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Speaking of Margaery Tyrell, I also drew her for Tyrell Week on twitter. Long may she reign! 🌹
the way alicent and rhaenyra love their children like. alicent can face the goddamn facts and tell her son he will die if he does not get a grip that they must stick together. and rhaenyra with the wool over her eyes just like her terrible father desperate to keep her children happy even though it will kill them. and love is the death of duty and everyone died the end ^_^
I've come into a new conclusion. I think I'd be a "Yay Targaryen restoration through Dany / Magic feudalism forever" girlie if the setting & the story had sold me on that ending. The story had not. You look into the bottom of that well, and it's really all "feudalism is terrible, reform is not possible and good times are temporary, magic is incredible & beautiful but bloody & in the hands of either the priviledged few or the occasional freak or absolute monsters, and dynasties always go to shit & eat themselves."
Maybe that's the bittersweetness though "Yay Targ restoration through Dany, until her eventual descendants dance again & set the continent aflame/ Yay magic feudalism forever which maybe means an eternal cycle of eventual wars between the fire & the cold" ; and that would tell much about humanity always fighting the same battle. Spring is coming & is sweet but winter is always around the corner. Bad times are followed by good times which are followed by bad times (again). And on and on and on.
I honestly don’t understand why I am being forced to feel sorry for the Hightowers.
They wanted power, they wanted to be the Andal House brought into the Valyrian royal fold. They should have minded their own business and kept to their influence in Oldtown. They wanted more? Ok. Fair enough. Now deal with the consequences. Stop bitching about “unfairness” (this is directed at “saint” Alicent).
When you choose to reach this high, you need to be prepared to deal with it so you can reap the rewards because no one is going to welcome you with a bouquet of roses. When you are low in ranking and you suddenly reach the top through seduction and scheming, you can bet there will be obstacles when you get there.
I mean this whole “Green scheme” was the Hightowers’ plot to steal control of the Seven Kingdoms from the Targaryens. And now I’m supposed to pity them because their plans got blown up in their faces?
I cannot feel sorry for people who get greedy, get close to fire and and then get burned. Otto and Alicent Hightower brought this whole thing on themselves and they lost everything in the end. It’s not tragedy. It’s karma. As they say, fuck around and find out.
With his grim face and deep-sunk hollow eyes, Ser Ilyn might have passed for death himself…
Alicent and helaena <3
Targaryens: Infamous End Inevitable.
This entire discourse on Jaehaera is so laughably absurd. I love my Green characters, but I couldn't care less what the show does with Jaehaera's arc. Team Black loves to remind everyone that Rhaenyra's lineage survived while Team Green's perished. That is true... BUT not only did her sons separate themselves from their mother's legacy to keep the Lords happy, but they did nothing to elevate her name in any way after their supposed 'win'. Their mother's 'usurper' was perceived as the legitimate ruler while she was branded a traitor. Rhaenyra's legacy was so badly tarnished that even after her lineage lived on, no Targaryen descendent carried her name, despite the House's tendency of reusing names.
For me, the Dance tells the story of how House Targaryen ruined itself. They put their most powerful assets (Dragons) all in at once... only to become extinct in just over a century, while the other noble houses had been ruling Westeros for millennia. It doesn't matter whose line survives - if this doesn't make sense to you, then you are not intelligent enough to engage with any form of media. I'm content with the way things ended because ultimately, no one is triumphant.
Even if Jaehaera lives, her line still loses since it was Viserys II's line that eventually took over. No matter who ends up reigning, HOUSE TARGARYEN WILL BE DEAD! The last survivor of the house (barring Jon Snow) will make sure its legacy would be one of infamy. It will linger in Westeros like the Mussolini's monument, forever infamous.
Even if the books attempt to alter Dany's storyline, it would be idiotic to expect a Targaryen restoration. To those who foolishly believe that the books will be rewritten and the Targaryens will once again sit on the Iron Throne, then I've got a bridge in Pyongyang I'm looking to unload.
Visenya the Conqueror and baby Maegor
based on Leyendecker's "Madonna and Child"
What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.