#Sansa stark

[lovel-iya]

That's so Sansa Stark coded

[irlplasticlamb]

it’s obvious, i’m your number one. (asoiaf beach episode part 2)

prints + merch + commission info pinned to my profile :)

[faeporcelain]

Sansa

My wonderful best friend is polish and has introduced me to peasants (2023) and I wanted to draw someone from house Stark with clothing inspired by polish culture :))

[cynicalclassicist]

Ned is still a good father.

"and your daughter's life, my lord? how precious is that?"

a chill pierced ned's heart. "my daughter..."

quick sketch happy Father’s Day

[sansastark-queenofthenorth]

This might be an unpopular opinion but when I'm reading got fic and I find out the author doesn't like sansa it's an automatic dnf 🫣

[cringekind]

miss Sansa sooooo much in a way that rereading or rewatching won't fix. I miss having new Sansa stuff. life was easier when I hadn't finished the books and there was always more Sansa stuff for me to read. like ultimately I will just keep cycling through that horrible TV show and reread the books but I miss her !!!!!!!!!

[stormborns]

SANSA STARK & THEON GREYJOY 6.01, The Red Woman

[giovannadeltoro]

cersei at the great sept of baelor

it came to her suddenly that she had stood in this very spot before, on the day lord eddard stark had lost his head. that was not supposed to happen. joff was supposed to spare his life and send him to the wall. [...] the memories seemed so distant. joffrey was dead, and all stark’s sons as well. even her father had perished. and here she stood on the steps of the great sept again, only this time it was her the mob was staring at, not eddard stark.

commissions / ig

[knightingale]

"It doesn't make logistical sense to include Sansa in the plot to kill Joffrey ☝️🤓." It wasn't meant to be logistical; it was meant to tie Sansa to the regicide so Littlefinger would have an easier time manipulating her later. Turns out it's really easy to isolate your victim and keep her solely reliant on you if you tell her that you're her only friend and everyone else in the world will betray her to the queen who wants to torture and kill her. An abuser using abuser tactics? Shocking.

Gee, I wonder why the villain of Sansa's story told her to be wary of Myranda Royce... Is it because she's from a house with friendly and familial connections to House Stark and may want to help Sansa? No, it must be because she's secretly a bad guy and this definitely isn't all a way to make it harder for Cat Sansa to leave him again /s

How are asoiaf YouTubers so daft?

[rozseusz]

actually, I'm changing the sketch, they looked too much like dolls and now I'm more confident in my skill to make it look good

[ceciliakinnie]

sansa stark ౨ৎ ⋆｡˚

[m00na333]

there are theories i hate, but "lady stoneheart crowns Jon Snow/resurrects him as a way to redeem herself" is definitely one of them. Not because I think that she's correct in her treatment of him, but because it's a fundamental misunderstanding of LSH and it robs two other characters of the conclusion of their arcs.

First of all, LSH is not Catelyn Stark. She's a personification of the cycle of violence, revenge and the way it dehumanises people. The once kind, courteous and wise lady is willing to forgo guest right to hang Brienne. The woman who advocated for Tyrion to have a trial for his crimes goes straight to executing her. The woman who tried desperately to stop Rickard Karstark from killing the Lannister squires tries to kill Podrick Payne. LSH is a corrupted, denigrated vindicative mimicry of Catelyn Stark, bent on vindication. I don't think that the political intricacies of her son's claim are important to her.

Also, LSH frees Jaime Lannister and starts the chain of events that will lead to the Red Wedding because of her daughters, because of Arya and Sansa. As her death and resurrection is tied to her daughters, so will her rest. Arya pulls her corpse from the river, Sansa is trapped with a man who is obsessed with her and repeatedly impugns her honour. Arya will give the gift of mercy to Mother Merciless, and Sansa will defend her mother's honour, telling Littlefinger the truth of that fateful night. Through her daughters, and her love for them, Catelyn Stark is doomed. Through her daughters, and their love for her, she will be laid to rest.

Also, Catelyn Stark doesn't think about Jon snow very much, and almost never with personal enmity, apart from literally the worst day of her life. Cold, distrusting, distant, yes; but not enough so that this is the one thing that's polluting her memory.

I love Jon, don't get me wrong, but why is Catelyn Stark's lack of relationship with him more important than her very real and consequential relationship with her daughters?

On Jon Snow, I think that the suggestion that he needs, or desires, the acceptance and approval of someone who was distant and judgemental his entire life is misguided. Jon Snow's entire journey has been coming to terms with his bastardry. With Ygritte, at the wall, as Lord Commander, when Stannis offers to remove it from him. It is a weight, yes, but he has gotten stronger. Resurrected Jon Snow will be more wolfish, less concerned with honour.

Moreover, if you subscribe to the theory that R + L = J, and the weirwood wedding theory, isn't it much more satisfying for Jon to find out his destiny, than to be accepted for his bastardry?

Not even that, I would hate the implication that one of the most well-written characters, who is so driven and complex and principled, needs to be "forgiven" for existing. imho, Catelyn crowning Jon sort of retroactively justifies it .

TL;DR, this theory strips two characters of their rightful storylines, simplifies and denigrates two others

[polysucks]

sansa wip

[jonsastark]

[sansastark-queenofthenorth]

My girl looks so good 😍

Sansa Stark in tully colors commission!

[bstag]

Rape and female social status in Westeros

Something that I always found strange and straight up bad writing on GRRM's part was the constant threat of sexual assault noble and royal women find themselves in.

Princess Elia Martell was raped and murdered, a lady of House Bracken was assaulted when Lannister forces sacked Stone Hedge (which I always found disturbing not only for being unnecessary from a narrative perspective but also because George famously dislikes the Brackens, making me question what his intentions were), Queen Cersei cynically tells Sansa during Stannis' siege of the capital that if Stannis' prevails, all the noblewomen present (Sansa included) would be raped by Stannis' men. Cersei's comments betray the fact that in Westeros, in seems to be expected that aristocratic women of any rank are gonna be brutalized like peasant women.

And I have to wonder: how is that seen as normal during westerosi civil conflicts? In real life (yes I know Westeros in fictional) noblewomen captured during civil wars were not abused in any way and were simply ransomed back to their families. This makes sense from a monetary perspective but also a political one. If noblewomen were treated the same way peasant women were during this conflicts, that would make for a very dysfunctional aristocracy. Noble house A, that had their men abuse the women of House B during a sacking could be interacting with House B at court weeks later. How it's that a sensible and successful way of having the nobility relate and interact with one another? It's not. And the same it's true with Westeros, you just have to think about the whole Lannister-Martell conflict.

It also makes no sense from a social hierarchy perspective. How can such a socially rigid society like Westeros normalice the prospect of soldiers and lowly knights getting their hands on women of high birth? It sets a bad precedent for the whole elitist social order. This women's social status seizes to exist when they find themselves on the wrong side of the war?

This, from a worldbuilding lens, it's absurd. And I think betrays not only a very childish perspective on GRRM's view of the Middle Ages but also a perverse fixation on GRRM's part in regards to rape (and don't get me started on his barely disguised fetish for child-brides).