If your stupidity protects you against the consideration of inconvenient context (eg. that "white live matters" is a very transparent dogwhistle with no possible purpose other than undermining "black lives matter"), I think the discussion whether it signifies being consciously malicious or just willfully obtuse is…

Write that letter! My mother got such a letter from a student once, and it's a great treasure of hers. It's not entirely uncommon to write letters to former teachers. I don't think it would come across as weird.

Nothing wrong about offering friendship. I mean, I wouldn't pull "we can be friends though" towards someone who has been pining for a while, because that's just plain unrealistic - you can't switch from pining to friendship that fast. But this woman has met you once so far; whatever she feels for you can be a slight…

Lots of women whose idea of bliss is staying in; shouldn't be that hard to find one.

Hang in there, I hope that streak of misfortunes ends soon.

As I said, I think that's more of a result of Martin's own blind spot. He didn't manage do make any of the Dothraki characters memorable enough for the showrunners to keep the actors on the payroll (Dany's original bloodriders and handmaidens don't all die in the books. Dany does trust them with important positions -…

I agree that the Dothraki are lot more underdeveloped by the books as well as the show than the wildlings. Martin too never bothered to develop a Dothraki character they way he did Mance Rayder, or Tormund, etc. It's why people who accuse him of implicit racism do have a bit of a point. I just think it's more of a…

I still think it counts as renunciation, if they don't make it face-book official. The consummation is just going to make the break-up even more sacrificial - can't miss what you never had.

But Jon's half Stark, and the Stark are fairly native as far as the majority of Westerosis are going to be concerned. Even more native than argueably the Baratheons (who are Andals, a previous wave of invaders), with ties back to the literal "First Men" (if you ask the Children of the Forest though…).

I've always felt Martin's concern with incest in the books is less about the "ickiness" of it, so to say, (sometimes it seems like the incest is actually the least troubling part about the Cersei/Jaimie relationship, although it certainly doesn't help with the co-dependence; also, Martin seems to be somewhat into the…

But the point is that Jon and Dany's brand has so far been to be somewhat more enlightened than their contemporaries.

So you think the Hillmen will take over the undefended Eyrie? If the show still cared about plausibility, that would actually be a somewhat inevitable plot development - they've been itching for that opportunity for a long time.

She had to burn something, for the shock and awe to take effect, and the food wagons are the target where she's least likely to hit her own soldiers.

Eh, the Dothraki are basically the Essos-equivalent to the Widlings, who also have a bit of a history of raping and pillaging (and men-eating, for good measure). There's a reason Jon had a bit of trouble getting people on board with his pro-wildling policy. People didn't just decide to stab him because they're so mean.

But it might be a story about its gradual transition into something a bit more democratic. Whip up a constitution, make the king more of a figurehead, install a permanent Great Council as some sort of House of Lords; House of Commons round the corner!

Tyrion suffers the same fate as Littlefinger, Varys, the Queen of Thorns and argueably Sansa in as much as smart characters on the show no longer get an opportunitiy to display their wit (in the form of strategical thinking, rather than pithy onliners), because everyone now has to carry the idiot ball on occasion in…

Prepare some handkerchiefs then; I think that's the best case scenario.

Eh, I think Dany has some character development coming in that regard.

I think book Jaime has one of the most engaging storylines and I'm rooting for him in the sense that I wouldn't want him to die out of an ill-advised impulse of glorious death seeking before getting a bit of closure on some of his numerous issues (reconciliation with Tyrion, emancipation from Cersei, properly…

It will be the death of Littlefinger. He lied about it to frame Tyrion, which was one of the main inciting incidents of the whole tragedy.