First, I want to type out some shit. My mother and I discovered Game of Thrones together, we had just moved into a new home and she got us premium movie channels on TV for the first time! That’s when we saw all the behind the scenes style previews for this brand new, epic medieval fantasy show they were making. My mother and I both liked Lord of the Rings, so we were into it. We decided to watch the show when it came on air, and when we did, wow, we loved it, we fucking loved it, those memories of those days are some of the most clear out of all my life. I remember my mom when she was completely shook by Ned’s death! soon after, we got my brother into it, got her boyfriend into it, and I got most of my friends into it! All before Season 3. 2012-2013 is when my mother and I read the books, which back then there were only 2 seasons so we were very happy to discover the show followed it’s source material so closely. (lmao at the time then they said fuck Asoiaf)
We ended up hating S3 & S5, but we love 1,2,4,6, & we liked 7 even tho we admit it was flawed and rushed. My mother and I both have SO MUCH merchandise… when I got together with my boyfriend, I got him hella into the show right away and he totally loved it. It became a huge family thing, starting with my mom and I, and eventually getting all our friends and everybody’s lovers into it. My mother has ALWAYS loved House Stark, and I have ALWAYS loved Daenerys Targaryen. My brother was always super into the white walkers and beyond the wall, he loved the S7 finale with everything The Night King was accomplishing. I can only imagine his severe disappointment in this season, as I’ve yet to find out. He will probably love that they made Dany mad tho lmao.
I spent my high school years bleaching my hair TO DEATH because I wanted beautiful silver Targaryen hair like Dany. Oof. I have a real silver Targaryen sigil necklace, I have banners, I have a painting of Daenerys and her baby dragons, I have t-shirts, I HAVE LONGCLAW, I have several forms of the dragons (funko, comic con statues) I have the original DVD box sets S1-S6, I bought S1-7 for Blu-Ray, I have a mini Iron Throne statue (Boo from Mario occupies it lol) literally I have spent so much money on my obsession with Daenerys and GoT.
Daenerys is my all time favorite character ever… when I came up North to the country, I was instantly hated and treated like an outsider, I never did anything mean or wrong to people but I ended up having two workplaces/businesses turn against me for literally no reason, as I always did what was asked and I busted my ass to do good work, and nobody ever recognized me or appreciated me, and I was completely loathed by everybody (except my now boyfriend) anyways, so I really drew strength from Daenerys. I was surrounded by dumb uneducated country people, and wearing black & red, my Targaryen necklace, having platinum blonde braids… I truly felt like I came from a different world, I felt strong and confident, and since then I have always called myself a dragon and I have also taken the dragon as my own personal sigil. Today, my friends and family associate dragons with me very much, as I do with myself. All of that truly helped me survive those horrible abusive jobs, in these horrible ass-backwards northern Minnesota communities. Daenerys fucking saved me from this environment. She reminded me that I have never been nothing, I’m a mother fucking dragon.
Then Season 8 happened. They have DESTROYED Daenerys.
“they’ve always foreshadowed that she would go mad” “she has always made questionable decisions” Just SHUT. UP. This is wrong. She was clearly being portrayed as very heroic and otherworldly. She gave many women strength, and to have such a strong iconic FEMALE character that was GOOD, was so important and necessary for this age! An age of constant political distress, an age where #metoo is happening, an age where WOMEN need STRENGTH because god damn, everybody is out to get us just because we have vaginas. Daenerys was good representation for women and girls. Making her go mad because of fucking BELLS is such a betrayal to so many of us, it’s a betrayal to everything Dany and Emilia have been representing all these years, it fucking HURTS. I’m broken as fuck, I feel lost, I feel like my power and strength have been taken from me. It’s also very sloppy writing and story telling, she birthed dragons, she united the dothraki, she freed the slaves, she always did her best to choose the safest courses of actions for civilians and innocents, and she sailed to Westeros FINALLY, after I waited for YEARS to know whether or not she would ever leave Essos (I love Essos, wish she stayed, I always wanted her to rebuild Valyria) anyways she FINALLY SAILS TO WESTEROS, perfect timing with the White Walkers coming to wreck everything! Right?! Dragons and two massive LEGENDARY armies?! Just to… have her save the North with all that power, in which as a result she lost 2 of her dragons and huge portions of her army, two best friends… Jon doesn’t act like he loves or cares for her at all. He was hella stressed about the Night King, she saved his ass, he would NOT be such a dick like this!!! Dude wanted to stay dead because the White Walkers stressed him the fuck out so badly!!! Fuck! so Dany came to Westeros, does everything she can to avoid going extreme, contributes greatly to SAVING THE GOD DAMN WORLD AND ALL LIVING LIFE, and they make her miserable, isolated and hated without reason, as if she hasn’t suffered enough, and then make her go crazy as shit because of, of all things, BELLS?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! BELLS!
For F U C K S A K E and to make CERSEI a VICTIM like that?! Omfg.
YEARS of my life - wasted. I feel like a fucking idiot.
This is horrifying, it hurts, I refuse to believe it, I do not acknowledge this to be canon, Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, the Slayer of Lies, NOT THE MAD QUEEN!
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