did you know we started daenerys in A STORM OF SWORDS last week girlsgonecanon.podbean.com/e/asoiaf-epi...

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No new episode next week, but the week after that, it's time for "The Drowned Man," aka Aeron II, aka the kingsmoot! 👑🦑

Speaking of our patron-only episodes: the poll to pick the topic of our next one is live! All patrons can vote for one of four topics. The poll will close on 9/1 at 10AM EST. Check it out: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

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We have arrived at the introduction of Euron Greyjoy, who kicks things off with the ultimate supervillain monologue: framing his lifelong commitment to violence as a mockery of every god who fails to answer prayers, allowing him to dominate the world in their place.

Vic is the most "no it's the children who are wrong" character in the whole series

There's no character in the story quite like Victarion Greyjoy, whose POV is a giant joke on him. GRRM gleefully pokes holes in Vic's worldview, showing how it's made him miserable and connecting the dots to what's gone wrong with the Old Way as a whole. He's his own worst enemy!

When it finally cools down enough to open a window for the cats

The valonqar, Jojen's fate, the unsolved prophecies of the House of the Undying...these are just some of theories @manuclearbomb.bsky.social and I discuss on our latest episode for patrons. Come join the Patreon so you can listen to exclusive episodes every four weeks!

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it would kick ass if 1% of my followers bought my new novella about climate change and monsters, available now for only $3 🫡 merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

We were so glad to have @lothelynx.bsky.social back on the NotACast to talk through Brienne's ghost hunt (literally, a guy named Hunt shows up) in Maidenpool. Come listen to us talk about gender, knighthood, and Nimble Dick!

A lot of skinner and Sephiroth dialogue are interchangeable

“Silhouettes and shadows…” Here’s another of Masayoshi Sukita’s superb shots, taken 45 years ago during Bowie’s visits to Japan in March 1980. Sukita talks about David’s visit in the book Speed of Life, read an excerpt here: www.instagram.com/p/DHR3xG5IJ9... #SukitaSunday

Penelope in the Odyssey

Here's the first footage from Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

"It can produce art the way right wingers like it: Thomas Kinkade paintings, soulless Dreamworks 3D cartoons, depthless imagery that yields only the reading that its creator intended. And, vitally, it can do so without the need for artists." newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Belatedly catching up on @notacast.bsky.social’s episode on Brienne I, and I really appreciated all the historical and literal parallels drawn when it comes to Brienne! Made me add things to my reading list! But because I’m me, I gotta throw two more parallels in there. 🧵

@notacast.bsky.social I was listening to Ep. 233 on Brienne and one of the things I love about her arc is that it is the antithesis of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. I’m not sure if that’s what GRRM was aiming for, but I thought I would mention it in case you were interested.

This week in Westeros, Cersei tries to take charge in (and at) her father's wake. She manages to leapfrog the Tyrells to install her own master of coin, but isn't so lucky with Uncle Kevan, who turns down the Hand position with extreme prejudice. Our episode is up for everyone!

The best adaptation ever, care of @poorquentyn.bsky.social

"I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over, and the insect is awake." boxd.it/8zepjf

What are some lines of movie dialogue that double as mission statements for the filmmakers? Thinking in particular of this one for Lucas and Spielberg:

“You know about death; that it’s just a change, not an end."

Next up: @cyrilwoodcock.bsky.social joins us for the first Cersei chapter. It'll be out for everyone on Monday, but for patrons starting tomorrow! Great time to check out our Patreon; we'll soon be releasing an episode on the recently unearthed extended version of prologue to AFFC ⬇️⬇️⬇️

No new episode this week! If you haven't already, check out our previous episode, our introduction to Dorne via Areo Hotah and the Sand Snakes: notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-23...

@poorquentyn.bsky.social Tywin should have changed his sigil to a civet and eaten coffee beans so that his shit was valuable

No new episode next week, but the week after that, @cyrilwoodcock.bsky.social joins us to welcome the one true queen with A Feast for Crows, Cersei I!

It's also up on our Patreon, where our patrons get benefits including early access and exclusive episodes: www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

This week in Westeros: we head down to Dorne, where the Sand Snakes are calling for war and murder as revenge for their father Oberyn, but little do they know that their seemingly passive uncle Doran has his own plot cooking on low heat. Our episode is up for everyone!

Burning down the year in style

Five favorite albums of the 90s: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Scott Walker - Tilt Bjork - Post/Homogenic

Final Fantasy Tactics had some of the most impressive story twists throughout, it felt more like historical fiction than high fantasy, but I remember the ending still took me by complete surprise

such a killer episode. I also wanted to point out this desire to make the iron islands great again sort of echoes a desire to make westeros great again via Targaryen restoration, likely to be hijacked by Aegon VI and the plans of Varys/Illyrio.

Favorite albums of the 80s: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Talking Heads - Remain in Light Prince - Purple Rain Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Favorite albums of the 70s: Can - Ege Bamyasi Miles Davis - Bitches Brew David Bowie - Low Brian Eno - Another Green World Television - Marquee Moon

Next up: we finally head down to Dorne for Areo Hotah's chapter "The Captain of Guards." Our episode will be up for patrons starting on Thursday and up for everyone next Monday!

Check out the details of the uncovered draft of Feast's Prologue: www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/s/e...

If you've been following the juicy details about A Feast for Crows' Prologue uncovered in a fan's recent visit to GRRM's archive at the Cushing Library, it's the perfect time to listen to our episode on the Prologue: notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-22...

It's also up on our Patreon, where our patrons get benefits including early access and exclusive episodes: www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

This week in Westeros: we kick off the sorely underrated Ironborn storyline in Feast with Aeron Greyjoy, whose desperate attempts to use religion to banish the legacy of his abusive brother Euron have failed. The king is dead...long live the king. Our episode is up for everyone!

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The part near the beginning of close encounters where you see the shadow of the ufo passing over Dreyfus’s car messed me up as a kid. I was paranoid of open skies at night because I could just imagine an alien thing watching me, unseen

The way Spielberg mixes unfiltered animal terror with diabetes-inducing sentimentality remains his signature (for better or worse), and it's something none of his acolytes can ever seem to pull off