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thedragonqueens · 6 days

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Daenerys Targaryen icons - 3×01 & 3×02

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marsconer · 2 months

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deliriuminflame · 1 year

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Yer jalan atthirari anni

“—Trust me, Your Grace. If he didn't like her, we'd know.”

Game of Thrones: season 1, episode 1.

#game of thrones #khal drogo #khaleesi #moon of my life #yer jalan atthirari anni #targaryen #queen daenerys #daenerys stormborn #house targaryen #the first of her name #queen of the andals and the first men #mother of dragons #protector of the seven kingdoms #khaleesi of the great grass sea #the unburnt #the breaker of chains #daenerys targaryen

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thaliajoy-blog · 1 year

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"Everyone says Targaryens are closer to Gods than to men." Daenerys Targaryen × the Egyptian Pantheon.

1) The Mother of Monsters

👉 Daenerys, like everyone, has a dark side, maybe literally embodied by her "winged shadow", Drogon (who is savage and disobedient, as well as hungry for children, sometimes) - a dragon she named after her fearsome and brutal husband, a man she loves but who hurt her. To play the game is to play an ugly game - a game of war, of blood, of casualties, of confusions. After Drogo dies, Daenerys becomes a Conqueror Queen and takes Daario Naharis as her lover - and he is a gallant but dangerous man, who asks Daenerys to indulge in her darkest self and her most violent options. Daenerys' birth and rebirth both come through violence and sacrifice : her mother's death and the great storm on Dragonstone, her husband's death and his funeral pyre in the desert. Death and sex (meaning death and love, death and life) are a part of Daenerys' journey, for the better and the worse.

Gods : Seth, desert and storm god / Hathor, goddess of love and childbirth / Sekhmet, powerful warrior goddess and alter-ego of Hathor. Red & black & turquoise as code colors.

Attributes : Sun disk inside of cow's horns (Hathor), knife (Sekhmet), was-sceptre handle (Seth).

☝️figures : possibly actually Isis on the left but she has attributes very much borrowed from Hathor (the cow horns, sun disk, menat) ; on the right, Sekhmet the bloodythirsty lioness.

2) The Silver Queen

👉 Daenerys and Viserion, her pale sweet child, named after her brother Viserys, IIIrd of his name. A picture of royal power : Daenerys is a Queen, who tries to rule nobly and gently over her subjects. Viserion represents a promise to be everything her brother could not be, to never be seen as weak and pathetic as him, to always be royal in appearance and in character and justly proud, as well as to be a discerning and wise monarch. Daenerys thus wears her three headed-crown in all official circumstances, and exerts herself to be a strong leader, and listens to the wise advice of those around her, and to bring peace instead of war. She intends to restaure a natural cycle of growth and prosperity in Meereen by planting olive trees, a notorious symbol of peace.

Gods : Isis (queen goddess of magic and fertility) / Horus (son of Isis and symbol of kingship ; god of the Sky) / Orisis (undead god of the afterlife, of eternal life and of natural green cycles).

Attributes : the Ankh, the Sun and the moon (Horus' eyes), mixed Heka sceptre/Nekhakha scourge (Pharaoh), Udjat eye (Horus), composite ostrich feather crown (Isis & Osiris).

☝️figure on the left is actually Queen Nefertari, but the great royal wife/queen of the pharaoh is often considered to be the incarnation of Isis on earth (used this one here to contrast with the previous look) and shared attributes with her ; on the right, the god-king Osiris.

3) The Slayer of Lies

👉 At her core, Daenerys is a kind empathetic young woman with the drive to do good. She's here with Rhaegal, the dragon named after the brother who died before she was born and to whom she's often compared. Rhaegar represents a model as a prince and as a king who never was - Daenerys often sees gim in her visions, and models some of her actions after her image of him ("it's time to cross the Trident"). Daenerys is an idealist who wants to fight to leave the world a better place than she found it. Daenerys has endured being sold, and slavery, and is at her core, beyond her dragon children and her crown, she is a young girl who has faced hardship and wishes that others would not go through the same things, or to be able to rescue others from them. As such, she is also the Breaker of Chains.

God : Maât (goddess of Justice, Harmony, Peace, Cosmic Order and Balance) + a dash of Osiris (natural cycles - plants)

Attributes : the Feather of Maât (symbol of purity and tester of goodness).

☝️ a representation of Maât.

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wodania · 1 month

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“our towers, they rose up and set with the sun / our sermons, they burnt us with fiery tongues / we wrought our wings of metal, surprised when we fell,” eastward of eden by amelia day

“The Valyrians learned one deplorable thing from the Ghiscari: slavery. The Ghiscari whom they conquered were the first to be thus enslaved, but not the last. The burning mountains of the Fourteen Flames were rich with ore, and the Valyrians hungered for it: copper and tin for the bronze of their weapons and monuments; later iron for the steel of their legendary blades; and always gold and silver to pay for it all.” a world of ice and fire, ancient history: valyria’s children

“The freed slaves parted before her. “Mother,” they called from a hundred throats, a thousand, ten thousand. “Mother,” they sang, their fingers brushing her legs as she flew by. “Mother, mother, mother!”” a storm of swords, daenerys iv

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taivyart · 10 days

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Our baby girl and Queen

Daenerys Targaryen

#daenerys appreciation #artists on tumblr #queen daenerys #game of thrones daenerys #asoiaf #daenerys stormborn #daenerys targaryen #dance of the dragons #game of trones #the mother of dragons #the prince that was promised #breaker of chains #azor ahai #pro daenerys

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gracielikegrapes · 4 months

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first Daenerys Stormborn of 2024

#fanart #asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #azor ahai #queen of meereen #khalessi #khalessi of the great grass sea #the unburnt #breaker of chains #mother of dragons #daenerys stormborn #my fave gorl

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cleanbutsalty · 4 months

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Motherrr of dragons

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #daenerys fanart #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf #game of thrones fanart #got fanart #viserion #mother of dragons #westeros #hbo max #a song of ice and fire #dany fanart #breaker of chains #house targaryen #targaryen #my art

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house-of-daenerys · 6 months

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE 2023 WOMAN OF THE YEAR!

MISS EMILIA CLARKE!

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drogonthered · 10 months

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Arrax, Vermax and Meleys the Red Queen leave from Dragonstone.

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daenerystargaryen06 · 4 months

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"How beautiful, the queen tried to tell herself, but inside her was some foolish little girl who could not help but look about for Daario. If he loved you, he would come and carry you off at swordpoint, as Rhaegar carried off his northern girl, the girl in her insisted, but the queen knew that was folly..." -A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys VII

"I would need to steal her if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb." -A Storm of Swords -Jon XII

Daenerys wanting Daario to carry her off at sword point, and Jon thinking of stealing Val for her love. Two parallels of one girl wanting to be stolen, and one boy wanting to steal someone. Both for love.

"None of them had ever seen a direwolf before, he realized, and Ghost was twice as large as the common wolves that prowled their southron greenwoods. As he walked toward the armory, Jon chanced to look up and saw Val standing in her tower window. I'm sorry, he thought. I'm not the man to steal you out of there." -A Storm of Swords - Jon XII

"Even if her captain was mad enough to attempt it, the Brazen Beasts would cut him down before he got within a hundred yards of her." -A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys VII

Jon is sorry he can't steal away Val, and Daenerys reflects on the fact that even if Daario did attempt to carry her off at sword point, he'd be cut down.

Both Jon and Daenerys have a sense of romanticism in their POV's. Both are hopeless romantics (perhaps Daenerys more so than Jon in a sense). Both want love, despite denying it deep down. Jon because he's a man of the Night's Watch and a bastard. Daenerys because she is a Queen over her people and accepts duty over giving in to "girlish" thoughts.

Both had found love within confinement. Jon having fallen for Ygritte while pretending to be on the Freefolk's side. Daenerys having found a twisted love in Drogo after being sold to him as a bridal slave. Both were coerced into sexual relations with Ygritte and Drogo. Both had to watch Ygritte and Drogo die (and Dany killed Drogo out of mercy).

"He found Ygritte sprawled across a patch of old snow beneath the Lord Commander's Tower, with an arrow between her breasts. The ice crystals had settled over her face, and in the moonlight it looked as though she wore a glittering silver mask [...] "Oh." Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she sighed, dying. -A Storm of Swords - Jon VII

"And when the bleak dawn broke over an empty horizon, Dany knew that he was truly lost to her. “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” she said sadly. “When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before.” Never, the darkness cried, never never never. Inside the tent Dany found a cushion, soft silk stuffed with feathers. She clutched it to her breasts as she walked back out to Drogo, to her sun-and-stars. If I look back I am lost. It hurt even to walk, and she wanted to sleep, to sleep and not to dream. She knelt, kissed Drogo on the lips, and pressed the cushion down across his face." -A Game of Thrones - Daenerys IX

Both Jon and Daenerys have also found interest again after the deaths of Ygritte and Drogo. Jon wants Val, and Daenerys sleeps with Daario and may perhaps love him, but doubts over her relations with Daario. Both focus on their duties over giving in to what they really want. Daenerys even marries again for peace over giving in to what she really wants.

Both Jon and Daenerys think of having children, but push away the ideal. Jon due to being a member of the Night's Watch and a bastard. Daenerys due to thinking she is barren/cursed by Mirri Maz Duur and can never again have a child born from her.

Jon reflects that if he ever had a son, he'd name him Robb after his brother. Daenerys when pregnant with Drogo's child names her son Rhaego after her brother.

Jon is the secret son of Rhaegar and Lyanna. Lyanna is associated with blue winter roses:

"He was walking through the crypts beneath Winterfell, as he had walked a thousand times before. The Kings of Winter watched him pass with eyes of ice, and the direwolves at their feet turned their great stone heads and snarled. Last of all, he came to the tomb where his father slept, with Brandon and Lyanna beside him. "Promise me, Ned," Lyanna's statue whispered. She wore a garland of pale blue roses, and her eyes wept blood." -A Game of Thrones - Eddard XIII

"Robert had been jesting with Jon and old Lord Hunter as the prince circled the field after unhorsing Ser Barristan in the final tilt to claim the champion's crown. Ned remembered the moment when all the smiles died, when Prince Rhaegar Targaryen urged his horse past his own wife, the Dornish princess Elia Martell, to lay the queen of beauty's laurel in Lyanna's lap. He could see it still: a crown of winter roses, blue as frost." -A Game of Thrones - Eddard XV

When Daenerys has visions in the House of the Undying, she sees the Wall:

"A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . ." -A Clash of Kings - Daenerys IV

Jon is the 'blue flower' she sees growing from the wall of ice, filling the air with 'sweetness'. Jon is Lyanna's son. Both carry blue flower representation.

Jon also wants to know everything there is about his mother; who she was, if she loved him, what sort of person she was. Just alike to how Daenerys wants to learn and know everything she can about Rhaegar, as she also idolizes him in a sense. Both have thoughts about these people. Jon constantly thinks about his mother (Lyanna even if he does not know yet who she is); Daenerys often thinks of Rhaegar (despite never knowing him). Both think of these people despite them already being gone from the world, and both only wish they could have known who they truly were as people and can only guess how Lyanna and Rhaegar would've thought or acted.

Jon thinks of having dragons at the Wall:

"We should have twenty trebuchets, not two, and they should be mounted on sledges and turntables so we could move them. It was a futile thought. He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three." -A Storm of Swords - Jon VIII

When Jon dies, Daenerys hears a wolf howling in the distance:

"Off in the distance, a wolf howled. The sound made her feel sad and lonely, but no less hungry. As the moon rose above the grasslands, Dany slipped at last into a restless sleep." -A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys X

Both have an association/thought relating to one another's animal sigil/companion. Jon thinks of wishing for three dragons (Daenerys' house sigil and her dragon children). Daenerys hears a wolf howling when Jon dies, making her feel sad and lonely (Jon's house sigil through Lyanna/Ned and his direwolf Ghost).

Both Jon and Daenerys dream of home. Daenerys with the house with the red door and the lemon tree. Jon with Winterfell.

Both are estranged from their families (Jon being at the Wall. Daenerys being in Essos and the last of her family having died).

Both have lost their brothers in different means. Both have had their mothers die from childbirth and never got to meet them. Both of their fathers (Rhaegar and Aerys) died during the Rebellion.

Both had arcs of leadership and rule, and struggle with their decisions and making hard choices. Jon winds up killed due to his choices at the end of ADWD, and Daenerys becomes stranded in the Dothraki Sea due to her choice of saving Drogon (and her people from Drogon) from the fighting pit and escaping on dragonback.

While Daenerys thinks of taking the IT as a duty due to being the last of her family and Viserys' last living heir, Jon admits to wanting to become Lord of Winterfell but turning the opportunity away.

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mramur · 7 months

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re-reading xxxholic ending and i need to crack a joke

#my doodles #mur.doodles #xxxholic #lets hope this domeki doesnt call him as such. he gotta be the chain breaker.

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des-no9 · 6 months

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A silly wee comic about the translation of the tir'su between Orpheus' tits <3

I changed the rest of the tir'su on Orpheus' chest to fit my HCs and feelies, though. And the comic is funnier to me if I go with my HC that it was Voss who tattooed all of Orpheus' tatts. He's a silly old man.

Note: the tir'su Voss is reading also spells something out but from his POV :3

#orpheus bg3 #kith'rak voss #bg3 orpheus #ot3: the prince the blade and the breaker of chains #tav: vanquish #i love their dynamic so much #vanquish and orpheus like two cats that need to be acclimatised to each other very slowly over months #voss wrangling them by the necks everytime he hears hissing #sometimes he finds them asleep together cuddled in a ball #then later hears them yelling at eachother when they wake up #des draws #bg3 #bg3 fanart #githyanki #me githies

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theblasianwitch · 9 months

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As I'm working on my healing I found these gems and keep having to refer to them to remind myself sometimes that people in my family are indeed toxic and to take my inner child out of the self blaming state they get in at times. I'm hoping this little information is useful for someone else as well

*Combos can and do exist

**As an adult, your parents may still show these traits, and being around them can be more triggering depending on the severity. The best we can do is educate them while working on healing ourselves. Once educated, it's up to them, not you, to act on what they've learned.

#inner child #inner self #inner child healing #shadow work #toxic relationship #toxic parents #toxic people #toxic family #reparenting #chain breaker

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ninicaise · 10 months

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i love you damen of akielos he came he saw he got betrayed by everyone ever all the time he threw a sword through the air he charmed 90% of his enemy's army while in captivity including his captor he criticized your disgusting cheap wine he fucked an entire tribe he had a beautiful dimple he was a prince he was a slave he was a sweetheart and a cunt he got stabbed by the same person two times he got his bed skills questioned he came back from the dead he ended slavery he wished for a suicidal boy to be thrown off a building he repressed he tortured he cried he conquered

#and he railed. btw #made this bc i realized damen is just as iconic as laurent. literally what is this man #damianos of akielos the revenant the breaker of chains the love of my life #captive prince #damen

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nogoodsheepstealing-greatgrandma · 1 year

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Daenerys is 14

And she does stay in Slavers Bay and try to rebuild the economy. Source: A Dance With Dragons.

She spends much of the book trying to negotiate new trade deals with the Lhazarene and the Qartheen, trying to plant new olive groves and bean fields, trying to reform the guilds membership so former slaves can earn proper wages as skilled craftsmen. She tries to assimilate with Meereenese culture to ease a peaceful transition of power, she consults with their priestess, she adopts their religious rites and their uncomfortable traditional dress, she agrees under pressure to marry a Meereenese noble (she doesn't force anyone into marriage at dragonpoint like in the show). And she goes out personally to feed and care for the sick and starving refugees at her door, she tries to set up quarantine zones to slow the spread of infection.

And yeah she falls short. But the odds are stacked against her. She's 14, for starters. And before she arrived the slavers burnt all the olive groves and salted the soil so she couldn't use them, and as she calculates it will take 30 years before the land will be truly productive again. She also has the Meereenese slaving class working very hard to sabotage her by funding domestic terrorism within the city. And she has to deal with a refugee crisis, a famine, a plague, and an alliance of pro-Slavery states forming a blockade around Meereen and threatening to siege the city.

True the refugee crisis is arguably due to her leaving Astapor. She set up a new government, but she should have stayed longer to consolidate it. But she is only 14, and her main adviser/parental figure is too busy being a pro-slavery pedophile.

And the fall of Astapor isn't completely on her shoulders. She left adults in charge, people with qualifications and who knew the land and people better than she did. They had political agency and responsibility. As did Cleon. He could have chosen not to overthrow the Council and name himself King. He could have chosen to heed Daenerys when she told him "don't start a war with the Yunkai". And the Yunkai could have chosen not to slaughter Astapor and chase the refugees to Meereen. They could have simply removed Cleon and then recognised Daenerys had no part in his actions. The Yunkai could have chosen not to then declare war on Meereen.

The institution of slavery is complicated to overthrow and complicated to replace and even complicated in the ways it reasserts itself. Daenerys isn't the only actor here who determines the fate of Slavers Bay (though if she unleashes her dragons she can certainly become the most decisive actor again). The entire point of ADWD is that it's much more complicated than that - its GRRM's answer to "what was Aragorn's tax policy?". She is a 14 year old child who does her best against impossible odds, and who explicitly puts any dreams of Westeros on hold indefinitely. Time and time again she is offered the chance and means to sail for Westeros, and she turns it down each time because she knows she can't leave the people of Meereen behind to die.

And hopefully the lesson she learns by the end of ADWD is that she has to stop being conciliatory towards the slaving class. She spares the lives of hostages, she opens the fighting pits for them, she gives up her body in marriage, and still they try to poison her to install Hizdhar as King. Mercy isn't a weakness, but the people who have a vested interest in slavery aren't going to stop just because you ask them nicely (like that garbage show GOT seems to think). She's got to use her dragons.

No, critiquing her failures isn't the same as defending slavery. But claiming that she never tried, and ignoring the odds stacked against her, is false. As for blaming her for Slavers Bay falling into chaos and suffering... First off, again, she isn't the only responsible actor with agency - I maintain that the fall of Astapor was pretty much out of her hands. And second, it ignores the massive scale of human suffering that already gripped slavers bay. The daily violence inflicted on slaves - the families torn apart, the lives destroyed, the children mutilated, the thousands of dead babies killed to initiate the Unsullied, the tortures and crucifixions and whippings and executions and rapes.

Ignoring that isn't that far off from defending slavery. Claiming that the violence that overthrew slavery is worse than the violence that is slavery isn't that far off from defending slavery. Should no one ever dare strike off a slaves chains just because they can't account for the violence that could come after? Is the crucifixion of child-murdering Slavers worse than the crucifixion of innocent children?

Or to bring up another literary scenario with more moral equivalency and ambiguity - was the Tenth plague upon the firstborns of Egypt worse than the mass culling of infant slaves? Who do you blame for the Ten Plagues of Egypt? Should Moses have left well enough alone?

#fandom nonsense #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #breaker of chains #daenerys defense squad #meereen #daenerys meta #dany meta #dany #dany defence squad #pro daenerys #pro daenerys targaryen #anti got

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