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House Stark

It’s happening! The thing you didn’t know you wanted way too late and in rough draft form! I give you, House Stark - to the tune of the Family Madrigal song. And also Belle’s song from Beauty and the Beast and Where We Are from Moana. I’m not very musical at all and far from an expert at Thrones. Feel free to edit. Please share. I think it would be best animated.

EXT Winterfell Day. The main area.

A group of children from that orphanage that Bran and co go to is touring Winterfell. Theon approaches on his horse ready for a hunt. The orphans mob him. Theon, of course, wants nothin to do with them.

Orphans: All the Starks have wolves! What are their names               Where’s yours? What do they do?

Theon: I am not a nurse for children.

Ned: Theon!

Ned is on a balcony engaged in some business.

Ned: Show the children around Winterfell.

Theon (sighs): Alright, let’s go:

             Smiths!              Weirwood tree!              Maester!              Let’s go!

This is our home We’ve got every generation Down here buried in the crypts Our birth rate is high but the death rate is higher

This is the Stark family The lone wolf dies but the pack survives

Let’s be clear Lord Stark runs this show He fought in Robert’s Rebellion so many years ago If you ask me they were dating but what do I know.

Children: Oh my gods it’s them!                Where are the wolves? (I want to see the wolves)                But I don’t know who is who

Theon (muttering): it’s not that great

Children: Of course it is! It’s Winterfell!                It’s the biggest house I’ve ever seen!               Tell us everything! Who’s your wolf? Where is it?

Theon: You know they’re wild animals and spend a lot of time hunting …

Children: Just tell us who everyone is!

Theon: Lady Stark             She’s actually from the Riverlands             She loves her firstborn Robb             And hates Jon Snow, a

Everyone as Jon Snow enters: BASTARD!

Jon Snow (in his dramatic way, perhaps spolighted):           It’s true, Lord Stark           is my father but Lady Stark           is not my mother.           It’s a fate           I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

         So I took a vow of celibacy          and focus on my sword skills-(Theon pushes him out of the way)

Theon: Ugh, he’s a mopey bastard, you get the idea.

           Anyway his wolf is Ghost            he never makes a sound.

          This is my brother Bran           He loves to climb around           It’s pretty much all he does           His wolf is Summer           who’s very protective (Summer growls at Theon)

          My only sisters           Arya and Sansa           One’s fierce, one’s graceful           perfect in every way           Sansa can’t wait to get married           but Arya’s a better archer than Bran!

Children: No way!

Theon: Their wolves are Lady and Nymeria              both with a touch of gray.              Rickon’s the youngest              so he named his Shaggydog-

Children: BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR WOLF?

Theon (now trying to get away):           Anyway that’s House Stark at Winterfell

Children: What about Theon?

Theon: They rule over the whole North

Children: What about Theon?

Theon: Not the brightest but honor-bound

Children: Theon!

Theon: Winter is coming!

Children: Theon!

Maester: Theon!                Your father has a message for you.

Child: What’s Theon’s magic wolf?

Maester: Theon did not recieve a direwolf because                he is not a Stark. He is a Greyjoy of the                Iron Islands.

Child: Um, then why isn’t he in the Iron Islands?

Maester: To prevent a war, Theon has been a host-                age here since he was eight.

A gasp from the crowd as the Maester exits.

Children: You’re not a Stark!                You’re a hostage?                Are you a slave?

Theon: I am Lord Theon Greyjoy              only heir to the Iron Islands!              What are you lot going to inherit?              Nothing, cause you’re orphans.

Child: Yeah, but you don’t get a magic wolf.

Theon: They aren’t magic, they’re direwolves!             Besides, I don’t need a smelly wolf.             I have the greatest gift in all of Winterfell.

Child: What’s that?

Theon: Lord Robb Stark             Brave, strong, kind and true             *A perfect golden child*             Could have anyone for a friend             but chose me for his retinue

            Of course who wouldn’t want me for a friend!?             With my looks and my prowess with …             (a group of women walk by, Theon looks at them             then at the children)             archery!

Robb enters, also ready for a hunt.

Theon: It’s true I’m not a Stark              And sometimes I struggle to remember              what a Greyjoy is.              But I’m Robb’s brother              and he is mine              Now and always.

Children: Awwwh

Theon: Now off with yah! We’re hunting.

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Arya Stark of Winterfell and her sister being foil to each other doesn't mean she is going to end up subservient to/working for Sansa.

She has her own ending and her own themes and her own thing going on which include both politics and magic seperated from Sansa and I wish more people would see that.

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So I was reading about the Ashford Theory and I do believe that its Jonsa, but what if it's actually Young Griff?

I can't be bothered with all the politics and geography, all I'm here for is Sansa meeting Aegon and then the comedic show of Varys, JonCon, Tyrion and Littlefinger politely smiling at each other and backstabbing each other and trying not to kill each other like some sort of fucked up divorce custody case.

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Ah, yes. Team Green. Featuring a repressed lesbian still reeling from the fallout of her complicated situationship. An evil grandfather who eventually will become jobless. A guard who doubles as a stepfather and a hit man. An alcoholic. A doomed prophetess. An overpowered anime villain and his geriatric nuclear warhead. And a fourth child who may or may not exist.

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if you idolize Alicent, Sansa, And Elia for their softness and their suffering but hate Rhaenyra, Daenerys, and Arya for their defiance and strength, I just want you to be aware that you sound like a male incel with a podcast. You’re also setting back feminism by 10 years.

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GOD the Jaime-Cat Dungeon Scene (tm) is so good. We spend chapter after chapter watching Cat in utter conflict with herself, torn in different directions. She wants to find her daughters in King's Landing, to go to Winterfell and parent her sons, to stay with her dying father, to mourn her recently dead husband, to be an advisor to her son and brothers that they actually listen to. She is trying to be a mother, a daughter, a sister, to both nurture and council Robb. But it's too much, she can't do all of it.

Meanwhile, Jaime is locked in a dungeon for the entire book (very wife in the attic of him) and yet scarcely goes a chapter without his name being referred to by one person or another. He's practically present in conversations with Cersei and Tyrion, for how much they evoke his name to try to convince the other of something. Others think of his battle prowess, or want him dead, or share the story of his evil deeds, and Cat isn't excluded from this. He's a symbol more than he's a person, a token, a bargaining chip. Never to be harmed for fear of the Stark daughters' lives, but completely trapped by his own status.

So this makes it all the more satisfying to see Cat, in a fit of rage and grief, go downwards to question him at last, after hundreds of pages of this evocation of his name. She's tired of the lack of movement, of the posturing of the men around her, of all that she has lost and had to shrug off to keep going. And what does he tell her? That there are too many vows, too many promises that conflict. He says that honor is too much, that he could never have kept all the plates spinning. That it's too much!!

After a whole year of endless loss and fear and feeling completely alone, one visit to this symbol of a person and he completely and transparently spells out her entire deal, so much of her internal anguish. And then he looks at her and says that there are no men like him, that no one else would get it. like oh my god. george!!!

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Sakura be like:

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the way in which jon and robb's futures are foreshadowed by the mother of the other: robb dying too young and becoming a ghost that haunts their siblings, a reminder of innocence and happier days, and jon dying and being brought back to life, a shadow of what he once was, a dark mirror to himself

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I became a Dorne nationalist after reading this.

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I love the Stark sisters and as soon as I saw the Barbie jail meme I wanted to try something like that.

They are in a women''s march separately and something goes wrong, Sansa watches as Arya is arrested and goes to help her. She gets arrested too. Arya is proud of themselves, Sansa is wtf this is not funny. And they both call aunt Lyanna or uncle Brandon to get them out.

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ya ever think about how the lannister sibs all have big secrets kept from each other, like huge life-altering experiences? jaime's is the most obvious, the most talked-about, with the full story of his kingslaying and everything he endured from aerys leading up to it. it's clear enough to me that brienne was the first he opened up to about that, including either sibling. they never asked, but unlike ned stark and the rest deriding him as kingslayer, their lack of curiosity is no offense in itself bc as tywin's other children they would never judge him for turning his cloak purely out of family loyalty. ned's assumption of jaime's motives is directly tied to his judgment of jaime, but it's the judgment that rankles jaime so. choosing your father's life over a king's is hardly the worst crime in itself. how can he explain all the other reasons without prompting when its not just about his crime but all his trauma too? is there any basis for that in his relationship with cersei, who always relied on him for comfort and consolation but seems less adept at providing the same to him? or even with tyrion, his only real male friend for years, but also his baby brother, the one he was meant to protect and take care of, who was only 10 at the time of the kingslaying? even to fully share all with tyrion years later, both adults, could be something of a role reversal, forever shattering tyrion's image of him as the strong invulnerable golden big brother by revealing his own broken inner child. jaime can't break out from those sibling roles and patterns, so neither can ever understand that part of him, never knowing the early life he had at court without either of them with him.

and tyrion, who trusted jaime more than anyone in the world before learning the truth about tysha, still could not confide in him freely even when all that trust was still intact. jaime must have heard some story of what tywin did to tysha to feel the need to confess his lie, but he def didn't hear it straight from tyrion bc imo there's no way he could still think confessing would help anything if he understood how scarred tyrion was by what he witnessed and esp not knowing that tywin ordered him to participate at the end. tyrion could reveal all that to bronn when they barely knew each other but not to his beloved brother, his first and best friend. how can the most abused child explain all his unknown abuse to the golden child, the big brother meant to protect him who couldn't always do so? how does he even begin to reveal the deepest trauma that happened to him when jaime wasn't in the room, esp when the story does start with jaime apparently trying to help him by fixing him up with tysha?

and then there's cersei and all her secrets. she always turned to jaime for consolation, or at least when he knew she needed it, but how many times did he not know? how personally could she confide in him as they grew older and their paths diverged? we know the first big secret was maggy the frog's prophecy, her first big scare, which came on the cusp of puberty, an experience she couldn't share with her twin bc he would prob just laugh and make a joke of it. in their first real scene together, in bran's pov, he mocks lysa's motherly fears and likens her to cersei. ("I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad." He laughed.) then he makes light of her marital discord, ("And whose fault is that, sweet sister?"), having no idea of the depth of pain she'd suffered from robert, beyond his infidelities. he later blames her for being robert's queen, not his, only thinking of how she managed to arrange his kg post, that power to forever tie him to her in secret, never grasping her lack of control in marriage, that "a queen is only a woman after all". in her pride it was hard to reveal all she'd suffered as a woman, but she also couldn't rely on jaime's response if he knew of her abuse, knowing he would kill robert and get himself killed too, only making her and their children's lives more precarious. she couldn't trust him to listen about securing the throne before dealing with robert or that as robert's victim it was her right to decide such matters, to choose his fate, not jaime's place to avenge her without her say-so first. all bc they were both too stuck in their idea of jaime as her sword, nothing more, with jaime determined to protect her and tyrion, always a bodyguard before he ever donned a white cloak.

something something tywin did his best to play his children off each other and the most effective thing he did to divide them was by setting jaime up as the golden child and family protector. the designated lannister sword only pointing at threats outside their house. a knight serving his family whose protection was always limited, who could never protect them from the person who first hurt cersei and tyrion and made them who they were at a distance from him, bc ofc he couldn't fight his own father, much less slay him with a sword.

something something maybe the reason that joff+marg+loras was a surer recipe for kingslayer stew than robert+cersei+jaime is all down to that tyrell lack of abusive structure. not that loras cared more about marg, was more willing to kill for her than jaime was to kill robert, but that there wasn't a chance of marg hiding her misery from him if/when her husband abused her in their shared household. it's not like he understood her to the point of mind-reading but when their previous royal marital household involved her bearding for his boyfriend then they prob had a pretty good basis of open communication. in that sense, the lannicest twins with all their sexual and physical intimacy still had less emotional intimacy than the tyrell queen and her kg brother.

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have you ever stopped to think how the cities with prettiest names are in Dorne? I mean: sunspear, starfall (!!!), godsgrace, kingsgrave and skyreach ??

they serve nonstop

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I’ve been reading a lot of books and taking a lot of courses about creative writing and pacing and scene craft, and that’s all well and good and everything, but I honestly think a big thing they should teach is… when to use this knowledge?

Obviously I’m not a professional writer (that’s why I’m… reading the books and the classes and everything), but from what I have experienced I’ve kind of noticed that if you go into the project, blank page and everything, with the mindset of “I Must Accomplish All of These Goals,” it’s not only difficult to write, but often your finished project is almost boring and unsatisfying (and when you write a lot of fic like me, the whole point of the dang thing is to be fun!!!)

I’ve been trying a new method that really works for me, which is essentially “write the whole story and then Delete EVERYTHING,” which has worked… shockingly well. After that I go back in and revisit the details, and then (again, in my unprofessional opinion) THAT is the point to start implementing theory and action and detail. It’s like, I know where the story is going to end up. I just need to get us there

I don’t know! Those are just some of my thoughts. I’ve been thinking about implementing Jack London’s rule (if I remember correctly) of deleting a minimum of 1000 words off my “final draft,” but I hate reducing stuff lol. We’ll see how it goes in the coming projects!

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Sansa as a northern character being so aesthetically pleasing never gets old for me.

In a world of white and gray and black and of course, icy blue, the color auburn shows itself off very well. The way she looks like a weirwood with her porcelain skin and red hair is so cool. And her blue eyes can be a reminder of Others' eyes (and also a nod to Starks having Other ancestry which I root for). She even tolerates cold better than many other characters, spends half a day in snow and doesn't bat an eye.

Generally, storytelling with color and design is so powerful in her arc, with George reflecting her mood and goals through the things she wears, and the same attention has been put through her own colors.