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Stark Sisters Appreciation Week: Day 1 - Childhood at Winterfell
For just a little while, as she ran, she forget who she was, and where, and found herself remembering bright cold days at Winterfell, when she would race through Winterfell with her friend Jeyne Poole, with Arya running after them trying to keep up.
”She missed Septa Mordane, and even more Jeyne Poole, her truest friend.- - - Sansa did not know what had happened to Jeyne, who had disappeared from her rooms afterward, never to be mentioned again. She tried not to think of them too often, yet sometimes the memories came unbidden, and then it was hard to hold back the tears.”
For the night is dark and full of terrors :3
I don’t watch this show but can Braid Girl win the big knife chair
when ur done with game of thrones but u wanna keep an eye on sansa
Sansa Stark goes up to the counter and orders an iced peppermint mocha. Everyone in the Starbucks waits impatiently for her to move out of the way so customers may order more interesting drinks.
There is light in my lady’s house And there’s none but some falling rain This like a spoken word She is more than her thousand names
Northern Heiress
“Love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear”.
Art © Janaina / Sansa Stark (ASoIaF) © George RR Martin
inktober 17: Stark family :3 eh…I just started with reading second book:3
Sansa is essentially replacing Jeyne, who went through much worse. I think D&D handled it as best as they could.
I think you’re missing the point. No one needed to replace Jeyne, certainly not a character played by an actress only 18 at the time of filming.
D&D have cut and changed so many things- from Arianne and Lady Stoneheart to Young Griff and Jon Connington- but they made a deliberate choice to purposely include this subplot that wasn’t necessary.
I remember talking about how Arya’s time in Harrenhal was lightened so much in the show because in the books she suffered considerably more abuse. She was beaten very regularly and worked to the point of crawling to bed and bleeding hands. But then I realized recently, it may be because Maisie wasn’t old enough to have sexualized abuse at the time.
Yes, a character named Jeyne Poole had a similar arc in the books, but she was cut. Instead of cutting her disturbing plot, D&D went out of there way to have it with a barely legal actress and in so doing added more unnecessary sexual violence. And “so much worse”, okay, are we really comparing sexual assault and abuse stories now? Sansa was raped and that’s not okay just because it could be “so much worse”. One person’s considerable trauma does not negate another’s.
Sansa has a plot in the books. D&D took that from her so they could use her for this. This was a deliberate choice to value this plot, one of sexual violence and abuse, over a ton of other options Sansa as a character had. Moreover, a ton of other options D&D had for screentime.
Where’s Bran? Where’s Arianne? Where’s the Brotherhood Without Banners and Lady Stoneheart? Where’s the Greyjoy brothers? Where’s Young Griff, Duck, JonCon, and Septa Lemore? Hell, where’s Barristan Selmy?
It’s not that D&D came up with the idea of Ramsay torturing and raping on their own (though I would argue we’ve already seen plenty of his sadism already and more was gratuitous,) it’s that they valued this storyline over all the others. They went out of their way to include it and destroyed Sansa’s arc in the process. Meaning they chose this storyline over her old one and all the others they cut.
So, no, I don’t agree that D&D did the best they could. I think they did their best to include more sexualized violence.
Because really, what did this add? Why was it necessary to include over all the other plots? Sansa already had reason to hate the Boltons and Ramsay. Theon did, too. The audience didn’t need to be told Ramsay was a sadist and terrible, they already knew that. Sansa had already been abused and tormented before. How did this move the plot along?
Why was this so necessary that D&D bent over backwards to include it?
They even admitted they’ve been planning this since season 2. They didn’t just include it, they made sure it was included over everything else and seemed eager for it.
G, V, Y, Z! :3
Why hello there, what a surprise :’D
G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in itOh, Bert and Ernie, of course, I thought they were married or something. You know, nothing changes.
V - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandomsCommunity - Jeff/ShirleyDisney - Lumiere/CogsworthAdventure Time - Marceline/Bubblegum
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Hannibal! I really wanna get into all of these! Particularly the first two.
X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEMLorne (Angel), Sansa and Brienne (ASoIaF) (actually pretty much any female character in ASoIaF, they all get their share of undeserved, irrational hate piled on them, buuuut these two are my most precious girls), Dean Pelton (Community), Armin (Attack on Titan), Bowser (Super Mario) (Everybody. Shut up. Listen. No. Shhh. Quiet. Everybody. Bowser is the best.), Remus (Harry Potter), Steve and Peggy (MCU), Woody (Toy Story), that’s 10 so I’d better stop there hahaha.
Edit: Aaaand it has been brought to my attention that I answered X instead of Z. God damn it. I will fix this lmao.
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go (prompts optional but encouraged)Boo, you didn’t give me a prompt. Um. Well I get really passionate about how legit fanfiction is and how authors etc. should not really be able to stop fans from writing it. Like, this is not a legal issue, nothing is being taken from you, something is being given to you, this is the world responding to something you gave to it. This is how it should be, how it has always been, people want to take part in a thing that they love. It doesn’t steal anything from the original work, it doesn’t change it. It’s sometimes an expression of love for the original text, sometimes a way of filling in gaps that the canon didn’t and never will, sometimes it’s something else, but it’s a conversation. And it started hundreds and thousands of years ago. People who don’t respect fanfiction need to GTFO because it is more, so much more, than practice for “real writing” or drivel scribbled down by people who will never be good enough to get published, it’s a whole world and every shade exists there. Fanfiction can make things happen that we’ll never get to see if we leave it up to the money-makers and it shows how important media is to fans. I’ll leave it there, I just care about fanfiction a lot god damn it. Yes, even crack, even pwp, all of it, it all has something to say.
D, N, P, R, U :)
Heyyyy buddyyyyyy :D I covered N and R in shini’s ask: unikirin.tumblr.com/post/115782632606/a-c-o-r-n-3
D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t (again: be nice)Ummm you probably saw this coming since we’ve discussed it recently haha but Red/Croach. I have nothing against it, I just don’t really feel it, but it would be nice if I did because some fandom friends are all over it and some folks make super cute art and stuff. Ah well!
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)Sparks Nevada AU where instead of saving Croach’s tribe from a flood, he accidentally drops a little flood on them, and is placed under EXTREME ONUS. To alleviate his onus has to help repair their village and do menial jobs for everyone, and Croach is assigned to watch over him and make sure he does what he’s supposed to.
U - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandomsUmmm picking favourites is SO HARD so some of these are not my only top favourite (but some of them are). Watch as none of this comes even a little bit as a surprise to youASoIaF - SansaCommunity - Dean PeltonDisney - UrsulaMCU - Steve RogersBuffyverse - Lorne
