It’s just unbelievably sad, the whole thing.

I was expecting them to be a bit more battered than they were, but if you jump just right and the snow is deep enough it will break your fall. Mind you, they might have broken something and not know, and carry on regardless, high on adrenalin and fear. I broke my knee once and I only found out fifteen years later.

I love her. I was sort of shipping her with Jaime Lannister, who has the best character arc of all. But he still clings to that deranged sister of his.

This marks the beginning of Sansa’s transformation into her mother.

Well, it’s fucking freezing at the Wall, so he’ll be good for a few extra hours. Unless he rises again as a White Walker. So Melisandre had better get her arse out of bed quickish.

Myranda landed on clean rock, they jumped into a snow bank. That broke their fall, apparently.

She’s definitely lost her faith. I hadn’t thought about the soul angle. My original idea was that Jon might’ve warged himself into some passing animal, kind of like a Dropbox for the soul, and Melisandre’s work on his body might bring his soul back.

I don’t usually go in for the last viewing (we don’t do open caskets in Italy). The last time I did it was a friend of mine, who died young and quite suddenly. I went in because my boyfriend did and I didn’t want him to have to go alone, but I walked out immediately, hid behind the building and had a complete meltdown.

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I want to be cremated after people have said “And now her watch is ended”.
Sounds like a good way to go.

Rachel Roy isn’t white, though, and she doesn’t identify as white.

I think you might be wasting your sympathy. She married him of her own volition, after all. And given how public his divorces were, she knew exactly who she was dealing with.

I’m sure you’re all familiar with minne di Sant’Agata, literally “Saint Agatha’s Tits”, a devotional pastry in Sicily. They’re traditionally prepared in Catania for the annual celebrations in honour of the saint.

“You’re thirteen, your childhood is well over. Welcome to literature! It’s so much better than childhood.” So, yeah.

I remember that one!

I wonder why Disney never thought of adapting Andersen’s The Red Shoes. All that dancing on graves, mutilation and death make it so hot.

I was teaching a group of 13-year-olds recently, and when I told them that the Little Mermaid turns into sea foam at the end of the original story one girl whimpered “You’ve just destroyed our childhood”.

My dad will argue with the wall, if he thinks the wall was looking at him funny. Wonder why I don’t have a modelling career.

Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. Mind you, that was a while ago and Tootsie is one of my favourite films ever, possibly the favourite, and an intensely feminist one at that.

Thanks for clearing up who is actually getting married in the film. My boyfriend keeps insisting it must be the girl and I’m like “SHE’S A CHILD”.

God, I love First World Problems. Don’t you?