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If Betha was indeed Melantha Blackwood's sister that makes Dany and the Starklings (distant but not too distant to count) cousins The current surviving Blackwoods are potentially cousins of course. Additionally William Stark and Melantha had a daughter Jocelyn who married a Royce and had 3 daughters who married into houses Waynwood, Cobray, and Templeton.

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Thinking about it, Daenerys is the most powerful woman in the series in the sense that she manages to subdue any enemy army that does battle with her as well as any warrior.

Yet, unlike Brienne, she isn't a large, physically strong warrior, or able to throw axes like Asha, but Dany still remains a physically weak, petite girl. One could argue that in that respect, she's closer to Catelyn in that she's clearly not a warrior, having no skill at arms, and that isn't like to change throughout the series. Yet, she embodies the idea of mother as she is motivated by her love and care for her children, both dragons and freedmen. Her strength comes not from her muscle, but her inner strength.

She survived a life of abuse, and managed to outlive both her abusers. She rescued girls and women from being raped even as everyone told her it is how things should be, and she knew she would face stiff resistance. When she could have taken the Unsullied and run, she instead chose to put her life pursuit on liberate millions of people from slavery. Daenerys went through things that would have broken plenty of people, and chose to take that pain and channel into helping those are also suffering.

She is also talented and resourceful as shown when using the three ships to make siege weapons to take Meereen, and launching a nighttime assault on the Yunkish forces. Not to mention, hatching living dragons from dead eggs by paying attention to what Mirri said.

Atop Drogon, she is effectively the strongest fighter on the battlefield. She can face any warrior from Victarion to likely Ser Robert Strong and maybe even Wun Wun and win. It is not uncommon in fiction for some (mostly male) authors try to make strong women characters and they do so by making them warriors fitting the macho male ideal down to poking at other characters for being puny, perpetuating the idea of strength being associated with masculinity and domination and femininity (and even caring) being associated with weakness. (See Benioff and Weiss)

But Daenerys breaks that mold as she manages to be a strong character and even strong in the sense of being able to win a fight in battle without being a warrior in the conventional sense. Drogon is her child, and it is through her aspect as a mother that she manages to be the most powerful fighter on the battlefield. Her army comes from the people she had largely freed from domination.

Daenerys is no warrior and she's one of the toughest mothers in the series.

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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN + hairstyle

EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN ↳ HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - ), season 1 ↳ 1x06 - "The Princess and the Queen" ↳ 1x07 - "Driftmark" ↳ 1x08 - "The Lord of the Tides" ↳ 1x10 - "The Black Queen"

+ BONUS: THIS CUTE HAIRSTYLE THAT IS DAMN BLURRED

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What are you reading? Elric of melniBONE?🤔🤨 By Michael More Cock?? 🤔🤨 Hmm, and what does he look like?? 🤨🤨🤨

Hmmm... 🤨 Ok...

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i KNOW they were close ok i just KNOW IT

LTR: Gael Targaryen, Daemon Targaryen, Rhaenys Targaryen, Aemma Arryn, Viserys Targaryen

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Charlize Theron and Kiki Layne in The Old Guard 2 | Official Trailer +

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The Old Guard (2020) // The Old Guard 2 (2025)

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One thing I accurately predicted about fandom and Prince Daemon son of Baelon the Brave is the misspelling of Rogue (a scoundrel) as Rouge (the cosmetic) I do hope someone has drawn or edited a picture of him from tv show with a enough rogue to befit Tang dynasty jiuyn look and outclass an 18th century dandy

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three maidens in the tower (2025 ver.)

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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

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me: "Given how quickly the announcement is made following the white smoke, I imagine the Cardinals all go in with a desired name, just in case they're chosen."

my coworker: "Ah, yes, their popesona."

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Do you ever think about the fact that throughout ADWD, GRRM makes a point of how physically weak Theon is—how men have to help him into a saddle, how Lady Dustin dismisses him as being too weak to hold a sword—but he summons the strength to carry Jeyne through the woods?

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I'm fascinated by them... They'd have so many opinions, I think. It would do Theon some good, to have someone to have opinions with.

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Some ancient Qarlasha I found

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So a while ago I did a sudden wish fulfillment drabble of drunk Septa Mordane pushing Littlefinger down a flight of stairs to his instant death of skull go crunch during the Tourney of the Hand now it's rolling around it my brain what the impact of that could be on events There's some key things I think could remain or be constants

Ned figuring out Cersei cuckholded Robert

Confront her the same way out of concern for the kiddos

the Tyrells will never let Stannis take the throne without a fight

Varys is still on a destabilization path so fAgeon can play saviour

 Janos Slynt is still very much for sale

If LF was the whisper in Joffrey's ear to execute, Ned won't be

Cersei will continue to attempt killing Robert

She will flout "rule of law" with force of arms to maintain power

What's key but unclear or could be changed, flap of butterfly's wings etc

How Robert dies

If Robert dies at all

If Ned would confide in Renly sooner

Time it would take Renly for to summon enough leal soldiers

Who would buy the Goldcloacks first

When Ned even figures out the cuckholding

Arya's discovery of certain tunnels and passageways

Key events that have already occurred

LF has sowed paranoia against Lannisters, specifically Tyrion

Catelyn has captured Tyrion

Ned has met Gendry

Arya has started lessons with Syrio

What hasn't occurred by the Tourney of the Hand

Yoren giving the news Ned that Cat's kidnapped Tyrion

Jaime getting the Cat's kidnapped Tyrion news

Ned arguing with Robert and trying to quit the Handship

Jaime attacking Ned, the knee injury and leaving KL

Catelyn getting past the Bloody Gate and up into the Eyrie

Robert's hunting trip

Ned confronting Cersei

Tywin loosing the Mountain upon the Riverlands

Brotherhood Without Banner prequel

Ned's attempt to evacuate his household from KL

Robb learning what mom kidnapped Tyrion

What I'm 100% certain would change

Lysa's mental and emotional state, it would be so so much worse

Jeyne Poole getting sex trafficked to randos won't happen

So even with Littlefinger killed during the Tourney of the Hand he has unfortunately already put the Stark-Lannister conflict in motion with his manipulations of the Tully sisters, but at least he won't be around to bring Jeyne Poole to harm. Cersei or Twyin might but any man they'd give Jeyne Poole would be for very specific goals that would possibly involve her pretending to be Arya. Why the Tyrells would never let Stannis to take the throne without a fight is its own short form meta, but to summarize they fear his trauma based grudge against Mace and will not accept a risk to their Paramountship or house itself.

I used this as an events reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsY3lcDDtTdBWp1Gx6mfkdtZT6-Gk0kdTGeSC_Dj7WM/edit?gid=8#gid=8

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ser saviour

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I hold a special place in my heart for aSoIaF fic writers who do what I call break differents. They take the rotting keg of wildfyre that is Westeros 298 AC and ignite it with a different one of the many available sparks, but keep the reactions in character or with reasonable consideration on how changing some things would change how this or that character would react. It's a fine line to walk but when done well *grabby hands*