serstark replied to your post “so many people of color love and identify with daenerys targaryen so...”
writing the valyrians as black wouldn't make the situation better imo like sure it wouldn't play on the white saviourism, white ethereal beauties and other tired tropes but it would still be the same imperalist story. this idea that changing her skin colour for BLACK specifically suddenly giving her a get-out-of-jail free card just sounds so gross to me.
no, you’re right, i’m just referring to the white savior trope specifically, not the other imperialist aspects of the story. her white saviorism is like a top complaint amongst antis because she is depicted on a visual level as a white person teaching the savage brown folks how to live














