Hot Pie and Gendry had left her just as soon as they could, and Lord Beric and the outlaws only wanted to ransom her, just like the Hound. None of them wanted her around. They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry.
I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.
arya and sansa are equally (!!!!!) feminine in different ways tbh
sansa is the refined femininity of society - fancy dresses, pretty embroidery, floral perfumes, dainty desserts, slippers on polished floors, love stories, courtly intrigue, music and dancing, traditional marriage, smiling when you want to cry
arya is the wild femininity of the natural world - clothes you can run in, messy hair, moonglow, the taste and feel and sound of water, handpicked wildflowers, hearth tales, wolves howling, barefeet in the earth, protecting and providing, forest lovin’, unbridled rage at mankind
sansa’s femininity is defined by social constructs that the man made world created. its materialistic and performative and restrictive. it harms all women. thats not to say women cant….enjoy certain aspects of it but the objective is female subjugation and that cannot be disregarded. arya can’t conform to these narrow expectations westeros society has for her but her story is still intensely feminine: the moon, water, she wolves, pack life, the very earth itself. all of her femininity is tied directly back to nature. (and the lower class tbh. peak femininity is a luxury of the elite. thats why women of the smallfolk arent considered “ladies”. its a classist concept yall.) arya’s femininity is what i, personally, consider the natural essence of girl/womanhood. which is free and wild rather than oppressive like the patriarchal version.
