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greenbloods · 7 months ago
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Buildings built of blood
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dedalvs · 4 months ago
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In a world where all English speaking actors can perform rolling Rs perfectly, do you think Daenerys would have pronounced “buzdari” with the AV tapped R? Or do you think her native HV accent would have slipped through resulting in an “incorrect” rolled R?
That is a super good question. For myself, I pronounced it with a tap, because I was thinking of it as an Astapori word. Given that it's post-tonic and the situation, I'd think Daenerys would intentionally pronounce it as a foreign word. After all, her goal was that Kraznys would recognize it. Why not pronounce it the way he would?
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asongofstarkandtargaryen · 11 months ago
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How many asoiaf leaders we see being self reflecting?
Meanwhile Dany, the night before she offers freedom to all Unsullied, she reflects about Eroeh's fate and even feels guilty about her tragic end.
This girl was raped when Dany rescued her and added her to her personal slaves in order to offer her protection ( remember, back when Dany was married to Drogo, she didn't have the authority to free a slave herself).
Unfortunately for Eroeh, her sad fate didn't stop there. Because after Khal Drogo was dead and Dany was no longer considered a Khaleesi by most of his khalasar, Eroeh's rapist return to abuse and kill the girl.
Dany was by no means responsible to what happened to Eroeh because she was unconscious ( after giving a difficult birth) when the girl met her cruel end by Khal Mago.
However, that doesn't stop Dany from feeling she failed the girl. Because Dany believes that a ruler's duty is to protect their subjects.
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Dany was once also a helpless child in need of protection from her brother - king. But instead all she got was his cruelty and abuse.
Dany knows first hand how someone can suffer under a merciless King. Combine on that the guilt she feels for the fate of a girl she couldn't possible change and it's no wonder that she comes to the conclusion that " justice...is what kings are for".
Those aren't pretty words coming out of a mouth of a pampered and naive girl playing the Messiah. Those are the words of a girl who has sold by her Brother - King as a bride-slave, a girl who has suffered things other Ruler candidates couldn't possibly imagine, a girl who is going to live by those words she said. The same teenage girl offers freedom and justice to all the Unsullied slaves the next morning.
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thewatcher0nthewall · 1 month ago
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the Slave trader.
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southernmotherofdragons · 21 days ago
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Daenerys Targaryen Astapor Cosplay
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game-of-style · 1 year ago
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Daenerys Targaryen - Tom Ford Fall 2023
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Already gone through how Dany did work to replace the economy, how she turned down multiple chances to sail away and how she had literally everything stacked against her etc. and is above all not responsible for the actions of slavers who choose to unleash violence of their own accord etc.
But I am tickled by the logical paradox here. Dany, as a 14-year-old child, both does not understand the qualifications necessary to overthrow slavery, yet should also understand that she lacks those qualifications. She is a 14-year-old who doesn't know any better and yet should know better enough to know that she doesn't know any better enough.
For her lack of education, at least Dany is very good at math. 8600 Unsullied = 8600 dead babies. 2/3 of Unsullied do not survive training = 17,200 more dead children. 8600 + 17,200 = 25,800 dead children to make 8600 mutilated slave soldiers.
Add in the other children who have not completed their training yet. Kraznys tells her if she comes back in a year then they'll have another 2000 ready to sell to her. So they produce 2000 Unsullied a year. That's 2000 mutilations, plus 2000 dead babies plus 4000 children who don't survive training. 6000 dead children a year. So within the 14 years of Dany's life, that's 84,000 dead children to make 28,000 mutilated slave soldiers.
"Ask her if she wishes to view our fighting pits," Kraznys added. "Douquor's Pit has a fine folly scheduled for the evening. A bear and three small boys. One boy will be rolled in honey, one in blood, and one in rotting fish, and she may wager on which the bear will eat first."
Factor this shit then into your calculations. How frequently does Douquor's Pit schedule this particular folly? How many nights in a year are three children eaten alive for mass entertainment? Let's say once a week. 156 children a year. Let's say every night. 1095 children a year (1098 on a leap year). Let's throw in a matinee. 2190 children a year. Since Dany was born, 30,660.
All the maths adds up to burn that shit down. Tell me again that the situation before Dany was bearable. Tell me again that it's Dany's fault if the already wastefully viciously sadistically violent institution of zionism slavery continues to be wastefully viciously sadistically violent. Tell me again that you shouldn't fight back against a violent institution because then it's your fault when they retaliate with continued violence.
And with that said:
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dinastiatargaryen · 5 months ago
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agentrouka-blog · 2 years ago
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According to Dany stans Tokar is wore by only slavers. The massacre in Asaptor is only resulted in slavers death. Women do not wore them.
All wrapped themselves in tokars, a garment permitted only to freeborn men of Astapor. (ASOS, Daenerys III)
Freeborn does not equal slaver.
Also, if it was only adults, she would not need to clarify what age child was okay to murder and which not. It's mentioned within the same chapter so this is something GRRM deliberately wrote in connection to one another.
"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." (ASOS, Daenerys III)
She mentions separately the Good Masters, their soldiers, the general freeborn, and anyone in a position of authority over the slaves. And she includes children aged twelve and up, excluding only those below that age.
But hey, no women were harmed! Supposedly. In Meereen women also wear tokars, so who knows if they did in Astapor. But even if not, everyone knows men's lives don't matter, and mass murder is okay if it's not directed at women. Feminism?
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daenerysoftarth · 2 years ago
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I think it’s interesting that The House With The Red Door is in Braavos, a society which was founded by escaped slaves. Knowing that Daenerys spent the best part of her childhood there, it’s nice to think about Dany running around the streets of Braavos and perhaps learning various folktales about freed slaves and how Braavos came to prosper, all of which would go on to fuel her fight against slavery later on in her life
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mundoasoiaf · 11 months ago
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"E fogo, fogo por toda parte. Fechava os olhos e ainda podia ver; chamas se contorcendo nas pirâmides de tijolos, maiores do que qualquer castelo que já vira, nuvens de fumaça gordurosa subindo em espiral como grandes serpentes negras.
Quando o vento soprava do sul, o ar cheirava a fumaça mesmo aqui, a cinco quilômetros da cidade. Atrás das muralhas vermelhas se desintegrando, Astapor ainda ardia, embora a maior parte dos grandes incêndios já estivesse extinta. Cinzas voavam preguiçosas na brisa, como grandes flocos de neve cinzentos.
Seria bom partir." - A Dança dos Dragões // O Soprado pelo Vento
🎨: Martina Pilcerova
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westeroswisdom · 1 year ago
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Game of Thrones filming sites and the September 8th Morocco earthquake. 🇲🇦
Several locations in Morocco were used for location filming in Game of Thrones. They were all affected by the recent earthquake though were not in the most severely struck area.
Essaouira served as Astapor in Season 3. It's located on the Atlantic coast. The effect of the quake in Essaouira was IV to VI on the Mercalli Scale which measures local intensity.
Aït Benhaddou filled in as Yunkai, another Slaver's Bay location from Season 3. Aït Benhaddou is about 22 km from Ouarzazate which is the home of Atlas Studios where some production took place. In Aït Benhaddou/Ouarzazate the quake measured VI to VII on the Mercalli Scale.
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Here's Daenerys just outside Yunkai/Aït Benhaddou in S03E10.
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In terms of lives lost and number of injuries, this is the second worst earthquake in Moroccan history. Many historical and culturally significant buildings were damaged or destroyed.
Morocco earthquake – live: Race to find survivors as death toll tops 2,901
CBS News has compiled a list of organizations providing relief to those affected by the earthquake and aftershocks. Keep in mind that local people were used as extras in those GoT Season 3 Morocco scenes.
How to help those affected by the earthquake in Morocco
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thewatcher0nthewall · 1 year ago
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·Bloody walls, from a Bloody City of bleeding men·
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The Great City of Astapor.
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ai-manre · 2 months ago
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Love love love this. Especially this excerpt:
GRRM performs a delicate dance throughout Quent’s arc, providing us with the recognizable framework of a Hero’s Journey while the actual content is an endless nightmare. 
Men’s Lives Have Meaning, Part 3: Fires Everywhere
Series so far here
“Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know of fear?”
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There are places in the world of ASOIAF where Metropolis is revealed as Moloch, where the horror takes on a hideous cosmic tinge, where curses are real. Harrenhal is one, of course, and the Nightfort is another. 
But I feel there’s one often left off the list. 
“Bricks and blood built Astapor,” Whitebeard murmured at her side, “and bricks and blood her people.” 
“What is that?” Dany asked him, curious. 
“An old rhyme a maester taught me, when I was a boy. I never knew how true it was. The bricks of Astapor are red with the blood of the slaves who make them.”
Astapor is hell. This is made nigh-explicit by the very first sentence set there:
In the center of the Plaza of Pride stood a red brick fountain whose waters smelled of brimstone, and in the center of the fountain a monstrous harpy made of hammered bronze.  
Indeed, when we’re introduced to the Red City, it’s a sprawling charnel house dedicated to unspeakable abuses, GRRM framing its elites as human-shaped ticks grown fat on blood. Hell is a market in human suffering, in which pain is the core of the advertising. 
“We give each boy a puppy on the day that he is cut. At the end of the first year, he is required to strangle it. Any who cannot are killed, and fed to the surviving dogs. It makes for a good strong lesson, we find.”
He stopped before a thickset man who had the look of Lhazar about him and brought his whip up sharply, laying a line of blood across one copper cheek. The eunuch blinked, and stood there, bleeding. “Would you like another?” asked Kraznys. 
“If it please your worship.” 
“To win his spiked cap, an Unsullied must go to the slave marts with a silver mark, find some wailing newborn, and kill it before its mother’s eyes. In this way, we make certain that there is no weakness left in them.” 
Kraznys moved to the next eunuch in line, a towering youth with the blue eyes and flaxen hair of Lys. “Your sword,” he said. The eunuch knelt, unsheathed the blade, and offered it up hilt first. It was a shortsword, made more for stabbing than for slashing, but the edge looked razor sharp. “Stand,” Kraznys commanded. 
“Your worship.” The eunuch stood, and Kraznys mo Nakloz slid the sword slowly up his torso, leaving a thin red line across his belly and between his ribs. Then he jabbed the swordpoint in beneath a wide pink nipple and began to work it back and forth. 
“What is he doing?” Dany demanded of the girl, as the blood ran down the man’s chest. 
“Tell the cow to stop her bleating,” said Kraznys, without waiting for the translation. “This will do him no great harm. Men have no need of nipples, eunuchs even less so.” The nipple hung by a thread of skin. He slashed, and sent it tumbling to the bricks, leaving behind a round red eye copiously weeping blood.
“Douquor’s Pit has a fine folly scheduled for the evening. A bear and three small boys. One boy will be rolled in honey, one in blood, and one in rotting fish, and she may wager on which the bear will eat first.” 
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leupagus · 11 months ago
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Me before writing this GOT fic: this will mostly be about Sansa, my main squeeze, my best girl and beloved
Me while writing this GOT fic: so instead of the whole dumb shit that happens to Daenerys in seasons 5 & 6 what if instead she’s presiding over Meereen while it invents democracy so it can vote her out of the city. Along the way Meereen invents journalism and soccer.
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atopvisenyashill · 1 year ago
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me: literally makes a post complaining about how Certain People will use anything to excuse dany of culpability re: how she sees slavery.
someone on that post: *does exactly the thing i’m complaining about*
@magicalgoateestudentsposts-blog no one is denying that dany had very little control over her life in the very first book. dothraki wives have significantly less power than westerosi ones do, that is true, but saying dany is a slave bc she was a child bride is like saying sansa, aemma, etc are slaves as well. no. it’s a whole different thing bc they have class privilege that offers them potential safety & allies that a random slave like Missandei or Grey Worm will never get. the very concept of child brides in asoiaf is in fact predicated on their class privilege - it’s a really specific way of torturing & controlling noble born women. no one bothers to stop ramsay from torturing jeyne poole bc no one cares about some random northern girl without an important last name. if jeyne hatched dragons, no one would be flocking to her banners they would be attempting to undercut her abilities based on a gendered view of her class status, the same way nettles is treated. dany suffers immensely but she is never an actual slave.
beyond that - “she didn’t have a choice” is the entire point i’m making. she sacks astapor and slaughters freemen as young as twelve then crucified the masters without trying to figure out if the politics in the city had any sort of complexity similar to her own situation. she directly orders the massacre of thousands who were likely in positions similar to her - young people who inherited slaves and didn’t like the fact that they had to participate in the slave trade. young, idealistic, potential allies who are never given the chance to unlearn the harm bc she has them killed. SHE owned slaves. SHE asked drogo to get her the iron throne, knowing it will involve sacking lhazareen villages and selling more slaves. then when her slave had the audacity to resent her treatment, SHE burned that slave alive. SHE refuses to recognize her own role in allowing the slave trade to flourish & how her own experiences in literally owning slaves have informed the way she sees the people around her. like, her best friend SOLD SLAVES and he even points out that moral dilemma to her but she doesn’t reflect on it at all. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. using “she was a slave” as a defense for her actions is what i’m arguing against - she wasn’t a slave but also, if you think a noble girl being forced into marriage is akin to slavery, surely you understand then that dany effectively killed other “noble born slaves” in astapor like her and refuses to admit to it?? if she insists on getting involved in politics & ruling, than she gets criticized for what her actions actually do and not what she wishes she could do, same as robb, same as jace, same as daeron, same as jon, same as every other child military leaders who fundamentally prove that children should not be military leaders bc they are too emotional, reckless, and lacking in self awareness to accurately lead others.
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