Fic Rec Monday: Valar Morghulis
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kaytaylorreaGame of Thrones is back on TV and even though I noped out of the show last season (read: Sansa storyline of DO NOT WANT) I still know plenty of people who love the show and I have a fondness for the fandom. Here are twenty-two of my favorite Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire fics:
A Winter's Tale by just_a_dram
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Jaime Lannister/Sansa Stark, Jorah Mormont/Daenerys Targaryen, Gilly/Samwell Tarly, Asha Greyjoy, Aegon VI Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Ghost, Barristan Selmy, Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Myrcella Baratheon, Trystane Martell, Obara Sand, Sarella Sand, Elia Sand, Obella Sand, Gendry Waters, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Drama, Siblings, Romance, War, Character Death
Summary: The War of Three Dragons comes to the Vale, bringing Jon Snow and Sansa Stark together once more.
Rec Notes: All the plotty political drama I could ever ask for. Westeros goes to war.
All Summer We Just Hurried by Chash
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Renaissance Faires
Summary: Arya's finally gotten to work with the knights at Robert Baratheon's summer faire, but it turns out she'd rather spend time with the blacksmith.
Rec Notes: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a fandom in possession of a bulletproof ship must be in want of a modern AU by Chash.
Dream Until Your Dreams Come True by crossingwinter
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Weasel, Sansa Stark, Edric Dayne, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully, Rickon Stark, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary: Arya likes the way things are with her soulmate—playing softball in dreams, talking about nothing and everything. But it still feels like cheating when she dreams of Gendry.
Rec Notes: College soulmate AU where you share dreams? It's a cool enough concept and then the characterizations are so wonderful and the modern setting worldbuilding is fantastic.
Found in Forbidden Nights by alienor_woods
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Jon "Oathbreaker" Snow, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, R plus L equals J
Summary: In which Robb Stark still refuses to trade Jaime Lannister for his sisters, but Jon Snow decides that being an oathbreaker means that he can tell strategy and politics to fuck off and take matters into his own hands.
(It’s the after, though, that Jon and Sansa hadn’t bargained on.)
Rec Notes: Because someone should've tried to rescue the Stark girls.
Half of Winter by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Davos Seaworth, Catelyn Stark, Eddard Stark, Melisandre, Robert Baratheon, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, This is a really weird sort of fix-it fic, I guess Minor Canon character death
Summary: Stannis Baratheon has survived wars, sieges, pitched battles and skirmishes and worse, but nothing has made him feel as lost and out of place and unnerved as this very moment.
The little pink infant in the crib sleeps peacefully, wrapped in furs, and her wrists are innocently blank. For an irrational moment, Stannis envies her, then he straightens up and turns away. Winterfell is warm, somehow - some sort of piped system, apparently - and his gloves are tucked into his belt, baring the pale silver script on the underside of his right wrist: Sansa Stark.
Rec Notes: A soulmate/soulmark AU so perfectly in character and so perfectly heartbreaking.
I Fear No Fate (For You Are My Fate, My Sweet) by lit_chick08
Myrcella Baratheon/Robb Stark, Joffrey Baratheon/Margaery Tyrell, Gendry/Arya Stark, Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark, Bran Stark/Meera Reed, Robb Stark/Jeyne Westerling, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen, Tommen Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Theon Greyjoy, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Elenya Westerling, Sexual Abuse, Sibling Incest, Alternate Universe
Summary: Myrcella Baratheon always knew she would be married to a man for a political alliance. What she did not know was that she was going to be left in the North at 8-years-old to one day become the wife of Robb Stark and just how much it would change her life.
Rec Notes: Myrcella just wanted to marry a good man, be a good wife and mother. Her life was never meant to be like this.
Into the Darkness of the Grave by caesia
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully, Benjen Stark, Robert Baratheon, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark
Summary: The tragic death of Eddard Stark’s cousin Lyanna brings her estranged son back to Winterfell House, the family’s old plantation home, for her funeral.
Rec Notes: Southern Gothic at its finest.
Kindness, Not Fear by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Aegon VI Targaryen/Margaery Tyrell, Daenerys Targaryen/Jon Snow, Willas Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Rickon Stark, Discussions of past sexual violence, Minor canon divergence, Past major character deaths, Suicide Attempt, Sexual Assault
Summary: In the wake of Daenerys' triumph, Sansa comes to King's Landing.
Rec Notes: She is not the girl she was the last time she walked the halls of the Red Keep. This Sansa has learned to play the game of thrones.
Lioness by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Cersei Lannister, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister, That AU where Cersei marries Stannis instead of Robert because Lyanna survives
Summary: "My Lord."
Stannis seems to stiffen further, his cold eyes narrowing. The Seven are cruel, Cersei thinks grimly. Of the three Baratheon men, she had to end up betrothed to the only one who's cold, bloodless, balding, and with a face like a hatchet.
Rec Notes: Have there ever been to people as unbending as Stannis Baratheon and Cersei Lannister?
No Featherbed For Me by lit_chick08
Gendry/Arya Stark, Arya Stark/Edric Dayne, Gendry/Sansa Stark, Arya Stark/Aegon VI Targaryen, Ned Stark, Edric Storm, Renly Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Jon Connington, Ashara Dayne, Catelyn Stark, Cersei Lannister, Robb Stark, Viserys Targaryen, Illyrio Mopatis, Mance Rayder, Tormund Giantsbane, Val, Samwell Tarly, Aemon Targaryen, Loras Tyrell, Sibling Rivalry, Alternate Universe - Canon What-If, ADWD spoilers, Sister-Sister Relationship, Mutually Unrequited, POV Female Character
Summary: Arya Stark wanted to be a knight; she wanted to find glory and adventure with Needle in her hand. But that is not an appropriate life for a highborn lady, and that was all Arya of House Stark was allowed to be.
Rec Notes: My extreme feels about this novel length masterpiece can basically be summed up: oh, Arya.
Of Sand and Snow by lj_todd
Oberyn Martell/Lyanna Stark, Doran Martell, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robert Baratheon, Cersei Lannister, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arianne Martell, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Aegon VI Targaryen, Ellaria Sand, Sand Snakes, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Violence Sexual Content, Arranged Marriage, Drama, Angst
Summary: This was not how it was supposed to be. But one mistake, one stupid mistake, has changed everything. Neither Lyanna nor Oberyn are happy with the demands of their families, neither wish to be married, most certainly not to each other, but they've little choice in the matter. They are expected to marry. To be husband and wife. Yet how can they be when they can barely be civil with one another? Dorne has seen its share of conflict, but nothing could have prepared the nation for the clash of wolf and viper that this union will bring about.
Rec Notes: A novel length, plotty, angsty Lyanna-lives AU and a brilliant portrayal of an unhappy arranged marriage.
Something that ought to have lain there unnoticed by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Joffrey Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Petyr Baelish/Sansa Stark, Sansa Stark/Willas Tyrell, Wynafryd Manderly/Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Margaery Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell, Robert "Sweetrobin" Arryn, Rickon Stark, Alerie Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Garlan Tyrell, Daenerys Targaryen, Aegon VI Targaryen, Shireen Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Alternate Universe - Daemon, Serious warning for psychological and physical abuse
Summary: Elorian understands before Sansa does, which is probably why he changes to a tiny little field mouse and scampers up her sleeve, so he can’t be taken away from her when she begins to rage and scream as Ice descends and Mafanwye fades in a brilliant starburst of golden dust.
Rec Notes: Give me a daemon au in every fandom please and thank you.
The Game of Courtship by Netgirl_y2k
Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell, Willas Tyrell, Bran Stark, Arya Stark, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Robb Stark, Robert Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Loras Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Aged-Up Character(s), First Time, The more things change the more they stay the same, doomed romance
Summary: I loved a maid as red as autumn, with sunset in her hair
Rec Notes: *swoons*
the ghosts won't matter cause we'll hide in sin by soapboxblues
Lyanna Stark/Jaime Lannister Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen Cersei Lannister/Jaime LannisterJaime Lannister Lyanna Stark Tyrion Lannister Jon Snow Rhaegar Targaryen Benjen Stark Tywin Lannister Cersei Lannister Ned StarkAlternate Universe - Canon Divergence Implied Incest
Summary: wherein rhaegar wins the war, and jaime manages to keep his head by taking a stark for a wife; or five times jaime lannister braved his marriage and the one time he was brave for its sake
Rec Notes: This is a Jaime Lannister I could grow invested in. And I love AUs where Lyanna lives.
The mess that we'll become by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Sansa Stark/Willas Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends to Lovers, Fake/Pretend Relationship, mentions of abuse, Mentions of Violence
Summary: It takes three days for the idea to occur to her.
If Joffrey thinks she and Willas are dating, and Tyene thinks she and Willas are dating, why shouldn't they at least pretend to date?
Rec Notes: Forever disappointed the show ignores Willas.
the summer queen by honey_wheeler
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Alysane Mormont/Margaery Tyrell, Gendry/Arya Stark, Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Obara Sand, Asha Greyjoy, Val, Women Being Awesome, Future Fic, What-If
Summary: It had taken her quite some time to name her Queensguard. Not to choose them; Sansa had been choosing them for a great deal of time – since the day she watched her father die, in truth – her choices growing and expanding over the years until she’d known with no doubt who would make up her Queensguard before she knew for certain she would be Queen. But a Stark girl ruling Westeros alone was unprecedented enough, even without her unorthodox choice of guard, so Sansa had tread carefully when naming them, choosing her times and her methods with all the canniness she’d learned at the hands of men like Petyr Baelish and women like Cersei Lannister.
Rec Notes: As is right, Sansa has won the game of thrones and this thinky character study is a wonderful examination of Westeros's greatest strength. The women.
The Tilt by acornsandravens
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Meera Reed, Jojen Reed, Nymeria, Sansa Stark, Dacey Mormont, Catelyn Stark, Jon Snow, Hot Pie, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everyone Is Alive, Knights and Ladies, Underage Drinking, Arranged Marriage, Happily Ever Afters, Stark Family Dynamics
Summary: Ser Gendry Waters was a long way from the Vale, and he would find Winterfell no more welcoming than he’d found the Twins during the rebellion if Arya had anything to say about it. And Arya always had entirely too much to say. He might have thought her a lady at the tourney- he must have, to beg her favor and give her his crown of Love and Beauty-but this was the North. Things were different here; he’d see soon enough. Arya Stark was no lady at all.
Rec Notes: The sort of sunny, almost-everyone's-alive AU you don't see a lot in this fandom.
We Stole Our New Lives Through Blood and Pain by lit_chick08
Jaime Lannister/Catelyn Tully, Cersei Lannister, Ned Stark, Tywin Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Lysa Tully, Robert Baratheon, Kink Meme Prompt Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon, Arranged Marriage, Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Relationships, Love/Hate, Falling In Love
Summary: His father gives Jaime a choice: pick a queen or one will be picked for him. Jaime says the first name which comes to mind, and, just like that, Catelyn Tully becomes his wife.
Rec Notes: In which Jaime Lannister kills a king, is forced onto a throne, and somehow winds up with a fish for a wife. Cersei will never forgive him for stealing her crown.
Wedding by linndechir
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, Davos Seaworth, Rolland Storm, Political Marriage, Age Difference, Future Fic
Summary: She doubts she will ever love the king when she agrees to marry him, but Jon assures her that Stannis is as just and honourable as father had been, and that alone is more than she can say about any other man she has met.
Rec Notes: A picture of a marriage.
Wednesday Lunch by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary: Tyrion isn’t due back to school until the fourth day of term - he hasn’t a first year class to look after, thank God, and everyone agreed that it wouldn’t be a good idea to let him be involved in the prefect training this year, not after last year, and he’s been teaching in St Aemon’s since he left college - so he’s one of the last to hear about the new teacher that has everyone all up in a tizzy.
Rec Notes: Sansa/Tyrion teacher au? Don't mind if I do. Seriously, there's so sweet in this, it's darling.
Whose Woods Are These by mautadite
Asha Greyjoy/Original Female, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Jeyne Poole, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Balon Greyjoy, Alannys Greyjoy, Theon Greyjoy, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sexual Content, Character Study, Growing Up
Summary: AU where Asha is the Greyjoy taken as a ward/hostage to Winterfell. How does this change Asha?
Asha Greyjoy, coming out of the water, going into the woods.
Rec Notes: What it says on the tin. This Asha is sharp and bright and oh what a Westeros this could be.
Wolf's Blood by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Edric Storm, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jeyne Westerling, Davos Seaworth, Melisandre of Asshai, Shireen Baratheon, Sandor Clegane, That AU where Robb survives the Red Wedding but not Catelyn and Sansa never forgives him for it, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Stannis' eternal awkwardness around women, Aged up!Sansa, Multiple minor character deaths, Because Game of Thrones
Summary: "Ser Davos tells me that my brother Robb has done something rash," Sansa cuts in hurriedly, before Stannis rebukes Davos. "Is that true? He has broken his word to the Freys?"
"Aye, and Lord Walder will not so easily forgive that," Stannis looks over to the Twins where they are marked on the huge table that forms the centerpiece of the Chamber, and behind him, sleek and voluptuous in her sheer red dress, Melisandre smiles with her full, crimson mouth. "Your brother is a gifted commander, but he is still a very young boy. Still," Stannis adds, with a lift of a shoulder, "Older men than he have sundered far more over women. I should know - I was part of the last war that broke out over a woman. Your aunt."
Rec Notes: That one where Robb survives the Red Wedding and everyone talks shit about his poor decision-making skills.
A Winter's Tale by just_a_dram
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Jaime Lannister/Sansa Stark, Jorah Mormont/Daenerys Targaryen, Gilly/Samwell Tarly, Asha Greyjoy, Aegon VI Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Ghost, Barristan Selmy, Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Myrcella Baratheon, Trystane Martell, Obara Sand, Sarella Sand, Elia Sand, Obella Sand, Gendry Waters, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Drama, Siblings, Romance, War, Character Death
Summary: The War of Three Dragons comes to the Vale, bringing Jon Snow and Sansa Stark together once more.
Rec Notes: All the plotty political drama I could ever ask for. Westeros goes to war.
All Summer We Just Hurried by Chash
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Renaissance Faires
Summary: Arya's finally gotten to work with the knights at Robert Baratheon's summer faire, but it turns out she'd rather spend time with the blacksmith.
Rec Notes: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a fandom in possession of a bulletproof ship must be in want of a modern AU by Chash.
Dream Until Your Dreams Come True by crossingwinter
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Weasel, Sansa Stark, Edric Dayne, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully, Rickon Stark, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary: Arya likes the way things are with her soulmate—playing softball in dreams, talking about nothing and everything. But it still feels like cheating when she dreams of Gendry.
Rec Notes: College soulmate AU where you share dreams? It's a cool enough concept and then the characterizations are so wonderful and the modern setting worldbuilding is fantastic.
Found in Forbidden Nights by alienor_woods
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Jon "Oathbreaker" Snow, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, R plus L equals J
Summary: In which Robb Stark still refuses to trade Jaime Lannister for his sisters, but Jon Snow decides that being an oathbreaker means that he can tell strategy and politics to fuck off and take matters into his own hands.
(It’s the after, though, that Jon and Sansa hadn’t bargained on.)
Rec Notes: Because someone should've tried to rescue the Stark girls.
Half of Winter by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Davos Seaworth, Catelyn Stark, Eddard Stark, Melisandre, Robert Baratheon, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, This is a really weird sort of fix-it fic, I guess Minor Canon character death
Summary: Stannis Baratheon has survived wars, sieges, pitched battles and skirmishes and worse, but nothing has made him feel as lost and out of place and unnerved as this very moment.
The little pink infant in the crib sleeps peacefully, wrapped in furs, and her wrists are innocently blank. For an irrational moment, Stannis envies her, then he straightens up and turns away. Winterfell is warm, somehow - some sort of piped system, apparently - and his gloves are tucked into his belt, baring the pale silver script on the underside of his right wrist: Sansa Stark.
Rec Notes: A soulmate/soulmark AU so perfectly in character and so perfectly heartbreaking.
I Fear No Fate (For You Are My Fate, My Sweet) by lit_chick08
Myrcella Baratheon/Robb Stark, Joffrey Baratheon/Margaery Tyrell, Gendry/Arya Stark, Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark, Bran Stark/Meera Reed, Robb Stark/Jeyne Westerling, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen, Tommen Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Theon Greyjoy, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Elenya Westerling, Sexual Abuse, Sibling Incest, Alternate Universe
Summary: Myrcella Baratheon always knew she would be married to a man for a political alliance. What she did not know was that she was going to be left in the North at 8-years-old to one day become the wife of Robb Stark and just how much it would change her life.
Rec Notes: Myrcella just wanted to marry a good man, be a good wife and mother. Her life was never meant to be like this.
Into the Darkness of the Grave by caesia
Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully, Benjen Stark, Robert Baratheon, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark
Summary: The tragic death of Eddard Stark’s cousin Lyanna brings her estranged son back to Winterfell House, the family’s old plantation home, for her funeral.
Rec Notes: Southern Gothic at its finest.
Kindness, Not Fear by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Aegon VI Targaryen/Margaery Tyrell, Daenerys Targaryen/Jon Snow, Willas Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Rickon Stark, Discussions of past sexual violence, Minor canon divergence, Past major character deaths, Suicide Attempt, Sexual Assault
Summary: In the wake of Daenerys' triumph, Sansa comes to King's Landing.
Rec Notes: She is not the girl she was the last time she walked the halls of the Red Keep. This Sansa has learned to play the game of thrones.
Lioness by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Cersei Lannister, Cersei Lannister/Jaime Lannister, That AU where Cersei marries Stannis instead of Robert because Lyanna survives
Summary: "My Lord."
Stannis seems to stiffen further, his cold eyes narrowing. The Seven are cruel, Cersei thinks grimly. Of the three Baratheon men, she had to end up betrothed to the only one who's cold, bloodless, balding, and with a face like a hatchet.
Rec Notes: Have there ever been to people as unbending as Stannis Baratheon and Cersei Lannister?
No Featherbed For Me by lit_chick08
Gendry/Arya Stark, Arya Stark/Edric Dayne, Gendry/Sansa Stark, Arya Stark/Aegon VI Targaryen, Ned Stark, Edric Storm, Renly Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Jon Connington, Ashara Dayne, Catelyn Stark, Cersei Lannister, Robb Stark, Viserys Targaryen, Illyrio Mopatis, Mance Rayder, Tormund Giantsbane, Val, Samwell Tarly, Aemon Targaryen, Loras Tyrell, Sibling Rivalry, Alternate Universe - Canon What-If, ADWD spoilers, Sister-Sister Relationship, Mutually Unrequited, POV Female Character
Summary: Arya Stark wanted to be a knight; she wanted to find glory and adventure with Needle in her hand. But that is not an appropriate life for a highborn lady, and that was all Arya of House Stark was allowed to be.
Rec Notes: My extreme feels about this novel length masterpiece can basically be summed up: oh, Arya.
Of Sand and Snow by lj_todd
Oberyn Martell/Lyanna Stark, Doran Martell, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robert Baratheon, Cersei Lannister, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arianne Martell, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Aegon VI Targaryen, Ellaria Sand, Sand Snakes, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Violence Sexual Content, Arranged Marriage, Drama, Angst
Summary: This was not how it was supposed to be. But one mistake, one stupid mistake, has changed everything. Neither Lyanna nor Oberyn are happy with the demands of their families, neither wish to be married, most certainly not to each other, but they've little choice in the matter. They are expected to marry. To be husband and wife. Yet how can they be when they can barely be civil with one another? Dorne has seen its share of conflict, but nothing could have prepared the nation for the clash of wolf and viper that this union will bring about.
Rec Notes: A novel length, plotty, angsty Lyanna-lives AU and a brilliant portrayal of an unhappy arranged marriage.
Something that ought to have lain there unnoticed by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Joffrey Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Petyr Baelish/Sansa Stark, Sansa Stark/Willas Tyrell, Wynafryd Manderly/Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Margaery Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell, Robert "Sweetrobin" Arryn, Rickon Stark, Alerie Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Garlan Tyrell, Daenerys Targaryen, Aegon VI Targaryen, Shireen Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Alternate Universe - Daemon, Serious warning for psychological and physical abuse
Summary: Elorian understands before Sansa does, which is probably why he changes to a tiny little field mouse and scampers up her sleeve, so he can’t be taken away from her when she begins to rage and scream as Ice descends and Mafanwye fades in a brilliant starburst of golden dust.
Rec Notes: Give me a daemon au in every fandom please and thank you.
The Game of Courtship by Netgirl_y2k
Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell, Willas Tyrell, Bran Stark, Arya Stark, Ned Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Robb Stark, Robert Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Loras Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Aged-Up Character(s), First Time, The more things change the more they stay the same, doomed romance
Summary: I loved a maid as red as autumn, with sunset in her hair
Rec Notes: *swoons*
the ghosts won't matter cause we'll hide in sin by soapboxblues
Lyanna Stark/Jaime Lannister Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen Cersei Lannister/Jaime LannisterJaime Lannister Lyanna Stark Tyrion Lannister Jon Snow Rhaegar Targaryen Benjen Stark Tywin Lannister Cersei Lannister Ned StarkAlternate Universe - Canon Divergence Implied Incest
Summary: wherein rhaegar wins the war, and jaime manages to keep his head by taking a stark for a wife; or five times jaime lannister braved his marriage and the one time he was brave for its sake
Rec Notes: This is a Jaime Lannister I could grow invested in. And I love AUs where Lyanna lives.
The mess that we'll become by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Sansa Stark/Willas Tyrell, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends to Lovers, Fake/Pretend Relationship, mentions of abuse, Mentions of Violence
Summary: It takes three days for the idea to occur to her.
If Joffrey thinks she and Willas are dating, and Tyene thinks she and Willas are dating, why shouldn't they at least pretend to date?
Rec Notes: Forever disappointed the show ignores Willas.
the summer queen by honey_wheeler
Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Alysane Mormont/Margaery Tyrell, Gendry/Arya Stark, Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Obara Sand, Asha Greyjoy, Val, Women Being Awesome, Future Fic, What-If
Summary: It had taken her quite some time to name her Queensguard. Not to choose them; Sansa had been choosing them for a great deal of time – since the day she watched her father die, in truth – her choices growing and expanding over the years until she’d known with no doubt who would make up her Queensguard before she knew for certain she would be Queen. But a Stark girl ruling Westeros alone was unprecedented enough, even without her unorthodox choice of guard, so Sansa had tread carefully when naming them, choosing her times and her methods with all the canniness she’d learned at the hands of men like Petyr Baelish and women like Cersei Lannister.
Rec Notes: As is right, Sansa has won the game of thrones and this thinky character study is a wonderful examination of Westeros's greatest strength. The women.
The Tilt by acornsandravens
Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark, Meera Reed, Jojen Reed, Nymeria, Sansa Stark, Dacey Mormont, Catelyn Stark, Jon Snow, Hot Pie, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everyone Is Alive, Knights and Ladies, Underage Drinking, Arranged Marriage, Happily Ever Afters, Stark Family Dynamics
Summary: Ser Gendry Waters was a long way from the Vale, and he would find Winterfell no more welcoming than he’d found the Twins during the rebellion if Arya had anything to say about it. And Arya always had entirely too much to say. He might have thought her a lady at the tourney- he must have, to beg her favor and give her his crown of Love and Beauty-but this was the North. Things were different here; he’d see soon enough. Arya Stark was no lady at all.
Rec Notes: The sort of sunny, almost-everyone's-alive AU you don't see a lot in this fandom.
We Stole Our New Lives Through Blood and Pain by lit_chick08
Jaime Lannister/Catelyn Tully, Cersei Lannister, Ned Stark, Tywin Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Lysa Tully, Robert Baratheon, Kink Meme Prompt Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon, Arranged Marriage, Dysfunctional Family, Dysfunctional Relationships, Love/Hate, Falling In Love
Summary: His father gives Jaime a choice: pick a queen or one will be picked for him. Jaime says the first name which comes to mind, and, just like that, Catelyn Tully becomes his wife.
Rec Notes: In which Jaime Lannister kills a king, is forced onto a throne, and somehow winds up with a fish for a wife. Cersei will never forgive him for stealing her crown.
Wedding by linndechir
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, Davos Seaworth, Rolland Storm, Political Marriage, Age Difference, Future Fic
Summary: She doubts she will ever love the king when she agrees to marry him, but Jon assures her that Stannis is as just and honourable as father had been, and that alone is more than she can say about any other man she has met.
Rec Notes: A picture of a marriage.
Wednesday Lunch by SecondStarOnTheLeft
Tyrion Lannister/Sansa Stark, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary: Tyrion isn’t due back to school until the fourth day of term - he hasn’t a first year class to look after, thank God, and everyone agreed that it wouldn’t be a good idea to let him be involved in the prefect training this year, not after last year, and he’s been teaching in St Aemon’s since he left college - so he’s one of the last to hear about the new teacher that has everyone all up in a tizzy.
Rec Notes: Sansa/Tyrion teacher au? Don't mind if I do. Seriously, there's so sweet in this, it's darling.
Whose Woods Are These by mautadite
Asha Greyjoy/Original Female, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Jeyne Poole, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Balon Greyjoy, Alannys Greyjoy, Theon Greyjoy, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sexual Content, Character Study, Growing Up
Summary: AU where Asha is the Greyjoy taken as a ward/hostage to Winterfell. How does this change Asha?
Asha Greyjoy, coming out of the water, going into the woods.
Rec Notes: What it says on the tin. This Asha is sharp and bright and oh what a Westeros this could be.
Wolf's Blood by manic_intent
Stannis Baratheon/Sansa Stark, Edric Storm, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jeyne Westerling, Davos Seaworth, Melisandre of Asshai, Shireen Baratheon, Sandor Clegane, That AU where Robb survives the Red Wedding but not Catelyn and Sansa never forgives him for it, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Stannis' eternal awkwardness around women, Aged up!Sansa, Multiple minor character deaths, Because Game of Thrones
Summary: "Ser Davos tells me that my brother Robb has done something rash," Sansa cuts in hurriedly, before Stannis rebukes Davos. "Is that true? He has broken his word to the Freys?"
"Aye, and Lord Walder will not so easily forgive that," Stannis looks over to the Twins where they are marked on the huge table that forms the centerpiece of the Chamber, and behind him, sleek and voluptuous in her sheer red dress, Melisandre smiles with her full, crimson mouth. "Your brother is a gifted commander, but he is still a very young boy. Still," Stannis adds, with a lift of a shoulder, "Older men than he have sundered far more over women. I should know - I was part of the last war that broke out over a woman. Your aunt."
Rec Notes: That one where Robb survives the Red Wedding and everyone talks shit about his poor decision-making skills.
