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‘Once you’ve gone girl, you can’t come back’

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Why do antis act as if Alayne is a completely different character from Sansa??? Like... that is Sansa, just under a different disguise. It's still her. It's no different than Arya currently with different identities. But the way they talk its as if Sansa suddenly morphed into a different girl and everything about her old identity is now dead and now Sansa Stark doesn't exist.

I really don't know how to describe this but I've seen posts saying things like Sansa is 'too deep' into the Alayne persona and can't go back to her old name. Thats not how this works???

Because it pushes their agenda that Sansa is not a member of House Stark and therefore not important to the story. Sansa forever being Alayne eliminates the threat she poses to Arya becoming the queen in the north and/or Jon, Dany, Arya becoming this ragtag group of ya teenage underdogs who save the world from the Others. It’s the same idea as behind the theory that Sansa is going to die or is no longer a Stark because Lady died.

They also don’t want to see Sansa in a position of power because they still blame her for lying about Arya hitting Joffrey (never mind realising who the real villains here are), and later getting Ned killed by ratting him out to Cersei (which has been debunked time and again). Furthermore, if she is Alayne and not Sansa, then she clearly does not have the Starks’ best interests at heart considering that she Baelish’s protégé and holds similar motivations as him - which actualises her as a villain. And if she’s a villain, then she obviously can’t be the Lady/Queen of Winterfell, or just someone who deserves a happy ending in the least. Are you looking at the mental gymnastics?

As for Sansa being too deep into Alayne, I can only say that she constantly thinks of herself as Sansa during the Alayne chapters. In fact, she thinks like she is Sansa, not Alayne, no matter how hard she tries.

The Freys had broken all laws of hospitality when they’d murdered her lady mother and her brother at the twins…

Alayne I, AFFC

Before this she’s just reminding Baelish who she actually is saying Bronze Yohn will know who she really is as soon as he looks at her. She blurts out Jon Snow’s name and thinks of him fondly. None of which she would do if she were “in too deep” Alayne. Her pre-released TWOW chapter is littered with her still thinking as Sansa.

She felt alive again, for the first since her father… since Lord Eddard Stark had died.

For just a little while, as she ran, she forget who she was, and where, and found herself remembering bright cold days at Winterfell, when she would race through Winterfell with her friend Jeyne Poole, with Arya running after them trying to keep up.

Alayne I, TWOW

She others Alayne a lot too, as if Alayne is a friend she knows and not her own disguise.

“No, my lady. I am from Gulltown.” And I am not, though Alayne was born there.

Alayne I, TWOW

And these are just some of the examples. Moreover, the recently leaked outline, even in its scarce information, has bashed the final nail in the coffin of this argument and that has obviously caused much anxiety amongst the antis. Never mind it not working like that because these arguments are clearly bad faith and hold no water next to the deluge of evidence saying otherwise.

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@esther-dot sent three prompts. (Thanks, love!) I'm going to try to get to each of them over the next few days. But to keep from spoiling the second and third, I'm posting this without responding directly to the message. Prompt: Jon’s initial reaction when he hears Sansa sing for the first time post rez

Warm tears roll down Jon’s cheeks, warm despite how cold it is at Castle Black and how dead he feels inside. Was he truly dead and now he’s alive again? Or was he only close to dead and now he’s — less so? He can’t be sure. He’s been awake for mere moments, and no one seems to have noticed yet let alone explained the strange circumstances he finds himself in. Four are gathered in the room. The three near the door are silent and respectful as they listen to the fourth one sing. Florian and Jonquil. Jon knows the song. He remembers her voice too. Sansa’s voice. Her presence adds to his confusion, but he’s sure she’s the one in the chair next to him, leaning forward, holding his hand. And singing. A few years older. A few scores lovelier. But Sansa Stark all the same.

The only movement Jon can muster is a thumb stroke. So that is what he gives his sweet sister, a thumb stroke over her knuckles. And then, all at once, her song stops, she pulls back, and she looks upon his face. “Jon,” she whispers, uncertain. The briefest of pauses follows before relief consumes her. “Oh, Jon!”

Sansa leans forward again, pulls Jon into an awkward, slanted embrace, then finds his cheek and wipes away his tears with her fingertips. Where the tears had been, she places a row of kisses.

It isn’t like Sansa to dote on Jon. Neither is it like him to want to dote on her in return. Yet he would if he could. Jon would dispel any doubt Sansa might have about their unexpected reunion, bury any chance of distance coming between them again. He’s missed her these past few years, even longed for her more and more as their family’s number dwindled.

He hasn’t the faintest idea how she came to be by his side this day, but he’s already resolved to keep her there as long as he can. Forever, if it pleases her. Always, if the gods will grant it. If Jon could move, if he could speak more than a few words, he'd say as much. Instead, he rasps out a simple plea.

“Your song. Will you finish it?” 

The smile on Sansa’s lips is half a memory, half a promise. She nods. “For you, I’ll sing anything,” she insists.

The warm tears return to Jon’s cheeks. He realizes he’s as alive as he’e ever been. [I also wanted to share this one-shot I've had on AO3 for about a year. The focus isn't the singing, but you might like it if you liked this prompt. It's a little post rez, memory loss fic that includes some Sansa singing to kick off the scene.]

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The Others for @jonsa-halloween

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Jon Snow & Sansa Stark Book Parallels & Mentions 49/∞ : Three daggers

“But it was me who told Oswell to get his sons to King’s Landing when I learned that Bronn was looking for swords. Three hidden daggers, Alayne, now perfectly placed.” A Storm Of Swords, Sansa VI

Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold …  A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII

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Jonsa Book Moments #9:

Found in Jon III of A Clash of Kings:

“So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.”  

Jon has this dreamy romantic side that people tend to overlook in talking about him.  He sees beauty in the morning dew over his camp.  It’s another parallel to Sansa, and her own more well documented dreamy, romantic side.  She is mentioned just two sentences later.

“Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it,”

There should be a note made that Jon only ever thinks about Sansa positively when he goes to the Wall.  We even see it again in Jon III just a little later: 

He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name.

It’s actually really sweet how fondly he remembers Sansa.

(and of course I couldn’t help but include this picture by @wolvesofspring​, which is literally one of my favorite asoiaf arts)

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Still thinking about “resolve to be SS & take north” btw

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Let the years we’re here be kind, be kind. 

Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide. 

Settle our bones like wood over time, over time. 

Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine.

NORTH by Sleeping At Last

[My Forever Jonsa Song]

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— Tennessee Williams

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Saw a post right now that said that the affc outline talks about Baelish’s plot to marry Alayne to Harry Harding and then reveal that she is Sansa so that the vale army stands behind her taking the north and not what the stansas are saying. Babes, that is still Sansa taking back the north, keep talking to the wall.

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Shoutout to all the people who work tirelessly to keep their fandoms going, even after canon has ended. Kudos to the mods who organize rewatches, fic challenges, and other fandom events. High fives to the people who keep posting new art, fic, meta, and headcanons. A collective pat on the back for the people who like, reblog, and comment on the new fanworks and remember the older works as well.

If you’re on Tumblr reading this, chances are good that you fall into one of these categories. So shoutout to YOU, and to all of us.

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I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard’s daughter and Lady Catelyn’s, the b l o o d o f W i n t e r f e l l.

@sansamonth2022 day 30 - winterfell.

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Sansa didn’t feel horrified at Joffrey’s death and Arya didn’t in her grief still say that a dead Joffrey won’t bring her brother Robb back for y’all to revel in violence and miss the point of the books that badly.

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The oldest jonsa fic on ao3 is from 2009, from even before the show was conceived, from even before adwd was released

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