#Sansan

[cynicalclassicist]

Saturday SanSan!

a quick Saturday draw

[azulolivart]

An unequal marriage in Westeros.

[knightingale]

The "Sansa reminds Sandor of his sister" motive that some people try to hitch to his character really just flies in the face of his actual attachments to her, doesn't it? Sansa reminds Sandor of himself. He sees the little boy who used to love knights in this girl who's been swept up by the same romanticism. He sees his abuser in her abusers, the much larger knight(s) beating on the helpless child. He sees how she is betrayed by every level of authority that should have saved her and remembers his father's neglect and Tywin and Robert's apathy for Gregor's crimes. He's protective of Sansa because he was Sansa.

And GRRM's design, that one of the strongest warriors in the series, a fearsome and cynical 6'8" guy who's "muscled like a bull" and has the face of death itself, sees himself in this soft and effeminate teen girl, and empathizes with her because he was an abuse victim too, is INFINITELY more compelling than "Oh yeah I bet she just reminds him of his sister," who he's never mentioned and who we know literally nothing about. Way to unnecessarily water down a character, you couldn't have ignored the black and white text more efficiently if you tried.

[sansastarkdaily]

GAME OF THRONES, 2.07 "A Man Without Honor"

[chippedcupwrites]

the universal experience of trying to figure out why the Hound is being so gentle to that one girl

[sunshine-sansan]

How I started / How did I finish

Sketch for a very cool job - Monster Mayhem: Siren's Song

author - @dilatorywriting

[florianandjonquil]

GAME OF THRONES AU ↴

Having sworn to the Queen in the North, Sandor Clegane serves her with faithfulness, valor, and devotion.

[duncanrohanne]

"I could keep you safe," he rasped. "They’re all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I’d kill them."

— A Clash of Kings (art by Zhang Weber)

[stheresya]

“I forgot, you’ve been hiding under a rock. The northern girl. Winterfell’s daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. But she left the dwarf behind and Cersei means to have his head.” … "The Hound poured a cup of wine for Arya and another for himself, and drank it down while staring at the hearthfire. “The little bird flew away, did she? Well, bloody good for her. She shit on the Imp’s head and flew off.” (Arya XIII, ASOS)

this is funny. sandor hears that tyrion and sansa murdered the actual king together at his own wedding and that sansa then peaced out and left her husband to die and sandor's response to all this is "good for her" lol. we know that things didn't happen as described here but i just love that sandor is a supporter of sansa's rights and wrongs.

[sansansource]

SANSA and SANDOR + name origin

[george-martin]

INNOCENCE LOST (or a story about the pitied and envied becoming the pitying and envying)

"From Eden", Hozier // A Game of Thrones, Sansa II // A Game of Thrones, Sansa II // A Clash of Kings, Sansa IV // A Game of Thrones, Sansa II // A Game of Thrones, Sansa VI // A Game of Thrones, Sansa II // A Clash of Kings, Sansa III // A Storm of Swords, Sansa II

[banadraw]

me and my gang always winning👌🩷

[azulolivart]

The Beauty and the Beast but it’s Asoiaf

Reference:

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

You can dislike Rhaegar x Lyanna, Sandor x Sansa and Jon x Ygritte or find some of the aspects of these pairings "problematic" but that doesn't mean that Martin agrees with you. It's obvious he meant those three pairings to be romantic ones whether you support them or not.

And this isn't a post to tell you that Martin is always right or that since you like his books you have to agree with all his book opinions ( everyone is allowed to have their own views and disagree even with authors whose work they are fan of).

However, within the asoiaf universe these pairings are meant to be romantic ones, and not some negative cautionary tales So, in my opinion you should all accept that this is the reality within the story ( which once again I have to repeat that you are totally allowed not to personally like it) and stop going projecting the negative feelings you have about these pairings on Martin.

[kaorym]

[chippedcupwrites]

Sansa Stark & Sandor Clegane A Girl and Her Dog

♥ all gifs & image edits are made by me quote and painting attributions under the cut ♥

A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin │ Herbert Thomas Dicksee, The Vikings Daughter │ A Game of Thrones ep. 2x07 & Lord Byron │ Walton Ford, Gleipnir │ "One More Brevity" by Robert Frost │ A Feast for Crows by George R.R Martin │ The Secret of Moonacre (2008) and "Tuned Girl With Her Dogs" by Vivian Nguyen │ professor-pants │ John Everett Millais, The Crown of Love │ A Game of Thrones ep. 2x06 │ "The Lonely Girl And Her Dog" by Justin Gildow │ Aesop's Fables Cigarette cards (Gallaher Limited), The Wolf and the Lamb & White Oleander by Janet Fitch │ A Storm of Swords by George R.R Martin │ Douglas Malloch │ Regency oil painting, artist unknown │ A Game of Thrones ep. 2x09 & "Soap" by The Oh Hellos │ Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver │ A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev │ A Game of Thrones ep. 8x04 │ Edvard Munch, Love and Pain │ "Little Lost Pup" by Arthur Guiterman │ A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings by George R.R Martin & Edwin Henry Landseer, Saved │ "Little Lost Pup" by Arthur Guiterman │ A Clash of Kings by George R.R Martin │ "Start Here” by Caitlyn Siehl │ The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh │ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert │ A Game of Thrones ep. 2x07 & Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte │ A Clash of Kings by George R.R Martin │ Mufti Ismail Menk │ A Game of Thrones deleted scene │ John William Waterhouse, Tristan and Isolde with the Potion │ "Start Here” by Caitlyn Siehl │ A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin │ William Chapman │ "Shrike" by Hozier │ Hans Adolf Bühler, Homecoming │ Gale Smith, Promise of Peace │ "The Taming Of The Beast" by Dean Meredith │ Walton Ford, Gleipnir │