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House of the Dragon: Season 3, Episode 6 – Faceless Men

“He means to show the realm that I cannot even govern in my own seat. The great house watch while he humiliates me. Where is my army?”

(SPOILER WARNING!)

Rhaenyra and the Blacks may have taken King’s Landing, but the civil war continues apace in this week’s House of the Dragon. Well, I say “apace”, but it’s not exactly a fast pace; however, despite a lot of talky scenes, there is a surprising amount happening this week. We get a battle, an unsuccessful assassination attempt, and a successful kidnapping of one of the war’s most important players. And yet somehow, it still seems rather static.

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It’s a Sin

“Boys die, in London, and they say it’s cancer, or pneumonia, and they don’t say what it really is. But it’s a lie, and I don’t want that. Do you know why? I had so much fun.”

(SPOILER WARNING – FOR THE WHOLE SERIES. ALSO PROBABLY NSFW)

In 1988, I was at university, and in denial. My eyes were drawn to attractive boys, furtively, pretending not to look. Glancing over my shoulder as they passed, sneaking looks at their behinds, clad in those late-80s stonewashed jeans that were ever so slightly too tight. Thinking about them as I lay in my creaky single bed in halls, trying not to make too much noise while I had a quick wank imagining them naked. But I wasn’t gay, I told myself. How could I be? Even with my ultra-liberal, Doctor Who-founded tolerance of every creed, colour and sexual orientation, some part of me, deep down, was ashamed.

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