#show!sansa

[ai-manre]

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Jon Snow had bent the knee to Queen Daenerys. Sansa did not like that.

They have a long conversation.

[Show!Sansa has a lot of (invalid) criticisms of Dany. Show!Jon is incapable of responding but Book!Jon can.]

[alicentflorent]

it’s been two years since game of thrones ended and show!sansa is still living in the antis heads rent free I have to laugh

[blueeyedstark]

1x01 // 8x01

[radiofluor]

show!sansa's turn

[vol-au-vending-machine]

If Jonsa wasn’t happening before, it definitely can’t happen now. 

Sansa swore an oath to Jon that she wouldn’t tell anyone, then told Tyrion, what, five minutes? Half a day? Less than one episode later. She knows it will only cause trouble, she must know. She knows Jon doesn’t want the Iron Throne, anymore than he wanted to be King In the North. If she loved him she’d respect his choices and not push him into power. Also, sowing division and making Jon a rival claimant to Dany risks his life if it devolves into a dance with dragons style civil war, risking his life for a throne he doesn’t want anyway.  

Couldn’t keep her word- to Jon- when he begged her and Arya (who didn’t blab)to swear. She lied to him, not just in the neglecting-to-tell-the-truth way she did in Season 6 but actively betrayed him. 

Why should he trust her ever again? Why would honourable-to-a-fault Jon Snow fall in love with a literal oathbreaker?

[ladytp]

So show!Sansa knows how reluctantlyJon became the King in the North, and how much he wanted to leave it all behind and go for a long beach holiday... and she decided to go against his explicitly expressed wishes anyway. What kind of a ‘family’ unity and love for the family does that represent?

And she did that to play her game, to get independent North if Jon becomes the king. But who says that would happen - would Jon grant it or would he look into the best interest of the whole realm (as the poor boy is want to do - trying to do the right thing by all)? And if so, would she expect to be the Queen?

Littlefinger taught her well alright.

I would have preferred her staying a little bird...

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

So, I hear show!Sansa has been getting some hate again.

Look, I won’t say I was 100% pleased with how Sansa was treated on the show last night- I won’t say I 100% loved the episode. But I was never hoping for her to fight- even in extremis, Sansa is not a stick them with the pointy end kind of person.

Maybe I was hoping we’d get some singing in the crypts, a nice parallel with the Battle of the Blackwater. Maybe I was hoping to see her giving her people some hope.

But I don’t hate what happened with Sansa last night. She was scared- terrified even, and that’s far more relatable to me than the courage of the characters fighting on the front lines. The whole point of Sansa is she’s the sort of character who never gets a voice in fantasy- the daughter, the wife, the princess in the tower. She’s not a fighter.

She is a survivor though- more than anything, in the books and on the show, she survives things that I truly believe would kill or break other characters. And we were shown her survival, and in her own way, she protected Tyrion too, even just from himself. 

If you only like Sansa when she is throwing around snarky one liners, if you think she should have fought, then I don’t think you know the character at all. And I’d suggest your misogyny is showing.

[vol-au-vending-machine]

Show!Sansa: I'm a slow learner

Book!Sansa: um speak for yourself