The Dragons Are Back

Why serve in Heaven? Her Majesty Daenerys Targaryen.

[lookingforasphodels]

Daenerys Targaryen

[patchouii]

Not only is Hannibal Lecter an infamous genius serial killer cannibal, he’s been the original malewife, simp and classy diva since 1988…….

[burbatch]

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Dir. Jonathan Demme

[creatortimetravel]

it's interesting that there are so many important women in Hannibal Lecter's life: his mother, sister, aunt, Clarice. but not a single man who had any significant influence on his personality. he's such a mommy's boy

[userlecter]

So, can we talk a little bit about how Clarice's last name is Starling?

The Starling bird most people are familiar with is the Common Starling. During her first meeting with Hannibal, he says:

"And you'd hate to think you were common. Wouldn't that sting? My! Well, you're far from common, Officer Starling. All you have is fear of it."

Clarice was warned to not let Hannibal Lecter inside of her head but Starlings are an invasive species.

Clarice's invasion didn't cause destruction but she entered his life and never left him. He escaped but wrote her letters. He checked 3 newspapers every week for 7 years to see if she wrote him back. Clarice ended up in his home, spending his money, living in his mind.

Someone should have warned Hannibal about Starlings.

[thatisentertainment]

The Silence of the Lambs 1991 | Jonathan Demme

[pepelinkri]

this fandom is so fucking obnoxious with how it treats mental illness, particularly when it comes to targaryens. the equation of mental disorders with evil is just so anachronistic i'd think i'm talking to my 60 yo father and not a bunch of progressives on tumblr

in terms of dany and targaryens in general, aerys is kind of the poster child for madness. in agot when you start learning about the family you already learn about "the mad king". but i'd argue that even with aerys, a modern reader should have a degree of pity for him. he was a dick before he because psychotic and you can argue back and forth about whether that was early symptoms or just his personality. he was an ass to his wife and he was best friends with tywin for a reason, but there was no indication he got any kind of glee out of the suffering of others. his psychosis started after duskendale, which is reasonable enough. extreme stress can manifest disorders you're predisposed to, in his case presumably paranoid shizophrenia. it's hard to talk about aerys without acknowledging his victims but personally, as someone who has worked with severely mentally ill people, i can't really see them as victims of aerys himself. like, a great deal of schizophrenic people can't work because working makes their symptoms worse. they need to lead quiet, stress free lives to maintain stability and that's with the help of medication. aerys has done real harm to many people because he was put in charge of a continent and the pressure of that position (which already got him tortured once) made his symptoms get worse and worse. and while he was increasingly more and more unwell, people took advantage of his illness. this part is fact. its undeniable that varys whispering conspiracies to him made him worse and im sure the rest of the court wasn't being very understanding and fair about their king's clear cognitive decline. they didn't follow their shizophrenic king's increasingly insane orders out of concern for aerys' wellbeing but for personal gain

but, i cannot stress this enough, if aerys was treated with the kind of consideration shizophrenic people get nowadays and wasn't expected to shoulder the responsibility for westeros by himself, he would have also never hurt anyone. he didn't need to be murdered, he just needed to not be in charge so he could spend his life mentally ill (unfortunately i don't think his disorder would have really gone into remission without medication) but harmless and without ability to harm himself either. there's nothing wrong with being shizophrenic, you just don't put an unmedicated shizophrenic man as the head of the government. every single thing aerys did, other people nodded their heads to. he didnt personally cook wildfire, he didn't personally tie people to stakes and rig the brandon-rickard saw trap scenario, people working for him did it on his orders and that's exactly where jaime's moral dilemmas come in. he realised that people are complacently listening to an ill, raving man and eventually he realised even that aerys himself was just a person. i don't understand the way asoiaf fandom can't grasp that same thing, that "this mentally ill person shouldn't rule for their and their subjects' sakes" doesn't have to mean "they are an evil spawn of satan, their every decision is deliberately obscene and they have to be executed on the spot"

they watch dany for signs of evil in her soul or whatever but all that it boils down to is "does this person have the capacity to be a good leader" which yes, she does. if you don't think that a throwaway line means she will turn into satan and have a complete personality change (because that is how mental illness works, apparently) there's no reason to assume she couldn't do her work as the head of state

[dailyclassicart]

Thomas Cole - "The Voyage of Life: Old Age" (1839)

[darkpagesworld]

[toastradamus-deactivated2022111]

haters will see you ressurect and be like “he cant afford a funeral”

[daeneryxx]

there’s no way some fuckers genuinely think jon snow can beat this level of prince that was promised aura.

people literally WORSHIPPED her.

my queen, i miss you everyday 😩

[james-summer]

All of the other people in this fandom who claim "xyz Targaryen better than Daenerys" forget one single most important thing, each and every one of those Targaryens serve as a plot device and buildup to explain her ancestry.

Lets not forget the first Targaryen we meet is DANY, in mix with a mention of Aegon the Conqueror, the first Targaryen GRRM created was HER, not her brother or any other Targaryen, HER, she is the one they have dreamt of their whole dynasty, including Aegon, she is the one who brings the dragons back and you best believe she will fulfil the prophecy

also this is much needed, I need people to understand that the reason she's able to hatch those Dragon eggs doesn't have anything to do with her being a Targaryen, because many have tried before her and failed (Horribly at that) but the reason she's able to hatch them is because she's the Prince who was Promised, she is Azor Ahai.

[stormbornphoenix]

i find there is something so hauntingly beautiful and poetic about dany being the freedmen’s hope, but the dragons being dany’s

art: gary gianni & ian kirkpatrick

[mikastormborn]

I was thinking about how in every book Daenerys always ends with a triumphant moment:

The wondorous and epic birth of the dragons

A Game of Thrones - Daenerys X

Her deciding to go to Westeros and that every man who sees the ships carrying her to know that the dragons are returned

A Clash of Kings - Daenerys V

Her deciding to rule Meereen (to stay, rule and be a queen)

A Storm of Swords - Daenerys VI

And how Khal Jhaqo and "half a hundred mounted warriors" find her

A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys X

[zathura-art]

“Behind the Black Wall, lords of ancient blood sleep poorly, listening as their kitchen slaves sharpen their long knives. Slaves grow our food, clean our streets, teach our young. They guard our walls, row our galleys, fight our battles. And now when they look east, they see this young queen shining from afar, this breaker of chains.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

[terrorignitis]

Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted / by your beautiful ghost.

Empress Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王)

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)