#hotdspoilers

[hopemikaelsongf]

the way Daemon immediately moved when he saw Criston about to join the fray...

#DELICIOUS!!! #or if this is just him jumping the second alicent pulled that dagger #even mORE DELICIOUS! #given that the last time he’s with rhaenyra and chaos erupted he just disappeared #which was like a decade ago lol #THIS TIME HE’S NOT RUNNING AWAY THIS TIME HE’S RUNNING TOWARDS HER #hope this helps <3 #house of the dragon #hotd #hotdspoilers #daemon targaryen #note: no more reblogging >:-| #also hiiiii matt hiiiii fabien

[targaryensource]

The King wishes for you to join us. The King has much to celebrate he does not need me. He wants for us all to be together and perhaps the hunt could be fun.

#house of the dragon #hotd spoilers #hotdspoilers #hotdedit #gotedit #asoiafedit #asoiaf #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #house targaryen

[synkverv]

she was a corpse and i was a living girl  and he loved her more than me

#queue. #syncreates #asoiafedit #gotedit #hotdedit #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #cersei lannister #olivia cooke #lena headey #hotdspoilers #gameofthronesdaily #hotdcentral #i haven't seen anybody mention this parallel #and it's just everything to me #my poor queens are both second to a dead woman 😞 #1k

[padme-amidala]

No man is so accursed as the kinslayer.

#hotdedit #house of the dragon #aemond targaryen #aemondtargaryenedit #houseofthedragonedit #hotdcentral #targaryensource #gameofthronesdaily #hotdspoilers #*gif #userioana #noalook #obsessed with him actually #can't wait for his proper villain era #anyways let's ignore how ugly this is

[demigoddessqueens]

I saw this meme on twitter (credit to original owner) but yeah…this is my mood

#rhaenyra #princess rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #ser criston cole #rhaenyra x criston #rhaenyra x ser criston #hotdspoilers #hotedit #hotd spoilers #hotd #house of the dragon spoilers #house of the dragon #got #game of thrones #asofai #a song of ice and fire

[fkevin073]

Rhaenyra Targaryen & Ser Criston Cole + SMILING

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotdedit #hotdspoilers #rhaenyra x criston #rhaenyra targaryen #ser criston cole #these two have hijacked my brain #and I know it'll end badly but still!! #milly alcock #fabien frankel #game of thrones #HBO #rhaenyra Targaryen edit #princess rhaenyra #gifs #mine

[thatmansplayinggalaga]

#house of the dragon #hotdedit #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra x daemon #daemyra #? #mine #mhotd #mrhaenyra #mdaemon #mdaemyra #hotdspoilers #house of the dragon spoilers

[theficthatwaspromised]

I would have loved to see this and cry my heart out rather than having to witness that creepy dude wanking to alicent's feet, and her weirdo ass of a son jerk off at the window like wtf

they were so desperate to make daemon one dimensionally evil rather than show his good side ugh

#I'm pissed #house of the dragon #hotd #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra x daemon #daemon x rhaenyra #daemyra #rhaenyra targaryen #viserys targaryen #larys strong #alicent hightower #aegon targaryen #got #hotdspoilers #hotd spoilers

[hotdcentral]

#hotdedit #house of the dragon #asoiafedit #rhaenyra targaryen #s1 #gifs #1.01 #blacks #syrax #hotdspoilers #by ananda

[visenya-den]

ARRIVAL AT DRAGONSTONE

#mysaria #lady mysaria #sonoya mizuno #daemon targaryen #matt smith #caraxes #dragonstone #landscape #hotd #house of the dragon #hotdspoilers #otto hightower #rhys ifan #asoiaf #asoiafedit #hotdedit #dragon #got #gotedit

[lothbrokcore]

did not get enough scenes of them together 

#hotd #hotdspoilers #hotdcentral #house of the dragon #house of the dragons #princess rhaenyra #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra x harwin #sir harwin strong #harwin strong

[hopemikaelsongf]

gay divorce party dance number

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotdspoilers #hotdedit #targaryensource #targnation #hotdcentral #gameofthronesdaily #rhaenyra x alicent #rhaenicent #alicenthightowerdaily #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #criston cole

[howlljenkins]

wait is this why they say not to put all your aegons in one basket

#hotd #house of the dragon #aegon targaryen #house targaryen #hotdspoilers #ok im done for the night #alicent hightower #viserys targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen

[pixelsandothernonsense]

Okay, so here are some unedited thoughts from episode 1 og House of Dragon:

I'm excited - so much so that it scares me. I'm very wary considering what happened last time, but I enjoyed the atmosphere, the establishing world building, the characters, the acting. The CGI seemed a bit wonky at times, but hey.

HOWEVER. The birthing scene in House of the Dragon was horrifying, disgusting and vile.

And how I saw it, the writers fell into the same track as GOT in later seasons when it came to altered, worsened sexual violence against women in the adaption process - solely for shock value and ratings. Right - there wasn’t any explicit sa of queen Aemma in this episode, but the way she was put through a brutal c section WHILE AWAKE AND ACTIVELY SCREAMING AND PROTESTING, just seemed so on the nose to get a rise out of the audience - just like scenes like Ramsay raping Sansa on their wedding night in GOT.

I picked up Fire and Blood after this first episode and on p. 359 it says:

"Thus did matters stand in King's Landing late in the year 105 AC, when Queen Aemma was brought to bed in Maegor's Holdfast and died whilst giving birth to the son that Viserys Targaryan had desired for so long."

No mention of a forced c section while awake. Not in my copy at least - if there is an expanded text somewhere that elaborates, please let me know!!

I'm just - God, they could have done so much to emphasise the tragedy without making it so horrifically and unecesarilly nasty. Aemma could have made the choice, begged for it, they could have given her milk of the poppy to put her under just before performing the surgery. They could have made the cinematography of the scene not feel like a brainstorming session for "how to capture the most gory details of a medieval c section surgery". They could have done SO much to not be so viscious and nasty when it didn’t serve the story.

It just takes me out of the illusion - makes me think "wow, the writers wanted to show balls with this, live up to the scandalous reputation of got - show that they pulled no brakes". Instead of feeling for Aemma, for Viserys and Rhaenyra and being invested in the emotional stakes of the story, I'm just left wondering why the showmakers are so crude and cruel towards the audience. It doesn’t feel like skilled showmaking and it doesn’t build trust and enthusiasm with the audience. Shame.

#house of the dragon #hotdspoilers #hotd #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon spoilers #house of the dragon episode 1 #aemma arryn

[aemontargaryen-bloodraven]

Ser Crispin deserves to get crisped by Syrax.

#house of the dragon #HOTDspoilers #ser criston cole #HOTD #hotd spoilers

[demigoddessqueens]

Bastard (affectionately, derogatory)

#house of the dragon #hotdspoilers #hotd #hotd spoilers #hotd season 1 #aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #prince aemond #aemond x reader #aemond x you #ewan mitchell #game of thrones #got #asofai #asoiaf #aemond x y/n #daemon targaryen #lucerys velaryon #jacaerys velaryon #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenys targaryen #house targaryen #velaryon #baby girl!!! <33