somehow i have reached enlightenment where i am free of anger. all it took is for my mom to be so so mad at my dad and everyone and everything else in the world all the time to do it

Daenerys only killed people who deserved it. Xaros stole her dragons and she was going to be held hostage for all eternity. She only crucified ppl who did the same to children to prove a point to the other slaves. And the Dothraki were going to take turns raping her and the Tarlys betrayed their leige.

Listen. i’m not gonna pretend that Daenerys killing people, be it her enemies or not, is the vilest thing that could ever happen because I’m not kidding myself. This is war, and death is a part of war. Everyone in the show has done heinous things at one point or another and I don’t hold them to a different standard than her. War means doing stuff that you’re less than comfortable with, and killing is part of that. 

But your argument seems to very conveniently forget other examples of Daenerys killing people, and if you’re going to ignore canon, then I won’t. Canon can’t be something you choose and pick from in order to sustain your analysis because lmao as one wise woman said recently, the bravest thing we can do is look TRUTH in the face

Daenerys has ALWAYS been comfortable with murder. Since season 1, i believe she’s reacted distinctly to the death of other people, including but not exclusive to her enemies. And that has set a precedent. She gradually becomes comfortable with death as the means to an end. She didn’t burn alive A MILLION CIVILIANS in Kings lading last episode as an act out of the blue. This has been in the making for a long time, and you seem to list these killings because they’re the ones that make more sense in a war setting, but you KNOW damn well she’s killed more than that:

She burned Mirri maz duur alive in order to light the pyre that gave her the dragons. did the witch cross her? absolutely. still, she was murdered with needless cruelty in order to fulfill one of Daenerys’ goals after having been repeatedly raped and beaten by Daenerys’ husband

She locked up her servant Doreah in a vault and left her to die, much as Cersei left the Sand snakes and Ellaria to starve and rot chained in a dungeon. I’m not saying you give a pat on the back to the people who conspire against you, but she was the one who always talked about mercy for someone who is her personal slave. you don’t lock them up to have them eat each other and then rot to death

She crucifies the slave masters in Meereen as retaliation for the child slaves, but she literally doesn’t give a fuck who is responsible for that and why, which is evidenced when Hizdahr zo Loraq tells her his father opposed the slaves being brutalized like that, and asks to bury his father properly. I would argue this isn’t so much an act of cruelty from her part as much as it’s a demonstration of how performative her brand of justice is. Doesn’t matter who pays for injustice, so long as it is paid. She doesn’t have mercy for the innocent and the ones who could repent, she just wants to send a message of “don’t fuck with me”

She cuts the head off Mossador, a slave she freed and became part of the Meereen small council, when a Son of the Harpy is brought to them to stand trial. Mossador, rightly believing Dany is only pretending to have a trial, kills the accused because fuck me Daenerys had NOT once given a “fair trial” to any of the enemies who wronged her before. She litcherally murdered every single person in Meereen who had something to do with slave trade, the same as she did in Yunkai, the same as she did in Qarth. So Mossador kills the traitor, and what the fuck does she do? She CHAINS HIM, A FORMER SLAVE SHE HAD SAVED. the “breaker of chains” brings him in front of the public in chains and CUTS HIS FUCKING HEAD OFF. even after he begs for mercy. he killed a SON OF THE HARPY who was plotting to murder daenerys. he didn’t rape a child. he didn’t murder an innocent peasant. but fuck that right?

She burnt one of the noble leaders of the Meereen council alive after she couldn’t fucking control her dragons. This council that SHE set up was to have the Meereenese have a SAY on what’s going on in the city, because she came here to free the slaves and then stayed as queen, but as a foreginer she didn’t know the costumes, the culture or the identity of Meereen. She brings them down to the catacombs where Viserion and Rhaegal are locked up, and forces them forward until one of them is BURNED ALIVE and then brutally torn apart. That’s so fucked up considering afterwards she admits her mistake of refusing to open the fighting pits again despite advise from the council.

She burns down the fucking temple of Dosh Kaleen, with all the dothraki inside of it, INCLUDING women and children. How hypocritical to ally herself and care for the dothraki when they could serve her for her army, but when she’s captured by a Khal who promises no harm will come to her for being the widow of Khal Drogo, she demands to be taken back to Meereen. That doesn’t happen obviously, because that’s dothraki law, but when they take her to their temple, THE ONLY PERMANENT STRUCTURE the dothraki culture has, instead of using dialogue to convince them to join her, or even killing the Khals who oppose her but freeing the rest of the people the same way she used to do w slaves, she just fucking burns them all down. They NEVER did anything to her. She could’ve just fled out of there, but noooo she had to make sure all was fucking destroyed because they wouldn’t SERVE HER. 

During the battle of the Goldroad, she takes prisoners of war, after the extermination of the Lannister and Tarly armies at hands of Drogon. And she tortures these prisoners of war to death. She gives them a choice to bend the knee to her or die. Remember, as much as you don’t like it these are the facts: The Lannisters have never been sworn to the Targaryens in something other than name, the targ dynasty was effectively ENDED by a Lannister. The Tarlys were sworn to the Tyrells, NOT the Targs. if the tyrells suddenly decide to switch allegiance bc it’s convenient for them, then that’s on them. They were always fucking weak, Olenna knew that. Randyll Tarly rightly refuses to trade his honor for his life, claiming he owes no loyalty to a Targaryen. FACT. Tyrion suggests she sends them to the Wall then, but the law states that she cannot bc she is not his queen. FACT. The battle was won by Dany, she had hold of Highgarden and did not need to kill the men because the territory was already hers. FACT. What does she do? instead of imprisoning them or even giving them a quick execution, SHE FUCKING BURNS THEM ALIVE. PRISONERS OF WAR. i don’t care what your fictional tastes are, i don’t give a FUCK who you stan in this show. Prisoners of war are ALWAYS held captive and given HUMANE treatment, OR they are executed in a QUICK manner. they ARE NOT BURNT ALIVE WITH DRAGON FIRE. that only happens during a battle, not afterwards. it’s like rounding up the survivors after an armed conflict and THEN nuking them. it does not deserve an explanation, it doesn’t get better with “context”. it just doesn’t go. she’s the “queen” SHE HAS THE CHOICE. and she chose fire and blood. 

So yeah anon, “she only kills people who deserve it” is a factual lie. i call bullshit. i think you blindly justify whatever you don’t agree with about her because the thrill of having your fave riding dragons and being the only one with that much unchecked power gives you a rush. I think when you say she only kills people who deserve it, you’re trying to convince yourself a leader who has made themselves in this manner CAN be anything other than authoritarian, and that she won’t go crazy or that once she sits on the iron throne, she will rule with mercy as her highest principle. SHE WON’T. You can stan her all you want, but recognize the fact that she is not the kind hero she’s been telling you and herself that she is. A kingdom built on the fire of the dragon and the blood of her enemies is corrupt to the marrow, because unchecked power always leads to unchecked violence.