I never did find out what the covered bridge going from the 4th floor of the bell tower to the 2nd floor of the rookery meant! 😊 Also, the Winterfell wall path taken in, around,up & paradoxically ending on ground level echoes the House of the Undying’s ‘always up, always the door to your right’…

@outerpanda.bsky.social @rustedrevolver.bsky.social Someone on fb pointed out that the word ‘enigmas’ is an anagram for the French word ‘gamines.’ @virginie.bsky.social Can you confirm the meaning of ‘gamine’?

AGOT prologue begins with "We should start back" AFFC prologue begins with "Only when his arms and legs were numb from the cold did Aeron Greyjoy *struggle back* to shore and don his robes again"

George RR Martin has given me hundreds of hours of entertainment. There have been times in my life where obsessing about his worlds prevented me from obsessing and spiraling about my own. He owes us nothing. If he doesn’t write another word, I owe him a profound debt.

#freedom “Power is only Pain - Stranded - thro' Discipline, Till Weights -will hang - Give Balm - to Giants - And they'll wilt, like Men - Give Himmaleh - They'll Carry - Him!” EMILY DICKINSON

#freedom “Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.” EMILY DICKINSON — (Is she opening or closing the door…?)

A GAME OF THRONES: EDDARD I #asoiaf #asongoficeandfire #agameofthrones #agot #eddardstark #nedstark #ned #eddard #eddardI

“‘Where are you going, Master?' cried Sam, though at last he understood what was happening. 'To the Havens, Sam,' said Frodo. 'And I can't come.' 'No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while…

#freedom “I honestly believe discipline is freedom. When you have discipline you get what you want. When you don't have discipline you don't get any of what you want…If you don't pay the price, you get nothing. So you got to pay the price…have discipline…then the world is open to you” VENUS WILLIAMS

#freedom “Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.” * “Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” NELSON MANDELA

If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there’s all the love they bear us.

Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.

Trip down nostalgia lane… makes me smile, remembering how many of these ideas came into being, all of us earnestly committing to the game, feverishly contributing to the collective project of solving the mystery, when we still believed GRRM would finish the books! m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Q0...

Such friends are thine enemies, knave.

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” OSCAR WILDE (Never noticed this ‘meta-‘ before…!)

Hamlet: The king is a thing ... Guildenstern: A thing, my lord? Hamlet: Of nothing.

#freedom “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ALBERT CAMUS

#freedom “What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?” WALT WHITMAN

#freedom “The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.” MILAN KUNDERA

#freedom “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” TONI MORRISON

#freedom “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” NELSON MANDELA

#freedom “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” JAMES BALDWIN

#freedom “If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

A GAME OF THRONES: CATELYN I #asoiaf #asongoficeandfire #agameofthrones #agot #catelynstark #catelyntully #catelyntullystark #catelyn #catelynI

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” KUNDERA * "Remember who you are, Daenerys," the stars whispered... "The dragons know. Do you?" * “Men forget. Only the trees remember." His voice was so soft Bran had to strain to hear’ img.libquotes.com/pic-quotes/v...

We should not start back. @rustedrevolver.bsky.social @outerpanda.bsky.social

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke: It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow’r to accompt?

I say he lies, And lies, and lies.

Russia believes in the long game, the forever war; today, they won the ‘Cold War.’ (But keep screaming from the rooftops about your supposed inviolable freedom/s…) Zelensky is right — the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans won’t protect you forever.

It’s time for Germany to build up its military machine again. This time they will be the good guys.

‘The Welsh phrase "dod yn ôl at fy nghoed", meaning "to return to a balanced state of mind", literally means "to return to my trees".’

George R.R. Martin Calls Game of Thrones Show a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 'As Faithful an Adaptation as a Reasonable Man Could Hope For' www.ign.com/articles/geo...

I understand you, Raijū. I too feel like I want to zap lightning at everything and scratch up all the trees. (This is the mythological creature, not the pokemon) Painted in coffee and ink.

This part of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's latest newsletter reminds me why I subscribe 🔥 (remember, all Substacks also have an RSS feed). It’s in response to a question on why tech companies are "so desperate to shove AI down our throats”. The newsletter: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

Looking for ASOIAF moots🤍 I mostly post book quotes and feature art from the community, but will be doing theory threads in the future. 🐺art by Arantza Sestayo #asoiaf #gameofthrones #hotd

Balerion burning Harrenhal 🐉Cover art by Dmitry Andreev for the Russian edition of FIRE & BLOOD.

“Ideological Subversion = Active Measures = Psychological Warfare... To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that, despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves...

Sad but relatable post by GRRM. We love you George ❤️‍🩹 georgerrmartin.com/notablog/202...

Gosses Bluff, known as Tnorala, also holds my favourite Indigenous Australian oral story as well, as to how the crater formed. It's a bit of a sad story, but it really does showcase how the oral traditions of Aboriginal astronomers is tied to the sky. arxiv.org/abs/1306.0278 🧪

Ancestral Ties

"We have no boat, Bran." […] "There's a causeway. A stone causeway, hidden under the water. We could walk out." […] "A causeway?" Jojen studied the lake. "You are certain?" "Certain," said Bran.

Sweetsunray pointed out that ‘X’ is about erasure, like closing a window on your computer. Like the sink Elon Musk brought in on his first day with that saccharine vulpine grin …

I’m being censored on X (ex-Twitter) because I dared mention the ‘R-‘ word (Russia). Elon Musk is a pathetic baby, Pootin stooge.