Welighttheway - Tumblr Posts
"It's not a king who sits the Iron Throne these days, good sister. It's a queen."
"If the king will not seek justice, the queen will."
"What have I done but what was expected of me? Forever upholding the kingdom, the family, the law. Where is duty? Where is sacrifice?"
"The beacon on the Hightower, do you know what color it glows when Oldtown calls its banners to war?"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON APPRECIATION WEEK 2023
Day 3 — favorite quote(s)
I want to cry.
with everything i had. ( insp. )
‘ and my father never wanted this. ’ that’s not true. ‘ he had twenty years to name me heir, he never did. steadfastly, he upheld rhaenyra’s claim. ’ he changed his mind. ‘ no. no! he could have, but he never did. because he didn’t like me. ’
She's her own aesthetic at this point.
“The way we played it was essentially that Alicent is walking into this room thinking that she’s carrying this terrible secret, and she realizes that all the men in her life—including her father—have been secretly plotting against her husband to do this, knowing that he was near death. It infuriates her. It’s Alicent coming to the head of this table and finding the wheels of the conspiracy are already in motion. She’s behind, so she’s trying to come to grips with it and reel it in." - Ryan Condal
Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower in 1.09 "The Green Council"
You will have a dragon one day. He'll have to close an eye.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 02.05 Regent, dir. Clare Kilner
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S02E06 | dir. Andrij Parekh
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.01 | 2.03 | 2.06
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.09 THE GREEN COUNSIL 2.07 THE RED SOWING
AEMOND TARGARYEN + tumblr text posts
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea