the little bird's hound

pfp and header by @azuloliveart. || theme by @pouthongwon || INTP. || sansancel || unsufferable bookworm || horror, fantasy and classical novels. || my teacher used to call me "the lonely sparrow". || my least problematic ship is among two pirates that enjoy fight each other more than against their enemies - if you cant deal with it block me.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

Sometime i watch at blogs hating on Sansa and how they poorly analize her and i just scroll into George Raymond Richard Martin himself's interviews and remind that he call her a gentle romantic soul that suffered like he did, that wished for love like he did, that lost part of her naivety but never her heart full of hope when she saw like, he did, that the world was not like books and that is smart enough to be able to learn from LittleFinger and that he find sincerely irrational to hate her or Catelyn.

That is. It is all i need.

[starweaverblog]

The fact alone that Nolan casted a Greek to speak Greek but to be perceived as "barbarian language" by Odysseus and his crew, who spoke in perfect English, that needed a translator to understand him, is next level of disrespect never seen before in Hollywood towards Greeks and it needs to be discussed more

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

"a pensar bene si fa bene, a pensar male si fa meglio" we say in Italy. which roughly translate into "too think about the most positive outcome is GOOD but to imagine the worst one is BETTER". Greeks still nowday suffers from Nazist propaganda actively try to claim that ancient greeks were actually germans's ancestors, blonde and blue eyered, and now Nolan went so far to create a movie where the barbarians - that mean the one who stutters when talk in greek - are the only one talking in greek is diabolical. they could use proto germanic or old english like Beowulf, but no, THEY WANTED GREEK TO BE THE BARBARIC LANGUAGE.

[unusual-suspects]

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[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

DO YOU ALL HAVE FERRAGOSTO?

Apparently Ferragosto is such a deeply Italian holiday that it has no translation in English or Spanish (the two most spoken languages in the West*), which refer to the day as "day of the assumption" or "El Día de la Asunción o La Asunción de la Virgen". In the rest of the Western world*, August 15 seems to be associated exclusively with the mother of God and her ascension to heaven where his son/father reigns.

In Italy the religious festival accompanies a much more ancient celebration from which day actually takes its name: Ferragosto = Feriae Augusti aka the festivities (feriae) of August (Augusti)**. At this time of year, Emperor Augustus, the FIRST emperor of Rome, instituted celebrations dedicated to the harvest. The holiday is still one of the most heartfelt in Italy where the population gathers for bonfires where food is shared in open spaces. This allows us to understand how even in Italy, the beating heart of the Roman Empire, most of the population was formed by peasants who celebrated mostly nature and its rules.

* in vast majority of case the west does not share the same celebrations/holidays with the east.

** August, first emperor of Rome, gave his name to the 8th month of the year not because of his birth (he was born in September) but because of his military victories.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

I dunno if you watch HOTD but I feel like book sansa would be OBSESSED with gwayne hightower

I only watched the first season, I need to watch the others rapidly because its there that I can really see show!Gwayne but yeah..he seems to be tall, beautiful, dutifull, from the Reach like Loras which mean a gallant and refined education, and a true knight.

On chart he has everything that book 1-2 Sansa wants in a partner.

[studiofiftyfours]

[yolixpan]

The Hound is a horse girl, we know he will kill for Stranger

[xshimaax77]

The way rhealya shippers try to lowkey drag elia is actually wild. they project all these moral flaws onto her just to give rhaegar an out, like bringing up oberyn to claim she was just like him bc they’re siblings? such an idiotic reach. but try using that same logic to say lyanna was more like brandon than ned (who was literally raised by a southern lord anyway) and they’d lose it. god forbid anyone mentions lyanna had that "wolf blood" just like brandon. the hypocrisy is insane.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

I fail to see how this could be perceived as questionable since Ned himself said it but yeah..Lyanna is more similar to Brandon than to Ned and this does not mean she was as aggressive and as violent as him but she definitely had the same drive and stubbornness and fighting spirit. Brandon and Lyanna are the type to attack someone that hurt their friends while Ned would try to resolve everything diplomatically. Elia was loved more by Oberyn but probably was more similar to Dorian in the same way Ned loved deeply Lyanna but she was more like Brandon.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

God knows how much I hate mafia movies / shows / manga / books / everything alike - as a southern italian I NEVER watched the Godfather and NEVER will - but i would love to read a a03 fiction or a manga that talk about two ITALIAN mlm men in the mafia WITHOUT IGNORING THE HOMOPHOBIA.

Something that actively talks about how cruel and violent and discriminatorial that world and its ferociously exaltation of manhood is.

[bowling-for-weasel-soup]

Bruh Sansa Stark would have called Elia Martell a slur and intimate she didn’t make with the babies good enough to not be discarded like trash. Like she’d for real think all the strange unladylike trappings of her Dornish upbringing(the ability to inherit property???????) made her entirely unsuitable to be queen like bffr

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

I am not here to make anyone change ideas nor to deny that Sansa IS one of the most mischaracterized character, and so are her bonds with other characters, but bruh there is absolutely NOTHING in those books that support the idea that Sansa would perceive Elia negatively.

Let's say Elia would actually match the orientalistic negative stereotype of "the typical hypersexual woman" as Ellaria Sand does :

As they were crossing the yard, Prince Oberyn of Dorne fell in beside them, his black-haired paramour on his arm. Sansa glanced at the woman curiously. She was baseborn and unwed, and had borne two bastard daughters for the prince, but she did not fear to look even the queen in the eye. Shae had told her that this Ellaria worshiped some Lysene love goddess. "She was almost a whore when he found her, m'lady," her maid confided, "and now she's near a princess." Sansa had never been this close to the Dornishwoman before. She is not truly beautiful, she thought, but something about her draws the eye. "I once had the great good fortune to see the Citadel's copy of Lives of Four Kings," Prince Oberyn was telling her lord husband. (A Storm of Swords - Sansa IV)

Sansa not only did not even think anything negative about Ellaria or Oberyn or their etnich/cultural background while being with them, but she even shows admiration for Ellaria Sand.

Ellaria was presented to her as a baseborn woman who raised her power by acting in a way that was considered EXTREMELY scandalous for any decent (not good just decent) Westerosi woman, yet all Sansa cant comment on it - is that Ellaria attract all her attention for be so fierce to look at the queen herself into her eyes. Shae actively whispered disgraceful words about Ellaria into Sansa's ears, that Ellaria is a whore from Dorne that praise Gods that were actively looked down on by Weserosi and that conquered her power by open her legs, and yet all Sansa could think of - is that she was attracted/mesmerized by Ellaria's power, charme and security. Ellaria is not just a woman from Dorne but the exact negative stereotype Westerosi had on Dorne and Sansa was attracted by her.

Sure, you can say that Ellaria is still not a noble lady even if she had almost the same power of a princess being prince Oberyn's favorite , yet MYRANDA ROYCE IS A LADY and Sansa is fully aware of her sexual past and position and Sansa still couldn't care less.

The Gates of the Moon was much larger than the Eyrie, and livelier as well. Lord Nestor Royce seemed gruff and stern, but his daughter Myranda kept his castle for him, and everyone said how frolicsome she was.  (A Storm of Swords - Sansa VII)

"As you say, my lady." Alayne remembered Petyr's warning. "Randa. Come now, you can say it. Ran. Da." "Randa." "Much better. I fear I must apologize to you. You will think me a dreadful slut, I know, but I bedded that pretty boy Marillion." (A Feast for Crows - Alayne II)

she does not seems to judge Myranda based on her sexual life:

For just a little while, as she ran, she forget who she was, and where, and found herself remembering bright cold days at Winterfell, when she would race through Winterfell with her friend Jeyne Poole, with Arya running after them trying to keep up. By the time they arrived at the gatehouse, both of them were red-faced and panting. Myranda had lost her cloak somewhere along the way.  (The Winds of Winter - Alayne I)

Also : where ever Sansa said or thought that a woman couldn't inherit property? Her entire Vale's arc is born due to LittleFinger's belive that she is the only Stark alive and therefore the one that will inherit it. Sansa not only does not say to him that is impossible but resent her claim because she constantly get used for it.

It is not me she wants her son to marry, it is my claim.  (A Storm of Swords - Sansa VI)

Myranda and Ellaria are way more openly sexual and they do challeng the norm way more than woman that would be described in this term by Barristan Selmy would never :

"Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit." (A Dance with Dragons - Daenerys IV)

so why should Sansa use slur against Elia or call her a slut for her Dornish upbringing when she saw Ellaria being 100 times nearer to that stereotype and did not? why should Sansa think bad of a woamn that inherit when she herself was used and abused for the possibility of inherit ?

[houndove]

"I wish the Hound were here." ( ASOS Sansa I )

"She wondered what had become of Sandor Clegane." ( ASOS Sansa VI )

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[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

Does not matter how physically distant they are from each other they will always think of each other as her knight and his lady creating fantasies in their minds of lovely moments that never happened.

"You think that makes me some monster. Well, maybe it does, but I saved your sister's life too. The day the mob pulled her off her horse, I cut through them and brought her back to the castle, else she would have gotten what Lollys Stokeworth got. And she sang for me. You didn't know that, did you? Your sister sang me a sweet little song." (A Storm of Swords - Arya IX)

As the boy's lips touched her own she found herself thinking of another kiss. She could still remember how it felt, when his cruel mouth pressed down on her own. He had come to Sansa in the darkness as green fire filled the sky. He took a song and a kiss, and left me nothing but a bloody cloak. (A Feast for Crows - Alayne II)

I took the bloody song, she never gave it. (A Storm of Swords - Arya XIII)

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

I find very interesting how, every time this fandom want to criticize a feminine woman and make her look evil, they will recreating Cersei.

I swear Cersei is so cruel that sometimes she sound as a dark caricature of the evil stepmother queen yet people will always push all her personality traits on every single feminine woman that they dislike.

"Daenerys will be the evil queen that destroy everything" no honey, THAT IS CERSEI.

"Catelyn is a terrible person with a distorted idea of motherhood" no honey, THAT IS CERSEI.

"Sansa wanted to be queen because she obsessed with power" no honey, THAT IS CERSEI.

"Rhaenyra is just Cersei" no honey, she is not the evil stepmother caricature in that story.

ONLY CERSEI IS CERSEI.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

Enough of ship discourse, will you participate in Sansa Week?

I want to and i already wrote a post that i will share. What about you?

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

This is what i mean when i say that Jonsa's behavior is one of the biggest reasons for which people genuinely dislike or even hate Jonsa.

I can be accused to say that Jon loves Arya more than he loves Sansa, and i stand by it because its canonically true, but i never once said that Jon hates Sansa, because its canonically no true.

I can be accused to say that Jon would never love feminine ladies and that to them he will always prefer warrior like ladies as Arya, as his father Rhaegar prefered the wild she-wolf Lyanna to sweet delicate Elia, but i never said that he would kill her to save Arya.

I can be accused to be cringe by the same fandom supporting the idea that Sansa saying to herself that none will love her in the chapter before Jon's chapter is a foreshadow, I WILL TOOK IT AS A BADGE OF HONOR, but I cant be accused to not love and support Sansa while i fight here and everywhere else for her.

Why lie on me just because i dislike your crackship? THIS IS EXACTLY WHY JONRYA AND JONERYS FANS HATE ON SANSA : Jonsa lying (and bully).

[houndove]

some people have an aversion to the canon text, alright. but in what world are people so attached to fanon that they feel threatened by their "rival" ship (there really is no rivalry, we both know where the text is going) and it's shippers enough to invent silly lies like these? i bet you've never read a single meta that the user you're criticizing has posted.

you're the reason these said "antis" are thriving. jonsas have terrorized the fandom for such a long time that jonsa became synonymous with sansa, and the hate for the ship extended to the character. your stans are constantly self inserting into her, ignoring her plot points and stealing symbols and motifs from other characters because you don't understand sansa! you can't keep daenerys and arya out of your mouths, either. you can't stop fantasizing about jon being her knight in shining armour - and then you cry that their stans hate you?

and now you started saying that sansans were actually the problem all along? why, because we mind our business?

if you can't handle the fact that jon loves arya more, and will always prefer a warrioress over a lady, you're an idiot. he misses her in a way he never will sansa. i can't even remember if he mentions her! you can ship fanon all you like, but don't come and try to twist the canon in your favor. you can't even be called sansa lovers, all you speak about is jon jon jon and arya arya arya. shut your mouths for once!

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

Anon does not need to read my many sansan meta nor even :my jonsa one" to invent lie as "she is obsessed with Jonsa", anon just need to hate the fact that i say why Jonsa make no sense. The funniest thing is that if you write anti jonsa on my blog you will find almost exclusively anon asking me to talk about it. I would never talk about that slop that rely on steal from Jonrya or Jonerys or SanSan (unkiss, the cloak, the Ashford theory, Sansa dreaming of a daughter as Arya IN THE SAME EXACT BOOK where Arya is said to look like Sandor's kid, Sansa imagining a kiss with Sandor seconds after saying that a Tyrell would never love her, Sansa's favorite story being Florian's one that she tied to Sandor while they pretend that is Aemon and Naerys that is meant to look like Daenerys, and so on.) if they did not come to me first. DAMN SOME OF THEM STOLE THE NAME SNOWSTORM AND MADE "SUNSNOW".

They said me everything : retarded, kill yourself, your mom should've aborted you, you deserve to be abused, you are disgusting but i am that is not sane and the unhinged one.

They will call themselves Sansa lovers and than wish for her Rhaegar's rightful son after he died for Lyanna returned to birth while admit that Sansa would be Elia. They will call themselves Sansa lovers and then make theories about Sansa marry Jon for political reasons, as she was forced to do with Tyrion and now is probably forced to do with Harrold and she hates it. They do not want for Sansa to gain her own agency and chose her lover, they want her to be with Jon does not matter what. They will call themselves Sansa lovers and then pretend to not see that Sansa canonically think about Jon 3 times - 2 of which BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED HIM - and Jon barely things of her and in a way colder way than Arya do (Arya wanted to cry because she missed Sansa even in stupid details as Sansa hating beer and loving songs).

But hey, God forbit that you just say that Sansa will prefer to stay with the man she fear will hate her while the entire kingdom call her a regicide..and she does not care. The half-brother that barely care that she was forced to marry into the family that killed their father apparently would care for her way more than the man that betrayed the king for her and that almost killed everyone when they said him she was forced to marry Tyrion.

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

This is what i mean when i say that Jonsa's behavior is one of the biggest reasons for which people genuinely dislike or even hate Jonsa.

I can be accused to say that Jon loves Arya more than he loves Sansa, and i stand by it because its canonically true, but i never once said that Jon hates Sansa, because its canonically no true.

I can be accused to say that Jon would never love feminine ladies and that to them he will always prefer warrior like ladies as Arya, as his father Rhaegar prefered the wild she-wolf Lyanna to sweet delicate Elia, but i never said that he would kill her to save Arya.

I can be accused to be cringe by the same fandom supporting the idea that Sansa saying to herself that none will love her in the chapter before Jon's chapter is a foreshadow, I WILL TOOK IT AS A BADGE OF HONOR, but I cant be accused to not love and support Sansa while i fight here and everywhere else for her.

Why lie on me just because i dislike your crackship? THIS IS EXACTLY WHY JONRYA AND JONERYS FANS HATE ON SANSA : Jonsa lying (and bully).

[ghostinwinterfell]

need this quote injected into my veins.

[halidki]

Sansa Stark doodle

[nyxqueen97]

Note to self : make a compilation of vanishing women in relation to Sansa’s disappearance

[thelittlebirdandthemeandog]

Anytime i think about Sansa disappering i can not avoid to think about Larra Rogare.

1.Two ladies from a distant lands (North and Lys) who arrive at court with their fathers because they are betrothed to the heirs.

2.Both beautiful and presented as the prettiest one among sibilings.

3.Both were punished for their brother's actions.

4.Both are extremely unhappy in King's Landing and run away from it at the first very occasion they had.

5.Both are accused of being witches who change their appearance into animals (Larra in a cat and Sansa in a wolf with bat wings) after run away from King's Landing.

6.Both have a very tall, very strong, partly disfigured, obsessed with songs and with a terrible past man that is eager to protect them.