Alicent And Gwayne's Convo Was The Best Scene In The Episode. Actually Siblings Talking, Not Speaking

i don't smoke for the obvious reasons of not wanting to develop an addiction to nicotine but god do i so often feel the emotion 'i need a cigarette'.

If Catelyn Starks doesn’t have any Fans I’m de@d

Seeing a lot of (show-verse) fanfics missing the point about Catelyn's promise to Jon when he was sick, and that frustrates me because that was genuinely one of the best decisions the show made for her character when it wasn't making her engage in a petulant stubbornness contest with her teenage son. Having Catelyn make - and then subsequently fail to keep - a promise to her own Gods to treat a motherless child as her own was a great way to impart the sympathy for her character that you lose by not having her inner dialogue a la the books, and then to see so many fics with a summary akin to "Catelyn keeps her promise to Jon" is just such a *sigh*. Y'all don't get it. It says so much more that she couldn't. Not wouldn't. Couldn't. Don't ruin the one good change the show made for her!!

its been said but grrm timelines are wild as hell. The Starks have had an 8,000 year unbroken reign? For 8,000 years. 8,000. Old Valyria rose, made dragons, terrorized the world for thousands of years, and exploded in apocalyptic fashion, but before during and after all that the one constant in the universe was the stalwart guardian of the horrors: a guy named Brandon frowning dourly at his notepad as he counts grain being put away for winter

Luke and Jaehaerys watching Rhaenyra bringing up the "a son for a son" bullshit like nothing happened:

Cr: @prettymuchteddy

so many people hate seeing Criston on screen but he’s a dick in such a totally normal way that it makes him hysterically funny in contrast to the living anime characters he hangs out with. He is literally just some guy having the exact same struggle with the false ideals of chivalry and knighthood and the inherent loss of the self that comes with being a tool of state violence as a thousand other knights in westeros but also he has to run errands with Sephiroth

not the biggest alicent defender but everyone saying daeron's decent bc he wasn't raised by alicent, wb viserys??? those kids have two parents, wb their father??

alicent might not have been the best mother, but she truly loved her children and she did try (lowkey could have done better, but she was a child herself), viserys was so neglectful of his other kids that she was practically a single mother.

daeron didn't grow up seeing his father constantly choose his half sister over himself, he didn't spend his time thinking he's unworthy of his father's love, he didn't constantly have to witness an unhealthy relationship between his parents, and surely thats got to have an impact?

He is so me

septon eustace giggling and kicking his feet while writing his self insert oc daeron targaryen into the histories

That whole conversation between Alicent and Gwayne is so sad, but I just can’t move on from how Gwayne assures Alicent that she tried her best. Now I will not deny that Alicent has her faults as a mother, but she was also a mother at 15. After Otto left, she was alone, with only her children. Children who weren’t all hers because they were princes and princesses of the realm. Children who had to live knowing they came second to Rhaenyra, who had to live in a court that knew they came second. Alicent definitely had a hand in how her kids grew up, there is no denying that, but my goodness, they never stood a chance in the first place. Daeron was spared but at the cost of his family. He is kind, perhaps because he is more inclined to it, but also because he didn’t grow up in an environment that eats up kindness and gentleness.

This whole family is so messed up.

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????