I have a self to discover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping?
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In Rhaenys Targaryen, daughter of the Old King’s eldest son and heir, the Sea Snake had found his perfect match, a woman as spirited and beautiful and proud as any in the realm, and a dragonrider as well.
st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet
EVE BEST at EW’s photoshoot for “House of the Dragon”
“Grief and rage - you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness.”
Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“Give me blood and rage and / a heart for horror; teach me to be / tough enough to face this world / still standing. Make a Fury of me.”
Elizabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds
“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Mumford & Sons, “Lover’s Eyes”
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself,”
Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
“…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We, hurt by ourselves, keen / to be hurters and keen / to be hurt back deep inside. / We, like weapons laid / beside anger asleep.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke; “Antistrophes” (tr. Edward Snow)
“…she did not allow herself tears. When she did cry, she would explain her tears in this way: ‘I am not weeping, I am bursting with rage.’”
Gabriella Fiori, from Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography
“Isn’t all that rage so ugly? / And isn’t it mine, still? / Good god, isn’t it mine?”
Ashe Vernon, from “Buried,” Not a Girl
Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”
“What are we made of but hunger and rage?”
Anne Carson, excerpt of To Compostela
When there’s blood in the water?
WOMEN from HOUSE OF THE DRAGON as GREEK GODDESSES
rhaenys as athena // rhaenyra as niké // alicent as nemesis // baela as aglaia // helaena as themis // baela as artemis // aemma as eileithyia // mysaria as pheme // laena as bia
Contrary to appearances I am also a medical student.
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
— Joan Didion, Commencement Address at UC Riverside (1975)
Eve Best for Emmy Magazine.
At my very first meeting, Miguel said to me that the heart of the show is my line, “Men would sooner put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne”, Best recalls.
"The strength of that connection, and that mutual respect, and the fact that they are of equal power and equal intelligence and really honouring each other in a way that men and women can when they're at their best, is very striking and actually very intimidating, I think, for everybody around them. It gives them a sort of golden seal, doesn’t it, somehow? That makes them extremely [...] formidable." — EVE BEST, on Rhaenys’ and Corlys’ relationship, from “Plot Twist - House of the Dragon: Eve Best & Steve Toussaint”
The shoving scene was intense and I was expecting a follow up, but then nothing happened except Jackie getting jealous over the hug. The same thing happened with her girlfriend in season 2: they barely interacted during the break-up episode while Jackie had a scene with Sarah over loving multiple people at once. I wish the show had more time for other characters development than Jackie.
This pretty much sums up how the O'Hara fans are feeling right now.
Eve Best+smelling nice (Nurse Jackie edition)
And bonus:
"She is a hippy british fairy godmother who waltz in, smells nice and talks to everybody"
"The word of my house is not fickle." EVE BEST as RHAENYS TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S01E09 “The Green Council”
EVE BEST as RHAENYS TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | S01E05: We Light the Way
You were in my dream last night (where we took our time, we got it right)
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Rhaenys Targaryen and Corlys Velaryon HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - ?)
Eve Best as Rhaenys Targaryen — in House of the Dragon
Rhaenys Targaryen’s armor HOUSE THAT DRAGONS BUILT | 1.09