#sarah hess

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

In the middle of my HotD rewatch

The gyroscope of interpretation on this show has been at the forefront of my rewatch along with now having read some of the script and read/watched cast interviews.

This one inference made by Olivia Cooke (via Sarah Hess) has plagued me for the first few episodes.

Now, now I know these waters are really muddy what with a few obvious conceptual things: "isn't this queer baiting" "if it wasn't it wouldn't be good sapphic representation anyway" "this is an actors interpretation" blah blah blah. I'm not arguing any of that.

Just that Olivia's head canon held against this scene hits SO MUCH HARDER

Because I gotta say MY GOD imagine how that strikes Alicent if at some point her mother caught them together. Before they even really knew what they were doing (objectively to the tune of they were 13/14 not fully clear on platonic/romantic love) her mother impressed upon them it was wrong. When they denied and in some way or another Alicent/Rhaenyra saying "she never touched me." Only for Alicent to hear it echoed back to her years later like this... Knowing that even in her naïveté she would recognize the truth. That Alicent’s mother, naturally, kept this contained. Which honestly plays more to truly making Alicent more complex by the way she saw what “scandal” her mother covered up for her only for her to act out some perversion of this with Aegon when she’s a mother. A learned behavior twisted in the worst way, because that's what she knew.

Listen I fully understand that this show is NOT taking this angle even though there seems to be a huge division between what some writers and actors are playing to and the editors at HBO imaginably being like "what's all this gay shit?" BUT

I think it's part of what this show missed about TRAGEDY and I mean come on you want drama???? These girlies were ready to hand it to you on a silver plater! In this context I needed:

Rhaenyra being devastated by the news that Alicent was going to be marrying her father. The sheer heartbreak of “this can’t be happening” and knowing she would have lost Alicent to a husband but not THIS. Show her with Syrax, confiding in her dragon because now she has no other friend to talk to - I’m just saying if they were going with the context of “Fire & Blood itself is an unreliable narrator and only shows certain people’s views” - then a scene like this disrupts nothing. Tell me how when they prayed together and Alicent told her to "kneel with me" that part of Rhaenyra prayed for that world where they flew off on dragon back and ate cake.

Alicent being devastated - having her heart torn in two, crying behind every closed door knowing she was going to break the heart of her best friend. The deleted scene does give a peak of that being the case - but again it could/should have been included. Show me Alicent begging Rhaenyra to forgive her and desperately saying she loves her. I think one of the things that Team Green argues the most could have been explored by this avenue, Alicent is a victim of her marriage - it would be inherently more compelling if in the process she is also losing the closest thing to a "first love" she had. Show me Alicent at her desk writing letters to Rhae once a week and then ceremoniously burning them in the braziers. Alicent leaning more into religion as a means of getting out from under her repressed desires and past actions.

Show me both women struggling in their adulthood to even remember why they held "such childhood affections" for each other. Knock the fucking wind out of me with a line like, "the worst part of it all was that they only ever wanted to love each other."

To me one of the worst parts of this production (of which there's a few) has got to be this was the apex of completely missed opportunities to explore. In the premise of "going by unreliable sources" their queerness would be suppressed information. I even think it plays into the dynamic between Rhae-Alicent-Criston in a kind of "Jennifer's Body" way where Rhae was really only interested in him as the object of Alicent's desires which I believe is made a little clearer in the books. A kind of "see this could have been us if you didn't marry my bag-of-bones father" for Rhaenyra who clearly had no aversion to consorts.

I'm sorry to go on this rant, and yes I KNOW - the counter arguments for many of these points. I would even argue some of them further such as the sapphic representation not being invalidated simply because both women do end up with men in the source material. If this was the case then why was "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" received so well? This at the very least to say if they made Alicent and Rhaenyra explicitly queer it would still be less controversial than what the queer men on that show got … Still its not even to say "it's a better way" to explore more of Rhaenyra and Alicent's characters but its at least A WAY to do it. More than we got. Surely both sides could agree on that.

Sorry, now I'm just being pedantic. As a queer woman naturally I have a bias but I still think this was objectively a missed opportunity to explore. Both girl's back stories could have been enriched and tbh a lot of HOTD fans I know also had the same complaint that the time skip came in too early. I think it also makes things less likely to be so divisive between TG and TB when you look at the central pillars of this conflict. You can truly grieve for Alicent and Rhaenyra and what they lost already while on the verge of losing it all. Anyway, I gotta go cry about my divorced lesbian war wives.

#HOTD #rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #queer theory #Sarah hess #olivia cooke #SARAH EMILY OLIVIA EMMA AND MILLY WERE SERVED LEMONS BUT THEY MADE LEMONADE AND DAMN AM I PARCHED!!! #antis do not interact #I am all for the subversive but if more of this was brought to the surface things would just hit different #most of the straights I talked to did not see the homoerotic nature of their relationship until it was brought up in detail

[callmeblake]

Frank Iero at Riot Fest Chicago, September 2016 (X,X)

Photo Credit: Sarah Hess

#I lost why I went looking for this #so have it this way #frank iero #riot fest chicago #2016 #september 2016 #riot fest 2016 #sarah hess #raglan shirt #purple #cerberus frank

[horizon-verizon]

HotD Episode 9 Explanation

Link to Full Article on Hollywood Reporter

#hotd writing #asoiaf #hotd episode 9 #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys targaryen (aemon's daughter) #alicent and rhaenys #rhaenys and alicent #hotd articles #rhaenys targaryen's characterization (meleys' rider) #claire kilner #Sarah Hess #hotd #house of the dragon #A Song of Ice and Fire #alicent hightower #aegon ii

[lenriett]

This is a crack/shitpost, or whatever you call it when you are not serious. Plus it's admittedly stupid, so read on your own peril lmao.

Anyway, I saw people saying HotD is "what did happen" while the books are biased. Idk about that, but comparing certain changes made in TV series with certain context is funny.

So, let's see this time Daemon Targaryen and two things: The Brothel and Rhea's death.

Books ver: he, apparently, did sexual stuff with Rhaenyra, but had nothing to do with his wife's death.

Show: just took Rhaenyra out for fun and ultimately stopped, but killed his wife.

It's stupid, but books ver has such a 90's male author vibe lmao. Getting young girl is cool, murdering your wife for scheming reasons is not, and since Daemon is a cool guy, there we are.

And TV ver has such 00s fandom vibes lmao. Cinnamon roll resists girlie viciously seducing him bc he noble and considerate, and murdering this bitch of a cool woman who takes no shit from the him aka main Candy Guy (seriously, who she thinks she is?) to make his life easier is ok.

Dance with Dragons was published in 2011, yeah, but GRRM was born in 1948, was writing since 70s-80s and Asoiaf was being written since 1991. Show screenwriters Ryan Condall and Sara Hess have been active, according to wiki, since 2008 and 2005 respectively. So, math could math lmao.

#seriously i'm not serious #daemon targaryen #rhea royce #house of the dragon #hotd #ryan condal #sarah hess

[idontreallyknow26]

Sarah Hess needs to deleted please & thank you

#this is me indirectly asking for her assassination #thats a joke #sarah hess #sarah hess sucks #house of the dragon #hotd #aegon ii targaryen

[pessimisticpigeonsworld]

HOTD has made many interesting choices in their adaptation of the story of the Dance. One of their favorite excuses for many of their questionable choices is "feminism". Why did they remove Alicent's ambitions and autonomy? Feminism. Why is Rhaenyra less proactive and hesitant? Feminism. Why are Daemon and Otto the primary active agents in the lead up to the Dance? Well women can't be in the wrong or violent, so feminism.

These choices are the farthest thing from feminist; they're sexist, end of story. Every decision surrounding the women of the Dance reeks of benevolent sexism. One of the most obviously sexist decisions made is the purposeful removal of female cooperation and friendship.

Rhaenyra in F&B has many female allies and friends. Her ladies in waiting loved her so much, one of them, Lady Elinda Massey gouged out her eyes at the sight of Rhaenyra's death. Lady Jeyne Arryn, Lady Alysanne Blackwood, and Lady Sabitha Frey/Vypren are just a few examples of ladies who fought for Rhaenyra (Alysanne and Sabitha literally fought in battles). Lady Fell chose death over betraying her oath to Rhaenyra.

Now, we haven't had any opportunity to meet most of these women I listed in the show. Lady Fell was portrayed as she was written in the book, a very minor character who simply foreshadowed how most of the realm would choose Rhaenyra over Aegon. Elinda Massey, however was reduced to an unnamed servant, not even a lady in waiting. Her treatment is an echo of one of my biggest issues with HOTD, the treatment of Laena and Rhaenys.

Laena was Rhaenyra's dearest friend in the book, in fact it's implied that they had a romantic relationship. Whether you believe that telling or not, it's undeniable that she and Laena were extremely close. They chose to betroth their children while they were infants, Rhaenyra flew to Laena's bedside during her final labor, and she stood vigil with Daemon over Laena's body.

All of that closeness and intimacy was removed in the show to make room for Alicent. So let's break that down: they removed a long and healthy relationship between two women and replaced it with a short-lived (in terms of screen time) friendship that quickly fell apart and turned into an intense rivalry. Reinforcing an old stereotype of female friendship: that it is entrenched in rivalry and toxicity and can quickly be turned to enmity. Alicent was so quickly and easily turned against Rhaenyra and it's even implied that she was jealous of Rhaenyra long before they became enemies.

Rhaenys in the book was an ardent supporter of Rhaenyra. She happily claimed Jace, Luke, and Joff as her grandsons, advised Rhaenyra to go to war, and gladly flew against Aegon and Aemond.

Meanwhile, in the show, Rhaenys was turned into one of Rhaenyra's rivals. She constantly challenged Rhaenyra's ideas, dismissed her as a naive child, disliked her children, and even considered backing the Greens. On top of that, they turned her into yet another "peaceful" woman. She advises against the war, and seems to continue to do so in season two. Rhaenys is virtually unrecognizable in the show. They chose to take a woman who tried to prevent a younger woman being wronged by the patriarchy the same way she was and turned her into a bitter woman who resents Rhaenyra (for most of the show).

HOTD claimed to have wanted to tell a story about how the patriarchy pits women against each other. That's all very well and good, but that's not what they actually did. They took a story where a woman is wrongfully usurped because of her gender and is supported by many other women and turned it into another tired female rivalry story.

Rhaenyra has no female friends aside from Alicent. Laena was turned from her dearest friend/lover into simply a rival for Daemon's affection. Rhaenys was turned from a supportive mentor and defender to someone who took out her resentment for the system on a fourteen year old who only starts to support her when she's proven "peaceful".

HOTD chose to perpetuate a harmful stereotype about women: that we constantly view each other as threats/rivals and can't have truly healthy relationships with other women. Rhaenyra had women who supported and cared for her in the book, in the show all she has is Alicent. A woman who abused and undermined her for ten years, raised her children to hate her, and usurped her. Every change HOTD made in the name of "feminism" solidified just how sexist it really is.

#rhaenyra targaryen #canon rhaenyra targaryen #laena velaryon #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys the queen who never was #anti hotd #anti ryan condal #anti sarah hess #asoiaf #house of the dragon #team black #anti team green #anti alicent hightower

[blushingkate]

#ashley zukerman #sarah snook #harriet walter #hesse armstrong

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, May 1st:

Rudolf I, King of Germany, 1218

Magnus VI, King of Norway, 1238

Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor of China, 1326

Sidonie, Princess of Bavaria, 1408

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 1850

Frederick Charles, Landgrave of Hesse, 1868

Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg, 1963

Lady Sarah Chatto, Daughter of Princess Margaret, 1964

#lady sarah chatto #prince guillaume #prince arthur #rudolf i #Sidonie of Bavaria #Rinchinbal Khan #magnus vi #Frederick Charles of hesse #royal birthdays #long live the queue

[uwmspeccoll]

Science Saturday

IT’S THE BEETLES!

Sarah Finn, our long-time graduate intern and former social media science editor (now Archival Projects Librarian at Milwaukee Public Library) was always deeply intrigued by insects, especially beetles. So, in her honor we present these wood-engraved and chromolithographed beetles from our 1885 three-volume edition of J. G Wood’s Animate Creation, adapted to American zoology by the American physician and zoologist Joseph B. Holder and published in New York by Selmar Hess. The publication, a revision of Wood’s original 1853 British publication The Illustrated Natural History, was originally issued in 60 fascicles, with the chromolithographs printed by the noted Boston lithographing firm L. Prang & Company. Many of the images used in these volumes also appeared in other natural history publications in America and Europe, such as Brehms Thierleben. 

View another post from Animate Creation.

#Science Saturday #beetles #insects #stag beetle #Sarah Finn #Animate Creation #J. G Wood #John George Wood #Joseph B. Holder #Selmar Hess #L. Prang & Company #Louis Prang #wood engravings #chromolithographs #Yay chromoliths! #diving beetle #longhorn beetle #scarabs #scarab beetle #spotted scarab #Scarabaeus sacer #dung beetle #Hercules beetle #rhinoceros beetle #water beetle #natural history

[echos-muses]

made this for someone bc they sent in the groupchat that this specific thing made them think of this meme from john mulaney’s set

#house of the dragon #hotd #daemon targaryen #rhea royce #asoiaf #sarah hess be like #hotd crack #hotd meme #stupid memes

[darklinaforever]

Completely agree with this article. It is simply absurd that there is no bonus content in the DVD, including deleted scenes. People buy physical media for a reason HBO. Paying that much just to get the series on DVD and nothing more is stealing at this point. Another proof that they just wanted to force their vision down our throats by not including the deleted scenes in my opinion. It's just shameful.

#house of the dragon #daemon x rhaenyra #daemyra #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra x daemon #daemon and rhaenyra #rhaenyra and daemon #house targaryen #house of targaryen #hotd #hotd dvd #hotd deleted scenes #anti hotd #anti ryan condal #anti sarah hess #anti team greens #anti greens #anti greens stans #team blacks #team black

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

The HotD writers, actors and actresses out here vs the editors and directors lookin like:

#They're like 'but this isn't a gay thing' and proceed to film the gayest shit I've ever seen #HotD #house of the dragon #milly alcock #Emily Carey #olivia cooke #emma darcy #Sarah hess #rhaenicent #this is the only thing about this show I get to truly enjoy - the cast #so please let me have it

[starkslydia]

DAEMON TARGARYEN and RHAENYRA TARGARYEN

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | S01E10 'THE BLACK QUEEN'

#starkslydia #hotd #house of the dragon #daemyra #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon x rhaenyra #the rogue prince #the black queen #their last shot holding hands silver hair to the camera saved lives #whatever our souls are made you know the drill #soulmatism idc #if sarah hess says it then we are right

[girlysword]

So in the pilot of Liberty's Kids Sarah Phillips is a Loyalist and her argument for that is basically, "you follow the laws because they are the laws," and we see throughout the series that manners are important to her. But we also see in the pilot that she was ready to fight off what she thought were Native American kidnappers with a pillow and throughout the series she is a teenage girl who goes into war zones. Sarah is like Mina Hess from Dracula, etiquette is important but she would have no qualms stabbing someone if necessary.

#comparing liberty's kids and dracula is not how i thought i would start my day #anyway every once in a while i remember what a banger through my own eyes is #sarah phillips #mina hess

[gabbagabbadoo]

Books Read in 2022

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read more books this year than I did last year.... which was 9 (lol) so, here they are:

(I also read more books cover to cover in a day or 2 than I ever have, and that is marked by *)

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami, Sonali Deraniyagala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster ⭐️/5

They Went Left, Monica Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Panic, Lauren Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Orphan Collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️/5

House Rules, Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

I Must Betray You, Ruta Sepetys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

Four Souls, Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐️⭐️/5

Four Three Two One, Courtney Stevens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5*

We Are Lost and Found, Helene Dunbar ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#books of 2022 #gabbentary #idek what to tag this as so buckle up #all my rage sabaa tahir #clap when you land elizabeth acevedo #wave sonali deraniyagala #where the crawdads sing delia owens #whats mine and yours naima coster #they went left monica hesse #firekeepers daughter angeline boulley #along for the ride sarah dessen #the midnight library matt haig #panic lauren oliver #more happy than not adam silvera #the marrow thieves cherie dimaline #the orphan collector ellen marie wiseman #heart bones colleen hoover #house rules jodi picoult #the first to die at the end adam silvera #i must betray you ruta sepetys #four souls louise erdrich #the other black girl zakiya dalila harris #four three two one courtney stevens #we are lost and found helene dunbar

[city-of-ladies]

Annette Drevon: cantinière, soldier

"In 1880, visitors to the markets of Les Halles in Paris might have noticed an especially striking woman sitting at her vegetable stall. In her mid-fifties, with black hair and unwrinkled skin, she had an expression of ‘courage and energy’, which was perhaps unsurprising, given her past. Annette Drevon was a cantinière in the French army, a woman officially deputised to sell food and drink to the soldiers. At the Battle of Magenta in 1859, Annette was attached to the second regiment of Zouaves. During the battle two Austrian soldiers seized the regimental flag. Annette got it back: she killed the first soldier with a sabre and the second with two shots from her revolver. The regiment’s colonel pinned his own Cross of the Legion of Honour to her chest in honour of her actions.

Annette was still serving during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, where she shot another soldier, this time a German who either insulted her or attempted to steal her Cross; she was sentenced to death but pardoned by Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and returned to France. She later received a small pension from Marshal MacMahon, who had commanded the who had commanded the French troops at Magenta, which she used to set up her vegetable stall.

Annette Drevon’s story is a useful reminder that for well over 400 years the normal battlefield was full of ordinary women, who were not only essential to the conduct of war but also demonstrated bravery, physical strength and the ability to stand up to tough conditions – all the things military leaders of the late twentieth century fretted that women could not do."

Forgotten warriors: The long history of women in combat, Sarah Percy

#annette drevon #history #women in history #women's history #france #french history #warrior women #women warriors #historical #historical figure #herstory #19th century #second french empire