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One of the reasons I really ship Jon with Sansa and see him as the best possible person for her, is just how much Jon cares for Sansa and his concern for her. Very rarely we see someone who takes Sansa’s feelings into consideration and treats her like a person with respect. Let’s look at some of my personal favorites.

In their very first scene together at Castle Black Jon sees Sansa and in a state of utter shock, walks up to Sansa and neither of them are moving, just staring at each other. Jon in this scene almost looks afraid to move. So he waits. Although they both go in for a hug at nearly the same time, Sansa is the first to rush in and Jon immediately rushes in as well. He actually waits for Sansa to make the first move. It’s small, but just the beginning.

Next we have the very heated tent scene. Jon is weighed down by the stress of this battle. They don’t have enough men to win, he’s still dealing with the aftermath of being resurrected, he’s doing everything he can to protect Sansa. But it’s not enough. He lets his frustrations get the better of him and even though they are both yelling at each other in this moment, Jon sees the shift in Sansa and he realizes it in a second. He leans back and lowers his voice. “Battles have been won against greater odds.” What I love is how even if Jon is stressed, tired, and frustrated, he is still able to take what Sansa is feeling in that moment into consideration.

In one of the more meaningful scenes, Jon is getting ready to meet Ramsay before the battle. And even when he is still dealing with a mountain of problems, the first thing we see in this scene is Jon thinking of Sansa. Sansa might not have disccused in detail what happened with Ramsay, but Jon is smart enough to put the pieces to know just how much of a monster Ramsay is. He tells Sansa she doesn’t have to be here if this is too much for her. Of course, she wants to stand her ground. But the point is that Jon above all else wanted to make sure Sansa felt she could handle the situation.

After the battle is all but won, and Jon has made his way into the courtyard of Winterfell, he stares at Ramsay after Ramsay just murdered Wun Wun. Just look at him, he’s absolutely terrifying in this moment. Shit, mud, blood, he’s covered from head to toe and this is man is ready to murder Ramsay.

The camera shows us a close up of Jon’s face to show us just how enraged Jon is. This man tortured Sansa, murdered Rickon in front of him, killed another of his friend. Jon is ready to beat Ramsay until there is nothing left with his bare fist. But then the camera pans up to Sansa looking down on this.

In all this rage, anger, pain, the pure hatred Jon has in this moment all stops the second he sees Sansa standing there. He literally stops mid punch. Although he wants to kill Ramsay himself right then and there, he knows Ramsay isn’t his to kill. It’s even stated in the script that Jon realizes it and he’s able to contain himself. Not for anyone else but Sansa.

After everything, Jon takes a minute alone up on the battlements. Sansa joins him and they start to have a conversation about the Lords chamber. Jon says Sansa should take it, Sansa says Jon should take it, and Jon leads with this line. To this day Jon is the only character who acknowledges Sansa’s hand in the battle. Even Sansa looks surprised he’s saying this because she is not used to people giving her the credit or acknowledgment in this way. Other characters in the story only saw Sansa as means to get the North. While others even question her as a Stark. But Jon, Jon knows she is the trueborn daughter of Ned Stark and the rightful Lady of Winterfell.

In the season 7 premier Jon announces his plans to sail to Dragonstone. He doesn’t want to, and understandably Sansa is upset by this news. And then Jon lays this on her. In a room full of people he turns to Sansa and tells her the North is hers until his return. Sansa is absolutely shocked in this moment and her stare shifts for a second to Littlefinger in the corner. Sansa knows Littlefinger will be planning something to gain power over the North and this is the best opportunity.

But Jon’s stare stays on Sansa the whole time because ultimately, he trusts her above everyone else. To him, she is capable, intelligent, and the home he loves and the country he loves and will never stop fighting for will rest in “Good Hands.” He gives her a simply nod and knows she can handle this.

From big to small, Jon is the only character in the series who’s ever treated Sansa with this much respect and love. He’s gentle, yet knows she’s strong. He’s never doubted her and gives her the validation she’s sorely lacked throughout her journey. Jon doesn’t just treat Sansa like an object he can use for his own benefit. And regardless if they ever become canon, Jon is still the best person for Sansa. Not just as anything romantic, but as the man who was the first to see her as something more than a political pawn. As a ruler, and most importantly as a person.

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Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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tumblr is, if anything, the Appalachia of social media...easy to get lost, sparsely populated, out of the loop with fast-moving modern trends. Attached to tradition. Close-knit communities. Believe in "talk shit, get hit." Everyone is doing their own thing in their own obscure little holler. Prone to pulling the most inventive turns of phrase you've ever heard out of nowhere. Somebody's always starting a racket. We sometimes repel outsiders with much aggression. Lots of talk about hell and damnation to be found. Everybody tends to forget about us for some reason

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Bob's Burgers

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For day 3 of the @jonsa-halloween event :) The prompt chosen is magic!

Her father’s head rolls from the block and her own screams are the only thing Sansa can hear as she falls to the ground in agony. This can’t be happening, and yet it is. Her world turns black once more, and suddenly she is far away from the horror of King’s Landing—far from this waking nightmare.

She is running again. Her four paws pound into the ground, carrying her weight away and away. Sansa’s mind is a frazzled mess, her nerves are even worse. But being with Lady forces her to stay calm, forces her into a single minded focus.

She is Lady and Lady is her.

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Or;

Sansa wargs into Lady, saving her direwolf's life and changing her own fate in the process by bringing Jon back into her orbit sooner than she could've ever imagined.

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"The Release from Deception,"

Carved from a single block of marble, it depicts a fisherman being released from netting by an angel, allegorical to the man being liberated from his sins.

So intricate was the work that 18th-century philosopher Giangiuseppe Origlia described it as “the last and most trying test to which sculpture in marble can aspire.”

Queirolo worked alone on his magnum opus, without an assistant or even a workshop. Even other sculptors refused to touch the delicate net in case it broke into pieces in their hands.

The masterpiece is housed at the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, with several other miracles of marble. Namely, "The Veiled Christ" (1753) by Giuseppe Sanmartino and "The Veiled Truth" (1750) by Antonio Corradini.

Francesco Queirolo (1752-1759)

Credit: @Culture_Crit

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so you're telling me that the Catholics have a new mascot that's a cute anime-style blue-eyed teal-haired anime (girl(???) or boy, possibly???) and her name is Luce? As in latin for light, so they're a bearer of light? like... Lucifer? Okay.

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His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. His eyes were as red as the blood of the ragged man who had died that morning. Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind.

 “An albino,” Theon Greyjoy said with wry amusement. “This one will die even faster than the others.”

Jon Snow gave his father’s ward a long, chilling look. “I think not, Greyjoy,” he said. “This one belongs to me.” 

asoiaf/got meme » whatever you want [4/10] » jon snow and ghost

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Poor Ned (part 2)

Inspired by this: @elaena

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(Via Reddit)

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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I've been slowly obsessing more and more about asoiaf fashion in the past 6 month, and really developing in details how it would look in different regions, classes, etc (the North being the one I have the most complete picture on). And I wanted to put some of this to paper instead of endlessly turning it in my head before I go to sleep. Usually when I costume design it is confined to a specific character, I've never done like worldbuilding fashion design, but idk asoiaf really gets me going.

So here's the North ! I could have kept going and added more stuff, but if I try to spew all the shit that's in my head I'm never gonna finish this x) So I focused mostly on great houses/nobles fashion for this. Maybe I'll do a sheet for smallfolk or practical clothing like battle armour after I'm done with all the kindoms. I already have to continue the anti AI quest...

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the bat & the cat

You’re just another cop, aren’t you – smarter, cooler, more seductive- but a cop just the same… And I don’t do cops. First round to me, lover.

Consecration (Catwoman Vol.1 #4)