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The Hounds of Harrenhal

Longfic! Currently at 132k words, will probably be ~300k by the time it’s completed. On a break but not abandoned. Canon compliant except for the fact that Sansa is now Robb’s fraternal twin. The story begins in 302 AC, making Sansa 19 and Brienne 21. This is queer adventure romance about Sansa x Brienne.

After Jaime’s death, Brienne takes over the Hound’s helm and persona in her grief. To restore his honor and legacy, she resumes her mission to find Sansa; along the way, she enters a tourney at the Eyrie as the Hound to win some much needed coin to continue on through winter. At the Eyrie, Lady Alayne Arryn begs the stranger in the Hound’s helm for help escaping a doomed marriage.

Brienne temporarily sets aside her mission to help the lady escape north to reunite with her family. Petyr Baelish then announces that the Hound has abducted Sansa Stark, who has been in disguise as his bastard daughter Alayne, and advertises a large reward for her safe return. All this as Tyrion uses his previous marriage to Sansa as an attempt to take the Vale for the mountain clans and Daenerys, ultimately leading to a second dance of the dragons as the Long Night looms over a years-long winter.

Soon all the singers of Westeros would sing of Harrenhal’s Hounds, their witch queen, and the “abduction” that started it all - but life is not a song. In this story, it is far sweeter.

Painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee.

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Art by @mourningstormss, commissioned by me.

Spring in the Widow’s Tower

Also a longfic but not quite as long as THOH — currently 13k words, my goal is ~30k words when it’s complete. A slowburn with family elements, lots of internal reflection, angst balanced out by occasional fluff.

307 AC. The War for the Dawn is won and Brienne of Tarth finds herself listless when her seven years of service to the now-King Bran come to an end as he takes his place on the Isle of Faces. In the wake of Jaime’s death, she sets off to honor her vow to Lady Catelyn and right a wrong with the dowager queen Sansa, whom she made a widow two years prior when King Aegon VI went to war with Daenerys. Brienne only wishes to die a true knight; fate has other plans for her.

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  • Your mother has a low born foster brother she had spurned in her youth who is now back after years of accumulating wealth and climbing the social ladder and is now engineering the downfall of your family for the perceived faults done to him
  • Have an older catty woman who mentors and protects you yet is ripped away from your side when your father dies
  • Have a weird almost freudian relationship with said foster brother who maintains an idealic love for your mother even after her passing and seems to view you as her replacement and stand in while at the same time being seen as his 'daughter'
  • Be a young idealic girl who is emotionally manipulated by said foster brother and his lackeys making sure you dont have agency free will or means to escape him via financial manipulation and the taking of your inheritance
  • Be Cathy Linton
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“In the cold night air the wound was smoking. “Ghost,” he whispered. Pain washed over him…He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold…”

“Off in the distance, a wolf howled. The sound made her feel sad and lonely, but no less hungry. As the moon rose above the grasslands, Dany slipped at last into a restless sleep.”

snowstorm drawn by @knowelspole

commissioned by me 🎀

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More male characters who are interested in their mother's legacy. As a trope there's a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father's footsteps and there's yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let's have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom's secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they're like aight gotta make the tea

Sometimes i’m okay with never getting more ASOIAF books because that means there’s zero risk of me having to endure GRRM writing Sansa ending up with the guy who wanted to rape her at knifepoint (idgaf that he didn’t go through with it he’s still nasty as fuck for that) when she was 12 years old and portraying this as a positive, romantic thing instead of the tragic horror that it actually would be

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SANSA STARK — “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.”

➥ commission made by M3owthKai on twitter/X. reposts are only permitted if properly credited.

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what's your favourite sansa stark ship?

sandor clegane

jon snow

margaery tyrell

petyr baelish

theon greyjoy

tyrion lannister

podrick payne

brienne of tarth

cersei lannister

daenerys targaryen

tywin lannister or stannis baratheon

other (tag your ship)

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books or show, your choice. i've included ships that might make you go "huh", like tywin or stannis (apologies for lumping them together btw), but i assure you these are all variously established ships in fandom.

apologies to the harry hardyng, domeric bolton, willas tyrell and aegon iv shippers, i know keeping them off is egregious especially the latter couple since sansei only has 150 unfortunately this is my poll and i want sansei there. also sorry to the aegon ii/sansa and aemondsa shippers, i'm keeping this to asoiaf/got, i do see you. you have been seen. for better or worse.

i should probably have included an 'i dont ship her with anyone' option, that's my bad just pick other

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“Sometimes she would close her eyes and dream of him, but it was never Jorah Mormont she dreamed of; her lover was always younger and more comely, though his face remained a shifting shadow.” - daenerys II, asos

"Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall." - jon vi, adwd