MAJOR NERD ALERT

One of the things I find hilarious about the Asha/Yara thing is that they said it was to avoid Asha/Osha confusion... but Yara has all the same letters as Arya and I KNOW they don’t rhyme and all, but... when I say them out loud to myself, Arya and Yara don’t really end up being all that different.

“Hey, uh, there’s a huge fleet coming. They’re flying the sigils of people who really want to kill you dead, and, um, there’s these flying lizards” is quite the cause for alarm. You’re right—there just might not be any sort of fighting.

Yep, and he told her the cautionary tale of what happened to the last dude who wanted to use it against the city itself.

You’re right, I don’t think they did. Still—they didn’t need to have included it for my theory to hold (not that I absolutely expect it to happen; sometimes the show surprises the shit out of me, still). Because, really, Jaime already killed a monarch for wanting to kill civilians with wildfire instead of losing their…

I can’t stop thinking about the look on Jaime’s face when he saw Cersei’s coronation.

I just need to say that OH GOD I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 20 YEARS TO GET MY READING COMPREHENSION MERIT BADGE AND FINALLY GOT IT.

I’m a supposed grown-ass woman in my mid-30s, and every now and then I still get nervous when I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and the shower curtain is drawn closed. Reading that someone else does a “sanity check” makes me feel, well, saner. :)

We don’t know, and may never know, what the gunman who killed Christina Grimmie on Saturday planned to do after he shot her. But he did have two guns. He was not stopped by some vigilante with a third gun. He was stopped from killing anyone else but himself by Grimmie’s brother tackling him to the ground.

I’m self-aware enough to admit when I’m probably stretching to be empathetic. But I’m also fundamentally lazy, and it’s way easier to say, “Well, that’s nice” when someone’s making a big gesture than it is to be mad at them for it.

The TV show The Last Ship pulled their season premiere episode last night, because it contained a shooting in a night club.

Last news Arya would have received is that her brothers are dead, Sansa is on the run, and that Jon is still at the Wall. So she would have no true idea where Sansa is—perhaps assuming at the Eyrie? But who knows. She’d have no reason to think Jon isn’t at the Wall, unless she decides to go half-glass-empty. The most…

Knowing that Cersei is going to outlive her children, I had over the past few weeks decided for myself that Tommen was going to end up taking his own life after Cersei becomes responsible for Margaery (and possibly Loras’s) death. I had thought that perhaps Tommen might take his own life.

But 4 of 5 romance options in Dragon Age 2 were bisexual! Josephine and the Iron Bull were bisexual in Inquisition! I... I... I...

The racism of low expectations.

This is a really well-written, thoughtful comment and I enjoyed reading it. :)

Coming from you, James, that’s kind of awesome to hear. :) (especially because I wrote that pre-coffee)

We’ve all heard the term “benevolent sexism” by now to describe supposedly chivalrous ideas, right? Yeah?

Holy cow I haven’t thought about that game in so long and but just looking at that screencap, I can “hear” the soundtrack in my head. Damn.

Meanwhile, Prince got his own post when he passed away. One could argue that someone like Alan Rickman didn’t because he wasn’t American... but I can’t remember now if David Bowie got a post of his own or not.