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Coming back from the dead is the kind of thing that can really fuck up your weekend, as Jon has recently found out (especially considering that he’d paid a mint for those concert tickets, thanks). On one hand, the bureau paperwork is horrifying, and the less said about his skyrocketing health insurance premiums or this year's taxes, the better. On the other hand, though, Sansa Stark, the pretty head of the medical/pathology research division and long-time object of Jon's affections, has insisted on giving him her utmost attention until she’s sure he’s back on his feet and fully among the living.
#my writing#my fics#jonsa fic#jonsa#jon snow x sansa stark#asoiaf fanfic#asoiaf fanfiction#got fanfic#a small goofy slightly gory oneshot of a workplace comedy?#Idk sometimes you just write something purely for yourself because it makes you personally laugh#weirdly this is one of my more romance-centered stories#despite the fact that it spends a lot of time talking about the biological implications of having been dead#like Jon does die but he also gets better right away so nobody is angsting about it#modern AU#Modern AU with magic and the paranormal#Sansa as a pathologist/medical researcher for a vague paranormal/magic government agency#Jon as a unit chief for paranormal artifact acquisition#(i.e. he's indiana jones but with paperwork)#Sansa and Qyburn as rival medical researchers who fucking hate each other#I'm trying to get back into the swing of writing AND editing and this was a good exercise plus it was also just fun to write#i make no promises about the biological accuracy of the symptoms of reanimation but it makes for a funny background thing#Melisandre as the bureau necromancer and resident office gossip
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In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said – A Jonsa College-Holidays AU
It's the Holiday Season, and the New Year might bring new chances in love. Since she was fifteen, Sansa Stark has had a crush on her big brother's best friend, Jon Snow. Not even in her wildest dreams did she imagine he would ever see her as more than Robb's little sister. Since he was a teenager, Jon Snow has had feelings for his best friend's little sister, Sansa Stark. He never went after the girl of his dreams because he didn't want to mess up his friendship with Robb, who was like a brother to him. Now, with both of them in college in King's Landing, new shots are begging to be taken. After a tumultuous relationship, Jon is ready to let go of the things holding him back and finally go after who he wants. After a bad relationship left her hesitant when it comes to love, will Sansa let go of her doubts and fears and go after what she desires most? Spending two weeks together with their whole families under one roof will help... Right?
Hurt/Comfort; Fluff
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#jonsa#jon snow x sansa stark#sansa stark x jon snow#jonsa au#jonsa fic#jonsa fandom#jonsa fam#jonsaedit#jonsa fanfiction#actuallyjonsa#jon x sansa#sansa x jon#got fanfiction#my fic#my stuff#*“everybody” by the backstreet boys playing in the background* anshe's back alright!#i finally updated#so pls read it#pretty pls#other tags:#jon snow#sansa stark
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#hmmmm what's this about?#too soon to say#maybe we'll find out soon#jonsa modern au#sometimes you gotta experiment with pics that aren't sophie and kit ya know?#also:#these images make a lot of sense for chapter 1 but less sense for the rest of it#this is like their background stories ya know?#but i couldn't find images i liked enough for the main premise
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what’s it like being the first person to post a jonsa fic on ff.net
all my love to one of the jonsa warriors who paved the way 🫡💗💗💗
Old would probably be the right answer 😆
I can tell you how I felt when I posted that fic! I told my fandom bestie who I wrote fic with and who was a Dany/Jorah shipper, I want to write this fic with this pairing you’re going to find odd and if I do everyone is going to think I’m gross. (I’d been dancing around them being in love in the background of other fics for maybe a month.) And bless her, she basically was like, it’s asoiaf, go for it.
And here we are all these long years later and I’m still writing whatever weird fic I want thanks to that encouragement.
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I did the thing again!
Took me quite a while. You can probably tell that I half-assed the lightning and background - sorry about that (I'm so tired, hah).
I was gonna make it kinda a darker version of jonsa (in anticipation of THE DREADFUL) but then I added a blush and it all became much more vanilla and innocent. So I guess, the moral of the story here - maybe you shouldn't pin your crush against the wall if you gonna be tomato red anyway then? Please, kabedon someone only if you can handle it.
So yeah. Once again - could be better, could be worse, hope you like it!
#jonsa#jonsa fanart#asoiaf fanart#still figuring out jon's face...#hope someday I'll get it done the way I like
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Homecoming
Jonsa ficlet Rating: G Universe: Canon, bookverse Other: Arranged marriage, Sansa POV
Also on AO3.
Banners appear on the horizon, the emblem invisible to her at first as the standards fly straight out behind the men who hold them, but Sansa does not need to see the fabric to know who has arrived. Ghost had been beside her in the Great Hall as she met with a group of serving women when he chuffed and sprang to his feet. The direwolf had only to look at her and she knew. They had climbed the stairs in the keep until they reached the battlements, Sansa following Ghost as he walked her around to just above the East Gate. Together, they watched over the hills to the south and east of the castle, waiting for any sign of him—for Jon and his host, riding home from a gathering with new southern rulers.
The standard bearers slow their horses, and the banners relax into a gentler movement. She can see the great beast on them now, white against a grey background. While it looks the most like a direwolf—like Ghost—it is something new, with a scaled belly, long talon claws, and feathery wings—a wolf, a dragon, and a crow all in one. Ivory weirwood trunks and limbs with bright red leaves encircle the beast to complete the design, one of Sansa’s own imaginings. With their marriage, Jon could fly the Stark banner, the grey direwolf that hangs off the battlements of Winterfell even now, but he had refused.
Ghost moves back toward the stairs, and she follows to await his master in the yard. Her palms sweat in her light leather gloves and her heart pounds. I have not been this nervous to see Jon since our wedding night.
Once her husband is through the gate and off his horse, they greet each other formally. Nervousness continues to bubble inside her as they proceed into the keep and his bedchamber, where a bath awaits him.
She leaves him there to wash off the grime of a hard ride. He frowns as she goes, no doubt sensing her disquietude. Why must he see through me? she wonders.
Perhaps his ability to do so is the very reason she finds herself in this situation.
Later, when she sees the servants taking the dirty bathwater away, she returns to his rooms. The first soft knock returns no answer, so she tries again, firmer this time, and he bids her enter.
Jon is standing straight when she opens the door, but Sansa can see the exhaustion behind his eyes. Once again, their greeting is proper. Then they fall silent, as he waits for her to explain her presence.
There are words Sansa is thinking of trying out on her tongue, ones she has never spoken to Jon before. The alliance their marriage built is so very fragile still, and affection was never part of the promises they made to each other or their people. It grew anyway, at least for her. Scarier than recognizing that is the fear she harbors that he does not feel the same.
But Sansa is brave, so she walks closer to him and twists her tongue to form the words.
“I missed you,” she says, eyes cast down. Her disposition does not prevent her from seeing his eyebrows shoot up. With them, her own walls rise. She lifts her chin as well, no longer wishing to appear demure.
“I mean to say, Ghost missed you, and I missed having you to negotiate with the wildlings. Tormund Giantsbane is the crassest man—”
Jon halts her words as he reaches out and pulls her into his chest, his nose drawing a line up her neck as he breathes in deep. Almost like he wishes to inhale me, she thinks. “I missed you as well, my lady,” he says in her ear, and sparks shoot down her back from where his breath tickles her skin.
Sansa believes him, Seven save her. After everything, her trust in people having been trampled by a cavalry of cruel men and women, this is all it takes: an embrace and seven simple words. Only his embrace, and only his words, she promises herself.
She relaxes into his arms, content for the first time in a long while.
#jonsa#jonsa fanfiction#jon x sansa#happy new year jonsa fam#book jonsa#have a ficlet#*rms#eruhwrites
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i know youre a fellow jonsa (taste 🤌) but do you have any other sansa or jon guilty pleasure ships? or ships you like to explore even in the background of your fics)
Nope! I'm a one ship kind of person, and tbh I find almost all other het Sansa ships to be gross because 90% of them are with men her father's age who have abused her or helped get her family killed. Het ships for Jon are either extremely random, with women he's never even met, or would be very toxic. I guess except Val but at this point she's barely got a personality so it's a meh for me
Now, if I was going to ship them with anyone else, it would be Margaery (or maybe Mya) for Sansa and Satin for Jon. In fact, may I introduce you to the best ship, jonsargaeratin? the quadruple you didn't know you needed
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Elizabeth of York and Henry VII have always given me jonsa vibes.
Jon’s got a right to the crown in the North through his mother and Sansa through her father. Her claim is stronger, as was Elizabeth’s over Henry’s, since her brothers were assumed to be dead.
Lyanna was a pregnant teen and so was Henry’s mother. Both parents died before the births of their sons. Henry was an only child and so is Jon.
Although Elizabeth herself was not a red headed she had a famous red headed son.
Henry’s father was Welsh and that made him the son of “a dragon”. Henry created the Welsh flag we know, a red dragon over a white and green background and flew it as his personal standard in battle.
Henry was thought by some to be a prophesied hero from the legends of Merlin and Arthur. In reality, he was rather practical, keen to make alliances through marriage, and very careful with money. Like Jon.
Their marriage brought an end to war but it would be their great grandchild, James I, who would finally unite in himself the North (Scotland) and the South (England).
Interesting, isn’t it?
Yes! I thought of you when I added that post to my Q and wondered if you'd written about that before? I know I've read a meta, and you're so good at the historical parallels!
Several people have wondered if, since we're told Bran can't have kids, we're meant to assume that Sansa's child would be his heir/eventually rule Westeros because of Cat's lines back in AGOT:
Her sons could rule from the Wall to the mountains of Dorne. What is so wrong with that? (AGOT, Catelyn II)
which fits really well with this line of spec. I saw another post the other day, a picture of a coin with Elizabeth of York with the inscription that definitely reminded me of Stark maidens/Jonsa:
The latin inscription says: ‘Elizabeth of York wife of Henry VII Queen of England’ (obverse) and ‘Hence have our roses grown’ (reverse). (link)
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Thoughts on Jon Snow as a character? He's my fav so far
I like him!
He didn't start out as a character I felt especially drawn to. I mostly pitied him, especially in ASOS, and he's very dour if that surface level dramatic melancholia and dry resignation isn't your cup of tea. I never hated him, but... he was just sort of there. And every projection for his future plot I found while casually perusing the fandom was bland. Secret Targ, okay. What's the point of that, then? Connecting the Wall plot to the dragons? Grand Tragic Secret Heir and Grand Dramatic Dragon Queen Do Grand Dramatic Tragic Destiny stuff dramatically? Zzzzzzzzz.
After delving into the theory of Jonsa, I obviously engaged more with the character, and I have grown very fond of him. Lots is lurking under the surface that I had never paid attention to in depth.
And what I find the most crucial is that his story is at its heart so small and domestic and emotional. It's relatable for being ordinary at its heart. It's about healing and reconciling after a burdened childhood, finding out what you really want and discovering you can have it. Not in grand gesture but in self-worth and honesty.
The most engaging and the absolute hinge of his characterization is his attachment to his family, his home, and the North. Being a bastard prevents him from living this out and creates The Obstacle he chafes against. It causes him to strike out looking for Importance in adventure and glory, and he fails. And learns. But it is ultimately that deep love and attachment that truly guides him in everything he does. And that makes him actually extremely interesting as a character, because it shifts his arc away from being about Magic and Apocalyptic Drama as some abstract excuse for heroics, toward that of inner conflict. It's a small, very relatable story about longing for home, playing out on a big canvas for background. All Jon does during his adventures away from home, his frustration struggling with his compassion, his understanding of the world being wittled down to questions of basic ethics, it's all based on his understanding of himself as a Stark, serving the duties and values of a member of House Stark. To belong to his family and himself in his own heart, if he cannot belong otherwise. And it highlights why those popular speculations about him are so bland. They don't touch his core. Dragons? What do they have to do with House Stark and Winterfell and his pack? Nothing. They, too, ultimately represent an Obstacle between himself and his deepest desire of truly belonging in his home without reservation, by removing his paternal connection.
Except, it's replaced by the maternal connection. One that matters just as much. That has been nagging at him all this time. It actually cements his identity, rather than dismantling it. Not shameful burden but valued and protected. This, too, takes Jon out of the realm of Bland Male Heroics (Rhaegar's special destiny boy) toward a story of inner healing and equilibrium. It's self-acceptance. Very human. Very ordinary. Very powerful.
And as a special twist - and this is why Jonsa is so brilliant as a theory - his parentage is also the key to actually granting him those impossible secret wishes of replicating his childhood the right way through his own marriage and family. But only if he is worthy of this through his actions and choices, worthy of being loved and recognized as a metaphorical prince. He get's to be a fairytale princess, essentially, raised from humility to fulfillment. Because of who he is. Who he has chosen to be again and again, because of his fundamental love. Everything else, the heroics, the missteps and recoveries, is just window dressing. Exciting ways to tell a simple story.
His story doesn't work with a tragic ending of repeated exile. It's all building toward balance and peace. It's extremely moving.
I'm a big fan.
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AKA: Character Sketches, Jonsa Art, and ASOIAF Stark family portrait series
1. Character Sketches
I've been enjoying my annual rewatch of the lotr trilogy and have spent some time doing some lotr character sketches (and i will post the finished ones soon!)
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....and since it's one of my all time favorite series it wouldn't be at all surprising if I made more lotr art down the line
Side note... this time i decided to do a quick background for my character sketches (it takes more time but it makes the sketch feel more like a finished piece) and i quite like how it turned out and may even go back to my asoiaf character sketches and add a simple background to those as well!
2. Jonsa Art
I've also been working away at a new jonsa piece as well... not giving too much away but it's inspired by fairytales (not based on one specific fairytale but rather a common trope/motif found in them).
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Its been going well and I hope to have it finished in the next week of two! (I've had a few ideas on how i want this one to look but haven't had much luck in narrowing it down to one option so most likely i will just accept that I will have multiple versions of the same piece even if it means it takes me that much longer to complete)
3. ASOIAF
....Ah yes the Book Canon Stark Family portrait series that I've talked about (i.e. promised was coming soon while I kept giving excuses to why I just haven't been able to get it finished)
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Well surprise! after nearly 6 months I've finally finished the final portrait in this set and after some obligatory last minute tweaking I will gradually start posting these new character portraits (lets say posting for this series will start at the end of the month and continue throughout the month of march)
- Crimson Cold
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In case you didn't know istumpysk did a big asoiaf reread where they went through every chapter and since they're a jonsa a lot of it is from a sansa and jon centric frame and they found and highlighted so many possible foreshadowings (not just for jonsa but also for the inidvidual characters and like stuff that the big name fans who think the series will end with jonerys, targ restoration, sansa married off to like harry hardyng or dying after killing sweetrobin would never even consider) and parallels it's insane I'd def recommend checking it out it also helped me when I was doing my reread since I had trouble with all the diff background characters
omg thx if I ever actually get to doing that re read I'll definitely parallel read this analysis! I always love when more intelligent people than me have shit to say about media I love it makes engaging with it a much more enriching experience!
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I just saw a post that Lyanna and Sansa have similar personalities/parallel stories like...what?? Apart from being women in feudal society I dont get this, where is this coming from.
It's coming from a place of wanting Sansa's character to have more plot important connections to the Starks and the North and more narrative importance. For Jonsa shippers it also comes from a place of making up more connections to Jon Snow, since they think everything revolves around Sansa in the books like how Dany's vision of the blue flower on the Wall (Lyanna's son Jon) is actually about Sansa 😂
The author specifically parallels Arya and Lyanna in the text of the books for some narrative purpose. To then go and say, well no, the real parallels are between Lyanna and Sansa or that Arya and Sansa BOTH share similarities and parallels with Lyanna is diluting the book's narrative and characterization that's there for a reason.
They can do that in their fanfiction and AU alternate worlds if they like, but in the books, that's an entire story in there with Arya being Lyanna like and her relationship with Lyanna's son and Jon's admiration of girls like Arya who is very like his mother. As a tertiary, background flashback character, Lyanna Stark serves two aspects - as Jon's mother and as Arya's literary mirror.
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One of the reasons I believe in Aegony romance is actually bc of Jonnel and Sansa. JD is the foreground couple while Jonsa is in the background. GRRM had the audience look at the Stark family tree about th rare avunculate marriage. Imagine being an aegony and to prove that the North will be okay with "it's not technically incest" marriage you have to look at the names of Jonnel and Sansa.💀Actually, they ignore Jonnsa. If I go to public forums, I'll mostly see Edric and Serena used as examples when they try to get rid of the incest label between JD. Curious as to why when you'd think they'll use Sansa 1)bc she has a namesake 2)is the first born thus more important as the heir. Why use the little sister or not both?👀 They know in their hearts of hearts. The antis cannot talk about the technicalities of incest between a Jonnel and Sansa bc Jon's response to it would be "Longspear's not your brother." Jon spoke like a true politician.😂😂
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I really appreciate that you let the characters in your fics be the characters they are. Obviously different setting/background will alter characters somewhat but some writers fics I've read (mostly stopped reading pretty quickly because the character work is so bad) I wonder if the writer even watched the show let alone knows the books exist.
I've noticed that Jonsa fic writers generally do a better job of writing the characters not just Jon and Sansa but other characters too.
I hope you and other Jonsa writers know how much the fandom appreciates you!
Thank you so much!
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hi girl, i just wanted to let you know how dearly I miss the jonsa professor/student fic. that was such a beautiful story and I miss them everyday
literally always in awe at the beauty you're able to create, hope one day you republish those fics<3
oh, this is just lovely, you are beyond lovely 🫶🏼 can’t q believe those fics are coming up four years old(!!) they absolutely consumed me when I was writing them, I remember sitting upstairs in a cafe in Cambridge with my laptop just pouring out the filthiest things whilst my friend was prepping for an annual review opposite me & church-bells were ringing in the background, lol; they are a singular time & space in my life, one I look back on with a mixture of fondness & discomfort so they’ll stay hidden in the vault for now but you never know—maybe one day I’ll come good on my jokey promise to self-publish them & they’ll be out in the world again albeit in whatever altered form! thank you for your words, they truly mean the world to me. ✨ x
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Have three!
Jonsa
Gendarya/Gendrya
Ned/Cat
Hi darling!!! Thank you for the ask!!!
Jonsa: C. I really like some takes on Jonsa and I really don’t like others. I’m *picky.* it’s no secret that I tend to like darker ships, more generally, and I trend towards that in Jonsa as well. I honestly think my reaction against Jonsa has more to do with a lot of the meta writing side of fandom and really aggressive and dogmatic fans of Jonsa rather than having much to do people creating fanworks for them. Fan behavior can really turn me off of a ship easily and I think that has happened here. This side of fandom scares me and so I tend to…avoid it because of that. I don’t think they’re necessarily a given in canon and I don’t think…it would be a happy ending for them if it happened. I think a lot of Jonsa thought can come at the sacrifice of other characters’ nuance, arcs, and significance to the narrative—Daenerys is Evil, Tyrion is a Villain, Arya is a Brat, Bran is going to be A Tree, Satin doesn’t Exist, etc etc etc and it’s sort of like? Not that simple. I also have a very very strong interest in queer readings of both of these characters and a lot of fanwork interpretation of them…is extremely heterosexual. So I guess…when it’s good, it’s great, but I don’t spend enough time reading it (with the exception of specific authors) to really know if my pov on them is popular or not.
Gendry/Arya: B; I think they’re super cute! They have a high school sweethearts vibe…but I sort of love them best as friends? I used to like them better earlier in my life, I guess. So I like them in the background of a fic but I sort of don’t need to read…like their whole romance. They’re cute in whatever situation.
Ned/Cat: a++++; get you a man who dies for YOUR character development. I seriously am obsessed with them. Perfect pairing. *chef’s kiss*
What about you?
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