Danerys Apperication Month

Day 30: Mother of dragons

And for the first time in a hundred of years the night came alive with the music of dragons.

DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 ↳ Day 2: Underrated relationships → JHOGO, Dany’s bloodrider

Jhogo rode back to her. "A firemage, Khaleesi." "I want to see." "Then you must." The Dothraki offered a hand down. When she took it, he pulled her up onto his horse and sat her in front of him, where she could see over the heads of the crowd. The firemage had conjured a ladder in the air, a crackling orange ladder of swirling flame that rose unsupported from the floor of the bazaar, reaching toward the high latticed roof. Most of the spectators, she noticed, were not of the city: she saw sailors off trading ships, merchants come by caravan, dusty men out of the red waste, wandering soldiers, craftsmen, slavers. Jhogo slid one hand about her waist and leaned close. "The Milk Men shun him. Khaleesi, do you see the girl in the felt hat? There, behind the fat priest. She is a—" "—cutpurse," finished Dany. She was no pampered lady, blind to such things. She had seen cutpurses aplenty in the streets of the Free Cities, during the years she'd spent with her brother, running from the Usurper's hired knives.

DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH | Day 7: Underrated visions, dreams and prophecies hosted by @fireandbloodsource and @asoiafdaenerysdaily​

Azor Ahai – The Prince that Was Promised

“What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it.” Just talking of her seemed to make him stronger. [...]

“The sword is wrong, she has to know that… light without heat… an empty glamor… the sword is wrong, and the false light can only lead us deeper into darkness, Sam. Daenerys is our hope. Tell them that, at the Citadel. Make them listen.” – Maester Aemon [Sam IV, A Feast For Crows]

“From smoke and salt was she born to make the world anew. She is Azor Ahai returned… and her triumph over darkness will bring a summer that will never end… death itself will bend its knee, and all those who die fighting in her cause shall be reborn.” – Haldon Halfmaester [Tyrion IV, A Dance With Dragons]

“When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone. Dragonstone is the place of smoke and salt.”

Jon had heard all this before. “Stannis Baratheon was the Lord of Dragonstone, but he was not born there. He was born at Storm's End, like his brothers.” – Jon and Melisandre [Jon X, A Dance With Dragons]

...because Dany is Azor Ahai and Jon is Nissa Nissa and I will defend this theory until my last breath. 

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION MONTH 2022

↳ Day 11: Dany as a messianic/religious savior and hero

“I am no lady,” the widow replied, “just Vogarro’s whore. You want to be gone from here before the tigers come. Should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of Old Volantis.” She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. “Tell her we are waiting. Tell her to come soon.”

— ADWD, Tyrion VII

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 || Day 24: Feminine aspects of Dany’s character

DANY MONTH 2022 » Day 10: Elements -> FIRE

"I mean... Fire is love, fire is passion, fire is sexual ardor and all of these things. Ice is betrayal, ice is revenge, ice is… you know, that kind of cold inhumanity and all that stuff is being played out in the books." - George R. R. Martin

jorge luis borges//dany iii agot//dany x agot //dany ii acok//dany iv acok//l nietzsche, thus spoke zarathustra//lana del rey//mitski

DANY MONTH 2022 » Day 2: UNDERRATED RELATIONSHIP

Dany's "frenemies" relationship with Xaro Xhoan Daxos

"Shall I ask again?" wondered Xaro. "No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men's hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals." A single tear ran slowly down his pale white cheek. Dany knew him too well to be moved. Qartheen men could weep at will. "Oh, stop that." She took a cherry from the bowl on the table and threw it at his nose. "I may be a young girl, but I am not so foolish as to wed a man who finds a fruit platter more enticing than my breast. I saw which dancers you were watching." Xaro wiped away his tear. "The same ones Your Grace was following, I believe. You see, we are alike. If you will not take me for your husband, I am content to be your slave." "I want no slave. I free you." His jeweled nose made a tempting target. This time Dany threw an apricot at him.

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION MONTH 2022

Day 6 - Qarth:

Dany realizing how disdainful and snobbish the Qartheen are towards her and her people, and how they will never truly help her, especially if she comes to them as a beggar.

Dany Month Day 27: Humanity, Unity, and Peace

“‘No one ever looked for a girl,’ he said. ‘It was a prince that was promised, not a princess. Rhaegar, I thought . . . the smoke was from the fire that devoured Summerhall on the day of his birth, the salt from the tears shed for those who died. He shared my belief when he was young, but later he became persuaded that it was his own son who fulfilled the prophecy, for a comet had been seen above King's Landing on the night Aegon was conceived, and Rhaegar was certain the bleeding star had to be a comet. What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it.’ Just talking of her seemed to make him stronger. ‘I must go to her. I must. Would that I was even ten years younger.’

…

‘Daenerys is our hope. Tell them that, at the Citadel. Make them listen. They must send her a maester. Daenerys must be counseled, taught, protected.’” -AFFC, Samwell IV

GRRM so sick for never letting them meet, he can’t keep getting away with these crimes 😭

Daenerys II, AGOT

Daenerys Appreciation Month, Day 7: dreams & prophecy

@azorahaireturned (part 2)

Danerys Appreciation Month 2022

Day 10: Elements: Fire

He is fire made flesh and so am i.

DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 ↳ Day 3: The Dothraki → Irri and Jhiqui

"Khalakka dothrae mr'anha!" she proclaimed in her best Dothraki. A prince rides inside me! She had practiced the phrase for days with her handmaid Jhiqui. *** She kissed Irri’s hand where Drogon had bitten it. “I’m sorry he hurt you. Dragons are not meant to be locked up in a small ship’s cabin.” *** When Doreah looked longingly at a fertility charm at a magician’s booth, Dany took that too and gave it to the handmaid, thinking that now she should find something for Irri and Jhiqui as well. *** Distantly, as from far away, Dany heard her handmaid Jhiqui sobbing in fear, pleading that she dared not translate, that the khal would bind her and drag her behind his horse all the way up the Mother of Mountains. She put her arm around the girl. "Don't be afraid," she said. "I shall tell him." *** As the world darkened, Dany settled in and closed her eyes, but sleep refused to come. The night was cold, the ground hard, her belly empty. She found herself thinking of Meereen, of Daario, her love, and Hizdahr, her husband, of Irri and Jhiqui and sweet Missandei, Ser Barristan and Reznak and Skahaz Shavepate. Do they fear me dead? I flew off on a dragon's back. Will they think he ate me?

DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH 2022

Day 4: House Targaryen

→ Declining Power of Targaryen Women (until Daenerys Targaryen)

Though none doubted that Aegon Targaryen was the final authority in all matters relating to the governance of the realm, his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys remained his partners in power throughout his reign. Save perhaps for Good Queen Alysanne, the wife of King Jaehaerys I, no other queen in the history of the Seven Kingdoms ever exercised as much influence over policy as the Dragon’s sisters. It was the king’s custom to bring one of his queens with him wherever he traveled, whilst the other remained at Dragonstone or King’s Landing, oft as not seated on the Iron Throne, ruling on whatever matters came before her. - Three Heads Had the Dragon: Governance Under King Aegon I, Fire and Blood

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And so he did. The coming of the new year saw the king taking to the sky again on Vermithor, this time for the riverlands. His progress began with a stay at Harrenhal as a guest of its new lord, the nine-year-old Maegor Towers. From there he and his retinue moved on to Riverrun, Acorn Hall, Pinkmaiden, Atranta, and Stoney Sept. At his queen’s request, Lady Jennis Templeton traveled with the king to hold women’s courts at Riverrun and Stoney Sept in her place. Alysanne remained in the Red Keep, presiding over council meetings in the king’s absence, and holding audience from a velvet seat at the base of the Iron Throne. - Birth, Death and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I, Fire and Blood

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King Jaehaerys had not attended the council, but when word of their verdict reached him, His Grace thanked the lords for their service and gratefully conferred the style Prince of Dragonstone upon his grandson Viserys. Storm’s End and Driftmark accepted the decision, if grudgingly; the vote had been so overwhelming that even Laenor’s father and mother saw that they could not hope to prevail. In the eyes of many, the Great Council of 101 AC thereby established an iron precedent on matters of succession: regardless of seniority, the Iron Throne of Westeros could not pass to a woman, nor through a woman to her male descendants. - Heirs of the Dragon: A Question of Succession, Fire and Blood

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Daenerys Targaryen had preferred to hold court from a bench of polished ebony, smooth and simple, covered with the cushions that Ser Barristan had found to make her more comfortable. King Hizdahr had replaced the bench with two imposing thrones of gilded wood, their tall backs carved into the shape of dragons. The king seated himself in the right-hand throne with a golden crown upon his head and a jeweled sceptre in one pale hand. The second throne remained vacant. The important throne, thought Ser Barristan. No dragon chair can replace a dragon no matter how elaborately it's carved. - The Discarded Knight, A Dance with Dragons

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION MONTH 2022

↳ Day 4: House Targaryen

“Ours is the house of the dragon,” he would say. “The fire is in our blood.”

— AGOT, Daenerys I

fancast: travis fimmel/ragnar lothbrok as aegon the conqueror

DAENERYS TARGARYEN MONTH 2022 || DAY TEN: WATER, EARTH, AIR

DANY MONTH 2022 » Day 10 : Elements : SEA 🌊

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.”

-ASOS, Daenerys I