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[rubenniall]

boy i speak of did in fact come to my birthday

[pinkinthenightdean]

i think the general [negative] reactions people have had after seeing turning red only goes to show that people really just dont understand 13 year old girls! particularly 13 year old girls of colour!!

[brightflights]

[him-e]

my mistake, i read something of yours where you said you think brienne is going to be sansa's queensguard and jaime will be the lc of the night's watch and they'd be separated by faith or something. maybe you've changed your mind.

another question: do you agree that brienne is sansa with a sword?

No worries, I remember that speculation. Just another galaxy brain take I had in between one shitpost and another ;)

The thing is, while I do hope for a jb HEA, and I have no doubt their story is an explicit romance that WILL be consumed (if only with a kiss as shorthand for sex, à la classic Disney tale, but who knows! nah, they gonna fuck)... while I firmly believe that, I'm not convinced we will be rewarded with a full romantic hea, and there's a strong possibility they'll end up separated BUT (best case scenario) still both alive, with the possibility of seeing each other again in the future, post endgame. Hence my speculation.

Re: Brienne being "Sansa with a sword", well, thousands and thousands of words have been written in that sense. I think the comparison has many merits, and there's definitely a strong similarity between Sansa and Brienne's idealism, their longing for true romantic love, and their faith in knighthood and chivalric ideals. But Brienne is older than Sansa and has seen and experienced firsthand some shit from within the chivalric world, while Sansa has been most of the time a victim of it; Brienne's never been sheltered the way Sansa was in Winterfell, she's been familiar with the pain of rejection, humiliation and not fitting in since she was born. There's an entire layer of Brienne trying to put her big muscular body to good use by becoming a knight that is completely lost on Sansa, and just giving Sansa a sword and a love for fighting would not make her a Brienne. Sansa herself is not the perfect paradigm of sweetness, innocence and feminine virtue that people invoke when they make oversimplifications like this. Of course, they're two characters who are apparently on opposite ends of the femininity spectrum but whose actual personality is much more nuanced and unexpectedly pulling towards the grey areas of the center of the spectrum, and yes, the conflict between idealism and (forced) cynicism / learning to cope with the harsh reality is a big deal in both arcs.

[harringtonlovebot]

COPPED

[cravensvvorth]

Game of Thrones → The North Remembers

[snowstcrm]

The “leaks” that have been popping up about the rest of the season have given me such intense anxiety I seriously can’t focus on anything else. I’ve made peace with the fact that the ending might be horrendous, but the most terrible part is that I have to wait 3 more weeks to finally get the truth and accept it.