“the tradition and honour of house targaryen dies…with them”
Daemon / Caraxes and Rhaenys / Meleys are, to me at least, the last of the great Targaryen Dragon Riders. Aegon doesn’t have the same bond with Vhagar, Rhaenyra is queen first and dragon rider second, Aegon doesn’t speak Valyrian, and all the other kids die too young to really grow into their heritage. Even Danaerys is never really able to bring that tradition and honour back, as she has to try to figure the dragons out on her own. With Rhaenys dead, Daemon is the last true dragon rider.
RIP to the Queen Who Never Was, unequivocally my favorite HOTD character.
episode 4 of house of the dragon… oh I’m in TEARS
meleys was a dragon with some of the most loyal riders out there. alyssa brought viserys and daemon on her back as newborns. rhaenys refused to leave dangerous spaces without her. and when rhaenys told meleys to attack, meleys complies knowing full well it was a death sentence because she loves and trusts rhaenys that much.
and here’s the thing: you see aegon and sunfyre have somewhat of a sweet moment before battle. there’s a relationship there that honestly could have been nearly as loyal as that of meleys and rhaenys. but aegon is so hypersensitive and relentless that after this he will go on to push sunfyre into things before either of them have healed and things which defy the very magic dragons were born from (kinslaying). that paired with aegon’s lack of high valyrian fluency makes for a complete lack of understanding of why targaryens have dragons and of the bonds which have made their house so worthy for so many years. it just spits in the face of their house, as does the moment immediatelt after where aemond nearly commits his second act of kinslaying in less than a couple months. again, it’s a complete carnal sin and fails to present a united front which feels disgraceful to the targaryen name.
and so part of why it’s so heartbreaking to watch meleys and rhaenys die is because those two just get it and losing them feels like the tradition and honour of house targaryen dies a little bit with them in that moment.
I hope eve best knows we love her to bits and she just delivered such a powerful, magical, and dignified performance 🥹✊🏻
Am I an avid Team Black supporter? Yes.
Do I understand where the Greens are coming from? Also yes.
Aegon would have been the better choice for heir initially because a male heir would have been less contentious. That’s a simple fact. Unfortunately, he wasn’t raised to be king, Rhaenyra was, and there was no way she wouldn’t have pressed her claim.
Frankly, Viserys and Otto were responsible for this whole mess, and they are the only two characters that I actually dislike (their actors did an excellent job).
Source | Day 151
“We all become the person who would have saved us when no one did” - Somebody (I have no Idea where I heard this but I didn’t come up with it so credit to whoever)
William Wordsworth
Just now realizing that the reason Woodman Gault recognized Sophie in the beginning of The Frame-up Job is because he’s seen Ma Mystere.
I’m starting a new collection called ‘Immortality’. Any images that makes you think about age and immortality, though these ones are specifically images where the ages are out of whack. Please add your own! I want to see as many as possible
The Empire are Space Nazis.
Louder for the people in the back: THE EMPIRE ARE SPACE NAZIS.
Whatever else they are, whatever representations of more modern evils they might be used as, The Empire was created to be Space Nazis.
every single time the doctor sees Kate they're like "KATE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!" and then immediately give her one of the all-time worst days of her life
Killed too many people, got her body taken away like… go be a ghost and think about what you did lol 😂
agatha's not DEAD dead she's just on time out from being alive for the moment
Ok, hear me out… I liked episode 8 but not 9.
Spoilers ahead.
I loved episode 8. Agatha agreeing to trade Billy for herself and manipulating him to get what she wanted then changing her mind at the last second bc he brought up her son lowkey fits and also shows how much like Agatha Billy is bc the whole ‘Is this how Nicky died’ moment was clear manipulation. Agatha not wanting to see Rio made sense to me, their relationship reads like one I’ve had in the past, where neither of us really liked each other (see episode 1/8), but when we spent any time with together, we fell back into old habits (see episode 4/5/6). Plus the Agathario kiss was fantastic.
9 on the other hand was confusing. I liked that the Road was a con, but other than that I just felt like I was missing most of the story. Nicky was cute, but that’s about it. And what was the difference between Agatha killing witches with Nicky and after he died? Like was killing witches keeping Nicky alive? And if so why not state that at any point? And as fun as Ghost Agatha is, there is literally no benefit to being a ghost so why would Agatha choose that? It felt like they were trying to downplay Billy’s manipulation of her to keep him ‘innocent’. Like, commit to Billy being amoral already, instead of trying to pass off all the bad stuff he does as accidents or Agatha’s fault. Interested to see where this goes in future projects.
MJ | 20 | I Hyperfixation Central. You have been warned.
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