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Hello New Shippers!

So you think you might be shipping JonxSansa? You think it might be SO SWEET?! But you don’t even know where to start?? DON’T PANIC, REMAIN CALM! WE ARE HERE FOR YOU!

Here is quite possibly the most ridiculous fic rec list I have ever made all for your NEW JONXSANSA SHIPPER NEEDS! This is a list of completed, canon verse, canon divergent, and future canon, multi-chapter, one shot, and series fanfictions that are PERFECT for finding out exactly what’s so amazing about shipping Jon x Sansa.

Multi-Chapters

A WINTER’S TALE (M) by @justadram

What Once Was Sweet (T) by @justadram

Found in Forbidden Nights (M) by @alienor-woods

A Knight’s Watch (M) by @dolorousedditor

This Is How Our Dreams Arrive (E) by @thefairfleming​ and @misshoneywheeler​

Night’s Kingdom (E) by @misshoneywheeler

Whispered Like A Secret (M) by @thefairfleming

Bring My Soul to Bare by @ladyannabethstark

Learn to Love What Burns (M) by @ladyannabethstark

All That We Forgot (T) by @rumaan

A Bronze Crown (T) by @sansapotter

Playing Pretend (M) by @sansapotter

Sometimes Love is Not Enough (E) by @lunaplath

Stages (E) by @paperflowercrowns

Who Am I, Darling, To You? (T) by @blackholeofprocrastination

One Shots

(No Queen but the Queen in the North) Whose Name is Stark (E) by @alienor-woods

Paint My Spirit Gold (E) by @alienor-woods

The Place You Call Home (E) by @misshoneywheeler

Kiss Me a Question (E) by @misshoneywheeler

Heavenly Creatures (E) by @misshoneywheeler

Half a Kingdom and a Princess (M) by @misshoneywheeler

All the Pretty, Pretty Pieces by @jillypups

To Have You Here With Me by @jeeno2

Celebrating (E) by @justadram

Souls’ Day (M) by @justadram

A Northern Reel (T) by @justadram

Hold The One You Love (M) by @thefairfleming

Worth the Wait to Give You My Heart (M) by @thefairfleming

Flame from Embers (T) by @thefairfleming

We Can Light a Match & Burn It Down (sequel to Flame from Embers) (M) by @thefairfleming

And If You Want, Me I’m Your Country (M) by @thefairfleming

Come, Raise Your Flag Upon Me (M) by @thefairfleming

The Six Songs of Sansa Stark by @thefairfleming

Is Your Heart Burning Like the Sun (T) by @thefairfleming

Kiss the Dusk (M) by @sansapotter

Hard Times for Dreamers (M) by @sansapotter

The Old Gods and the New by @sansapotter

stars flutter into dust (M) by @sansapotter

Snow Kisses (M) by @caesiamusa

Old Scars (Don’t Quite Fade) (E) by @caesiamusa

Paint My Spirit Gold (M) by @alienor-woods

You Stole the Sun from My Heart (E) by @xylodemon

Lift Me Like an Olive Branch and Be My Homeward Dove (T) by @river-soul

Build a Ladder to the Stars (M) by @vixleonard

And All This Devotion, I Never Knew At All (E) by @vixleonard

True North (M) by @vixleonard

Any Greeting (E) by @lunaplath

Bedchambers (E) by @lunaplath

In the Midst of the Ruins (T) by Idday

Marry Me In Some Old-Fashioned Way by @blackholeofprocrastination

Nurture (M) by @myriddin

Strange Bedfellows (E) by @myriddin

One Step Forward (T) by @myriddin

All That Glitters (is not Gold) by @rumaan

A Haunted Place (T) by @rumaan

The World Turned Upside Down (T) by @rumaan

A Bridal Cloak for Jon by @rumaan

Here Be Monsters (T) by @lissag7

For Tomorrow We Die (T) by @lissag7

I Can Kiss You There (M) by @elzabetholsens

Series

Navigating (M-E) by @justadram

Broken Pieces (T-E) by @justadram

The Threesome in the North (T-E) by @thefairfleming and @misshoneywheeler

Bedroom Hymns (M-E) by @thefairfleming and @misshoneywheeler

1. Beasts of Seasons by simonetta

She had prepared her words and her actions meticulously. She hadn’t prepared to actually see him. Or, Jon and Sansa reunite and things don't go according to plan, forcing Sansa to reevaluate her identity and her loyalties and forcing Jon to come back to himself. Post-ADWD, bookverse fic. Jon and Sansa reunite on campaign to win back Winterfell.

2. The Difference by @asilentfrenzy

“I was not the one to strangle your brother or burn your grandfather.” “The North sees no difference.” Sansa’s glassy eyes focused and trained directly on Aemon's, her gaze becoming fiery with an intensity that threw him off before her tone dropped in temperature. “The Starks see no difference." The implication was clear and quite intentional, and the blow was all the harder in the knowledge that she took the risk to make it despite how fearful of him she was.

3. deathless by @kingsansa

“The men I came here with,” He began, “The ones my family chooses to associate with—they aren’t my friends. And they’re nobody you would want to know. They’re callous and greedy. They aren’t good people. If they see something or someone that belongs to someone who they perceive as their better, they’ll want it. They’ll do anything to take it. They can’t help themselves.” His skin was rough, but his touch on the underside of her jaw was velvet. His fingertips were cold. She told herself that that was why she was shuddering. “Do you understand?” He asked. She didn’t. She was tired and tipsy and confused and frustrated— She was starving in a way she never had before, for something that she couldn’t understand. “But I don’t belong to you,” She said, uncertain and shaky; a doe on new legs. “No,” He said. “You don’t.” And she wondered if she imagined it, the way his chin ducked, a nod of appeasement, as if to say: Not yet.

4.Cute But a Psycho by @amymel86

Sansa is hung over on the morning her husband's severed hands are delivered to her doorstep.

5. hiraeth by @kingsansa

“You’ll permit me.” He murmured. It was not a question. But for reasons she could not understand, she knew she would. He ran his fingers over her cheek. Along her brow. Underneath her chin. He did not venture underneath her veil. He acted as if he did not need to. His touch was warm, almost reverent. When at last, his hand returned to his side, he said, just loud enough for her to hear, “There you are.” Alayne said nothing, but the breath she released was tremulous. Anticipatory. Exhilarated.

6. wolfsong by @kingsansa

She does not close her eyes. She does not sleep. She does not dream. After almost 200 years of running, it is the one place he always manages to find her.

7. Beloved Monster by @amymel86

“An acquaintance of mine can settle all your debts,” the man says, still not looking at Harrold as he makes his offer. Sansa is stunned. Glancing to Harry, she can tell he is too. Her hand absentmindedly reaches up to her neck, tips of her fingers whispering over the bare skin where her mother’s garnet necklace used to sit. Coming out of his momentary stupor, Harry shakes his head. “Sir, I thank you for the offer but my debts are significant and I doubt your acquaintance will-“ “He has the means to cover it all and is happy to do so.” “I-...” her husband scratches at the back of his head. “Repayment will be.... slow. I do not have the means to-“ “Repayments will not be necessary.” Sansa frowns. This is surely some sort of entrapment for her husband. Is he bright enough not to fall for it? Who is this gentleman and who is this acquaintance of his that seemingly wants to throw away his money on a scoundrel like her husband? Harry’s brow furrows. “No repayments? Then what does your friend want in return?” The gentleman’s gaze flicks over Sansa’s form again. “Your wife.”

8. what used to be by @woodswit

the fallout of a marriage of convenience.

9. writer’s block by @woodswit

Writer!Sansa on a deadline for a scene she has no idea how to write, tattooed bartender!Jon. i have nothing else to say for myself.

10. one slip and i am dead by @woodswit

She would rather die than ask Jon, of all people, for help. The history between them is gnarled, knotted, dangerous. But Sansa thinks she knows something about the nuns that keep going missing in Boston, and she knows no one else will believe her.

11. From Instep to Heel by @orangeflavoryawp

“‘I’m a Targaryen,’ he says finally, the words smarting along his tongue, even now. A need and an uncertainty all at once. ‘And she – ’ He stops, swallows. ‘She is nothing,’ he finishes tightly, the untruth a tremulous exhale as it leaves him.” - Jon and Sansa. Like the curve of the horizon, when the moon breaks from beneath its bow.

12. the night we met by @woodswit

They have both left what happened that night—and everything that transpired—in the past, but now Jon's back and he has a request, one Sansa cannot turn down.

13 i fall to pieces (when i'm with you) by usuallysunny

"Go North. Only North. Jon is Lord Commander at the Castle Black. He'll help you." He'd had good intentions, this broken shadow of a man who used to be Theon, and he couldn't have known. Sansa finds a Lord Commander at Castle Black. He has steel-grey eyes, her father's eyes, and a dark beard framing a strong jaw, and he looks and sounds and moves like Jon... But he's not Jon.

14. your halo slipping down by @woodswit

When Arya disappears while hunting Sansa's stalker, Sansa knows she's got to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to go north-- --to Jon Snow, who has just been released from prison. Jon Snow, the boy in black, is her last hope.

15. A Violence Done Most Kindly by @orangeflavoryawp

“There is an old sort of magic to sacrifice, after all.” - Jon and Sansa. Stark is a house of many winters.

16. when the walls come tumbling down by @phantomphaeton

These violent delights have violent ends. With salt and smoke, fire and blood, iron and ice, the tides of fate wash clean the saviors of the continent. Two years after Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow ride south to win the Last War, Westeros is on the verge of destabilization. The Red Wolf—left simmering in fury in the North—is compelled to rejoin the Great Game.

A girl who is keeping a promise her father made to his people, her brother made to his people, her cousin made to his people. They are her people now as they have always been, but they are not her family, and they are loyal at first because of her name and only later because of who she is.

Most of her brothers are dead. Theon is dead. Bran is King of the Southern Kingdoms. Brienne is his Kingsguard. Arya has left to find what lies beyond the distant shores. And Jon is North of the Wall.

Leadership is isolating and lonely and as much as she may have been groomed to be a wonderful ruler she was not made to live alone. She survived being alone to come back to her pack and now she rules over a ruin and the crypts beneath it. She must endure as the last Stark in Winterfell. Her duty demands it. Love is the death of duty and she is her father's daughter.

7. How many ideas for fics do you have right now?

13. How much planning do you do before writing?

6. I for sure have a couple of old favorites that I periodically come and revisit.

I Want Something So Impure by silentfrenzy is a classic in my mind. It's got loads of Jonsa angst, and was especially something I read a lot after s8 came and kneecapped me, personally. It's a one shot, and is actually a songfic, though I forget that all the time, and is mainly an extremely cathartic fight between Jon and Sansa, showverse

 strike hard and true, crow (or i'll come back and haunt you) by Hatice is another dark Jonsa that I used to read all the time. Dark, angsty Jonsa was my absolute fav back in the day (still is, really). Really goes hard into implications of resurrection based on book canon, and I enjoy that immensely.

Of Ribbons and Barbarians by SainTalia is, unsurprisingly, another Jonsa fic, but this time set in an amazingly imagined AU where the Targaryens never came to Westeros. This is the kind of fic writing that I aspire to.

and to prove I do read fic other than Jonsa, there's also we get dark, only to shine by Elizabeth (aghraine), which is a LucreziaCesare fic, which mixes the showtime Borgias with the actual history

there are a couple others that I personally have on my laptop, but have been deleted from ao3 😩 Rip "your mess is mine" you will always be famous.

7. At the moment, I really only have one major fic idea that I've been working on and off for ages. I've resolved not to publish it until its finished, which may be a long time, lol. A couple of years ago, there was a Jonsa week prompt set that used one of the Seven for each day. I ended up writing a short one for the Smith, and then shelved it because I wasn't happy with it. I ended up reopening it last year, and trying to write a multi part series with each chapter being themed after one of the gods. The main thing that inspired me to reopen it was, uh, some chats about Sansa bathing in the godswood a la Jonquil and how that fits the Maiden theme, hahaha. I have a couple of other Jonsa ideas that I periodically work on but I doubt will ever be posted. Oh, and there is a Maris/Aemond fic that lurks in the back of my ASOIAF fanfic folder. It predates "a poison tree", but I got sidetracked with that project, lol.

"Keep my crown"

"Or protect the North"

"I chose the North"

Chapters: 25/25 Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen, Elia Martell/Rhaegar Targaryen, Robb Stark/Rhaenys Targaryen, Arya Stark/Gendry Waters Characters: Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, Tywin Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Cersei Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Rhaegar Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen, Viserys Targaryen, Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon Targaryen, Elia Martell, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rhaegar Wins AU, R plus L equals J, Canon-Typical Violence, Explicit Sexual Content, Canonical Character Death, Domestic Violence, Physical Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Consensual Sexual Content Only, Explicit Language, Robert’s Rebellion happened later Summary: