Arya Stark and Jeyne Poole (inspired by 'Legends of the Tower' by Andrey Shishkin)

I've realised that i misspelled Jeyne's surname probably tens of times...i eat words, guys, it happens more often than you can imagine

Arya Week 2025: Day 1 | Travel, Culture, Places:

Arya, Braavos, and the Unmasking of Uthero ✨🎭🐺✨

Thus, for more than a century, Braavos was known as the
Secret City.

Sealord Uthero Zalyne put an end to that secrecy, sending forth his ships to every corner of the world to proclaim the existence and location of Braavos, and invite men of all nations to celebrate the 111th festival of the city’s founding. By that time all of the original escaped slaves were dead, along with all of their former masters. Even so, Uthero had sent envoys from the Iron Bank to Valyria several years prior, to clear the way for what became known as the Uncloaking or the Unmasking of Uthero. [...]

The anniversary of the Unmasking is celebrated every year in
Braavos with ten days of feasting and masked revelry—a festival like none other in all the known world, culminating at midnight on the tenth day, when the Titan roars and tens of thousands of revelers and celebrants remove their masks as one.

@aryaweek2025 day 1 | coming of age

arya stark as “mercy” in her latest chapter

commission drawn by @mandhos

Arya Stark appreciation week: NYMERYA

arya stark week 2025: day one ➵ travel, culture & place

It would be better once they got to Harrenhal, the captives told each other, but Arya was not so certain. She remembered Old Nan's stories of the castle built on fear. Harren the Black had mixed human blood in the mortar, Nan used to say, dropping her voice so the children would need to lean close to hear, but Aegon's dragons had roasted Harren and all his sons within their great walls of stone. 

"People just ship Jonrya because they hate Sansa."

This has to be one of the most illogical arguments I've ever seen. If anything, people ship Jonsa because they hate Arya; they steal all the Jonrya content and replace "Arya" with "Sansa" and think they have a canon-based ship. Jonrya has far more canonical merit than Jonsa does.

Besides that, what does Sansa have to do with Jonrya? Jon is always thinking about Arya, and Arya is always thinking about Jon. Jon compares all his love interests to Arya, and Arya compares her love interest to Jon. Jon is always hoping to find and save Arya, and Arya is always trying to get to the Wall to be with Jon. Jon broke his vows for Arya, and Arya technically broke her vows for Jon since she killed a deserter of the Night's Watch for Jon. Jon prepared to go to war over Arya. Jon died for Arya. Jon's dying thought was of Arya. Notice how Sansa was never mentioned? She's irrelevant to the Jonrya ship.

Jon and Arya are canonically the closest

Jon literally died for Arya

Jon broke his vows for Arya - what he didn’t even do for Robb

Jon started a war for Arya

Jon thinks of Arya most part of the times since book 1 and especially in ADWD.

Jon always compares the women he admires or desire with Arya - not in an implicit way, but in a very explicit one. Word for word. On page.

Jonrya has more canonical evidence and content in five books than Jonsa had in 8 seasons of GoT, and never had in the books in the first place.

No. We don’t ship Jonrya because we hate Sansa. We ship jonrya because there is textual evidence Jonrya might happen.

And the grudge Jonrya has with “Sansa” aka jonsa stans comes from their behavior of stealing quotes about Jon-Arya - in bad faith - to make it about Jon-Sansa and act like “look. Jonsa is canon”.

It has nothing to do with Sansa.

i just want them to be happy 🥺 🐺

Only four days left until Arya Week begins ⌛️

Here are some extended prompts to inspire you. Please remember to tag all contributions with #aryaweek2025 

saying grrm fumbled arya’s writing is admitting you’ve never read a lick of his works.

not even gonna bother commenting the willowy creature bit it’s already tacky

That whole post was wild!!

I can't make out if they are jealous that Arya and Jon are important characters at the center of their own independent sub plots in contrast to Sansa...

Or if they really think that Sansa is a more important character than Jon and Arya?!

Their tags!

All this in defense of Sansa, one of the most thinly written main character in the books, so much so that currently it's only a whole lot of headcanons and crackships and Disney fairytale fanons existing in the character's fandom where the character herself is so whitewashed and sanitized she has nothing in common with her actual book version.

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