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“sansa stark does not need a love interest/be paired off with anyone at the end of ASOIAF/GOT because that’s not the point of her arc and she has her whole life ahead of her”  should not be confused with “because of sansa’s trauma/rape/abuse, she won’t ever be interested in love and its better for her to be alone.”

one of them is sending a dangerous message, the other is not. 

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Her name is Jeyne Poole. Not ‘Fake Arya’ ‘FArya’ or ‘False Arya’. Jeyne Poole. All the suffering and abuse she’s gone through at the hands of Ramsay is hers. All the suffering she’s endured and the arc in the North isn’t Arya’s. It’s hers.

#jeyne poole

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i still maintain that we would feel a lot different about balon if grrm had decided to have asha’s povs begin before balon died

#asha greyjoy #balon greyjoy

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A series of three artworks I commissioned from Martina a year and a half ago depicting the progression of Catelyn Tully of Riverrun -> Lady Stark -> Mother Merciless, also known as the Hangwoman, also known as Lady Stoneheart. 

#catelyn stark

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1. What happened to Tysha was awful but not his fault. 2. Shae did betray him because by selling him out to Cersei she got him on deathrow and he had to flee. 3. He was married to Sansa and of the time ASOIAF is set in it's normal to consummate marries you're just bitter he's married to your fave instead of her brother *vomit* 4. Sansa is going to end as Lady of the Rock because he direwolf is named Lady and it will be Joanna & Tywin come again. Imagine being so hateful towards a disabled man.

If you came to my inbox working on the assumption that an ex fssw would feel sorrier for a rapist who doesn’t think of himself as one than the prostitutes he uses and the one he murdered because he’s a selfish prick who doesn’t see them as people, then you’ve got another thing coming. No thanks for this bag of dogshit you left on my doorstep in advance.

Tyrion is a villain. He was always a villain. He’s hateful towards all women and in particular doesn’t believe that prostitutes or even his wife(ves) are real people separate from what he projects onto them. Yes, I do think he was coerced and gaslit by his father during Tysha’s rape but Tysha was always the victim in this scheme. Prostitute or not, she had no power in this, and yes, prostitutes can be sexually assaulted. The revelation that Tysha wasn’t a prostitute shouldn’t make the audience have the epiphany she’d been raped (we know she’d been assaulted violently when we/Tyrion believed she’d been a prostitute); the revelation just emphasizes how low Tywin can sink. Tyrion still participated in the event and raped Tysha and spared her no compassion or thought to guilt before the revelation, bitterly reflecting how she’d just ‘been a whore’ (showing us he doesn’t believe prostitutes can be raped), and after the revelation his own self pity compounds itself. Tysha’s rape, to him, exists as an extension of his own pity and tragedy. He makes it all about him and yet claims he loves her. Where? Because he says it in text to himself? He misses that she loved him. That’s what he misses. That’s what he loves, the love and affection she gave him, not her as a person. He even refers to her as the wife he barely knew.

He murders Shae for ‘betraying’ him, but even though she’s ‘rewarded’ a manse for her participation in the trial, she’s lowborn and a prostitute. She likely had no choice but to participate; she has no power or agency and the Lannisters show little regard to everyone else; she wouldn’t have been able to just walk away if she refused. Why does she owe him her safety and life in the face of people who would certainly have no compunction hurting her when he believed they would previously? She doesn’t. She didn’t ‘betray’ him by choosing her own safety and agency over someone who only paid for her to laugh at his jokes and have sex with him. 

When he raped the “sunset girl” he has the awareness to know she doesn’t want to be there, doesn’t want him, she doesn’t speak his language, and he says she “looks dead” and “doesn’t even have the strength to hate him”, and then he wants more wine immediately. 

When he molested Sansa and instructed her to think of the Knight of Flowers, it wasn’t for her benefit; he just wanted to make her rape easier on him after he acknowledged she was a child.

He knows he’s raped or molested these women, but he chooses to not categorize it or acknowledge it firmly even to himself because he doesn’t want that to apply to him; in his perspective he wants love and so how dare these women refuse him after he was kind to them (whether or not they have a choice, their circumstances don’t really matter to him). He still sees himself as a hero, or a good guy, A Nice Guy, and during his flight from KL, he admits to his darker actions as though everyone else pushed him to this, that this false accusation is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. He calls himself a monster as further self-pity and guilt, but he never thinks to change his ways, thinks on the ways he’s wronged people.

He shows moments of compassion towards Bran, and Jon, because they’re boys and he identifies with them due to their circumstances. He doesn’t do the same with women. He also shows shades of ruthlessness and cruelty similar to Tywin beyond his lack of regard for women. 

Using wildfire to fight Blackwater was cruel; he burned down people’s homes and never told them why and hated them for despising him for this. And as we’ve seen elsewhere fire is a cruel way to die. We see it in Davos’ perspective during the battle so we see just how cruel it is; we’re meant to empathize with them and condemn the use of wildfire.

His whole reason for seeking out Aegon VI and dany is to use them as hammers of vengeance against his family, and he spares no thought for the people he claimed he only wanted to protect (yet showed no real understanding of or empathy). 

He isn’t a hero. He isn’t just a victim of circumstance or family; he chooses these things. He doesn’t want to be just like his father, but he is and he likely subconsciously knows it, and hates when it’s made apparent. 

So no. Sansa isn’t the Lady of the Rock and she won’t be. Her direwolf’s bones are in Winterfell. They aren’t Joanna and Tywin redux.

What I ship or who my faves are doesn’t impact how I view him or feel about him. He feels entitled to women and love and is resentful when he isn’t given it. He’s sympathetic because of his personal circumstances and what he lives with/goes through in an ableist society but it’s not an excuse for what he does. He’s a villain for what he does and chooses to do even if he won’t cop to the villainy even to himself; it’s that that makes him a villain. 

#anti tyrion

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The anon that dismissed any inkling of Sansa's leadership potential, doesn't have any idea about how Soft Power works. Hard power will help you conquer but if you want to maintain your hold , you need to exercise soft power. Once the dragons(hard power)were dead, Targaryens encountered several rebellions & their power weakened. No offense to antis, but Sansa has shown to harness soft power more aptly than her siblings.Antis need to ask why was that Alyssane was given the moniker of'Good Queen'.

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I agree. This is the problem that cripples Jon at the Wall. He is visionary in his political decisions and he does decently well on an interpersonal level with people he likes, or where hierarchy guides him to be deferential, but he is needlessly confrontational in key situations with others when he is the authority figure. Donal Noye, Sam, Gilly... like Alys Karstark ten years ago he should have charmed and didn't know how. They stopped trusting him. Stabbing ensues.

Sansa is the opposite. She is incredibly proactive in creating a social event that serves multiple positive functions in theory: bolster Sweetrobin's spirit, bring together representatives of the entire Vale to meet and get to know them and judge their character, have a bonding event they can all mutually refer to in memory like the other tourneys, give and outlet to bored knights hungry for fighting, meet her intended and charm him into accepting the betrothal... what cripples Sansa is her limited understanding of the harsher conditions around her bubble of privilege because Littlefinger keeps her deliberately sheltered. (Just like Ned, but with more sinister purpose and while making her think the opposite.) The waste of food, the mountain clans, the succession in the Vale, it's all on her periphery even though these are the real political issues. 

Mind, Sansa is NOT in a position of actual power and she has not been given access to political long-term planning like Jon and Robb had been by her age (Ned's dream of spring). Even as a bastard, being a boy gave Jon this kind of access where the girls were excluded. Imagine Jon and Sansa combining their talents and learning from each other. Sansa's social creativity applied to the bigger picture. Jon's strategic genius coated in confident, inclusive charm. They have much to learn from each other. 

Arya creates her own access by being "underfoot" and listening to Ned exercise soft power just talking to his staff at his table, but it's more a way of spending time with her father and absorbing his mode of learning than the actual information. She lacks the framework of background information (sigils, house relationship, history) to form a political picture, it is all interpersonal.  Her leadership style is not political, it's goal-oriented, she is a leader of missions, and an explorer.

Bran is dutiful and generous. Even in a situation of accute grief and distress after being paralyzed and missing his family, he does a pretty good job as Lord of Winterfell (for his age). He rises beyond his own emotions, he recognizes the nature of his position, doesn't overestimate his personal appeal while understanding the importance of courtesy and he is very very thoughtful, while easily accepting counsel and assistance. At age eight. King material, personality-wise. 

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someone requested Elia ages ago, 

here’s a quick doodle of her

#elia martell

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“Already the snowfall lay thick upon the garden below […] The sight took Sansa back to cold nights long ago, in the long summer of her childhood. She had seen snow the day she’d left Winterfell.” -A Storm of Swords pt 2, page 525.

This was such a sweet scene with Sansa (or Alayne), here remembering the snow when she was back with her family and playing with her siblings, and how she worked so hard on making the castle of Winterfell in the snow. (The Littlefinger had to ruin the moment) I’m just loving this character more and more. 

Except the fact that she didn’t turn up as my vision of Sansa, I’m pretty happy with how this turned out.

#sansa stark #alayne stone

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#renly baratheon #loras tyrell #renly x loras

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I did a thing? Sansa and Lady. I liked the colors.

#sansa stark #lady

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The Lannister on the Rock at the end of the series should be Tysha.

No Tyrion, no other Lannisters, just her.

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I still don’t get people who said “it doesn’t make sense that Sansa ended up ruling the north” Like, the line of succession was Robb- Bran- Rickon- Sansa- Arya. Jon wasn’t Ned Stark’s trueborn son. Why did they think someone else was going to rule?

Because they don’t understand the point of Sansa or the whole ass book series so they see a million special snowflakes in the world and see that Sansa is a relatively normal person and are therefore confused as to why the normcore Stark winds up as queen in the North. Honestly the fact that she’s in the line of succession is explanation enough, but aside from that, the reality is that she is actually the most qualified person left to do it. Rickon and Arya likely won’t want to lead or have any leadership skills, and Robb and Jon both got killed by the people they were supposed to be leading which would indicate that they probably wouldn’t be great kings in the long term. 

People don’t get Sansa’s reign because nearly every other character who is in contention for a throne at this point has something about them that screams “chosen one” while Sansa has nothing about her that says “chosen one,” which is the entire point of it to begin with. GRRM loves to play with the idea of chosen ones and he loves to subvert it even more, it’s much like the way that he loves to play with prophecy, it’s never going to be clear who the real chosen one is and the reality is likely that no one is supposed to be the chosen one, but what matters is what people believe, both within the universe and outside of it. If you’re falling into the trap of believing that someone who is extraordinary and has exceptional powers is somehow destined to rule the world, then you’re falling into the exact same trap that has kept this world in chaos for centuries. Sidestepping that trap is a huge reason why Sansa being queen makes sense, because she’s not exceptional, she’s just good at it. But that’s also why so many people are baffled by it, because they’re missing the point that many of these characters who seem to follow the classic super special snowflake with the exceptional destiny story arc are actually terrible leaders and that their exceptional traits are only exactly what they are, they’re not something that makes them ordained by the gods as someone who is meant to rule and be superior to all others. 

#sansa stark

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What kind of absolute batshit crazy fantasy land do these people live in?

Since when is Sansa an adult? Since when is she consenting to anything having to do with him? Was in when he forced her down on her bed and held a knife to her throat? You know when she thought “please don’t kill me” over and over to herself? Sounds super consenting and romantic, hm?

And even if one were to ship them with Sansa aged up and the hound “rehabilitated”, that still means that they saw this dynamic and thought to themselves “hey I know what would be a great prize for this horrid man, the child he terrorized!”

It melts my brain, it truly does.

#anti sansan #hmm okay so 12 year old girl = adult good to know #NASTIES

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Game of Thrones: Jon Snow cannot lie. Jon is like Ned. He’s too honourable to lie!! Why couldn’t you lie to Cersei Jon???

Actual Jon Snow: Fools the Freefolk for an entire book and keeps his cover, even betrays his lover in the process. Will kill any power hungry warlord who dares to threaten his family.

Certain fanboys: Jon Snow would never!!!

#jon snow

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Sansasource is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the second Sapphic Sansa Fest. It’s a 3 day-long celebration of all things queer and Sansa  just over a month from now, from November 13th to November 15th. We have themes as suggestions/prompts and you can pick any for any day.  We encourage ALL wlw Sansa ships and are open to Sansa as an individual/character and non-ship specific sapphic content. The goal is to have fun, so we hope you join us participating in whatever way you choose, be it fanart, fanfiction, meta, fanmixes,graphics, gifs- wichever is to your liking. We will be tracking the tag #sapphicsansafest and as always #sansasource.

canon | awakening | nostalgia | “just friends” | firsts | au | flowers | arranged marriage | magic | soulmates | scandal | queen(s) | politics | winter nights | your choice

All signal boosts will be greatly appreciated. Art by @ grrmartin​

#sansa stark #YESSS