#sansa tag

[kingsmoot]

no we skipped over this a little too quickly what do you mean "her knife"? her knife that sansa keeps on her bedside table?? knife???

[xilonette]

modern(-ish) university au board featuring yours truly & my girl sansa !

@hedone26 thank you for taking interest !

[snowberriesromanoff]

Have an ASOIAF/GOT ficlet for your morning

Sansa Stark who marries Joffrey in the Sept the morning after her father's execution.

(Arya watches from the crowd and crosses Joffrey off the list as soon as she sees her sister's expression - the boy king is dead already and doesn't know it.)

Sansa Stark with veiled sadness in her eyes and bone deep weariness in her step and fire in her breath.

(Dany arrives at King's Landing with her dragons to find the city has a dragon of its own and the people wait with bated breath to see if she will repeat her ancestor's great feat and kneel - the queen presents Sansa with her husband's head and the widowed queen greets the new one with a bridal kiss.)

Sansa Stark who plays chess with Cersei for influence over the boy king and knows in the end they'll both lose.

(Cersei is shipped off to the septas and if Sansa mourns the dowager queen she never says, the banishment was her own idea but it still leaves her alone.)

Sansa Stark who gains a peace of her own making and a wife of her choosing but loses all she's ever loved.

(If Arya lives she does not know, perhaps it is easier that way; Margaery she buries deep in her heart with her father and brothers; her mother's shade is a whisper in the night, nothing more, all shall fade.)

Sansa Stark who stands in the ruins of Winterfell and promises the rebuilding of spring.

(Dany kisses her in the godswood that evening. Sansa kisses her back. Their spring will come, she vows it so.)

Sansa Stark who is equal parts grief and steel, who plays at politics and ruling, who loses and lives and loves all the more for it.

Sansa Stark.

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[irenthel]

When the pubby dog is just wittle

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

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[pridevigilance]

"Yes. I am very glad to join your family, My Lord." >.>

it’s talking to me. <.< / @wolfqueennamedstark

      The little Stark would exchange courtesies with the Lord of Lannister, the now acting Hand of the King. Foolish girl. Eyes shifting from the shifting heads among the crowds of the court, to each and every babbling and baa’ing sheep that shuffled about. Chortling in the masses, just like a proper flock with the watchful eye of the Lion, standing guard while his Grandson allowed himself to be swallowed by them by the hand of Lady Margaery.

     He never fancied court, 

     A watchful eyes turned away from her, dismissing aswas ordering a leave. But not before uttering a single sentence.         “You do well to remember that gratitude.“

[thedragoninthesnow]

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Okay, but this song... there are so many ladies in Jon’s life that it can fit? Like just...

Broken, Broken She will never be the same Broken, Broken She will never be the same

and just

I can’t seem to tell her that ‘m scared of loosin when it is too late to turn back

[kingsmoot]

not to do prettycourse, but i understand that brienne is supposed to be ugly, but i don’t understand grrm’s intentions with arya? i’m using anon bc i don’t want ppl to feel like i care about arya’s appearance just that i don’t understand 😭 sorry if this bothers u

you're good it doesn't bother me 🫰

arya is a 10 year old little girl who has "the stark look" while all four of her trueborn siblings take after the tullys. this serves to make her the odd one out among the children in a way that connects her to/brings her closer to jon, her favorite brother who she strongly resembles, and to her father.

the tullys are not objectively or consistently more attractive than the starks. the only tullys we hear about being valued as beautiful are actually cat and lysa, who i would argue are noted to be (or in lysa's case to have been) beautiful not because they have a genetically solid foundation for beauty but because they are women and part of their expected social role is making themselves beautiful. and they perform this social role successfully.

arya, unlike her older sister sansa, is not interested in investing her time and effort in performing idealized feminity. sansa, in addition to being a pretty little girl, is also adept at performing femininity. she sews and embroiders, she is well educated on westerosi histroy and on contemporary social politics. she takes care to make herself beautiful (something that i will point out here is noted very frequently as she is trying to get joff not to order the kingsguard to beat her, and something that sandor, also a brutalized child, encourages her to do).

neither sansa nor arya are great beauties because they are both little girls. but the way they present themselves and perform the genders assigned to them changes how they are perceived by the nobles they are surrounded with.

"Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft . . . the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper.

"And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. She had Ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collect dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. I think she must be dead too." When she said that, it felt as though a giant hand were squeezing her chest. "I want them all dead, Brienne. Theon Greyjoy first, then Jaime Lannister and Cersei and the Imp, every one, every one. But my girls . . . my girls will . . ."

acok, chapter 55, catelyn vii

in terms of their actual physical appearances, yes, sansa is prettier than arya. but arya passing as a little boy as she travels through the riverlands and then the free cities says less, imo, about her inate androgyny and more about the perceptions of those around her.

from the very beginning, arya's story is one that focuses on seeing and perceiving, and on being seen and perceived.

The septa examined the fabric. "Arya, Arya, Arya," she said. "This will not do. This will not do at all."

Everyone was looking at her. It was too much. Sansa was too well bred to smile at her sister's disgrace, but Jeyne was smirking on her behalf. Even Princess Myrcella looked sorry for her. Arya felt tears filling her eyes. She pushed herself out of her chair and bolted for the door.

Septa Mordane called after her. "Arya, come back here! Don't you take another step! Your lady mother will hear of this. In front of our royal princess too! You'll shame us all!"

agot, chapter 8, arya i

I hate riding," Sansa said fervently. "All it does is get you soiled and dusty and sore."

Arya shrugged. "Hold still," she snapped at Nymeria, "I'm not hurting you." Then to Sansa she said, "When we were crossing the Neck, I counted thirty-six flowers I never saw before, and Mycah showed me a lizard-lion."

agot, chapter 15, sansa i

when arya is escaping kl after ned's execution, yoren tells her that everyone is looking for a highborn girl, not a dirty little boy, so that is what she'll be

gendry knows arry is a girl but doesn't tell anyone he knows because he looks at and sees him

when roose bolton looks at a plainly dressed, underfed, scrappy little girl at harrenhal, he does not see lady arya stark who so greatly resembles her father, aunt, and cousin/bastard half-brother because he isn't looking at her. she is a lowborn girlchild. he would no sooner meaningfully observe a rock in his horse's shoe

sandor clegane, with his notorious stature, visibly and notoriously disfigured face, and well bred, beautiful, prohibitably expensive horse, is not recognized outside of the twins despite the national manhunt for him because why would a knight/lannister bannerman be sitting in a cart full of turnips wearings dirty clothes with a scrawny little boy?

meanwhile, sansa's journey is about the same problem of perception, but her solution is the opposite. rather than atuning her perception of the world to be as accurate as possible, sansa protects herself by turning away, hiding her true feelings, and shielding herself from reality

i actually have a tag dedicated to this parallel between all the starklings and how they deal with the reality of their situations and what kind of perspective/perception strategy saves them:

starks and seeing

Posts on kingsmoot tagged as starks and seeing

all of this to say that arya's inability to fit into her social role as a noblewoman is based more on who she is than what she looks like. i don't think arya is ugly, i think she's a gnc child. i also don't think arya is secretly beautiful, just gnc. i think that's a purposeful misreading of the text and a weird petty "sansa sucks, actually!! arya qolab!!!" kind of attitude which i don't like.

i think arya is a plain looking gender nonconforming little girl, and i think other characters' perceptions of her are not a measure of her physical beauty but rather an indication of those other characters' preconceived notions, social roles, and powers of observation and empathy

i suggest reading these two excellent posts by my friend @branwinged

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