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Where will you go? Where will we go.

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I've finally found someone I want to protect.

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HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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i will never shut up about jon promising to protect sansa in 6x09 and then the parallel of lyanna begging ned to promise to protect jon IN THE NEXT EPISODE. something something “if the day should ever come when your lord father was forced to chose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other what would he do?” and we KNOW ned picked love. ned loved his sister so much he lied to his king and bff to protect jon. ned loved his daughter so much he sacrificed his honor and duty to the realm and lied to protect sansa.

the writers intentionally put sansa at the center of jon and dany’s conflict. sansa’s not in king’s landing during the battle in 8x05 or 8x06 but she still haunts the narrative, her name is brought up by FOUR different characters. jon was ready to die if dany saw him as a threat to the throne. “i'm tired of fighting it’s all i've done since i left home.” and the only way to get through to him and to get him to fight again and to kill dany is to mention sansa and how she’ll never be safe with dany around. “if we don’t take back the north we’ll never be safe i want you to help me but i'll do it myself if i have to.”

and sansa is so used to being alone. she spent months waiting for robb to rescue her from king's landing, and it never happened. robb chose the north, his duty, over her. and she's beaten for the north's independence and then sold to two different families who stole the north from her. and then she finally finds help in theon and brienne and podrick but she doesn't feel completely safe again until she's in jon's arms. but even then she's still ready for more disappointment, to be separated from her family again because “life is not a song” and “there are no heroes.” but jon isn’t robb. “jon isn’t tormund. jon isn’t davos, or the red woman, or stannis for that matter. jon is jon.”

“where will you go? where will we go. i won’t ever let him touch you again. we need to trust each other. until i return the north is yours. touch my sister and i’ll kill you myself. what you did for her is the only reason i’m not killing you. i’m her family too. what about everyone else? what about the other people who think they know what’s good? i’ll protect you, i promise. no one can protect me, no one can protect anyone.” but jon proves her wrong, he can protect her. he will keep her safe. because when his day comes and he has to chose between love and duty, he chooses her. there still are heroes in her story and their story isn't over yet.

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Roman Holiday (1953), directed by William Wyler

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Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl... but I screwed up. I, um, I fell for her.

Katarina "Kat" Stratford & Patrick Verona 10 Things I Hate About You│1999

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Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart in The Shop Around the Corner (1940, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)

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We'll drink a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) — dir. Frank Capra     

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Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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Protect me, Maria. Don't let this siren cast her spell ♫ Don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone ♪ Destroy Esmeralda! And let her taste the fires of hell ♫ Or else let her be mine and mine alone ♪

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise.

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@lotrweek 2024 — day 1: the road goes ever on ↳ frodo's journey

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PSA: people need to watch Pachinko (Apple TV). It’s such a phenomenally made and superbly acted show, using a unique storytelling device and powered by such emotionally loaded content. A historical drama exploring the Korean POV during WW2/Japan occupation, which tv doesn’t usually explore. It’s really slipping past critics and the public unnoticed and I’d hate to see it cancelled for not getting the traction when it needed it, to be able to finish this story 😭

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i hate the idea of sansa ending up as this cold ice queen when through out the books one of her defining characteristics has been kindness. kindness to dontos when joffrey wanted him executed, kindness to the woman with the baby during the riot, kindness to an injured lancel despite cersei's words, kindness through warning margaery of the type of person joffrey is, kindness to sandor clegane and sweetrobin in the vale. sansa even says that once she was queen, she'd wish to rule with kindness when cersei encourages her to rule with fear during the battle of the blackwater. i cant imagine a world where grrm would genuinely go with the idea that only once you refuse kindness and warmth can you rule

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Howl's Moving Castle (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

birthday gift for @shadowsofrose ♡