a mother's only daughter - alicent & helaena

hello!!!!!! sorry for not posting lol. i graduated with a bachelors degree and moved in with my boyfriend and ive just been busy honestly. but here we are now! i hope this small thing i made kinda gets me back on the editing grind but we'll see. i know i wanna do a "the greens 2" kinda edit, like this one i made for season 1:    • THE GREENS - house of the dragon   but for season 2 instead.

anyway. im very much enjoying season two of house of the dragon. the greens are proving that they ARE in fact more interesting teehee!!!! love that we're getting more of phia saban as helaena, shes so insanely talented i love her. and ofc i love olivia cooke as alicent. and i love their scenes. so i made this. imagine it's alicent humming helaena to sleep as a child!

the poem in the video is dead butterfly by ellen bass. though i cut one bit of it out bc it didnt fit lol. but here is the full poem below. i like it a lot :)

For months my daughter carried
a dead monarch in a quart mason jar.
To and from school in her backpack,
to her only friend’s house. At the dinner table
it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast.
She took it to bed, propped by her pillow.

Was it the year her brother was born?
Was this her own too-fragile baby
that had lived—so briefly—in its glassed world?
Or the year she refused to go to her father’s house?
Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became there?

This plump child in her rolled-down socks
I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me
and carry safe again. What was her fierce
commitment? I never understood.
We just lived with the dead winged thing
as part of her, as part of us,
weightless in its heavy jar.

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