fadingtales

You’ll stay with me? Until the end.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 (2011) dir. David Yates

For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner

THE LAST JEDI (2017) dir. Rian Johnson 

The story lives forever.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), dir. J.J. Abrams.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.

I’m not trying to be someone else.

Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.

i look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise and i wish i could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there’s nothing but light when i see you. ❄️🎄 happy holidays, @elizabethmulder!

Shireen.

details @ christian siriano spring 2020

one of my favorite scenes from season eight (in a sea of not so great stuff) is this visual display of who holds truly holds the power with the people. sansa isn’t the evil power hungry monster people want to say that she is, but the room is hers nonetheless.

missandei, jorah, and varys rise with daenerys. missandei and jorah obviously do so because they are hers, completely. however, my favorite part of the three of them honoring her position is that varys shoots to his feet, first. because, he’s already clocked that he made the wrong choice and the name of the game is survival – at least for now, while he observes his other options. but, despite their honoring of her position – the majority of the rest of the room honors sansa’s. 

the north, the vale – they remain seated in the margin of time, before sansa stands to her feet. but, the second that she moves, the northern soldiers stand to attention. brienne, alys karstark, yohn royce, and lyanna mormont defer to sansa. not even jaime (who holds no allegiance to her or her family) moves before she does. lyanna and alys being a key figures in that, i believe. 

lyanna, who was staunchly a king!jon supporter, before his complete disrespect of throwing away the title and trust they gave him (no matter his totally not pol!jon reasoning's totally not, that’d be crazy), as well as a pretty unjustly harsh sansa critic. and alys karstark, who was given an entire moment and dedication with ned umber, under jon’s allowing them to re-pledge their fealty. she, along with ned in the previous meeting upon daenerys’ initial arrival, has all the reason in the world to still look at jon as the power in the room, despite his giving it away. just as ned had, as well. but, the reason she stands with sansa – the reason ned also previously addresses her as the person who will make the decisions for winterfell and literally forgets to address jon and daenerys and has to awkwardly correct himself – the reason sansa holds the room, is because she is the one who has been making those decisions. she’s the one who’s been taking care of them and the rest of the people. feeding them, housing them, calling them all to winterfell’s walls for safe keeping.

at brienne’s testimony, it’s sansa’s sway away from a small moment on daenerys’ side of the line on the matter (her only small moment on daenerys’ side of the line, because despite what the g.a. think she was absolutely not on her side at any point during their conversation in the library. thinking she’d be so easily turned into a supporter, because a chick made fun of jon’s height, gave a canned speech about her completely superficial love of him, openly admitted that she didn’t show up because she cares about the survival of the the people of westeros, and proved she has no actual plan for ruling is super insulting to sansa) that turns the room and daenerys’ available choices. jon’s following response. daenerys’ having to suck it up and not kill this man who saved a city.

even jon defers, as well, to sansa’s position – if subconsciously or not. distractedly standing with her opinion on letting jaime stay (and not be set on fire), when he knows the smartest thing for his totally not pol!jon totally not situation is to just agree with daenerys on the matter of this singular man, who doesn’t even have his sword hand any longer. and also on something as simple as honoring daenerys’ position. he should’ve stood with missandei, jorah, and varys. he does not. he stands after sansa, just as the rest of the room does. and avoids daenerys by leaving after/with sansa, after she bounces from the room. the only person who does not see the power in sansa’s hands – who still has it placed firmly in jon’s, despite season eight trying to imply he suddenly just doesn’t give a shit about this dude and is good with letting him rot at the wall – is davos. who defers to jon. steadily rises with him. 

it’s all too subtle. just like most everything of any worth in the last seasons. i’m constantly seeing people who didn’t even realize it happened, just as most people don’t notice that jon tries to take a dragon with him to kings landing, when it directly disobeys daenerys’ order. but, despite the fact that it’s too subtle, it’s still one of – i believe – the best moments and visual displays of just how well sansa has had the people’s backs in taking care of them, to have them behind hers so prominently (with two other rulers in the room that they’re technically “supposed to be” supporting), even before she’s given a crown.

faith lehane + smiling

♡♡♡ sansa stark being an evil, cold, unfeeling, and emotionless bitch in season eight of game of thrones ♡♡♡

Yeah. Well, ‘tis the season. Whatever that means.

I am hurting so much right now

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