Oh my goddss 😩. There was a crossover fic where Dany raises Ghidorah. I was about to reread it, then ao3 went down.
It was the only Dany-centric fic that I liked (truly centered on Dany, no romance subplot).
I'm sorry but you simply do not get what asoiaf is doing with the motif of 'motherhood' and why it's represented so intentionally/thoughtfully in dany's storyline. you are missing the forest for the shallowest of identity politics
#danyweek2026 | day 05: mhysa
“should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of old volantis. tell her we are waiting. tell her to come soon.”
“that was when we believed the girl was coming west. our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone."
art credit: https://t.co/PKjfA9OoPA
“mhysa! MHYSA!” they were all smiling at her, reaching for her, kneeling before her. “maela,” some called her, while others cried “aelalla” or “qathei” or “tato,”but whatever the tongue it all meant the same thing. mother. they are calling me mother.
🐉 art by samartworksblog
So you clearly missed the section of that chapter where Mirri tells Dany that stopping the rape didn’t mean saving her life and she accepts it…. Someone with a saviour complex doesn’t stop to consider what life and death are worth when all the rest is gone.
People have the right to criticize how grrm writes the dothraki and the orientalism around them, but i can never take the criticism towards essos seriously because people for some reason think essos is some ethnostate for brown & black people when it’s not.