no featherbed for me

Forest Love&Forest Lass Arya x Gendry Sansa x Sandor Brienne x Jaime House Stark🐺

[cerslaylanniserve]

catelyn and her daughter sansa

(my favourite girls 😢)

[unrealunearths]

top 5 reasons sandor clegane deserves better

He wasn’t born the Hound. He was made the Hound. He was a dreamer as a child, an innocent, who trusted his family and that trust and innocence was repaid with by terrible crimes.

Sandor was a small child, 6 or 7, when he was playing with his brother’s wooden knight and his brother (who was too old for such toys, nearly a man grown) punished him by pushing him into the fire. I think there are two very important parts to that statement: First, that Sandor was betrayed by his only brother, a “man” he looked up to, a man who was soon to be a knight. Second, he was playing with a toy knight at the time. He was looking up to a knight, likely imagining himself an anointed knight someday, when he was scarred by a knight. That’s so tragic to me.

Not only was he personally–literally–scarred by his childhood, he lost most of his family, ending up with only Gregor in the end, even when we meet him. His father, who took Gregor’s side when Sandor was burned, was killed in a “hunting accident,” likely by Gregor. We assume his mother died when he was young, and he had a younger sister who died when she was young. His childhood was not one of innocence for long.

He does not want to be the Hound. He hates King’s Landing and he hates feeling like a monster, but he became a monster when he felt he had no other choice of survival and lacked an identity. His childhood was stunted by trauma and he never fully matured in my opinion and is finding himself just as many younger adults would be. But he cannot escape this identity he has made when he sees his brother or a Lannister or looks in the mirror. He is treated like a dog, so he acts like one at times. He is temperamental and vicious and sad and frustrated. He is lost at times and turns to alcohol and his made-up identity to hide his true feelings.

I believe he is good at heart. He does not always show it and even tries to hide it, but he had many more opportunities to be horrible and he chose to be good. He protected Sansa in King’s Landing and Arya in their travels. He has some things mixed up in his head and lacks affection and a good upbringing, but if he chooses to be good, he could be. I think his story is all about who you were made and choosing to let yourself be what everyone thinks you are (even yourself) or rising above it. I think in the end he will rise above it.

**Disclaimer: The reasons above do not excuse his horrible behavior and even if he chooses to be Sandor in the end and leave the Hound behind, he will have to live with his past choices.**

[randomgirlyoudontknow]

love is stored in the fictional couple i’ve gotten overly invested in

[dailysansastark]

Stark men don't fare well in the South.

[gendrie]

— Salma Deera, “salt”  

[wolvensfear-deactivated20190405]

Day 74: Doghouse. Pfffff…. I’m sorry if there’s too much stupid in this dump but… I really like drawing people as animals… ._. probably has to do with my lifetime enjoyment of Disney. So yeah… Sansa’s wolf happened to be named Lady and then… it worked so well! At least Arya is a wolf like she’s always wanted to be :V

PS. I don’t actually ship anything… I just thought it would be fun to draw. (I’m not against it either though! :D)

[chippedcupwrites]

thwarted by the power of 🥺

[knightingale]

The "Sansa reminds Sandor of his sister" motive that some people try to hitch to his character really just flies in the face of his actual attachments to her, doesn't it? Sansa reminds Sandor of himself. He sees the little boy who used to love knights in this girl who's been swept up by the same romanticism. He sees his abuser in her abusers, the much larger knight(s) beating on the helpless child. He sees how she is betrayed by every level of authority that should have saved her and remembers his father's neglect and Tywin and Robert's apathy for Gregor's crimes. He's protective of Sansa because he was Sansa.

And GRRM's design, that one of the strongest warriors in the series, a fearsome and cynical 6'8" guy who's "muscled like a bull" and has the face of death itself, sees himself in this soft and effeminate teen girl, and empathizes with her because he was an abuse victim too, is INFINITELY more compelling than "Oh yeah I bet she just reminds him of his sister," who he's never mentioned and who we know literally nothing about. Way to unnecessarily water down a character, you couldn't have ignored the black and white text more efficiently if you tried.

[barbararbra]

If sansa wasn't meant to marry Sandor then why does "Sansa Clegane" roll off the tounge so well? 🤭

[yenvengerberg]

MATT SMITH on Daemon Targaryen

[mistchievous]

AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN! 🔪

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Generally, regardless of fandom, do you prefer

Modern AUs

Canon verse fics

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2024

Obviously you might have varying opinions for specific fandoms but generally if you think across many of them which do you prefer?

[aryaisms]

Gendrya and Romantic Tropes

[mideias]

“I forgot, you’ve been hiding under a rock. 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.” … "The Hound poured a cup of wine for Arya and another for himself, and drank it down while staring at the hearthfire. “The little bird flew away, did she? Well, bloody good for her. She shit on the Imp’s head and flew off.” (Arya XIII, ASOS)

this is funny. sandor hears that tyrion and sansa murdered the actual king together at his own wedding and that sansa then peaced out and left her husband to die and sandor's response to all this is "good for her" lol. we know that things didn't happen as described here but i just love that sandor is a supporter of sansa's rights and wrongs.

[ofsansa]

a storm of swords; a feast for crows

[lordeddardstark]

live every day like the winds of winter has a release date

[paulnewoman]

happy 10th anniversary to this post

[jeyneofpoole]

asoiaf dash simulator

🥀 fool4you

ohhhhhh my goddd……. florian and the fools concert in kl opened with jonquil fucking flashing the audience?????? ohhhhmmfnf my gofifhddd??????? cannot believe she’s straight truly a tragedy for the ladies loving ladies community

🫀weirdwoodd

imagine believing in the doctrine of exceptionalism….. no hope for this realm i fear

🐉 fyre-and-blood

hey guys op actually worships the old gods so i would just go ahead and block them before they overtake your mind with hideous blood magicks. stay safe out there!!!!!

🌊 salt3dwif3

bro you can always tell when someone paid the gold price for their baubles 😭 this greenlander does NOT reave or raid like come onnnn where did you get that finely crafted dirk because it sure as hell wasn’t the cooling corpse of your enemy lmao

🎇 rhaegars-cervix

if i see any of you making fun of the tragedy at summerhall on the anniversary i will block you immediately. people lost their lives it’s not fucking funny.

⚡️dondarriugh

ok tumblaeyr user rhaegars-cervix

❄️ thelastofthegiants

thinking about Her (brave danny flint)

🐁 rat-cook-rave

me when i’m literally wandering the nightfort’s shadowy halls

🍂 barwench

if you’ve ever apprenticed for a trade or eaten a high lords castoffs you have no place in the serf rebellion how many times do we have to say it. uplift actual smallfolk voices how hard is that to grasp

🪱 leeching-loving

didn’t you grow up within sight of a holdfast 💀

❤️‍🔥 rhollorslight

cannot believe the sheer amount of heathenry on this site…. WAKE UP!!!!!

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☀️ martellmesweetlies

you’re on the wrong side of the narrow sea lmao

💫 mothers-tears

hey i know you mean well but it’s really important not to engage with r’hollor cultists, they thrive off of engagement and all you’re doing is giving them exposure. just block and move on