#gensa

New and improved!! I haven’t done one in a while and I’ve been reading like a different kind of fic recently so I really wanted to make one!!

Linger by @matryyoshkka | T | Sansaery

Sansa and Margaery have one thing in common: they've both bearded for Renly Baratheon. When Margaery impulsively answers a phone call, neither of them expects to begin falling in love with each other from hundreds of miles away.

asdfghjkl this fic is SO! GOOD! I love the way this author writes and this fic is just so wonderfully written!

You Look Stunning, Dear by vivilove | E | Jonsa

Jon Targaryen is a fashion photographer who has sworn off getting romantically involved with a model again...until he meets Cersei Lannister's latest rising star.

New to the world's most famous runways and high-profile fashion magazines, Sansa Stark knows she should be grateful but part of her can't help wondering if she really even wants all this especially being stuck with Cersei as her less-than-kindhearted agent. But success here will mean good things for more than just herself and she can't risk that for anyone, even a guy like Jon, can she?

This is part of a larger series but this fic is so good...it’s the ultimate comfort day fic!! It’s such a good love story and it’s such a feel good fic (like most of this author’s are)

goodbye, brother by @bachianinhaone | E | Sansaery

Sansa was home alone. Well, almost home alone. Almost in the dark too, because the rain had caused a blackout in their neighborhood and the light that came from the candles was most definitely not much.

Alone, in the dark, with her brother’s ex-fiancée - who he was still in love with and who she happened to have had a major, forbidden, consuming crush on ever since she was a teenager.

I LOVE this story!!! It’s so emotional but it’s like the good kind of emotional, it’s so cathartic and I love it.

meet you after dark by @jolieunfiltrd | M | Gensa

It is near midnight on a Friday night when Gendry Waters and Sansa Stark see each other, for the first time in almost ten years. The bar is hazy with second-hand smoke, the low thump of the bass echoing in their ears, but she stumbles and he reaches and something in them says "oh."

(Two encounters between lost souls, nearly a decade apart).

This is another emotional catharsis fic but in a different way? Like UGH this is so well written!!! Like the vibes between two struggling people always intrigues me and this is no exception

Wolf Like Me by matryyoshkka | M | Sansaery

You faves are at Hogwarts and have zero chill. Particularly Margaery, who has a massive gay crush on Sansa.

It has been raining all morning, a spitting rainfall that leaves the red on Sansa's cheeks running town like red tears. Whatever beauty her mother had once praised, it is hidden, now, behind the face of this warrior woman, wielding her dagger with more dexterity than she'd ever thought possible, though she is sheltered behind Brienne, with Podrick on her left and one of her lower commanders on her right, Nymeria standing almost as tall as a horse, canines dripping with blood.

She is safe, she is protected, she is in the midst of battle and the drumbeats echo in her ears, her heart, her gut. What is beauty, compared to this rush, this exhilaration? (She has never understood Arya quite so well as in that moment).

Read the last chapter here.

pairing: sansa stark & gendry baratheon setting: post-canon, pen pals au story concept for GoT rare pair milestone madness [2 of 16] 

The crown is heavier than she thought it would be, and Sansa thinks it might be because there’s not a single person around anymore to help her hold it, to keep her standing tall. The halls are quiet. So is her solar. She takes dinner alone most nights and walks Winterfell like a ghost herself, but being a ghost might be preferable. As a ghost she would be reunited with all those she’d lost, and here in Winterfell she is truly alone. 

It’s a whim, more than anything else, a thought to a man that had once been kind to her that she thought… she wasn’t sure. Might understand that empty space that used to be filled? She’s had more wine than normal, and the night is a heavy one—hanging around her shoulders like a winter cloak—when she decides to write a letter to the newly appointed Lord of Storm’s End. When she wakes she can barely remember exactly what she’s said, just that she hopes the bird never makes it for the sake of her own pride. 

Suck it!   

Dear nonny, short answer: no.

Longer answer: The Jonsa clues are (in a nutshell and very, very short) Snow imagery in Sansa’s storyline, Fish and redhead imagery in Jon’s storyline. Additionally Jon’s and Sansa’s wishes and dreams work like a puzzle that is complete if you put them together. Also, other characters act as a stand-in (Ygritte, the Hound). None of this works for Gendry and Sansa.

There is some evidence that Sansa will marry a bastard, but that is about the only thing that could be bend towards Gendsa (as well as Robert Baratheon’s line: I have a son, you have a daughter…). But Gendry on the show is a blend of Gendry Waters (no Snow connection) there and Edric Storm, and I doubt that they would have done that blend if Gensa would happen.

Also, and that is just my opinion, I don’t really like the ship. I have low-key hopes for Gendrya and I think that this works far better and there are more clues for Gendrya than you could put together for Gensa. And you would have to try very, very hard. Robert’s line was meant for Gendrya, I’m quite convinced about that.

settle down with me by the fire of my yearning

(fleet foxes, ragged wood)

sansa x gendry, promptfill for @asoiafrarepairs rare pair weekend, 7k

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Petyr Baelish steals away Sansa Stark in the dead of night. When she reaches the ship, she finds a man with a fire in his blue eyes, even as his wrists are bound. They both have secrets, but it doesn’t stop them from reaching for each other.

Or, four years where Alayne Stone lives with all the freedom she can give herself, with all the love and laughter she deserves, and it changes very little, in the grand scheme of things. But for her, it changes everything.