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Rallies are integral to tennis.
You can practice your strokes as much as you’d like, you can practice your form as your coach revels in everything he taught you—you can even consistently hit in the right spot of your racket everytime, and watch as the ball falls on the same part of the court every single time.
You can have a backhand so consistent that your coach starts to feel like he has nothing left to teach you.
But none of it really matters if you can’t do it with a partner.
Or an opponent.
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02 May 2025
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Everything about Alicent is rage inducing. The way she’s so awkward she can barely make eye contact, the way her hands shake when they're together in the same room, the way she looks at Rhaenyra like she’s the first person she’s seen in years. Oh, yeah, and the way she locked her in a freezing underground bunker.
BUNKER AU
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09 Dec 2024
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you don't know what love is (if you don't put up a fight) by tansymeadows
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
19 Jul 2024
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Rhaenyra and Alicent find solace.
Or,
The King lives long enough for the princess to return on dragonback and change what is to come.
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04 Nov 2024
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“There is something else you should know, before you come. I’d hate for you to be blindsided.”
'The way I was when Rhaenyra got married?' She almost asks, but holds her tongue.
“Yes?” She says, instead.
Viserys clears his throat. “It’s about Rhaenyra.”
“Of course it is.” She can’t hold back a biting remark. She wonders what it is this time. Has The Realm’s Delight decided to introduce a third person into her loving marriage? Rhaenyra’s never been quite satisfied with the conventional, after all. Or, perhaps, she’s pregnant again, with her third. It’s a daughter, perhaps. She’s always wanted a daughter. “What is it?”
“Well, she’s back from Essos. And… Her divorce has been finalised.”
Alicent needs to sit down.
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Or, ex-childhood friends reunite after years of avoiding each other, and the entire Targaryen-Velaryon clan plays matchmakers.
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04 Nov 2024
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If our love died, would that be the worst thing? by honeyandsalt
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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In a last ditch attempt to avoid war after Viserys's death, Alicent visits Rhaenyra with a plot to put her on the Throne. With Rhaenyra's family living at the Red Keep again, they are forced to face their past and find a way forward.
“Two days ago we had dinner together, as a family. And although the children bickered, I could not help but—,” her voice caught in her throat, “—but hope that we could yet repair things.” When Alicent said we, Rhaenyra knew she meant just them. “A day after that, and we were on the brink of war.” She looked up, and Rhaenyra was surprised to see familiar damp eyes. “I’m tired, Rhaenyra. I am very tired. I am tired of forcing my children into roles they do not want. I am tired of fighting for a power I never cared for. And I am exhausted, Rhaenyra, of hating you.”
(Title is from the song "Labour," by Paris Paloma)
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04 Nov 2024
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split the lark by divinebeast
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
28 Sep 2024
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That’s the problem with newly-sharpened pencils. “Then what?” They’re always a second away from needing a new sharpen, a second away from—
“I mean, I need you to be my date.”
—breaking. Alicent presses too hard, then, and the lead falls flat with a snapping noise. “What?”
FEATURING: a very fake relationship, a very real wedding, a play with five acts, and two people who are definitely not in love.
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04 Nov 2024
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08 Sep 2024
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She’s not—it’s not even remotely fair to say she’s in love with Rhaenyra, just because the last time she was so bone-deep exhausted after they’d wrapped production she'd had them drop her at Rhaenyra’s flat and told her just hold me, hold me, make it okay. Or because Rhaenyra had stayed with her, in the hospital. Or because she'd made it okay.
“Alicent,” Laena moans. “You couldn’t be more in love with her if you were characters in Notting Hill.”
(a modern AU friends-to-lovers where it is completely okay to kiss your friend at a gala and openly beef with her ex and cuddle in her bed because that is completely platonic and not complicated and she's completely not in love with you)
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07 Sep 2024
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two years after alicent leaves rhaenyra, they meet again
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- Part 1 of i feel you darling, on my own
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06 Sep 2024
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A series of flashes in her mind: Rhaenyra’s head in her lap under the weirwood tree, her crystalline eyes alight. Syrax, saddled for two, soaring across the Narrow Sea to worlds unknown. The ripped page she still keeps locked away in her chambers, alongside a piece of her heart.
Alicent can no longer afford to cling to Rhaenyra’s words like a promise. Yet after the longest of winters, there’s something addictive about the possibility of being consumed by dragonfire.
or, Rhaenyra returns on dragonback. Alicent feels her presence like the rising sun. Post-1x08.
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21 Aug 2024
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lately i've been crying (like a tall child) by noheteroexplanation
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
21 Sep 2024
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Drip, drip, drip.
The sound of rain hitting the windows of the Great Sept comforts her. Three candles are lit: her mother, her late husband, Lucerys. The candles are burning and burning and burning, but the heat of the fire does not reach her. She has not felt warm since Aemond’s return from Storm’s End.
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Following Alicent through her journey of disillusionment and her exploration of sexuality, gender and motherhood.Canon compliant for season 2 (chapter 1), after which the story continues as a speculative work for seasons 3 and 4 based on Fire & Blood.
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16 Aug 2024
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Fire of Passion and Thrones by mkkmbaab22
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Top Love Stories (Comics), Love Story - Taylor Swift (Song)
16 Feb 2025
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Princess Rhaenyra and Queen Alicent, bound by fate and divided by circumstance, find themselves entangled in a forbidden love affair. This fanfiction explores their complex relationship, from enemies to lovers, set against the backdrop of Westeros. (Rhaenyra 19 years old, Alicent 28 years old. Rhaenyra G!P)
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16 Aug 2024
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to be alone with you by haydovesfavouritechild
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV)
17 Aug 2024
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for the sad rhaenicent fans who want to see them happy
not a short fic! lots more chapters coming and will be updated regularly :)Bookmarked by Xptrx3
12 Aug 2024
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the essence of sin is disordered love by rotten (catgamer)
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
17 Apr 2025
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It’s a downright demeaning way to live, she inherently knows this. Alicent used to think one day she would let the guilt get the best of her and end this thing between them before it even really got started, but she’s come to realize over the last few months how weak she is.
It makes her feel dizzy to realize how afraid she is, and how despite that fear, she does it anyway. Gives in time and time again, like Rhaenyra is not a spoiled brat and instead some undeniable force of nature.
(Or, where time and time again Rhaenyra proves she is far from being scrupulous to get what she wants, and time and time again Alicent proves she can’t deny what she undeniably wants.)
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09 Aug 2024
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And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow by mrdcai
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Sep 2024
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Rhaenyra breathes hard at the proximity. Steps even closer. She does not know why, but she wants to. Craves it. Her usual stony restraint and goading spitefulness when dealing with a furious, self-righteous Queen Alicent having slipped away, leaving only the gnawing want underneath. A feeling that she has rarely acknowledged over these last years though it has been there all along. She feels its force course through her fiercely, unchallenged for the first time in a long time.
“You still wish to reconcile with me?” Rhaenyra whispers in astonishment.
Alicent squeezes her eyes shut, exhales shakily, but she does not move away.
“That is not- do you not see- Oh, Seven Hells.” Alicent lets out a groan of vexation and then lurches forward capturing Rhaenyra’s lips in a bruising kiss.
(Or the Magic Fertility Ritual AU where Alicent and Rhaenyra get each other pregnant and fight each other until they decide to fight for their family)
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05 Aug 2024