#bookdaenerys

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❝ 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲.❞ — #𝐆𝐑𝐑𝐌. [lyannaweek2026 | Day 6] ⚘

“She had loved the scent of winter roses.” — “never a breath stirring the still blue air... The whispers became a swirling song...”

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[ghostofharrenhals]

Daenerys Targaryen ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚ mother of dragons

“It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.”

[bookdaenerystargaryen]

We are very excited to announce that we will be hosting a DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION WEEK this October, in collaboration with @asoiafdaenerysdaily and  @gameofthronesdaily. Please join us in celebrating the character of Daenerys Targaryen from the book series A Song of Ice and Fire.

We welcome all fanworks — be it gifsets, fanart, edits, videos, metas or graphics — as long as it’s made with love (and you use the tag #DANYWEEK2023). There is a list of prompts (along with alternative prompts) to get your creative juices flowing. Feel free to participate as much or as little as you would like!

🗓️ WHEN:

The event runs from October 9 to October 15, 2023.

#️⃣ WHAT TAGS TO USE:

Please tag your wonderful creations with the tag #danyweek2023, so that we can find your creations and reblog them. You can also use the tag #canondany for any book-based Dany content.

🎨 PROMPTS:

The prompts for #DanyWeek2023 are:

You can make content for one or the other prompt (or both)! You can make content for just some days or for the whole week. Just remember that it should be based on the novels (and not the show) and then tag us in your creations!

✨ We await your marvellous creations... ✨

[lorelei-4]

Why Daenerys would accept Jon and his true parentage and would not see him as her rival?

Just another bad Dany characterization GoT did is making her sorry and angry with Jon being a trueborn son to Rhaegar and Lyanna and posing a "threat" to her claim. I wouldn't discuss the rights of inheritance, or if Jon is truly legitimate or not, or how he would behave in that situation himself. That's not my goal here. What I want to point out is that even if Jon is legitimate and there's a hard proof to that, Dany would not see him as any kind of "threat" to her.

It's not the Iron Throne Dany wants most of all, or the power just for the sake of power. Her target is making people's lives better, making this world a better a place. And that could be tracked throughout her whole storyline.

Justice … that’s what kings are for.

What she truly craves is coming home. And to my mind this is one of the most (if not just the most) important of her arcs. Westeros, Dragonstone, King's Landing, Red Keep — are the only home she had ever known to be truly hers, the one she had lost and the one she wants back.

But it was not the plains Dany saw then. It was King’s Landing and the great Red Keep that Aegon the Conqueror had built. It was Dragonstone where she had been born. In her mind’s eye they burned with a thousand lights, a fire blazing in every window. In her mind’s eye, all the doors were red.

Daario would soon be at her side once more, and together they would sail for Westeros. For home.

Dany feels as if she is a stranger everywhere she comes, and this intense sense of not belonging comes not from the outside, as Daenerys is accepted at most places she comes to and is agile enough to adjust for other cultures, but from the inside.

She went to the parapet and stood there gazing down upon the city as she had done a hundred times before. It will never be my city. It will never be my home.

Meereen was not her home, and never would be. It was a city of strange men with strange gods and stranger hair, of slavers wrapped in fringed tokars, where grace was earned through whoring, butchery was art, and dog was a delicacy.

This theme of homecoming passes through her whole narrative, but even if she thinks of Westeros as of her home, the only place she remembers fondly, the only place, where she ever felt truly happy and at home was the house with the red door that constantly pops up in her thoughts.

Home? The word made her feel sad. Ser Jorah had his Bear Island, but what was home to her? A few tales, names recited as solemnly as the words of a prayer, the fading memory of a red door …

Dany had never known a home. In Braavos, there had been a house with a red door, but that was all.

Why so? Because home is not just a building or a structure, it is people who surround you and their warmth and love. The house with the red door is the place, where Daenerys was with the only family she knew, that she loved and that loved her back. Viserys was still nice to her then and ser Willem Darry served as a father figure, who cared for her and protected her. Within those walls Dany felt safe and needed.

And this is what Daenerys truly wants — family, people to love her and protect her regardless her position, to be with her for who she is, to not want something from her, to not want to use her.

Was there no one she could trust, no one to keep her safe?

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

The dragon has three heads. There are two men in the world who I can trust, if I can find them. I will not be alone then. We will be three against the world, like Aegon and his sisters.

And right there is Jon. Even not knowing who he is, Dany would be able to see his wish to help the freefolk in a way she tried to help slaves in Meeren, she would be able to see that Jon puts the well being of people (all people) above his own. She would see this, and coming back to what I said in the beginning about why exactly Dany wants to be queen, she would understand that she and Jon share the same values. That could be enough for her to consider him trustworthy and accept him as ally and friend.

Would it make sense for her to see him as her rival, when she learns about his parentage? To push away the only other existing Targaryen, the family she longed for so much?

Apart from that, Jon is Rhaegar's son, a son of that exact Rhaegar, Dany names almost everything after. Rhaegar who's her hero, her brother she's so proud of. Of course, she would only be happy to meet and know his son, to learn what it is not to be alone anymore, to have someone to rely on.

I strongly believe Dany's longing for family and home arc ends with Jon Snow, who will serve as embodiment of her wish finally coming true.

[twicelivedsummer]

“We need swift passage to Meereen.” One word. Tyrion Lannister’s world turned upside down. One word. Meereen. Or had he misheard? One word. Meereen, he said Meereen, he’s taking me to Meereen. Meereen meant life. Or hope for life, at least.

how many hundreds of years do you think it had been, since someone heard Meereen and thought hope or life.

[stormborns]

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION MONTH Day 2 - Favorite book moment Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, calling to her children.

[harrenhals]

a dream of spring.

[daenerys-daario]

The Handmaids and Companions to Daenerys Targaryen ↴

JHIQUI : Jhiqui is a copper-skinned Dothraki girl with black hair and almond-shaped eyes. Jhiqui is bigger-boned than Irri, with wide hips and heavy breasts. She is the same age as Dany. She was to teach Daenerys the Dothraki tongue.

IRRI : Irri is a copper-skinned Dothraki girl with black hair and almond-shaped eyes. She is also the same age as Dany. She was to teach Daenerys horse-riding.

DOREAH : Doreah is a fair-haired, blue-eyed Lysene girl. Doreah is older, almost twenty. She was to instruct Dany in the womanly arts of love.

MISSANDEI : Missandei, the little scribe with the big golden eyes, is wise beyond her years. She is brave as well. She has a sweet, strong voice. The little scribe was only eleven.