Sansa, get over yourself. Tyrion doesn’t want to be married to you. He’s just as pissed off by this arrangement as you are.
The only difference is, he’s not going to beat you every night unlike the guy who were SO FUCKING IN LOVE WITH, YOU WERE TOO FUCKING STUPID TO SEE HOW HE ACTUALLY WAS AND CAUSED SO MUCH OF THIS SHIT THAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
delete your blog
how about you suck my non-existant dick
How about you go make friends with Ramsay Bolton, you peasant??
Sure, Tyrion’s got just as many reasons to hate the marriage as she does— wait NO HE DOESN’T. Because as you pointed out, Sansa is a terrified CHILD who was fucking BEATEN and TERRIFIED and ABUSED by the last man she was betrothed to. Who also promised to take care of her and never hurt her, BTW, so she has a good fucking reason not to believe Tyrion when he says the same thing. You guys want character growth? Well that’s what it looks like.
Every other Lannister that Sansa’s met has manipulated and hurt her, and just when she thought she was going to get away from the horror, she’s getting pulled back in, and WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT HER TO BE OKAY WITH THAT? The fact that Tyrion is an older man who she finds physically unattractive, who not only has the right but is EXPECTED to force her to have sex with him (ie, rape her), is just the icing on the cake.
YOU DO NOT TELL SANSA FUCKING STARK TO “GET OVER HERSELF”. It is NEVER okay to tell somebody to “just get over” their abuse. EVEN A GODDAMN FANTASY CHARACTER. Because make no mistake, this is a story about just about every kind of abuse you can do to a person. Even if ‘all Sansa does’ is survive it, YOU FUCKING RESPECT HER FOR THAT. And, IMO “just surviving” in the trainwreck of King’s Landing makes her a whole lot braver than other characters I could name, who get shit on a whooole lot less.
In conclusion: Stop talking. Sansa Stark is way cooler than you.
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DO YOU EVER THINK OF THE PERFECTION THAT IS TERRY PRATCHETT AND CRY QUIETLY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT TERRY PRATCHETTIT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN MY GOAL TO BE SOME UNHOLY AMALGAMATION OF TERRY PRATCHETT AND NEIL GAIMAN SINCE I WAS 13
Tom Hiddleston as Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive (x)
OH HELL I’M HERE FOR THIS TOO.
is it fall yet?I NEED THIS SO BAD!!!
That looks pretty rad actually, and with a delightfully diverse cast. It was nice to see Clancy Brown again in that like two seconds before he got his head chopped off. Clancy, don’t become the next Sean Bean. DON’T DO IT.
Okay, this looks cracked out, but in the best possible way, and the cast is BANGIN’. HELLO JOHN CHO I SEE YOU THERE BEING BADASS.
I will definitely watch the pilot.
Historical fiction/fantasy with kick-ass ladies and a really cute lead? Where do I sign up?
I re-blogged a picture of a little girl, dressed as Tiana, hugging the face actress who plays Tiana at one of the Disney Parks, and noted that everyone should have their princess. And a few people have now contacted me basically going “no, only straight white people can have princesses if you stick with the classics.”
Um.
No.
I am a folklorist, and it’s time for some Fun With Folklore.
First off, very few Princesses/fairy tale heroines who are going to become Princesses because that’s what you do are actually defined by specific physical attributes. You have Snow White, who yes, requires the “skin as white as snow” etc, but that’s to make her an alien beauty and justify the actions of her stepmother. She belongs to the Aarne-Thompson tale type 709, which is commonly referred to as “Snow White,” but which contains a hell of a lot more, including “Bella Venezia”, “Myrsina”, “Nourie Hadig” and “Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree.” All those links will take you to Wikipedia. Click them. Note that NOT ONE of those girls is defined by her appearance, beyond “incredibly beautiful.” “Nourie Hadig” is Armenian in origin; you can bet that girl was not white as snow. (Note that I do not actually care for the “Nourie Hadig” 709 variant, due to using a Roma girl as the main adversary, but that’s another story.) Any story you want to tell is going to have variants where the heroines are never described! You know why?
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TELLING THESE STORIES UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN TO SEE THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR OF THE TALE.
There are fairy tales about people with disabilities, ranging from the physical (missing limbs, missing eyes, missing tongues) to the emotional (girls who cannot smile, boys who cannot feel fear). There are fairy tales that end in same-sex marriage. There’s even an excellent fairy tale about gender identity, “The Princess Who Became A Prince,” in which our hero has always felt he was a boy, but tried to be a dutiful daughter, until a dragon stole a neighbor princess and he had to ride to rescue the girl in order to save the kingdom. One misaimed curse later, and wham, our new-minted prince is finally outwardly as he had been all along on the inside.
THIS IS JUST AS OLD AND TRUE AND SCHOLASTIC AS CINDERELLA AND THE OTHERS.
The “big fairy tales” of today are the ones that someone seized on as marketable. We have the power, as drivers of media, to say that we want more diversity. We want Princesses of every race, creed, and religion, and we have the folklore and fairy tales to make them real. We want our transgender Princess (although wow would the marketing be problematic). Saying “the classics” are 100% about straight white people reduces the past to a place where only straight whiteness existed, and where no other children ever needed stories. And that’s not what the past was.
Once upon a time has never stopped being right now.
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AAAUGH!!!!!!
Jenny Dolfen has a tumblr!
For those of you who don’t know or can’t see the photoset for some reason, Jenny Dolfen is glorious and I’ve been irrationally obsessed with her since like middle school. Her canon is my canon.
The Lord of the Rings Movie Trivia: Cameos & Special Appearances
I have like 5 more pages worth of writing due tomorrow, so instead I’m doing a ridiculous rant on like, ALL the issues with magical Britain.
What’s a good word for the parasitic oppression thing that magical governments have going on with muggles and non-humans? Magical exploitation? Magearchy?
So, Sansa is the only one of the Stark children that doesn’t have a direwolf anymore, and that’s always bugged me because they’re such an important part of the other Starklet’s stories.
But. It makes sense in terms of symbolism, because she’s the only one of the Starlets described as taking after…
She actually still has a very deep connection to the north. I presume you don’t read the books? In the books she often visits the godswoods after her father is killed. She longs for the north the entire time she’s captive. It’s what much of her narrative is about.
I have read the books, but the last time I did a complete read-through was like two years ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy. ^_^
I’m not denying she has a connection to her family or anything, and of course she wants to go home to Winterfell very badly, but… she also doesn’t have the same connection to the North that her brothers and Arya do. She doesn’t ever go beyond the wall, for example, and when I say North that’s what I’m talking about.
Sansa’s strength and personality just come from a different place. Sansa is all about family (and endurance and honor). The best way I can think of to illustrate that is that she plays the game of thrones with Petry Baelish, and she isn’t dead yet. That’s better than at least one frozen Stark I can think of… XD
So, Sansa is the only one of the Stark children that doesn’t have a direwolf anymore, and that’s always bugged me because they’re such an important part of the other Starklet’s stories.
But. It makes sense in terms of symbolism, because she’s the only one of the Starlets described as taking after her southern mother and not even looking like a Stark. And she worships the Seven, so she wouldn’t need a warg to connect to the old gods. And even when she had a direwolf it was the sweetest fluffiest thing ever I means she named it LADY for fucks sake, it was barely a wolf at all…
TD;DR, it wouldn’t make sense for her to have a direwolf, because she’s not a wild northerner at heart. Her connection would be to something that she can tame, like she is. And what’s a wolf that’s not wild anymore?
It’s a hound.
