Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation Week

Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation Week

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Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them. The milk in her breasts dried up, her nipples cracked and bled, and the flesh fell away from her day by day until she was lean and hard as a stick, yet it was her dragons she feared for. Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. Her mother had died bringing her into the world while the storm screamed outside. Gentle Ser Willem Darry, who must have loved her after a fashion, had been taken by a wasting sickness when she was very young. Her brother Viserys, Khal Drogo who was her sun-and-stars, even her unborn son, the gods had claimed them all. They will not have my dragons, Dany vowed. They will not.

I keep seeing posts saying Dany's entire claim to the throne is Aerys. You know, the mad evil tyrant who killed 2 Starks.

So many discredit Dany as a Princess, as a Targaryen, as a contender for the Throne, as a Valyrian, and as a Westerosi because of him. Who is she but tainted and fraudulent because of her ties to him?

And that is offensive.

I have my biological father's last name and his eyes. I've only met him twice. He was a drug addict and spent years in prison. I'm still mixed with black and a descendant of that last name. It doesn't matter whether I acknowledge him or not. Bloodlines aren't just your parents. I have ancestors from more than one bloodline who were living in the US for centuries, long before the current POTUS's grandfather ever arrived here.

I found out as an adult that I have brothers and sisters from my father's side.

Daenerys is directly descended from every King & Queen who ruled Westeros for 3 centuries. Her bloodline can be traced back 400 years in Westeros. She is a Targaryen through both her parents. She is related to over a dozen Kings and has a claim to the throne regardless of Aerys. Her mom Rhaella was the daughter of a King & Queen and the grandaughter of a King & Queen and the great grandaughter of a King & Queen and so forth and so forth.

Dragons going extinct because of misogyny is actually crazy when you think about it and then hundreds of years later a little girl being the one to bring it back is so poetic like Dany really is the one.

asoiaf meme: 2/9 houses

House Targaryen is a noble family of Valyrian descent that escaped the Doom. They lived for centuries on the island of Dragonstone until Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters rode their dragons in their conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. House Targaryen ruled as the kings on the Iron Throne and as the Great House of the crownlands for nearly 300 years, until their ouster in Robert’s Rebellion, which they call the War of the Usurper.

- requested by anonymous

Dragons going extinct because of misogyny is actually crazy when you think about it and then hundreds of years later a little girl being the one to bring it back is so poetic like Dany really is the one.