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queeryouthassemble · 2 years ago
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[ID: Pink square post with gray-outlined shells in the background. In the foreground is a wavy-edged light pink rectangle, located in the center of the page. In the rectangle is all-caps pink text, outlined in black, reading "July 25, 2023 from 2:30-5:30 Sandy Beach Heber Springs, AR" Below that, small black text reads "Bring your beach toys, games, and swimsuit (if you'd like!) to join us for some fun under the sun! QYA is bringing the community for some ice cream, swimming, and more! Don't forget sunscreen! Please email us to RSVP or ask us any questions! [email protected]" In the bottom right is an illustrated person with light brown skin and green and pink hair, wearing a striped bathing suit top and holding an ice cream cone. End ID.]
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townpostin · 7 months ago
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Kshatriya Karni Sena Expands, Names New Youth District President
Mohit Singh appointed as East Singhbhum Youth District President at Bhuiyandih event The Kshatriya Karni Sena Parivar Sangathan expanded its district-level organization, appointing a new youth leader. JAMSHEDPUR – At a special event in Bhuiyandih, Mohit Singh was unanimously chosen as the Youth District President for Karni Sena in East Singhbhum. The ceremony took place on Thursday evening at the…
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embodiedfutures · 1 month ago
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Hello, my loves. It’s been a while! My name is Reaux (she/they), and I am a third-year senior psychology major and sociology minor at Howard University. But more than that, I am someone who has spent the last 8.5 years pouring my heart into something far greater than myself—something that has shaped me, challenged me, and, in many ways, saved me. For nearly a decade, I ran Better Future Program, Inc. (BFP)—a global home for marginalized youth, dedicated to providing free educational resources, mutual aid, and a supportive space for disadvantaged communities. It was my heart, my purpose, my family. And through it, I learned some of the hardest and most painful lessons of my life. Because even in the home we had built for ourselves, we could not escape white supremacy. Even in a space meant for liberation, the burden of care, labor, and survival always fell on the backs of queer and disabled women of color. Even in the work we cherished, we felt compelled to give until there was nothing left of us. For nearly a decade, I carried BFP almost entirely on my own, save for a few volunteers of color who were just as exhausted, just as worn down. We tried everything—transformative justice, education, grace. We gave more chances than we had the capacity to give. And when those who harmed us refused to take accountability—when they twisted our care into something they could take from without giving back—we had to make the hardest decision of all. We had to let BFP go. Not just for survival, but for rebirth. Because I have learned that in order to grow into something greater, we must be willing to release what no longer serves us. As one podcaster I love, Ri Turner, says, expansion requires elimination—a truth that I have come to understand through both heartbreak and transformation. So no, BFP is no longer. That name is in the past. But we, the youth, are still here. And we are building again—this time with boundaries and sustainability at the forefront, and a love ethic that refuses our consumption. This is reclamation. This is the Embodied Futures Collective (EFC). Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing more about how we built something new from the ashes of what was. The lessons we carried, the changes we made, the ways we restructured our foundation so that what happened before never happens again. But before I invite you inside, I need you to understand this: EFC is not just an organization. It is the reason many of us are still here. It is proof that we are more than what tried to implode us. It is a love story—one written in survival, in care, and in an unshakable belief that we deserve more than just getting by, especially in our current political climate. So, please, take my hand, and walk with us. We have so much to share with you! 🩷
-- Reaux <3
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moonsnqil · 5 months ago
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aftg au where bee adopted andrew and later aaron when they were teens. she owns an apple orchard that the twins and occasionally a few of the foxes help run but it's almost harvest season and she needs help prepping everything for the town's fall festivals so she decided to put up a help wanted ad. neil, tired, alone, and running out of options, decides to apply. bee let's him use the renovated barn loft as residence when she learns he's homeless. andrew is wary, his family means everything to him and neil is a flightly little thing that could only bring bad news, but something about neil is familiar. maybe it's how he checks all his exits or how he flinches when people touch him or how he cradles the key bee gave him in his palm like it was a treasure instead of a piece of metal. he asks neil for truths and it's like bleeding a rock but he finds neil is more willing when truth is reciprocated. they spend their days walking down the lines of apple trees, harvesting and talking, and andrew is only a little mesmerized with the way neil's auburn curls blend with the red of the apples and his eyes match the sky like something deliberate, like he was meant to be here. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't hate how neil looks at him like he's worth something. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't want to lose this. he's still learning how to accept that not everything is transactional, he doesn't need to make deals to keep people close, hes still figuring out how to want things without the fear of them being snatched away. his mind screams at him to turn away and push any feeling aside but then neil is handing him an apple and smiling and telling him stories he says he's never told anyone else and andrew doesn't think he deserves this but he wants it
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aroacesocialist · 3 months ago
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I know as a young person, many of us feel like we are just fucked over by the system and can only watch. But that simply is not true. There are some things we cannot control, like major legislation and decisions. However, we can be active as fuck locally. You could be a nuisance to your local politicians to get them to vote for legislation that will help your area, and you can advocate for candidates that will actively work to improve your home rather than tear it down. The best part is, you can do both of those previous things just with your phone. In person communication is important as well, so try and find local groups that have similar thinking with you, and start to be active in a community. It’s easy to fuck over a bunch of individual people, but a community is a lot harder to mess with. You can also work to raise awareness for topics you care about within your community. I, personally, cannot drive and live in a smaller town, so i thought most organizing was off the table. But I was talking with my best friend after the election, and they suggested we actually fucking do smth. I agreed and we started a discussion group to cover important issues, with the overall goal of promoting critical thinking and awareness in society. All we did was grab a few of our friends, told them to show up at the public library, and came up with a set of guidelines for our discussions. We actually have our first meeting tomorrow, and everyone is looking forward to it. The point I am trying to make is to not give up, even if you think you can’t do something. You always can, whether it is getting one good bill passed or convincing one person to help your cause. There is always something a person can do, and once you build a community it grows naturally. If anyone wants me to share what my group is I will gladly go more in depth in a different post.
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midnight-mismanagement · 2 years ago
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Thomas Barrow is such a funny character, it’s like, man wants job security, proceeds to go about attempting to secure his job and land promotions in ways that will ensure his prompt termination. Somehow against all odds he continues to be rehired/accidentally promoted to everyone’s disbelief, including his own. Some suspect divine intervention is involved.
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nyaa · 3 months ago
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inspiteofganon · 5 months ago
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Such a niche and uncommon thing, but I really do like seeing the different ways people try and pick apart Ganondorf's youth... guy didn't spring fully-formed into the world, he was a kid once! A little baby! Was he born evil, or corrupted somehow? Why or why not? It's really interesting stuff imo. He doesn't even start out with the Triforce even though he is destined against the odds to find it...
Also it's funny to see if people decide to make him a brat or more amicable. lol. No matter what he's gonna grow up to be an asshole so the journey there's always gonna have implications. And he's gonna get to be cute for a while. At least a little.
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floortile34 · 2 months ago
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not sure if this is a hot take but school is extremely traumatic and needs huge reform. it causes immense damage to everyone who goes through it. no large-scale school system is exempt from this. this happens in all countries, not just the ones where it's worst. this problem's also inextricably tied to capitalism and neither can be fixed without also fixing the other
school genuinely breaks people (and others) with even worse being done to those with intellectual disabilities and neurodivergents and those with other psychiatric disorders
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queeryouthassemble · 2 years ago
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Queer & Trans Youth Pen Pal Project!
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[ID: A sage green square with a beige wavy-edged rectangle centered at the top. Overlaid on the rectangle in all-capital green block letters reads "Pen Pal Project." Below, over a larger beige wavy-edged rectangle, is smaller black text that reads, "We understand that it is not always easy to connect with other queer & trans youth for a variety of reasons, including location, anti-queer legislation, being closeted, and more. That is why Queer Youth Assemble has decided to officially launch the Pen Pal Project for queer & trans youth under 25. This project seeks to connect queer youth from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations to facilitate nationwide networks of care and solidarity. Visit queeryouthassemble.org to sign up and learn more!" End ID.]
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[ID: A sage green square with a beige wavy-edged rectangle centered at the top. Overlaid on the rectangle in all-capital green block letters reads "Matching Criteria." Below, over a larger beige wavy-edged rectangle, is smaller black text that reads, "Pen pals are matched based on a variety of factors, including age, interests, hobbies, and preferences, among others! While we will attempt to match you with a person who shares these characteristics with you, our ability to do so will be determined by the volume of pen pal applicants and the backgrounds of those interested in participating. We can only guarantee that penpals will be within two years of your age. " At the bottom right edge of the lower rectangle, there is a darker beige graphic of the back of an envelope. End ID.]
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[ID: A sage green square with a beige wavy-edged rectangle centered at the top. Overlaid on the rectangle in all-capital green block letters reads "Matching Safety." Below, over a larger beige wavy-edged rectangle, is smaller black text that reads, "Queer Youth Assemble DOES NOT share your physical location with your pen pal match. Instead, we will connect you via email, and allow you to exchange information with each other as you wish. If at any point you feel unsafe or uncomfortable with your penpal, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]." At the bottom right edge of the lower rectangle, there is a darker beige graphic of the front of an envelope. The stamp of the envelope is a trans flag. End ID.]
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ghostyclay · 8 months ago
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You know that your hyperfixation is getting bad when ur drawing random people to practice, but sth feels weirdly familiar about one of them, u just can't put ur finger on it
And then u suddenly realize, you accidentally drew joe hills from nashville tennessee, holding up communist propaganda, without even realizing it
(sketch below)
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embodiedfutures · 4 days ago
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Day 7: Designing Our Committees and Roles
How do you build something that feels like a family, functions like a movement, and sustains itself long-term?
That question guided us through one of the most complex and tender parts of EFC’s rebirth: deciding who we needed to become and how we’d work together.
At the core was a lesson we had already lived. From Better Future Program (BFP), we knew what worked: our grassroots spirit, our horizontality, our commitment to self-liberation. And we knew what didn’t: the exhaustion, the imbalance, the way labor always seemed to fall hardest on the most marginalized.
We didn’t want to lose the community we’d built. But we couldn’t replicate the structures that left us burnt out and unsupported. One of the biggest reasons burnout became so widespread in BFP was because roles were stretched too thin—people were juggling too many tasks across too many areas. So one of our core commitments this time around was to design clearly defined roles, each focused on a specific area of care or contribution. No one person should be holding it all.
To begin that process, we mapped out the responsibilities we needed to carry forward, identifying what roles would help us do this work well, and reflecting on what titles could honor our values—not just descriptively, but poetically. What names would reflect the love we pour into this work? What roles could help hold the collective without overburdening any one person?
That’s how our committee structure was reborn. Through conversation, memory, feedback, and iteration. Through rooting ourselves in language, legacy, and the lessons we carried forward—not just about what didn’t work, but what we needed to feel whole. We didn’t just want job titles—we wanted names that spoke to how we embody our guiding principles.
The Stewards became our executive committee—a name chosen for its connotation of reciprocity, guardianship, and caregiving across time. As one of our youth reminded us, stewardship isn’t just about the present—it’s about the past and the future, about land and memory, about archiving and accountability.
The Conservators felt right for our volunteer relations committee—those responsible for easing your journey as a volunteer with us, and for holding this collective with care. Their name evokes preservation and healing, guardianship and tenderness.
The Storytellers became our communications committee, because storytelling is world-building. It is how we remember and imagine, educate and inspire. Our visions curator, post writers, graphic designers, and community engagement coordinators live here.
The Gardeners tend to our Liberation Library and its numerous branches. We loved the imagery of foragers, seed sowers, topiarists, and composters. A living system. Knowledge that breathes.
The Bookkeepers handle our finances and fundraising. Mutual aid, resource redistribution, transparency—they track the flow of how we give and receive.
The Cultivators carry our teachings and programming. Curriculum creators. Workshop facilitators. Newsletter editors. Zine designers. They are the soil in which your learning takes root—where your questions are honored, your curiosity is nourished, and your voice is welcomed.
The Caregivers form our peer support committee—those trained in transformative justice and ready to offer you care, comfort, and guidance when tensions arise or grief surfaces.
The Webweavers maintain our digital presence—designing for accessibility, privacy, and ease. They make sure our online home is as thoughtful and navigable as our in-person ones—so your journey through our resources is intuitive, accessible, and welcoming at every turn. In a world where digital tools are too often designed without our communities in mind, the Webweavers create with equity and care at the center.
We could have chosen simpler names. But that wasn’t the point. Every name holds intention. Every title is a kind of story.
This structure is alive. It will shift. It will grow. But for now, it is the scaffolding that allows our vision to stand.
Not hierarchy, but relationship. Not rigidity, but rootedness.
Not just labor, but liberation.
— Reaux (she/they), Founding Executive Director
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coochiequeens · 4 days ago
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Ladies, please spread the word about this or reblog with other grant opportunities for women.
Deadline: 12-Apr-25
The Atiku Institute for Development is accepting applications for the Small Grants to support Women and Youth-Led Organizations.
The Next Funding Cycles are going to start soon! Don't you want to know them?
This initiative recognizes the role of Women-ted and Youth-led Organizations (WLOs S YLOS) in promoting gender equality, advocating for women’s rights, and addressing issues that disproportionately affect women and girls.
These organizations are instrumental in amplifying women’s voices and driving social economic, and political change. UNFPA the United Nations Population Fund, supports Women led and Youth led organizations through technical support and guidance for effective service delivery, accountability to affected populations, organizational management and sustainable development.
As part of its commitment to the Call-to-Action roadmap, UNFPA in partnership with the American University of Nigeria (AUN) and with funding from the Norwegian Government, is supporting WLOs 5 YLOS with micro-grants to enhance their capacity to respond to GBV In emergencies, including Initiatives in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRHI, livelihood and protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.
This call for applications aims to extend small grants to 72 eligible and successful WLOs B YLOS across the BAY (Borne Adamawa and Yobo) states to support them to articulate and deliver capacity-building actions at community level prevention and response to GBViE, initiatives in SRHIE.
Target Organizations 
Women-led and Youth-led Organisations in Borno, Adamawa, and YOBE States
Eligibility Criteria 
You can only apply for one envelop:
Proposals most address thematic areas: GBViE, SRHIE, and Youth and Women empowerment.
Organizations must be women-led with more women in the board or organizational leadership positions.
Organizations must be youth-led, with at least 70% youth membership and staff.
Organizations must have a valid accounting system with separation of powers.
Organizations must be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and provide verifiable copies of certificates with RC numbers.
Organizations shall provide photo evidence of their previous engagement Is) for the past 2 years.
Proposals that ensure disability inclusion and address “Leaving No one behind” are encouraged.
Proposal most seek to integrate Peacebuilding f, environmental protection programmes
For more information, visit Atiku Institute for Development.
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thiswaycomessomethingwicked · 5 months ago
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It is a sudden, ice-sharp slap to his chest this thing called fear. Vetinari has felt a modicum, rationale amount of fear from time to time in his life. When the situation called for it. When his animal body did as all animal bodies do: work to stay alive. But this glacier-meltwater wash is different. This is a moment of acknowledgement. Of knowing. Things will change. Maybe not this year. Maybe not next year. But change they will because change they must and hasn’t he always known this? Hasn’t he always been cognizant that he will not be Patrician forever and one day he will simply be Havelock Vetinari, private citizen. He can see his one-day garden and his one-day penchant for joining bridge clubs and going twitching in the gentle fashion of the retired. Downey unexpectedly arrives in this thought-game to ankle around, drink all of Vetinari’s future brandy, while making rude commentary about how The New Boy is getting on and offering unsolicited gardening advice. And if that day does not come, it is because he will be dead. The fear water washes through him and out, dissipating into the floor beneath foot. There, he is done. It is settled and sorted for now. And just in time for tea, which arrives with a plate of food and a note from Downey. The man who arrived in Vetinari's life when they were ten and still sticks his head up like a mushroom, after rain, a reminder that he is still here. Good luck getting rid of the mycelium. He's spread them all through the city. All through Vetinari's life.
Vetinari continues to have normal ones about everything in his life right now. Also he's having a very normal time with Downey because both of them are extremely cool and chill about each other and not at all having deeply, deeply repressed moments of oh no
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bugwolfsstuff · 5 months ago
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Pagans who have been using candles to talk to the gods (cannot remember what it's called) on tiktok: I think the gods are mad, their candles are going crazy/not lighting at all
Me who does not worship that way but just got lots of them on my fyp: ....focal?? (word??)
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atopvisenyashill · 3 months ago
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hey! i’ve been sort of lurking on your blog for a while, lol, but seeing you answer one of your recent asks abt some of your main theories got me curious enough to finally start a convo. so for the record, i was kind of ambivalent about sansa before reading some of your metas, and i’m still not really a jonsa believer, but a lot of things you’ve catalogued on ur blog did a lot to solidify sansa being lady of winterfell as a new member of my ASOIAF Endgame PredictionsTM, and seeing u answer that recent ask w all your separate bits of evidence collected together really sold it for me! quick question, though: i tend to skim-read long posts, so maybe i missed something, but did you say anything about why sansa would specifically end up as QiTN, rather than just lady of winterfell (still under whoever the next major ruler of westeros is)? i mean, especially if we do go ahead and assume that bran will end up as king in harrenhal, i don’t quite get why sansa would want to establish the north as a separate kingdom by seceding from her own brother? i suppose there’s the angle of wanting to honor what robb fought for, which certainly isn’t a bad motivator… but i think the remaining starklings, of all people, would be more likely to recognize (and focus on the fact) that robb’s main motivation in participating in the Wot5K was mostly just to avenge ned and secure the safety of the rest of his family. and even if the idea of finishing what robb started is a motivating factor, considering that asoiaf’s endgame is almost certainly going to be post-apocalyptic in some senses, i feel like whoever’s making these big decisions (even if that group does include some of the starklings, though it definitely will) would be more likely to prioritize trying to kind of return the world of westeros to something most resembling the previous status quo, which committing to splitting the kingdoms would maybe not really help with?
interested to hear your thoughts on all of this, thanks for reading :D <3
First - thank you for the compliment!!! I love to spread the gospel of Sansa As Ruling Lady In Winterfell lol, and it's nice to know I've convinced some people about some aspects of it! I have got to get better about adding a tldr at the ending though bc I too will sometimes just skim a post and queue it alsdjfla. (also validating each other on "the ending is going to be post apocalyptic" - YES that's what I've BEEN saying omg I do sometimes feel like some of the endgame predictions leave out that imo the last half of ados is going to feel very much like a post-apocalyptic type rebuilding!). Also sorry if this is kind of meandering, I wanted to organize it a bit more but that didn't work out lol.
But honestly okay - I go back and forth a LOT on whether Sansa is ruling lady of Winterfell or straight up Queen on the North. I’m still very undecided on it! I think it makes sense, narratively and just like logically that if Rickon is found he’s Bran’s heir in the South (both as a parallel to the Aegon/Viserys ending of the Dance and as a kind of neat bow tie on their story as brothers - they start the series being left behind in Winterfell and end the series choosing to stay behind but together in Harrenhal), then the girls are in the North as the Starks in Winterfell. Again, I think this is a parallel to Sansa/Serena & a play on the she-wolves of winterfell, but also, being the two oldest Starks, makes sense that Sansa is ruling lady and Arya is a sort of Hand (and like Rickon, potentially the one their line descends from but again - call me Sokka because I love to waffle!) But Queen in the North specifically? I think that's less clear than Sansa being ruling lady of Winterfell (which imo isn't just clear, it's the obvious answer for her story arc) though I still think there's a high probability of it.
First, let me get into the more conjecture side of it. Basically, I think part of the reason the kingdoms are going to split is because there will be some population and geographic changes after the Long Night/second war for the throne - I think I've mentioned it before I believe the Neck is going to "break" ie become flooded the same way the arm of dorne was "broken" and flooded and became the stepstones. This would make the North a lot harder to get to, geographically, which could further isolate them and want them to have their own monarch who is In The North and can make more snap decisions as they rebuild than Bran could all the way passed the Neck in Harrenhal.
I also think the Iron Islands are going to get fucked and Asha will lead a lot of her people to the mainland to settle, probably in the North due to them needing more population because they also got fucked - and two groups of people who are notoriously kind of isolationist coming together might prefer to stay partially disconnected from the main kingdoms. Which isn't to say they won't have contact with each other - I guess I was picturing like....idk a sort of EU thing lmao, or maybe a Narnia thing of like, open borders between the 2-3 kingdoms who are all allies and work together due to being on the same continent.
Of course, the breaking of the Neck (which is something I'm a lot more confident on - I think it's a guarantee tbh) could also drive the North back into the arms of the other kingdoms, as they need more help recovering from the Long Night and can perhaps offer help to the South as the South recovers from their wars. But anyways that's my geographic/logistical reason why I think the North might stay separated from the rest of the Kingdoms, even with a Stark King on the throne.
Now, in the previous ask, I mentioned her parallels to other Queens and some of the Queen imagery surrounding her - there's the abundant Naerys/Sansa parallels, and the Cersei/Sansa antiparallels. There's a bit of talk about how ~Sansa is good at queenly things~ and ~Joffrey was foolish to set her aside that feels (to me) like setup for her being a ruling Queen - no one can set her aside or disrespect her then, like Naerys and Cersei go through. Of course just paralleling a few Queens doesn't inherently mean she'll be Queen but I do think the emphasis on comparing her to queens is pointed - then again, imo there's also a lot of parallels between her and Princess Rhaena Targaryen of Dragon Twins fame, and Rhaena does not wind up a queen!
(there is also some parallels to historical queens there, most notably to Elizabeth of York, Queen of England and wife to Henry VII. Notably their marriage ended the War of the Roses, but I don't claim to be an expert there but I have reblogged some meta on that here and I'm sure there's others floating around).
There's also these two little bits here-
Ahead he glimpsed a pale white trunk that could only be a weirwood, crowned with a head of dark red leaves.
In their midst was a pale stranger; a slender young weirwood with a trunk as white as a cloistered maid. Dark red leaves sprouted from its reaching branches.
The first is from a Jon chapter and I think it could point to Bran or Sansa - dark red hair, pale skin, and a crown. The second one is what makes me think it points to either just sansa or both of them - that comes in a Brienne chapter. Again you have the pale skin (white as a cloistered maid) and dark red leaves acting as hair almost. To be honest, there's a lot with the Tully-Starklings having the coloring of a weirwood that's sort of fascinating in what it implies - perhaps that their roots are leading them back North, perhaps something more sinister re: Bran being eaten by a tree. I digress lol.
There's a few comments from Ned as well that feel like they might be foreshadowing-
“Brandon. Yes. Brandon would know what to do. He always did. It was all meant for Brandon. You, Winterfell, everything. He was born to be a King’s Hand and a father to queens. I never asked for this cup to pass to me.”
"Yet someday he may be the lord of a great holdfast and sit on the king's council. He might raise castles like Brandon the Builder, or sail a ship across the Sunset Sea, or enter your mother's Faith and become the High Septon." But he will never run beside his wolf again, he thought with a sadness too deep for words, or lie with a woman, or hold his own son in his arms. Arya cocked her head to one side. "Can I be a king's councillor and build castles and become the High Septon?" “You,” Ned said, kissing her lightly on the brow, “will marry a king and rule his castle, and your sons will be knights and princes and lords and, yes, perhaps even a High Septon.” Arya screwed up her face. "No," she said, "that's Sansa."
There's a lot made of that last one, about how Ned potentially lays out his kids endgames right there to Arya -
Lord of a Great Holdfast and sit on a King's Council - Jon Snow
Raise Castles Like Brandon the Builder - Bran
Sail a Ship Across the Sunset Sea - Arya
Enter the Faith and Become High Septon - Rickon
Marry a King, Rule His Castle, Sons will be {etc} - no, that's Sansa
Those comments stick out to me because imo Sansa & Arya's endgames will be a sort of mirror to Ned & Lyanna so it seems natural to me that some of Sansa's endgame would be foreshadowed in the chapters of her father the same as Arya's endgame is sort of anti-foreshadowed (idk how you would phrase that one lol) in Lyanna.
tldr i am much more confident in the idea that Sansa will rule Winterfell than I am in what title she will have while ruling. I do think there is some Sansa-as-Queen foreshadowing, in her comparisons to other Queens like Naerys, Cersei, and Elizabeth of York, and the way characters like Ned & Tyrion talk about how ~queenly~ she acts and how naturally leading under stress comes to her.
#do i write a longer meta about ned/lyanna and sansa/arya. idk.#i mean if u want my galaxy brained take i think george hadn't actually settled on whether he wanted sansa to be ruling lady until after he#finished agot which is why (imo) there's a shift in her narrative where she's frequently In The Room Where It Happens#i think he was still deciding. not that he had decided on one person and switched to sansa.#more like he was like 'well i don't know exactly how i want that par tof the endgame to go lets just write'#and by the time he finished agot he had a clearer picture ie bran in harrenhal sansa in winterfell jon in the gift#(arya is a more complicated answer but basically i do think he has always planned since he sat down and started actually writing#to have her ending be that a sibling is writing a blank check for her to do Whatever She Wants which is why he originally#wanted to write stories about her post ados - she's going to have adventures like corlys did! and note corlys despite spending#much of his youth adventuring is ALSO a big political player. same w nymeria - they were both known For Their Ships#but that doesn't mean they didn't also affect great change. i do think that's always been arya's story. and that he settled on sansa#as ruling lady bc he didn't want arya to be constrained by the limits of The System whereas Sansa would find that ending rewarding#in a bittersweet sort of way. this is a ramble omg. i tried to organize this as best as i could tho).#rani attempts meta#queen in the north#sansa stark#admiringtheskies
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