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We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

— A Game of Thrones

Art by Kiel

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Addam & Daeron - Childhood Friends AU

Art by Kuro

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Re-reading Fire & Blood and I have completely forgotten that Tessarion and Seasmoke were doing a mating dance? and Vermithor cockblocked them? He is just like Jaehaerys for real, ruining everyone's love and sex lives

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The fact that Tessarion and Seasmoke were basically flirting with each other, and then Tessarion tried to protect Seasmoke from Vermithor. Only for George to write on the same page that: "Some will claim that the bond between a dragon and Dragonrider runs so deep that the beast shares his master's loves and hates" makes you question some stuff. Like, Daeron The Daring, could you explain to us what all of this means?

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Asoiaf Rare Pairs Week 2022

↳ Day 6: Star Crossed Lovers 

Some will claim that the bond between a dragon and dragonrider runs so deep that the beast shares his master’s loves and hates.

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My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodigious birth of love it is to me

That I must love a loathed enemy.

A Romeo & Juliet inspired art of Addam & Daeron by jurimaart

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Thinking about how I love every version of addaeron. Childhood sweethearts turned bitter enemies. Star-crossed lovers forced to fight against each other. Just friends who realized the depth of their affection only when they were divided by the war. Strangers who feel a rush of recognition when they first meet at Tumbleton. No war scenarios where their love is still tested against their duty to their families. Even post-war scenarios where they must learn to navigate their opposing loyalties and forge a relationship on equal ground.

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Nautilus: Seahorse Love Works in Mysterious Ways by Till Hein // Fire and Blood, George R.R. Martin // Ocean Conservancy: 7 Wild Facts You May Not Know About Seahorses by Katie Hogge // Mating Pair on SeahorseResearch - unknown // Project Seahorse: Reproduction // @/superorganism // Bones - MS MR // Seasmoke vs Tessarion by pedrohenryq // This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone // Project Seahorse: Pair Bonding // Not A Blog: Here There Be Dragons by George R.R. Martin // SeahorseResearch: Mates // Eclectic Array: A Sea Horse Kind of Love // Without You - Ursine Vulpine & Annaca // unknown

THE DANCE OF THE DRAGONS, otherwise known as the mating dance between Tessarion and Seasmoke

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Is it truly a queer relationship if the medieval historians didn't attempt to obscure the truth from the history books?

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ADDAM & DAERON - Defiant Dance Unto Death

@holyaches on twitter // Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin // Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, Richard Siken // Selected Poems: No More Alone, Paul Eluard (trans. Gilbert Bowen) // Dancing With Our Hands Tied by Taylor Swift // The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri // Die Young by Kesha // Holy Ground by Taylor Swift // The Battle Over Tumbleton (The Rise of the Dragon) by Ertaç Altinöz // Manos by Erika Seguín Colás // Devotions: Three Things to Remember, Mary Oliver // Lucian // Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare // Sirens by Norman Lindsay // Erasing Faith, Julie Johnson // Choreomania by Florence + The Machine // Rereading a Classic Book for Young Adults: The Representation of Death in Aidan Chambers’ Dance on My Grave - Dimitrios Politis // E.O Wilson // unsourced painting // Fire and Ice, Robert Frost

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ADDAM & DAERON - A Tale of Star Crossed Love

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare // Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin // Beetroot’s Romeo and Juliet Poster // Never Love an Anchor by The Crane Wives // Daeron Targaryen and Addam Velaryon as Sergio Cupido's “Romeo and Juliet” by Moonie // Editors Pages: The Long and Short of It, Richard Siken // The Waves, Virginia Wolf // Wikipedia article for star-crossed // @starpeace // Arcade by Duncan Laurence // Selected Poems, Pablo Neruda // American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes // unknown // Power Politics: Poems, Margaret Atwood // Wonderless by Pierce The Veil // The Lovers by Akseli Gallen-Kallela // myShakespeare's Annotated Romeo and Juliet // @currentlycryingaboutlancelot

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Them 💕💕

Addaeron dynamics 🫶

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a peaceful moment in the sunlight 💛

artwork from KanahaniART

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Your hand to mine; My heart to yours

Artist: douxxess

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Something to consider about a more toxic aspect of Addaeron is the power imbalance.

Personally, I love that Addam & Daeron have such different backgrounds. Daeron is a trueborn prince and dragonrider, who will one day become a knight. He belongs to the most powerful family in Westeros and occupies the top of the social hierarchy. Addam is a bastard and commoner, raised by a single mother. He has no guarantee of what his future will be like, because for someone in his position, his family’s livelihood is dependent on the goodwill of their superiors.

This difference in upbringing would definitely influence the dynamic of their relationship. The power imbalance between them actually can’t be ignored.

Nobles have a tendency to feel entitled to act however they want when it comes to commoners. (Eg. Even a highborn character like Arya, who isn’t very classist, feels entitled to Gendry and expects him to stay with her. She is angered when he leaves her behind to follow his own path.) Due to his even more privileged upbringing, I am sure Daeron holds classist views too: raised to hate bastards/look down on the smallfolk. His classism might be slightly negated by his own kinder nature but it would still exist.

Daeron would probably feel that he is owed Addam’s affections, especially if he already likes Addam first. When Addam leaves him behind, Daeron could grow resentful. It’s not a surprising reaction for a privileged prince in his position to feel possessive over his lowborn lover. On Addam’s part, as much as I think he would enjoy having a prince’s favour, it would also make him feel beholden to Daeron in a way. Daeron holds power over Addam, and both of them would know it. Royalty/commoner can never truly be a relationship of equals, and that might be what influences Addam’s decision to leave.

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Rhaenyra’s reaction:

Their soulmatism is just unmatched in every way. 💕

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Their soulmatism is just unmatched in every way. 💕