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Dany being just a child dreaming of her home💙

I came across a photo of the muse somewhere and immediately thought of Dany - I like the image of her as a child whose childhood ended too soon, it breaks my heart, but I'm a masochist🥲

Maybe I'll find time to do a proper art💙

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen art

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The Prince That Was Promised

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen edit #moodboard #i'm loving this moodboard series

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Barristan 🤝 the slaves 🤝 Daenerys breaking the slavers' peace

"Your gods are far away, Ser Grandfather," said the Widower. "I do not think they hear your prayers. And when the Yunkai'i send back the old woman to spit in your eye, what then?"

"Fire and blood," said Barristan Selmy, softly, softly.

For a long moment no one spoke. Then Strong Belwas slapped his belly and said, "Better than liver and onions," and Skahaz Shavepate stared through the eyes of his wolf's head mask and said, "You would break King Hizdahr's peace, old man?"

"I would shatter it." (ADWD, The Queen's Hand)

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Daenerys Targaryen was wed, the guards on the pens had told them, laughing. She had taken a Meereenese slaver as her king, as wealthy as he was noble, and when the peace was signed and sealed the fighting pits of Meereen would open once again. Other slaves insisted that the guards were lying, that Daenerys Targaryen would never make peace with slavers. Mhysa, they called her. Someone told him that meant Mother. Soon the silver queen would come forth from her city, smash the Yunkai'i, and break their chains, they whispered to one another. (ADWD, Tyrion X)

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"It is such a long way," she complained. "I was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. I am only a young girl."

No. You are the blood of the dragon. The whispering was growing fainter, as if Ser Jorah were falling farther behind. Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words.

"Fire and Blood," Daenerys told the swaying grass. (ADWD, Daenerys X)

#asoiaf meta #daenerys targaryen #barristan selmy

[rainhadaenerys]

I take it you don't think of dany as an colonizer or imperialist either

I do not. She's not engaging in a project of colonisation in metropolis-colony terms, nor one of empire-building in the terms of late 19th, early 20th century construction of capital - which is what those words mean.

Is Dany's story laced with themes of white saviourism? Yeah, absolutely. Even if you don't think of her as *white*, the themes and imagery are still very much taken from orientalist fiction.

Is Dany a good ruler? Not really, and I think that the crux of her story in A Dance With Dragons is meant to mirror Jon's, of both of them failing their projects of power and retreating towards magic again after being touched by a whole book of counting beets and negotiating with the elites. Jon dies, and Dany is left stranded and captured by the khalasar. They are failure points, contrasting where they leave A Storm of Swords in triumph.

But she's not really starting up the British Empire or the Portuguese Ultramarine Empire in Meereen.

Oh, also. She's 14.

#asoiaf meta #daenerys targaryen #dany shows plenty of political skills that people gloss over when they read adwd #and also plenty of qualities that grrm identifies as the qualities of a good ruler in his story and his interviews

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Azor Ahai Reborn

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen edit #moodboard

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See? You're not the only one who's clever.

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"As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet [...] for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons."

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen art #drogon #rhaegal #viserion

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I don't have the heart & strength to finish these Daenerys WIPs so here you go.

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The Stallion Who Mounts The World

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If TG wanna hate Targaryens and Daenerys, fine! Just stay consistent in your hatred. Stop stanning the Greens, they’re Targaryens and never once refer to themselves as Hightowers. Stop comparing your favs to Targaryens. Say goodbye to “my ship is just like Jaehaerys and Alysanne or Aemon and Naerys” and “my faves are like Aegon, Rhaenys and Visenya.” Stop wanting your faves to have dragons, I thought they’re weapons of mass destruction and nuclear bombs ? Stop giving them elements of Daenerys’ storyline, her quotes, titles and traits. No more “I’m no ordinary woman, my dreams come true” for Helaena, no “mother of dragons” titles for Alicent and Elia, no more “my fave will ride one of Daenerys’ dragons!” Stop stanning House Tully, Baratheon and Tyrell, they owe their relevance to Aegon the Colonizer, they are literally collaborators with a colonial government per your own arguments! Stop wanting Jon to be the son of Rhaegar, he was a colonizer who cheated on his Italianx wife, stop basing your arguments on Jon being Azor Ahai on the basis of being Rhaegar’s son, stop fantasizing about him riding a dragon or wielding Dark Sister. Stop wanting your favs to sit on the Iron Throne, that’s a Targaryen creation, and by the way they should not rule the Seven Kingdom’s either, this state was created by House Targaryen, let Westeros decolonize and go back to being seven backwards regions going to war under the smallest pretext! Stop stanning Young Griff, he’s a Targaryen and canonically doesn’t mention his Martell mother. Stop whining about the deaths of Jaehaera and Helaena, they’re Targaryens, shouldn’t you be happy that there’s two less ? Stop watching HOTD and don’t watch any future Targaryen centric prequels. Stop shipping Rhaenicent, one part of this ship is literally someone you consider a nazi colonizer whose ancestors genocided Westerosi, why would you want her anywhere near your pure Andal favorite ?

The truth is that the Targaryens are the coolest house in ASoIaF with some of the best characters and Targ antis know it.

#fandom wank #daenerys targaryen #house targaryen

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The Dragon Queen

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen edit #moodboard

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Daenerys Stormborn

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Jon and Daenerys by @miumiukawaii on Instagram

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen art #jon snow #jonerys #jonerys art

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I don't think we need a monologue or explicit statement from Dany renouncing the Targaryens of Old Valyria for owning slaves and the Old Valyrians for spreading slavery through Essos. She never thinks about them, she doesn't have them on a pedestal in her mind. She has a favorable viewpoint of her immediate family, mostly Rhaegar, that she was taught by her brother. I dont think we need to see Dany explicitly state for the readers that her slave owning ancestors were evil and she disagrees with them because her actions show this.

#asoiaf meta #daenerys targaryen

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Mother of Monsters

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen edit #moodboard

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Our baby girl and Queen

Daenerys Targaryen

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The Stallion Who Mounts The World

Inspired by Viktor Vasnetsov's painting The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen art #silver #drogon #rhaegal #viserion