I hope Ms. Carroll-Kirchoff finds a way to forgive herself, because I think everyone who has a cat has done something like this at least once. I’ve closed cats in closets, dresser drawers, kitchen cabinets, laundry hampers, even the sub-floor space of a house once. It’s always their own damn fault.

Asbestos commonly co-occurs with talc, which is a common makeup ingredient. No one is intentionally adding it—it’s just very hard to differentiate it from talc, and few people are testing talc for it.

Lots of government pensions allow you to designate a beneficiary. You can often  pick anyone you want to get your benefits for 10 years if you croak.

Roe was decided on a tenuous constitutional right to privacy. Obergefell was decided on much stronger equal protection grounds. It doesn’t follow that the demise of Roe means the demise of Obergefell—they are totally different, unconnected legal theories. It’s not the same logic at all.

I think the subversion is that in typical fantasy, you expect all the realms of men to band together against the world-ending undead foe. The trope is that people put aside their petty political rivalries to save humanity. By not doing that, Cersei subverts the expectation.

This. It gave me more vibes of “I am glad you are here with me, here at the end of all things” than romance.

I wonder if combining so many book characters into fewer show characters hamstrung them here. Seems like they pared down to just the essential characters for simplicity in the show, and then realized they couldn’t kill any of them... because they had already written out the characters that could be killed.

The Godswood is also full of huge trees, and it’s the place she grew up. She knows its layout. I assumed she climbed into a sentinel pine and squirrel-hopped over the wights’ heads to the upper limbs of the Weirwood. She had obviously jumped from something higher when she came down on the Night King.

It does if you drink an entire liter of the 100% pure unsweetened kind over the course of 2 morning lectures! Or such was my experience, anyway.

Is possible—can confirm. Headroom in the bunks is limited so some flexibility is helpful.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. Boyfriend and I, wooed by the romantic idea, did this in Scotland. I kept waking up and panicking at the fact we were trapped in an airtight box with no way to open the tiny window. The “soothing motion” of the train made him carsick for 2 days after we got off the dang thing.

Not every gym troll operates late at night. I’ve been waking up an hour early so I can take every gym within a mile of my office on my way to work at 6 am. #notalltrolls