#book!daenerys

[faeporcelain]

The Last Dragon

Im so happy with this!! She’s holding Dark Sister btw

Here are some pictures of the process <4

#asongoffireandice #asoiaf #game of thrones #got #asoif/got #house of the dragon #a song of ice and fire #hotd #fireandblood #targaryen #fanart #got fanart #daenerys targaryen #hotd fanart #daenerys stormborn #book!daenerys #the mother of dragons #mother of dragons #sketches #game of thrones fanart #a song of ice and fire fanart #digital drawing

[music-of-dragons]

Being a Dany stan is trying to explain over and over again why a child bride who was forced to marry a warlord does not deserve to have her baby murdered for the sins of her husband or because of a prophecy.

For a fandom that loves to scream about how characters who try to act for or against prophecy are always destined to fail and are bad people, they sure do love to justify the prophecy-driven murder of an innocent, unborn child because they hate his teenaged mother for being apart of a system she was forced into.

#daenerys targaryen #pro dany #dany #book!daenerys #book!dany #fandom wank

[lupuslikethewolf]

one of the reasons i dislike show!dany (not that im an anti, i loved her sm in seasons 1-5) but not book!dany is honestly more of a complaint i have about the show as a whole, rather than just her.

in the show, the threat of the others was presented as a distraction to the game of thrones, whereas in the books the game of thrones is presented as a distraction to the oncoming threat of the others. because the throne is a construct and the others are the actual fucking apocalypse. but whatever, right?

as such: show!dany did not care much for fighting against the others because atp she only wanted the throne. she just wanted it to be over and done with so she could conquer the rest of westeros. but book!dany would abandon all ambitions for the throne to fight against the others because book!dany values life and people and helping others above all else. she would fight against the others because she is a liberator, and what is more liberating than stopping the others? if she then gets support for her claim because of that, good for her, but that’s not what she would be fighting for. she would be fighting for people. not power.

#asoiaf #game of thrones #game of thrones critical #show!daenerys #book!daenerys #show!daeneyrs critical #daenerys targeryan #daenerys stormborn #meta #meta??

[dudlesdudles]

a song of ice and fire

#fanart #digital art #sketch #book fanart #digital artist #my art #asoiaf #game of thrones #daenerys targaryen #jon snow

[all-lee24]

An old Daenerys sketch as well

I promise I’m cooking comprehensible ASOIAF art 🙏 please accept these humble old doodles for now

#asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #this was supposed to be her in the first book #though drawing her with long hair makes her so unrecognizable #to me the short hair is just part of her inherent design #*draws long-haired daenerys* who is this woman???

[scudden]

Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons

#I FINALLY finished my second medieval manuscript border drawing #want to draw more but they take me soo long but its also fun #so please give me some other asoiaf characters you want a portrait of and I might get to them #thinking about doing Brienne or Jaime or Cersei next or maybe another Stark idk #soo many choices!!! #I am riding off of my limited book knowledge because ive only recently started reading so apologies if my designs are off or something!! #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #got #asoiaf #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #daenerys #khaleesi #daenerys art #my art #valyrianscrolls #agot #csp

[volukyrja]

The mother of dragons

#daenerys targaryen #asoiaf art #a song of ice and fire #drogon #viserion #rhaegal #game of thrones #fanart #daenerys appreciation #she’s so pretty #dany you will always be famous #this is supposed to be early books dany but i didn’t have an exact time in mind #she’s so babygirl #viserion is mamas boy number 1 #my art #asoiaf

[fortunate-hal]

"Queen Daenerys must enter alone, or not at all."

Daenerys Targaryen as depicted in the Finnish special edition of A Clash of Kings illustrated by Petri Hiltunen.

#valyrianscrolls #daenerys targaryen #pyat pree #artist: petri hiltunen #source: book scan

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

Daenerys book differences

{only the firsts three seasons}

In S1, we mostly see how badly Daenerys was treated by Viserys and then how, with Drogo's help, she proceeded to go against him and then become the mother of dragons. In the first book, we actually see how she herself started to outshine him; she started to grow as a leader and started to create her own circle of people. To give an example, there's this scene when she orders the khalasar to stay behind ("you're learning to talk like a queen," "not a queen, a khaleesi"), and Viserys gets mad at her (as usual). In the show, it's a man from the Khalasar who humiliates him and takes away his horse (Rakharo, if I remember correctly). In the book, it's Daenerys; she's the one who humiliates him using her dothraki knowledge. This shows not only that she was starting to defy her brother but also her leadership's growth.

Still in S1, in the last episode, there's the speech where she says, "And I swear to you, that all those that will harm you will die screaming." There's a similar speech in the book, but she says that all the men who raped a little girl will die screaming.

In s2, when she sends people away and she sees how her people are not doing well, she looks frightened, and she needs Jorah to tell her that "she needs to be their strength" (completely erasing her leadership moment). In the book, however, she already knows that she needs to be their strength and that she can show no weakness or fear.

Still in s2, when they arrive to Qarth, she just starts screaming in one of the seven that she will burn down cities and whatever ("we will lay waste on armys and burn cities to the ground"). Also when they enter and they don't agree to take her to Westeros, she gets mad again and looks childish. In the books, however, the seven let her stay in Qarth out of curiosity, and she's also the one to explain to Xaro how business works, showing her intelligence.

In S3, she wonders whether to buy the unsullied or not. In the book, she affirms that she wants people to follow her because they believe in her and not because they've been bought. Does that sound familiar to you? of course, because they gave that whole speech to Ser Barriston, again taking away her intelligence.

Also, with the second sons it's not Daario that guides her like it happens in the show. In the book, Daenerys is the one who plans the attack against Yunkai, giving them different information to trick them and getting the second sons drunk. Again, her intelligence and leadership were given to her male advisors.

#maybe i'll do another version for the later seasons #also the amount of times jorah needs to console or guide her??? insane #she's always the one that needs to put him in his place because he's too much #and when she tells him that he needs to be her strengh??? what the fuck??? the last thing he is is her fucking strenght #book daenerys targaryen #daenerys targeryan #daenerys defence squad #got #asoiaf #grrm

[daenerys-stormborn]

@gameofthronesdaily event 01: favorite character  —  daenerys targaryen (insp)

#gotedit #asoiafedit #gameofthronesdaily #gotdaenerystargaryen #daenerys targaryen #mine #gif #daenerys targaryen: magic silver haired fire elf #ge* #userjulia #usernani #usermal #tusereliza #userzoya #usergal #usersameera #userlj #zanisummers #userfarahz #tried to make these as book friendly as possible #but finding scenes from other movies/tv #gives me a headache #also i know some ppl dont think she was in braavos #but im the few who do so #this isn't as detailed as i wanted #i kinda got lazy lmao #but hopefully this inspires someone to make a more detail one

[faeporcelain]

I KNOW book!Sansa and book!Dany would/are going to be great friends 🫶🏻

Fuck David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for trying to pin two powerful beautiful amazing women against each other fr

#asongoffireandice #asoiaf #game of thrones #got #house of the dragon #asoif/got #hotd #a song of ice and fire #fireandblood #headcanons #daenerys targaryen #sansa stark #daenerys stormborn #sansa and daenerys #book!sansa #book!daenerys

[music-of-dragons]

"Contrary to the other answers here, Dany’s not a great ruler. She’s impulsive, inept and, though well-intentioned, has a self-righteous streak a mile wide. It’s not misogynist to point out her actions leave Astapor a hell-scape, that she uses forced labour without pay in Mereen (there’s a word to describe that, it starts with S), and that she is frequently too quick to use violence to solve problems, especially as of the end of Book 5, where she outright decides to say ‘F peace!’ and starts burning shit."

● Wrong. Daenerys has a council made up of both rich and poor whom she always takes into account when making a decision. This is a girl who let a man spit on her in court and merely had him removed from the temple. A boy lunged at her to attack her and again, only had him removed. She plants trees and beans, has irrigation canals built, and she DOES pay her men to work until the gold runs dry, she then pays them with food and shelter. They have a choice, it is not slavery, and her freedmen STILL love her despite the hardship as seen in Tyrion's Winds chapter. They are crying out for her to come back and smash the slavers once again. She trapped herself in an unhappy marriage and locked up her dragons in the name of peace. She learned her lesson from Astapor, that's the entire reason she stays in Meeren, it's not like she kept on doing the same thing after, she refuses, and Astapor haunts her throughout her chapters. Nowhere in book 5 does Dany start burning stuff down because "eff peace" NOWHERE. I read her chapters all the time, that is false.

"Dany had red flags(and she had plenty)? Book! Dany is worse. She has no qualms whatsoever with slaves being rounded up en masse because it’s Drogo doing it with the intent of earning her Westeros. She’s willing to let starving slaves sell themselves back into slavery as long as she gets a cut from the earnings."

● This is just blatantly false. Unlike the show, the reason Drogo's Khalasar attacked the Lhazareen was because ANOTHER KHAL was attacking them first. Drogo surprise attacked him to gain more respect in his Khalasar and steal his victory, as Dothraki Khals do. The moment Dany realized all of the terrible things happening she tried to convince herself to ignore it for all of 30 seconds before putting a stop to it. Her power was dependent on Drogo, she was nothing to the Khalasar without him, so she had to work within his power to protect the women she saved. Also, the slaves of Meereen were not starving, Meereen had freshly fallen and the slaves who wanted to sell themselves back into slavery were "gently born" bed slaves, scribes, and teachers, who saw a better life that way. She freed them to give them choice, she was not going to force them to remain in Meereen knowing that war was coming. Also, it was Missandei, a former slave, who suggested taxing the slavery to deincentivize it and Daenerys put that right back into Meereen's economy. She never pockets any gold, her goal in Meereen is rebuilding.

"She has a wineseller’s daughters tortured before the man’s eyes because someone murdered two of her Unsullied in his wine shop: nothing ever comes out of it. Oh, and she’s doing it because one of her favorite slaves is murdered… on the other side of the city. She’s willing to impress the slaves she supposedly liberated into working for food and water in her public works projects, and somehow not see that literally is slavery."

● Daenerys approved the use of torture *once* in the series because 2 of her Unsullied her killed brutally and there had been many more murders before that with no leads. I don't know about this "favorite slave" you are referring to. Torture falls within the accepted values of society in ASOIAF; Crow cages for villages (Catelyn wanted Theon in one), Ice Cells for the Night's Watch (also Qhorin Halfhand tortured a wildling to death), Sky Cells and an abusive inkeep for The Vale, the Black Cells and torturers for King's Landing, I could go on. Stannis tortures Theon and lets people be burned alive, The Manderlys have a torturer named Garth, the Faith utilize torture for information, even King Jaehaerys the Conciliator used torture to get information. And above all of what I just listed, Daenerys is the first and only leader in the books to openly condemn and ban the use of torture afterward. She recognizes that it is useless and cruel. Again, she paid the freedmen wages until she was besieged and the gold ran out, she pays them with what she has. She DOES NOT force anyone to work, you're using the exact argument that Xaro, an unrepentant slaver who compared slavery to rain, tried to use to convince Dany to allow slavery again. I think you're missing the point. Her freedmen still love her and want her to rule despite the hardship, NO ONE is calling Dany a slaver in the books, not even the people who hate her. They all hate her because she is a liberator.

"Hell, her whole ‘kill a city of innocents’ schtick? She’s already done that in the books.

When ordering her brand new Unsullied to sack Astapor, she ordered them:

“Slay the Good Masters, slay the soldiers, slay every man who wears a tokar or holds a whip, but harm no child under twelve, and strike the chains off every slave you see.”

A tokar is a clothing that in Astapor is uniquely worn only by the freeborn. You claim show! Daenerys went batshit: her book counterpart effectively ordered an army to kill every man in a city that wasn’t a slave or wasn’t dirt poor or a hard laborer, irrespective of whether they actually owned slaves, including children above the age of twelve, and those under that age unlucky enough to look a bit old for their age."

● A tokar can ONLY be worn by slavers. Know why? Because it takes your hands to hold it in place. Only people who do not use their hands because they have slaves to do everything for them can wear it. It is the symbol of a slaver. Also, "harm no child under 12" DOES NOT mean "kill everyone over 12". In her society, a boy is considered a man at 14, they begin training with sword and shield long before that. The youngest commander of the Night's Watch was 10 years old, the same age Barristan Selmy was when he entered his first tourney. Doubtless, young boys would try to fight the Unsullied, but she didn't want them harmed so she gave a rough age of accountability on the spot. The Unsullied do not fill in gaps in orders, which is the exact reason Jorah urged her to buy them, they will only do what is explicitly ordered. I feel like people intentionally misread this to villainize Dany even though the entire reason she wanted to free the Unsullied was to save children from torture. She is constantly contemplating her want and love for children, you have to think about these scenes in the context of her character. Dany would never want children to be slaughtered. However, I think the most important thing to acknowledge when it comes to Astapor was that Dany learned her lesson and decided to take the next city without laying a hand on them, then stayed to rule in Meereen to stabilize it.

There is no meticulously built up madness arc, at all. The point of George's key 5 are that they are the underdogs of society who defy the expectations of their world at every turn, and even though some are hated, they will be the ones to rise up and save the world from the Long Night. George is not pessimistic, he's not centrist, and he certainly believes in righteous war and violence. At its heart, ASOIAF is still a fantasy series, George just doesn't brush over the hardships and ugly truths like most fantasy novels do. Most of your evidence is easily disproven by the text, I'll whip out book quotes if you want me to.

And then they didn't respond 🤷🏻‍♀️

#daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #dany #book!daenerys #book!dany #pro dany #pro daenerys

[weaversthread]

The Dragon Queen 🐉🍋

#daenerys targaryen #drogon #clocking out at 13 hours and 4 minutes… goodness #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #a song of ice and fire #fanart #daenerys stormborn #valyrianscrolls #book!dany

[rhaenysdagger]

Daenerys Targaryen 🤍

#daenerys targaryen #book daenerys #asoiaf art #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #game of thrones #game of thrones art #house targaryen #a song of ice and fire art #meereen

[duchessofferia]

ASOIAF bitches have made an entire genre of literary criticism out of twisting themselves into giant, angry knots over how unfair and misogynistic it is that such a huge swathe of women in this text get murdered or tortured or raped for the purpose of influencing the male characters’ storylines but you make a single inadequately deferential point about how many women of color are made to swallow up huge amounts of graphic, intense suffering for that same purpose in the service of white women and they turn into stupefied, pearl-clutching children who just can’t understand why you’re being so mean to their Stronk Female Lead Who Has Been Through So Much

#AU where Mirri Maz Duur burns Daenerys alive #and the book is about how she was Impacted by this Tough Choice :( so sad Dany and her child Had to be violently killed For Mirri’s Arc :( #Taena and Alayaya can come too they can hunt Cersei for sport and have grace and catharsis and attention after #mirri maz duur #Taena Merryweather #Alayaya #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf criticism

[fromtheseventhhell]

Nymeria nipped eagerly at her hand as Arya untied her. She had yellow eyes. When they caught the sunlight, they gleamed like two golden coins. Arya had named her after the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, who had led her people across the narrow sea. (Arya I, AGOT) *George directly compares Dany to Nymeria*

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This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took, the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. "Dragons," she whispered. (Arya IV, AGOT)

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If I had wings I could fly back to Winterfell and see for myself. And if it was true, I'd just fly away, fly up past the moon and the shining stars, and see all the things in Old Nan's stories, dragons and sea monsters and the Titan of Braavos, and maybe I wouldn't ever fly back unless I wanted to. (Arya X, ACOK)

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"I wish I had a flaming sword." Arya could think of lots of people she'd like to set on fire. (Arya IV, ASOS)

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Arya drew back from him. "He killed the slave?" That did not sound right. "He should have killed the masters!" (Arya II, AFFC)

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"I would like to see a dragon," Mercy said wistfully. "Why does the envoy have a chicken on his chest?" (Mercy, TWOW) *said to her friend Daena*

This is the same Arya Stark who I'm supposed to believe isn't going to be instant besties with Daenerys Targaryen...okay. I think it's time for some of y'all to go back to the books and actually read them.

#arya stark #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #daenerya #so many people who don't even like them hate on the idea of them being friends and it's sooooo miserable #if you don't care about either of them then what's the issue with them being friends? 😭 #either way they're George's two favorite female characters you can bet that he's going to be writing them positively interacting #one of the most foreshadowed meetings in the books fr...what that show really took from us #people are right that they aren't going to be friends cause they're actually going to kiss 🫶🏾 #daenarya is the ship that was promised it is known