#this is about ✨sansa’s point of view✨

[atopvisenyashill]

2x06 The Old Gods and the New / 3x01 Valar Dohaeris / 7x03 The Queen’s Justice / 8x01 Winterfell

[reginarubie]

im not one of those fans taking sides for the female characters (bc i like them all lol💕) or rlly have any asoiaf ships i unfortunately didn’t see it earlier but i very much enjoyed your venus meta! tbh parts of it irked me and were reductive (not really a criticism, it’s a short fun piece) as an asian girl who’s passionate mythology and depictions of us but anyways i really found it interesting! xx

Ciao!

I am glad you like them all! I think Martin writes masterfully complex female characters and all of them (major or minor they might be) are some of the strongest, well-rounded and complex characters of the series ✨

Whilst I do have preferences mostly due to my own taste on characters; I appreciate all of them, may they be villain, heroes, anti-heroes or what else; also because I feel like these categories fall short to inscribe one or several characters to them as they are determined women fighting in a world were it was either fight and win or fight and die. So I do try to stay as neutral as I can, taking into account every aspect of what has made them follow a certain path.

For example in my meta about the responsibility of the Stark girls in the whole matter of Nymeria I have considered both Arya and Sansa’s side of the matter as well as Cersei’s (going as far as to point out how, in that kind of environment, a woman, a mother — especially a queen — had every right, with what she knew, of demanding that the men eating wolf who had wounded her son was put down; even tho we dislike it for our own modern sensibilities and because we know the truth of how the matters evolved; x).

Or when I speak about why the Starks are most probably meant to end up on top it’s because they have an advantage neither of the others seem to have had: a good example. They had a Ned Stark (with all the eventual mistakes he made).

Or like when I defend or take into account some choices Daenerys made (whilst I see a dark path ahead) based off the trauma she endured, considering some of her choice-making as a result of coping mechanisms and the lack of a good and efficient example, her youth and the people that advise her (that are not always up to the task).

I am happy you enjoyed my Venus meta (x); it is only one of a longer series (for example I have another meta which considers Sansa and the mythology figures that are linked to her, xx; or how the history of Osiris/Isis/Nephytis/Horus can be paralleled to Jon/Sansa/Arya/Bran, xxx; as well as a meta paralleling Daenerys with Cleopatra, xxxx) still ongoing (as I am writing an Orpheus/Eurydice with Lady Stoneheart and Arya).

As I always say in my pieces (may they be historical or mythological or biblical) it is not my ground of competence (I am a law graduate who is studying to become a judge so completely out of my comfort zone) so, since you are so passionate about mythology thus you clearly know way more than I do, please, if you’d like, point out to me which points you consider reductive, because mostly I like to learn and if possible I’d like to implement your view and develop the metas further, deepening their definition and making them fuller and more complete!

Thank you as always! I wish you a very nice day!

As always sending all my love~G. And hope to hear more from you soon!