The Dragons Are Back

Mimi, what do you think Tom’s view on religion is?

if i had a nickel for every time a female character suffered her entire life just to die at the end, i’d have too many fucking nickels stop doing this to them

I am a bit concern how much the fandom seems — I don’t want to use this term “eager” — very accepting to the idea that the orphan, penniless child is destined to murder innocent people, despite the compassion and kindness that is the established focal point of her character. Feminists in the 1970’s were denouncing the madwoman in the attic trope in Victorian liteature but feminists in 2025 desire a revival of it. I also tend to find that people often ignore the clear 90s-inheirtance in which ASOIAF is based on, where the norm for the savior was a male character, often unaware of their great lineage and power, which Jon clearly fits the bill (and which Martin has used the term “classical hero” before.) No one then or in world would have give Daenerys any inclination that she could be TPTWP or powerful in her own right. Indeed, whenever discussions around her is brought up, it is often the idea of what she could provide for others without full consideration of her own autonomy and personality.

I really don't get that mindset because I thought GRRM did a very good job expressing that the Targaryens were destroyed by assimilating into a system they were not compatible with, because no one is really compatible with feudalism and patriarchy. That does not make them the symbol of everything wrong with that system, it makes them the outsiders used to show how that system poisons people the more they compromise with it, while the other Houses are already emmeshed within that system.

Fanon surrounding Dany and Young Griff really like to give Dany a complex about him despite the fact he's kind of got a complex about her. Right now it's Young Griff's who's the one that gets defensive when he's compared to his "aunt". Daenery's accomplishments as a leader very clearly threatens his masculinity. She's the one who survived genuine hardship and anguish. She's the one who's amassed the loyalty of thousands from Dothraki to freedmen. She's the one who did the seemingly impossible and brought back dragons and magic into the world. Young Griff's the one that feels the need to put her down in conversation whenever her value as an ally is brought up.