#his handmaid’s tales

[themotherofhorses]

his handmaid's tales (masterlist)

pairing: aemond targaryen x handmaid!reader

For his twentieth nameday, Queen Alicent had gifted her second son his very own handmaid. “He is the only of my children not to have one. I’d like for her to be sweet and devoted and quick on her feet, a girl who will swear her undying loyalty and service unto him and his needs,” she had declared. We’re to believe Prince Aemond graciously accepted this gift, much to the delight of the queen. But Queen Alicent herself never expected pure and true romance to blossom. So smitten was the prince with this girl, the pretty bastard daughter of a serving wench from Harrenhal (as Mushroom claimed). Towards the end of 130 AC, Prince Aemond had taken his handmaid as his bedmate, and later sired all three of her children. Any hour away from his dragon was spent in the company of his “sweet girl”, as he soon dubbed her. These are the tales of their love story.

"i am looking for a maid, preferably one of eight-and-ten...a young handmaid for my second son, aemond."

aemond realizes he’s fallen in love with his handmaid five months later as he stands outside his bedchamber.

“please,” aemond begs, keeping you flush against him as he nuzzles your breasts. “allow me to make love to you, sweet girl.”

“she is pregnant.” his queen mother’s palm slams heavily down on the dark council table, loud as a thunderclap. “she is pregnant! aemond!”

“she’s a bastard—‘innit the truth, mother?”

lucerys velaryon witnesses a moment he should've never laid eyes upon.

cassandra baratheon dreams of prince aemond. the same cannot be said for prince aemond himself.

intimate moments:

bath time

against his desk

practice

others:

flowers and courting

mother's day special

hair braiding

family picnic

sfw headcanons

handmaid!reader tag

#aemond targaryen x reader #aemond targaryen x you #aemond fanfiction #hotd aemond #aemond smut #aemond drabble #aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #aemond the kinslayer #handmaid!reader #his handmaid’s tales #masterlist #house of the dragon #house of the dragon imagine #hotd fanfic #vic writes 🧸

[asteria-of-the-stars]

‘You seem to be enjoying the fruits of my labour that came to me too young’ - Paris Paloma, The Fruits.

Alicent Hightower and Viserys Targaryen, House of the Dragon // Hozier, Swan Upon Leda // Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale // Paris Paloma, Labour // Joanna Russ, The Female Man

#I’m in my feelings #through his child bride he finally gets what he wants #with absolutely no regard to her personhood #just as he had always done #web weaving #mine #alicent hightower #viserys targaryen #house of the dragon #margaret atwood #the handmaids tale #paris paloma #labour #Hozier #Swan upon Leda #Joanna Russ #the female man #girlhood #womanhood

[sher-ee]

This is what Grace did while books are being burned, her friends arrested and women’s rights taken away.

#donald trump #gop #you must vote blue #biden harris 2024 #under his control #womens rights #democracy #the handmaid's tale #republicans #vote biden #save our country #democrats

[bisexualseraphim]

Bigots who burst a vessel over gay and trans people existing because it’s “not natural” are the funniest people on the planet because like. Babygirl the car you drive isn’t natural. The house you live in didn’t magically appear, it’s not natural. The phone you’re using to call people slurs on Twitter isn’t natural. If you need glasses to see, they’re not natural. If you have a job standing on your feet all day at Target, that’s not natural. This whole ✨marriage✨ thing you’re obsessed with protecting isn’t natural. 99% of things human beings have done for the last 5000 years or more aren’t “natural” so unless you want to go back to completely living like homo habilis I don’t want to hear shit about “natural”

#Inspired by MAP Walsh who is 100% a Darwinism denier anyway #Like he doesn’t even annoy me it just amuses me how fuming he gets by me just existing #To the point that his entire 🤭 ‘career’ 🤣 is built off of it #Feel bad for his wife and kids though jeez #Bro genuinely has a full The Handmaid’s Tale view on women and children it’s grim #Hope they escape this hell and write a tell-all book in 20 years #Oh and JKR is cuddly with him so. Some feminist she is #They all have one brain cell between them and it’s never whole #homophobia #queerphobia #transphobia #bigots #bigotry #conservatives #anti conservative #misogyny #lgbtq #queer #gay #trans

[splitscreen]

The Handmaid’s Tale | 5x09 — Allegiance └ dir. Bradley Whitford

#the handmaid's tale #tht s5 spoilers #osblaine #nick blaine #june osborne #max minghella #elisabeth moss #so happy brad got to direct his kids

[nickblaine]

so funny to me that everyone thinks there has to be some master plan behind nick punching lawrence. he’s just an idiot in love

#rae.txt #the handmaid's tale #nick blaine #osblaine #did everyone collectively forget all his previous idiot in love moments #like yelling june's name on the street or making out with her in a hospital full of guardians

[nickblainesgf]

a glimpse at nick and june’s phone call in E3 from the episode teaser on hulu!

#the handmaid's tale #tht season 5 spoilers #nick blaine #june osborne #osblaine #i’m so interested in how this call is gonna go #also more nick in his suspenders at least they’re giving us that lol

[super-oddity]

#get his ass rose! #but… #osblaine #the handmaids tale #nick blaine #max minghella #rose blaine #carey cox

[bloomeng]

i’m neutral on omegaverse but just an observation…

omegaverse has such potential to be true gender fuckery and ppl explain it as such but then you get into it and it’s like: omegas: the one with reproductive organs who’s more feminine vs alphas: the more masculine one

and don’t even get me started on how “omega’s are second class citizens/ sex slaves” plots end up playing out

smh i’ve seen straight smut more subversive

#txt #does this count as vent? #whatever #this isn’t to say all omegaverse conent has this issue #it just irks me that a large portion of it does #like yes yes ik it’s just supposed to be smut #but lord i can’t but consider the built in misogyny to the au #and like it feels like it should be an handmaids tale thing where it would be commentary #but the amount of times i’ve seen ppl double down #read a fic once about omega discrimination that literally ended with the omega in a relationship with his alpha #and he just accepted that he would always be a second class citizen

[smoulderingocean]

Bring 👏 back 👏 Nick 👏 Blaine's 👏 curls 👏

#the handmaid's tale #nick blaine #whoever did his hair this season should be ashamed #who would remove curls??? #who??? #a monster that's who #as a fellow curly head i feel this injustice most acutely

[chaosology]

under his eye

Joel Miller x Reader

warnings: all disturbing theme's common to the Handmaid's Tale, will specify chapter by chapter. canon divergence. the apocalypse is more recent because i chewed up the timelines and spat them out.

summary: When civilisation fell in the wake of cordyceps, another rose from the ashes. The Republic of Gilead took the opportunity while the world wasn't looking to rebuild, kidnapping travellers and children to restore the birth rate and create their ideal society.

coming soon, ehehehe :D... read something else while you wait?

#tlou fanfiction #the last of us fanfiction #the last of us crossover #tlou crossover #joel miller x reader #joel miller x female reader #joel miller x you #joel miller x fem!reader #handmaids tale fanfiction #the handmaids tale fanfiction #the handmaids tale x reader #the handmaids tale crossover #fanfiction #under his eye series

[themotherofhorses]

pairing: aemond targaryen x handmaid!reader

summary: “she is pregnant.” his queen mother’s palm slams heavily down on the dark council table, loud as a thunderclap. “she is pregnant! aemond!”

warnings: explicit language. angst. protective!aemond being a hot hypocrite and defending his bastard. fluff towards the end. i can't make alicent a villain in this, i just can't (sorry not sorry).

notes: a lot of ppl requested alicent's reaction to handmaid getting pregnant, so here it is.

his handmaid's tales | main masterlist

“She is pregnant.”

His queen mother’s palm slams heavily down on the dark council table, loud as a thunderclap. “She is pregnant! Aemond!” and her voice only loudens, “I brought her for you to have as your handmaid, not your bedmate! Seven hells, Aemond! She was not meant to be your personal whore to toy around with whenever you felt bored!”

Aemond feels his lips slightly twitch at her words. “She is not a whore, mother, nor will I stand here and allow for you to insult her.”

“AEMOND!”

The other councilors remain silent, doing their finest in pretending that they were somewhere else. Aemond knows he would have none of their support or backing in this- he is alone in defending his beloved handmaid and their child. Gods give me peace. Two moons back, Lord Tyland Lannister offered up his niece as a wife. Now he sits with his hands wringed together, shaking his head and sneaking him a scowl. He could only imagine the lord’s thoughts of him.

No doubt they’d all be ill-pleasant.

His mother sighs. “Might it be too late to sneak her the moon tea, Grand Maester?” she asks.

“I would say so, your Grace.” Grand Maester Orwyle clears his throat. “The handmaid, she is already a month or so pregnant, mayhap even two. You could give her the tea, but it might risk harm on both the mother and babe, perhaps even an unsavory death…”

“Death...?” Aemond repeats, aghast.

Her face falls into her hands, and she heaves a deep breath before glancing around the council table. The men all shift uncomfortably.

“Might you consider sending her away, my Queen?” Lord Tyland proposes with a sly smile. “Perhaps back home?”

Aemond’s head quickly snaps to Lord Tyland, violet eye narrowing. His fist clenches tightly at his side, near the dagger sheathed on his belt, at his waistline. “You would not dare separate them from me,” he tells him coldly. “She now carries my babe, my heir, and I will not allow her to leave my side!”

“She carries your bastard in her belly, Aemond,” Otto begins, slowly, carefully. He lays a soft hand on Aemond’s sleeve, giving him a pitiful smile. “There is quite a difference between a realm’s legitimate heir and a bastard. I understand you are taken with the girl, my prince, and that she is good and kind to you. But, at the end of the day, you remain a Targaryen prince, who will wed when the time comes. How might your lady wife feel if she were to learn your servant mothered your bastards?”

Aemond shrugs. “Then I shall take her as my wife.”

“You cannot wed her, Aemond!” His mother shakes her head, as if he is some absentminded child. She looks much older too, as if the news aged her a good ten years in one night. He suddenly feels a tad guilty. “How many times must we discuss this! Your father will not allow nor bless this union, and neither will I! Damn you, Aemond! She is a baseborn girl- your damn handmaid! Her duty is to serve you as a servant, not a wife.”

“And yet-“ Aemond replies, trying to keep the scorn out of his voice, “-she treats me far better than everyone in this very room.” At that, his mother has enough shame to blush red. He continues, “I love her, and she loves me. Is that not enough? Does that not make you happy? My entire life, mother, I’ve done everything that was expected of me. I’ve studied and trained and fulfilled every princely obligation of mine while your firstborn flouts to do as he pleases! Aegon shames Helaena every night with an empty bed yet you refuse to acknowledge such! And yet, when I find love and happiness, you’re ready to punish me.”

He levels his bright purple eye to his mother’s face. “I love you, mother, but I love her as well, and I will not live a life without her.” And Aemond’s all but ready to collapse to his knees, to beg and plead her acceptance. It is the only one that truly matters amongst everyone else's.

Afterward, his mother sits in silence, staring down at her hands. The skin stretched around her nailbeds are both red and tender, and she wears only her wedding ring on the right. She turns to face her king husband’s Hand. “Well, there it is, father.”

“It makes little difference, my Queen.” Lord Wylde and Lord Tyland murmured in agreement.

“But would it truly be wise to separate father from child, Lord Hand?” Lord Beesbury asks, pointing at the Hand, white eyebrows arched high. Otto Hightower raises his own eyebrow in return. “She is lowborn, yes, but a royal babe still sleeps in her womb.”

"A bastard, Lord Beesbury, mothered by the daughter of a milk cow."

A milk cow? Aemond blinks, momentarily confused. But before he could say anything further, his mother makes her final judgment on the matter.

The queen slowly rests her elbow on the table before plopping her chin atop her palm. “My son’s to be a father,” she says, a faint smile twisting on her lips. She repeats it again, almost like she doesn’t believe it. “A father…” Aemond feels a bit of hope blossoming inside his chest. “Pray tell, would you rather me separate him from his trueborn child? The child that is still his child, his own blood, bastard or not. We can argue on this matter till we are purple in the face, my lords, but the truth still remains,” she declares, before taking Aemond’s hand in hers, thin fingers laced with his.

“Take me to see her, son.”

At once, multiple voices arise in protest. His grandsire calls his mother’s name, but she ignores him as she stands to her feet. “I do beg your pardon, my lords, but I must see my grandchild.” Aemond bows, victorious, and turns on his heel without another word, feeling all eyes on his back as he strolls from the council chambers with his mother, her hand still in his. The doors closing shut behind them silences all the lords, and his mother sighs.

“My sincerest apologies, my dear Aemond, for referring to her as a whore,” she says, earnestly. “I know she is far from that, and I must say I’m rather fond of her.”

Outside, Ser Criston Cole was stationed, wearing his long white cloak of the Kingsguard. He gives the two a curious look but remains silent and still, straightening his shoulders when they pass by him. Aemond wonders if he overheard the small council’s session, and whether he agrees more with his mother or grandsire.

It does not matter, Aemond decides, pressing a soft kiss to his mother’s knuckles, in a show of forgiveness that makes her smile. He loves her too much to remain irate and frustrated with her, especially once she mentioned her soft spot for his girl. His queen mother- good and fair to the smallfolk- is the same with his handmaid. And his future children as well, he hopes.

“You’ll be a wonderful father,” she tells him, tucking a long strand of silver hair behind his ear. “And I mean it.”

He brings her to his bedchamber, where his handmaid sits on the settee, dutifully sewing up one of his tunics. When they arrive at his doors, she’s quick to bolt onto her feet, falling into a small courtesy. She wears a thick and ugly serving dress that hides her swelling belly underneath but does little to dull her beauty.

“My queen! My prince…”

Aemond takes her arm, pulling her alongside him. “My mother wishes to speak to you, my love,” he explains, gazing down into her eyes. His thumb strokes her cheekbone before he takes a step back, and his mother takes his place.

Before her, his love trembles, and he knows she’s awfully scared. It breaks his heart a little. He forewarned her of the small council’s gathering this morning, and how the maester told the queen of her pregnancy and the decision that would likely be made. She cried that entire night he held her, and neither got a wink of sleep.

“Your Grace…!” she sputters in a quavering voice, hand dropping to her tummy. “I beg of you…”

But his mother says nothing, instead cradling his sweet girl’s pretty face within her hands before leaning to kiss her temple. When she pulls back, her big brown eyes are soft and kind. “You’ll make a lovely mother, my dear,” she mumbles, and it is enough for his handmaid to break into a sob, falling limp as Queen Alicent holds her close, running a hand up and down her back.

“Thank you!” she cries through jagged gasps and wheezes. “I was so scared. I- thank you, my Queen, thank you. Thank you!”

His mother gently lifts her face upwards, wiping away the fat tears streaking down her cheeks. “Shhh, there was little to worry about, sweetling,” she coos. “Aemond wouldn’t have let anything happen to you, believe me. A man in love, with everything to lose, is perhaps the fiercest warrior to be found on the battlefield.”

Perhaps?

Aemond watches as his mother comforts his handmaid, mouthing small praises and pleasantries while stroking her hair back, doing her best in calming her down until her eyes are dry. Several minutes later, the two women are discussing the babe, with Queen Alicent sharing memories of the early days of her own pregnancies. The sight before him makes his heart swell in his breast, and he then recalls the words exchanged back in the council chambers.

I’m to be a father, and hopefully a husband soon.

He crosses his hands behind his back, smiling..

It seems to be true, he thinks, that there is indeed no more beautiful sight than your woman swelling with your baby.

But no one spoke of the beauty that follows when your mother accepts her grandchild for the first time, and the blinding glow that brightens your woman’s face when she realizes such has happened.

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#aemond targaryen x reader #aemond targaryen x you #aemond fanfiction #aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #aemond the kinslayer #handmaid!reader #his handmaid’s tales #house of the dragon #house of the dragon imagine #hotd fanfic #vic writes 🧸

[skyshipper]

Max Minghella as Nick Blaine Handmaid’s Tale - Season 5, Episode 2

#nick blaine #max minghella #handmaids tale #thtedit #handmaidstaleedit #skyshippergifs #i can't give up on nick blaine #does anyone else think bruce steals his ideas from fans? #this whole tuello setup has been fan speculation/hope for years #lol #whatever #the writing of this show sucks but nick blaine still has my heart #fuck these dark scenes though #what a pain to gif

[dystopiandramaqueen]

"One of the biggest casting challenges of the show presented itself when it came time to find the actor who would play Nick, Commander Waterford's driver, June's engmatic lover, and a potential Eye of Gilead.

Despite the showrunner's plans for the character, his presence in the pilot episode was limited to only a few lines.

Thomas recalls "For anybody who had that question, we said, "Look, we haven't felt like this since the infamous Breaking Bad. This is something special. This will be something great. You need to trust us."

And that led to actors getting on the phone with Bruce and talking it through, because they were making a commitment based on maybe one or two lines in the script...and Max Minghella saw through all of that and came in and read, in a climate where he doesn't have to come in and read if he doesn't want to."

It was a commitment that was easy to make for Minghella. "The truth is that before I even read the pilot script, it was sent to me with real support from people I worked with who...really believed it was something I should be part of. And then when I read it... it was genuinely just in a different league to anything I'd read in quite some time."

"For me, the most interesting thing about playing Nick is the element of spy on spy on spy," he says. '"That ambiguity in the book is compelling, and then even more so in the TV show, where we have to live with these characters for a very long time. I don't want to give all my cards away that quickly, so I thought it was a less-is-more situation.

"Nick in the book is very much a cipher," explains Kira Snyder, co-executive producer and writer of the episode where we learn more about Nick's history. "Nick is part of the political structure, he's part of the power apparatus...but how did he get there? Part of the fun of that episode was to kind of peel back the mystery of this young man and see where he came from, how he got recruited, and how his idealism was turned against him, how it was curdled by the corrupt system of Gilead. How he keeps trying to find something to believe in, some way to make things work, make things good. Which is what we see with his becoming an Eye; he doesn't have alot of ways to strike back at the Commander, but through his role as part of the secret police informer network he has the ability to try to keep a check on the man."

-The Art and Making of The Handmaid's Tale

#nick blaine #osblaine #nick x june #the art and making of the handmaid's tale #come thru bruce #we're counting on you #breaking bad was a story of a normal man #who grew in his power #to become a kingpin #changing and overtaking the game #here by the light of the full moon #i call in this debt #make it big #make it like the ending of s4 #you got this

[splitscreen]

2x12 | 5x03

#the handmaid's tale #osblaine #tht s5 spoilers #nick blaine #june osborne #yes i caught his lil nod after june said she was smart!!! #HE KNEW #right after she was born he already knew

[nickblaine]

how i sleep at night knowing someone canonically affirmed nick’s worthiness

#rae.txt #the handmaid's tale #nick blaine #osblaine #do u know how long i've waited to hear someone say that to his face