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The Motif of Monsters as seen in Arya Stark’s Most Important Potential Allies

But what is a monster? Sansa had no choice but to explain about heroes and monsters. So you are either one or the other? M'lord must have played monsters and maidens when he was little. Were you the maiden fair growing up? Or were you, as a child, made out to be a monster? You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. They say that we become the names we are called. Are you saying you are monsters? I am saying we are human.

Further consideration on the nature of monsters in textual analysis: 

Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors by David D. Gilmore

Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.

Monsters, by Tasey A. Rosolowski from Southwest Review Vol. 84

People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world.

The Monsters and the Humans, a chapter from The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture by Dina Khapaeva

And I think accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one.

Classic Readings on Monster Theory: Demonstrare, Volume One as edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel

A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

Narrative Performance in the Contemporary Monster Story by Daniel Punday from The Modern Language Review Vol. 97

But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.

Don’t worry, I didn’t do all this just for an ASOIAF edit. My focus in a Pop Culture class is on monsters and my preliminary research inspired the edit!

[acropclis]

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Update | Ch5

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

Author: Acropclis (May)

Chapter: 5. Vision (Arya IV)

Word Count: 3k

Synopsis: arya doesn't try baking just yet, but instead, she has an interesting conversation with the Queen!

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[hewantshisbrideback]

Oh, you don't want Jon and Daenerys together? Lol, you really are as deranged and pathetic as Arya herself, congrats. Unfortunately for your illiterate, blind, stupid, toxic, weak ass, that's exactly what's been happening and will continue to happen in the books; but please keep denying the obvious and thinking Jonarya is endgame, while everyone with half a brain is laughing at your utter, humiliating delusions. Thankfully, your self-inserting fanfics and cringey gifsets won't be canon : - )

Lmao ur not even trying, dany stans just arent this stupid rip