I feel like seeing some random serving girl thrown into brothel service is, oddly, less bizarre or shitty than something like Sansa being raped. This is a world where teenagers/adolescents/children are put through this over and over (think Littlefinger’s brothel); we just happened to see this instance of it. Sansa’s…

Or he sent Davos away because he knew Davos would talk him out of it and he couldn’t risk letting that happen. The kindness, I think it is not here.

She is. But Sophie Turner is 19 and they didn’t show Sansa’s rape, and Arya is a character who is never going off-screen in a dramatic situation. So I don’t think they’re going to put her through excessive squick... more likely, if she’s alone with Trant, at some point he’s going to recognize her, and that’s going to…

Not yet...? Well, not at all now that Hizdahr got thoroughly ventilated.

Everything in the books so far suggests that if your blood isn’t everywhere and your heart clearly and descriptively indicated as having stopped, you’re not dead. Because George Martin does not lack for ways to clearly and descriptively indicate that someone is, without the slightest bit of question, dead.

I’ve said he’s a “cool Pope”, but I mean that as, he’s cool *for a Pope*. I expect exactly nothing out of the Catholic Church as an institution in terms of their attitude towards social policy, because they’ve spent so long disregarding even the things their church ostensibly supports (ie. caring for the poor) that…

TRYING

And think of how many women on the show would do exactly that- or at least have the mindset, if not the capability. Hell, throw the Sand Snakes up there, their fight scenes would become a hell of a lot more interesting. Brienne would blink, then give no fucks. Cersei would dump some wildfire on them and walk away.…

I was miffed about that too, and my current theory on why they did it isn’t as interesting as I think she would have been alive, but FWIW: Because she and Jon seemed to have some little spark working- maybe lust, maybe simple respect, I don’t know- and they focused back on her awakening as a wight, I think they’re…

FWIW, a friend of mine was given a terrible name by her parents and decided to change it when she was nineteen. Her mom was the only one that could never get used to it, since she’s the one that named her daughter in the first place. I expect it’s a bigger deal for someone in transition to be referred to by their new…

Nooooooope. He remains, as wise man Charles Pierce says, a colossal dick.

“quadrabutt”

“Major candidate” doesn’t necessarily mean presidential. It can’t be a senator, what with the six year terms, but everyone in the House is up for election. Go down the list of people who won a House seat in 2008 and are still there. I bet the list isn’t short.

It’s too bad they’re those semi-permanent kinds of ads. When I lived in Sacramento, there was a crisis pregnancy center near where I used to play poker, situated in the half-block between the parking lot and the card room. They had one of those folding signs outside that just said, essentially (can’t recall the…

Going by some of the above comments, apparently pastrami can be made with pork. I wasn’t aware of that either. Although I question any method of living that requires not eating that tasty, tasty pork. Mmmmm.

This is why I carry all my own shit, and hopefully will never have so much I need the help. Thirty pieces of luggage! Why the fuck is she even at the airport needing help like that instead of on a private jet?

I didn’t even think about that until you said it, and now I’m dying.

I wonder what it’s like to be a writer more concerned about the fact someone has a used copy of your work than the fact it means another person likes what you do.

Because a black kid might’ve done it.

The perverse thing is the bonus aspect. Consider an alternate situation (which may very well exist) where one of these crazy rich hedge fund guys with a stay at home wife straight up gives her, say, fifty grand a year. (I don’t know what would be reasonable in Manhattan.) That’s her money, she can do what she wants…