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“Dany felt a lightness in her chest. I will never bear a living child, she remembered. Her hand trembled as she raised it. Perhaps she smiled. She must have, because the man grinned and shouted again, and others took up the cry. ‘Mhysa!’ they called. ‘Mhysa! MHYSA!’ They were all smiling at her, reaching for her, kneeling before her. ‘Maela,’ some called her, while others cried ‘Aelalla’ or ‘Qathei’ or ‘Tato,’ but whatever the tongue it all meant the same thing. Mother. They are calling me Mother.”

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Aerea Targaryen

I have been re-reading Fire and Blood lately, have gotten to the chapter about Aerea stealing Balerion and coming back with ‘things living inside of her’ after he instinctively flew back to Valyria. Is anyone else as fascinated by this as I am? I know the intention is for the reader to speculate, but I wish we had just a bit more detail from the maester’s writing! Do all dragons have this inner instinct to fly back to Valyria once their riders are gone? What are the things living inside of her? I could seriously like, talk about this for hours. (feel free to share your thoughts too!)

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“Hi, it’s Emilia Clarke, Clinique’s Global Ambassador”

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The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda | Granta Magazine

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Always will Stan for Daenerys Targaryen

Thank you, Daenerys for years of inspiration.

Thank you for being strong. 

Thank you for being complex.

Thank you for being fierce.

Thank you for wanting a better world. 

Thank you for taking the hard path. 

Thank you for having a vision. 

Thank you for your journey. 

Thank you for being the strong female character we need more of in media. 

Long live the Queen Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, First of her Name,  Queen of Mereen, Queen of the Andals, the Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, and Mother of Dragons.

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A Response to Bryndenbfish’s “The Dragon’s Mercy” - Part 2b: On Astapor and violence

I was not sure whether I would make one long response or make a series of shorter posts. I’m going with the latter because it may help these posts to become more accessible to people. Sometimes one post may be particularly relevant and, if that’s the case, I will say that they are [IMPORTANT] in the title; like, if you don’t feel like reading all the series, but is still interested enough to read one or two posts, read this one.

First of all, I would like to make it clear that this is not meant to be personal hate (nor endorsement of it) to bryndenbfish or anyone affiliated with warsandpoliticsoficeandfire. They are all talented and accomplished writers who deserve the acclaim that they received and who have made good points that are, in no way, invalidated by my lack of agreement with this particular series of essays on Dany. I’m not trying to impose my own views either; the reader is entitled to agree with me or find that the original essay’s arguments are more convincing. At the end of the day, we both make our cases as best as we can and it’s up to the reader to make their own conclusions.

But why am I bringing back to attention a series of essays from 2014-15? Well, this is no ordinary meta; according to bryndenbfish, his blog received 789,000 visits from September 2013 to December 2014. It may even be that they influenced the writing of season eight, as I will show in the introduction. With more influence on the fandom comes more responsibility. Unfortunately, I feel that these essays mischaracterize Daenerys Targaryen. With that in mind, I decided to write a series of metas responding to their arguments with textual evidence, my own analysis and the help of other meta writers who already elaborated on several points that refute the essayist’s better than I could.

I am going to focus specifically on bryndenbfish’s analysis of Dany’s characterization and how they tie into his speculations of Dany’s future rather than ponder if his speculations will indeed come to pass (e.g. I will discuss his analysis of Dany’s mindset when, as he speculates, she eventually returns to Meereen; I won’t debate on whether she returns to Meereen or not). Also, because it’s another prominent series of essays in the fandom, I will bring passages from “Untangling the Meereenese Knot” that relate to Bryndenbfish’s arguments, which only makes sense since he expands on ideas that arose from them.

Here goes the full list of contents of my response:

INTRODUCTION: The possible impact of “The Dragon’s Mercy” on Game of Thrones

PART 1: MAIN ARGUMENTS OF “THE DRAGON’S MERCY”

1) Argument 1: Dany’s identity is divided into two parts: mhysa and mother of dragons

a) Why the dichotomy doesn’t exist (in the way that’s being argued)

b) Social commentary & Impartial justice versus personal vengeance

2) Argument 2: The peace was a positive development; the war will be a negative one

a) Refuting that the peace was worthy of being maintained

[YOU ARE HERE] b) On Astapor and violence

c) Is it as simple as Daario = war and Hizdahr = peace?

d) Was Meereen peaceful under Dany’s tenure?

3) Argument 3: What happened in Daznak’s Pit indicates that Dany is turning away from the Meereenese

a) Discussions on what we’re supposed to take from the events in Daznak’s Pit on ADWD Dany IX

b) Did Dany reject her children? Are Bryndenbfish’s speculations based on textual evidence?

4) Argument 4: Dany will be seduced by prophecies

a) Does Dany’s characterization corroborate it?

5) Argument 5: Dany will follow a path full of violence and prophecies from now on

a) What Dany’s flight with Drogon on ADWD Dany X means

b) Subtext taken way too far

PART 2: OTHER ARGUMENTS

6) Secondary passages that also deserve commentary

7) Relevant passages from BryndenBFish elsewhere

PART 3: FINAL THOUGHTS

8) The meaning of Dany’s character and story

a) Why the peace being false and Dany’s arc as a ruler are both representative of GRRM’s human heart in conflict with itself

b) What’s the point of a downfall arc for Dany?

9) Conclusion

The first part will cover my response to the five main arguments that support Bryndenbfish’s thesis of Dany’s “future turn as a villain” (as he puts it). The second part will feature my response to other arguments he makes both on the essays and outside of them (for they are comments about Dany’s characterization and/or storyline). The third part will include both what makes Dany’s character and story meaningful (IMO) and a conclusion to tie up all the ideas.

A special shout-out to @rainhadaenerys for providing me with thoughtful feedback so I could be as exhaustive and clear as I could be. Without you and your metas, I probably would have never started writing Dany metas.

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palette meme - @yelena-belxva requested: 

delicately + daenerys targaryen

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I’m just going over how important Daenerys story is, in relation to her overall role in asoiaf but more importantly in her relation to Essos.

I keep asking myself, “What was the point of creating Daenerys?” I mean, the girl holds an entire plot completely separate from any of the other main characters all on her own.

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Daenerys Stormborn by Greg-Opalinsk

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Mother of Dragons.

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Why you've the obsession of a second field of fire? That would kill Dany as a characther.

I presume, Anon, that you refer to my belief that Daenerys will (albeit not intentionally, having no foreknowledge of its existence) set off the wildfire under King’s Landing, thus killing the would-be Aegon VI (and thousands of others); I have never referred to this, as I recall, as a “second field of fire”, but I suppose one could refer to this event as such if one so chose. Still, I would hardly characterize what I think will happen in TWOW as an “obsession”, since as far as I can tell I’ve written about it primarily all of three times in over three thousand posts.

Myself, I maintain that it would not “kill Dany as a character”, but rather allow her to reach her darkest point in order to come back from the abyss and become the hero Westeros needs in its darkest hour. TWOW, I’ve said before, will be a progress of fire and blood for Daenerys, a march through old stomping grounds but in new and triumphant ways. The Dothraki who had abandoned her at Drogo’s death will kneel to her or be burned; the slaves of Volantis will hail her as the breaker of chains and the chosen of R'hllor as she destroys their slavers; lying, treacherous Illyrio will feel her wrath for his secret backing of Aegon. The Iron Throne will be hers, and carried by the enthusiasm of her followers, she may think that she cannot fail to have it. The only thing that will stand in her way will be Young Aegon, the false pretender out to rob her of her family legacy - and fueled on by the same “fire in her belly” she felt in Meereen on hearing of the murder of Rylona Rhee, she will plan to give Aegon “the dragon’s mercy”.

But then, attacking the city, she’ll find that she lights a jade holocaust, more terrible than anything she had envisioned. This will not simply be the death of Aegon and his queen and court; this will be tens of thousands more, men, women, and children, horribly burned alive from the partnership of her father’s last legacy and her own draconic one. This is the destructive side of “fire and blood”, and I think it will devastate Daenerys, forcing to reconsider herself, her position, and her desires. Is she simply her father’s daughter, heiress of the Mad King, destined to rule by fire and terror as he did? How can she reconcile being mhysa, the mother of thousands, the Breaker of Chains, with this dragon who destroys rather than creates, who devours the people it would rule?

In this darkest place for her, when she’s at a personal crossroads - wondering if she should fully embrace the inheritance of her dragonlord ancestors or stop and try to scramble together some remnants of her former peaceable ways - that’s when she’ll be confronted by Euron. In his appropriating Valyrian heritage - the slaving, the blood magic, the Valyrian steel - Euron will tempt her to choose the former; come with me, he’ll say, you’ve already killed thousands, show them who is the dragon here, let’s rule as the dragonlords did. That’s an incredibly dark temptation, and it’s one that Daenerys will ultimately reject. She will be the dragon, yes, but not in the service of such evil ends, nor in the pursuit of a temporal crown. The true fight, the true enemy, is the one to the north which Euron will have helped unleashed; it’s there that she will combine her two identities - the Breaker of Chains and the Mother of Dragons - into a single, apocalyptic one. She will be Daenerys, the dragon she was always meant to be, but fighting for the survival of humanity, sacrificing herself and her pretensions toward the restoration of House Targaryen that tens of thousands more might live and that the supernatural slavers who are the Others will never take humanity under their control.

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♕  Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night….

Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her, She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce.

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Dany and her dragons's relationship

Here goes a list with all the passages showcasing Dany’s relationship with her dragons. It surprised me to see that GRRM actually gave Viserion and Rhaegal plenty of moments in which they interact with their mom and display their personalities.

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Queen Daenerys

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i am the dragon’s daughter.

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It’s missing Daenerys Targaryen hours. I miss her so fucking much and I can hardly stand it. If I didn’t have acnh to cheer me up.. I would probably be sobbing on the floor, clutching my fiery Daenerys + drogon funko pop. call me dramatic!! IDC I WANT HER BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

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The Folio Society presents an illustrated collector’s edition of A Clash of Kings

The fight for the Iron Throne heats up in A Clash of Kings. George R. R. Martin barely gives the reader time to recover from the shocks of the first book as four potential kings come into contention. Meanwhile, our favourite characters face extraordinary trials simply to survive. Following on from The Folio Society’s wildly successful edition of A Game of Thrones, this unique two-volume set is packed with details that fans will love, including specially designed chapter headings and spectacular bindings. Jonathan Burton returns to capture all the grandeur, spectacle and emotion, with six colour illustrations and a double-page spread in each volume. Described by Martin as ‘masterpieces of the bookmaker’s art’, these are the finest editions of this generation’s most celebrated fantasy series, and if the first volume is anything to go by, A Clash of Kings will soon be as rare as dragon eggs. 

A set of family trees, updated to reflect the births, deaths and new alliances since the events of A Game of Thrones, keeps the reader from confusing their Mallisters with their Mormonts. Meanwhile, the Kings have dedicated entries in this edition, with genealogies and descriptions of their banners. As each chapter focuses on a different character, Jonathan Burton has designed individual sigils too: a lion resplendent on an open book for Tyrion Lannister; a ship with an onion on its sail for Ser Davos, the onion knight. The endpapers are emblazoned with the sigils of each of the Houses, and even the slipcase holds a surprise – the inside has been printed with a fiery portrait of Melisandre, the red priestess of R’hllor.

Bound in three-quarter blocked cloth with a printed and blocked cloth front board

Set in Vendetta with Esmeralda as display

888 pages in total over two volumes

6 full-page and 2 double-page full-colour illustrations per volume

Printed in black & gold throughout

8 illustrated chapter openers and 9 illustrated house sigils

5 Kings and their Courts and 8 family trees in Volume 2

Printed endpapers

Coloured tops

Blocked and printed slipcase with printed illustration inside

UK £125.00 US $195.00 Can $245.00 Aus $280.00