ssnowstorm
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I dreamed about you continually last night, in all kinds of places and confusions.
Ted Hughes, from ‘Letters of Ted Hughes’ — Sylvia Plath, 18th October 1956
Your reign is over. My reign has just begun.
Dany had never looked upon the Usurper’s face, yet seldom a day had passed when she had not thought of him. His great shadow had lain across her since the hour of her birth, when she came forth amidst blood and storm into a world where she no longer had a place. And now this ebony stranger had lifted that shadow.
— ACOK, Daenerys II
[...] “Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it.”
— AFFC, Samwell IV
[...] “The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true Targaryen.” [...]
— ADWD, Tyrion II
If I look back, I am lost
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Arya: How long have you two been married?
Jon: *looking at Daenerys* Not long enough.
Daenerys: *trying not to smile because she wants to act like the comment meant nothing when really it meant the world*
Arya: *pretend barfing*
Inspired by jxlight
“You know I’m old in some ways. In others, well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness and I dread responsibility.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via mrsfscottfitzgerald)
A Song of Ice and Fire
Buy her flowers
Murder her enemies
Give her the dick.
In that order
(post season 8) jon @ dany
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
when i say i am a daenerys apologist what i mean is I’M SORRY she’s better than your fave in anything you could imagine, I’M SORRY she has everything you wish your fave had, I’M SORRY she’s an icon and a symbol of asoiaf, okay, I APOLOGIZE your fave simply is not on the same level as her, I’M SORRY
a very dumb jon & dany modern au sketch
in my defence… i’ve warned you about this
The prophecies in the House of the Undying correspond with the three phases of Dany’s life:
Phase 1: Marriage to Drogo, her time on the Dothraki sea (daughter of death, a fire for life, a mount to bed, a treason for blood)
Phase 2: Her antislavery campaign (slayer of lies, a fire for death, a mount to dread, a treason for gold)
Phase 3: A dream of spring, which will only come after defeating the Others (bride of fire, a fire to love, a mount to love, a treason for love)
Three fires:
A fire for life––Drogo’s funeral pyre gives rise to her three living dragons
A fire for death––Dany kills Kraznys with Drogon’s dragon fire and initiates her anti-slavery revolution
A fire for love––yet to be revealed
Three mounts:
A mount to bed––she rides the Silver to her wedding night with Drogo
A mount to dread––Drogon, who is “Balerion the Black Dread” come again, whom she rides at the end of ADWD, before she explicitly rejects the false peace with the Meereneese slavers
A mount for love––yet to be revealed
Three treasons (under my interpretation of Dany as the treasonous agent/subject, not the object being betrayed):
A treason for blood––Dany betrays Mirri’s own use of blood magic by using blood magic to birth her dragons as well as executing Mirri to avenge her own blood (her unborn son)
A treason for gold––Dany negotiated a business deal with Kraznys whereby she’d purchase his Unsullied in return for one of her dragons but betrays him by starting an antislavery revolution, which also leads her to overseeing the former slaves redistributing the wealth of the slaveowners in Yunkai and conquering Meereen to free slaves and feed her freedmen
A treason for love––yet to be revealed
Within her daughter of death, slayer of lies, and bride of fire prophecies, the correspondence is a little shakier, but still holds true:
Death of Viserys happens with the Dothraki––> leads to her becoming the scion of House Targaryen and Queen Regnant
Death of Rhaego––> she is the Stallion that will Mount the World, not Rhaego, and though his death also happens when she’s with the Dothraki, it is she who will free slaves, unite the Dothraki into one horde, and invade Westeros, not Rhaego
Death of Rhaegar––> she is Azor Ahai, the Prince that was Promised, the last dragon, and hers is the song of ice and fire; neither Rhaegar nor his firstborn will fulfill the prophecy
She slays the lie of Stannis being Azor Ahai while she’s still with the Dothraki, because that’s when she births her dragons
She slays the lie of Aegon, the Mummer’s Dragon, by being “Aegon the Conqueror with Teats” as she conquers Slaver’s Bay
She will slay the lie of Euron being a dragon-rider/user of dragons when he uses his dragonbinder to steal a dragon
She marries Drogo (with the Dothraki), then marries Hizdahr (when she’s in Slaver’s Bay, Meereen specifically; this is also when Victarion and Euron want to marry her), and she will marry… a certain someone, later on
Also, each of her prophetic dreams against fighting the Others corresponds with each part of her arc:
She has her first one when she’s having fever dreams after miscarrying Rhaego
She has her second one before she kills Kraznys and frees The Unsullied in Astapor
I wonder, then, when she will have her third one
Finally, it’s fascinating that each of her three prophecies ends with love. Not with blood, gold, dread, treason, or death; but with love. It’s so poetic that GRRM ends each of these life-defining prophecies with love. Dany is the embodiment of love. Her life is an emblem of love. And it’s like GRRM is telling us that this girl who is so loving and selfless and has been so bereft of love and care for so long, that her life is leading up to this great love and has been the whole time.
“It was often said that the Targaryen kings tended to be either madmen or brilliant rulers, and Daenerys seems to have inherited a natural gift for leadership as her birthright. Her followers generally regard her with great respect and love, and she is often compared to her deceased brother Rhaegar, a similarly charismatic leader who was known for his skill in combat, determination, scholarly mind and strong sense of justice.”
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
Tormund: Who is your favorite person?
Jon: Dany.
Tormund: Okay, who do you trust most?
Jon: Dany.
Tormund: Well, what's your favorite thing to do?!
Jon: ...Dany.
Tormund: What about your favorite thing to eat. It can't be Daenerys!
Jon: And yet.
They’ll come to see you for what you are.
u call her a “war criminal” and “tyrant” ...i call her “babygirl”
asoiaf & got characters // pt. XXXIII - Daenerys Targaryen (ver. I, ver. II, ver. III, ver. IV, ver. V, ver. VI, ver. VII, ver. VIII)
“The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don’t you see? Don’t you SEE? With a belch of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her. Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, calling to her children.”
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Jon: Can I get something off my chest?
Daenerys: Is it your shirt? Please say yes.
Jon: ...