through a glass darkly

"At the beginning, Alys is very much Aemond's carer. And as we get to know her over the course of the episode, there might be something more." – Ewan Mitchell

Jessleto x A House In Nebraska

House of the Dragon 3.05 "Unbowed and Unbroken"

I play my part faithfully so I, too, can get to his heart. Every time, he hurts me until I bleed and scream. Then he is satisfied. Then he feels alive. In the dark... only he knows it's all real.

Matthew Rhys as Mayor Tom Loftis in Season 1 of Widow's Bay

and it's delightful to me, idk, how odysseus has been trapped and cornered in various way throughout the odyssey, but arguably never so that he has to tell the truth to get out. (with the phaeacians, maybe? the omniscient narrator corroborates some of what he tells them, but do we really know everything?) and in fact he is not trying to get free of penelope. he wants something from her, wants to convince her, wants to be welcomed home, but until this point he's lied to her, revealed himself to other people before her, and been distant with her (though also patient! he doesn't try to strongarm or rush her into accepting him; it's his idea to sleep elsewhere).

on fathers and paternal figures, and what they make us become;