#sunfierpost

so basically what grrm is saying is every problem with hotd can be traced back to the showrunners neglecting the helaegon family. you’re welcome

“she’s the beacon i follow” and “the queen is an enduring mystery, is she not?” are somehow some of the most poetic lines on hotd and it came from two men the audience would least expect it from. criston sees alicent as a savior figure, the beacon on the hightower, while aegon sees his wife and children as pure and sanctified (unlike himself). its also tragic bc it denotes a separation: alicent/helaena are holy and criston/aegon can’t ever fully understand them. they’re untouchable and unknowable. but in truth, so much would be solved if they just stopped putting them up on a pedestal and had a proper talk

helaena has the chance to do the funniest thing rn (deus ex maelor)

hotd HAS to show us the scene of sunfyre randomly attacking and snacking on grey ghost. it can offer the most potent symbolism for the dance of the dragons: the pointless violence, kin turning against kin, house targaryen cannibalizing itself. it’s a great parallel between sunfyre and aegon, what the battle turned them into, and their pain and anger when their own kin tried to kill them. they couldve been glorious, the most beautiful dragon and the king. now, they are machines of war who will only live long enough to exact their revenge

i was just as relieved as alicent to hear that daeron isnt a kinslaying child-fighting pit benefactor

failmarriages are evolving. what if you’re your father’s firstborn son and she’s your mother’s firstborn daughter and you were doomed from the day you were born. what if you’re the sun and you only know how to burn. what if she’s every myth about moon and madness. she claimed a dragon before you and you named your dragon after hers. your pink and gold to her blue and silver. she hasnt been outside in ages. you stopped dreaming long ago. sun. dream. fire and blood. one flesh one heart one soul. what if the tragedy isnt that you have nothing in common. what if the tragedy is that you have everything in common

she’s your future queen. the queen is an enduring mystery is she not? aegon’s doomed haunted queen. the title of queen being reserved only for his late wife and sister helaena, the true queen