Fandom Rambles

Menstruating, halucinating only one of her dead sons, surrounded by rats, unable to sleep since that's presumably the bed her mother died in, husbuncle wants to kill her little brother who is actually just some kid, girlfriend wants a worker's revolution, 3/6 kids of her kids are dead and one of her step daughters is unaccounted for, drunken gay ex-husband's father is comparing his whoring around to her and Laenor having a sperm donor/poly situation and then throwing a tantrum in public, head of the church won't even crown her until they procure her brother's remains. Terrible day to be Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen

rhaenyra: alicent i’m holding you hostage. i’m giving you food and water and a maid and also i’m gonna come and talk to you every couple of hours (you’re still hostage) also i can’t think straight unless im with you please talk to me

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

I love the way viserys lingers in dany's pov chapters but in a sort of repressed way. naming her gold dragon viserion. using "wake the dragon" as a threat against slavers and traitors. she doesn't laugh for weeks after he dies. she didn't have a maester she had a brother. she clings to him telling her the starks and lannisters were the usurper's dogs. he's always there in everything she does even just a little bit and then fully resurfaces for the end of adwd in some pseudo horror/triumph vision to influence her again. "I loved you once" literally the saddest thing grrm has ever written.

I think about this all the time with them. He was all she had. In their world there is no escape so she had no choice but to cling to him and him to her. She loved him so much and he could not give her anything in return but hatred and paranoia. Made worse by the fact that he tried so hard to be better at first and then he just lost hope and lost himself to their trademark madness. So horribly sad.

something something "he is more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"

There is no one ever we see Alastor as comfortable and happy with as with Vox, and still I somehow see it in question that he cared for him just because he (Alastor) struggles with intimacy in some very him ways. 😭 I am sure there is no one Alastor ever cared for as much as for Vox or let as close as him, and there probably won't ever be. Change my mind. (You can't.)

I feel like the cuck chair scene was more traumatic for the audience than it was for Alastor