#7thkarma

[reginarubie]

@7thkarma as promised… here you can read the teaser chapter of the story:

You start to see the same eyes in different people [if you live long enough]

As always, thank you @ginger-danica-snapps for the amazing art (she actually did another one for the AemondSa part of the story but I won’t share it yet because it’d be too spoilerish).

Enjoy!

[kit-kat21]

@7thkarma asked me "What about your faves from the Beatles au" and I took this question very seriously. It's almost impossible for me to choose but I managed. (Barely). I am not including "baby, it's you" in this list just because it's the first story in this series and is very important to this world and is a MUST read in this universe.

dig a pony - THE conversation between Sansa, Jon and Brandon where Brandon learns certain things. VERY important one-shot to the overall story.

yesterday - Sansa finally running from and escaping Ramsay and meeting a very kind man at the train station.

martha my dear - After Lady passes away, the Snow family gets a new dog.

yer blues - Sansa dealing with nightmares and panic attacks after the family moves to the Neck. (I f-ing love this story.)

things we said today - day-to-day life in the Snow family once they move and settle in the neck.

[ladywolfmd]

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

4) favorite character you’ve written

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now

7) when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

8) favorite genre to write

9) what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?

10) write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone

oh there was more. omg, 7thkarma, i'm so sorry for the effort you made to ask me and also i appreciate this.

3) it always starts with a scene i can't get off my mind, then i flesh out the how it went there and where its going after.

4) being one of the cliche supernatural young adult girlies from a teenager to a young adult, i was particularly proud of my vampire character who had an unusual thirst, that of dreams but every wednesday, he visits a young blind girl and teaches her how to see through dreams.

5) no character reveals haha but it's number 4. while the idea is good, the writing is really bad. i'm sorry 19 year old me.

6) i wish i stopped myself from creating mary sues. but i think it's common to have that phase. sometimes, you just want to write out self-indulgent things without care, and that's okay. :) we all had that one dream where you're a glamorous undercover spy that's highly intellectual, cool, witty, and might have great weaponry skills and/or rare magic. (Lucius from The Sandman comic said something to that effect, iirc).

7) ehm. depends on the audience. but generally, i'm proud of it. i was a school journalist first before i dabbled with fanfiction and prose.

8) fantasy for prose. but i'm more into poetry at the heart of things.

9) hm. nothing in particular, but a quiet room with good music and a drink helps. but mostly, the ideas are random, and comes at the most inconvenient times. my phone notes are full of clips or rather, i have pieces of tissues/receipts/random papers in my bag or pocket to save them.

10) alone with music only i can hear.

[aflashofgreen]

big thank you to @theghostsofhighheart who kindly uploaded two pdfs on google drive, here's the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JWgVBSE4FZ2vUl7andQfu4oO6sF8kEMs

fyi the first file (old version with comments) goes up to chapter 57, the other one is complete with all 76 chapters that were originally posted on ao3 but does not include the author's notes

tagging some people from the notes: @7thkarma @charming-butt-insane @please-dot @esther-dot @kellyvela

please rb so this reaches as many people as possible + don't forget to thank theghostsofhighheart!!

rip Sansa of Winterfell by Fortheloveofjonsnow on ao3 i can't find the fic or the author's profile anymore </3 does anybody have a pdf they can email my way pls?

[vivilove-jonsa]

Hello,

Since you've published a book I was wondering if I may ask a couple question?

Does it feel different from writing fanfictions?

Do you find your self relating to GRRM's pace of writing like the long years between books?

How did you like your covers for your original works? Did it take long to pick out?

This is just crack question but any chance there's a minor red headed character with her dark haired partner? You know as a little Easter egg jk. But in all seriousness we always knew you could sell your works and I'm glad you took the chance!

Hello!

Wow, I'm flattered that you want to know this stuff so thank you for asking! I'll happily answer each one below the cut :)

Does it feel different from writing fanfictions?

Yes. The joy of writing is still very much with me but there's some major differences and things I've had to adapt to when looking to sell books as an unknown author versus writing fanfic for a pairing that people are seeking out. The biggest is the wait for validation. Can't post a chapter of an idea, see how people respond and start crafting a story from there. You write the whole damn novel with little to no input from anyone else and then put it out there for critique before publishing.

It may sound weird but I've found more freedom writing original works in some ways and more restrictions in others.

The restrictions involve more planning, outlining and plotting. I have to stay on track instead of indulging in Side-Character B's backstory or a secondary romance, etc. Also, I would hop from genre to genre with my AUs and, while there are authors doing that I'm sure, it's not a safe bet for a newbie looking to make money. So, I found a niche in contemporary romance that I enjoy reading and writing and I dove in. I'll probably tackle another niche with a new pen once I've got ten or so books under my belt with the current pen name to try it out.

The freedoms involve making my characters whoever they tell me they are. No one will scream 'that's OCC!' because these are my characters. There's no trappings of canon or expectations in that sense either although romance readers tend to have favored tropes, etc and they expect you to stick to the 'formula of romance.' Also, I miss talking fic with other writers and fans of my Jonsa works as there's more distance between me as an author and people who read my books. Don't get me wrong, I love interacting with some of them who have reached out but the gap is there and it can feel lonelier.

Do you find yourself relating to GRRM's pace of writing like the long years between books?

No, lol. This is a side hustle for me but a romance writer would starve going at his pace unless you had that miracle hit right off the bat (which is soooooo rare) and even then you need to keep producing product to keep from becoming obsolete. I started my first novel February 1st last year. I will have FIVE completed by February 1st of this year. I'm shooting to average a book every 3 months this year at least. It takes me roughly six to eight weeks to write it and the remaining time goes into editing, formatting and submitting for ARC reviews. Quality AND quantity are the name of the game to earn money. In GRRM's defense though, my books average 75k words and one of those five was a novella at 40k words. And my books are romance centering on two individuals which are far less complicated to tell than his enormous fantasy opus with a cast of hundreds.

How did you like your covers for your original works? Did it take long to pick out?

Yes, I love them! The cover of your book is the single most important part of your passive marketing and you want your book to be as to-market as possible to attract readers in your genre and niche. My niche involves hot guys in suits on the covers and my dear friend made them for me except one which I paid a graphic artist $75 to do an illustrated cover for. Anyway, we would tinker and talk about the color or font, the placement of the title, etc. but, for me at least, this was a simple process. Some self-published folks spend far more time working on theirs or might pay hundreds of dollars on them but mine seem to draw eyes just fine. Maybe once I'm making bank more steadily I'll consider farming this out to a pro.

Any chance there's a minor red headed character with her dark haired partner?

Absolutely!! In fact, my first book includes a pairing that looks suspiciously like Jonsa (I changed the eye color for her and gave him Kit's brown eyes though). Partly, that's because the original idea for the book was going to be a Jonsa story until I decided to switch gears. My third book has a guy that fits Jon's description and my novella includes elements of Sansa's love of songs and such in the female lead. It's fun to have bits of the characters I love in my books even when they're my own creations.

Thanks so much for this delicious ask! Lots of fun to answer <3

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

In the mood for a tragic film, any recommendations?

Unfortunately, I'm probably not the best person to answer this question. My tastes run more to the bittersweet end of tragic rather than the truly tragic, if that makes any sense? Also, I'm not a hugely knowledgable movie person, so if we're talking movies I've personally seen, it's a limited list.

So I'll toss Titanic (1997) your way, along with my best wishes in finding a tragic film that suits your mood and tastes!

Any of my followers have any tearjerker recommendations?

[kellyvela]

A Storm of Swords - Sansa VI And quick as that, Marillion was gone. The other remained, looming over Sansa in the darkness. "Lord Petyr said watch out for you." It was Lothor Brune's voice, she realized. Not the Hound's, no, how could it be? Of course it had to be Lothor . . . That night Sansa scarcely slept at all, but tossed and turned just as she had aboard the Merling King. She dreamt of Joffrey dying, but as he clawed at his throat and the blood ran down across his fingers she saw with horror that it was her brother Robb. And she dreamed of her wedding night too, of Tyrion's eyes devouring her as she undressed. Only then he was bigger than Tyrion had any right to be, and when he climbed into the bed his face was scarred only on one side. "I'll have a song from you," he rasped, and Sansa woke and found the old blind dog beside her once again. "I wish you that you were lady'

This is one of my favorites forshadowings. Sansa dreams of her wedding. And it's with someone taller than tyrion "had any right to be" and has on one side of his face, plus she wakes to find a BLIND dog and she wish the dog was lady. A wolf that's dead but there is a direwolf who's name ghost and he's partner may go blind in one eye. Leaving a scar on one side of his face...

Man Sansa and her dreams, how can you read that and not think jonsa? What's your not that often mention jonsa favorite foreshadowing? Or underrated/controversial parallel?

It's hard for me to find Jon in situations where Sansa is experiencing or processing her trauma.

Here Sansa dreams with Joffrey's wedding, where he died, and that's why she associates it with Robb's wedding, because he also died during a wedding. Then she dreams with her own wedding night with Tyrion and then Tyrion morphed into cujo, because both med tried to rape her in her own bed. And of course when she wakes up and finds that old, blind, toothless dog, she wishes for her lost fierce and loyal Lady.

In a previous similar nightmare, she dreamed that she has to marry Joffrey but then her ex betrothed morphed into Ilyn Payne. Both men participate in Sansa's father execution, then the association. It is possible to find Jon here? Yes, Joffrey and Jon are a case of switched at birth, bastard disguised as prince, prince disguised as bastard. And Ilyn Payne wielded Ice, Eddard Stark's Valyrian steel sword, similar to Jon who wields Longclaw, another Valyrian steel sword with a white direwolf shaped hilt.

That's why I prefer to search for Jon in positive situations for Sansa.

But if I have to mention one of those traumatic experience where we can find Jon hidden there, I think it was @occupyvenus the one that found this one: During the night of the Blackwater Bay battle, cujo's white kingsguard cloak is described as soiled with blood and fire. A snow white cloak soiled with blood and fire it's almost like saying there's a fire and blood Targaryen hidden under a Snow cloak.

[cellsshapedlikestars]

so I got some prompts as responses to my post instead of asks, and I haven’t forgotten about you!! This prompt was sent to me by @7thkarma (though I can’t seem to get the tag to work? sorry!)

the prompt was: runaway bride meets runaway groom (both left their wedding to different people or it was an arranged marriage to each other but they've never met so the left but because it's jonsa fate said no and led them back to each other)

Look. I didn't do this exact prompt and I'm very sorry, but this is what came into my brain. I did half the prompt lol. If it helps, I sort of already wrote a version of this scenario where both are on bad dates and meet?? So... combine a bathroom engagement and this one, and you've got the answer to your prompt!

(Also, I'm being very inconsistent about what I post as it's own fic and what I post in my one-shot prompt collection ephemera. My initial qualifications were - anything that feels complete gets posted on it's own, anything that doesn't goes into ephemera. But this one doesn't necessarily feel complete, exactly, and there's a fic I posted in ephemera that absolutely should have been it's own standalone story, but now it's too late. Anyway, I’ll stop rambling now.)

read it here:

cigarettes, wedding bands

[wandering-scavenger]

tag nine people you want to get to know better

tagged by: @7thkarma thank you for the tag! Would love to get to know you as well ❤️

Fave color: I'm too indecisive, it's a toss up between blue, silver, or emerald green

Currently reading: Emma by Jane Austen

Last song: Carry You by Novo Amor

• for anyone looking for a sentimental Jon/Sansa playlist, check out my Spotify playlist, it would be so sweet! I normally listen to this when I'm writing my fic

Last series: Modern Family (it's too feel good and funny to not re-watch)

Last film: Persuasion (2022) *gags in disappointment*

Sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet-sour drinks but savoury snacks 👌

Currently working on: A Lady of Winterfell, my Jon/Sansa Regency AU that's a slow burn full of longing looks and hands touching before the eventual spicy times.

Tagging: @sweetaprilbutterfly @trinuviel @thewolvescalledmehome @purple-moon123 @riahchan @caitnan @kitnjon @honeybeeps @normadcisba

[longclawislightbringer]

@7thkarma regarding all my unfinished Jonsa WIPs

It's because I am the slowest writer in the world. Like George R.R. Martin levels of slow. I finished an eight-chapter fic this year that I started in February 2019 🙃

Just wish I had a Stephen King brain instead, lol

I'm trying to work on it--my new year's resolution is going to be to write every day, and maybe that will take care of some of my writing backlog.

[hilarychuff]

get to know me

tagged by: @ode-to-an-inkwell and @7thkarma! tyty

fave color: hmmmmmmmm i guess i would say pink rn but red is my power color

currently reading: not currently reading anything other than lots of fanfic! but have been meaning to finish manhunt which i started a while back and then fell off on when i didn’t get through it before my library hold expired and also have a library hold hopefully coming up soon for the final girl support group 

last song: currently obsessed with “my best friend’s wedding” by the chicks and am listening on repeat, specifically the “go it alone / go it alone / go it alone / go it alone!!!!!!” harmony part

last series: i’m watching that hulu psychic lady show maggie and it’s actually really cute lmfao i’m enjoying 

last movie: tragically unfortunately it was austin powers goldmember. a friend needed to watch it for reasons and i was having a case of the sads so she came over and we watched it together. i actually remember getting my mom to take me to see it in theaters and even as a child being like “ok lots of toilet humor....” however it does have both britney spears AND beyoncé in it which is pretty iconic

sweet/spicy/savory: hmmmmmmm for breakfast, savory. for snackies, sweet. 

currently working on: i’ve got a bunch of wips right now. lots of notes for i carry it in mine, the first lil bits of my uptown girls au, part of a jon pov scene for princess diaries au, part of a jon pov scene for overboard au, a lil extra so far in that alayne/jon vignette, a bit of a jily when harry met sally au scene that will probs never make it out of my group chat, aaaaaaaaaand some stranger things stuff even that will possibly never make it out of my google docs. lots going on!!!!! in the google docs!!!!!! i’ve got like 12 different google docs open in another window rn which is much more than usual lmao but i haven’t super focused in on any one particular thing

anyway i deleted the part about how many people you’re supposed to tag lmfao BUT if @chdarling / @cellsshapedlikestars / @rubdown / @gorgeousgreymatter-x want to do a tag meme thing you should!!

[snowsandstones]

@7thkarma ty!!! I’m new too so idk about wisdom haha but glad you like it!

just finished watching the finale and it’s actually quite clear that jon is choosing sansa over all else, because he loves her.

the repetition of him going protective wolf mode over and over to the point that it became a meme?

it establishes this as fundamental to his character. he’s fulfilling his promise, whether she thinks he can or not:

(and vice versa)

and add the book prophecy to this equation and it makes it even clearer:

The voices were growing louder, she realized, and it seemed her heart was slowing, and even her breath. . . . three treasons will you know . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love . . . -ACOK, D IV

she’s right: the first was Mirri, done for blood (to avenge her people).

The warlocks whispered of three treasons . . . once for blood and once for gold and once for love. The first traitor was surely Mirri Maz Duur, who had murdered Khal Drogo and their unborn son to avenge her people. Could Pyat Pree and Xaro Xhoan Daxos be the second and the third? She did not think so. What Pyat did was not for gold, and Xaro had never truly loved her. -ACOK, D V

the second has to be done for gold.

"I have loved you." And there it was. Three treasons will you know. Once for blood and once for gold and once for love. -ASOS, D VI

but Jorah doesn’t betray her for love. it’s for gold, despite his “love”.

she knows this deep down, because it confuses her. she mulls over it constantly, tries to forestall it, tries to make sense of it. (certainly not something we’ve seen with another queen determined to prevent a prophecy and inadvertently causing it). the prophecy looms large in her thoughts (and our foreshadowing) throughout ADWD:

"What if Daario has betrayed me and gone over to my enemies?" Three treasons will you know.

"The blood of the dragon." But my dragons are roaring in the darkness. "I remember the Undying. Child of three, they called me. Three mounts they promised me, three fires, and three treasons. One for blood and one for gold and one for …"

When Reznak and Skahaz appeared, she found herself looking at them askance, mindful of the three treasons. Beware the perfumed seneschal. She sniffed suspiciously at Reznak mo Reznak. I could command the Shavepate to arrest him and put him to the question. Would that forestall the prophecy? Or would some other betrayer take his place? Prophecies are treacherous, she reminded herself,

Three treasons will you know. Once for gold and once for blood and once for love. Was Plumm the third treason, or the second? And what did that make Ser Jorah, her gruff old bear? Would she never have a friend that she could trust? What good are prophecies if you cannot make sense of them?

Dany had once eaten a stallion's heart to give strength to her unborn son … but that had not saved Rhaego when the maegi murdered him in her womb. Three treasons shall you know. She was the first, Jorah was the second, Brown Ben Plumm the third. Was she done with betrayals?

and it finally unfolds with Jon committing the ultimate treason: betraying and murdering his queen. not out of love. for love. for Sansa.

and speaking of prophecies from the house of the undying…she sees many things, the war of the five kings, the red wedding, etc.

and she sees the very end of our story:

A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness.

and in the same book, GRRM tells us what it means:

"And she never sung you the song o' the winter rose?"

“He was King-beyond-the-Wall a long time back. All the free folk know his songs […] “All I ask is a flower,' Bael answered, 'the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o' Winterfell.'" “Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious. So the Stark sent to his glass gardens and commanded that the most beautiful o' the winter roses be plucked for the singer's payment. And so it was done. But when morning come, the singer had vanished . . . and so had Lord Brandon's maiden daughter. Her bed they found empty, but for the pale blue rose that Bael had left on the pillow where her head had lain." "Lord Brandon had no other children. At his behest, the black crows flew forth from their castles in the hundreds, but nowhere could they find any sign o' Bael or this maid. For most a year they searched, till the lord lost heart and took to his bed, and it seemed as though the line o' Starks was at its end. But one night as he lay waiting to die, Lord Brandon heard a child's cry. He followed the sound and found his daughter back in her bedchamber, asleep with a babe at her breast." “The maid loved Bael so dearly she bore him a son, the song says […] and that the boy grew to be the next Lord Stark. […] “It never happened," Jon said. She shrugged. "Might be it did, might be it didn't. It is a good song, though.

The second to last episode title? “The last of the Starks”. And the final moments of the finale? The Queen in the North lined up with the implied eventual King Beyond the Wall.

[haraways]

tagged by: 7thkarma Thanks for the tag sorry I’m late I’m just so busy right now!

 Fave color: millennial green: it’s a vibe

Currently reading: Nothing because im a bad book lover even though I got a tbr 100 titles long

Last song:  Love we lost by Armin von Buuren this is also a vibe

Last series: The Boys and Attack on titan because I like mindless crap at the moment

Last movie: idk what the last one I watched was, I feel l9ike I should  know this. I wanna see NOPE tho cuz I, too, would nope the fuck out of there if there are aliens.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: I like fruit so sweet then spicy then savoury if I have to put an order to it.

Currently working on: a jonsa future fic that’s a little messed up cuz no one is good and I set sansa up to have made a bad move right at the beginning. I’m hoping it will be a 3 parter told from 4 maybe 5 povs but the parts and their chapters will be posted all at once so no one suffers. So part one will come out then two then three easy.

 I’m not gonna tag anyone because I don’t talk too much to people and I don’t wanna bother them but, please if you see this meme and you wanna take part feel free to do it and tag me so I get to know my followers better!

[vivilove-jonsa]

1) is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?2) what work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about existing?

Hey @7thkarma!

This will be my 25,000th post on this hell site so there's some useless trivia for you and I've not been sent a writing ask in ages so thanks for that 😀

A story I'm holding off on writing?

For Jonsa, no. I'd like to finish The Farmer's Wife someday but, since I've switched to writing original romance, I'm solely focusing on that. I'm halfway through writing book 2 of a 4-book series which falls into one popular niche but I've been reading Dark Mafia Romances and I think someday I'd like to write one of those. Maybe under a different pen or maybe as Jonsa or maybe just for my own amusement? For now, I've got a goal I'm working on. It's called make money...

What work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about exisiting?

Well... some of my Jonsa works are better than others for certain. My first long modern fic Home is with You is sentimental to me because I love Modern Teen Jonsa AUs and I was in the early days of my Jonsa fever when I could write and write and still think about it incessantly. BUT, when I was writing that one, I had no plans to share it with anyone except my friend @mynameisnoneya1991 so I made it what I wanted it to be and, looking back, it's probably best I never reread it 🙈

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

Great to see you pop back here, love the update btw! Also idk if you've heard but Jon is apparently getting an update thoughts on that?

Also, how'd you been? Any new fandoms and hobbies you wanna share or skills you want to flex?

Awww, thank you!

Yeah, I saw that! I'm... not sure what to think, honestly? Other than that HBO wants that $$$, anyway. I'm highly skeptical about how good a story they could tell, but I'm willing to reserve judgment.

I've been doing well overall, albeit better some days than others. I'm not a huge fan of the summer heat, but I do love the increased daylight hours! You?

No new fandoms as of the moment, though I drifted briefly into the Grishaverse over the early winter; I have a WIP canon divergence Nikolai/Alina (potentially Nikolai/Alina/Zoya) one-shot sitting in my drafts folder that's currently around 5,000 words. We'll see if it ever sees the light of day!

I watched the Kenobi miniseries, but I wouldn't call that a new fandom per se, since I've long been a part of the SW fandom. I also fell back into Tamora Pierce's Tortall and Emelan universes, but as with Kenobi, I don't currently have any fic to show for it—just a lot of feelings.

Hmmm, hobbies and skills... I DM'd for the first time in May. It was definitely nerve-racking, especially since I belatedly realized I wasn't remotely familiar with the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons rules! (As a kid, I played a weird mishmash of earlier editions, and I played different tabletop RPGs in college.) But it went well, and I'd consider running a game again.

What about you? Any new fandoms/hobbies/skills?

[esther-dot]

@7thkarma​ had some additional recs for us. Thank you! 💗

the crow 4k

you on the run 30k

with the wild wolves around you 102k

Hello! Do you know of any fic where Sansa is taking care of Jon's wounds after battle?

I love this Jonsa trope! There are many fics that use it, so I’ll list some but if anyone would like to add to the list, please do so!

Stitches .5k

“Wouldn’t you say-” she pulled at the silk thread “-that you’ve done enough heroing for one day?” A tired smile through the slits of his eyes.

“I don’t feel like much of a hero.” His hands twitched as the needle pierced again.

“You are to me.”

So please excuse me if I stumbled just a bit trying to say what's on my mind 1k

A low hiss escaped from his lips as she rubbed the ointment into his shoulder, making her glance up. "It still stings," he grunted.Serves you right. The thought came to her unbidden. At times the anger flared up and she couldn't help but aim it at him. She'd come so close to losing him.

Wool and Tallow 16k

She wonders if the blood will ever wash from beneath her fingernails, or if the tiny callouses will ever recede from the edges of her forefingers, or if she will ever again stitch a dress or a handkerchief or a glove without the lingering tang of copper filling her nose.

Even still, Sansa puts her hands to the needle and mends the North. She patches the rips, she closes the holes.

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