It must be a sign from the Old God's. Today the Blue Jays will be stellar. They may be in the weeds now, but it's a great place to pick for food

Listening to Nick Cave with my 7yo. She loves Where the Wild Roses Grow. I thought the meaning was over her head. She puzzled it out, so now my kid happily sings a murder ballad. Is there a word for being both proud and ashamed?

More stuff like this please! This is (part of) what we need. You can speak and make noise even if you don't control the Executive or Legislative Branch of the federal government. Governors...you're up! Good on you Pritzger. www.nbcnews.com/video/illino...

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then—he needn’t hope to find himself again. -Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons May these appointed sycophants not splash on the ground

It might be an unpopular opinion, but I really feel like the dad from the Cats in the Cradle song could've done more to be relevant to his sons life.

Shade of the Evening is the Essosi version of the Flaming Moe

Gogogo 🔥 takes

Just got my My Neighbor Totoro advent calendar!!!! So cool♡♡♡♡♡♡ #StudioGhibli #Anime

Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets They're all uptight Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead Described a bit more in Alt Text

When you roll a 20 on deception 🔥 🐉 #dnd #dndmemes #gameofthrones

Yes i'm religious, I believe in the holy trinity. And like any trinitarian, I wait. Art by Kraehenkunst

You read a lot about things being done unceremonious, but just once I'd like to read about someone ceremoniously dumped onto the ground, or ceremoniously hefted onto a shoulder.

If you're looking for something to watch this weekend with young kids, Spellbound might be worth a look. My 6 year old daughter was into it the entire time, which is the most important metric. Pretty good introduction to D&D inspired fantasy.

What's up blind melon's?

What's the most 80's song you can think of? It wouldn't fit in any other decade?

Book idea: it's a heroes journey and both the protagonist and antagonist are Charles Bukowski

Paperboy for snes

New podcast called Autocracy in America by the Atlantic, developed by Anne Applebaum, who has been writing about autocracy for years. I'm pretty sure everyone who sees this message is pretty aware of the authoritarian direction the republican nominee is taking the country, but still worth your time

GRRM must be a golfer. It's no coincidence Robert's Warhammer is described similarly to a putter, and no coincidence with the anger he wields it. A Storm Lord missed a putt and a dynasty fell... was probably a Par 3

Do you have any recommendations for an English TV sitcom? I've just finished Peep Show for the third or fourth time, and have seen The Inbetweeners a couple times as well. I assume Channel 4 must have more funny shows.

From Howls Moving Castle: And Sophie was suddenly overwhelmed by the fact that she was standing talking to the King. It was, she thought dizzily, as if the man sitting there and the huge, important thing which was kingship were two separate things that just happened to occupy the same chair.

When I was younger I saw all eagles. Now I notice most of them are vultures.

Really interesting article linked by Dan Carlin about an experiment run to replicate ancient Greek warfare. They recruited men of a similar size to that of a hoplite of the era and suited them up in similar armour and monitored their vitals. dnyuz.com/2024/06/06/h...

I'm thinking about the symbolism of the over-ripe oranges splattering on the ground while Doran watches the children play in the Water Garden. Should Doran have brought Dorne into the War of 5 Kings? Who should he have aligned with? What would Oberyn have done?

The boys are back together. It's a rare thing these days

"Queer talking I have heard, of hungry fires within the mountain, and how Stannis and the red woman go down together to watch the flames. There are shafts, they say, and secret stairs down into the mountain's heart, into hot places where only she may walk unburned." I was wondering about this, &-

I'm on day 5 of antibiotics and it feels like a brutal hangover. 2 days to go.

And now we play again A ripple on the plain The plain has changed And now we play to gain

It might've been prudent to avoid the giant X on all your costumes, Jean.

Pretty morbid but cool Deadpool frame. Click to expand if you want to feel squeamish

I wasn't much of a comic reader growing up, but over Christmas I picked up a year of Marvel Unlimited. It's been well worth the 50 bucks already. I've been reading Uncanny X-Men, Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man and a 2017 Darth Vader comic. Do any of you use this? Any Marvel favourites to suggest?

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 …

Mindflayer... It's the oldest trick in the book

The loud crack of a bat meeting a ball brought her back to the present, () These reminiscences weren’t doing any good. Fleeing the perilous present by taking refuge in pleasant memories of the past was no way, she realized, to solve anything. Men were after her, and she had to figure out why.

Maybe 215 after an enema

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Reskeet with a song you're into right now. I hadn't listened to Muse in a long time and another song reminded me of them. This one's Hysteria. It's crazy a band can be this good live https://youtu.be/KwhjlNvF-4Q

“I am beginning to realize,” said the android raising the Irish coffee to his lips, “that my creator is a hopeless sociopath. “ Cyndi considered this. “if you don’t mind some theology, I think that this just puts you in the same boat with the rest of us.” Walter Jon Williams - Wild Cards, Aces High

If this isn't good, what is? My girl got her first haircut today and she's happy and ready for kindergarten

These are taken from the Afterword from Wild Cards 1. GRRM spent a lot of time after Armageddon Rag's release playing the tabletop game Superworld as game master and I think these excerpts do a good job of highlighting why he loves the series so much. The friends he gamed with helped him write it.

I just met a man looked much like Bobby Fischer smelled much like a fish. #haiku #HashtagsDon'tDoAnything

Vincent wrote this to his brother the same year he decided to fully devote himself to painting, age 29. I like this quote, it shows his self awareness, and the noble and beautiful pursuit of a meaningful life over one of comfort. 1886/1887 he developed his recognizable style.

ASIAF shower thought: A FM could kill a Lord or King, perform their ritual and then just rule outright. It would be like Grima Wormtongue without the puppeteering.

Personal ASOIAF theory on the identity of R'hllor. TLDR I think it's Quaithe, and she's residing close to the Heart of Fire in Asshai. She's the flip side to BR and has chosen her champion in Daenarys the same way BR has chosen Bran. 1/x