#pro arya stark

[silverflameataraxia]

It would be so epic to get a moment before a battle where Dany and Jon come riding in on the dragons and below them is Arya, riding Nymeria, surrounded by her superpack.

#a song of ice and fire #pro dany #jon snow #jon x arya #nymeria #asoiaf #jon x dany #jonrya #arya stark #dany #jonarya #pro arya stark #queen daenerys #jon and daenerys #arya #daenerys stormborn #jon x daenerys #canonarya #daenerys targaryen #canonjonsnow #canonaryastark #pro daenerys #daenerys x jon #jonerys #daenarya #needleheart

[fandom-trash-goblin]

IN DEFENSE OF ARYA STARK

Jason Schneiderman, "Little Red Riding Wolf," The Account // Italian Girl with Flowers, Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla, 1886 // Sansa I, A Game of Thrones, GRR Martin.

lyanna stark || elia martell || sansa stark || arya stark || alicent hightower || jaehaera targaryen || cersei lannister || myrcella baratheon || joanna lannister || aemma arryn || catelyn stark || sansa stark (2) || margaery tyrell || rhaena targaryen, daughter of aenys i

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #web weave #webweaving #webweave #game of thrones #webweaves: asoiaf #pro arya stark #arya stark #its been a long while since i read the book and still i saw this painting and thought arya+wildflowers. #edit: okay but sansa baby is so jealous there; which; valid as fuck. i love you sansa <3

[babybells123]

I wish I could go on the arya stark tag without seeing vitriolic hatred for sansa. I swear, it’s rare to come across a stan who appreciates them BOTH, as I do myself. It just kills my mood, ugh. This fandom is so incredibly divisive when it comes to fictional characters.

#sansa stark #arya stark #pro sansa stark #pro arya stark #pro stark sisters #there is intense hatred for female characters in the asoiaf fandom and it needs to be addressed #believing that either of these girls are unimportant to the major story is INSANE and gross mischaracterisation #even ned tells them they need each other

[badbedforbedding]

Sansa lied to protect her sister. I'm sure that Sansa thought that.... actually there are 6 chapters of her own POV in AGoT and she didn't think that once. Isn't it nice to have her perspective and thoughts of that moment? I sure love it.

#asoiaf #separate headcanon from canon #book!sansa got flaws but you cant accept that #god forbid a character is well rounded in this fandom #pro arya stark #fandom nonsense

[mattyalwayssmokesweed]

Late one night, Catelyn wakes up in a cold sweat, gasping for air as a terrifying thought dawns on her; Arya is not bad at needling, she’s just left-handed

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #game of thrones #arya stark #catelyn tully #catelyn stark #jon snow #ned stark #a dance with dragons #adwd #a clash of kings #a feast for crows #a storm of swords #acok #affc #pro arya stark #lady stoneheart #house stark #bran stark #winterfell

[fromtheseventhhell]

Mind you the "girl bosses" in question are Dany: who has been sold as a bridal slave at 13, been on the run and feared for her life since she was born, rarely known safety and security, been used as payment by her abusive brother and further abused by the husband she was given too, who has made it a point to protect other women around her from further harm despite having little agency, who faced multiple assassination attempts and the painful loss of her child, vowed to defend others who couldn't defend themselves, has faced constant misogyny on her journey to doing so, has put her own ambitions on hold in order to help others, and is currently the only character enacting wild scale revolution in order to protect a class of people nobody else is fighting for. And Arya: who has been on the run since the end of AGOT starving and scared, has been thrust into a warzone and directly affected by the violent impact, was witness to the horrific torture of the smallfolk by the mountain and his men, was captured and forced into servitude at Harrenhal, was beaten and threatened with sexual violence, who has witnessed countless people she cared about die including her father, mother, and brother, and who still remembers those who lost their lives when nobody else has and done her best to get justice for them.

Yeah, It's soooooo feminist to treat these two female characters like they're lesser because they aren't traditionally feminine. I find it funny how the ones who talk about the importance of valuing "feminine" strengths are the same ones who erase them from Dany and Arya. All of their intelligence, kindness, empathy, etc. get thrown out and their characters are reduced to ones who only know violence. Even the suffering and abuse they've gone through is treated as less impactful and they're given no sympathy. It's an interesting circle of them being misogynistic so that they can justify their misogyny to themselves. It also highlights how little they believe in the things they're saying. Supporting "feminine" characters has just become a convenient way of propping up their favorites; feminism is nothing but a disposable tool. If they actually cared then they wouldn't be rewriting characters to make them seem more "masculine", and in fact wouldn't care about that distinction at all. The female characters have a lot of overlapping experiences afterall.

No one is saying you have to like Arya or Dany, but being misogynistic toward them and trying to disguise it as feminism is disgusting. There's also no way of doing so that won't inevitably reflect poorly on the characters you claim to love. There's nothing productive about making such restrictive boxes for female characters. If you really don't care about them then you don't have to talk about them. It's as simple as that. But if putting them down is the only way you have of propping up your fave, then maybe it's time to find a character that you actually like.

#daenerys targaryen #pro daenerys targaryen #arya stark #pro arya stark #anti bs #fandom nonsense #anti jonsa stans #anti sansa stans #hurray for putting down these young girls who have faced incredible violence and abuse because they aren't traditionally feminine! #and I love how they used my post to start shit-talking Arya and Dany when I didn't even mention Sansa in the post! #they literally treat liking Arya and Dany as Sansa hate it's insane #sorry but Arya and Dany are the two main female characters they're just going to be more popular 🤷🏾‍♀️ #on top of that Dany is arguably one of the most iconic characters of all time #it's not misogynistic to like them more than Sansa

[meatballsu]

I will take this as my personal book!arya ref

#random #pro arya stark

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

unedited rant starting now :)

funny how neither dany nor arya are listed as feminine and strong. do they not fit ur standards for feminine women? would they be strong in a “masculine way” then?

dany and arya are strong in their own ways. dany is ruling in her own right and is freeing slaves as she goes. is this the masculine strength you were talking about? is arya executing a traitor masculine strength?

why isn’t cersei strong in a masculine way then based off your definition? why does she have a woman’s strength? why is she feminine and strong but not dany and arya when she does similar things as them, the difference being that she’s crazy and edging closer to evil territory? cersei wishes she could have the power dany has. cersei wishes she had a sword like arya. is she only feminine to you because cersei is limited by the patriarchy and societal rules? why does femininity seem to mean being limited by the men around our characters to you?

you say sansa was passive and got manipulated a lot, which, while true, isn’t the only way for women to be feminine.

i thought being feminine means liking dresses and makeup and gushing over boys. i thought it meant gossiping with your friends over snacks and tea. i thought it meant being sweet, kind, gentle, empathetic, tender, and compassionate. i didn’t know that being feminine means you can’t be strong in a “masculine way.” because being strong in a masculine way seems to mean liking horseback riding and swinging a sword and ruling as a woman without a king. op, it seems like you’re a big hypocrite when claiming that cersei and arianne are feminine and strong while associating femininity with only passiveness and ignoring the femininity in women who are very active and don’t exactly conform, aka being strong in a “masculine way.”

let’s be clear, a woman can be both “feminine” and “masculine.” even though i hate designating female characters in such a rigid and oppressive system meant to make women conform to the patriarchy.

liking active characters isn’t a bad thing. liking characters who try to change the world they live in isn’t something that makes them strong in a “masculine way.” it just means that these characters are stepping out of the gender roles, and this does not make them unfeminine. a la arya saving weasel and dany protecting the people she could while drogo was alive are examples of two female characters being active while being constricted by 1) gender roles for dany and 2) class difference for arya (she posed as a small folk). these two characters also escape these societal constraints. dany rules as queen due to her dragons and arya is training as a faceless man and is gaining power. stepping out of their gender roles does not make them unfeminine and their strength should not be associated with masculine strength because they are both female characters in a world that is very unkind to women.

to kinda sum up my points, being active doesn’t make a character unfeminine, and i despise how you’re calling characters who are trying to live beyond their gender roles unfeminine. you are literally undermining actual women who decided to not conform to our patriarchy and horrible societal standards that dictate how a woman should conduct herself. it is not wrong to favor these nonconforming women as well. nor is it cool to undermine their strength by saying that they’re strong in a masculine way. this completely ignores the fact that these characters are going against the patriarchy in the books and should be applauded for it. the mormot women and brienne and arya don’t have it easier by being non conforming women. and it should be admired that they still take up this challenge because they have a right to exist the way that they want to. we readers should not degrade these characters who are going against a very oppressive system. and excuse me for not being impressed by sansa, who is very classist and a bully. excuse me for feeling bad for her but not favoring her because i appreciate the kindness and “masculine strength” of arya, and dany, and brienne more. excuse me for clearly not being a girls girl.

now, i agree that being feminine isn’t a weakness. but i hate how you’re ignoring the femininity in women who you consider strong in a “masculine way” and then saying that people with tastes like mine are in the wrong and therefore don’t like female characters at all. it’s very insulting and i can’t take you seriously because of how hypocritical you are by claiming cersei and arianne are strong and feminine, two characters who clearly want power in a “masculine way,” while not listing dany nor arya as feminine. dany and arya both should have come to your mind before arianne.

people can dislike whoever they want. stop trying to tell people that disliking certain characters and liking others is wrong because your standards aren’t met. it’s annoying.

#just got mad seeing this #my thoughts are kinda messy but i didn’t like what op implied #anyways stop sorting character by oppressive systems #and try to be less biased by ignoring femininity in nonconforming women #dany and arya are literally so feminine it’s insane #they are so gentle and kind #two things highly associated with being feminine #anyways op was a sansa stan so i’m not rly surprised #anti sansa stans #anti stansas #pro daenerys #pro arya stark #people rly want to deny that daenerys mhysa targaryen is feminine

[flying-ham]

“A thousand years ago, she had known a girl who loved lemon cakes,” ARYA YOURE GOING TO MAKE ME CRY ugh I love little hints of sansa and arya being loving siblings and not always pitted against each other

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #a dance with dragons #adwd #arya stark #sansa stark #pro arya stark #pro sansa stark #game of thrones #got

[silverflameataraxia]

This is how Sansa reacts when a man she's known all her life is murdered by the family of her beloved Prince Joffrey?

Alyn carried the Stark banner. When she saw him rein in beside Lord Beric to exchange words, it made Sansa feel ever so proud. Alyn was handsomer than Jory had been; he was going to be a knight one day.

To talk about how the guy replacing him is better looking? That's so completely heartless, it's disgusting.

And this is how Sansa reacts when Arya wanted justice brought to Mycah's murderer?

"It's not the same," Sansa said. "The Hound is Jeffrey's sworn shield. Your butcher's boy attacked the prince."

She can't even call him "Mycah" or "your friend". No, no. He's a commoner, and thus in her eyes he's not deserving of any humanity or kindness, so thus he is just the "butcher's boy". It's not even that. It's the fact that Sansa wants everyone to mourn the loss of Lady, her direwolf, but she can't even extend that same courtesy to Jory or Mycah's deaths. They're too far beneath her in status for her to care. She even knows Arya is mourning Mycah's loss, that Arya blames herself (though, it's not her fault), but Sansa just throws his death around like it doesn't mean anything because who could care about a commoner?

Not including the fact that Joffrey lied about the incident, Sansa lied, and now Sansa believes the lie that Mycah attacked her beloved prince. She saw the truth with her own eyes, and chooses to ignore it because blaming Arya is more important to her than the truth. And she could never hate her beloved prince, he's too handsome for that 🤮

She's lucky all Arya threw at her was an orange.

#a song of ice and fire #anti sansa stark #joffrey baratheon #beric dondarrion #arya stark #sandor the hound clegane #asoiaf #pro arya stark #the hound #a game of thrones #canonaryastark #sandor clegane #agot #canonarya #george rr martin #valyrianscrolls

[ariamariastark1]

Why is misogyny against Arya Stark and Daenerys Targaryen so accepted and normalised in ASOIAF fandom? Sorry to break this to some of you but the whole 'Dany goes crazy and kills everyone' theory is rooted in sexism and the 'Arya hates women because she is different/ she is an NLTOG character because she doesn't fit in ' is a deeply misogynistic and stupid misinterpretation of her character.

#daenerys targaryen #pro daenerys #arya stark #pro arya stark #fandom critical

[pricklypear1997]

Something that both George RR Martin and Hayao Miyazaki have in common is writing female characters. They just really understand women somehow. They really disprove that theory that men can’t understand women. I personally have never felt so seen and understood by anything other than ASOIAF and ghibli movies. It reminds me too, that I’m not the only person dealing with these issues and there are other people who do understand my feelings and struggles, regardless if they’re male or female also.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and Fire #Arya stark #pro arya stark #Arya stark is the most relatable character out there #favorite #grrm #daenerys targeryan #sansa stark #Catelyn stark #melisandre #ghibli #hayao miyazaki #Sophie hatter #howl’s moving castle #kikis delivery service #nausicaä of the valley of the wind #nausicaa #spirited away #Anna speaks #rambles #tumblr #fandom #yes #radblr #anime

[aryastarkthelittleshewolf11]

George: *using the scene where Arya gives water to the men in the cadges as a continuation of the theme of mercy/justice vs vengeance and how vengeance is not good*

Someone in my comments: She sympathies with a rapist just because he’s northern so she’s anti feminist!

Me:

#I can never post Arya content in peace on that stupid app #fuck tiktok #arya stark #book arya stark #canonarya #canonaryastark #pro arya stark

[mattyalwayssmokesweed]

I will never, NEVER, shut up about the parallels between Aegon V the Unlikely and Arya Stark. They’re two lost highborn kids using fake names, who had their hairs cut to hide themselves among others, and were taken in by a tall knight (Sandor Clegane and Duncan the Tall), traveling Westeros with them, learning about the common folk and gathering a better understanding of their struggles because they also suffered them.

Both experienced cruelty and hunger and pain and distress and hopelessness at a young age, and it shaped them and made them unlike other highborn children. Both were completely aware of how bad things truly were for the smallfolk. Both were considered unlikely to rule at first because one was the fourth son of a fourth son, and the other the second daughter of a second son and a woman. You’re telling me those parallels aren’t intentional to tell us Arya is going to be Queen in the North and a good ruler who can help with smallfolk policy reforms, just like Aegon V did?

#a song of ice and fire #arya stark #asoiaf #aegon v targaryen #aegon the unlikely #egg Targaryen #a dance with dragons #adwd #game of thrones #a clash of kings #a feast for crows #a storm of swords #jon snow #pro arya stark #arya stark queen in the north #trust!! #acok #affc #house stark #house targaryen #ned stark #duncan the tall #Sandor Clegane #Maekar I Targaryen #westeros #queen in the north

[fromtheseventhhell]

Daenerys and Arya knowing they're the main ASOIAF girlies that have everyone from dudebros to (fake) feminists feeling threatened because of their importance

#daenerys targaryen #arya stark #pro daenerys targaryen #pro arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #are you really a main bitch if you don't have everyone in fandom mad? including so-called feminists who support female characters? #and furiously rewriting the story to erase your importance because you're a threat to peoples favorite characters? #the fact that this has just been sitting in my drafts lol