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I find that these little passages reveal something interesting about sansa's personality. specially when you juxtapose how she's characterized in the text and her worldviews here, and how at first glance they may seem contradictory. but first, let's take two things into account:

the patriarchal society of westeros is very strict on women's sexuality. which means that not only is female virginity held in great value, but also female adultery is very firmly condemned by everyone, unlike men who are allowed to maintain public mistresses and flaunt their bastards everywhere.

sansa is characterized as the conformist, the one who internalizes her society's rules. she's very religious, she's a proper lady in every sense of the word and she often says and does exactly what she's told.

and yet, in these passages we can see that sansa does not care much about societal rules when it comes to intimate feelings. she often hails aemon and naerys' (supposed) forbidden love without a single care that queen naerys was bound by duty to a husband and aemon was meant to be loyal to his king. but most astonishing of all is her nonchalant response to petyr's (false) information that her mother was not a virgin when she married. on one hand it may speak on sansa's views towards women's sexuality, since her current friends (mya and randa) are girls who engage in sex out of wedlock, and she never judges them, just like she doesn't judge her mother for apparently doing the same, and catelyn continues to be the person she admires the most. sansa also doesn't view her parents' relationship any differently because of this, the marriage between ned and cat is still as happy as she remembers, because all that matters to her is that there was love in the home she grew up in. the thing about sansa's character is that she plays by the rules up until a certain point, but on the inside she always prioritizes emotion over societal norms, and that's why she looks more upset at petyr for marrying someone while claiming to love another, because in her mind he's being unfaithful to his heart by marrying out of practicality. we have examples that showcase sansa's prioritizing feelings in AGOT when she, the good daughter, disobeys her father for the first time because she thought she was in love with joffrey, and in ASOS where she never thinks she owes tyrion anything just because he's her husband. so it comes as no surprise that she's so infatuated with the love story of an adulterous and incestuous relationship like aemon and naerys'. one of the main themes in this series is that feelings don't care about honor. and if love is the death of duty then sansa seems more than happy to see duty killed for the sake of love.

of course this doesn't mean she'll stay that way, specially when she's already lost her so much of her innocence and is now tangled in petyr's schemes where she must set her own feelings aside in order to act on his plans. and despite her silent judgement of petyr marrying someone he didn't love, her current betrothal with harry is an entirely practical union on her part since she feels nothing for him and only sees him as a means to an end. there have been many instances since book 1 where she was able to turn off her feelings in order to withstand certain situations. so... what even is sansa's mind? an interesting universe on its own for sure.

The helplessness, fear, anguish, and a constant feeling of the impending “end of their world” are the nature of emotions that people with depression go through. The only difference being it’s inexplicable as to why they are feeling this. The planet Melancholia represents the inevitability of death. Justine accepts the end of the world without complaint. She even seems to welcome it, presenting herself naked to the blue planet in the sky. She can accept death because she is already dead inside. Like many suicidal people, she believes nobody cares for her, saying, “The earth is evil, the universe will not mourn us”. We see how Claire is slowly consumed by her fears, searching for answers about the planet, similar to people suffering from some mental illness, trying to understand their condition in somehow to take control of it. And becomes hysterical at the end. If a planet were to collide with Earth, a lot more would happen before the impact — tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cosmic waves, and finally, a melting earth. They do not show us these because this film’s focus is not the accurate portrayal of a sci-fi event. Instead, the director has used an apocalyptic event to help perceive the emotional turmoil that someone with depression goes through.

OLIVIA COOKE as ALICENT HIGHTOWER House of the Dragon (Official Trailer) | Season 2

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower New trailer for Season 2 | HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

She considered for a moment. “No, I don't think so.”

Color rose to his cheeks. “I was unforgiveably rude to you in the yard. You must forgive me”

“Must ?” She tossed her hair, took a sip of wine, made him wait. “How can you forgive someone who is unforgiveably rude ? Will you explain that to me, ser ?”

Ser Harrold looked confused. “Please. One dance”