Simone De Beauvoir, From A Letter To Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Monday, 3 July 1939)

 If I look back, I am lost 

A Song of Ice and Fire

Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″

The prophecies in the House of the Undying correspond with the three phases of Dany’s life: 

Phase 1: Marriage to Drogo, her time on the Dothraki sea (daughter of death, a fire for life, a mount to bed, a treason for blood) 

Phase 2: Her antislavery campaign (slayer of lies, a fire for death, a mount to dread, a treason for gold) 

Phase 3: A dream of spring, which will only come after defeating the Others (bride of fire, a fire to love, a mount to love, a treason for love) 

Three fires: 

A fire for life––Drogo’s funeral pyre gives rise to her three living dragons 

A fire for death––Dany kills Kraznys with Drogon’s dragon fire and initiates her anti-slavery revolution 

A fire for love––yet to be revealed 

Three mounts: 

A mount to bed––she rides the Silver to her wedding night with Drogo 

A mount to dread––Drogon, who is “Balerion the Black Dread” come again, whom she rides at the end of ADWD, before she explicitly rejects the false peace with the Meereneese slavers 

A mount for love––yet to be revealed 

Three treasons (under my interpretation of Dany as the treasonous agent/subject, not the object being betrayed): 

A treason for blood––Dany betrays Mirri’s own use of blood magic by using blood magic to birth her dragons as well as executing Mirri to avenge her own blood (her unborn son)

A treason for gold––Dany negotiated a business deal with Kraznys whereby she’d purchase his Unsullied in return for one of her dragons but betrays him by starting an antislavery revolution, which also leads her to overseeing the former slaves redistributing the wealth of the slaveowners in Yunkai and conquering Meereen to free slaves and feed her freedmen 

A treason for love––yet to be revealed 

Within her daughter of death, slayer of lies, and bride of fire prophecies, the correspondence is a little shakier, but still holds true: 

Death of Viserys happens with the Dothraki––> leads to her becoming the scion of House Targaryen and Queen Regnant 

Death of Rhaego––> she is the Stallion that will Mount the World, not Rhaego, and though his death also happens when she’s with the Dothraki, it is she who will free slaves, unite the Dothraki into one horde, and invade Westeros, not Rhaego 

Death of Rhaegar––> she is Azor Ahai, the Prince that was Promised, the last dragon, and hers is the song of ice and fire; neither Rhaegar nor his firstborn will fulfill the prophecy 

She slays the lie of Stannis being Azor Ahai while she’s still with the Dothraki, because that’s when she births her dragons

She slays the lie of Aegon, the Mummer’s Dragon, by being “Aegon the Conqueror with Teats” as she conquers Slaver’s Bay 

She will slay the lie of Euron being a dragon-rider/user of dragons when he uses his dragonbinder to steal a dragon 

She marries Drogo (with the Dothraki), then marries Hizdahr (when she’s in Slaver’s Bay, Meereen specifically; this is also when Victarion and Euron want to marry her), and she will marry… a certain someone, later on 

Also, each of her prophetic dreams against fighting the Others corresponds with each part of her arc: 

She has her first one when she’s having fever dreams after miscarrying Rhaego 

She has her second one before she kills Kraznys and frees The Unsullied in Astapor 

I wonder, then, when she will have her third one 

Finally, it’s fascinating that each of her three prophecies ends with love. Not with blood, gold, dread, treason, or death; but with love. It’s so poetic that GRRM ends each of these life-defining prophecies with love. Dany is the embodiment of love. Her life is an emblem of love. And it’s like GRRM is telling us that this girl who is so loving and selfless and has been so bereft of love and care for so long, that her life is leading up to this great love and has been the whole time.

#shook

Jon: Can I get something off my chest?

Daenerys: Is it your shirt? Please say yes.

Jon: ...

I dreamed about you continually last night, in all kinds of places and confusions.

Ted Hughes, from ‘Letters of Ted Hughes’ ⁠— Sylvia Plath, 18th October 1956

daenerys targaryen never had a bad track “he is fire made flesh and so am i” BANGER. “a dragon is no slave” SLAPS. “dragons die. but so do dragonslayers” SEXY. “i am the calamity that will change these slavers back into people” ICONIC. “it is time to cross the trident” BEAUTIFUL. “i must have fire in my eyes when i face them, not tears” EXQUISITE. “yes, now, now, do it, do it, take me, take me, FLY!” WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY. don't even GET ME STARTED on “the fire is mine. i am daenerys stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons”

jaenerys???

u call her a “war criminal” and “tyrant” ...i call her “babygirl”