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This is for my fic Roaring as One

Currently drowning myself in ASMR to cope from my AO3 withdrawals

#ao3 #ao3 is down

ghostinwinterfell

from redoorlemontree on twitter <3

death-of-cats

Daenerys IX AGOT

not Dany figuring out the futility of revenge in her first book 😂😂😂

nessa007

We’ll have to do dinner Thursday night instead.

scoobycool9

You can’t reblog this again until October 2024, so do it now.

palamedeeznuts

You can’t reblog this again until October 2030, so do it NOW.

the-key-five

"My mother told me that dead men sing no songs," he put in.

A Game of Thrones, Prologue

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

A Game of Thrones, Daenerys X

tru-neutral03

And Euron's ship is called the Silence

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen edit

rynnthefangirl

The evil, power hungry Queen- agrees to set aside her political aims and give all her strength and focus to defeating the White Walkers while being promised nothing in return.

The good, selfless Queen- argues against getting the resources they desperately need to even stand a chance against the White Walkers because it threatens her political aims.

raidark

One thing I find funny from Show Dany haters is how much they call her an egomaniac tyrant who just wanted to control everything and everyone to obey her, that she only cared about the throne and power. How much they laugh at the idea of her trying to help common people, break the system and in general, give power to powerless people, etc. That she would only want power for herself and would loathe democracy more than any other character.

These people are also the ones who laughed along Season 8 Sansa, Tyrion, Arya and others when Sam proposed democracy as a system for Westeros at the end of the show.

To all that people, I'd like to kindly remind that before leaving for Westeros, Daenerys established democracy in Meereen (and the rest of the Bay of Dragons, I suppose). She and Tyrion spent some undetermined time to plan it and then left Daario and the Second Sons to keep the peace while people chose their rulers and a new government was appointed.

Now, while I'm sure we all would have liked to know the aftermatch of that, how things worked there after her leaving and especially after her death, we won't ever know thanks to certain writers who kinda forgot about it after S6, only remembering the Bay when deciding that slaying slavers was apparently a sign of madness and evilness ?¿

If you ask me, with Dany dead, most of her army destroyed as well, and no one else strong enough to protect the Bay, slavery will return and way worse. But that wasn't something D&D wanted people to think about because that would add some grey to the situation and they wanted Dany to be irremediably unjustifiable in her acts and her death the only option with only good consequences. Just to be clear, I think S8 Dany, a total different character from previous seasons, deserved to die after what she did. But go and visit the Bay in ten years, Jon and Tyrion, and ask them if what you two did was good. Surely and certaintly there were consequences.

In any case, since we'll never know what would happen, the series ends with Daenerys being the only ruler who actually cared for her people enough that she actually gave them total power to choose who should rule them... just 12 episodes before the writers decided she should mass murder innocents for literally no reason at all

She remains the only one who established real democracy that considered people no matter their origins or status (and not merely in a organization like the Night Watch) while the high nobles of Westeros laughed and considered the idea ridiculous. What a tyrant, right?

I'd have liked Sam to know the one who actually established his idea in a different place was the queen he hated so much, while all the others laughed. I'd have also liked if he was told what his family did and how many people died because of their betrayal, how many chances were even then offered to them, rather than just "they didn't bend the knee so i killed them lol". But the goal in Season 8 was always to paint Dany as a villain with no gray in the middle, just like they made Jon lie to his family and the lords and say Dany forced him to bend the knee in order to help the North when she actually swore to defend it without any commitment to her cause the moment she realized the threat was real and no fantasy. Yet no one, not even Dany, ever blinked an eye about this. Like it was retconned to frame her as evil.

groovypalacewobblereagle

This is perfectly said. However, I respectfully disagree that Dany deserved to die after what she did. While it was way out of character for Dany, it was not out of keeping with the mores of that world.

For one thing, a surrender should really happen BEFORE an enemy is able to evade attack, destroy the fleet, the ballistae and the defending army, then breach the gate.

For another thing, even if it was a proper surrender, why should Dany trust a surrender from Cersei when Cersei had already broken her word before?

It’s unlikely Dany managed to kill as many people (or destroy that much of the city) because she was only at it for an afternoon. It was still light out when it was done.

Tormund and his friends slaughtered innocents in Olly’s village and Mole’s Town. No one suggests that they deserve to die. And Jon hung a child for doing the same thing he did to Dany.