The writing, themes, exposition and asides in #HouseoftheDragon has validated 1000 percent of my #SanSan thinking
so that’s nice
The passel of feral hogs that live in the Haunted Forest near Stone Door exists to feed the pack of dire wolves that live under the Wall at Woodswatch-by-the-Hole.
Some Vows, Foreshadowed
Art by mathiaarkoniel
You know my crackpot theory that
- Sandor Clegane is going to take the black and be hanging out at the Night’s Watch outpost Eastwatch-by-the-Sea when Sansa arrives there after fleeing the Vale (because she is the sister in grey in Melisandre’s vision)?
- And from there he stays with her until she recaptures her ancestral castle Winterfell for the Starks?
- And maybe/definitely they symbolically/mythologically get married at Woodswatch-by-the-Hole even if they don’t say words or fuck on the page?
Well, even if you don’t remember it…that’s one of my crackpot SanSan-in-TWOW theories.
ANYWAY, I was just re-reading SanSan’s “first date” back when Sandor was still Joff’s sworn sword and loyal man and so forth.
Sansa started as Joffrey laid his hand on her arm. “It grows late,” the prince said. He had a queer look on his face, as if he were not seeing her at all. “Do you need an escort back to the castle?” “No,” Sansa began. She looked for Septa Mordane, and was startled to find her with her head on the table, snoring soft and ladylike snores. “I mean to say…yes, thank you, that would be most kind. I am tired, and the way is so dark. I should be glad for some protection.” Joffrey called out, “Dog!” Sandor Clegane seemed to take form out of the night, so quickly did he appear. He had exchanged his armor for a red woolen tunic with a leather dog’s head sewn on the front. The light of the torches made his burned face shine a dull red. “Yes, Your Grace?” he said. “Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her,” the prince told him brusquely. And without even a word of farewell, Joffrey strode off, leaving her there.
And then as the chapter continues, there are many many observations about the absence of chit-chat (even though they break this up with Sandor confessing his darkest secret to and like crying on an 11yo girl).
* “the silence weighing heavier with every step.”
* “The rasping voice trailed off. He squatted silently before her, a hulking black shape shrouded in the night, hidden from her eyes.”
* “The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more,”
* “The rest of the way into the city, Sandor Clegane said not a word.”
* “They rode in silence through the King’s Gate and up torchlit city streets.”
OK we get it, Gurm, Sandor Clegane knows how to not talk.
So what I’m saying here is I think this whole chapter is, yes, a massive exposition dump of Sandor’s backstory but ALSO major foreshadowing of how books ahead Sandor will get her back home safe, entirely unharmed and still chaste, even though (gasp!), she was unaccompanied for the duration of the perilous journey by neither a septa nor a legally recognized family member. (Don’t worry, my fellow sickos, there will be plenty of innuendo and sexual and marriage symbolism for us to use in our aged-up totally wholesome fanfiction).
>”He took her safe all the way to the corridor outside her bedchamber.”
— A Game of Thrones
>”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
tldr: Early in Act I (AGOT), GRRM makes a huge point of Sandor escorting Sansa home safe to a very generalized “castle” while overemphasizing Sandor’s silence because the whole passage is foreshadowing for the Sansa plot in Act III (TWOW).
“I’d sooner be stolen by a strong man than be given t’ some weakling by my father.”
—Ygritte the wildling, ASOS
(Pretty on the nose for Joffrey-Sansa-Sandor love triangle!)
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The Witcher - S2E6 “Dear Friend…”
He’s like “take my daughter to safety i can’t leave yet first I have brutally murder these dudes for even looking at her”
Season 2 of The Witcher really said "I support women's rights but more importantly, I support women's wrongs" and I think that's beautiful.
Pay attention to Woodswatch-by-the-Pool
Guys did you know there's a ruined castle of the Night's Watch that has both a weirwood and a pool (presumably a hot pool similar to Winterfell)?
In some GOT role-playing games a dire wolf pack has taken residence in the ruins.
Also, Jon Snow has regarrisoned almost all of the NW castles except Rimegate and Hoarfrost Hill, for sure, and maybe Woodswatch-by-the-Pool .
So there's an empty or nearly empty castle with an open portal to the Old Gods and maybe the only stable heat source in the North outside of Winterfell, and it's right next to the Wall, and maybe it's guarded by dire wolves, which is handy for keeping it abandoned by anyone but Stark pack members.
All I'm saying is Florian spotted Jonquil in a pool, and also everyone thinks this line is about Lyanna in the past, but I think it's about Sansa in the future:
"A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness." --Daenerys vision, HOTU
Art by @doaly on Twitter
I liked the Eternals a lot you guys. I kept being confused because it was being good and I was like “but I thought it was supposed to be bad?”
“I’m as stupid as that hog you stuck back in that village. I wish I’d never laid eyes on you.”
Sandor Clegane, reflecting on the things he does for love, like risking his neck to save ungrateful wolf pups, as a demonstration of his devotion to the woman he loves and her family
Hey cmere I have a secret to tell you
Sansa and Sandor reunite at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea on the Wall in The Winds of Winter.
She’s the girl in gray in Melisandre’s vision, fleeing this marriage they’ve made for her, seeking the protection of her half-brother Lord Commander Jon Snow.
He’s come to take the black for a multitude of reasons, not least which of are that he has dreams and visions that call him North.
Hijinks ensue.
Pass it on.
“Your sons will be killers someday”
I get downright giddy when I think about Sansa and Sandor’s army of enormous-monster Stark men.
The pack survives.
Me logging onto tumblr dot com to check my trash little blog and post my trash little posts about my trash little interests
Chrys Watches GoT [x]
Ned: …it’ll teach the kids responsibility…
Cat: Ned.
Ned: What?
Cat: Nothing. I can’t kill you. I have too many fucking kids with saber tooth dogs. I need back up
lovely-young-bones
Some Vows, Foreshadowed
Art by mathiaarkoniel
You know my crackpot theory that
- Sandor Clegane is going to take the black and be hanging out at the Night’s Watch outpost Eastwatch-by-the-Sea when Sansa arrives there after fleeing the Vale (because she is the sister in grey in Melisandre’s vision)?
- And from there he stays with her until she recaptures her ancestral castle Winterfell for the Starks?
- And maybe/definitely they symbolically/mythologically get married at Woodswatch-by-the-Hole even if they don’t say words or fuck on the page?
Well, even if you don’t remember it…that’s one of my crackpot SanSan-in-TWOW theories.
ANYWAY, I was just re-reading SanSan’s “first date” back when Sandor was still Joff’s sworn sword and loyal man and so forth.
Sansa started as Joffrey laid his hand on her arm. “It grows late,” the prince said. He had a queer look on his face, as if he were not seeing her at all. “Do you need an escort back to the castle?” “No,” Sansa began. She looked for Septa Mordane, and was startled to find her with her head on the table, snoring soft and ladylike snores. “I mean to say…yes, thank you, that would be most kind. I am tired, and the way is so dark. I should be glad for some protection.” Joffrey called out, “Dog!” Sandor Clegane seemed to take form out of the night, so quickly did he appear. He had exchanged his armor for a red woolen tunic with a leather dog’s head sewn on the front. The light of the torches made his burned face shine a dull red. “Yes, Your Grace?” he said. “Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her,” the prince told him brusquely. And without even a word of farewell, Joffrey strode off, leaving her there.
And then as the chapter continues, there are many many observations about the absence of chit-chat (even though they break this up with Sandor confessing his darkest secret to and like crying on an 11yo girl).
* “the silence weighing heavier with every step.”
* “The rasping voice trailed off. He squatted silently before her, a hulking black shape shrouded in the night, hidden from her eyes.”
* “The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more,”
* “The rest of the way into the city, Sandor Clegane said not a word.”
* “They rode in silence through the King’s Gate and up torchlit city streets.”
OK we get it, Gurm, Sandor Clegane knows how to not talk.
So what I’m saying here is I think this whole chapter is, yes, a massive exposition dump of Sandor’s backstory but ALSO major foreshadowing of how books ahead Sandor will get her back home safe, entirely unharmed and still chaste, even though (gasp!), she was unaccompanied for the duration of the perilous journey by neither a septa nor a legally recognized family member. (Don’t worry, my fellow sickos, there will be plenty of innuendo and sexual and marriage symbolism for us to use in our aged-up totally wholesome fanfiction).
>”He took her safe all the way to the corridor outside her bedchamber.”
— A Game of Thrones
>”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
tldr: Early in Act I (AGOT), GRRM makes a huge point of Sandor escorting Sansa home safe to a very generalized “castle” while overemphasizing Sandor’s silence because the whole passage is foreshadowing for the Sansa plot in Act III (TWOW).
Is there still a SanSan Discord? Looking for an invite link if it exists
Imagine inventing a dog who was fit to mate with a lady dire wolf and father a renewed line of fierce wolf-dogs.
Think of what a beast he would need to be—to take a place in that long line of wolf kings
“Sansa woke and found the old blind dog beside her once again. ‘I wish that you were Lady,’ she said.”
— SHE MAGICALLY CALLS OUT IN HER SLEEP FOR LADY AND LATER THE HOUND, and a literally blind and half-crippled dog answers her call and comes to find her because such is her power. SANSA IS A WARG TOO.