Latest Posts by alicent-hightowers-spouse - Page 5

writers shouldn't need to go on strike – but when we do, we're funny as fuck.

some of my personal faves, taken from a longer twitter thread by jenny yang. learn more about the strike here.

MY POOR BOY LUCERYS 😭😭😭

I can be your boyfriend (gender neutral) and also your girlfriend (gender neutral)

rick and michonne from the walking dead are an iconic bi4bi couple but y'all aren't ready to hear that

I've memorized every dialogue from every rhaenicent scene (i am mentally ill)

Guys I’m begging please. Can someone write a hurt-comfort fanfiction where Sarah and JJ are platonic soulmates and they bond over their shitty dads please I’m begging.

Guys, I think Daemon Stans have reached a new level of crazy.

The other day I saw A WHOLE GROWN ADULT claiming that Rhaenyra (you know the one who was a 14 year old child when everything started), was actually manipulating Daemon, a grown man and her uncle who took her to a brothel as a teenager and left her there.

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I’m actually SOBBING WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

listen rafe can murder as many people as he wants but the reason i don't like him will always be because he's annoying

no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched

daemon stans when the man who beat his first wife to death and refused to let his second wife die at home surrounded by her loved one, put his hands on his third wife

Sorry people this is gonna be a long post, but I needed to vent.

A lot of people in the HOTD fandom are so quick to say that everything Alicent does "against" Rhaenyra is because she's judging her for not following the "rules" of the patriarchy, but imo the anger and conflict between them is way more personal than that. After Alicent is chosen by Viserys as his new wife, Rhaenyra, showing all of her immaturity (understandable, she's so young) feels betrayed by Alicent and starts treating her poorly. Of course Alicent in turn feels betrayed by her closest friend cause Rhaenyra abandoned her when she needed her the most. She was too sheltered and comfortable in her privilege to realize that other women cannot simply say no, Alicent was considered her father's property and then her husband's to do with as they pleased. She is continuously raped by a man she did not choose to marry, forced to carry child after child and on top of that she is refused the only comfort she had, her only friend. She never had the luxury of choice, but Rhaenyra in her naivety, still punished her for it. Alicent tried to hang on, still caring about Rhaenyra and still trying to reconcile with her and being constantly denied and judged by her.

Then, the moment Rhaenyra did something that would surely put her in trouble, she lied to Alicent's face. Alicent believed her and defended her with the king, insisting that Daemon must have lied, that her father must have been misinformed. Viserys knew this to be false, he knew Rhaenyra had lied, but still she was not punished for it. Instead Alicent is indirectly punished again, losing her only ally (Otto is a vile person, but still for Alicent he was the only piece of home, of familiarity she had) because of Rhaenyra. Naturally when she learned that Rhaenyra had lied to her, it was another huge blow to Alicent's heart, because trusting Rhaenyra has literally cost her the only bit of protection she felt that she had left. It's only natural at this point, that Otto's claims about Rheanyra's character began to take root in Alicent's mind. Rhaenyra proved that she could not be trusted and Alicent wasn't about to put her children's lives in the hands of someone who had betrayed her so. She realized that no one would protect her, not Viserys, not Rhaenyra, so she must do it herself.

From then on things were bound to go downhill cause Alicent began resenting Rhaenyra as she still remained oblivious to her privilege and she benefited from it again and again, perhaps even using her father's affection for her to her advantage. And Rhaenyra (understandably) grew tired of Alicent's treatment of her.

In light of that, what happened with Aemond inevitably had a massive impact on their situation, especially on Alicent, whose faith in Rhaenyra was already broken. Her son lost an eye (taken by one of Rhaenyra's kids). Rhaenyra refused to even acknowledge the magnitude of this offence, so quick to defend her kids (and their birthright), who would never do anything wrong and were simply defending themselves (despite there being 4 of them against Aemond) And even in such a dramatic circumstance, all Viserys cares about is protecting Rhaenyra from what essentially is, the truth.

So in my opinion Alicent is not only saying "it's not fair" because Rhaenyra constantly did things that were not "proper" and was never punished for it, what she's saying is more along the lines of "Rhaenyra abandoned me, betrayed me, punished me, hurt me, my son and others to fulfil her selfish goals and nobody ever punished her for it or even had the decency to admit that she might have been wrong".

Alicent is not questioning Rhaenyra's claim to the throne because she's a woman, she's questioning her integrity and wether or not she's trustworthy, she's doing it to protect herself and her children, who she feels could never be truly safe as long as Rhaenyra rules with Daemon by her side.

And feelings like these cannot be simply dismissed, not even with an apology, one must really work on rebuilding trust in each other in order to fix years of betrayal and mutual hurt and resentment, and sadly they just didn't get enough time to do it.

Labour by Paris Paloma was written for Alicent Hightower btw.

do you think alicent sees aegon as the nail in the coffin that determined the rest of her life. like she was married to viserys and that was bad enough but i wonder if she thought at the start of their marriage what reconciliation with rhaenyra would look like and how far away it was, how maybe if she was infertile or maybe if she only had girls maybe there was still something, some impossible chance that one day she wouldn’t have to face the choice that birthing a son would bring—to watch him either be put to the throne or rhaenyra’s sword. i wonder if every night of her first pregnancy chipped away at her hope. i wonder if when she had aegon she knew nothing could ever be the same and tried to bury it nonetheless. but then to watch him grow into this thing that he is and to love him because he’s her son but resent him because he’s a man who does exactly what other men did to you, and he turns other girls into the girl you once were, it’s like—when does the resentment overpower the love? how can they coexist? or do they have to coexist because every love you’ve ever had has been tinged by resentment and any other kind no longer makes sense? how else do you love? what do you have to do to deserve it? what does reconciliation look like, how far away is it????? and now on his deathbed the man who put you here, put your son here and never once cared, who hammered the nail in your coffin, tells you something that makes you believe that maybe it was all worth it. maybe the love can be bigger than the resentment, just this once. so rhaenys is standing in front of her on a roaring dragon and alicent would die for her son without question in that moment (in any moment, i think, but especially now) because despite being the worst thing to happen to her, he’s also the only evidence she has that what she went through meant anything at all.

Thinking about how it’s canon that Viserys knew Otto was forcing Alicent to read to him and comfort him and talk to him and yet he was so selfish and so pleased by the fact that she was giving him attention that he just…went along with it?

Like he knew that marrying Laena, a girl three years younger than Alicent was wrong, and he KNEW that Otto was forcing Alicent into that position and he just…didn’t care. He forced her into a marriage she didn’t want, forced three kids on her before she turned twenty, and then proceeded to not only ignore her but ignore his children by her because they didn’t turn out the way he wanted them to.

Thinking about how he started to resent Alicent the moment she showed up in Green at the wedding because she dared to have a mind of her own. And how that led to him neglecting her and her children (because they are hers) for sixteen years.

I hope Viserys Targaryen is rotting in the depths of hell.

Reblog this picture of me holding a Family Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios? I’d really appreciate it.

Idk if I’ve ever said this before, because I’ve always been too scared of the backlash. But you know what, finding another anti really gave me confidence. So here we go.

I HATE Jim Hopper, and frankly I don’t understand why everyone loves him so much. He literally abused El, and was getting real close to abusing Joyce. Jopper is literally the worst relationship in the show.

And I don’t care how annoying Mike was being, as the adult in the situation it was incredibly horrible of Hopper to lie to Mike and say that his grandma was injured, and then to death threaten him. So there I said it. I hope I don’t lose too many followers.

reblog if you’re NOT tumblr famous, but you ARE tired and kinda gay

fellas is it gay when things like this happens? holding each other tightly while trying to stab them?

CANON 💀

Hannibal: Tell me will, does your act of rescuing worms from the pavement represent an attempt to play God, to exert your power and control over the natural world? Or is it an acknowledgment of our responsibility as intelligent beings to act as stewards of the earth and its creatures, to use our abilities to help and protect those who cannot do so for themselves?

Will, soaking wet from the rain, shoveling worms into his pockets: I am going to KILL you

beginning of byler fixation: i'm worried i will get my hopes up and be sad when there's no byler :(

middle of byler fixation: thank god, it's so clear byler is happening i don't have to worry

late byler fixation: i'm worried i will get my hopes up and be sad when there's no elmax, ronance, and creelarke :(

creelarke. you agree. reblog.

I’m interested to see what the results are lmao

Happy lesbian visibility week, my fellow lesbians!

otto hightower with alicent: your husband? 🤨 or you? 🙄 his daughter childhood companion? 👎🏻❌🏳️‍🌈

otto hightower with rhaenyra: queen alicent has not forgotten the love you once had for each other 🥺😔🏳️‍🌈!!

Ok so here’s the thing. I love both Alicent and Rhaenyra, but my love of them is very different. I think they are both extremely interesting characters.

But the difference between them for me is this:

With Alicent, I genuinely believe that she is a good person. Like everything she’s done I completely understand, and it’s always been with the intention of defending herself, her children, or Rhaenyra. But you guys probably know how much I love Alicent by now and this post is mostly about Rhaenyra so I’m gonna move on.

With Rhaenyra, I think she’s more morally gray. She’s done some things that I would definitely label as bad. I wouldn’t call her a good person. Honestly, I agree that she’s selfish. But that’s part of the reason why I like her.

The thing is, she’s a victim just like Alicent. It’s just that she’s less victimized in the show, and amongst her own fans. (For some reason people think being a victim makes you less of a girlboss, but whatever).

Just like Alicent, she had a crusty old man grooming her.

And Viserys and Otto weren’t exactly the same, but they were certainly both shitty fathers.

My point being, I definitely feel sympathy for her. And she’s not the villain.

The similarity between Alicent and Rhaenyra is that they were both young girls who were groomed and manipulated by the men in their lives. But the difference is the results of this.

Alicent was made to be more mature than her age. She was exposed to some very harsh realities very early on. And now she’s paranoid and pessimistic. So of course she’s scared for her life and the lives of her children.

Rhaenyra was made to be more childish. Viserys made it so that she never had to face any consequences. And Daemon has tried to keep her powerless and immature. And now, as a grown woman, she’s extremely disconnected from reality. While Alicent is overly aware of how in danger she is, Rhaenyra is incredibly naive and oblivious.

I don’t really know what else to say. I guess I just needed to rant a little. Basically the point I’m trying to make is that Rhaenyra antis annoy me because she was a victim and she’s not evil or dumb, but Rhaenyra Stans that make her out to be a saint also annoy me because she’s far from perfect, and she’s far from selfless.

I don't want a "friends to enemies to lovers" rhaenicent fic I want a fic where Rhaenyra realizes both their dads are pieces of shit and defends her friend right now.

Bye I just saw someone who’s entire personality is shipping Rhaenyra and Daemon say that Rhaenicent is toxic

I’m actually losing my mind over here

No, but I’m going crazy over this. PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND.

“Team Green”

“Team Black”

ALICENT AND RHAENYRA ARE BOTH SAPPHIC AND IN LOVE AND THEY WERE GROOMED BY MEN TWICE THEIR AGE AND THEY BOTH HAD SHITTY FATHERS AND DEAD MOTHERS AND THEY WERE BOTH TRYING TO PROETCT THEIR KIDS AND AND AND-

Please I’m begging on my hands and knees. Are there any more people out there who like Rhaenyra but also like Alicent? PLEASE IM BEGGING.