Jonsa
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jonsa
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Jon Snow and Sansa Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
- 2019 April 15, Henry McKenna, “Is Sansa Stark in love with Jon Snow?”, in USA Today:
- The moment sets the relationship between Jon and Sansa (Jonsa) at tension with the relationship between Jon and Dany (Jonerys).
- 2019 April 21, Joanna Robinson, “The Game of Thrones Fan War Only George R.R. Martin Saw Coming”, in Vanity Fair:
- Jonsa fans, convinced that Jon was just pretending to fancy Daenerys for political gain, went searching for subtextual support for their theories.
- 2023, Jessica Hautsch, Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities: Thinking Through Feels[1], page 192:
- This sentiment resonates with Jonsa shippers who have cast Jon and Sansa into stories ranging from Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Downton Abbey (2010-2015) to Emma (1815) and Tangled (2010) to The Princess Bride (1987) and The Breakfast Club (1985).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jonsa.