#House Stark

[kitnjon]

Sansa Stark in GOT S01E08 The Pointy End

[laurellerual]

Hello friend! If you’re still taking requests, maybe Jon Snow playing with Gendrya’s child(ren) or teaching them how to stick them with the pointy end.

Love your art!

He really want his favourite uncle to teach him.

Mother is all for it.

Father is proud.

[dreamfyre-beautiful]

Problems I have with HOTD so far:

• not letting Alicent be actually evil. Y’all already hate her for being a GOOD person, I can’t imagine how y’all would handle an actually evil queen. I wish she killed Viserys and made Aegon heir Herself!

• no perspective of small folk, closest we have is Criston who is still more well off then 90% of king’s landing. In GOT we got small folks perspectives on their rulers a lot and I hope we get that soon.

• taking away Helaena’s autonomy. Making her the cute autistic girl who does no wrong is such a bastardization of her that it’s laughable.

• casting with specifically Laena. Do not get me wrong, the actresses are gorgeous and Amazingly talented, but because they aged her up during Rhae’s wedding it makes her look even older than Rhae even tho they have at least a 3 year age gap.

• “and now they see you as you are” WHAT? They see a woman drop all decorum for her child? She their queen willing to personally handle situations? Like I genuinely do not know what this is suppose to mean.

• bulldozing the Velaryon family. Rhaenys does nothing when both her children die to the hands of the targs, no one does anything when Vaemon dies, even when Rhae tries to make Luke the lord of the tides no one brings up that his fiancee should be the true lord not him.

• the new promo saying “[team black] acts more like a family” maybe my family is weird but we don’t fuck each other or marry each other at all

• only truely giving team black’s dragon’s personality. We know Vhagar’s SLIGHTLY but Dreamfyre and Sunfyre are nothing right now

• no Alicent birth scene. We get multiple traumatizing birth scenes but the woman who was a mother of 3 before 20 doesn’t get one? Ok

Will add more as I think of them

[pixiecactus]

Sansa knew all about the sorts of people Arya liked to talk to: squires and grooms and serving girls, old men and naked children, rough-spoken freeriders of uncertain birth. Arya would make friends with anybody.

so i've seen this quote used in a "see arya is not an outsider" kind of way, and here are my two cents that nobody asked for.

for me arya being an outsider is deeply connected to her self-esteem issues... so in this badly written essay i will (just kidding i couldn't write an essay even for the life of me):

imo this quote is a passive way to show sansa's classism, yeah arya is a friendly little girl, that's true, but i take more this quote as sansa meaning arya's comfortable in making friends with "the lowest of the low". there's a reason why jeyne poole and beth cassel were only sansa's friends and not arya and sansa's friends. growing up in winterfell, arya's mother, her assigned teacher and her older sister and her friends told and showed arya time and time again how she's not an adequate lady and how her behavior as a 9 year old child is completely unacceptable of a lady from a great house. (which is a little hypocrate coming from someone who once was 12 year old "mud pie maker" catelyn tully)

hello "arya's self-esteem issues that people love to ignore", there's a reason why when gendry tells arya she looked pretty and ladylike (i know the phrase used is "a nice oak tree" but guess what my book copy is in spanish and here gendry says "un roble bonito" and bonito is directly translated as "pretty") arya thinks gendry is mocking her, because she believes only her father and jon would say something like that of her while being truthful.

for fucks sake, it gets even worse. arya was anxiously worried about her mother and brother not wanting her back because she had to survive in middle of a war, she had to pass as a boy to avoid sexual violence, which women, girls and even femme presenting people are the primary victim of, she had to kill in situations where it was "kill or be killed", she had to work as a slave, she's dirty and could be simply defined as a mess, completely the contrary of the idea of someone "ladylike" that has been drilled into her head by many people.

arya is loved by her brothers, smallfolk and the people that worked for the starks, but was made an outsider in her own homeplace because she's not good at performing the gender roles expected of her. nobility treats her as an outsider, just because this little girl is gender non conforming. arya is still growing up with low self-esteem with the feeling that nobody would ever want her except for jon. a feeling that was born of failing her obligatory "lady duties" and being bullied and mocked by this fact, by the very own teacher employed by her family and some family members alike. we have arya's own mother constantly comparing the child who excels at her tasks with the child that fails these tasks in an attempt for the child that is failing to improve, which is horrible methoding and only ends up with arya feeling even more inadequate as someone who is a member of a noble house.

even the "arya was clearly ned's favourite" is laughable for me, because even in the part where ned gives back needle to arya, and decides to indulge her with water dancing lessons, he's only doing this with the hope that this is simply a child's interest that arya will grow out of it, and she will finally have the realization that her only place in life is being a "dutyful lady wife" whose sons will be able to be everything she ever wanted to be only because they will be born with a cock between their legs, that's what he tells her. so there we have ned stark passively enforcing gender roles on the child that asked for the possibility of breaking gender norms while she's in a possision of power.

and having both parents telling her in one way of another that her behavior is wrong and not what is expected of her, this only reinforces arya's idea of how inadequate she truly feels, how she will never fit in nobility and how she will have to let go big parts of who she is, to comply with westeros's patriarchal idea of what a noble woman needs to be.

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

I don't know why targ haters/ Rhaegar haters believe that Jon connecting to his biological father is a betrayal to Ned's memory but it's a bad take, imo. It's not a competition.

Jon will always feel closer to Ned than to Rhaegar AND Lyanna bc the former raised him for the first fourteen years of his life while unfortunately he never got to meet his biological parents. But it's not like Lyanna or Rhaegar simply abandoned Jon to Ned's care. The reason they weren't around to raise him up is because they died. Had they lived, they would have been the ones to raise their son.

When Jon finds the truth about his parentage it's very possible that he want to know more about Rhaegar and Lyanna and even want to connect with their legacies. And no, that won't be a betrayal to Ned's memory bc wanting to connect with your biological parents doesn't automatically mean that you love your adoptive one any less.

Jon doesn't have to choose, he is a Stark AND a Targaryen (he's more importantly a Snow but that's a conversation for another post). Connecting with the Targaryen side of his family and even embracing that identity if he wants to doesn't mean that he will have to cut ties with his Stark side of family. Especially since Starks and Targaryens aren't currently at odds and it's extremely unlikely they will be at odds at the end of the series.

[rhaenin-time]

On one hand, I really hate the Disneyfication of the Starks. But on another hand, I equally hate that growing circle that despises the Starks and Targaryens in favour of their heroic and civilized Andal families who are just trying to survive the savage northmen and evil colonizers.

[ihaveastorminme]

Some of the creatures leaving in her clothes had come all the way from flea bottom.It didn't seem right to drown them

Arya is absolutely hilarious.

All the stark kids are hilarious. Bran was howling out of his window one chapter ago. Rickon took a stick in the stomach and decided he had found friends. Joffrey says he'd like to take robb In single combat and Sansa says "I'd love to see that". I bet u would babe, so would i.

I love these kids so much, im girding myself for pain.

[raeglynncarney]

it is so hard wanting a man THIS bad.

[fleurdeliet]

1/6 of my Tumblr 6 fanarts

[kudriaken]

House Stark. New fanart family portrait from ASOIAF. My favorite cute beans.

[mkstrigidae]

Backgrounds? *puts on sunglasses* I don't know her.

My favorite girl Sansa, here to eat lemon cakes and take names.

[brucelinas]

The White Wolf

[arte072]

guy who is "going to be okay"

[pixiecactus]

do you guys think grrm was twirling his hair and grinning to himself when he decided to write gendry meeting the bane of his existence: lord edric dayne of starfall?

i'm rereading arya's asos chapters and it's so funny how arya and gendry meeting a 12 year old blond boy with dark blue eyes that almost appear purple makes gendry jealous in the spot, like a switch that went off, even before realizing said boy is nobility and the lord of starfall.

[sansas-amythest-hairnet]

A quick portrait of an au where Sansa marries Willas and lives in Highgarden.

[winterprince601]

unfortunately for jon snow, the role of "dead girl haunting the narrative" is already occupied by his mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, grandmother and step mother x2 so he's going to have to be forcibly resurrected :/