Look At This Distinguished Gentleman. Look At The Way He Is Reading The Paper, Mmmyessh, Very Distinguished.

George:

Guys, I have to walk back my earlier statements.

I read Val's wiki, and I think I'm sold. I see the potential. This might be it. This might be our endgame.

I'm not kidding, see for yourselves.

The Mormont women live and breath the Mama Bear trope: fierce, loyal, no-nonsense women with their own brand of sweet tenderness who *can and will* fight tooth, claw, and sinew to defend their home and family.

Brave companions used black bear in fighting pit in Riverrun. Dany called Jorah her black bear in ASOS. His sigil also had black bear on it. Then the bear in Bear and the Maiden Fair is described as having black and brown furs. Do you think black bear is indicating something?

Hi anon!

I'm extremely ambivalent about how GRRM uses bears. There's no one recognizable theme like with dogs. The best I've arrived at so far is that bears can represent questionable mentor figures.

Sansa in the Vale is compared to a bear cub (with Littlefinger her horrible "father"), Dany compares herself to a bear cub withJorah, the fugitive slaver who both advises and molests her, then you have Jon with Jeor Mormont, who hands him the transformed family blade that used to be a bear - but was turned into a wolf, making him a pseudo "father", who is both a useful teacher AND a misguided leader of the Watch, but leaving Jon in charge of his own wolfy fate, eventually.

Arya watches the black bear kill Amory Lorch and feels reminded of Yoren, her second (and violent!) mentor after Syrio, but that same bear is turned against Brienne as a precurser to threatened rape and murder, and the bear is killed when Jaime returns to save her. 

In the song "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", the male bear is another beastly sexual predator.

On the other hand, the ladies of House Mormont are generally depicted as loyal protectors and independent leaders. Dacey is Robb’s loyal guard, while Maege is trusted to carry out a vital mission for him. Lyanna Mormont has no qualms about rejecting Stannis, steadfastly sticking with House Stark. Asha is undeniably impressed with “Aly” Mormont, who protects Asha from the fire-mad R’hllor adherents in spite of the ancient enmity between their people. 

Tormund’s story of the she-bear who sheds her skin mirrors Alysane’s story about the Mormont ladies being skinchangers who mate with bears in the woods. The bear goes her own way. No husband necessary. 

The Mormont men? Absent, dead, deeply flawed, irrelevant.

There is a clear and constant rift between the female bear and the male bear. 

If I had to make a guess, I would suspect that the bear image is about growing beyond a flawed system. The mentor that protects the various characters can transform into a weak leader, a traitor, a predator. Independence is better. Growing up is necessary. Responsibility for one’s own fate is necessary. 

Be that as a she-bear, or a wolf. (Or a dragon.)

"I don't think it's possible to wipeout House Frey. There's a Frey in every corner of the planet."

Then good thing they won't have to be. Old Walder's double dealing and treachery will follow them all so terribly that whatever descendants he has left will either forswear their relation at any cost, or cut their throats themselves rather than live as Freys. Maybe some of them will even take up some manner of atonement for the family crimes, but I won't hold my breath.

Yo! I sumbled across a blog post cheering Tywin and the red wedding, and someone commented this(wendynerdwrites), i thought wait a goddam minute!:

"My fantasy is that Guest Right is eventually restored with one caveat - no Lannisters. The Boltons and freys are going extinct. But the Lannisters will survive with generatons of being ousted from negotiations, parlays, state and court events, all diplomacy and as a result, their stock dwindles to near nothingness. Their .ane becomes a punchline. They have Casterly Rock taken from them and they can't even fight or appeap because they are ineligible to negotiate the end of any rebellion they might attempt. They are the new house Hollard. All thanks to Tywin."

This the true ending of Tyrion, the only surviving Lannister and Tywin 2.0! This. is. karma. This is everything that they fear even Tyrion. 🤣

As fun of an idea as that is, "peace except Lannisters" isn't real peace, and I don't think the author would write an ending where future generations are paying for the crimes of their ancestors indefinitely.

Side note, I don't think it's possible to wipeout House Frey. There's a Frey in every corner of the planet. Lol

All the love and respect to Dave McKean

The covers of the Sandman comics were always so orginal and captivating, being largely photographs of collage art pieces; will those play any part in the show, like as title cards, inspiration, or on camera recreations like Morpheus in the magic circle?

You know, lots of people think they were collaged, but they weren't. They were built...

Here are the covers to 1, 2 and 6 respectively.

And yes. If you keep an eye out in Burgess's mansion in Episode 1, you'll see a lot of the things on the shelves of the cover to #1 in display cases on his walls...

At least we'll have Kit and Emilia's bewildered expressions to that joke of a finale 😁

Comedy gold

Show Dany wasn't a charmer. The characters are either dumb down to make them follow her or are smart enough to know what kind of person she is. She wasn't that complex character. Infact her villain arc gave her some depth.

It's painful how stupid everyone had to become. We always focus on Jon, but so many characters had to be lobotomized to make it work.

Not Sansa though! :D

With a rusty tailpipe

"We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!" how about you go fuck yourself

Her best

WHAT THE FUCK Is peli doing in an active warzone

He can hear a can of essence being opened from across the castle.

So do we... strike? Sign a petition to maintain Discord independance..?

Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report

Could Discord be moving to the home of Xbox?

There is so much going on that I don't know what to comment on first...

Here. A bunch of cursed images and memes redrawn as dp characters