You mean any*one*?

Right now, she hasn't stopped anything - she hasn't committed any armies or dragons or money to Jon's cause. There's very little cost to indulging her dreamboat potential ally.

I doubt Arya would have had much luck getting through Brienne's armor with that sword.

It's an AAVE thing.

Conspiracy theories are also very good *stories*. I mean, take this show! First season it was Major going up against the eating-homeless-kids conspiracy, second season was taking down the Max Rager coverup conspiracy, and this season there are several that may end up being branches of a single one. People prefer those…

The *existence* of the holiday isn't an appropriation of pagan rites. However, many of its practices, rituals, and symbols (right down to the English and German names!) *are* appropriation of pagan rites. The bunny and the colored eggs, assorted fertility rituals associated with it in Central and Eastern Europe, and…

Technical Boy comes by to plug you into the Matrix?

"Mad" Sweeney is actually a reference to his mythical past - as is the reference to his skipping a battle.

And none of the Coming to American vignettes have really featured their gods as main characters - except maybe Mr. Nancy's, but that's more as a supporting character. The main focus of the vignettes is always the believers.

First episode.

They also mixed in the limp (more from Hephaestus than from Vulcan), and the fires (which Wednesday refers to as "volcanoes", furthering the parallel).

The rest of her skin also looks (intentionally, I think) loose.

I sadly have not watched. Is it any good, especially in this particular vein?

In-show, I *do* think she loved him. Like, when she sits shadow down and talks about how she's not happy and he is - that's real talk! She's depressed! You can be unhappy without someone, get with them, be unhappy after, and still have love!

I've been in a few crowd/party situations where I'm like "holy shit that person is hot for… oh, not me, I'm just catching the splash damage." Anyway. That was pretty much that scene.

Oh yes. I know that Slough well, too, and also don't respond in anywhere *near* Laura's way, but god I could feel it in her. And that recognition pulled me in *hard*.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that gender has something to do with it.

So I also haven't read the book - what's interesting to me (as someone *with* clinical depression) is that Browning talks about how this character isn't-depressed-she's-just-… and then goes on to describe depression. And yet she plays the depression and associated self-destructive behaviors so well!

Well, that's why they gave me the backup :-)

I'm very grateful that my parents made the Anglo name a bullshit middle name for in case of emergency and childhood teasing, and kept the non-Anglo one first.