[cherieelenei]

PSA

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[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle.” - Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

[oooy]

I can’t even imagine what that little boy is going through with his mom being missing, and being all alone with her not coming back to him. He was the only one there with her, and he’s bound to remember this for his entire life, so PLEASE BE SENSITIVE. There’s an actual child involved in this.

[one-of-the-others-strangers]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[d-entelle]

[dailyshaym]

[shittymoviedetails]

give me your feelings about woody allen.

Woody Allen’s cinematography in a tweet

[cherieelenei]

One of the stupidest things I've heard a D/ny stan claim is that if Dany were a lesser person she would have burned Sansa alive because.... she made snarky comments/demanded independence? Like IMAO snarky or not, that doesn't justify horrific murder. Whats more, if Dany HAD killed Sansa that would have been a direct parallel to her dear old daddykins, who murdered Sansa's uncle & grandfather. And its made very clear in the text that this was a horrible, unjustifiable murder. Finally, Dany well & truly proved she was the lesser woman when she massacred a city that surrended.

[cherieelenei]

I stand by what I said about Sansa's endgame in the books but that being said Lady of the Eyrie is a pretty sweet deal. However I don't want it because it would mean Robert dying. Robert is an innocent child who doesn't deserve to die for LF's ambitions. Instead, he deserves to get justice on LF just as much as Sansa does (LF is the reason he's an orphan!)

[cherieelenei]

The parallels between Lysa & Sansa isn't a slight against Sansa (although some of the parallels are questionable, for one thing Sansa clearly does not want a sexual relationship with Petyr, we saw her & Arya reconcile & Sansa does not trust LF) but it isn't foreshadowing her becoming Lady of the Eyrie either. In that case you might as well say the parallels shared between Sansa & Cersei means Sansa will be queen of 6/7 kingdoms. Whenever people like it or not, but I'm willing to bet the show ending hit the major beats & that means Sansa will be Lady/Queen of the North. I'm willing to bet this because a) the idea that D&D favoured Sansa is so funny to me because its very clear to me that for the first three seasons they ignored & reduced Sansa, before George told them that she's actually meant to be important. B) George has outright said he has ignored the outline when he began writing C) Sansa & Tyrion's marriage is going to be set aside, & the point of contention between her & Jon is probably going to Robb's will which they should have kept in the show because it would have made Jon's crowning make more sense D) Speaking of Robb's will, there are so many variables with how it can go. But there is no indication that Robb disinherited Sansa, we only know he legimitised Jon. The wording in these things tends to be important. And even if he did, Jon has the power to put Sansa back in succession & if you think he wouldn't, let me introduce you to "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa" Snow. E) Sansa's southerness shouldn't be used against her. Last time I checked having cross-cultural awareness is a good thing, & Ned himself lived in the Eyrie from the age of eight. Him living in the south didn't stop him ruling competedly in the North. If anything Sansa currently residing in the place where her real father grew up is meant to foreshadow her following in his footsteps (triumphing in the way he doesn't). There are excellent metas that explain why there is a strong justification for Sansa being her father's heir- not Cersei's, not Littlefinger's, not Lysa's.

[mostly-got-deactivated20220808]

Arya stans and Sansa stans are arguing now over which character is most like Lyanna

Am I the only one who doesn’t think being compared to Lyanna is positive? Okay some traits are fine but Ned comparing Arya to Lyanna feels more like a warning than a compliment. Willful isn’t positive. Dead before her time is nothing to aspire to. Why is Lyanna constantly being treated like the bench mark for what the Stark girls should be?

[cherieelenei]

It's obvious that we are meant to draw parallels between Arya & Lyanna (mainly to hint at R + L I would bet) & there are some connections between Sansa & Lyanna that would be unfair to discount, but I agree 100%. Unlike Sansa & Arya, Lyanna isn't a fully developed character in the way they are. We never get to know Lya the way we do Arya & Sansa - & if we do, its through other people's memories of her that happen to be biased.

The reason why there is such contention is two reasons 1) Lyanna is used as a benchmark for judging how Stark-like one sister is compared to another. If one sister is like Lyanna, then she's the ultimate Stark because Lyanna is the only example of what a Stark can be. It's similar to Ned, IMO. 2) Lyanna is very heavily romanticised & remembered fondly, so we never really get a sense of her flaws in the way we do Arya & Sansa. Because of this, its easy for people to project onto her and mould her into this perfect vision (similar to Ashara Dayne) rather than remembering she was also a flawed human being who like you said, died terribly young. So yeah - I don't want Arya or Sansa to be like Lyanna; not if means them dying young, having been taken advantage of by another man & held prisoner. I'm much happier seeing them triumph.

[perksofbeingafanboy]

a real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try

[turtle-paced]

So, assuming that Sansa will probably have some role in taking Littlefinger down, how do you see Petyr's fall going down in later books?

Well, I think Littlefinger’s going to overstep Sansa’s moral boundaries in a way she cannot ignore. Whether that’s Sweetrobin’s murder, learning what he did to Jeyne Poole, putting together what he did to her father, or some combination of the above, I think she comes to the realisation that she has to do something.

I’ve thought for a long time that Sansa will manage to bring Littlefinger to trial for at least some of his crimes, and yes, I think the show drew on the books here. Not sure what crimes in particular she’ll get him for, but she’s an eyewitness to Lysa’s murder (though she’ll have to explain how Littlefinger pressured her to lie about it afterwards, without losing her own credibility), and she heard Lysa’s confession regarding Jon Arryn’s murder. If the dagger Littlefinger’s carrying around is the same knife that he lied about to Catelyn and Ned, with any luck she can pin the start of the War of Five Kings on him.

No strong theories about exactly how she brings this trial about, but I think she manages the case and counters his efforts to dodge guilt with the very skills Littlefinger’s been teaching her, in order to ensure the trial is fair.

She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell.

- Sansa VII, ASoS

I also think that this is only possible after Sansa establishes and re-establishes her support networks in Winterfell.

[megmxrch-deactivated20210211]

Modern day!Sansa would embroider a direwolf on the back of Arya’s fencing team jacket and make well-designed posters for the Stark family to hold while in the crowd of Arya’s fencing competitions. Also Jon and Robb would cheer way too loudly to try and playfully embarrass Arya.

[sayruq]

sansa is both inherently a good person and something she works hard to maintain. she fights her fear to protect and comfort those who have no one who would do so like dontos and the hound. she does it easily it while complimenting a sick lancel. she does it grudgingly while taking care of her sick cousin. that’s the strength of her character, that she has multiple reasons for having empathy and acting on it.

[istaricelebelasse]

Part of the tragedy of A Song of Ice and Fire that the show glossed over is that the characters are all so young.

Like, Ned is 36 years old when he dies, Robert is 37, neither of them are old.

Joffrey is 14 when he dies. 12/13 when he is crowned is still a child. Even if he might have been an evil little shit, he was still a child when he died.

Robb is 16 when he is killed, 15 when he is leading men into battle and winning.

Sansa is 13 when she is married to a man double her age (seriously, Tyrion is 13 years older than her). She’s 13 when dealing with Baelish lusting over her, she is still absolutely a child.

They are all absolutely so young and it just makes the whole story even more heartbreaking (don’t get me started on Arya training as a faceless man at 11, or Bran being 10 and beyond the wall), like they are all just so young

[juliawvicker]

I would just like to state, once again, for the record, that I think this might be the worst idea we’ve ever had. Look, do you wanna help Ms. De Brún or not? Can we not find a way to help her that doesn’t involve abducting a holy statue?