#sansa and magic

[reginarubie]

Sansa month 2022, day 16 ~ magic

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it. — Jon III, ACOK

The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. But she left the dwarf behind and Cersei means to have his head." (...) That's stupid, Arya thought. Sansa only knows songs, not spells — Arya XIII, ASOS

Behold, the magic of Sansa Stark (allegedly accused of bullying her half brother, Jon Snow, and her sister, Arya Stark) managing to be associated to music, and sweetness and magic by her bother and sister. — she cannot have killed Joffrey, she's too sweet to have done so, knows only songs (— Arya Stark); oh look, there's magic here, Sansa would be in wonder of it (—Jon Snow).

Sarcasm aside:

In art, music, magic, trade, all that makes us more than beasts (...) — Daenerys III, ADWD

Music and magic are tightly interwoven, spells are often chanted (and it happens even in the span of the books — Mirri chants as she does her spells; Mel chants when she does her spells and her prayers; the prayers are often done in chants and we all know that Sansa's wishes and prayers somehow comes true). And with LF consideration that a harp can be as deadly as a dagger in the right hands...

... music is magic and magic is music, they are very interwoven as they were in the real history; and this can also be considered so for the simple reason that creating music is an act of creation of emotions and melodies and if there is one thing that Sansa Stark is, it's a creator. She knows how to play the bells, she wanted to learn how to play the harp, she knows how to sew and compose poetry and sing, all acts of creation, most of which connected with music and in history of mankind music and chants have always been connected to magic.

Sansa lost her connection to the old magic all Starks seems to be drawn to very early when she lost Lady, but not everything is lost, she keeps dreaming of Lady and her wishes and prayers do come true; maybe her magic is softer... and maybe it's also not magic at all but that of someone capable of working magic, someone capable of inspiring loyalty and empathy in others even in horrible circumstances (there are some instances in which people try to comfort Sansa even during her stay in KL, even if it's a poor excuse for them not acting), capable of acting de facto Lady of the Eyrie while posing as a bastard and yet managing to not be opposed by the lords and ladies who don't like the man they think it's her father. That's working magic in a way.

So, imo, wether Sansa has still some magical residual abilities or it's simply her capacity to create lasting emotions in the people around her and thus learning to create something solid between them to move forward (get people to work together), Sansa is soft magic. As opposed to blood magic, dark sorcery and aggressiveness as a method of creation, that we see in the books.

And thus, something my grandad used to say come to mind ‘you don't have to be a volcano, you can and should be the tree. There is dignity and honour in being a tree and magic is surviving the wind and offering shelter to those who come under your fronds to seek refuge just as much as annihilating those who would hurt you’, and I think this fits Sansa and her brand of magic and softly wielded capability of creation.

Sansamonth2022, day 16 ~ magic

Day 24

#sansamonth2022 #sansaappreciationfest2022 #day 16 #music and magic #magic #sansa and magic #sansa stark #Sansa Stark love

[leulahart]

the alayne sample chapter from winds is actually something that can be so personal

#the vale plotline is truly the one im looking forward to the most #forget blood magic and revenge and resurrections #i want secret identities and political intrigue!!! sorry to the haters #sansa stark art #sansa stark #asoiaf #asoiaf art #my art #mine #artists on tumblr #alayne stone #twow #i guess #valyrianscrolls

[asharaxofstarfall]

i do not like the dany and rhaenyra stans that hate on sansa and alicent for "bowing down to the patriarchy" and "not stopping their oppression". dany goes through a traumatic marriage at thirteen in which she is regularly raped to the point of contemplating suicide. she forces herself to love her husband and make him love her to spare herself more abuse. she then gets pregnant with his child and goes through a horrific birthing and loses her baby at only fourteen. this whole situation is very, very common for women in their society. the only difference is that daenerys gains three dragons at the end. they empower her and help her move forward to claim her 'birthright'. let's looks at sansa in comparison. she is sold off as a child bride at twelve years old. her betrothed arranges for her to be publicly stripped and beaten. she is then married to the son of the man that killed her brother. her new husband sexually assaults her on her wedding night, but does not rape her. pretty much every man that she encounters tries to sexually harass and assault her. she escapes her marriage and is now being groomed by her mothers childhood friend. she knows that his feelings and actions towards her are wrong, but he's all she has. sansa has to use "a womans courtesy and grace" to get herself out of potentially harmful situations. we also see this with dany's 'seduction' of drogo. the only difference is that sansa is never given dragons to protect herself like daenerys is. she still has to rely on herself. people call rhaeneryas dragon moments 'badass' and put alicent down for sticking to the patriarchy. alicent sticks up for herself by calmly telling her husband that he can take her daughter away from her when she is cold and dead in her grave. that is the only thing she can do in that situation, and its a a risky thing to say to her groomer, abuser and husband (who is also the king) but she still does it to protect her daughter. when alicent is feeling lost, she prays to the mother. when rhaenerya is feeling lost, she rides syrax. alicent and sansa (and even cersei) are not afforded with magic and fantasy to escape their abuse, they have to do the best they can with what little power the average noble woman is given in their society.

#this post is NOT anti dany or rhaenerya #it's just pointing out that certain stans put down women for not having magical creatures to empower them and stop their oppression lol #alicent and catelyn and cersei and sansa are all normal women in westoros #alicent hightower #pro alicent hightower #pro sansa stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #also I'm talking about book dany and sansa and show alicent and rhaenyra #house of the dragon #hotd #sansa stark

[fromtheseventhhell]

Arya and Dany stans: *discuss the likelihood that they'll have a positive relationship given their parallels, foreshadowing, status as key characters, and being two of George's favorite characters*

Stansas: Is this Sansa shade?

I think it's hilarious that Stansas got mad at me for (accurately) pointing out that they accuse Arya and Dany stans of being motivated by Sansa hate simply because...we get along and like both of them lol. The idea of them getting along is about their characters and has nothing to do with Sansa. Just because they pit Dany and Arya against each other for Sansa's sake doesn't mean we're motivated by the same thing. Are there some conversations that bring up Sansa + Arya's strained relationship? Absolutely, that isn't baseless in the books considering they're written as foils and George has already said they have issues they need to work out. The "Stark sisters 4ever" fantasy they have is just that, and it's funny we never see this same energy for Arya being turned into a prop for her sister 🤔. Sisterhood didn't stop Sansa from siding with Joffrey, telling Cersei that Arya was a traitor (even though she had no idea where Arya was), or calling Arya unsatisfactory when she thought that she was dead so why are we supposed to pretend it's an all-important factor when discussing Arya's potential relationships with other characters?

#arya stark #daenerys targeryan #anti sansa stans #fandom forever talking about how the sisters writing is misogynistic but when we acknowledge that conflict it's an issue #yes Arya loves her sister but that doesn't mean all of their issues are going to magically disappear when they reunite and this is somethin #we were explicitly told by the author! guess we're supposed to just ignore what he said cause it doesn't fit fanon though #this idea that we're constantly thinking about Sansa and forming our opinions to spite her is so insane I can't #we can't even like two female characters without it being turned into a conspiracy theory 😭 #the real issue is that they can't stand that we talk about Arya as her own character and not just a prop for Sansa #cause where's this energy for the Stansas and /supposed/ Arya stans who come together to hate on Dany?? #or for the ones who erase Arya's entire story and mold her into a prop whose only purpose is to serve Sansa?

[swordsandarms]

There's nothing more self-inserting in this fandom than the people who actually hate Rhaegar Targaryen (and sometimes by extension Lyanna and Daenerys and other Targaryens).

But with Rhaegar it's very peculiar. With either Rhaegar positive or neutral fans, you can discuss things like connections he has with characters in actual canon, by actually canon references, that give him some depth whatsoever in turn. Love RxL shippers with all the actually newer clues highlighted compared to your typical "Jon's parentage" checklists because it gives more character interiority. Love the Jon and Dany fans who've given more attention to the connections clearly drawn on purpose by the author that are also doing that.

But people who outright hate this tertiary character? The emotionally driven rants as if this man was their own boyfriend or father and wronged them specifically and that's all the focus of it? Only ever writing in "depth" about him in scenarios that are clearly made up and can only be explained as projection from some baggage none of us trying to read some book are interested in? Very odd behaviour.

#asoiaf #lyanna stark #rhaegar targaryen #jon snow #it's also how you know #people like me come and go onto the topic #write something when there's something to add to whatever actually useful discussion there is in that sense #but those people #they just keep re-popping up to screech a variation of the same enraged broken record statement #and just keep doing that over the years #never getting over it #like idk #you've clearly got something to unpack #but it's definitely not about this small fantasy character #and as I said also with Dany or Jon or Arya or Lyanna etc #there's usual the self inserting people in Sansa or Catelyn or such #with veeeeeery weird opinions about things in general (aka women or children) and an opinion about the character they self insert in #that have nothing to do with their canon depiction most of time #or only being interested in that side of it they self insert in if that makes sense #so like Sansa is somehow a representative of girl next door suddenly cause she's not relevant to magic in a magic book #or Catelyn is some ever suffering wife who needs to feel validated in taking out her frustrations as some stressed out #21st century local mother with a shitty husband and stressed by taking care of children on her own #like hm #I see you and what you're doing but also #I don't care #I'm here for a book not for your personal shit

[tinylittlepistols]

Jonsa Halloween 2023

Day 5 (October 31st): Free Choice

Resurrection/Witch/Spirit

Jonsa AU (Inspired by Practical Magic)

Since leaving the North to attend the most prestigious fashion school in the South, Sansa has had a made a lot of mistakes. Leaving the safety and protection of Winterfell, which has been the Stark family estate for hundreds of years, was one of them. Making the wrong friends and trusting the wrong people was another. But dating Joffrey Baratheon was the worst of them all.

When Sansa drops out of school, and leaves her dreams behind to hide out in the Vale with a scandal-plagued Joffrey, things go from bad to worse. What started out as the occasional shove or insult from Joffrey has turned into black eyes and broken ribs.

Miserable, missing home, and done with Joffrey — and with love — Sansa leaves the Vale in the middle of the night and heads back North to what’s left of her family (plagued for generations with a curse, Stark men never make it back past the Neck if they journey South); a curse that has already claimed their father and their big brother Robb.

Sansa never expects Joffrey to follow.

When she finds herself dragging her ex-boyfriend’s dead body out of her childhood home (specifically, the greenhouse floor, where he dropped dead the second time, not the kitchen table, where he died first) and through her mother’s magical garden, with her little sister late one cool autumn night, she knows she’s really, really messed up.

It isn’t until two (very handsome) Federal agents show up the next day looking for a missing Joffrey, that Sansa begins to think the family curse is alive and well and about to get her arrested for murder. That is, if Joffrey doesn’t get her first.

_____________________

Featuring two witchy sisters bonding over murder and magic, a mother still grieving her dead husband while raising two teenaged boys on her own, and dealing with her own mess of a sister (and her sister’s sheltered young son) a rowdy Rickon, who’s as wild as their uncle Brandon used to be, an observant Bran, who may possess magic to rival all the Starks put together, and a pair of Federal agents who are about to meet two women who will change the rest of their lives (if they don’t get them killed — or fired — first).

* With bonus agents Lannister and Tarth, who deal exclusively in cases of the paranormal, spooky and just damn weird.

#jonsa halloween 2023 #jonsa #jonsa au #jonsa fic #sansa stark #jon snow #jonsa halloween #arya stark #gendry waters #gendrya #practical magic inspired jonsa au #I have part of this fic written #and intended to post a first chapter by Halloween #but as usual my crippling self- doubt and second guessing has taken over #but at least I made some pretty picsets! #(I have so many picsets lol)

[christinapotter09]

Summary:

They’re in search of answers, terrible truths and inconceivable lies.

‘I’m not a Stark,’ Daemon had whispered, speaking the truth. Sansa had shaken her head, desperate for him to find some solace.

‘You are to me,’ words spoken again and again, through time.

Sansa had whispered them in Aegon’s ear as they moved against each other, the Meereenese night standing witness to their union, and the jeopardy of the kingdoms as her womb had already taken root.

The terrible truth, a terrible faith hanging above them, pivoting their very lives, killing them again and again in a game where there is only victory or death.

#jonsa #jon x sansa #reincarnation fic #modern au #magic #future of westeros #and essos

[clytemnaestraes]

The blood of Winterfell + there must always be a Stark in Winterfell

The Starks have been called the blood of Winterfell:

I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard's daughter and Lady Catelyn's, the blood of Winterfell.

Sansa I, AFFC

The water sourced from the hot springs under Winterfell has directly been compared to blood flowing through a man's body, not once, but twice.

Cold, he thought, remembering the warm halls of Winterfell, where the hot waters ran through the walls like blood through a man's body.

Jon III, AGOT

Of all the rooms in Winterfell's Great Keep, Catelyn's bedchambers were the hottest. She seldom had to light a fire. The castle had been built over natural hot springs, and the scalding waters rushed through its walls and chambers like blood through a man's body, driving the chill from the stone halls, filling the glass gardens with a moist warmth, keeping the earth from freezing. Open pools smoked day and night in a dozen small courtyards. That was a little thing, in summer; in winter, it was the difference between life and death.

Catelyn II, AGOT

This got me thinking about whether the whole there must always be a Stark in Winterfell thing is an allusion to blood magic.

"No," she told him. "Your place is here. There must always be a Stark in Winterfell."

Catelyn III, AGOT

The Stark kids draw strength from Winterfell.

The hot water made her think of Winterfell, and she took strength from that.

Sansa VI, AGOT

Arya wields Needle, forged in the fires of Winterfell, and even when she's away from her home she fights in its name.

"Winterfell!" she screamed. Blood spurted

Arya IV, ACOK

Does Winterfell reciprocate this, drawing strength from the Starks in turn? Is that the reason why the previous Kings of Winter were buried in the crypts of Winterfell? Because, to quote the house words, winter is coming, and they have a role to play when it does? Will they make a difference between, as Cat says, life and death?

#house stark #asoiaf #sansa stark #arya stark #jon snow #catelyn stark #winterfell #or is this brand of magic too heavy handed for grrm #idk guys #speculation

[alicent-targaryen]

SANSA MONTH 2023 ▸ Magic

#sansamonth2023 #sansastarkappreciationfest2023 #events #got #tv #sansa stark #sophie turner #game of thrones #sansa stark edit #sansa stark fanart #game of thrones edit #game of thrones fanart #got edit #got fanart #moodboard by ria #witch aesthetic #magic aesthetic

[the-red-wulf]

“SHADOWS CAST IN FIRELIGHT”

AU - Magical Modern - In which an unlikely pair of sorcerers are called upon to protect the realm from an ancient curse…

“Yours is a welcome that I am not wholly unaccustomed to,” the deep, rumbling voice of her visitor started, a bit of a chuckle in his tone. “Miss. Sansa Stark of Winterfell, I presume?”

“Y-yes,” she cleared her throat, making sure to straighten her shoulders in an attempt to feign confidence. “You’re–”

“Who I am is not important, though you already know what I am,” he replied, fingers absently brushing his dark well-kept beard. “I am here on behalf of those who sit on the High Council. Grand Magistrate Lannister requests an audience with you.” 

Read it HERE on AO3! 

#sansa stark #sandor clegane #sandor x sansa #sandor clegane x sansa stark #modern au #magic

[westerosiladies]

Sansa Stark Month Day Twenty-Six: Magic

#game of thrones #asoiaf #sansa stark #sansaappreciationfest2023 #sansamonth2023 #sophie turner #magic

[fromtheseventhhell]

The way Stansas describe Dany and Arya is so funny, "they're bad-ass girlbosses who fight their way out of situations cause they have a sword and dragons...why do people like them?" and they're being 100% serious 😭

#anti sansa stans #they're so goofy #'why do people like badass actions girls connected to magical plots in a fantasy series?? they have to be misogynistic' like sdksdksdksd #even their fanon versions sound more interesting than the boring bland everyman stereotype they project onto their fave #they have to rewrite them cause they know their canon is too interesting + important 🤭

[sare11aa11eras]

Meera Reed with the head of an Other (& Dark Sister), after Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Part 1 of my Secret Sansa gift for @spectrehal !

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #my art #meera reed #iatc #secret sansa #secret sansa 2022 #the others #dark sister #my design for the others looks exactly like the villains in the rainbow magic fairies series. idk what to tell you. #well. some cdrama fantasy villains mixed in too. for balance. #anyways! #I hope you like this char!! more to come later

[rosalinesurvived]

"The dwarf's wife did the murder with him," swore an archer in Lord Rowan's livery. "Afterward, she vanished from the hall in a puff of brimstone, and a ghostly direwolf was seen prowling the Red Keep, blood dripping from his jaws."

He dreamt he was back in Winterfell, [...] The crypts were growing darker. A light has gone out somewhere. "Ygritte?" he whispered. "Forgive me. Please." But it was only a direwolf, grey and ghastly, spotted with blood, his golden eyes shining sadly through the dark . . .

There was ice underfoot, and broken stones just waiting to turn an ankle, and the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, big as mountains.

What the fuck is going on

#jon snow #sansa stark #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #shitpost #ghost direwolves #also unrelated but imagine all the smallfolk seeing that qitn as someone who can shapeshift and use spells omg theyd love her so much #also jon please #jonsa #jon x sansa #magical dead ghost wolves idk #oh its because sansa is still connected to a dead lady #sansa discovers her necromancy powers in twow due to her being soulbonded with a dead wolf #sansa x jon #ghost the direwolf #lady the direwolf

[mirabritart]

Superhero / Magical Girl AU ... continued!

Brienne has "light" power, manifesting as solid objects like a sword and shield. I'm imagining they get stronger/brighter when she's more confident, but dimmer when she starts to falter. I also am picturing her like... "ultimate" form to be all shimmery like starlight with all kinds of beams coming off of her while she gives an anime ass monologue about the power of love.

Sansa has "sound" powers, if you're familiar at all with the XMen character Dazzler then you know exactly what I'm going for. To use some mmo/rpg jargon I think her powers are support based, strengthening her allies and weakening her enemies. Also poison hair gems (Rule of Cool)

(Daenerys & Arya)

#asoiaf #asoiaf magical girl au #asoiaf fanart #valyrianscrolls #hope this is the correct use of the vs tag #asoiaf super hero au #brienne of tarth #sansa stark #my art #fan art

[mandzipop]

Daggers to the Heart pt 2 Clash of Kings

#fanfiction #wattpad #smuttyfanfic #timetravel #angst #magic #jonsa #jonsnow #explict #sansa stark