The First Thing Rhaenyra Sees When She Invades King's Landing

rhaenyra and alicent consistently just throwing themselves at each other in the middle of the war like the direst possible circumstances with NO fucking plan just being like get me in there and the love will save us it will be enough. and it’s there it really is there and then it does not save them and is not enough. yeah

Orchestra AU: After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very). fic link by @mitchelljoni

Cooke’s past experience has taught her to seek out happiness, and even peace, wherever she can. More than the bandage-dresses and “paralytic” drinking of her early 20s, she says, she regrets taking herself so seriously. “I just had to grow up so quickly–: I was the only person taking care of me. Now I wish that I could go back and just be like: God, relax.” Hence the regression this summer. “I feel like I’m reliving my early 20s. I just feel so solid in who I am… Weirdly, the older I get, the younger I feel.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLIVIA COOKE! — December 27, 1993

everyone's joking about a lesbian love triangle being the focus of rhaenyra/alicent/mysaria's stories in hotd s3 but that will literally be what happens when mysaria acts to uphold and support the image of rhaenyra as queen (or rhaenyra's duty) and alicent is kept prisoner (or a hidden but unavoidable reminder of rhaenyra's love). and so the love triangle will serve to represent rhaenyra's internal conflict between love and duty

slouching towards biloxi - joan didion

me when I think I like girls

Alicent Hightower on Queer History, Westeros, and Rhaenyra Targaryen (insp.)

hotd deleted scenes [x]

Sylvia Plath

@skyrigel

Pointing sharp blades at each other is like foreplay to them