What would have happened if Lyanna survived childbirth? If Ned had come a week later and found a healthy Lyanna nursing a royal baby? (Assuming the ToJ story we’ve been told is broadly correct)(I’m skeptical)(but I’m a crackpot)

Every where I look people are calling Carol from Pluribus “unlikeable” - I get we are supposed to think that from the pilot, but I think she’s behaving just fine given the circumstances

I just finished the first episode of @davosfingers.bsky.social (only 12 years after it was released 🤣) and 1) it rocked but 2) it’s fucking lunatic behavior to have a a smoke detector beeping in your house for any period of time but especially recording a podcast.

My most idiosyncratic political opinion is that tennis courts at parks are racist and classist.

this is wild

Christopher Columbus is in The Bad Place.

His whole story is about finding meaning after disability. The story doesn’t hold back on the hard truths, it’s honest: yes it sucks, yes it’s hard, life isn’t going to be what you thought it was and you can’t do what others can do and what you wanted. But there is still so much you can do.

Now that the marketing push is over for Dunk and Egg show, GRRM can focus in on the best way to announce WINDS later this year

I AM SO FREAKIN EFFIN EXCITED

Who is the Tattered Prince and why do I care that he wants Pentos?

The perfect Democrat does not exi…..

The Citadel sells dead bodies to The Others.

I don’t feel like i understand the relationship between Essos and Westeros. Essos is way more populated, richer, and seems to have a more mercantilist/early renaissance economy than Westeros… But there’s also Dothraki khalesars ravaging cities?

Yall ever stare at a map of Cretaceous North America and think it would be an awesome fantasy DnD world?

Pretty sure Obie’s talking about the day Winds drops later this year. You can buy me a ginger ale at the next IAFC or whatever thing happens where I will be taking infinite victory laps.

Sometimes, in my darkest days, think to myself maybe Ashara was just a weird red herring from early in ASOIAF to throw us off the scent of R+L=J, or one of GRRMs early series false starts (like Tyrion doing cartwheels at Winterfell, or Theon and Robb being bff’s, but not until Clash)

It’s funny and depressing listening to old podcasts complaining that winds of winter wasn’t out back in 2016 or whatever. Thank the gods THIS YEAR IS WINDS YEAR.

Here’s how it would go: Ned: free my sister you fucking cowards! Dayne: we aren’t keeping her hostage, we’re keeping her safe! From you! Ned: what? Arthur: what?

I’m not saying nothin, but the Tower of Joy doesn’t fucking add up. Why would the Kingsguard need to fight and die to protect Ned’s sister and nephew from Ned and six Northmen?

THIS YEAR IS WINDS YEAR.

Prologues, generally… - Introduce a new place that we have heard of, but not been - Put us in the head of someone who is a part of a larger order or group - Show us something supernatural - have a POV character who is powerless to stop the supernatural thing.

(He’ll get so mad at my conspiracy theories that he’s gonna finish the books out of spite just to shut me up)

What movie do you consider perfect?

You can already see Cersei’s paranoia and laser focus on high lords playing the game of thrones that we see full bore in Feast and Dance. It’s incredible how deeply wrought most of these characters are

On Bluesky and also in America and also on earth. But let’s start on Bluesky.

There’s way too much plot for GRRM to wrap up in only two books. After Winds comes out this year, I hope he follows with A Dream of Spring and Boys of Summer Three more books would be 50% better than two.

Today I realized that the Sand Snakes only show up in one chapter. Absolutely bonkers decision by the show to focus on Sand Snakes and erase Arianne who is a fully fleshed out POV character.

Get it. Like he’s flying like a bird.

“My aunt Allyria says Lady Ashara and your father fell in love at Harrenhal—” “That’s not so. He loved my lady mother.” “I’m sure he did, my lady, but—” “She was the only one he loved.” “He must have found that bastard under a cabbage leaf, then,” Gendry said behind them.

To be clear, this is real! Not my usual crackpotitude!

letting RFK Jr. take personal charge of his care is like Qyburn caring for the Mountain ngl so once he’s a shambling corpse monster this post will have called it

“A Feast for Crows is about what you do when the King is dead. What do you do when the source of meaning is gone? That which defined you, individually and as a people? What do you do when the mighty pillars, as Aeron calls Baelon and the drowned god in this chapter, come crumbling down around you?”

Here’s an alternate draft of the Feast prologue, from the archives of the Cushing Library: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Is it possible Ashara is Jyanna Reed and also Lemore? Probably not.

People keep posting about "when it happens". You're all referring to the release of the Winds of Winter? Right?

George, call me. I’ll help you finish Winds with all the tinfoil crackpot dumbass ideas

How I captain a starship:

Another thing the prologues have in common is that they all shed more light on the supernatural. - Introducing The Others - Showing R’hollor is real deal - Remind us of the others, and introducing wights - Introducing glass candles and reminding us Faceless Men could be anywhere - more on wargs

The prologues have patterns. AGOT - North of the Wall (wil) ACoK - Maesters (Cressen) ASOS - North of the Wall (Chett) AFFC - Maesters (kinda)(Pate) ADWD - North of the Wall (varamyr) Every prologue introduces us to a new setting/location.* Every prologue tells a relatively minor story*

ASOIAF Prologues and Epilogues, definitively ranked. God Tier: AGOT (Will) AFFC-prologue (Pate) Cool as hell: ACOK (Cressen) ASOS-epilogue (Merrit) Very Dope: ASOS-prologue (Chett) ADWD-prologue (Varamyr) Well Written but meh ADWD-epilogue (Kevan)

To seize the body of another man was the worst abomination of all.

Maya Stone fancast (requires a time machine)

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.

Poor George RR Martin is dealing with guys at conventions standing up and going “so uhhhhh u gonna finish that book before u croak?” when we could be thanking him for this metaphor! We could be saying thank you to Poor George!

Great news.

I’m about halfway through the Red Rising series. It’s pretty good! But once you experience the depth and richness of ASOIAF it’s hard to get into anything else. Thank the gods we’ll have Winds in time for Christmas.

THIS YEAR IS WINDS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR IS SPRING.

My ideal timeline is 50% a song of Ice and Fire discussion, 30% real life updates from my Twitteros friends, 20% other sci fi and fantasy talk. 0% Trump. Right now it’s all out of wack.

(Tinfoil) The people who think she’s dead say “haunting.” The people who know she’s alive say “laughing” #provemewrong

(whispers) this year is winds year