I was surprised to see an article about the fact this latest one’s been signed into law on Splinter, rather than Jez or The Slot, and I suppose I was also surprised to see a Barf Bag title about the wall rather than those bills since in my mind, that’s the more important topic today.

A bit surprised to see the news from Missouri and Alabama has been left to Dirt Bag, given that the topic is fairly significant in terms of women’s right to choose what happens to their own bodies and is very relevant to the Jez audience.

Exactly this. This isn’t about babies. This is about punishing women and only women for having sex. Women can’t get pregnant by themselves, but they’re the only ones being punished here.

This exactly. All the personal stories in the world won’t change their minds. It’s not just about control, it’s also very much about punishment, and about secular law beholden to their religious nuttery.

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The funny thing is, I thought she had beelined straight for the keep! We see her getting angrier, then a long shot of the red keep, then Drogon takes off, ostensibly in the direction of what is driving her.

That’s my problem with the ep, in a nutshell. I don’t hate where the characters ended up, but there’s a distinct lack of connective tissue to explain why.

Thing is, it was so telegraphed for so long, I was about as surprised as Varys about his death. I think I didn’t question the fact that she only killed him for it because a) she still needs Jon (and his Northerners) and b) she thinks she can use Tyrion the showrunners still have a plot point for Tyrion somewhere and…

I’m crossing the aisle to Team “Fuck This Show”.

I was going to add the points about adjuncts/non-tenure if you hadn’t. I still feel strongly enough to bring it up to add to your point. Many, many many teachers aren’t full time in a lot of districts. I have heard first hand stories from good friends who love teaching and don’t want to do anything else, yet live…

This. I was just about to post “Aging White Dude With Potentially Problematic Opinions About Ladies Endorses Same”.

No, Betsy, what you don’t like is negative publicity. If people liked you, you’d eat up the attention with a spoon and ask for more.

I see your point, and at times that’s been true, yet we’re told right before the confrontation as people are streaming through the inner gates of King’s Landing that the gen pop believe Queen Cersei is protecting them against “the usurper”.

Right? If I’m Cersei and a mere hundred foot soldiers and a toothless dragon roll up to my incredibly strong, fortified, well staffed front gates and tell me to give up everything because they say pretty please, with sugar on top, when I am all but certain I hold all the advantages and see no reason to believe…

I think I’m still reeling from the whole “kill the night king in the wee hours, burn everyone the next morning, eat and drink and be merry, get up the next day and that next afternoon we’re all the way down south already, apparently.”

From the jump, I wasn’t as emotionally engaged in the fighting because when they did that first initial pan through the battle lines, I thought to myself “why do you have loaded catapults with fire baskets already lit but not one goddamn soul standing next to any of them? Where are the catapult teams? Are they…

The cherry on top of the sheer awesomeness of that whole scene for me is the genuine joy on Thor’s face when he yells “I knew it!” Back then, the hammer tremble was a challenge, a threat - we could see in his expression that he was daunted and worried about it. But this time around, it’s a validation and an…

I legitimately didn’t even notice the nose ring as I was so distracted by the thing glued to his face masquerading as a beard.

Agreed. My only thought was “how the frell did they get off the top of the wall that quick” given that they’d have to carefully climb down a mile of ice wreckage or hike to the next tower.

Because putting your name on large monuments is totally the only way to ensure you’re remembered.