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Team Black. House of the Dragon fanart.

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michelle clapton really had no idea what she was doing, just reading her comments is mind boggling, like concerning dany's white outfits in meereen she says that dany wore white to appear godly and above everyone else when in the books dany literally wears meereenese dresses so she can assimilate herself and connect to the people

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“It’s the same thing when writing about a woman or a girl. How would I feel if I was Arya in her situation? How would I feel I was Daenerys or Sansa? And the answer, of course, to all three of those is rather different. One of the things that my structure has given me is the ability to give different answers. If you write one woman in the story she almost represents all women which is wrong. She shouldn’t represent all women she should represent herself.”

GRRM [x]

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nyra and baby jace

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“jace is harwin’s kid—” “jace is alicent’s kid—” “jace is jeyne arryn’s kid—” “jace is laenor’s kid—” WRONG rhaenyra made him asexually

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Every time a Jonsa puts out a new theory a fairy dies

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If you love "d@rk Dany" I hate to break it to you but you're not a Daenerys fan you're a delusional Daenerys HATER who needs to get a life

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I die a little inside every time asoiaf fans don't know what colonialism is or use the word colonialism to describe every single military takeover or conquest that has ever happened.

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I don't think we need a monologue or explicit statement from Dany renouncing the Targaryens of Old Valyria for owning slaves and the Old Valyrians for spreading slavery through Essos. She never thinks about them, she doesn't have them on a pedestal in her mind. She has a favorable viewpoint of her immediate family, mostly Rhaegar, that she was taught by her brother. I dont think we need to see Dany explicitly state for the readers that her slave owning ancestors were evil and she disagrees with them because her actions show this.

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𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄 as 𝐃𝐀𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍

daenerys' white andgrey gown. 03.07 game of thrones.

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this is an INCREDIBLY disingenuous take, which doesn’t shock me in the slightest despite season two utterly destroying the fanon perception of alicent many have made up in their minds.

rhaenyra did not want to marry laenor, book or show. it is a direct consequence of viserys’ inability to be anything other than a complacent door mat, and daemon attempting to sully rhaenyra’s reputation in the hopes that viserys will marry her to him. the only husband she chooses is daemon.

the show did her far less justice in that it created a storyline of rhaenyra being given a ‘choice’ or at the very least the ‘illusion of choice’ before being forced to marry. the situation leading up to it is roughly the same minus that aspect is the book. i have no doubt in my mind that viserys would have concocted some scheme to bring the velaryons back into the fold regardless of rhaenyra’s reputation being put into question, but i digress. i’m not here to talk about hypotheticals.

rhaenyra has no intentions of not ‘doing her duty’ or ‘not sacrificing herself enough’ in this endeavor. this person is purposely misleading with their usage of only part of the quote (the one that fits the narrative they want to push). below is the dialogue for the scene this person is talking about:

the conversation, as this person so eloquently put, is not about rhaenyra wanting to ‘fuck whoever she pleases.’ it’s two teenagers put into a predicament they don’t want to be in; one because she both does not want to marry and wishes to find love with someone else, and the other a closeted gay man with no interest in women. the full quote is, “that we perform our DUTIES to our fathers, then each of us dines as we see fit.” rhaenyra had no initial interest in not having trueborn children with her husband. this is further proven with the season one episode seven line, “i had hoped to bear your [laenor’s] children.”

another point i’d like to make is WHY exactly is it seen as such a character flaw to not want to be looked down upon, or taken advantage of? to want freedom and flights of fancy and the ability to be happy? a certain someone DID her duty, and she wasn’t happy. she SACRIFICED everything, and she still wasn’t happy. she ultimately decides to gift her sons on a silver platter to the enemy in her pursuit of protecting her daughter and granddaughter; after a conversation where she admits that she was jealous of rhaenyra, for finding that happiness she herself was unable to grasp. this is not a moral failing on rhaenyra’s part. i don’t care what the in world ethics are of any given situation, i’m not going to sit back and look at a system meant to hurt women and root for it, whether my favorite character supports it or not. whether i deem it the ‘safest’ option (it isn’t) for my favorites lives to continue. how is anyone meant to break the wheel if they continuously allow themselves to be stepped on, or god forbid uphold it for their own personal gain?

‘i’m supposed to root* for her?’ you don’t have to root for her. you’re not obliged to. you’re not going to be burned at the stake. you’re not special for siding with overt female subjugation because the only women you deem to deserve better are those who perform their duties unwillingly and sacrifice their bodies and minds in the process. those who don’t fit into mold of the patriarchy be damned, the imperfect victims that they are, the ‘bad’ women of society.

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Genuinely baffled by people saying asoiaf doesn't have heroic characters only the morally grey ones when Daenerys Targaryen and Brienne of Tarth literally exist like ????

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the “daenerys doing violence against slave owners was obviously foreshadowing her doing violence against everyone and you just didn’t see it because she was violent to people you deem bad” is so dumb to me. because to me it always reads like “the mad brienne arc was set up perfectly because of the no chance no choice scene. oh it’s okay for her to try to kill rorge the biter but when she does it to innocent civilians it’s suddenly antithetical to her character? this is actually a lesson for you, the reader. i am very smart and not a centrist and also definitely don’t have any weird hangups about women.”

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‘i like morally grey female characters’ but actually you can’t even handle a teenage slavery abolitionist who dreams of a home with a big red door and a lemon tree outside her window in hopes of receiving the childhood she never got to experience

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did you know that the only two female characters that have worn clothes adorned with baby pearls are arya and daenerys?

It was even worse than before; Lady Smallwood insisted that Arya take another bath, and cut and comb her hair besides; the dress she put her in this time was sort of lilac-colored, and decorated with little baby pearls. The only good thing about it was that it was so delicate that no one could expect her to ride in it.

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Afterward, as Jhiqui was patting Daenerys dry, Irri approached with her tokar. Dany envied the Dothraki maids their loose sandsilk trousers and painted vests. They would be much cooler than her in her tokar, with its heavy fringe of baby pearls. "Help me wind this round myself, please. I cannot manage all these pearls by myself."

and let me leave this image here, with an explanation about the meaning of pearls when used in literature.