#targling

[fir3-and-bl00d]

the ending they deserved ❤️

My piece commissioned by @xxthewolvenstormxx for #JonerysUnites!! It’s lovely seeing the fandom together for this wonderful cause. 

[evax3]

“Long may she reign.”

AND NOW MY WATCH BEGINS

CHAPTER 10: NO CROWN AND NO GLORY read here

thanks a lot @arielchelby and @st-clements-steps for the beta reading ❤️

[maggie-stormborn]

"Our Songs of Ice & Fire" by @t0adsav on Instagram for my fanfic "Truly The Mother of Dragons" - Thanks again for doing this commission.

"Daenerys sat against Drogon, holding her newborn babes in her arms, taking in their tiny features. Two had the silver and gold hair of House Targaryen, while the other had thick, dark curls like her father, save for a bright silver streak on one side. She had had a golden haired and brown eyed daughter, whom she named Rhaenyra, to honor the first true Targaryen queen before her; a son with indigo eyes and silver hair named Aemon, for the only member of their house his father had ever known or been raised by; and a second daughter, with her own violet eyes and Jon's dark hair, whom she named Daenys, after the dreamer of Valyria of old who had set their family on the path that had led to this miraculous birth. House Targaryen, born again, while the hatchlings flew above singing overhead, and Daenerys held her sweet babes in her arms as the sun rose, with bittersweet tears streaming down her cheeks."

[raventreehall]

we joke about the lannister child-hater genes and how many times the twins have threatened to baselessly kill kids but damn stannis gives them a run for their money!!

list of children stannis has actively wanted to kill or whose deaths he's been resigned to:

- daenerys and viserys (presumably)

- joffrey, tommen, and myrcella

- robb

- edric storm

- dalla's baby AND gilly's baby

- shireen (in the future, probably)

hello????

[legokingfisher]

she is trying to peek at his cards …

[littledancer9]

A Perfect Christmas

@snowxstormworld Jonerys Winter Wonderland 2023: All I Want for Christmas is You

Summary: T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… besides two parents very excited for some time alone with each other.

Dany has a secret she is trying to keep until Christmas Day. Jon gets into the Christmas spirit late in the evening, but they both forget one very important thing before the morning.

Enjoy some Holiday Family Fluff! Christmas may be over, but it’s never too late to celebrate with our favorite couple and their targlings.

[juniperjellyfish]

[princessofdragonsandwolves]

My fanfic universe "A Love of Spring.

After Bran's defeat the Realm is healing in the warm light of spring, under the guidance of King Aegon VI and Queen Daenerys, rejoicing for every new life that is blossoming in their family

[butterflyintochains]

Their Dynasty Complete

Daenerys POV

She's finally here, after nine long and difficult months, she's finally arrived. After five years of being told she'd never bear a living child of her own making, she's had six. The birthing room is quiet, the maids have left the Empress alone with her newest princess. Jon is filing the birth with the council, and the others are no doubt gathered in the nursery waiting to be allowed to see her. The door opens again, Dany looks up from her baby girl's silver eyes, seeing her husband entering. ''My love, come, let me kiss you.'' Jon smirks, and comes to sit beside her legs, he gently leans over to kiss her, eleven years and the buzz never goes away. ''How do you feel, darling?''

Daenerys smiles, tired but so blissfully happy. ''Tired, sore. But, I'll be fine, I've done this six times now.''

Jon laughs, gently stroking his newest daughter's fuzzy brown hair, finally a Stark princess. ''She's beautiful, isn't she? Our Lyanna.'' Daenerys hums, and nods. ''Well, we've not failed yet, have we?'' Jon kisses her forehead. ''No, no we haven't.''

A knock comes at the door, the couple share a look, Jon says. ''Come in.'' In comes their other five children. Rhaegar, eleven years old, looking more like his kepa every day. His twin, Alysanne, growing quickly into a true Valyrian princess. Aemon is eight, and should probably be at his studies - not that it matters right now. Six year old Rhaella is holding her eldest brother's hand, her silver hair in a braid down her shoulder. Two year old Benjen is on his eldest sister's hip, playing with a toy wolf. ''We wanted to see her, muna.'' Alysanne says. Daenerys nods, and motions them all over. ''This, our loves, is your sister... Princess Lyanna Targaryen.''

Rhaella gushes. ''She has our eyes, like me, Rhaegar, and kepa.'' Rhaegar nods. ''And mine, kepa, and Aemon's hair too, Ella.'' Jon beams at his children. ''She's a child of the North.'' Alysanne extracts an egg from a bag on her shoulder. This one being white and blue. ''This is for Lya, muna, can i put it in her cradle?'' Daenerys nods, her eldest girl is proving to be quite the princess. ''Of course.'' Jon asks his eldest daughter. ''How is Daeraxes doing?''

Alysanne says. ''She's doing great, still nesting.'' Rhaegar laughs, completing his twin's sentence. ''And Eddarion won't leave her side, we've not flown in weeks.'' Aemon looks cocky, Rhaella giggles, seeming proud of being the only ones able to fly right now. ''Sounds horrible, Alys.'' Aemon jokes. Alysanne rolls her eyes at her younger brother. ''Not helping.'' Benjen curls up beside his mother and new baby sister, and says. ''I miss you, muna.'' Daenerys wraps an arm around her baby boy, and assures him. ''I miss you too, Ben, I'll be back in the family in a few days, so will Lya.'' Benjen nods.

Daenerys and Jon share a look, the look they've shared for twelve years. Here they are, their dynasty complete at last.

AN: first story on my blog, hope you all like it!

[gay-for-annabeth-chase]

I made this mood board for my new fic about GOT 14 years after Daenerys ascends the throne. Feel free to check it out!

Fifteen years after Daenerys ascends the throne, her two children, Misella and Joron, wish to explore the Seven Kingdoms as a whole. Daenerys and her children travel North as Jon travels South, and Jon must face his biggest regret.

[badwriterrr]

Just two lil curious Targlings, I’m sure nothing bad will ever happen to them.

[atopvisenyashill]

Maybe grrm is secretly team blackfyre or team green because why are brown-haired targlings who were heirs to the iron throne losing, and it was passed down/on to white haired targlings? Kinda sus 🧐

[maastrichtiana]

Brynden will boink Barba(ra), symbolically fulfilling a narrative “not what she said last night” joke against long-deceased Aegor. It is written.

bracken vs blackwood is perpetually a hilarious rivalry because in part their feud is so legendarily bad it spawned like a century of kingdoms wide civil war with the blackfyre rebellions but also because the point asoiaf is building to in current timeline is when the realms of men will have to align themselves together to face a greater threat regardless of past issues. there's no time to be arguing about land when there's a horde of ice zombies descending on you regardless.

and also because current era blackwood v bracken has theeeee funniest set up of:

five bracken daughters vs four (still living) blackwood sons. you just know hoster blackwood is hooking up with at least one of those girls while a hostage in KL together. if not one of his other brothers hooking up with one instead.

[nogoodsheepstealing-greatgrandma]

Team Green: Sorry your faves are boring 😊🤷‍♂️ Sure you're supposed to root for the Blacks but the Greens are just more fun. Jace is boring I'm here for my angsty disaster mess 💚

You realise that's bad writing, right? This is a family civil war drama. One side of that family civil war shouldn't be populated with blank slates. If no effort is made into making Rhaenyra and Daemon's children as fleshed out as Alicent's children then that is bad writing.

Some people find the Lannisters more fun than the Starks, but the Starks are still fleshed out characters (and considering in the books Jace is 14/15, Luke is 13, Joffrey, Baela & Rhaena are 12, Aegon the younger is 9 and Viserys is 7 - these kids ages almost map straight onto the Starklings so they were so meant to be our Targlings). It didn't have to be a zero sum "you can only have ONE side that's interesting". The show is poorer for it. Game of Thrones was a disaster in many ways, but at least the different sides of the conflict had equal screen time and attention.

How hard would it have been to flesh out Jace, or at least give him a half-decent haircut? He could have been a mirror to Jon Snow (they technically have the same initials). One is a bastard who does not know he's a targaryen prince, the other is a targaryen prince who discovers he is a bastard. In a world that hates bastards, that insists they are 'wanton and treacherous by nature', there was plenty of potential to explore some complicated emotions, to give weight to how he feels about being a bastard. The whispers that would have followed him, the scrutiny he would have felt, the internalised guilt and shame, his protectiveness over his little brothers and wish to spare them the truth. Maybe after Alicent confronted Aegon over the pig there could have been a shift where Aegon turns his bullying away from Aemond and towards Jace (more in keeping with book canon). Maybe Jace could feel anxious about lessons with Criston Cole due to his open hatred of him. Maybe he could be equal parts devoted to and resentful of his mother over his parentage, maybe he could be driven to perfectionism to prove himself worthy.

The show made Jace more violent in the fight with Aemond than in the book, by changing who started the fight (from Aemond to Rhaena and co.), by narrowing the age gap to make Jace more of a match for Aemond, and by having him draw a knife instead of a wooden toy sword. But they didn't earn that moment. How much more satisfying would it have been if both Aemond and Jace were given equal emotional weight in the build-up to the fight? If the hurt and anxiety at discovering he was a bastard had been building and building until it burst out. The entire reason the show changed the age dynamic between Rhaenyra and Alicent to make them peers and best friends was supposedly to make their conflict more dramatic - why would you then drop that approach with their kids? How does it make the civil war story better if one half of the next generation of characters aren't really characters?

They didn't even have to put much effort into Baela, as GRRM already had her brimming with personality on the page, but they just... ignored that and made her a non-entity. Oh she gets one punch in, and there's a blink and you'll miss it background shot of her trying to hit Aegon (at this point I don't think the actors were even directed to do that I think they just took it upon themselves). Meanwhile Baela in the books is wild and fearless and deliberately provocative and quick to anger and fiercely defensive of her loved ones and wrestles squires in the training yard and has a pet monkey and sneaks out in search of adventure and brings home 'unsuitable' friends. Including a legless beggar, a blacksmith's apprentice whose muscles she admired, a street conjurer, twin prostitutes and an entire troupe of mummers. And she alarms everyone due to being 'overly fond of boys' and gets epic lines like this when it is suggested she marry Lord Rowan:

“I’ve bedded two of his sons. The eldest and thirdborn, I think it was. Not both at once, that would have been improper.”

She could have been an absolutely chaotic presence onscreen. Rhaena meanwhile is a little more like Sansa to Baela's Arya, but would have needed more work to flesh her out onscreen. Her insecurities and wish for a dragon seemed promising at first, but they were dropped as soon as Aemond lost his eye. Because that was ultimately the narrative purpose she served - to provide a new reason for the fight to start that wasn't Aemond hitting and pushing a toddler into a pile of dragon poo. She helps Aemond's image by being the one to start the fight instead of him, and from then on she becomes a voiceless non-entity. We watch Aemond fly away victoriously on Vhagar, we don't see Rhaena tearfully watching the last link to her mother vanish over the horizon.

Considering the prominent role of bastards during the dance (especially the dragonseeds), the uninterest in exploring bastardy in Jace makes little sense. Considering the centrality of gender to the story (and considering a certain event involving key players during the dance), the lack of effort into Baela and Rhaena makes zero sense (the show doesn't even bring up their right to Driftmark in an episode dedicated to discussing the rightful heir to Driftmark).

Considering especially that in fantasy black women are so often consigned to minor Missandei roles, the fact that we were robbed of Baela and Rhaena as main characters particularly stings. Baela in particular was an easy fan favourite in the book, and its a role that black women and girls so rarely get to play. If you had told me before the show that Helaena would be a fan favourite over Baela, I wouldn't have believed it. And don't get me wrong, I like that they fleshed out Helaena in the show, like Rhaena she didn't have much of a presence in the book. But it is so typical that the relative non-entity that they kept white gets to be fleshed out, while the more fleshed out character that they made black becomes a non-entity. And Helaena is skinny now, of course (all love to Phia Saban, but I am mourning plump Helaena).

And don't get me started on Kylo Raemond.

[icy-watch]

"Best friends"? Kreel, did you and Targle have a BFF breakup? Is that why we haven't seen him in a while?

[princessofdragonsandwolves]

King Jon and Queen Dany have as many children as Jaehaerys and Alysanne

Change my mind