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Sinners (2025) fanart by @crimsoncold

"You know something? Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed reliving that night.

But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life. Was it like that for you?"

"No doubt about it. Last time I'd see my brother. Last time I'd seen the sun.

And just for a few hours, we was free."

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Waking To The Sun (The Dreadful inspired Jonsa Fanart) by @crimsoncold

"May it be your journey on to light the day

When the night is overcome You may rise to find the sun"

Enya, May It Be

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Get Up Joel (The Last of Us Fanart) by @crimsoncold

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Joel Miller (The Last of Us portrait) by @crimsoncold

"You haven't seen the world, so you don't know. You keep going for family. That's about it."

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Joel Miller (The Last of Us portrait) by @crimsoncold

"You haven't seen the world, so you don't know. You keep going for family. That's about it."

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Alicent Hightower (hotd portrait) by @crimsoncold

I? What have I done but what was expected of me? Forever upholding the kingdom, the family, the law. While you flout all to do all as you please. Where is duty? Where is sacrifice?

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Jaime Lannister (asoiaf portrait) by @crimsoncold

There are no men like me. There's only me.

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Sansa Stark (asoiaf portrait) by @crimsoncold

I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard's daughter and Lady Catelyn's, the blood of Winterfell.

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Jon Snow (asoiaf portrait) by @crimsoncold

If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers. He was no true Stark, had never been one … but he could die like one. Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three.

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Jonsa Fairytale AU (True Love's Kiss) by @crimsoncold

If you must mourn, my love Mourn with the moon and the stars up above If you must mourn Don't do it alone

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If you must die, sweetheart Die knowing your life was my life's best part If you must die Remember your life

-Keaton Henson, You

For a while l've been considering doing a Fairytale inspired jonsa AU but was never able to make up my mind in terms of which specific fairytale I wanted to base my art piece around (i could of course just do multiple ones but with already so many WIPs i didn't want to plan to add several more into my art rotation) so unable to make a decision I set the idea aside to work on other more concrete art ideas.

Then of course I saw the prompts for the Jonsa Valentine 2025 event, and it really did seem like the world itself was encouraging me to make a fairytale jonsa art piece.

This time I chose to avoid basing it on one specific fairytale and instead considered more general fairytale tropes that are found across many tales when I was brainstorming ideas on what I would make for this prompt.

In the end I decided to use the trope of True Love's Kiss (i.e. A kiss imbued with it's own sort of magic, able to break a curse, or even bring someone back from literal death) both because I thought it would be visually interesting and because I felt it would incorporate several elements of asoiaf/got canon.

(i.e. both the inherent romanticism of Jon and Sansa's personalities and storylines as well as specific events like Jon's tragic "death" and his later resurrection as well as the likely possibility of Sansa being the girl in grey fleeing north to be reunited with her "brother")

As for the related quote, I had been struggling to pick one as most of my possible choices, while admittedly poignant and romantic, felt very specific to either Jon or to Sansa in this art piece rather than being about the two of them together, so I'm actually really pleased with my final choice (lyrics from Keaton Henson's song You) as it feels like it had segments that represent the differing perspectives/wishes of both Jon and Sansa in this scenario.

I was pushing hard to have this finished in time (with the event being about a month a way when I first started this) and even though it ended up taking me a lot more time than I had hoped, I am happy with my decision to make two versions of this artwork as i feel the most satisfying element and impactful part of this fairytale trope is in the profound transformation it can create, and to do this justice I really felt I needed a before and after version of Sansa's Kiss being what brings Jon back from the dead.

Anyway thats about all the background info I'd like to dump on you about this piece so l'll end this on a thank you; specifically thank you to anyone who found, liked, or shared this piece and/or bothered to read my rambling thoughts about making this, as well as a thank you to everyone in this fandom who arranged and/or participated in this event!

Being part of a small but so dedicated fandom is just the sort of thing that makes me happy when everything else around me starts to feel harsh and distressing. I hope you all have a wonderful day and that everyone feels inspired to keep making and sharing all sorts of art and creative pieces for this fandom- it seems a very small thing in the scope of everything happening in the world and our lives but its still something that brings some much needed joy that I think many (especially myself) greatly value while also forgetting or struggling to actually find a way to adequately express our appreciation... so this is just my attempt to say thank you all for making this little slice of fandom so wonderful!

-Crimson Cold

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Aragorn (lotr sketch) by @crimsoncold

“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword.”

- Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Éowyn (lotr sketch) by @crimsoncold

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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Frodo Baggins (lotr sketch) by @crimsoncold

"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil."

- Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Affliction and Appetite (Nosferatu fanart) by @crimsoncold

"Standing before me, all in black... was... Death. But I was so happy, so very happy. We exchanged vows, we embraced, and when we turned round, everyone was dead. Father... and... everyone. The stench of their bodies was horrible... it overwhelmed the lilacs... and... But I had never been so happy as that moment... as I held hands with Death."

-Robert Eggers, Nosferatu

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Jon Snow (asoiaf sketch) by @crimsoncold

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Jaime Lannister (asoiaf sketch) by @crimsoncold

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Sansa Stark (asoiaf sketch) by @crimsoncold