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Blind Sally posted:A Song Of Spice And Fire
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Aug 19, 2014 16:40
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Arrakis is the same planet, thousands of years in the future. The unexpected result of Jon defeating the Others, meaning winter never comes.
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Aug 19, 2014 16:50
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King's Landing Girls will do it for pearls, Wildling girls for water, But if you desire dames like consuming flames Try a Winterfellian daughter.
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Aug 19, 2014 16:55
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Shai-halud is coming... ...walk without rhythm and he'll pass you by.
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Aug 19, 2014 17:29
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I don't wanna wait... for my ice and fire to be over I want to know right know, how it will eeeeend
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Aug 19, 2014 17:35
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But I would walk five hundred thousand miles And I would walk five hundred thousand more Just to be the man who walked a million miles To get to the top of your wall, you fucker
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Aug 19, 2014 17:43
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DUHNUHNUHNUHNAHNUH and I hate you DUHNUHDAHNUHNUHNUH and I'll kill you
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Aug 19, 2014 17:58
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Junkenstein posted:Arrakis is the same planet, thousands of years in the future. The unexpected result of Jon defeating the Others, meaning winter never comes. Note their glowing blue eyes: the Fremen are the distant descendants of the White Walker. Also, dragons evolved into Sand Worms.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:15
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poo poo. That almost makes too much sense. At least more than A+L=J.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:19
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What's a Moqqorro? And Frank's Dune rocks. No matter how crazy things got you can say that the man put some thought into his writing.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:17
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Does anyone have the GRRM sandworm pic?
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Aug 19, 2014 23:22
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Blind Sally posted:Now I want a Dune and Game Of Thrones crossover fic: gotta cede some CHOAM shares to get the Green Apple Fossoways' vote in the Landsraad
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Aug 20, 2014 00:44
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Kellanved posted:What's a Moqqorro? Shut the gently caress up!
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Aug 20, 2014 01:08
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frankenfreak posted:The poo poo must flow! He who will not write a thing, controls a thing!
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Aug 20, 2014 02:30
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Writing is the Gurm-killer
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Aug 20, 2014 04:26
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savinhill posted:Writing is the Gurm-killer
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Aug 20, 2014 14:44
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I must not write. Writing is the GRRM-killer. Writing is the little job which will make people stop harassing me. I will turn away from my WordStar. I will permit my books to languish and my fans to grow bitter. And when I am dead, all my notes will be burnt to enrage them further. And in their hearts, like in my fireplace... only ashes remain.
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Aug 20, 2014 14:52
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That's the thing about GRRM. Every time they write something, even if it's not much to look at, or even if it's sort of stupid, you fall in love with him, and then you never know where the hell you are. GRRM. Jesus Christ. He can drive you crazy. He really can.
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Aug 20, 2014 16:05
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"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to the seven hells when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddamn crypt. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach every year, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." -Catelyn Caulfield
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Aug 20, 2014 16:08
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"I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting lard and oil in my mouth. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those illiterate-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to write any goddamned stupid useless books or talk about them with anybody." George R.R. Martin, in a recent interview
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Aug 20, 2014 16:15
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Here come the Men in Black Westeros defenders Here come the Men in Black They're gonna get dismembered The wall guys dress in black remember that Just in case you ever take the black and make contact The title held by me - M.I.B. Means what's north of the wall, you will not see So don't blink that Other there is now gone, black boots with the black fur coats on Walk in shadow, move in silence Guard against zombies and wildling violence But yo we ain't on no inheritance list We straight don't exist, no names and no lands or kids Heard three blasts, magic is back Cause you know exactly where the M.I.B.'s is at Uh and... Here come the Men in Black Westeros defenders Here come the Men in Black They're gonna get dismembered Let me see ya just bounce it with me, just bounce with me Just bounce it with me c'mon Let me see ya just die with me, just die with me Just die with me c'mon Let me see ya warg into a hawk with me, just warg it with me Be a warg with me c'mon And make your wolf work Now freeze...
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Aug 21, 2014 06:04
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Intel&Sebastian posted:But I would walk five hundred thousand miles I don't know why, but this has me in tears. Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I must not write. loving rofl kcroy fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Aug 21, 2014 |
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Aug 21, 2014 06:11
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Blind Sally posted:Note their glowing blue eyes: the Fremen are the distant descendants of the White Walker. Also, dragons evolved into Sand Worms. Paul is clearly the Prince who was Promised.
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Aug 21, 2014 06:12
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Tahirovic posted:Make Lemon Tree into a song about lemon cakes, thanks! It aint art, but here you go. When I was just but three and ten, my Nuncle he did spake "Come here and take a lesson from the tasty lemon cake." "Don't put your faith in love, my Girl", my Nuncle he did spake, "I fear you'll find that love is like the tasty lemon cake." Lemon cake very tasty and the frosting sure is sweet But an endless quest for lemon cake is sure to get you beat Lemon cakes very tasty and the frosting sure is sweet But an endless quest for lemon cake will lead to your defeat One day beneath the Wierwood tree, my Prince and I did lie A Prince so handsome that when he smirked, Men and Wolves would die We All road South to the Capital, soon I would be Roy-al-ty Thoughts of endless Lemon Cakes hid my Nuncles words from me Lemon cake very tasty and the frosting sure is sweet But an endless quest for lemon cake is sure to get you beat Lemon cakes very tasty and the frosting sure is sweet But an endless quest for lemon cake will lead to your defeat
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Aug 21, 2014 06:32
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Intel&Sebastian posted:But I would walk five hundred thousand miles I would write five hundred words and I would write five hundred more Just to be the man who wrote a thousand words About how I'll do the books at my own pace and don't owe the fans anything so get off my back already
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Aug 21, 2014 11:37
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King's Landing in The Crownlands in Westeros is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. King's Landing is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped cobblestone and weedy fields and junk heaps, dragon pits of corrugated iron, pubs, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded markets, and alchemist labs and inns. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, murderers, rapists, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'Septons and Seven and Knights and Sparrows,' and he would have meant the same thing.
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Aug 21, 2014 16:27
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I like this trend of writing ASOIAF in other authors' styles. It's almost like a tryout for when one of them inevitably takes the series over
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Aug 21, 2014 16:40
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Valar Morghulis is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Iron Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the palanquin as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving the King's Road and just as Theon Greyjoy notices the words a rickshaw pulls up, the advertisement for La Main Sanglante on its side blocking his view, but Greyjoy who is with the Ironborn and sixteen doesn’t seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five crowns to sing louder, The Bear and the Maiden Fair, and the driver, Summer Islander, not Westerosi, does so. “I’m resourceful,” Greyjoy is saying. “I’m creative, I’m young, unscrupulous, highly motivated, highly skilled. In essence what I’m saying is that society cannot afford to lose me. I’m an asset.” Theon calms down, continues to stare out the palanquin’s dirty curtains, probably at the word DRACARYS sprayed in red graffiti on the side of a Mockingbird’s on Fourth and Seventh. “I mean the fact remains that no one gives a poo poo about their work, everybody hates their job, I hate my job, you’ve told me you hate yours. What do I do? Go back to Winterfell? Not an alternative. I didn’t transfer from the Starks to the Greyjoys to put up with this. I mean am I alone in thinking we don't have enough saltwives?” Like in a stage play another rickshaw appears, another poster for La Main Sanglante replaces the word — not the same rickshaw because someone has written the word WHORE over Cersei’s face. Greyjoy blurts out, “I have a co-op here. I have a place on Pyke, for Christ sakes.” “Parents’, guy. It’s the parents’.” “I’m buying it from them. Will you loving sing louder?” he snaps but distractedly at the driver, the man's voice still blaring from the front. "I don't go no louder," maybe the driver says.
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Aug 21, 2014 16:57
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Fly, you fool!
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Aug 21, 2014 20:17
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ShaqDiesel posted:He who will not write a thing, controls a thing!
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Aug 22, 2014 03:33
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Let us have a moment of remembrance that once before most of us were born, the GRRM wrote, and it was good: https://forwearemany.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/sandkings.pdf
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Aug 22, 2014 03:35
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Does that mean the TVIV thread should watch the Outer Limits episode?
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Aug 22, 2014 14:28
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Has GRRM ever admitted to being a Oasis fan? I have this theory that the entire plot of Jon on the wall is based on the song Wonderwall as sung by The Wall to Jon
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Aug 23, 2014 01:37
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mind the walrus posted:Let us have a moment of remembrance that once before most of us were born, the GRRM wrote, and it was good: Sandkings is kinda 'eh' like it's a good story but there's so much cartoonish ~~EVIL~~ in it that I can't take it as seriously as it takes itself- which isn't really all that much
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Aug 23, 2014 01:47
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You try to take Sandkings seriously? I enjoy it strictly as a creature feature story.
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Aug 23, 2014 01:51
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mind the walrus posted:You try to take Sandkings seriously? I enjoy it strictly as a creature feature story. I guess my main issue with it is that it just telegraphs everything that's going to happen, and he can't decide if he's writing grim horror or magical whimsy. I'm not a big fan of creature features, though, so my opinion might be irrelevant to some folks. I mean, we all know the internet is full of much worse things than Sandkings, and I'll agree that it's worth a read. I just don't think it's any better (or worse!) than ASoIaF.
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Aug 23, 2014 01:57
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GRRM has started to work again: http://www.archipelacon.org/guests/george-r-r-martin/!
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Aug 23, 2014 02:06
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You know I have to say, I was reading one of his interviews and in the midst all his excuses and whining he did make one point that I thought was really, really valid and salient. It was something to the effect of: "In the long-run, I really can't sacrifice the quality of the novel and the series in order to get something out faster. 20 or 30 years from now, nobody is going to say "The great thing about that sixth book was that he got it released really quickly". They're going to care about whether it's a good book or not." Ignoring a bunch of fallacies in this argument, it is a fair point. And I think it possibly shows a level of self-awareness that, ultimately, he did make some poor decisions in books 4/5 and maybe rushed at times to get them out because he didn't manage his time properly, and he understands this - or maybe he doesn't at all. Of course, the real issue is that if he feels this way then he never should have given the rights to HBO knowing that it would put him on a hard deadline of ~7 years to write the last two books. That action just flies so much in the face of the only decent point he really has to make.
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Aug 23, 2014 02:16
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Honestly if you were GRRM, would you write?
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Aug 23, 2014 02:39
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Hogge Wild posted:Honestly if you were GRRM, would you write? Honestly, I would. And if the show finishes first I'd try and make a bunch of things different out of spite. Maybe that's what we'll get. Another interesting thing I read was that he actually does read some of the theories online, and on at least a couple occasions some people had basically "figured out" the books and guessed the ending more or less correctly, while most theories were still far off the mark. But still, rather tantalizing to think someone out there has guessed correctly and posted it somewhere.
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Aug 23, 2014 02:49
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