#Dark Sansa
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reunion
#jeyne poole#sansa stark#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf art#asoiaf fanart#jeynsa#jeyne x sansa#sansa x jeyne#sansa stark fanart#here mean anon i made this one extra dark for you 🫶🫶
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i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-
Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.
Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.
I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.
#valyrianscrolls#ned stark#sansa stark#getting on my soap box#there’s something here too about romanticism. like shelley and coleridge and whitman. the need to return to nature to undo society’s harm.#especially with the way various romance movements and romantic tropes are played with by their characters.#i can’t even remember who said it which just shows u how shitty an english major i am aksjd but about how.#like society is necessary but just as necessary is the ability to escape into nature. i *think* it was coleridge i’m probably wrong.#the gender war makes corpses of us all#gender politics in asoiaf#obviously you can point to several moments for both of them. sansa calling petyr father. ned’s relationship with theon. wherein they both#are clearly performing something for an audience.#there’s like 12 other branches of this in my head. jaime’s romanticism. being knighted bloody & the sacrilegious nature of the sept sex.#and his inability to escape his gender performance the way ned & sansa do. ned being willing to cry in front of others but robb only ever#crying in the dark with his baby brother after he loses ned. cat’s tower stuff & finding solace in sewing.#i’m gonna try to write up something about loras & renly here too. tomorrow.#also i wrote this at the train station after work so if there’s errors or it makes no sense just pretend u never saw it skskdj
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meanwhile in Stark heaven
“Joffrey is a Baratheon, your Grace” // “Oh is he?”
#cregan who promised his son to a dark-haired bastard’s daughter#ned who lost his head trying to keep a blonde bastard off the throne#choose your fighter#cregan stark#stark family#ned stark#sansa stark#robb stark#catelyn stark
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*feel free to ignore me* yeah....i'm very deep in my theonsa feels again and obsessed with this AU (in the GoT series Verse) where them both survived and how these two touch-starved broken babies find solace into each other's presence ❤️🩹
#block me unfollow me i rewatched all their scenes together *HELP*#AND YES i have this hc that theon -even if with dark hair with curls in the series#endured such physical traumas & torture that his hair turns thiner -lighter -almost grey very quickly#ANYWAY#theonsa#theon greyjoy#sansa stark
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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.
#I get why he is the most hated character ever#but should we celebrate death?#grrm in his most recent interview also touched upon this point#he said (paraphrasing here) that sure Joffrey is a son a of a bitch but surely a son dying horrifically in front of his mother’s eyes calls#for sympathy#grrm really said look inwards and it was lost on even the people who present at the interview#gah#asoiaf#joffrey baratheon#arya stark#sansa stark#robb stark#game of thrones#will there be singing in the dark times?
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I'm almost done with my fic, Born to Burn. Only one chapter, epilogue, remains. If you want an angsty dark romance about outlaws and school teachers and lawmen, you might want to give this a try :)
#asoiaf#sansan#sansa stark#sandor clegane#romance#dark romance#kidnapping#outlaws#western au#sansa is a school teacher and aspiring writer#sandor is an outlaw#cw: dubious consent#cw: violence#cw: major character death
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Queen of the North -
#sansa stark#asoiaf#game of thrones#got#this is how i also hc catelyn looks#like i said it's so rare to see a dark skinned poc sansa#so i wanted to draw one#pocofasoiaf
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#sophie turner#sophie turner icons#game of thrones#game of thrones icons#icons#sansa stark#sansa stark icons#got#got icons#dark phoenix#dark phoenix icons#jean grey#jean grey icons#x men apocalypse#x men apocalypse icons#female icons#actress icons
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"M'lady? You look sad. Are you thinking of your sister?" The dwarf patted her on the hand. "The Crone will light your way to her, never fear. The Maiden will keep her safe."
"I pray that you are right."
Brienne II, A Feast for Crows
#arya stark#catelyn stark#sansa stark#brienne of tarth#asoiaf#pureasoiaf#valyrianscrolls#lady stoneheart#a feast for crows#a song of ice and fire#i was going to make this much more elaborate and also include the silly gendry+maya as the dwarf's mules theory#but then i thought no..... keep it simple bitch#not quite satisfied with the coloring but i do love the arrangement soooo#hewantshisposts#hewantshisedits#hewantshismeta#i hope the way i edited makes it clear that like... the editing style reflects their relationship to their new identities#like catelyn is being consumed/subsumed#sansa is fading into hers/adopting hers but she herself sees the cracks forming but cant afford to acknowledge it#and arya is comprised of so many but only so long as they dont fully infringe upon her true identity#even as she wishes to discard her true face she cant manage it#and these characters she plays only fill in her gaps/darkness#im on cold meds dont take any of my explanations seriously
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Do I think X-Men: Dark Phoenix is kind of mid? Yeah. Will I keep rewatching it because I will take any crumbs of Jean/Phoenix that I can get? Of course.
Also something I can appreciate about Dark Phoenix are those special effects, they are so good. Like the way the Phoenix force was portrayed is beautiful imo. Other than that it’s hard to sit through, which sucks bc I love Sophie so much.
Sophie and Famke are both so good as Jean Grey and FOX couldn’t handle all that I guess. Seriously I get sad thinking about how they handled her character.
People hate to see a woman serving cunt.
Anyways… GO READ THE FIRST ISSUE OF PHOENIX (2024)!!!
#dark phoenix#x men 97#x men comics#x men#x men movies#jean grey#phoenix force#x men dark phoenix#deadpool and wolverine#wolverine#logan howlett#hugh jackman#deadpool#cyclops#scott summers#gambit#sansa stark#game of thrones#asoiaf
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a young-ish aegor rivers
his expression isnt quite as "bitter" as it maybe should be and his hair isnt as dark as i imagine but i was focusing more on experimenting w my painting style than anything else. i am (controversially apparently) very interested in this character lol
#accidentally made him a pretty boy. sorry its muscle memory#bittersteel#aegor rivers#valyrianscrolls#valyrian scrolls#asoiaf fanart#asoiaf art#awoiaf#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#purple eyes and dark hair is the best combo just instant heart eyes from me#i might start posting more sketch stuff bc if i start only posting my paintings ill like... never post#i want to start posting more unpopular characters/ships that i like on here too#but the asoiaf fandom can be v aggressive so#i get hate anons for liking sansa so imagine how these people will react to my actually controversial faves#anyways i like bittersteel and think bl00draven is corny#blackfyre rebellion#preasoiaf
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SANSA STARK ▸ Game of Thrones, 5.6
#this scene was so dark and poorly lit im surprised i managed to make it decent looking#game of thrones#sansa stark#sophie turner#gif by ria#got#tv
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SOPHIE TURNER at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 12th 2023 wearing LOUIS VUITTON
Sophie is one of the few celebrities who Louis Vuitton does Justice for. She manages to look really great in a lot of looks from the brand. I absolutely loved this sheer look. I love the super long sleeves, and the sheer material looks so luxe and glamorous.
#sophie turner#louis vuitton#game of thrones#sansa stark#jean grey#xmen dark phoenix#dark phoenix#femalestunning#vanity fair after party#after party#vanity fair oscar party#vanity fair#flawlessbeautyqueens#fashion#fashion journalism#hot celebs#flawlesscelebs#celebrity fashion#celebrity style#fancyschmancy#red carpet fashion#dailywomen#beauty#makeup#red carpet#style#gorgeous#beautiful#celebs#celebrities
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Anyways, enough politics please
If my feed could return to all things Folklore, Werewolves, Game Of Thrones, Witcher, and Yuletide that would be very nice.
@wolfhidewinter more news about your stuff is much appreciated
@sansadaily if yall have anything with sansa in the godswood I'd love to see it
@redwolf17 been reading your fanfic this past week, it's brilliant, at chapter 98 rn and can't wait to read more. Has me craving more fics where the stark kids are werewolves/skinchangers
Speaking of, if anyone has any recomdations for fics like what is describes above, I'd love to hear it.
#pagan#forest gods#dark woods#fanfics#a03 fanfic#sansa stark#game of thrones#werewolf obsession#werewolves#thehowlinghowff#celtic folklore#german folklore#folk horror#slavic folklore#scandinavian folklore#folklore#wolves
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Sophie Turner
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#sophie turner#sophie turner icons#icons without psd#icons#game of thrones#got#got cast#got icons#sansa stark#sansa stark icons#dark phoenix#x men dark phoenix#jean grey icons#x men cast#x men movies#celeb icons
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Tariffs are gonna be insane
#house targaryen#game of thrones#got#master of coin#crazy? i was crazy once#dark fantasy#dragons#arya stark#sansa stark#stark#queen of the north#dark ages
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