woman was created to be nurturing

I’ve been using Ikea products for 15 some odd years now, and have never had anything break (RIP that lamp I dropped down a flight of stairs) or get damaged (THANKS, BRAD) that wasn’t 100% human error.

I’m 35 years old. My entire life experience as a girl (now woman) who likes video games, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien, HP, Stargate, Babylon 5, etc etc, has been this:

I’m 100% the boss twerp. Didn’t you get the memo?

Like. Dude. Depeche Mode did it earlier this year. I know they’re older, and they’ve had a long, long career, and maybe even have less to lose if we want to look at it that way. But when Richard Spencer said they were the official music of the alt-right they responded with a hearty, resounding FUCK THE HELL OFF, YOU…

Wow, I cannot imagine how frustrating this conversation must have been for you D: The show has made it clear that Winterfell is Sansa’s. I mean, even in the finale here, with her conversation with Littlefinger, she states that the worst possible scenario is Arya trying to kill her so that Arya can be Lady of…

My dad!

Egg is the best Aegon.

The plural of anecdote does not equal data, but I don’t know who a single ex-athlete who doesn’t have a chronic pain problem or who hasn’t needed to have surgery on some joint or other—a couple of them when they were only in their thirties.

Yes he should. It’s making me crazy! Dany’s babies have gone from being able to perch on her shoulder to burninating all the things. But Gilly’s baby can’t even walk.

Time has always been a weird issue on the show. I guess some people find it more egregious this year, but for heaven’s sake, the first time we see Jaime and Cersei they’re in King’s Landing. The next time we see them, they’re in Winterfell. The first scene shows one man north of the Wall... the next time we see him,…

Thanks for answering. I definitely see your point, don’t even necessarily disagree. Having the Dothraki take care of a couple of beheadings still wouldn’t have been great optics/PR (given Cersei’s fearmongering), but beheading is a lot quicker and less horrifying.

I’m curious: if Dany executing the Tarlys when they refused to serve her was evil, how do you feel about Jon executing Jonos Slynt for refusing to serve him? Is it the method of execution that’s the problem, dragonfire vs sword? Robb executed a man for disobeying his orders. Ned executed a man for dereliction of duty…

re: “getting in young” - I was 16, he was 28, so it’s the same age gap, but two years to the left. He was a musician. Wrote songs about me and shit. I was lucky enough to get out after a couple of years. But when I try to talk about it, most people are like, “Well, age of consent, what’s the big deal, blah blah blah”…

The other parents of younger kids in my life have opted against attachment parenting. Their kids are all doing very well. I think I would probably be a little less “SIGH!” about attachment parenting if not for the severe distress that my cousin’s behaviour inflicts on her son, and if the people who subscribe to the…

There are only two little boys in my life (compared to five little girls—I have a very small social circle, and it’s almost all childfree/less). My best friend and her husband have a little boy who is 8. He has ADHD and he’s had problems with violence. They have had a drastically different approach to raising their…

The “mummy’s gonna leave” line, after making mummy the very centre of this little boy’s life literally so far above and beyond everyone else in his life... it’s just cruel.

One of my cousins is big on attachment parenting. She has a six year old daughter and a three year old son. Her son has developed some violent impulses—biting her, hitting her, even choking her. For the last few months, when he acts violently, she has responded by stomping away from him, demanding that he get away…

It’s looking more and more, thanks to medical research, that there is literally nothing wrong with me that I haven’t inherited. So, basically, as a zygote I guess I should have known better than to keep on keepin’ on.

Brothraki. My metaphorical hat’s off to you.