I did it! The whole thing took place in Essos. Whenever the music got too scary, I heard Tyrion shouting "I do not want to meet the Shrouded Lord!". Mirri Maaz Duur was there weaving a tent out of her song. And I traversed the House of the Undying.

Listened to classical music on YouTube music to go to sleep and now I'm getting bombarded with pretty shocking notifications like "New release from JS Bach"

Nicolas Maduro in a New York tower cell, desperately trying to find a way to get a raven to Ser Barristan Selmy

You think anyone who plans to join the Night's Watch ever goes on a crime spree right before, knowing that once a man takes the black, his crimes are wiped away?

ADAB — Tyrion Lannister

In a massive parenting L for my brother-in-law, my niece told me that after months of her dad not buying her a toy she wanted, Santa came through for her in the end

*Mole's Town boy cuts his finger on a thorn.* *Jon Snow appears out of nowhere:* "Mole's Town has no naesters. But we have a maester at Castle Black for those who say our words"

Ramzan of the House Kadyrov, Lord Paramount of Chechnya, Warden of the South, is being treated by the Grand Maesters of Muscovy. Ramzan has been grooming his son Adam for command but, at 18, the boy lord is untested and unloved. If Ramzan cannot hang on, expect the knives to come out soon.

Bye 2025! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Or do, I don't care. I'm savage like that.

Do they have an episode of "Is it cake?" where craftspeople try to fool judges with wooden cakes?

Tapering off cymbalta to prepare for my psychedelic-assisted therapy. Cymbalta dulls the effects of psychedelics. I'm excited for my therapy but man this is tough. I keep thinking I'll be joining the realm of Patchface before long.

Do Gen Z and Gen Alpha understand the lyrics to REM's seminal hit *69? Or do they think it's a reference to mutual oral?

My daughter can sing "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin by heart but doesn't understand the social message at all.

What is to your shame or glory?

Whoa, Detroit goes hard.

I think my daughter may be Calvin.

The AI that I think my anti-AI TL can praise.

Thankful for cousins, from snowy Michigan

Night gathers, and now my watch begins

Hmmm, I'm looking for a name for a comically rich character. How about... Gold sacks man. No, too obvious. What if I rearrange it? Goldman Sacks? Is that too obvious? Well, it's fiction. It's okay to be obvious.

The man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night's Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile.

The perfect guy: 6 feet tall 6 pack abs 6 figure salary For short, just call them 666's.

Should I be concerned when my daughter (5) tells me she has to do something, she wants it to be a surprise, but could you get me my bike helmet just in case?

Two demon hunters and a skeleton in a bike. A great way to Halloween.

It's been seventeen years since this newscast was recorded and the commercialization of Hallowe'en has only accelerated since then. youtu.be/0McggLIYmnE?...

Have any of my mutuals done ketamine-assisted or psychedelic-assisted therapy with a trained therapist? Please DM me if so.

Feeling pretty pissed at my daughter's school so I hit them with a "Thank you." with a period instead of an exclamation mark. I assume they're feeling devastated.

It's our eight anniversary today and my wife said we're entering our Bronze Age.

You haven't lived life until you've cried your eyes out in a remote therapy session from a phone booth in a co-working space.

My wife reported our first real brush with tariff inflation: Cindy Lou Who pyjamas are super expensive in size 5T.

Daughter (5): "Daddy, when did persons start?"

Asha's throwing husbands:

Whoever wrote Merlin's description of Eastern Phoebes absolutely has it in for this bird.

Hi y'all, I'm going through relationship troubles. Not something I'm comfortable talking about with in person friends or family so if anyone wants to DM about that or anything else, DMs are open.

Using an em dash sheepishly, hoping nobody decides I'm a computer.

My moots are super creative so it doesn't surprise me there's a lot of AI hatred. But my job involves a lot of super boring tasks with a goal of never subverting an expectation and AI does it adequately. Maybe if the AI companies advertised "this will do the boring shit" people wouldn't be so mad.

My 5yo daughter's friend (also 5) told his Mom he had a crush on my daughter. She asked him what that means and he said, "She's kind. If she bumps into me by accident, she says sorry." For those of you on the apps, here's something to add to your profile.

Business owners reserve all the cool things for themselves.

Went bankrupt writing life insurance for cats.

Giving animal care instructions while on vacation:

“Kneel, brother,” the Crow’s Eye commanded. “I am your king, I am your god. Worship me, and I will raise you up to be my priest.” ———— Incidentally, the process of a King becoming a God is known as Euhemerization, or perhaps in-universe, Euron-hemerization.

On vacation, my daughter acted as if she was gonna throw a pillow off a third floor balcony. My wife informed her the consequence would be we'd have to stop playing to go pick it up. My Mom piped up to add that all the grown-ups would be mad at her. My wife told my Mom no and Mom rolled her eyes.

Dany killing Drogo like she's Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Daughter (4) asked me today if Ireland was named after Iron Man.

In ASOIAF, we have an animist religion (the Old Gods), a monotheistic religion (the Seven who are One), but where are the polytheistic pantheons so common around the ancient world? This omission makes sense if you read the main characters themselves as the Gods so many of them were patterned after.

Today a lady yanked a tooth right out of my mouth. Now I've got a big gap where a tooth is supposed to go.

When Joffrey has Sansa stripped ("make her naked") in front of the court, it's understood in the narrative to be horrific. Then, later, we're shown his mother stripped as punishment as well.

Nature, long in tooth and claw, in my front yard. (L) A Bold Jumping Spider relaxes on its dragline while eating a captured Junebug. (R) A cicada killer wasp. These wasps paralyze cicadas and drag them back to their burrows. They lay their eggs in the cicada, which is eaten by the larvae.

Cinderella's fairy godmother was really biding her time wasn't she? Nothing she could've helped Cinderella with except fancy dress?

The Wolves of Paris -- particularly the man-eating pack of the Long Night of 1450, likely inspired Nymeria's Great Pack in asoiaf