as much a warrior as aegon himself

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

Y’all don’t ignore people enough. That’s why you stressed out.

beating a dead horse at this point but daenerys antis are dumber than bricks when they list her "flaws" because they are 100% made up and filled with what these people think a character like daenerys (a female character in fantasy who directly threatens the favored male characters' very perception and social standing) should have and not what's really there

never never never forget that fans of certain female characters not only agree with these interpretations of daenerys but go a step further and add on to them, for a myriad of reasons, but the main ones are a)she comes in the way of their ship, b)she holds a traditionally male position in such a genre (which btw they also conflate as daenerys herself having "traditionally male" attributes) nevermind the fact that putting it as if real historical women have never held political positions like daenerys has, or have led armies, just so they can also further this insidious idea that only "traditionally female" characters like sansa/alicent/catelyn represent real women and therefore deserve better reception from fans as opposed to cool girlboss and/or nlogs also ignores real historical lived experiences. i also love how these fans conveniently leave out cersei when condemning daenerys and comparing the latter with other noblewomen characters when that is the most obvious, intended, suitable comparison possible. cersei breaks out of all of these rigid boxes (or at least intends to, in her head) that the fandom constructs for female characters but cersei also affords a specific importance to characters like sansa that wouldn't otherwise arise easily, and holding daenerys and cersei in the same thought experiment would dismantle much of their little carefully built up fanon so you see, it's crickets when it comes to cersei. the "comparisons" (what a silly word here when it's just a conversion pamphlet enumerating all the real valid female qualities of sansa and alicent and the bad, scary, wannabe male qualities of daenerys, that warmonger with nukes and maybe rhaenyra, if the shoe fits!!) exist between a teenager who survives bridal slavery and directs her power to combating the power structure that made it possible for so many to be enslaved and... characters who start at point zero when it comes to political thought and remain at zero, because that is simply not their story to begin with. catelyn as a character is a hit and miss with these fans, arianne and asha greyjoy are conveniently left out till we need to pull out the token female characters for events and edits and brienne is somewhere in there, being prepped to supply her very male strength in service of a deserving noblewoman because of course, that is the crux of her character. anyways. so on and so forth.