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my favourites

𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓦𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

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Three ATLA characters I wanted to try

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The Fire Lord.

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By a spring-fed pool by Irulana 

This new addition to our Legendary Crossovers is possibly the first artwork about the Florian and Jonquil legend, and is based on a passage in A Storm of Swords describing when Ser Florian the Fool first encounters young Jonquil bathing in Maidenpool, currently our only information about its purported origins.

Sansa scripts significant parts of the events in her life after this favourite story of hers in the first books, most famously the Ser Dontos scheme, whom she calls her Florian that will help her escape, unaware of who the real Florian figure in her life is, to whom she’ll later make the offer to sing this same song, again not knowing what he’s insinuating in reality. Both incidents illustrate GRRM’s use of dramatic irony through twisting the knightly archetype contained in the song: her “Florian” won’t engage a giant for her like the legendary knight-jester did for his lady, but will instead drop her in the lap of a metaphorical ���giant” for gold. Meanwhile, the man she doesn’t yet consciously associate with Florian is the one that takes risks to aid her—and might continue to do so in the future—all the while making fun of all those songs and knights she loves. The song also works subconsciously on him, for after rejecting it and pounding tirelessly on the hypocritical and unrealistic nature of the knightly ideals, he adopts this song as his, one that he’d been promised and wants to hear from her. We may not know the entire contents of the story, but we do possess interesting clues from which to draw conclusions; and to ascertain that it’s no coincidence at all that the song appears most frequently in the arcs of the true non-knights and no true knights, those characters who struggle with the ideals and realities of knighthood: Sandor and Sansa, Brienne and Jaime, and Duncan the Tall.

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A Prayer for the Hound by PhuThieu1989

Deftly interpreting my ideas for this diptych-style illustration, PhuThieu presents the contrasting yet complementary situations of Sansa and Sandor as the Battle of the Blackwater begins.  On one corner, we have the uneasy peacefulness of the sept in the Red Keep, where Sansa beseechs the Mother for those she cares about, with one meaningful inclusion:

He is no true knight but he saved me all the same, she told the Mother. Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.

A while after her heartfelt prayer, the first three ships of the Baratheon fleet touch land outside the city, bearing the names of Prayer, Piety and Devotion. Which one does Sandor charge headlong into? The Onion Knight tells us:

Davos recognized the dog’s-head helm of the Hound. A white cloak streamed from his shoulders as he rode his horse up the plank onto the deck of Prayer, hacking down anyone who blundered within reach.

A Prayer for the Hound, therefore, is both peace and war: the prayer on his behalf, and the Prayer on which he has to do battle.

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The Red Keep Years: Sansa by Irakli Nadar

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

Property of our art blog here at The Stranger’s Kiss, this is a commissioned portrait of Sansa Stark, representing the time in her life she spent as a hostage in the Red Keep, eventually emerging with a resiliency of spirit that marks her strength of character and continued evolution.

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The Stranger’s Kiss by Indiron

“… I promise you, she will be singing to the Stranger, begging for his kiss.”

When Cersei utters these words, she intends them as an ominous threat. She is far from imagining the symbolical context and meaning that a song and a kiss hold for Sansa is a radically different one, which we hope this piece bearing our art project’s name has conveyed.

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Jon Snow and Daenerys by FoxyAnt

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Another Gorgeous Fan Art I came across whilst lurking on Freefolk….

This is Beautiful 😍😍😍

Edit: By Asha47110 Devianart

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SanSan AU by CourtneyTrowbridge

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A little SanSan sexytimes ‘cause why not.

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An illustration I drew for inle-hain’s steamy Game of Thrones fanfic, “Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hound”.  

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by holofernes

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i spent a million years on this because i love him a lot...........🥺🥺🥺

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My favorite chapter in Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hound is the Maiden, Mother, Crone chapter where Sansa has a brief, hallucinatory vision of her married life with Sandor as symbolized by the feminine aspects of the Seven Face God.

This is the Mother vision, illustrated by Evelmiina. See Maiden (x), Crone (x)