we play an ugly game

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 8 | Season 3, Episode 8

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.05 "Unbowed and Unbent"

“Something that [...] had been really inspiring to me was the Joan of Arc speech, and it’s in the Bernard Shaw play ‘Saint Joan,’ and she gives this incredible speech to the people imprisoning her when she says like, ‘You think life is not being stone dead, but there is more to life because I might as well not be alive if I can’t hear the church bell and the lambs and the wind and the trees and that’s what living is to me,’ But I showed them that, and I was like, ‘I feel like this is really Helaena.’ Her reason for being, her religion, has been taken away from her, and in that way she’s been killed.” – Phia Saban

Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.08 “The Treasons at Tumbleton”

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.03 | 3.08

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON —3.08. “The Treasons at Tumbleton”.

when does a war end? when can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?

Alicium of Naath 'The lines are distinct as if drawn with quill. They are said to cause death to people around them while living but so far I remain alive' - entry from Helaena's journal Helaena + Bugs House of the Dragon (2022 - present)

GAME OF THRONES Season 6 Episode 7 — "The Broken Man"

ALICENT & HELAENA HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

laura’s 15k celebration ➳ @poppy-alex asked for ✨ + the bridgerton siblings being absolute idiots (affectionate)

rivermen must be returned to the mud

"Rhaenyra is caught in a web and Alicent is free." – Geeta Patel