battleforthedawn:

kateofthecanals:

itsjustanerdthing:

tosingthroughthenight:

thatgirlnevershutsup:

#listen up kids#this#this is why she let ramsay die#all the screaming about how during the battle of blackwater she prayed for peace#or that she should know that violence isn’t the answer#or whatever else tripe people are coming up with#doesn’t change her truth#which is that as long as ramsay was alive#she would never be safe#and neither would anyone around her#so she took his own weapons#primed by his own hand#and simply let him kill himself#and i really don’t want to hear a damn thing about it#or i will lose my mind#and yell at people to stop being such complete chucklefucks#sansa stark#got6#got spoilers#motherfucking queen

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No one is saying she should have kept him alive and been merciful. Most of everyone’s arguments are geared towards the fact that she CHOSE to kill him in an incredibly brutal way and reveled in said brutality. Look at her deadpanned expression and then that smile on her face after watching a man (even one as disgusting as Ramsay) be ripped apart by dogs. No matter how much she wanted it, she shouldn’t be numb to the violence and it’s not badass to be, even though the show runners think it is. They thought that moment was empowering and weren’t even thinking about exploring the fact that what she was doing was incredibly traumatizing and exactly the kind of “justice” Ramsay would deal out. What happens to the northern ways? Would that not have felt like a more powerful statement and a better parallel than this? My issue is that this is so far away from who Sansa’s character is and were supposed to feel good about this moment. D&D only know how to write one kind of woman and have one singular idea of female empowerment, which is violence. This was all just part of the rape revenge fantasy they had written and they called her steely walk away shot with the smile on her face after watching someone get eaten alive one of their favorite moments they’ve ever filmed on the show. Sansa’s forced upon storyline was never handled with care or consideration and this certainly wasn’t. They can’t fathom the thematic elements of the futility of war, revenge and violence that run throughout Martin’s novels.

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It would have been a much more powerful moment if she was going to behead him herself and saying she has to do it because “The person who passes the sentence should swing the sword” and even showing it was hard for her but she did it because that is the Stark way.

But of course D&D doesn’t think Sansa is a “pure Stark” anymore so… not surprised she is more Bolton now, enjoying people being brutally murdered by dogs… and everyone cheering for it…

And having a public trial and execution would have been better for everyone else who suffered because of the Boltons, like the smallfolk and other Northern houses. It would have been justice and revenge…somehow I think some other people would have wanted to be present for that too. It would also have been a good opportunity to officially denounce the Bolton claim to Winterfell & the North, the marriage to Sansa, maybe even Ramsay’s legitmization.

Having Sansa swing the sword herself (or at least commanding Jon to do it) could have also been a way to show House Stark’s (or specifically, Sansa’s) strength – which is something she sorely needs, given the lack of support from Northern houses other than the Mormonts. And doing things publicly would have also shown her people that “the Starks are not like the Boltons; everyone – no matter how horrible they are and how much we personally hate them – is going to get a fair trial, even if it’s obvious that they’re going to be sentenced to death because their crimes are common knowledge by now”.

And I do understand Sansa feeling relieved because of Ramsay’s death, and I would never judge anyone for feeling gleeful in that kind of situation, but that’s just not Sansa. Book!Sansa does not feel gleeful and happy about people’s death, even if she had hoped they would die (like Joffrey) or if their death was good for her wellbeing. But of course, show!characters stopped having the personalities of their book counterparts a long time ago.