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Why was queens pardoning prisoners seen as good? Like murders and sexual assaulter ect? Wouldn’t the public be against that? Especially if they’re not sending money or justice to the victims or their families?

I'm not 100% sure what you're referring to. Do you mean the royal prerogative of mercy? It was meant to provide an alternative or commute a death sentence in cases where evidence was revealed that indicated the sentenced parties were innocent. The right of appeals was limited, so this was one of the ways to actually have justice served and avoid putting to death innocent people. I'd think the people would welcome it.

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So the Sophie and Kit film is supposedly a reimagining of the Japanese film Onibaba, set during a civil war, in which a woman and her mil living on the fringes of society kill and loot soldiers to survive when a man from their past, a neighbour returns and the woman starts having an affair with him. The Dreadful, set during the war of the roses, is about a woman (Sophie) and her mil living on the fringes of society and a man (Kit) from their past returns. So, make of that what you will!

I mean... I might actually die, anon. This could be the death of me.

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I’m rereading Late Night in honour of the ongoing biathlon world cup, the americans have actually been doing quite well and it always reminds me of your fic! Every time I see Campbell Wright shoot I think of Biathlete Jon. I’m still so grateful that the perfect crossover of two of my favourite things exist, so thank you once again, you’re a real treasure!! ❤️

Aw, thank you for this. I had SO much fun writing that one. Every once in a while it feels like something writes itself, and that one definitely just poured out of me, which is a lot of fun. I just know they're married and happy and Jon is preparing for Italy while Sansa kills it in broadcast.

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Hello,

I hope that you and your family are doing well and all is good.

I was wondering, can you say what the status of "Give Me Shelter" is and when we might get another chapter and when the story might end? :)

Have a nice day!

I feel like I'm endlessly telling stories of woe, but I've been in physical therapy since mid-January for a hip injury caused by my hypermobility. Basically, my hip is free-floating in the joint. It hurts about as much as you'd expect. I feel like maybe I'm on the upswing? But I haven't been able to do anything for pleasure while trying to just get through this. I do have some written on the next chapter and everything is still very much outlined. And I've got tons written on some other oneshots I'll probably post this year.

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Did medieval people eat three times a day or just when they were hungry because I heard the three meals per day was an modern American thing?

I love food questions. I did a lot of food culture research regarding heresy, which sounds out of left field, but what people had to give typically was food. That's how they'd support heretics (and Franciscans alike). What they have and what they give and how they give it reveals a lot.

The real answer is the Middle Ages consists of 1000 years of history across a continent with very diverse practices and sometimes distinct social norms depending on class or 'profession.' To say categorically that three meals weren't consumed is false. But it's equally false to say three meals was the norm everywhere and always, or two, or casual smaller meals with snacking.

For example, you'll see historians definitively say snacking between the established meal times was absolutely a no-no because it was considered sinful, and while that was strictly believed and followed in certain classes (or groups) in certain regions at certain points in the Middle Ages, it's absolutely NOT the case in High Medieval Southern France, where the culture definitely followed the Mediterranean model. Hospitality and food were hopelessly interlinked. If someone dropped by your house, it didn't matter what time it was, you were offering them food. Across all classes.

There are these variations across Europe today. In some parts of Europe, you absolutely are going to be served food if you visit, regardless of the time of day, whereas in other parts (particularly as you head north), you probably won't be offered food. Likewise, in some part of Europe, they eat 3 meals, in others they don't.

A lot of times historians will take published medieval sermon books and reach conclusions about the practices or beliefs of the day without taking into account that the content of sermons probably consisted of the very things they were doing rather than categorically rejecting as sinful. The sermons do inform us about the beliefs of the church. The actions they sermonize about were the things that irked clergymen, who had their own standards they wanted to impose. So, if you were being told in sermons how sinful snacking is? There's probably a lot of snacking going on and your local clergyman hates it. Otherwise, they wouldn't mention it. It's not universally the case, the clergy do have weird (almost fetishistic) obsessions that probably weren't rooted in fact, but it's a fair assumption we can learn about the realities of life from sermons with the less weird stuff.

So, while in some regions at some points in the Middle Ages, you'd expect only two meals--no breakfast, largest meal at lunchtime, in other regions the three meal system dominated. Or the biggest meal was in the evening! It depended on the work you were doing or the region. Lords would be more likely to eat breakfast than not. In fact, often lords were set up with food in the chambers so they could eat during the night. So, in that case, they broke their fast long before 'breakfast.' Which sort of plays into the theory of two sleeps.

We often don't have the kind of records we'd like for middle and peasant classes, but it's all about looking in the right places. We find interesting stuff in criminal testimonies (and inquisitorial records). We know they'd get up in the night and have sex and commit crimes together based on testimonies, and you better believe they'd want a snack after.

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Could or did medieval kings create new towns? King Charles is planning to do this with his foundation and I never thought of that before but did this happen in medieval times

Yes! Most towns disappeared with the collapse of the Roman empire. When they began popping up again, they'd typically either be under the feudal umbrella of a lord or a king, who granted them a charter with certain rights and privileges. Towns liked kings because they tended to be more remote than a local lord. Remote is always better. Kings liked towns because they were a source of wealth and educated individuals, who weren't clergymen. That's how you eventually get a professionally run government and a professional army you pay to fight your wars instead of hoping your feudal armies answer the call. 100s of years down the road, but that's all how it starts. Towns!

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Wake up babe, guess who's been cast as leads in a new gothic horror film...

Our babies!

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The poor thing in the road, it's eyes still glistening 17k by @eruherdiriel

Hooves are not what wake Jon in the middle of the night, pulse racing and hands clammy with sweat. It’s fire. Orange and angry, eating away at houses and shops and shacks in his dream. Even now that he is awake, Jon can still taste burnt flesh on the back of his tongue. The wounds from his brother’s mutiny and Drogon’s gouge, frozen only hours ago, burn white. War leaves everyone broken, Jon perhaps most of all. Sansa finds even peacetime requires letting go.

the sky is big enough 15k @hopetorun

The war is over, except all the ways it isn't, and Sansa isn't alone, except for all the ways she is.

O Voyagers 28k WIP

Jon’s eyes are fixed on the floor at her feet. To a stranger it might look like respect, the proper deference shown to a queen, but Sansa knows better. If he wished to look at her, he would. He has not forgiven me, she thinks, her heart a stone in her chest. He likely never will.

daughters and queens bleed alone 4k

They crown Sansa with a rope of twisted steel, two wolves arching across her brow in a delicate embrace. No stags upon this crown—no branching antlers, no gleaming manes, no blooming hearts of southern roses. No fire, no blood, no graceful sweep of scales and wings, or the silver bite of dragon’s teeth. The Queen in the North stands before them, and Winter has come.

old wounds 2k by @jonsaslove

Jon left King's Landing and never returned. Sansa became Queen in the North and weathered the storm. When they see each other again, there is not much left to say.

stories to tell our children 1k by @jonsaslove

“You said that Old Nan used to tell you stories so scary you couldn’t sleep for a fortnight! That was a baby story!” Duncan nods, agreeing with his sister. Her father interrupts. “Well, Old Nan was a very good story teller. She could tell you a story about fairies and princesses and make it seem terrifying with just her voice and a menacing stare.” Or; Jon and Sansa tell their children bedtime stories.

Where the Shadow Ends 245k (I'm sure y'all have read this one, but it is THE post canon fic, so it must be mentioned!)

For years Sansa has ruled the North, wisely, justly, capably--and utterly alone. Everyone tells her she needs an heir; all she wants is a family. But after everything she’s suffered, there’s only one man she trusts won’t use her for her claim. Only one she trusts with her body. Unfortunately, she trusts him in no other way--especially not with her heart. For years Jon’s hidden in the far north, choosing solitude over the people he loves, choosing self-exile as punishment rather than atoning. But then Tormund tires of his moping and drags Jon back to Winterfell where guilt and consequences and a tempting offer await him. accompanying gifset by @thewindsofwolves

We Set Fire in the Snow 7k by @framboise-fics

Three days was long enough for moments of tenderness, for soft touches and gentle murmurs alongside the violence of their passions, but it was not long enough to burn this fire between them down to ashes, to put out the flames, he thinks ruefully, bitterly, achingly, as he rides out and looks back at her standing on the ramparts as he remembered her, her hair a curtain of fire, her body rigid like she has been sculpted from ice. He will take that fire back North, to warm him through frigid nights, he thinks; to burn inside of him so that he shall never find any peace; and let her feel the same, he thinks, let him not be alone in his agony. If he loved her he should surely wish her peace, so does he love her? Or is this how a wicked man loves, painfully, cruelly, selfishly? Is he her punishment just as she is his?

An Affair in Stages 13k by @justadram (not tagged post canon but works as one which is interesting as the first chapter was posted way back in 2013!)

It begins with a proposition, but where it will end neither of them knows.

Please Speak Well of Me 17k

A queen isn’t supposed to cry. So she’s learned to turn her tears to frost before they ever reach her cheeks. “Sansa,” Jon says to her, and the ice within shifts, weakens. Brackish water begins to leak through the cracks. She can barely remember how to speak, and it doesn’t come as much of a comfort that he seems to be fumbling as well. Over the foolish moons, Sansa had imagined that, if the time came that Jon ever returned, the mere sight of him would unwind the tangles of conflict inside of her. There would be something in his eyes, something she had forgotten about his face, something that would remind her what was real and what was not between the two of them.

breathe me in, taste my words 2k

Much to her surprise, marriage has only made Sansa less of a lady, not more. She doesn’t mind terribly, but maybe that’s because Jon doesn’t either.

Stone by Stone 8k

Finally, her words came in a rush. “But I seem to have built my own wall. Stone by stone, little by little, after each of them disappointed me, hurt me. And now that they are dead, I sometimes fear I may die behind my wall that no one can can walk thru.”

fire in exile 2k by @princemills

The thoughts of the others he’d lost were too unpleasant, and the thoughts of those who survived made him want to keel over like a babe, knowing he’d left them behind. It wasn’t really a choice, but it didn’t stop him from pondering his choices. From King in the North to bending the knee to Daenerys to stabbing her with a dagger beneath white ash borne from burning flesh, he’s never made the correct choice, and now he’ll burn in hell for it. Or, as Westeros deems hell: he’ll freeze his balls off at the wall, or Tormund will cut them off. Whichever comes first. - a quick study of jon and the choices he makes in exile.

watch me run right back to you 16k

Three times Jon and Sansa almost kiss…and three times they actually do.

come out of hiding (i'm right here beside you) 36k @noqueenbutthequeeninthenorth

AU after 8.05. After the death of Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow chooses to live beyond the Wall, while Sansa Stark, the newly-crowned Queen in the North, marries a Dornish prince. Three years later, when Jon finally gathers the courage to return to Winterfell, he finds that while many things have changed, one hasn't: he's still in love with Sansa. (Featuring widow!Sansa, contrite!Jon, and a cute baby.)

Homecoming 31k @theoriginalsuki

Halfway to him, she broke composure; she flew at him, an arrow from a bow, and he opened to receive her, lifting her, clutching her to the soft, neglected animal of his body. Sansa has one request of Jon, and then he can leave her forever: help her to find a husband.

Gifsets: Jonsa and Their Three Children by @kingbuckley , Together We Build Our Empire by @aureliacamargo, Future Jonsa with Children by @amandapeetshusband, In Which They Live a Long and Happy Life Together by @baelerion, To See Him Once Again by @theirwinterfell, Maybe We'll Meet Again by @thatmansplayinggalaga

PRE CANON - WESTERN - FAIRYTALE - REGENCY - LITTLE WOMEN - HOLIDAY - SEASON 6 - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - THE GIRL IN GREY - FREE CITIES - FAIRYTALE PART II - POLITICAL MARRIAGE - SALTY TEENS

#lovely! some great fic here #jonsa #game of thrones

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ally

#reservation dogs

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hey i’m nosy

there’s uuuuh obviously a lot i could’ve listed, so pick whichever category’s closest

#shingles #a bad case during pregnancy all around my middle 🤰

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Reblog and put your rare pair in the tags/comments! I want to see the depths people will go to create, for the most random two characters in the most obscure media.

#I’ve got one fic where the ship only has three tags #and two ships from different fandoms where there about 200 tagged fics

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oh and I hope you don't mind (we can share my mood) 11k by @thkingslayer

“You make presumptions, your highness.” “I do not. I know how unwanted I am by you, Lady Sansa.” Her mouth opens as she struggles to find the words to tell him it isn’t true. She’s a lady. She would be nice if he would. She just wants— She just wants— -- When the king travels north, Sansa takes an immediate liking to Prince Aegon. She does not, however, want anything to do with her cousin Prince Jon—the brooding, dark haired, younger brother. She's quite sure he does not want anything to do with her also. And by the Old Gods and the New, she will not let him ruin her mood.

Dawn 19k

Like her mother before her, Sansa will do her duty. She will marry a man who is practically a stranger, mere days before he sets off for war.

All That Glitters 3k by @rumaan

Sansa is annoyed she has to give up a day with Prince Aegon to show his boring younger brother around Winterfell. Some alone time with Prince Jon makes her re-evaluate her opinion.

Sapphires and Salt 9k by @wendynerdwrites

The Princess to be is jilted, the unwanted prince rises

Salty Teens one, two, three by @blackholeofprocrastination

Sansa bursts into his solar in a swirl of skirts, her precious courtesies forgotten. Jon remains seated behind his desk, earning a scowl from his lady wife.  “What did you say to Jeyne?” she demands. “Nothing.”  It’s not entirely true, but he is still too furious to be cowed in his own damn solar.

Learning to fight, learning to Dance 1k by @myrish-lace-love

Lyanna Stark survives, and Jon and Aegon are half-brothers. Jon is in a hastily arranged marriage with Sansa Stark. They get on each other's nerves constantly during the day, but their nights are a different matter.

What a Disappointment 7k by @justadram

Sansa Stark and Jon Targaryen are married and neither of them is pleased about it. Set in a world where Rhaegar lives and Jon was raised in King's Landing as a legitimized bastard.

lights still shining in the room, you left me here 11k

Perhaps at one point, her marriage to Jon had become less of a sham. But with a history of three dead children between them, even the strongest of unions would break, let alone one as fragile as theirs. When Sansa tries to save herself, her actions lead to some interesting revelations.

Made New 3k

Sansa does not get the wedding night that she longed for and has to fix it

Tell the Ones That Need to know (We Are Headed North) 10k by @vixleonard

After years of confinement in the Red Keep with Ned prisoner in the black cells, the Dragon Queen comes. With the knowledge that Jon Snow is actually a Targaryen, she agrees to let the Starks return to Winterfell only if Jon marries one of the Stark daughters. Sansa volunteers so they can all go home. Soon she figures out being married to Jon isn't bad but it is complicated.

half a kingdom and a princess 2k by @misshoneywheeler

“Guess you’re stuck with me, old girl.” Old girl. He’s never called her that before. He’s never called her anything but Sansa and my lady, or sometimes Lady Stark, a title that gives them both discomfort as Lady Stark is still Sansa’s mother to each of them. Something in Sansa thrills at the strange endearment, though she should – and may – protest at being called such a thing. There’s just something so familiar in the words, in Jon’s soft affection as he says them. Something intimate and real.

A Convenient Inconvenience 4k

Once Daenerys takes the Iron Throne she knows the battle is only half over. Now that she has the throne she must keep it. Since she cannot have heirs of her own she names her new half-brother, the former Jon Snow, now Jon Targaryen, the Crown Prince. And a prince needs a princess which is where Sansa Stark comes in. The pair marry yet it takes months for Jon to realize that Sansa thinks of their relationship as more than just a duty.

PRE CANON - WESTERN - FAIRYTALE - REGENCY - LITTLE WOMEN - HOLIDAY - SEASON SIX - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - THE GIRL IN GREY - FREE CITIES - FAIRYTALE PART II - POLITICAL MARRIAGE - next week -> POST CANON

#this makes me happy ❤️ #the salty!teens spontaneous fic explosion was my favorite thing back in the day #good good times!!! #jonsa #fanfic

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The Bear + Richie's Growth

#the bear

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quick what’s ur opinion on tea. everyone who sees this is obligated to answer in some way

#only when I’m sick #otherwise no

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Marian Brook & Larry Russell The Gilded Age Season 2

#the gilded age #larry x marian

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Honestly I blacked out after reading dark Jon update lololol pleaaassseeee!!!! ❤️

I know, I know, and I was having a lot of fun writing it and then I realized it just wasn’t right. I’m really hoping I can salvage some of it for background or interior stuff and jump forward to where the action should really start.