I don’t follow the Trump threads or even follow him on twitter. I guess it’s where I draw the line for my mental health. But holy shit he actually said this out loud?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266172570983940101?s=20
I read this as suppressing votes is the only way to keep Republicans in power. Am I missing something?
You are not missing anything.
I think that Martin wrote the books because he was in love with the idea of certain twists.
Specifically, I think he wanted to build up a character as the hero, then have that character make a surprising turn into the endgame villain halfway through the last book. I really believe that Dany’s arc and the swiftness of her portrayal is very much in the spirit of what Martin intended.
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Yes, but with an asterisk. I have a few teeth that are chronic food magnets and I floss them constantly. The rest, not so much.
It must be rough being a dentist. The janitors of the mouth.
I don’t know if I’m really 5+, but I might be. It’s close. I might have picked 4-5 if it were an option. Still picked it though so as not to mingle with those never-flossers.
I voted nope but I am not a never flosser. I don’t have good routine or set schedule for when I floss. I probably average just under 5 times a week but lots of variance.
I’m at 14+ because I had problems with my gums and have to get cleanings 4x per year to keep everything good, and that’s with flossing 2x per day. Sometimes I do more than 2x per day depending on what I eat during the day.
I have a couple loose gaps that get food in them. I always floss those. Everything else is tighter than a gnats ass stretched over a rain barrel. Flossing hurts and there is a lot of blood. Fuck that shit.
Try turning the knob all the way to the left on Cinemax and you might get to watch softcore pornos in arthouse B&W mode with no sound, like I did in my formative years.
Fans have known for a long time that she’s going dark. It’s not really that huge a twist, she’s set out as a tragic hero from the beginning, one who will be undone by her flaws. I’ve linked Daughter of Death: A Song of Ice and Fire’s Shakespearean Tragic Hero a million times, it’s long but maybe the best thing I’ve ever read on ASOIAF. It’s a comprehensive dissection of the character of Dany and her place in the story, written before Dany’s dark turn on the show. The show really glossed over Dany’s existing darkness and they didn’t have a motive for burning King’s Landing that made any sense (in the books this motive will involve Aegon/Young Griff, so it couldn’t be done in the show) and that made Dany’s transition a lot more abrupt and “twisty” than it will be in the books.
I give it at least 33% that Martin would finish the books in a way less satisfying than the show.
This seems impossible given the show is the absolute nut low worst ending of anything ever created.
I dunno, it’s close but (spoiler alert) this British B movie I saw a few years back literally ends with the “and then I woke up and it was all a dream” motif that little children are fond of. I was amazed. Though, on second thoughts, that took about 2 minutes to do rather than multiple excruciating episodes. Carry on.
That is pretty lol, but it was actually famously used to end Newhart to great effect.
I argue the crown belongs to GoT if you weigh how great it was, how much time we all invested in it, and how easy it was to end well. It’s the most amazing unforced error in writing history.
It’s so bad I’m still not convinced it wasn’t some multimillion dollar troll or lost bet.
I’ve rewatched the last season of GOT once since it aired. I seem to be fond of TV that other people hate. I love season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when some people absolutely hate it.
GoT might be the biggest swing in cultural relevance in the modern age. From basically the biggest thing on the planet to completly invisible straight after it was done. But yeah you’ve gotta learn to become satisfied with your own head cannon on these things. The ending in my head rocked I don’t need GRRM for it. He did good set up but I can take it from here.
https://twitter.com/machineiv/status/1266389784059994115
This lead me down a quick thing where I learned JK Rowling is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.