Sorry I'm not sorry.

It baffles me with its popularity

I can kind of understand it? Beauty and the Beast is a pretty common romance template/motif/whatever in Western culture.

So I see how people can sort of project that familiar story onto the characters in ASOIAF.

I guess I mostly get hung up on Sansa's age

No, yeah, the age thing is definitely a major squick. Have you read all the books?

The first four

I'm waiting for Dance With Dragons to hit paperback

There's a part in Storm of Swords where Sandor talks to Arya about Blackwater and mentions his encounter with Sansa.

And he makes a comment about how he should have [TRIGGER WARNING] "raped her bloody and left her for dead."

And I was like WHOA.

YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED FROM LOVE INTEREST STATUS FOREVER.

Yeah, NO KIDDING

Right?! Like, show fans are excused, but anyone who's read the books and still ships it gets a big side-eye from me forever.