We're both generally very healthy, but there's a pretty specific condition that I could pass on to my biological kids. It's not debilitating but if I can prevent kids from having it, I will. I'm on birth control now, too, and will remain on it for the foreseeable future.

That is also my plan, along with Mr. Ferret. We both want kids, but because of various factors (health and genetic issues, overpopulation, social conscience, whatever), we decided that when the time comes, we're going to adopt.

I'm a baker who loves making cupcakes. I don't make them obnoxiously frilly — but they're good. Gingerbread, red velvet, lemon blueberry, chocolate-Guinness, peanut butter. My co-workers love them. I've been told on multiple occasions that they're better than anything sold in our cupcake shops.

I very much agree with this and wince when he's referred to as an "abortion doctor" in the media, even by outlets who should know better, like Mother Jones. Fully delivering and then killing live viable babies is not abortion; it is murder.

I completely agree with you that Dany is uneducated, in over her head, inexperienced and a teenager. Which is precisely why she has fuck all business thinking she can rule anything. She's old enough to get herself into shit, she's old enough to be held responsible for it when she fucks it up. I get very tired of the…

I read the "the" as being, "the" one who will strangle her. :-) And if it said "your" valonqar then it'd give the game away.

I tell people that Asha *actually* is what everyone *claims* Dany is.

The way the prophecy is worded, I think it almost has to be her younger brother, and not any random younger sibling. I think the birth order — Cersei first, then Jaime — is stressed for a reason. It only really matters if Cersei is older for the purposes of the prophecy (i.e. Jaime also qualifies as a younger brother).

Book 5 spoilers, etc.

Eh I think they deserve each other. She knows what she's getting into and does it anyway.

Same, Tyrion is just awful now. And the weird thing is, if you go back and reread, he was ALWAYS awful, but Martin cleverly hid it by surrounding him with worse characters, like his sister. It's a big lightbulb moment when you figure it out: Tyrion is not good and never was.

Spoilers gafuckin'lore obviously.

He sucks when he's around her, but when he moves off and does his own thing, he's awesome. As someone else said, he just gives zero fucks and that's just amazing.

Perfect way to characterize it.

Actually he's not. If you pay attention to what he's saying, especially later in the series, he has an amazingly droll sense of dry sarcastic humor. Everyone thinks he's so humorless, yet he's one of the funniest characters if you look at what he's really saying. That's GRRM's joke.

That was my exact experience. I went from liking her a lot in the early ones to being bored with her in the middle ones to just being disgusted and fed up with her by the fifth. And that has nothing to do with her sex life and everything to do with her being an incompetent and oblivious governor with severe…

Dany < Most non-Starks < Stannis < Actual Starks < Jon is my hierarchy.

It baffles me that so many people think the Stark kids are boring. You have a tactical prodigy, a pre-teen assassin, a kid who is more or less a god, a budding political spy, a half-wild toddler and whatever Jon ends up being, probably the messiah. Oh and they can all possess wild animals at will. SO boring.

I actually like Margaery. She's a sharp girl. Also she gives Cersei fits so that's an obvious endorsement.

I'll take Asha Greyjoy over Dany any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Dany pretty much lost me after the last book, and a lot of the cool stuff she did in the third is pretty much negated by how big of an idiot she is in the fifth.