hbo would be bankrupt and that dragon show non-existent if not for emilia clarke, the fire that fueled game of thrones, working through two life threatening aneurysms and three brain surgeries, all while fearing for her life, to bring us daenerys targaryen
whoever said balerion thought aerea was daenys and when she asked him to take her home, thought she meant old valyria... i want you to know i haven't been the same since
Someone cover Viserion’s ears bc I don’t want her to hear this but why did GoT desaturate the cream and gold colors like that is BROWN and…red on the spines?? for some reason this is a disgrace 😭
grrm: portrayed dragons as individuals w unique personalities, magical sentient beings, symbols of light and life to contrast the cold and the dark
hbo: what if 🤔 we made them big dumb lizards 🦖 you can saddle like a horse 🐎 when dragons go to war 😜 everything burns 🥵😝
Castles of The World of Ice and Fire, a thread.
Dragonstone.
↳“Dragonstone was grim beyond a doubt, a lonely citadel in the wet waste surrounded by storm and salt, with the smoking shadow of the mountain at its back.”
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the starks are the so-called "heart of the franchise" but it was the targaryens who got two history books, a prequel book with three accompanying graphic novels, the largest chapter in twoiaf, and their own hbo prequel series
kinda scary seeing all the 16 yr olds in the hotd fandom stanning the religious fundamentalist and her rapist/mass murderer children while demonizing a woman for having consensual sex with multiple partners
"but hes blonde 🫤" how do u people survive ur daily lives genuinely. do u think everyone cast as a targ is naturally platinum blonde. do u think cregan stark is a real person somewhere and were expecting him to be cast as himself
Tom Taylor who recently joined the cast in Season 2 of House of the Dragon just followed Harry Collett on IG and Harry followed him back…
Has winter finally come? 🐺
"targaryen propaganda" so NO ONE before daeron has ever tried mounting a dragon? just because the targaryens said so? "no you can't ride a dragon! you'll die! just trust us 😁"
but then turn around and nail spikes into the dragons necks to hold their reigns bc "the idea that we control the dragons is an illusion" cant even stay faithful to their own invented canon, just making shit up as they go along
still can't believe that there are Targ fans who still missed the point of house targaryen in 2024... like u know Dany's storyline was critique of western intervention in “eastern” (essos) countries comprised of POCs, right?
Look at historical context, GRRM was anti-Vietnam war.
"that is george's space to tell that story" but when grrm does tell a story you twist every little detail of it until the adaptation is no longer recognizable to the source material. stop speaking.
Ryan Condal says showing Daenerys in Daemon’s vision doesn't confirm she is The Prince That Was Promised:
#HouseOfTheDragon
“Remember that Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, House of the Dragon in many ways, are warnings about the perils of power and people in power and
no actually i think aemond climbing onto the warty wrinkled back of a thrice domesticated 170 yr old dragon while she was mid nap IS different than dany forcing a young, wild, unclaimed drogon into submission while he was mid killing spree
Dany didn't tame Dragon. She claimed him. All those dragons act the same (generally speaking). Remember, no one can steal a dragon. If dragons could be stolen, you would have to say Daemon, Rhaenys, and Laena are dragon stealing as well
Mattson Tomlin on adapting HBO’s ‘AEGON’S CONQUEST’ from George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood:
“It starts with what George has done. I've now gotten to spend quite a bit of time with him, and there have been a lot of pinch-me moments of just kind of going through fire and blood,
emilia clarke travelled back in time to a village of medieval peasants and they dropped dead one by one from shock after seeing her. that's where society got the phrase "drop-dead gorgeous" from
George R.R. Martin on speculation of the release date of ‘WINDS OF WINTER’
“When WINDS OF WINTER is done, the word will not trickle out, there WILL be a big announcement… where and when I cannot say.”
i thought dany was an evil tyrant mad queen hitlerite why is daemon seeing her in a hopeful light?? where is the vision of jon targaryen slaying her and saving the world
George R.R. Martin unveils new covers for the first five books of his ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series that will release in October.
“The new design tries to capture the vastness of Westeros and the dangerous journey readers will encounter.“
so dany brought those dragons into the world, breastfed and raised them by herself but jon sat his ass on rhaegal once or twice and that makes rhaegal his?? 😭
it's always so awkward when this page intentionally avoids anything daenerys related. you seriously included this random ass OBERYN quote over "a dragon is not a slave" or any of her other iconic lines 😭 embarrassing
if you believe harwin was just a sperm donor and a plot device then you truly dont care about rhaenyra as a character and are only using her as a self insert
Some of you really need biology lessons. The fact that inbreeding greatly increases the probability of health issues due to the lack of genetic diversity doesn't mean *every* child of incest will have those health issues. It means it's much more likely than the general population
you can't explain the thought process behind this without absolute narcissism. he thinks he's a better writer than grrm, that grrm's version should be thrown out and replaced with his own — despite this universe and therefore condal's career not existing without grrm
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i need greens to stop speaking on daenerys immediately. you are only invested in the asoiaf universe at all because of some queerbait ship invented by misogynistic show runners who instead of writing women with agency, decided to victimize and brutalize them on screen instead
when you can't enjoy a fantasy series because all the kings, queens, nobles, knights, dragons, warlocks, and elves are all privileged upper class oppressors and you're too worried about the npc civilians democratizing and casting their ballots in the 2024 BCE election 😔
a common theme w these ppl is suggesting that daenerys (and rhaenyra too) are less feminine or even masculine for simply wielding power that their favs (sansa + alicent) dont have. they equate feminity w being powerless. the misogyny is calling from inside the house
"making this group of fantasy people have certain powers and abilities is bad writing actually!"
if asoiaf readers read a book with elves or orcs or any other magical fantasy race they'd literally kill themselves. this is a FANTASY series
"and then i had to learn how to pre-empt the move... like there's 26 moves in there, you want me to pre-empt all of it and speak dothraki? okay." mother's talent 😩🙏
stanning the least fantastical characters in a fantasy series then stealing all of dany's traits and plot points for ur fanfictions when you could just... stan daenerys? what mental illness is this
house hightower they will never make me hate you. rich, socially progressive (all members are gay), patrons of education and religion (carrying westeros), reside in the best city (beautiful old town vs stinky kings landing), and still alive and thriving in 300 ac
emilia clarke researching her character's book counterpart and giving a critically acclaimed performance despite her character being butchered on tv vs that other show's actors impressing their personal headcanons onto their characters & doing no research into the source material
@romanaceaddict2
@aerystrgaryen
Sansa can have a baby, has a home,, has a past she can be proud of, has a large group of people who unquestionably love her. How many of those does Dany have.
dany stans dont hate rhaenyra, we hate seeing misogynistic writers completely misinterpret the essence of rhaenyra's character & attempt to make up for it by recycling daenerys content. if you truly liked rhaenyra for her character youd be just as upset 🤷♀️
its truly comedic that over the last yr this fandom collectively trashed the writing on hotd, but every time the writers are called out for blatant racism this fandom starts defending the same gross mischaracterization of these characters that we previously agreed was nonsensical
and how many dany/long night visions are we gonna get in the conquest and akotsk shows... all this foreshadowing for a battle that kills 3 npcs... portraying dany as a savior when you villainized her and had her executed...
all dany hate is embarassingly forced 😭 grrm called dune a classic once so dany is paul atreides reborn. dany is a mad tyrant because she killed people who deserved to die. dany, the orphan child sold into bridal slavery, had "everything handed to her." you're all just coping 😭
targaryen stans calling sansa plain and boring like most of their fave charecters aren't just made up of like two sentences WHO are you to speak on charecters being plain
you share a fandom space w ppl who call daenerys a nazi barbie spoiled girlboss mad queen so it is kinda frustrating seeing you & them continuously use her plot bc your irrelevant favs aren't interesting enough on their own 😕
grrm had dany fulfill the prophecy before agot was even released, in the 1996 novella "blood of the dragon", but im sure theres a secret, even older jon targaryen novella out there somewhere!
idc if daenerys is fictional, if you're calling a child sold into bridal slavery stupid and dumb for not realizing she was being tricked by an adult, you're fucking weird and should probably be separated from civil society
the same ppl who claim daenerys can't be azor ahai because that's "too obvious" and that prophecies aren't meant to be literal:
i pray for a glimpse of azor ahai, and r'hllor shows me only Snow 😝😩💦🥴
@AloreScott
She could have given them away with the snap of a finger. She literally says that to Mirri Maz Durr.
I’m not saying Dany wasn’t oppressed. I’m not saying she couldn’t use her experience under Drogo to relate to enslaved people.
I’m saying it highlights the layers of the
dany antis conveniently forget that she was a 13 yr old child sold into bridal slavery, powerless and alone in the middle of the dothraki sea, surrounded by killers/rapists, groomed by her rapist husband, of fucking course she kept jorah by her side, she had literally no one else
@asstudyinpink
Not defending Stannis, bc eww religious fascists, but also Dany low-key burned alive a slave who whom her slaver husband's warriors had gang-raped and kept a convicted and unrepentant slaver as an advisor until she realised he'd been reporting back to KL on her.
@conquerorscrown
The way this is an unpopular option is crazy tho…like the author is so anti war but folk think they’re right in their sides makes me think they’re simple af
book targs controlled dragons with whips and vocal commands and show targs need to use cruel barbarism for their dragons to only sometimes obey them, i kinda really hate them ngl
she used to get bullied a lot in school for being too pretty they called her “pretty face” they were like “oh pretty girl let’s bully her” and they would be telling her shit like “oh your face is pretty"
i'm gonna put my finger on your clit when i tell you this... just bc you like a mediocre tv show doesn't mean it's not still mediocre 😐 just bc you like it doesn't mean it can't have weak dialogue, poor writing, and cheap costumes. enjoyers of any cw show can tell you this 😐