jamie | enxp | house targaryen | patron saintly protector of all fictional red-heads | tolkien trash | local fandom grandma
As per yesterday’s postings on strange fandom wishes for Sansa’s endgame, sometimes I equally don’t understand people wanting her to be this cold, aloof ice queen ruling alone. I think the show has probably contributed to that imagery, because it doesn’t really exist in the books . Again there’s that strong woman = emotionally severed from most other human beings BS that keeps popping up. There is an underlying good intention of wanting her safe that should be acknowledged, but sometimes it’s at the expense of ignoring her characterization.
If anything she was closer to being cold and aloof at the start of AGOT. Courtesy and politeness are not equal substitutes for warmth and kindness. Then by TWOW sample, we see she’s evolved to being self-assured and magnetic. She’s no longer constrained by strict adherence to class boundaries and proper behavior. She throws her arms around Lothor Brune in an impulsive hug for his support. Younger Sansa would never hug a servant like that. She runs like a free spirit with Myranda Royce not caring what anyone thinks. This is not a woman shrinking back from the world, but someone who has seen much and still finding reasons to embrace other people. Even difficult people. She’s exceedingly patient with SR, talks him through his fears, and gives him just enough firmness that he starts behaving better. She’s a natural nurturer and a good parent who has envisioned children in her future.
And she still wants someone to love her for herself. She’s only evolved to a point in the later books of being able to discern who wants her and who wants her claim. The only reason she is entertaining this idea of marrying Harry is because it’s the hand she’s been dealt and she must decide if she is willing to play that hand if she wants to go home. But there’s no rose colored glasses here. She’s looking at him with a very critical eye. There wouldn’t be a sense of settling here if she didn’t still hope that someone would like her as a person and equally important that she likes him too. Wanting real love is not stupid or naive, only the way she pursued it and thought about it was. Her standards have actually gotten much higher and tougher to pass muster.
I feel sometimes as Sansa is a character that is screaming who she is and very few actually listen. She’s grown even more loving, passionate, and intimately connected to others. She’s become even more nurturing and maternal. She’s more authentic, engaging, and kind. She’s someone that draws strength from her connections to others. I don’t understand how it would somehow be better for her that she winds up alone, childless, and immersing herself in a purely political life. Just why? Why would that be a kindness to wish for her when she’s repeatedly wished for the opposite? It could not be more clear how important love and family is to her. Not just her siblings and parents, but a family of her own someday. Is love and family somehow incompatible with being a good leader? Is love and family not compatible with overcoming her past trauma? I absolutely despise all the implications of the lone ice queen and I see no evidence that this is what George intends. The Sansa we’re seeing is stronger than a lone ice queen. She’s seen how some of the most evil people in Westeros operate, experienced abuse and exploitation, and has every reason to never trust another soul again. She still doesn’t retreat from people or life, she runs toward them and is willing to put herself out there again to find what’s real and good. Her dreams are still mostly the same, just re-calibrated and balanced with experience. Alone and aloof would be a absolute tragedy for her character, worse than dying. It would really be the real death of her character.
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i like how when people say “i love couples with size difference” they mean tiny girls with waists so thin the large men they are dating can put their entire hand around them and by love i mean where the FUCK are my tiny vain princes and their huge muscular knight women who don’t put up with any of their shit and hoist them over their shoulders and walk off when they’re having a princely temper tantrum your all WEAK
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Sansa x Margaery Harry Potter AU - Sansa Stark is the brightest witch of her age, but spends her life engrossed in books, an unusual trait in a Gryffindor. Studying late one night in the library, Sansa meets the dark and tempting Margaery Tyrell, a Ravenclaw student two years above her. The older girl is flirtatious: offering a wink as she turns down a corridor, a lingering caress of Sansa’s shoulders as she passes through the Great Hall to sit with her friends, or a longing smile from across the library. Instantly, shy and withdrawn Sansa becomes enamoured of her. Margaery remains fairly aloof… Until Sansa has had enough and confronts her in the Great Hall after dinner, drawing the attention of every Hogwarts student and professor.
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Final Act: Full Comic
READ LEFT TO RIGHT!
Description: I’ve had this theory about Marco’s death for a while, and then I saw the lovely/beyond depressing comic by the amazing Mackenzie, and thought, “holy freakin’ shit.” So I had to draw my own version.
Here’s the entire thing in one post. :) Yay!
WHY WHY WHY WHYW HY
((THAT WAS MY THEORY TOO OH MY GOSH))
All the Levi cosplayers were cleaning the glass and then this other Levi cosplayer came and started cleaning on the other side. They were really determined to wash the glass
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I was interviewed for this mini-feature in the September 2013 issue of WIRED Magazine. The article by Monica Kim titled “No More Helpless Damsels: One Gamer’s War on Sexism“ is also available online.
Game of Thrones AU | The Night’s Watch as a Sisterhood
I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
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