daenerys isn’t the “paul atreides of asoiaf” grrm was never inspired by dune nor has he ever stated it was an influence on his writing for the series

when asked for opinion on frank herbert’s dune books he respected it as “classic work” but clearly wasn’t the biggest fan of them

if any daenerys enthusiast are interested i do have links to daenerys novella’s blood of the dragon & path of the dragon i’m happy to share

Illustrations by Darryl Elliott of Daenerys Targaryen for The Iron Throne Saga by George R. R. Martin

Fire and Blood

Queens and Claimants of House Targaryen

slayer of lies

Viserion sensed her disquiet. The white dragon lay coiled around a pear tree, his head resting on his tail. When Dany passed his eyes came open, two pools of molten gold. His horns were gold as well, and the scales that ran down his back from head to tail.

"You're lazy." she told him, scratching under his jaw. His scales were hot to the touch, like armor left too long in the sun. - Daenerys I, ADWD

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH || Day 16: Magic

Arya Stark Appreciation Month 2022: Day 3 → Jon Snow

ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH

DAY 15 I ROMANTIC INTERESTS

GRRM's Rule of Thirds: Three Kings + Arya Stark

Jon Snow rallies kings to save Arya from her marriage to Ramsay Bolton.

Twitter doodles

Cersei in her Rhaegar Cosplay and the original for comparison. Literally the funniest woman in Westeros, no one does it like her.

working on a wee storyboard thing - a certain prince gets knocked off his horse while chasing the Knight of the Laughing Tree and shenanigans ensue

Dany stared at herself in silence. Is this the face of a conqueror? So far as she could tell, she still looked like a little girl.

No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would. Aegon the Conqueror had won Westeros with three dragons, but she had taken Meereen with sewer rats and a wooden cock, in less than a day. Poor Groleo. He still grieved for his ship, she knew. If a war galley could ram another ship, why not a gate? That had been her thought when she commanded the captains to drive their ships ashore. Their masts had become her battering rams, and swarms of freedmen had torn their hulls apart to build mantlets, turtles, catapults, and ladders. The sellswords had given each ram a bawdy name, and it had been the mainmast of Meraxes—formerly Joso’s Prank—that had broken the eastern gate. Joso’s Cock, they called it. The fighting had raged bitter and bloody for most of a day and well into the night before the wood began to splinter and Meraxes’ iron figurehead, a laughing jester’s face, came crashing through.

Dany had wanted to lead the attack herself, but to a man her captains said that would be madness, and her captains never agreed on anything. Instead she remained in the rear, sitting atop her silver in a long shirt of mail. She heard the city fall from half a league away, though, when the defenders’ shouts of defiance changed to cries of fear. Her dragons had roared as one in that moment, filling the night with flame. The slaves are rising, she knew at once. My sewer rats have gnawed off their chains. -- A Storm of Swords

Character Album Covers: Catelyn Stark

He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way. (ACOK, Daenerys IV)

An old Daenerys sketch as well

I promise I’m cooking comprehensible ASOIAF art 🙏 please accept these humble old doodles for now