Ginger D. Snapped

Personally pagan. My fandom journal for art manipulations, fanfic, and occasionally opinions. Mainly Jonsa. Also Dorne. And WOT. And the occasional HP. #IndependentNorth #IndependentDorne. #northern. #hufflepuff. #blueajah #teamgreen (and/or team Laena). #alicent #elia #sansa #laena #housetrakand

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One Shots

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Way Back- A Jonsa time travel fix it fic.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Crossroads- A Jonsa Season 8 fix-it

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Coming Up

One Shot- The Rose of the Company. Sansa gains a powerful ally while still in Kings Landing. This changes the game in ways no one could have ever expected.

Maker of Kings- The world falls to ice and snow. Gendry and Sansa are all that survive from Westeros and they make way to Asshai where they meet the also surviving Yitish Emperor. There is a way back and Gendry and Sansa can make it happen. Before they go, however, a man with no name, the emperor, and a few more survivors of the first winter will teach them skills they need to not only survive, but thrive in the old world. Sansa learns of steel and Gendry learns his courtesies. (Or the fic where I wanted Sansa and Gendry to go around confusing people and killing all their enemies.)

Roar of the Lioness- A Cersei centric alternate history where the old god's intervene in her life and show her who she becomes at such a young age that something can be done. With visions, a caustic attitude, foreknowledge, and a marriage to Ned Stark, Cersei will see House Targaryen not only renewed, but changed with the blood of Sunspear and the blood of Winterfell intermixed. (My Elia survives story with Aegon and Rhaenys, Lyanna dies and Cersei saves Jon, and ultimately Jonsa at the end. The pairing changes in this are massive. Ned/Cersei, Robert/Lysa, Benjen/Catelyn are just a few to name).

The second part of The Way Back- Ongoing, but slow. It's mapped out for the entire plot, but I decided to cut from a trilogy to just a sequel so I am working on combining the Long Night and the Daenerys plot.

The Sun's Eclipse- The cat Balerion had a temper that was reminiscent of the Princess Elia herself when in a temper over something her brother had done. In fact when Sansa finds Balerion in front of her after her father is murdered upon the steps of the Great Sept, she is hesitant to reach out and pet the mangy tom. Still, she does and immediately regrets it when he lashes out. Then that night she begins to dream of memories that are not hers, of a woman singing her to sleep that is not her mother, and finally a feeling of emotions to people she had never met. People she suddenly called brother and niece in her head. (Or the one where in a moment of pure fear and fury, Elia Martell wargs into her daughter's cat and stays there until she scratches Sansa. It's not the life she dreamed of, but she will not see another innocent child fall to evil that is King's Landing).

Notes about AI usage. So, yes, I suppose you could say that I "use" AI. I take bits and pieces of images I pay for the rights to use. I also draw some of what I use. I have used mid journey and original tags for those pieces indicate usage. I stopped a while back for the same reasons many others stopped. My other pieces are painstakingly put together with cash out of my pocket for photo rights and my own personal usage beyond the photo manipulation that has existed LONG before AI because a thing. I then often use FILTERS to change the pieces into cartoons.

Then use the retouch functions for eyes, lips, etc to reach the look I want

I don't make money off anything I do. My personal photography, manipulations, and personal art is for joy and hobby. I am not profiting off anything and honestly am in the negative because when I use stock photos, I PAY for them and the right to non-commercial use.

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So, I draw, paint, and create art edits and art manipulations every day. I also write amongst every day. Most turn out absurd and unfinished. Such as below,

The above is part of my Elia and Sansa centric piece. I've been trying to cast my Tyene. I started with Emma Watson and finished with Anna Taylor Joy, but still not correct.

Sometimes I end up with something like below that has no story behind it or canon backing, but I just wanted to see it.

Or AU's...

There are so many pieces that I have never even thought to post.

Some of my oldest files in one note are concepts for ideas.

I say all this to simply state, you don't have to have a purpose when creating. Sometimes it's just about the moments of pleasure you get in the creativity. You don't owe anyone a date, timeline, reason for why you start and stop.

If you enjoy using a schedule when writing then wonderful! It's part of your process, but let it be for you.

Please don't let yourself become so overwhelmed with demands that you leave us forever.

I needed to hear that not too long ago in another non-fandom situation , so I'm sharing in case someone else does too.

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Repost with more random items from my folder :)

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Post of random three :) where I add some WIP or non attached art to my Tumblr. Because otherwise it just sits in a folder.

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Jonsa Beyond the Wall (A Wildling AU) by @crimsoncold

"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"

[click on last image to see it in high res!!]

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I was inspired by some of the amazing free folk/wildling Jonsa AUs out there to make this sort of "Jonsa Family beyond the wall" piece.

So I thought I'd mention the works/authors by name - can't recommend them enough!!!

Shelter As We Go by @charmtion

A wildling scout finds a fire-haired stranger in the snow — but within each other they find something else entirely.

Wildling Lover [Series] by @vivilove-jonsa

Jon Snow is a Wildling who encounters the beautiful Lady Sansa Stark by chance in a wood one afternoon as a youth and falls in love with her.

Wildling Jon & His Princess [Series] by @vivilove-jonsa

Jon had gone south the treat with the kneelers on Mance's orders but, when he finds himself in a sticky situation, he kidnaps Lady Sansa Stark to make his escape. He's beginning to wonder if that was very wise of him and who is actually the captive here.

The Wolf Queen-Beyond-The-Wall and her Crow Prince by @ginger-danica-snapps

Sansa knows she didn’t always live beyond the wall. Mance and his wife were not her parents, but she was freefolk to her bones, no matter her blood, and it didn’t matter who discovered her. She would save her people from the Night King and never kneel to a Southern King or Queen.

- Crimson Cold

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These are lovely!

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Just some Sansa and random work for a non named I've been messing with.

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A first look at Sophie Turner as Joan

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Been a while since I posted an art manip. As usual done with photos, filters, PicsArt, FaceTune, and Faceapp. Sansa leaning against the heart tree.

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Notes about AI usage. So, yes, I suppose you could say that I "use" AI. I take bits and pieces of images I pay for the rights to use. I also draw some of what I use. I have used mid journey and original tags for those pieces indicate usage. I stopped a while back for the same reasons many others stopped. My other pieces are painstakingly put together with cash out of my pocket for photo rights and my own personal usage beyond the photo manipulation that has existed LONG before AI because a thing. I then often use FILTERS to change the pieces into cartoons. Then use the retouch functions for eyes, lips, etc to reach the look I want. 

I don't make money off anything I do. My personal photography, manipulations, and personal art is for joy and hobby. I am not profiting off anything and honestly am in the negative because when I use stock photos, I PAY for them and the right to non-commercial use.

For example,

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Stay out of the BBQ barbie tag, Ginge. Stay out.

I need something to occasionally sound off with the above.

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have you watched clueless (1995)? cher and josh are sooooo jonsa coded 😭

Yes! I love Jane Austen and watch all the adaptations I can get my hands on. Such a cute movie!

There was a really popular Clueless AU on AO3, Totally Clueless, but that that seems to have been deleted now. @jonstarks shared a lovely gifset (here), there's fanart (here), another gifset here, edit and ficlet, and these posts have links to fics and ficlets (here, here). It's definitely a beloved AU in the Jonsa fandom!

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One of my first ever manips that I shared was clueless : )

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Hot take: I cannot wait for the end of HoTD for the small folk to storm the dragon pit to end nuclear subjugation. What an amazing day for the backbone of Westerosi culture.

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WHEEL OF TIME spoiler beneath the cut.

So, my only gripe in either of the seasons is Sheriam having white hair.

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My sister bitches ALL the time that I don't ever post any of my non-fandom pieces. I'm not sure why. Probably cause I have never shared any medium of art with others unless it was fandom related.

Anyways.

this is "Drowning." I created it mostly during the pandemic when struggling with depression. Polished some odd weeks ago.

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So, while I absolutely adored many of Sansa's costumes, I just didn't vibe with her season one feast dress. While, the North feels more rustic, her dress felt more peasant than eldest daughter of a paramount house. So I attempted to fix it. It's not great, but I was attempting to go with the general look of the costume.

Plus freckles.

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A new troll/stalker has popped up!! feel free to block them because they take screenshots of jonsa post

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why sansa will be queen in the north

the main thing that convinces me sansa will end the story ruling from winterfell (other than her show ending) is the way that possession of her has become equated with possession of winterfell. hence, the reason for the tyrells to attempt to marry her to their heir, the lannisters to force her into marriage with one of their own, and littlefinger to steal her for his own purposes.

it doesn't make sense for anyone other than a stark to control winterfell at the end of the story, and as demonstrated by tywin's plotting, sansa's children can be used by her husband's family to attempt to take control of winterfell. so, ending the story with sansa married into another family just sets up the threat of that family trying to use her or her children to steal winterfell in the future. there would be no resolution of an issue which has been a huge part of her storyline so far.

but, more than the "controlling sansa means controlling winterfell" angle, there is the "controlling winterfell means controlling sansa" angle. sansa's entire story begins with her father, lord of winterfell, essentially trading her to robert in exchange for the king's trust. because of the patriarchal nature of this society, the horrible truth is that whoever is head of the stark family essentially owns the rights to sansa's body and its reproductive abilities.

ned transferred those rights to robert, and upon his and ned's death, the lannisters seized control of them. the tyrells attempted to steal control of sansa, and littlefinger successfully did. once sansa is back in the north and her family in control of winterfell again, the right to determine sansa's future will also return to the head of the stark family.

that means that if anyone other than sansa--jon, bran, rickon, even her sister--ends up ruling winterfell, sansa will never gain control over her own body and future. she will have spent the entire story as someone else's pawn, a vessel for others' goals, only to end the same way. of course we would trust her family members to have her best interest at heart...just like her father did at the beginning of the story, right?

even if they promised to allow her to remain single if she wished, there's no guarantee they wouldn't change their mind and ask her to marry for the good of the family at some point. the head of the family would retain that right, no matter what they promised, meaning sansa is not the one in control of her future. similarly, even if they promised her to right to choose her own husband, it would simply be a transfer of ownership, exactly as we saw occur between ned and robert at the beginning of the story. if her husband pre-deceased her, control of her future would either pass to her son (as we saw with catelyn and robb) or back to the head of the family.

no, sansa simply will not end the story as a political pawn of a family member, nor will she end the story as someone's consort. the only possible way that sansa will be free to control her own marriage and reproductive choices is to become the head of the stark family. furthermore, if she is only lady of winterfell, a vassal to the king in the south, she still does not retain that control. her liege could still force her into a marriage she does not want, not unlike how robert used his power as king to pressure ned into accepting the betrothal between sansa and joffrey.

in other words, the only ending where sansa is freed from the possibility of being used as a pawn for political marriage yet again is the ending where she is queen in her own right.

(nb - for those about to question why i don't make the same argument about äryä needing to become a ruler to gain control over her body and future is that political marriage has played a negligible role in her storyline. the two times someone has tried to marry her off, it has had exactly zero effect on her personally. the frey betrothal ends without her ever even knowing it existed, and the fake marriage to ramsey will also likely end with ramsey's death before she even shows back up in the north. besides, she's got nymeria foreshadowing, aka, foreshadowing of leading a group of people off to new lands. she is also foreshadowed to end as a ruler of sorts. it's no more likely that she will end up under a family member's control than that sansa will.)

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Queen's (or incumbent Queens) of Westeros with their firstborn's. In order of posting,

1. Rhaella and Rhaegar

2. Cersei and Joffrey

3. Alicent and Aegon

4. Aemma and Rhaenyra

5. Elia and Rhaenys