SANSA WEEK 2021 → day five: tropes

If April 14th is the day that Game Of Thrones Season 8 starts…then May 19th (the day that the last episode airs) is the day that Sansa Stark will win everything she could ever imagine. Put it on your calendar guys because that day years from now will forever be known as the anniversary of her coronation!!!

This aged perfectly. 

Fine wine 🍷

Oh look, it’s Sansa Stark Coronation Day! 👑🐺

Thoughts on Jonnel One-Eye Stark and Sansa Stark

Or: I swear Jonsas didn’t even make this up.

Better Jonsas than me have talked about this but I felt like putting this together. Quick recap: Stark family tree features a Jonnel “One-Eye” Stark married to Sansa Stark. Obviously, we have a Jon and a Sansa so pretty clear connection. The most mind-blowing things to me:

The prologue of ADWD has a skinchanger/warg who dies and at the moment of his death wargs into a wolf, considered to be (rather obvious) foreshadowing to Jon–widely believed to warg into his own wolf at the moment of his death, which is also in ADWD. The wolf’s name that the guy wargs into in the prologue? One Eye. 

I know there are some j/d shippers that try to argue that Jonnel One-Eye Stark married to Sansa Stark is actually j/d foreshadowing because they’re uncle/niece. I find it incredibly strange though, they often don’t even acknowledge it would, at the very least, have jonsa as a red herring. Instead, we’re delusional for even considering a connection to Jon and Sansa, which is just, like I said, weird. The uncle/niece is also a little more interesting than such interpretation allows: Jonnel One-Eye Stark was his wife Sansa’s half-uncle. Because Jonnel was a half sibling to Sansa’s dad: which is just what our Jon and Sansa think they are. The amount of shared DNA between a half-uncle/niece? The same as first cousins, which is just what our Jon and Sansa are in truth. So Jonnel One-Eye Stark/Sansa Stark marriage also invokes both half siblings and cousins–making the connection stronger.

Additionally there is the fact that Waymar–widely acknowledged by fandom to be meaningfully connected with Jon–comes back as a wight with only one working eye. To connect this with Sansa even more: she fell in love with Waymar! And if you think GRRM wouldn’t have such straightforward foreshadowing in family lineages, there is (in the Frey line) a Rhaegar Frey with a son named Jonnos.

If j/d or j/a shippers had a Jonnel Stark married to a Daeny or Arya, they would claim their ship is already canon. Yet Jonsas are delusional for thinking this means anything at all.

All of which is a long way to say: I am fucking done, George. I need answers!

I love Jonnel-Sansa hint. But I also want to point out sth else. 

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OMG, I remember Orell attacking Jon with the eagle and almost taking out an eye, but I forgot it was immediately followed by a Sansa chapter where Willas is mentioned to fly eagles!! Thank you for pointing this out, @ladyofasoiaf! Also makes me think of Harry Hardyng being called the Young Falcon. Falcons and eagles are very similar as both are birds of prey/raptors. This really goes deeper than even I thought!

Why does the entire rest of the internet think tumblr is “dying” or “dead” when I have seen absolutely no drop in activity level on here ever

Would you rather twitter and reddit people move back here? I think it’s good people think we’re dead

( despite the massive drop in activity since *the incident*, my timeline has been way more sane since then too )

don’t tell anyone we’re still here. we like that everyone thinks we’re dead.

“I can’t believe Tumblr is dead.”

*in the distance* “Yes, keep telling people we’re dead!”

“Sometimes I can still hear their voice.”

*in the distance* “No you can’t, we’re dead!”

Why Jon Snow Deserves Better

I’ve been knockin some thoughts around the ole noggin and I think I can finally explain the root of what bothers me about Jon going beyond the Wall with Tormund and gang for no real reason…it’s just a totally (and oxymoronic) incomplete conclusion to his Hero’s Journey…and here’s why Jon Snow deserves better.

Jon’s been coping his whole life with the fact that he was born a bastard, that he will in actuality hold no influence (because of his birth), that he additionally deserves no place of influence or belonging (because he feels unworthy), and his future is destined for obscurity.

His ascension through the Night’s Watch should represent a counter argument to all of his assumptions. He really is of noble birth. He is clearly leadership material. He is chosen for power because people believe in him. His fame grows even if his own opinion of himself does not.

Jon is unknowingly becoming the exact opposite of how he sees himself. So you might think “well then isn’t it poetic that he ends up where he thought all along?” to which I’d say that symmetry does not always mean satisfying or, more importantly, fitting of a Hero’s Journey.

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But seriously

Those couple of seasons when Jon Snow was Jim Halpert.

“K, bye.”

“Well this is insane.”

“This isn’t normal, right?”

“Hey, future wife.”

“You are everything.”

“Where will we go?”

Seriously.

LOOK AT THEM.

Finally, Sansa getting in on her own Jim Halpert imitation.

Season 7 was literally straight from The Office: Dany *talks out of her ass* - Jon *looks helplessly around into the camera* 

All right but why do you think GRRM made Jon and Sansa specifically the ones that look more like Ned and Cat?

Asking for a friend.

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as someone who has been having signs of a heart attack recently, i’m really glad i found this post

Do you ever just step back from the clusterfuck that was GOT S8 and realize the endgame was Jon Snow slaying a dragon for Sansa Stark, the girl who was reviled by fandom for 20 years for her love of the songs, and just laugh and laugh and laugh…

Like whatever that shit was, these are the facts and they are hilarious.

Saint George R.R. Martin and the Dragon AU

Alayne is more Sansa than Sansa ever allowed herself to be…that’s a great point actually, and comes across quite clearly in Alayne I of Winds.

She’s been forced into this role, this performance, by Petyr, ostensibly for her own protection, yet we see her actually take control of that identity to explore a side of herself she’s never been allowed to really express. She takes back power from puppet master Petyr by interacting with Harry more on her owns terms, using a whip-smart wit that for so long people have underestimated, but also, she’s never really had the freedom from censure to use. Being a bastard gives her that freedom, because she’s already not a “perfect lady” just by circumstance of birth. She can’t strive for legitimacy, for perfection, so she doesn’t need to maintain it. So, in as much as being Alayne Stone is trapping for her, on the other hand, it is also freeing. Being a bastard, being “bastard brave”, allows her to be forthright, sharp and unapologetic in a way that Sansa Stark had been trained from birth she could never be. So I absolutely agree with the above, and I love that scene with Harry. She absolutely DRAGS him and with such finesse! We love to see it. 💜

It’s interesting Harry is a kind of “Robert-esque” figure, e.g. he is in the Eire, handsome, and proud of his bastards. Sansa is the Stark maiden that he is supposed to marry but guess what? She doesn’t want him, no matter how much of a good match he appears to be, as what if she eventually falls in love with the “wrong” guy, a Targaryen perhaps?

on the third day, jesus was coming out of his cave and he was doing just fine

judas: it was only a kiss, how did it end up like this

r/asoiaf: Tywin is a super genius and amazingly complex character and if you hate him you just are too dumb to understand his evolved sense of thinking he should be king he has never done anything wrong he has only ever done what he thinks is right-

also r/asoiaf: if you agree with anything Catelyn has ever done, you are a supporter of child abuse.

“A brothel?” Ned said. “The Lord of the Eyrie and Hand of the King visited a brothel with Stannis Baratheon?” 

Bonus:

I’m dying to know what he is thinking right at that moment. GRRM please give us that POV!!

Seriously thank you to the maker of these gifs! I love being able to see close up the way his eyes go wide on the last one bottom-right.

He looks like he’s realizing something, no? WHATEVER COULD IT BE?

you can pin point the second he was panicking because the Realization™ was too real

#lmaoooo#jon @ jon: wtf bro#jonsa#is it crack or is it canon? 

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This post is the gift that keeps on giving.

Those, “Oh, $#!+” moments can really sneak up on a person.

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