I really dig Tywin and Arya — probably my favorite non-book element of the season. I want them to have AU adventures where their sassy relationship continues forever.

Why do you keep the infected area low for snakes, but elevate the infected area for spiders?

12. Remove St. Tropez fake tanner from your skin.

Theon Greyjoy hits absolute rock bottom this episode. He can't possibly go any lower than this.

I'm always a bit selfishly sad when an author moves on from the first series I first read of his/hers (I'm a pretty hardcore dweeb over the Inheritance Trilogy), but I'm excited.

It went by Arlington at 9:55 — we got a solid minute of watching it go by while heading toward the Parkway!

There's a Star Wars AU called "Into the Storm" where Vader successfully captures Luke at Bespin and takes him to the Emperor, who semi-crushes Luke's soul and leaves Luke struggling to maintain his own general light-ness and steer the Empire to goodness from the inside.

Summer Islanders

Circlet's putting out a new fantasy genderbending anthology soon, too.

"Bone Doll's Twin" on the YA side.

For anyone who's interested in this... there's a similar Kickstarter project that just met its goal, Scheherazade's Facade, which has authors like Tanith Lee onboard and will be available this summer.

It will still be better than the Percy Jackson sequel.

Smize, bitches.

It looks like live action The Clone Wars, mixed with Mass Effect 3, Terminator 2, and the seasoned superior vs. young hotshot pilot relationship of Gundam SEED Destiny.

Left side is best side. You can type without taking your hand off the mouse!

"Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is…

Thanks for the research. This does make the donation make a lot more sense.

Vast portions of Afghanistan are really fucking cold.

If she's a fantasy reader, too...

I told my sister she should put "internationally-ranked pairs Trauma Center champion" on her pre-med undergrad applications.