ALT [a design depicting a poem over a backdrop of House of the Dragon fan art showing Rhaenyra ascending the Iron Throne with bloody footprints] // THRONE OF SWORDS // Throne of Swords ascended in footprints of blood what have I lost to claim what is rightfully mine not sacrificed—honourable giving for something great but had stolen out from under me like the very ground that could never quite hold me the kingdom I am trying to keep the legacy I am trying to bear at my breast like an inheritance whose blood is this? my enemies & my lovers & my sons all the same substance now I can’t quite figure out who burnt—who drowned— who lost a head—who gained a crown— it weighs heavy on my neck—I saw a sword in the storybooks but it’s harder to hold in your own history—Mother— when you left me—did you know where I would go—heirs—when you stood here —it was the last time my fate felt like home [poem by @devonwebbnz, after fan art by @justralphy, in tribute to Emma D'Arcy]