@levernews.com "The executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a monarchy." - Ben Franklin. It's a statement of 100% certainty often misleadingly clipped at "The first man put at the helm will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come afterwards."
I don't really think we are getting 10 extra seasons of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms but here's to hoping: www.reddit.com/r/gameofthro...
Somewhat related: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJM...
"I was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live …" - George
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"His wife did actually say that if he ever kills off Arya or Sansa, she's going to leave him" - Maisie
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RIP Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, namesake of the world wide weirwood web.
Don't let them bury
The sixth of January,
The Trump pipe bomb treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Trump pipe bomb treason
Should ever be forgot!
Perhaps our analysis of Eddard X with guest @greenbard.bsky.social would be appropriate after his third Lemongate video: www.youtube.com/live/hsdyTOV...
For much more of my madness check out the other playlists or join us live on OldNewDude's channel!
More Lemongate from @greenbard.bsky.social! youtu.be/HaP-EkDPOYs part 1 is youtu.be/R59Z6uKxlKw
I raise a cup to you and to the good old days and hope somewhere you are doing the same for me. Someone should make a song about that....
Happy New Year!
I forgot to include Asha's chestnut mare, but she's the one who wants peace with the North, so I think the pattern holds.
In #ASOIAF, chestnut horses seem to be associated with Starks (Bran's Dancer, Arya's "good horse", Sandor on Sansa's chestnut courser with the girl behind him), and people helping Starks or Brienne: Dantos, Blackfish, Hyle, and Shadrich.
Rickard (or Roger) Ryswell might be worth keeping an eye on.
Happy name day!
Thanks!
Thank you! Are you ever in the comments? I rarely catch the later comments since they're on Old New Dude's channel.
Definitely, but George likes ambiguity and parallels and has definitely planted seeds in this paragraph in the other direction.
Same episode of @historyofwesteros.com "Emmon has had children with her and there's no indication these aren't his kids."
At least she says they are his. No one in Casterly Rock had the courage to suggest otherwise, least of all Ser Emmon.
Jaime knows secret Lannister bastards when he sees them.
I do not have the power to give you back your father, no more than Thoros does, but I can at least see that you are returned safely to your mother's arms."
"Do you swear?" she asked him. Yoren had promised to take her home too(...)
"On my honor as a knight," the lightning lord said solemnly.
I'm listening to @historyofwesteros.com. They don't understand why Beric chose to resurrect Cat. He promised Arya when she asked him to resurrect her dead parent. He said it was the least he could do. On my honor as a knight: asearchoficeandfire.com?povs=Arya&q=...
Listening to @girlsgonecanon.bsky.social, Thistle has convinced me the two most important things Mirri Maz Duur says are "it's not a matter of (...) horses" and "death is cleaner".
Happy resurrection and/or sex goddess day!
And for the first time in thousands of years, the night came alive with the music of dire wolves: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus...
Listening to the latest @radiowesteros.com and when The Yellow Toad is mentioned I always think of the topless model GRRM is name-dropping. She was the model for the Aphrodite statues which were the models for the Venus statues: Phryne (Greek for toad), named for her beautiful yellow skin.
We lift a cup of kindness to the good old days and old friends knowing somewhere they are doing the same. (That's what Auld Lang Syne means.) Happy New Year!
"The only other people who call the others white walkers are the free folk." The first person is Mormont in Tyrion's third chapter, but that arguably strengthens the connection to the Night's Watch.
I'm listening to the latest @radiowesteros.com episode and I think they said something that might be technically inaccurate, but in a way that only strengthens one of their points. They speculate Old Nan's story about a crow refers to the Night's Watch because she uses the term white walkers.
