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this took disgustingly long to finish. whatever

Lucifer: Its hard to breathe...But that's alright! Hush!

Made this moodboard because I watched Christine last night

viserys wants that cookie so effing bad

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (16)

THE PRINCESS OF DRAGONSTONE

Princess Helaena Targaryen

At her wedding to her brother, Prince Aegon 'the elder'

Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (16)

THE PRINCESS OF DRAGONSTONE

✨ The Young Princess Rhaenyra  ✨

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“-The dragon doesn’t become sick, Baela. Your mother’s illness has far happier a cause. Both you and your sister will know it after you are wed.

Baela looked at her uncle as if he was telling her a second pair of arms would sprout from her torso. Even Rhaena seemed to mislike his words and Aegon and Viserys were as confused as their sisters.”

————— The Blacks & the greens by Sweetestpopcorn

Daemon will soon know not to mess with his children or they will steal away their mama XD

Drew my favorite freak, Aemond <3

AU!Lucerys wip :3 — Ignore the questionable quality, all I have of this rn is an old screenshot😭

Lucerys wip that I desperately need to finish/edit

sketches of my wife Rhaenyra ft. Lil Jace and Luke 🤍

"Fire and Blood is biased propaganda by the maesters so nothing in the real Dance of the Dragons actually happened like in the books, you can't critique the show for showing things as they really were!"

I'm so tired of this take...

GRRM wrote the original ASOIAF series as an anti-monarchy and anti-war story. He's an author who makes a point to flesh out characters and motivations, he understands that there isn't truly a good vs bad narrative to any large-scale, real-world conflict like war, and he understands the sociopolitical factors involved. His series highlights that it's the most vulnerable people in society who suffer when those in power play their game of thrones and make consequential decisions based on their own personal motivations without thought to the consequences to those that will have to the pay the price for them. That's GRRM's entire point with the original series: war destroys everything, it is never really justified, and through war the powerful set in motion terrible events that the most vulnerable are most like to suffer.

So the idea that all of a sudden with the prequel book Fire and Blood GRRM pivoted to write a biased textbook that purposefully misconstrues a conflict where the real story behind the pages is that one side of a dynastic civil war was led by a faultless, pure woman whose divine right to rule was stolen from her, and she's justified in plunging the realm into war to reclaim her throne because the other side was uniquely misogynist against her and was made up of selfish flawed people who just wanted to steal her power from her because she was a woman...

Sure, Fire and Blood may be a history book with unreliable narrators and sources that are trying to recount long-lost histories of the realm and possibly failing to capture the totality of what actually occurred. But I can absolutely guarantee you that the intended real history of the Dance of the Dragons as it took place in the world of ASOIAF was not some black and white, good vs bad tale of morality where one side was right and the other side was wrong like the show and some fans are insisting.

The actual Dance of Dragons as it exists in the ASOIAF timeline and universe, keeping in line with GRRM's original intention and message of the ASOIAF books, is 100% a story of a flawed, ultra-powerful family that fractured into two ideologically different factions that led to a pointless civil war in which neither side was justified in their attempts to seize power from the other. The result was that the family killed themselves until the only survivors were the traumatized children left over from either faction. In this pursuit of absolute power within one family thousands were subjected to the abject horrors of war: pillaging, famine, torture, sexual violence, being burned alive, and so much more. Neither side was faultless. Neither side had "the right" or justification to enact this conflict. Neither side bore sole responsibility for the conflict. Neither side was good or bad while the other was the opposite.

It really just fits outside of the world of ASOIAF to think that Fire and Blood's account of the Dance of the Dragons was uniquely biased against a single woman and her side of the conflict wherein this woman and her supporters were actually good people that had bad things done to them and all accounts in the book relating to them are inaccurate, yet most accounts of everyone else in the story were more or less true and accurate to how events played out. Like are you actually serious that this is how you think this story and history played out in this world of ASOIAF? That ultimately the story of the Dance of the Dragons is not anti-monarchy and anti-war in line with the original ASOIAF series but actually it's the story of a uniquely good woman in this terrible world who had a rightful claim to the throne and whose power was taken from her solely because of misogyny so she was justified in going to war to take it back? Like that's your analysis and interpretation on this conflict?

The way that the show is presenting this story is so unbelievably and ridiculously reductionist and simplified to the point where you begin to question why someone wanted to try to adapt the material at all... but then of course you remember that 1) Game of Thrones made a lot of money for a lot of people 2) its later seasons of mediocre, oversimplified writing continued to be rewarded with huge budgets, profits, and awards nominations despite the obvious downgrade of quality 3) so many modern writers believe the general audience needs to be spoonfed ideas and that they can't handle complexity, so it's more important that they shape an existing story into something that is a palatable, profitable hero vs villain tale that everyone can casually enjoy (and ideally appeals to modern sensibilities) than they try to create a compelling, thought-provoking, interesting and faithful adaptation of the source material.

the calm before the storm

Daenerys is the awesomest Targaryen who ever Targed since Aegon Targy Targ the Conqueror and this art really captures the awesomeness of Daenerys Targy Targ-Targ

"No one ever looked for a girl, it was a prince that was promised, not a princess.

What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise,

Dragons are neither male nor female, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame.

Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it."

nah fr the timeline is a jumbled mess, cuz like he's 16 in the show same age as jace which makes sense for the two being born the same year just a few months apart however unlike the book where the war starts in 129ac the show has it start in 130ac meaning the war will likely end in 132ac instead of 131ac and then for daeron to be 16 in the show he'd have been born in 114ac which doesn't make any sense as 114ac in the show happens like s1 ep 3-4 like make it make sense

Why is it making it seems like they never met with daeron lol. Did he not atleast come to aegon and Helaenas wedding what about for the birth of the twins

so true like I hate how people fault for her for it because added to it her father was actively telling her that rhaenyra would have to put alicents own flesh and blood to the sword and then rhaenyra has bastards (not blaming her she need heirs) but it just strengthen alicents fear of her own being killed.

so without a doubt I would to conspire to put one my sons on the throne most likely a smart one who's not stupid but obvi the lords wanted the first born son so yeah I'd do it what mother (or parent or father) wouldn't want their child to sit the throne and rule like I fucking would like hell yeah make me the queen mother idc how history wanna portray me if I got one of my own kids on the throne than fuck me with a chainsaw I'd be living

Not gonna lie.

If my bitch ass husband had me give birth to four children. And three of them being boys and not naming any of them his heirs no matter how much he cried and complained about wanting a son.

Yeah I would have taken the throne and put my son on it.

THIS those kids are so fucking interesting to me like those four where screwed the moment they were all born, aegon was like most likely an infant when people started to think about him being on the throne instead of rhaenyra like their all so tragic helaena being cursed to know that she and her siblings and children will die is just *chefs kiss* aemond losing his eye due to claiming a dragon agted being bullied for not having one, daeron being sent away to live at old Town not really knowing his siblings all that well but willing to die to protect and avenge his family is just *cries* alicent the mother out living all of her children (and I think grandchildren 2) and hating the colour green, the same colour of the dress she wore to be her own person to defend her children and fight for them

like obviously the team black/team green divide is stupid and missing the point of the dance and like obviously the show is written with a rhaenyra bias but likeeeeeee. HOW can you not be endlessly compelled by how irretrievably doomed the team green kids are. how can you not be intrigued and endeared by how narratively fucked these poor stupid teenagers are. pov: you were born to be a weapon in a civil war started by people who don’t care about you. that is the reason for your existence. you are obviously fated to die young and tragic and everybody knows it. you are a team green kid.

It has been three days since the princess perished, and I have not slept. I do not know that I shall ever sleep again.

Aerea Targaryen, I never stop thinking about you.

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Happy new year! First sketch of 2025 and I still don’t know what to do in backgrounds lmfao yeh yah I know she’s looking awfully Tudor here but. Sometimes I can’t control what comes out of my pen. Someday my style will be consistent and today is not that day.

“Rhaenyra Targaryen was a precocious child, bright and bold and beautiful as only one of dragon’s blood can be beautiful.” — Fire and Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession, 2018

“(Daemon) praised her beauty, declaring her to be the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms.” — Fire and Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession, 2018

“She was very proud and stubborn, and there was a certain petulance to her small mouth. Rhaenyra did have the silver-gold hair of the Targaryens, which she wore long and braided in the manner of Aegon the First’s warrior wife Visenya.” — So Spake Martin: Good Queen Alysanne and Rhaenyra, 2006

Happy HOTD day

Meleys the Red Queen

Dreamfyre (+ Morghul and Shrykos)

Vhagar

Moondancer

Morning

Tessarion the Blue Queen

Caraxes

Sunfyre

Instead of talking shit about the actors, you should complain about the real culprits for their crappy acting in the series. If the people behind hotd didn't keep insisting on this shitty fanfic that women are all victims of manipulative and evil men, and had invested in the real story of the characters, I have no doubt that all the actors would have been excellent.

Knees deep in Game of Thrones (once again) and this reminded me of King’s landing streets. Also I think it looks cool with the scaffolding.

"I will end you today." — Daemon Targaryen The Rogue Prince inspired by The Blacks & The Greens by SweetestPopcorn

I wanted to change the style to comic and he is very easy to draw to try this out 😋

Daemon Targaryen, the Rogue Prince inspired by The Blacks & The Greens by @sweetestpopcorn

I painted Rhaenyra Targaryen and Harwin Strong as Hellelil and Hildebrand from Frederic William Burton's The Meeting on the Turret Stairs. I struggled a bit with this painting, but it's my first master's study, so I'm actually proud of finishing it.

FYI this is available as a sticker on redbubble! Only a sticker because I made the original illustration in a weird size.

Instead of aegon learning high valyrian to communicate with sunfyre, sunfyre learned english