ByCrystal.

I’m writing this as a person who suffered from years of abuse, have lived through two separate traumatizing events, struggles with PTSD, and has attended weekly therapy sessions for almost five years. These posts that I keep seeing that are calling this scene disgusting are ridiculous. Because me, A REAL LIFE TRAUMATIZED PERSON have said nearly the EXACT same thing that Sansa says in this scene.

I recognize that without the things I’ve suffered I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. Yeah, maybe I wouldn’t be traumatized but I also genuinely believe that I wouldn’t be as kind, as empathetic, as patient, or as strong.

I, and Sansa, and many other people, have walked through the Fire and come out burned, but stronger for it. We recognize that we can’t go back and change things, and so we choose to learn and grow.

No, you don’t have to suffer traumas to be strong and to grow as a person but sometimes people do that. And it’s valid, and not disgusting.

She’s not appreciating what’s been done to her, she is accepting it.

Every day human beings chose to see their painful past at the thing that helped mold them into who they are. Every day people chose to see the past they didn’t ask for and can not change as more then just a moment of victimhood. Are we really gonna sit on here and tell them that what they mean when they say this is that they deserved to have their trauma and needed it to become who they are because that’s a slap on the face to every person who has ever been victimized before.

I acknowledge everyday that without my mental breakdown in 2015 I wouldn’t be the strong student and more complete person I am right now. Did I want the breakdown? Hell no. Do I think I deserved it? Hell but without it I wouldn’t have finally made the decision to get therapy. I wouldn’t have talked to my family about it more and helped change their views on mental health, I wouldn’t be more stable now, I wouldn’t have better tools to cope and without that I probably wouldn’t even be in medical school right now I would still be that same women paralyzed by anxiety and depression

This interview with Tati Gabrielle was interesting, some highlights

1. I knew it was her decision to come into the audition with fingerwaves in her hair but she also asked the producers to let her shave her head in Part 2 and she did her own hair all season, which is probably why Prudence looked so good.

I just know they didn’t have a black hairstylist on set, Sabrina’s wig is horrendous lol

I rather the Lady who is concern about the safety and health of the people she housing, AND finding ways to end the Night King than somebody worrying about titles and bending some knee. 

like wow buddy. Do you wanna go there? Sansa IS smarter than everybody and this episode proves it. Has Jon forgotten all that has happen in recent months? Sansa has complete faith in Jon. She trusts him and wants him beside her and the others. Yet, he repays her by being so damn ignorant and dismissive of her VALID concerns....