#book daenerys targaryen

[kataraavatara]

she’s here!!! my comm of dany by @mossytrashcan, it’s all the best parts of how I like her to be depicted-the white eyebrows and eyelashes that match her hair, beautiful without being sexualized and realistically looks like a teenager. I am so happy with this and I hope other dany fans are too!

[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.

[danytheconqueror-jonthewhitewolf]

Scenario, where Daenerys meets young Griff, and she very reluctantly lets him meet her dragons.

They go to the dragons, and he says in the most cocksure voice, "Well, of course I'm going to claim the dragon named for my father."

He starts swaggering up to Rheagal, who is giving off "bitch, don't even think about it." vibes.

Dany sees the way Rheagel is looking at him and tells Y Griff to wait. He waves off the concern with an "it's fine, it's fine." He goes to put his hand on Rheagal's snout and barely, barely avoids getting the Quentyn Martell treatment from Rhaegal whose growling and puffing smoke.

Y Griff, clothes singed and bits of hair smoking, backs away, turns to Dany, and says, "Actually, I think Viserion over there is calling to me." With painfully fake confidence.

JonCon is in the background all but screaming, crying, and ripping his hair out.

[ilovecats100]

I fear I may kill myself if jon and daenerys never meet.

[poritora]

Book Daenerys my beloved

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

THANK YOU, SERIOUSLY. I'm tired of people saying that "they ruined dany's character in the later seasons", they started ruining her character from THE BEGINNING. they made her a thin shadow of what she actually is.

the worst part is that you can make this sort of discourse about SO MANY characters. like arya and the way they made her think that "most girl are idiots" and making her a cold-blooded killer while in the books she suffers from being different from the ladylike idea (even because of people that keep and keep comparing her to her sister (even her sister didn't help)) AND YET she DOESN'T think that mOsT gIrLs ArE iDiOtS. and also she's not a robot and she feels EMOTIONS because she is a CHILD (much like dany at the beginning, which is a thing i would like to remember to everyone because asoiaf "fans" all apparently want them (because this rule doesn't apply to their sigma-male fav character because X makes a mistake? NOO😡! U'RE A BETA!😡 HE'S PERFECT😡) to be fucking perfect because apparently according to them people just CAN'T learn from their mistakes) and she doesn't like violence and killing.

also brienne??? and her attitude towards womanhood??? calling jaime a woman??? as an INSULT??? like when? how? why? BRIENNE would NEVER. also generally the whole brienne/jaime dynamic was changed and less y'know LESS then in the books and won't sit by it, one day i will talk about it because there's no way there's people out there not KNOWING THEM TRULY like ARSHAKJSS.

even asha (yara) who's a boss in the books and takes no shit from anyone? asha you ask? she's a fighter, she's intelligent but most importantly she's yet another character that's been completely watered down by Dumb&Dumber, going from... well... Asha Greyjoy to a pale imitation/parody (because that's what it is) of her named Yara. Let's be honest now, Yara is pretty useless in the show, running away to meereen at the first hint of trouble to make heart eyes to dany (because apparently she's also queer for no reason OR perhaps the reason is connected to the fact that pre-modern societies viewed sex more like a social and political roles and thus power? but this applies more to book cersei in my opinion and still this is mainly connected to the Romans or the ancient Greeks and Martin takes elements mostly from Medieval period right? honestly i don't know). not to mention many of the things that Dumb&Dumber make her say and do: raping a volantis' slave, leaving theon in bolton dungeons, calling theon useless, bringing him (a PTSD victim that has been tortured and molested by ramsay) to a BROTHEL)

you can make this even with sansa which is INSANE in my opinion because she's the closer that they could get to the "innocent girl" that Dumb&Dumber seem to like so much. except that APPARENTLY it's not a sweet/innocent girl thay they want but it's a STUPID one they can play with. they're ALLERGIC (very badly) to any sort of STRENGHT or INTELLICENCE coming solely from a woman. turning book sansa (who is a flawed character in my opinion BUT still able to get appreciated) into a weak, passive, shallow girl and a "slow learner" WHEN IT'S JUST NOT LIKE THAT.

it's even crazier when you think that they did this to these characters (turning them to their show counterpart) WHILE they made people like robb (which i have nothing against with, it's just objective that he's not the mastermind that Dumb&Dumber wrote. also the scene where jon says "he was stronger than me, better than me" i was laughing because it was totally the other way around in the books but watever) or TYWIN some kind of mastermind geniuses and war masters.

(Going back to dany because i completely changed the topic lol) it is INSANE to me that they tried to pull the "anyone is better then her" card on DAENERYS of all people, while also ERASING not just bits but almost ENTIRELY her personality and her spirit from the books <- wait no they didn't erase it sorry, they STOLE IT FROM HER TO GIVE IT TO THE MEN AROUND HER. who used their knowledge in dothraki culture to embarrass viserys? DANY, not the man that did it in the show. who gives her strenght during her tough times in the desert? DANY, not jorah, who is btw harassing her and making her uneasy. SHE gives HERSELF strenght because she needs to be strong for them. who suggests that she souldn't buy slaves but instead have people following her because they believe in her? DANY and not barristan (who btw is like the best man she has around her). who suggest that she should let slavery continue for seven years? NO ONE, BECAUSE IT'S A DUMB ASS IDEA AND EVEN IF SOMEONE HAD SUGGESTED THAT DANY WOULDN'T CERTAINLY BE LIKE "oh that's such a good idea". who talks about merciful strategies? DANY because she DOESN'T WANT to turn cities into dirt, she wants to rule upon happy people in PEACE. now the thing is that NEITHER TYRION "I WANT TO SEE KL BURN" WOULD'VE SUGGESTED THAT like WHAT THE FUCK AARDSJ

The signs were there…

The signs were there all along… that the fucking hacks were ruining this beautiful, amazing, complex character long before the shit season. I know those dumb as shit incompetent hacks and some of the cast of GoT (do they actually believe that shit or were they toeing the line?) in their condescending manner told us that the “signs” were there all along about Dany “going mad”. They are right but not for the reasons they think they are. The signs were there… that D&D were ruining Dany’s character long before that putrid shitshow that was Season 8. When you reread the books and remember or rewatch the show, you can see. As early as S1, they were giving many of Dany’s strong or intelligent or kind and merciful moments to the males around her. It was her who took Viserys’s horse away from him to show how she has grown stronger and is no longer as afraid of him as she once was. In the show they gave it to Rhakaro. In S2 they had Jorah tell Dany she must be her people’s strength and then Dany told Jorah “as you are mine”. Contrast that where in the books Dany told herself she must be her people’s strength, including Jorah. And they gave Dany’s meeting with Quaithe to freaking Jorah! There is the fact that the hacks couldn’t have women talking for two minutes without insulting each other (directly or subtly). And then they gave her intelligent strategies to her male advisers in S3 and 4. And of course had her rely on the incompetence dumbass Show Tyrion for strategy completely in S7, ignoring the advice of her allies (who were all females). And to make her look worse, they had Barristan tell her “it’s better to answer injustice with mercy” when she had those masters crucified for what they did to the children (and of course add “nice and innocent slavers”). No surprise to find out that they omitted that Dany specifically ordered them to give up their leaders aka the ones who obviously ordered it, in the books. And how Dany is told by her advisers to be more violent and ruthless, instead of them “tempering her worst impulses” (I fucking hate that sexist fucking line). Dany is the one who wants to be as merciful and nonviolent as possible. A little off topic, I think Dany needs to become more ruthless. I think GRRM was trying to show that while it shows Dany’s good heart that she tried to be compromising, you cannot compromise with slavers. If she wants to utterly destroy slavery she will need to be more ruthless and that is not a bad thing at all.

Anyway, besides giving most of Dany’s best moments to the males around her, the fucking hacks were changing things when they still followed the books (for a given definition of “follow”) as well as adding ridiculous crap. It’s most blatant in her S2 storyline. The Thirteen immediately invite Dany into Qarth because they sought her out. But the hacks had Dany be condescendingly talked to by the show only Spice King and refused entry. So they could have her shout “We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground”. I know a lot of dumb idiots will use that line as “proof” but it was a stupid addition by the two hacks so they could make Dany look bad. And then they had Dany’s Dothraki people slaughtered. They had Irri murdered. They took away Dany’s female companionship (until Missandei). And speaking of Irri, who killed her? Doreah! Yeah! They had Doreah out of literally nowhere with zero explanation or reason betray Dany and murder Irri (like I said, Dumb&Dumber can’t stand female friendships. They think women are only good for insulting and killing each other). Looks like the later seasons weren’t the start of them inventing stupid plot points out of nowhere. And I guess they wanted to make Dany look cruel for locking Doreah and Xaro in the vault. Know what she does to them in the books? Nothing. Well not exactly nothing. Doreah dies in the Red Waste and Dany holds her and gives her water from her own waterskin and refuses to move until Doreah has passed. And Xaro is still alive in the books. Because Xaro and Pree never stole her dragons in the books (another stupid show invention). And then later, as I previously mentioned, they invented “innocent slave masters” that Dany crucified like Hizdahr’s daddy. Nothing like that is brought up in the books. Oh, and they decided to kill off Ser Barristan in S5! Even though Barristan is alive and well and gladly serving Dany in the books and knowing she’s nothing like her father. Which the actor pointed out. And it only made those scumbags want to do it even more. And then after his (very stupid) death, Dany burns a slave master. And that stupid awful behind the scenes book after the shit season, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon has that moron Cogman bring that up about how Dany didn’t care if he was innocent or not (they really had a thing about “innocent slave masters”). None of that crap ever happens in the books.

They also changed small but important parts. Never let Dany have a crown like I mentioned. They also had Dany sit on top of the stairs in Mereen, when she insists on sitting at the bottom on a simple bench because she wants to be on an equal level with her people. Heck an illustrator had to be corrected by GRRM when she was showing that (does anyone have a picture or article about that?). They also never really showed her bond with her other dragons. In the books she loves and pays attention to all of them, in particular Viserion who always wants to be petted by her. In the show, she only really pays attention to Drogon mostly. Rhaegal and Viserion were reduced to “the two smaller different colored dragons” (to be stupidly killed off later on in stupid asinine ways). And Dany’s relationship with Daario is changed. Daario is made to be the one in love and Dany “feels nothing” when she ends their relationship. In the books Dany has a huge crush on Daario but Daario only really wants her for her crown and title, not the girl she is. And Dany knows this. And Jorah is changed into this super nice guy who is always giving her wisdom instead of this creep who is trying to isolate her from other men so she’ll only rely on him.

And when they stopped following the books? Well they really weren’t bothering to hide it much anymore. In S6, they have that idiot Show Tyrion talk about how Dany was “wrong” for not building a new system (and Tyrion is portrayed as smart for not wanting to change the way of the world even though that’s what Dany wants to do). So Tyrion wants slavery to continue for seven years (which the idiot says is a “short time”). And most disgustingly, they had him tell Missandei and Gray Worm, who were slaves their whole lives, that he now “knows the horrors of it”. A white rich guy telling two people of color that he knows about slavery… (am I looking at it too much?) Anyway, when that predictably backfires (why the hell were they always having people talk about how smart Tyrion is and Dany needs to listen to him when all he’s ever done is fail?) and Dany returns to Mereen, they have Dany talk about “returning cities to the dirt” so Tyrion can give her a more merciful strategy. And then in S7… have her rely only on Tyrion and his stupid plans. And if she dared to want to just end it quickly, they told her she would be just like her father. They even had that dumb weak idiot Show Jon say that. Book Jon would bitch slap that idiot. Book Jon wants to bring destruction to House Lannister.

Speaking of which… that scene where she meets Jon. It was funny how Dany had all her many titles spoken by Missandei when all Davos said about Jon is “He’s King in the North”, right? Well… I think those hacks wanted Show Jon to be this humble “noble king” while Dany is this “arrogant Queen with all these titles”. And they also want Dany to come as arrogant and entitled so they have her talk about all the shit she went through (like getting raped and betrayed and sold to sexual slavery) and how faith in herself kept her going. Now to the sane layman, that is a strong woman giving herself credit for believing in herself and using her strength to forge something better for herself. But to Dumb&Dumber that is an arrogant and selfish woman not crediting her abusers for her strength. Gosh I loathe Show Sansa but NO ONE deserves to be raped and to have her credit her rapist for her strength is just… wrong. In every way possible.

Then there was that crap with the Tarlys. Those idiots wanted us to see Dany as doing something evil and wrong. Actually they wanted us to see that whole battle as “wrong”. Because they have that tragic music playing and Tyrion looking sadly. The same guy who watched thousands burn in wildfire that he himself laid out. Where was the sad music then? Anyway Dany does what literally not just every King and Queen does but what ever highborn period does after defeating the enemy. She offers them the choice to bend the knee and live and keep their lands. Or death. Same choice Robert Baratheon offered Balon Greyjoy. Same choice the old Stark kings offered their rivals. The two Tarlys choose death so Dany executed them despite multiple chances. And immediately Varys starts comparing her to her father. Except her father (and people like Ramsay Snow, Tywin Lannister, Gregor Clegane, and Euron Greyjoy) wouldn’t have given multiple chances. They would have given no offers. Just murdered them all (Ramsay, Gregor, and Euron simply for their sadistic pleasure). And then they had Jon look uncomfortable when Dany said she had fewer enemies. Which is stupid. Jon has fought battles before. He’s killed thousands to take Winterfell back as Dany herself reminds him.

And they even had it said that Aegon the Conqueror started “the wheel” and got along far with fear. Except… yes Aegon was ruthless when he had to be, but as King he unified a country that was divided and plagued by constant conflicts. He gave them peace and prosperity. And he and his wives were the first to get rid of some unsavory practices. The hacks were determined to have us think that all Targaryens were “mad tyrants”. Idiots would have us think the Starks were democratically chosen leaders instead of ruthless warlords who conquered the North. They never understood the story or the characters. And the signs were there all along that they were ruining and destroying one of the greatest female characters in fictional history.

Longest post I ever wrote! I didn’t cover S8 because nothing needs to be said about that putrid shitshow. But let me end with this. I fully believe that not only will GRRM finish the books… he will give Dany a great and satisfying ending. I hope she becomes Queen but I will perfectly settle for her being alive and well. I have every confidence that she will not get that disgusting show ending. That was a shitty sexist plot point done purely for shock value. But… I guess the signs were there that those hacks never understood or respected Dany. But there are signs that George has great things planned for our beloved Dany. And then that is how she will be remembered. I’m gonna keep believing and hoping. Someone has to, and I will happily be that person. PS: Can people please tell me what they think of all this? Any questions? I’ll happily answer! And reblogs are perfectly acceptable and encouraged! I’d love to hear your thoughts and you can add anything you want.

[vintrage]

fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH

[meerabanerjee]

Dany's dragon dream

[mossytrashcan]

surprise sequel to this piece, commissioned by the super awesome and very cool @kataraavatara 🎉

[cheryroseart]

My girl Daenerys Targaryen inspired on John William Godward’s painting🌷

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.Please don’t repost without credits❕

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[targsource]

Dany and Viserion

by nataa.draws on twitter

[princewhowaspromised]

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOOK!DANY AND SHOW!DANY— Dany and Hizdahr's conversation at Daznak's Pit

TL;DR: the show-only scene makes Dany seem misguided and potentially dangerous and tries to cast doubt on her moral compass, while the book-only scene written by George R. R. Martin showcases Dany's persistent effort to protect the ones who can't protect themselves.

On HBO: the writers created an entirely original scene in order to paint Dany as someone potentially willing to use indiscriminate violence to achieve her goals, while Hizdahr is portrayed as the more cautious figure who defends the tradition of the fighting pits for the sake of Meereen's cultural identity and continuity.

In the books: Dany is shown to be empathetic and protective of the marginalized. She imposes strict conditions to ensure that only willing participants fight in the pits and immediately steps in to stop the needless deaths of (unbeknownst to her) Tyrion and Penny. Meanwhile, Hizdahr shows no regard for the dwarfs' consent or well-being. His attempt to circumvent Dany's anti-slavery measures in order to force two vulnerable and unwilling slaves to fight against lions serves as a critique of the Ghiscari nobles, who readily perpetuate cruelty and oppression for the sake of their entertainment.

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

"tyrion is going to meet daenerys in winds of winter"

[praparuru-ume]

Book one Daenerys design

I suppose sort of like a reference sheet, so I know how to imagine her. She still has no piercings here and overall looks a little younger.

Vest is heavily inspired by @/shebsart's design

[wodania]

“Drink until you’ve had enough / I’ll drink from your hands / I will be your warrior / I will be your lamb.” - queendom, aurora

khaleesi of the great grass sea

[witchlingcirce]

Seeing people refer to Daenerys as entitled, or narcissistic is so actually mind boggling. Like DAENERYS???? The Daenerys who never even had a proper home??? The girl who said she would not rule of ash?? And wanted a happy kingdom??? The girl Who listens to all of her people’s complaints almost everydau??? Same girl who cried over chaining her dragons away??? THE GIRL who is legit kind to people who aren’t even close to deserving it (Viserys, Jorah)??? LIKE DAENERYSSS?!??!?!?!?!??