@targaryensources Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 3: Favourite Targaryen Monarch - KingAegon I Targaryen &

@targaryensource’s Targaryen Week 2023 || Day 3: Favourite Targaryen monarch - King Aegon I Targaryen & Queen Daenerys I Targaryen

No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would. Aegon the Conqueror had won Westeros with three dragons, but she had taken Meereen with sewer rats and a wooden cock, in less than a day.

Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. 

i find it interesting how house targaryen is always singled out as the most violent, the most evil, the most feudal, the most villainous, the most oppressive, responsible for the most atrocities etc etc as opposed to everyone else who is just a poor little victim of ‘targaryen colonialism’ (lol) when in reality westeros is a settler state built on genocide committed by the first men and the andals against the children of the forest. why don’t we ever see the thinkpieces about how robb stark is evil for embracing his stark identity and that was the cause of his downfall? you could easily make that argument. after all, the starks descend from first men who were evil savages and genociders. if you’re gonna use the crimes of valyria against house targaryen, then i can just as well use the crimes of the first men against the starks. house stark is guilty of a genocide of the children of the forest, extinguishing entire bloodlines and ethnic cleansing against the blackwoods. their rule over the north is the results of centuries upon centuries of absolute tyranny, doesn’t that make them evil? i could easily write a thinkpiece about how robb’s downfall is the fault of his first men values and use book quotes selectively to argue that. i could say that robb stark is an imperialist colonizer because he descends from settler colonists, i could say that him preferring to marry jeyne westerling (of first men descent) rather than roslin frey (of andal descent) is a sign of his blood purity and the narrative punished him for that and it was deserved, why not? i could say that northern separatism is very much like quebec or texas separatism, aka the people in favor of it have no right to dictate what to do with the land that isn’t theirs to begin with, why not? i could argue that starks are destined to fail because else the narrative validates colonialism and genocide, why not?

you have no right to say a bad word against the targaryens considering that your beloved starks descend from genociders and are settler colonists who very recently engaged in mass rape of newlywed women via the law of the first night, so acting like they’re some force of good against the evil valyrians is laughable. your little headcanons about how the starks are actually indigenous will not change that. pick up the books for a change, lmao

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“Aegon finally decided to take over Westeros and unify the Seven Kingdoms that existed at the time, under a single rule. There is a lot of speculation that in some sense he saw what was coming 300 years later and wanted to unify the Seven Kingdoms to be better prepared for the threat that he eventually saw coming from the north – the threat that we’re dealing with in A Song of Ice and Fire.”

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– George R. R. Martin

In case anyone missed it, GRRM is pro-Conquest and pro-unified Westeros. The Targaryens taking over the rule of the Seven Kingdoms is treated as a positive necessity. The intent was to protect the continent from the main villains of the series, the ice zombies called the Others. They are not villains and their loss of the Iron Throne is a threat to the unity Aegon I tried to create. Dany retaking Westeros is what she believes is what will help the county and what she has been told the people of Westeros want. If she learns that her ancestor unified the continent to protect it from zombies, that will make her cause even more righteous.

(via queenaryastark)

Aegon Is Dany's fiercest supporter in Afterlife!!! Extremely proud of his little girl🥹🥹

Balerion is also proud of Drogon😁

‘She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.’

HOTD basically confirmed that Dany will save the world and i haven’t recovered ever since!

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