sansa stark • It's in the blood, this is tradition

[watch in hd ❤ (+ subtitles) ]

"My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel"

happy birthday to me 🥳💖
Yeah, this year my birthday videos wasn't a collab or some special project, I made a video for my slef (the arrogance of it I know 😂)
But actually, I wanted to make something "special" for my birthday and edit a video I spent years wanting to finish. So, how did I decide to celebrate? Finishing a video about one of my favorite characters ever.

I started this project back in 2019 with another song, back when I didn't even have a YouTube channel, but I truly wanted to make something to celebrate my brave queen in the north.
I started watching Game of Thrones when it first aired, almost 10 years ago, and I always had a soft spot for Sansa and what she represents.
Of course, the final seasons fucked up her character a little bit, and I actually dropped the show during season 5 for how angry I was for her storyline, but still, she remains my fave in the show (and in the books as well, although I only read the first one and then only her chapters and some others).
Maybe it was my dedication to liking female characters that are hated by most of the fandom (especially young girls), or maybe it was the way her character was written, but sansa always had a very special place in my heart.
She took so much shit from the fandom that despised a privileged and young girl (of eleven years old) for acting as a privileged and young girl... which is, sadly, exactly how young women are still perceived by society today.

She was exactly what I would be in Game of Thrones, a normal, polite girl with no fighting skills except her brain and her courtesy, and god, how refreshing this is!
Nowadays, there is this obsession with creating female characters that have to sacrifice their femininity and kindness to be powerful, to kick-ass, and get their happy ending, which most of the time is associated with something loveless and lonely. And while I think that maybe once these types of characters were supposed to be feminists and originals, they truly aren't.
Girls and women can be smart AND pretty, fighters and dancers; they can cry and kick asses; they can be loving and unforgiving. They don't have to choose, they should commit mistakes and not be stoned for them. People should just realize that girls and women are human beings too.
And that was exactly what Sansa was for me. A sweet, innocent girl who never wanted to play the game of thrones because she knew how much it would take away from her (her home, her father, her freedom, her mother, her brothers, etc.), who, despite what everyone was saying, fought in her own ways and survived the unimaginable.
She didn't have dragons, swords, armies or allies.
She had only herself. Her wit and her politeness. She had an incredible growth and character development, going from a naive and spoiled young girl who wanted to live in a fairy tale, as her parents and septa thought her all her life, to a strong woman defending her home, her family and her roots.

It was so fascinating to watch her become more powerful and strategic. She was one of the strongest characters in the show: she was beaten, humiliated, traumatized and tortured both physically and mentally (I will not enter the Ramsey discourse because I'm still so mad about that plot divergence, it's crazy) and still, she survived, she became steel, but she also remained good and girly in doing so.
This is my queen in the North 🐺

If you managed to read my rant, thank you for reading it.
I really hope you'll like this video, and especially that it will do her justice.
And please let me know what you think, polite comments are always appreciated 💖

Lot of kisses and hugs to ‪@kindredxpenpals‬ who listened to my MANY rumblings about this project, i would be lost without you 🥺🫶🏻

ps. also, a very special and big thanks to ‪@SunnyVids‬, 'cause without their community, this edit would have been very difficult to make.
thank you so much 💖

#sansastark #gameofthrones #sophieturner #halsey #thetradition #got #housestark #characterstudy #annesoshifeatures #viddingisart #winteriscoming
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⦁ fandom: game of thrones
⦁ character(s): the queen in the north, sansa stark
⦁ song: "the tradition" by halsey [slowed down]
⦁ coloring: "break" by ‪@EveJackson‬
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