i love jesus but i drink a little

Do you believe the queen's judgement to be sound? I would not serve her otherwise.

"Seeing the shift in Rhaenyra's face and whole body as she sees Alicent. This breaks something in her. From this scene onward, Rhaenyra changes in a way that she doesn't even really completely understand in that moment." – Clare Kilner

hotd audience: condal and co. are writing fanfic at this point why aren't rhaenyra and alicent just flatly cutthroat and bond-villain-level ambitious with no real meat behind their actions i Hate having to think about character motivations why cant we have Real complex women *more fanfic complaints* *ignoring the fact that the majority of things that happen to rhaenyra and alicent have also happened to cersei, whom they love*

Rhaenyra is completely uninvolved in Blood and Cheese, she doesn’t express murderous hatred towards her siblings, her justifiably violent and mournful reaction to the stillbirth of her only daughter is heavily muted, Nettles is erased from existence and so the complexity of one victim of grooming being jealous and misogynistic towards another victim is erased, Alicent has zero control over her children and therefore zero influence in politics beyond inventing a sexual relationship with Criston Cole etc. They have to give Rhaenyra an almost word-for-word Elizabeth I line (that is insanely sexist by our standards, especially when stripped of the context that Elizabeth was pragmatically saying this to an army of male soldiers) about ‘having the heart and spirit of a king’ but she doesn’t have the heart or the spirit of a king. At all.

“Liar.”

"What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said. "By all rights, you ought to be in skirts and me in mail." Cersei to Robert in A Game of Thrones

Olivia Cooke as Queen Alicent Hightower

OLIVIA COOKE as ALICENT HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 3 Official Teaser Trailer