almoststeadyfire
30s | she/her | west coast made this blog b/c rhaenicent won’t let me rest
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Everyone calls me Mel. I'm so happy to be here.
Taylor Dearden as DR. MELISSA KING THE PITT (2025—)
SUPRIYA GANESH as DR. SAMIRA MOHAN THE PITT, 1.12 "6:00 P.M."
EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE "House of the Dragon" FYC Event at Saban Media Center (March 6th, 2025)
EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE "House of the Dragon" FYC Event at Saban Media Center (March 6th, 2025)
what fucking hell dimension are y’all blogging from
there are no words in the english language i could scream to drown you out
rhaenyra and alicent + motion sickness by phoebe bridgers
By the end of the year she had taken to talking to herself, and had come to have a deep aversion to the color green.
:)
Inspired by Orchestra AU | the big affair i cannot forget by @mitchelljoni
It was only a few bars, a segue from one theme into another, but Alicent felt, for the first time since the rehearsal began, Rhaenyra’s eyes on her. They were sitting a meagre few feet from one another, close enough that Alicent could smell her perfume when she flourished with her wrists, that Alicent could reach out and touch her if she wanted to. But she didn’t. It would be like sticking her hand in a flame. Their eyes met for a second, just one. Then they carried on.
This is giving “I finished my book on dragons” “oh my god baaaaabe, you did?!”
tell me, in your darkness, in your ocean, am i ever there? have we ever reached each other?
"glasses kinks are very passé, you know" | orchestra au
from "the big affair i cannot forget" by everdeen/@mitchelljoni. read it HERE
Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: House of the Dragon (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen Characters: Alicent Hightower, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Viserys I Targaryen, Otto Hightower, Criston Cole, Gwayne Hightower, and also literally everyone else at some point probably Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Orchestra, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Gratuitous References to Rachmaninoff, violinist alicent (read: insane perfectionist), pianist rhaenyra (read: dramatic and self-obsessed) Summary:
And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.
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).
"I wanna run away and live on your family's boat
It's a triple dog dare, you're a chicken if you don't"
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
Anyway, Rhaenicent Hogwarts AU, if you're interested
it's a nine-chapter fic, and I can say it's got nine chapters because I just finished writing it.
I hope you enjoy, and if you do, do consider subscribing to the fic so you get an email when I update, okay, thanks, byeee
THE BACHELORETTE WHENNNN
