Criston, I lose twenty years off my lifespan
What should’ve happened in that episode 😞
There’s a lot of ways to make someone drop a knife
The parallels between Rhaenyra and Alicent showing how one of them is trapped in history and destined to bear a heavy burden while the other one is finally free
rhaenyra being canonically queer makes rhaenicent canon too for those with eyes to see
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 8, “The Queen Who Ever Was”
Happy pride my fellow fruity friends🏳️🌈🧡💛🤍💗❤️
(Waiting for the day I’ll have my asexual representations in fantasy shows, wìmeanwhile ill headcanon Aemond as demisexual)
Also shoutout to Bi king Daemon, we’ve been robbed.
Yeah… 🙂
"b-but that ship is toxic 🥺🥺🥺" would it also be toxic if i lit you on fire right now
I'm just gonna post this here and wait for some writer to give the people this modern Au we all need.
Like big sis Rhae taking care of her young siblings bc their parents died or something, and then drop me rhaenyra's bestie Ali helping her with the kids.
Pd: I found this on Pinterest so if someone knows the owner please let me know.
https://pin.it/1KqrHbmoA
way too proud of my rhaenicent shuffle to not share it here:
please tell me you guys see my vision
like its the same, theyre the same
i mean it even works this way, cause you know silver/grey, same same but different.
Talking about doomed lovers
tell me, in your darkness, in your ocean, am i ever there? have we ever reached each other?
