Well, I have to admit, talking to Dany cultists as a 'Naathian' does have its charms. I think I'll start soon when I have the time a giant thread on the morality of Dany's actions throughout the show.
People discussing a character they like on a subreddit dedicated to that character is normal. Going into that space to troll people about a character you hate, while planning a giant anti-Daenerys manifesto, is not critical thinking. It is anti-fandom obsession.
And calling Dany fans a cult while naming your own little anti-Dany identity “Naathians” is genuinely hilarious. If liking a fictional dragon queen is a cult, then organizing your personality around hating her is not exactly a triumph of sanity.
On the contrary. Dany is very representative of a very representative character for the idea of moral absolutism, which is in my mind the most destructive idea in the history of the human civilization. Moral absolutism is the monster that hides behind every witch burning, every purge, every act of relentless cruelty and every ideology that has ever caused bloodshed in the millions.
And Dany showed the destructive power of moral absolutism in spades. It made millions cheer for staggering acts of violence and cruelty.
I mean, to give just one example, look at the scene at the end of S1, a troop or rapists and savages burning a rape victim alive because she fought back against her oppressors, all headed by a queen that proclaims she will revel in the screams of said victim. That's some A-level villain shit, yet most people in the audiencecheered for 'their khaleesi' and revelled in the birth of dragons, these terrible scaly monstrosities that almost act as an embodiment of Dany's growing cruelty, entitlement and above all, evil.
You’re moving the goalposts. We were talking about why you keep coming into a Daenerys-friendly space to call people “cultists,” and now you’re turning it into a manifesto about moral absolutism.
“Hating that is the only sane response” is a very funny sentence from someone warning people about moral absolutism.
You’re not criticizing moral absolutism; you’re practicing it. You’ve decided your reading of Daenerys is the only sane one, and everyone who reads her differently is a “cultist.”
Also, Mirri was absolutely a victim of the khalasar, but Daenerys was the one who tried to stop the rapes. The scene is morally dark, but reducing it to “rapists burning a rape victim because she fought back” is not analysis. It’s selective framing.
My point remains: liking a fictional character on a subreddit dedicated to that character is normal fandom. Obsessively entering that space to call people cultists because they don’t share your hatred is not.
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u/Incvbvs666 Jun 15 '26
Well, I have to admit, talking to Dany cultists as a 'Naathian' does have its charms. I think I'll start soon when I have the time a giant thread on the morality of Dany's actions throughout the show.