i mentioned this before but i& actually think alysanne would've been aware of the song of ice & fire prophecy that aegon the conqueror dreamed of before conquering westeros bc she & jaehaerys were essentially co-rulers of westeros so i& think they would've told baelon as he told viserys, i& think that alysanne would've wanted to tell rhaenys but whether she does or not i'm& not entirely sure, but i& definitely think she would've told vaegon who, while not the heir, would've become an archmaester & the first targaryen to join the citadel, especially bc i& think that whatever the fuck happened at the wall years ago in the north would've deeply concerned her & that would've brought back memories of that prophecy & considering vaegon had a chain in the arcane arts iirc, i& think alysanne could've told him to look further into prophecy & other magic to see what he could find. bc here's the thing. alysanne is. weirdly interested in the wall & the north & the old gods. like. more than you would normally for a queen who's not even from the north, she's a targaryen & velaryon after all. & i personally don't think that it's Just her trying to be friendly with the north & the night's watch for political reasons, although that's definitely a huge part of it, but also to investigate what she could find & i think grrm may have been hinting at this w/ us. like. she really likes the north & visits the night's watch & sees the nightfort & the wall & she has a fascination with the old gods & their worshippers. i& genuinely think alysanne may have been up to something up there in the north & at the wall that's more than just wanderlust, curiosity & political intrigue & silverwing utterly Refused to go beyond the wall Three Times even despite the fact that silverwing Never disobeyed her & i think that confirmed the prophecy of the song of ice and fire that aegon dreamed. alysanne's an incredibly intelligent woman & she may have been trying to get intel. like. why else would grrm spend so much time about alysanne's time in the north & then at the wall if it didn't amount to anything at all in the end.

benjicot blackwood-rickon stark parallels,,,,

this is a possible ref & could be wrong but if myriah was born in 146 AC, she would've been a year older than rhaena targaryen & 4 years older than elaena targaryen & she would've been 7 years old when the last dragon died (& her future husband daeron ii the good is born) during the reign of aegon iii the dragonbane & would've been 11 years old when aegon iii targaryen died of consumption aka tuberculosis & daeron i is crowned & would've been 15 when daeron died & baelor is crowned king & 15-16 when bellenora otherys was born, she would've been 24 when daemon waters is born, 25 when baelor died & viserys ii targaryen was made king, 26 when daenerys & aegor rivers / bittersteel were born & later that same year viserys died & aegon iv is made king. she'd be 28 when aegon threatened to conquer dorne & 29 when brynden rivers / bloodraven is born, & at earliest 32 when shiera seastar was born & 36 when daemon waters is knighted & 38 when aegon iv dies & 41 when her little brother maron marries daenerys & 42 when summerhall is created on the boundaries of the reach, the stormlands & dorne meet in her honor & 50 when the first blackfyre rebellion happened, 52 when aemon (who became maester aemon of the night's watch) was born & 54 when aegon v the unlikely is born & she's a grandmeemaw.

hozier lyrics, unheard edition

❛ it can't be said i'm an early bird. it's ten o'clock before i say a word. ❜ ❛ how do you sleep so well? ❜ ❛ you keep telling me to live right. to go to bed before the daylight but then you wake up for the sunrise. ❜ ❛ you know you don't gotta pretend. ❜ ❛ don't you just wanna wake up dark as a lake, smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze? ❜ ❛ if you're drunk on life, babe, i think that's great. ❜ ❛ while in this world, i think i'll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. ❜ ❛ you're too sweet for me. ❜ ❛ i aim low, i aim true and the ground's where i go. ❜ ❛ i work late where i'm free from the phone and the job gets done. ❜ ❛ but who wants to live forever, babe? ❜ ❛ you treat your mouth as if it's heaven's gate. the rest of you like you're the TSA. ❜ ❛ don't get me wrong, you know you're bright as the morning, as soft as the rain, pretty as a vine, as sweet as a grape. ❜ ❛ everything in my vision is movement and life. ❜ ❛ springtime in the country, i can smell summer on its breath. ❜ ❛ everything in my vision, departure and death. ❜ ❛ this year, i swear it will be buried in actions. ❜ ❛ this year, i swear it will be buried in words. ❜ ❛ i feel as useful as dirt. ❜ ❛ put my body to work. ❜ ❛ the sun hesitates more on each evening's darkening with all things god allows remain above ground. like grief and sweet memory. ❜ ❛ sun coming up on a world that's easy now. ❜ ❛ after all, darling, i wouldn't sell the world the way things are turning. ❜ ❛ if it falls, i would hold on for all it's worth. ❜ ❛ the future's so bright it's burning. ❜ ❛ the martyrs of our revolution, their spinning caused the earth to shake. ❜ ❛ the problem brought its own solution. ❜ ❛ i wouldn't fare well. hedgehog-under-a-van-wheel kind of wouldn't fare well. ❜ ❛ i'll take any high. ❜ ❛ i'll take any solitary pleasure that was sorrow in disguise. ❜ ❛ let the sun shine on me through a falling sky, i'll be alright. ❜ ❛ i'll deny me none while i'm allowed. ❜

g-d..... the velaryon reunion during the winds of winter.........

When they were little, Shaera used to tell her children (e Aurane) fantastical stories about dragons and the merling king. Every night they'd crowd around her lap by the fire and listen until they fell asleep, andusually had to be carried off to bed by Daeron

i just realized that myriah may have gotten along w/ melissa blackwood (brynden river / bloodraven's mother) too considering melissa was surprisingly on good terms with naerys, aemon the dragonknight & prince daeron (who later became king daeron ii the good) which is really unusual bc it's not very often that a queen is actually friends with her king's mistress, let alone the queen's beloved brother & her son so it's no doubt that melissa, an indigenous woman, would've gotten along with myriah, too. i also wouldnt be surprised if myriah straight up beefed w/ some of aegon iv's other mistresses if they even spoke one (1) ill word of naerys or melissa & maybe that's one of the reasons why myriah would've protected bloodraven & that's one of the reasons why he's loyal to the targaryens, because of his devotion to daeron & to myriah.

a.lysanne t.argaryen u will always be famous

r.haena Every Single Time a lord approached her for marriage:

Since the Velaryon children* learned Valyrian before Westerosi, for the first several years of their learning they probably had an accent. While not that big of a deal during the reign of the Targaryens (who also spoke Valyrian), during Robert's reign they would be teased at court for it.

i&. deadass forgot that we& have brynden rivers / bloodraven as a muse FJFJFJDFDJ

Unpopular opinion, but the most significant thing about Alysanne isn’t her cheekbones or her beauty, but the fact that she mixed with and listened to women from all different backgrounds and classes, valued the opinions and troubles of the poor women, and worked to institution laws for their benefit. 

And anyone who is going to follow in Alysanne’s foosteps will need to have a significant portion of their arc dedicated to learning about the lives of the small folk and sticking up to those born into poverty. 

the theme of dreamfyre for herself and her riders is simply that you cannot outfly rot and that even a dragon cannot save women from westerosi gender violence and i think about her name and the hundreds of thousands of miles she flew with rhaena searching and searching for home and daughters and meaning and the years spent stabled in the dragonpit as helaena was consumed by her grief and solitude and then her eventual death madly trying to break free of her bonds as the pit was stormed, crashing into the great stone dome, and being crushed to death along with her attackers. a grounded dragon, killed by her own escape from something as mundane as humans and rock

most of the time im normal but then i remember how Rhaenyra terrified and half mad with paranoia had to sell -for crumbs- her own crown (the crown of her father and great grandfather before her) in a futile attempt to get little Aegon and herself to safety.

And then I'm reminded of a tired, bruised and beaten Rhaella, hidden underneath her cloak, rushing with little Viserys holding onto her hand and Daenerys still a baby inside her, on their way to flee the city.

Something about both of those women desperately struggling to get as far away from King's Landing as fast as possible, fleeing from their seat of power, the city they created, the city that marks their dynasty. Persecuted and hunted, with no second thought in their mind except to Save. Their. Children!

And then..how both of them, Queens in their own right, though miserable in their reigns, thought to have found their safe haven in Dragonstone. Their ancestral seat, the place which is meant to inspire safety and security in them, the place where their ancestors centuries ago fled to to escape the Doom, where all others perished, they remained protected at Dragonstone.

And there, at their most vulnerable, in this haven of theirs they both found a tragic, horrible death. Leaving behind their children, scarred for life from the events that led them there, unable to escape their mother's end, but at least surviving... But oh the cost...

And then... I think of Helaena and Elia... How they never made it out of King's Landing. How they never even managed to leave the Keep.... Their lives taken but their children weren't spared... Never even given the chance...

her big, sad, brown eyes and loose, undone hair are very personal to me

And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. “The last dragon.” Ser Jorah’s voice whispered faintly. “The last, the last.” Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own. - Daenerys IX, AGOT

okay so i have. no idea when fire & blood part 2 is gonna come out so its. Very possible i could be wrong about a few things but here's a meta on m.yriah m.artell.

m.yriah m.artell was definitely in an interesting time period even before she became queen. i&. genuinely have no idea if she'd ever know queen daenaera velaryon or (big maybe) larra rogare or any of aegon's mistresses but i& think it's definitely possible considering we don't know if daenaera outlived aegon iii but it's very possible she did, who knows, maybe she was one of myriah's mentors in king's landing. she was around the time of aegon iv targaryen, aegon the unworthy, who's just. one of the actual worst rulers of the targaryen dynasty. iirc she was the eldest of the prince of dorne's children at the time so she was set to rule dorne much like princess a.rianne m.artell in our current story is, she was meant to rule & likely had that expectation, so when baelor targaryen comes along to speak with the prince of dorne once the crazy fucker finally arrives at sunspear, to agree upon a peace which included a marriage between his cousin prince daeron & myriah martell & the two would marry once they came of age, that probably really shocked myriah bc like imagine being expected to rule dorne one day & then you have to give up that right to become queen of all the seven kingdoms one day? that must've stung a bit, too, but it's also a MASSIVE undertaking. it's one thing to rule one kingdom, but seven? that's quite a lot. there had been many queens of westeros before, but myriah martell is the TRUE first queen of the seven kingdoms, because in all the previous reigns, dorne was never truly a part of westeros, it was its own independent kingdom, it had never bowed to the targaryens during aegon's conquest, they were the only kingdom that managed to fight off the targaryens & actually WIN or the previous conquest of king daeron i targaryen, dorne only came into the fold with marriage & diplomacy. so she probably had to learn about the non-dornish kingdoms & peoples as well before becoming queen. becoming this queen, however, Also involves marrying into the family that's attempted to subjugate & conquer your people since aegon the conqueror & his sister wives (& they ACTUALLY KILLED RHAENYS & A DRAGON BY THE FUCKING WAY). like. can you imagine how appalling it must be to marry into a family that felt superior to you & entitled to YOUR land. & keep in mind said bizarre inbred family is no longer the powerhouse they once were on the heels of the war that cost them their dragons & yet they learned nothing, even now. myriah joined king's landing at such an interesting time. she's supposed to usher in peace & prosperity to the realm but how do you Do That when Everything is working against you as a foreign princess.

bc keep in mind. the grandson of queen rhaenyra i targaryen just died attempting to subjugate HER country once more & was killed under a peace banner. a loss that demanded blood & caused outrage, despite the fact that daeron the young dragon lost over 10,000 lives trying to control a land that. Didn't Belong To Him. baelor the blessed was instrumental in creating peace arranging her very own arranged marriage alliance, her own son who was meant to be one of the greatest kings is named after him but dorne is Also where women have always ruled & baelor's three sisters were imprisoned against their will in the maidenvault for a decade. that must've terrified myriah (& it didn't help that baelor quite literally walked all the way to sunspear barefoot on the hot sands, she must've been like "father...... what is this man doing.... he's crazy"). i think just the stories she's heard of daena the defiant, rhaena, queen naerys, elaena & daenerys she'd hold a great deal of pity for them bc in dorne nothing of the sort would ever happen to them let alone naerys' abuse by aegon iv who i think later in life she would've gotten along with naerys as her daughter in law & tried to take care of her bc she's decent. i& genuinely think that even when she wasn't queen yet, she would've tried to bring more women into the fold & into positions of power. something we Do know canonically is the fact that daeron ii's court was disliked for being progressive/intelligent, pro women & pro dornish, who btw are poc, so the red keep at the time would be VERY inclusive & were likely pro sex work, pro disability & pro lgbtqia+/queerness because the dornish were known for accepting women's rights & elderly rights, the rights of people with disabilities & queer people, sex workers as well as same sex/same gender relationships & polyamorous relationships, elaena targaryen was the unofficial master of coin & was trusted with state matters for daeron ii & myriah & famously sided with THEM & not her sister's son during the first blackfyre rebellion & she could've been friends w/ elaena & not to mention myriah martell would be the first non-valyrian woman of color to become queen of westeros (there were black women who ruled before her notably {technically visenya targaryen & rhaenys targaryen who're mixed as their mother was valaena velaryon} alyssa velaryon, alysanne targaryen & daenaera velaryon, but they were all valyrian & the rest of the queens were presumably all white women). that's a MASSIVE deal. & not to mention the fates of the queens before her must've shocked her bc like literally none of that would've happened in dorne.

myriah was also a princess & queen to be under a father in-law who hated & attempted to take her country AGAIN even after she married his son. i honestly can't even imagine the amount of anxiety, rage & stress this would've caused myriah & i can't imagine she didn't have to swallow racist insult after racist insult from aegon iv. like. i almost wonder if some of the targaryens after the dance of the dragons, specifically king aegon vi, daeron i targaryen the young dragon, daena the defiant, etc. were desperate to get back some of their sense of superiority after their great house lost the source of their power, the dragons (by their own making. btw), & what better way to do that then to conquer the land that aegon & his sisters couldn't with even their own dragons. what better way to prove themselves Real Dragons TM & to prove their superiority. so when they were reduced to normalcy like yknow Literally Everybody Else that must've been a real hard pill for the targaryens to swallow lmao

this is the court myriah would have to contend with & this isn't even going into the fact that even Before she became queen, she & her children were considered unworthy for not being white paleskinned purple eyed blondes bc they were dornish & the court was Very Fucking Racist Towards The Dornish. going w/ the presumption that she was born in 146 AC, myriah would've been 24 when she had baelon, 26-30 (most likely 26) when she had aerys, 27-31 (most likely 27) when she had rhaegel & 28-32 (most likely 28) when she had maekar; daeron treated his half siblings well & yet they STILL go to war against HER queenship & the rights of her trueborn children after the death of aegon iv; myriah would've been 26 at least or 38 at most when he died (daemon blackfyre also married rohanne of tyrosh during this time & aegon legitimized all his bastards including daemon blackfyre, aegor rivers / bittersteel, mya rivers, gwenys rivers, brynden rivers / bloodraven & shiera seastar on his deathbed so myriah would've known them & she would've been 26-38 when she became queen, but i'm gonna go with the maximum possible age so she'd be a year younger than daena the defiant so she'd be 26 when she became queen) depending on which year she was born bc even that's unclear but if she was born in 146 AC, she would've lived through the reigns of aegon iii, daeron i, baelor i, viserys ii, aegon iv & daeron ii & very possibly even outlived her husband & if she was born in 158 AC she would've lived through the reigns of daeron i, baelor i, viserys ii, aegon iv & daeron ii & likely outlived her husband but for my sanity's sake i'm gonna go with the prediction that she was born in or around 146 AC if not maybe a few years after, idk yet, hopefully that gets confirmed. if she was born in or around 146 AC myriah would've been 7 years older than him; daeron ii died when he was 55 in 209 AC so she would've been 62 (if she was born in 146 AC) at most when he died so she definitely lived during the blackfyre rebellions era & very well could've lived in aerys i's reign (209-221) & maekar i's reign (221-233), idk, i like to think she lived just long enough to see aegon v become king & dying of natural causes when she was 79 years old as an elderly woman but fire & blood part 2 could prove me wrong, but she would've lived past alysanne targaryen. maybe she adopted daenerys after naerys died so she could make sure daenerys would be a good, clever & intelligent full fledged leader capable of ruling dorne like she herself was meant to & then later shiera seastar after serenei of lys died & it's because of that loyalty to her adopted family that she was loyal to the targaryens (& that could be a reason why maekar beefed with brynden bc he's protective over his adopted little sister while technically she's biologically his half aunt after her mother died & her father was an asshat & maekar is the youngest of daeron & myriah's children & shiera's the only little sibling he had so he's a grumpy older brother), who knows, maybe she mentored b.etha b.lackwood for a time before she's queen.

myriah would've had to be a spectacular & aweinspiring woman to survive & thrive under the circumstances she lived through, she & daeron had a healthy marriage despite so many things working against them & daeron ii built the castle of summerhall in her honor & the peace in westeros. she must've been bold, unflinching, intelligent, confident, sometimes even arrogant bc she Knows She's That Bitch, kind, clever & regal, embodying the very words of her house "unbowed, unbent, unbroken".