feminism-fandom-and-fawning:

asongofdany:

ladyluckless:

me when dany forces people to hear all of her titles which are essentially victories she’s won in her very hard climb from the bottom to where she is now: 

“Queen of Meereen”: By right of conquest.

“Queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar and the First Men”: Although technically a claim, she’s actually going to save that mother fucking country and the people, and she has a right as it is the legacy of her family, a legacy they created, so I won’t fight her on this.

“The unburnt”: A freaking goddess, I tell you.

“Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea” : The first time all the dothraki unite behind one leader, a woman, and let me tell you, this title is an understatement because she’s actually the Stallion Who Mounts The World.

“Breaker of chains” : She made her personal mission to help the slaves, free them, and maintain that freedom. Slavers Bay, no more.

“Mother of Dragons” : She brought dragons to life, the last dragons in the world, after more than a century of being extinct.

How many people can say that they have done most of these things….on their own right…

You will listen, and you will respect.

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THIS.

I know it is a fandom joke – “lol daenerys and her hundred titles”, but in a world where men get to hold titles for no reason other than their birth, and are immediately respected by people of westeros and real world fans alike for the smallest acts of goodness; I have no issues with Daenerys’s million titles which she earned through her hard work, intuition and wits.

Also it reminds me of this poem by Warsan Shire:

give your daughters difficult names.
give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue.
my name makes you want to tell me the truth.
my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

aryainwinterfell:

lizstargaryen:

feminism-fandom-and-fawning:

outerds:

feminism-fandom-and-fawning:

outerds:

White people who don’t understand colonialism or imperialism talking shit about Daenerys Targaryen, meanwhile brown and black people with an intimate, experiential knowledge of both, loving our niña because she uses her power to help people and respects peoples cultures. She doesn’t care what you look like or where you come from, only what actions you take.

Me whenever I hear the word ‘imperialist’ or ‘colonialist’ about Dany:

i had to read a white person say “poc don’t like her because she’s a colonizer.” me, a poc. I was dead.

Oh, I had to read how Dany was an ‘imperialist’ and ‘cruel’ because she destroyed the Slaver’s Bay economy. And she didn’t take enough steps to save that economy…

Oh, you are worried about the economy… Hmmm… Gee… I DON’T KNOW LUCINDA, MAYBE AN ECONOMY FUNCTIONING ON SLAVE LABOUR DESERVE TO BE DESTROYED!!

Jfc, the so called intellectuals exhaust me.

Another Black woman fan of Daenerys here. Her haters endlessly amuse me.

lol and I’m another woman of color who adores Dany.

I’ve always found it interesting that Dany haters misuse the terms colonialism or imperialism when criticizing her. They act like they have some kind of moral high ground, yet they’re the ones upset over a slave-based economy being crushed. It’s almost like they have more sympathy for the slavers than they do the former slaves who gained freedom.

And don’t get me started on how so many of them think they can speak for all POC as if we all only have one mind that they’re an authority on.

cutthroatbitchcult:

the-future-companion:

masha-russia:

I think the most telling example to illustrate the incredible bias against Daenerys in the fandom would be to look at how Aegon Targaryen (the Conqueror) is treated in comparison.

Aegon Targaryen is widely considered a “badass”, a great conqueror and a great King. I have never ever seen anyone calling him “mad”, or cruel or ruthless. I don’t remember ever reading hate directed at him, even from the most anti-Targaryen (those anti-Targs are primary Daenerys haters anyway) portion of the fandom.
What Daenerys did in the fourth episode parallels what Aegon did during the Conquest, at a battle known as the Field of Fire. Aegon and his sisters faced the Kings of the Rock and the Reach (Lannisters and Gardeners, the original House of Highgarden) and burned thousands and thousands of soldiers, knights and Lords, killing all the men of House Gardener and ending that House in the process.
Daenerys burned a part of the Lannister army – who are her enemies – who killed her allies and who support a cruel selfish woman on the Iron Throne.

Yet Aegon is a badass and a cool dude but Daenerys is somehow “mad” and “cruel” and all of a sudden the Lannisters who were hated by the fandom since Season 1 became innocent puppies who didn’t deserve to die.

I bet that if it was Jon Snow who was somehow riding Drogon, with the Exact Same Scene, I wouldn’t hear a single word of complaint against him and he would be revered as the finest dragonrider and warrior who ever lived.

i believe it’s called misogyny

Thank you. Yall better preach. I honestly don’t understand how an army killing their enemy is “mad Dany strikes again” or whatever the fuck they’re saying.

Daenerys burned the food from the Reach as part of a blockade to Kingslanding that Tyrion suggested in the previous scene and that Jon advised her to do. Yet when she did it everyone is like “Why would she do that?” Jaime Lannister Mad King quotes.

Shut the fuck up and say you hate women. Be honest fandom. This is the main reason why I hope Jon never touches a dragon and if he does they roast his ass like Quentyn Martell.