So yeah. Yi Ti has been around for an unimaginable amount of time for an empire. The Starks have been in the North for 10,000 years. Where the fuck else are they gonna go?
People often criticize AWOIAF because it feels like George just threw random bullshit for the rest of the world, but I think it makes the scaling a lot more sensible. Like why have pretty much the same people lived on the same two continents for thousands of years and their—
ASOIAF lore is hilarious because the books themselves are very low fantasy and could even pass for historical fiction at times, then you learn in the lore there's an island of Neanderthal whalers and King Kong exists and lives in a cursed ancient city deep in the jungle.
technology has stagnated? Because traveling elsewhere is brutal and besides Westeros & Essos everywhere else has animals in abundance so dangerous they can easily kill you. Diseases no one can live through long enough to treat.
In broad daylight, a NYC McDonald’s becomes a war zone: a man harasses a woman’s child, and the mother is forced to beat him down herself because no one else will.
This is your “safe” city, @NYCMayor@NYGov@NYPDNEWS — where law-abiding citizens must deliver street justice while predators operate with impunity.
That Northernlion take about truly loving cinema means more than just knowing obscure directors & Hitchcock is so real. There’s something in you that has to be able to enjoy even the sloppiest of slop
Someone on Reddit said “somehow every rapper is better than Drake in the eyes of the public except when it comes to making music that people want to listen to”
Twitter hates this movie so much and I don’t get why. Say what you want about its novelty, it’s right in the pocket of movies that exist to further promote why we love the medium to begin with
Crazy how many people are shilling for the egregious changes on HOTD. I get that you want the show to be good but is gaslighting yourself really the best play here?
President Obama got defensive after Larry David brushed off one of his notes while filming “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness”:
“He gave a few notes about something and Larry went, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it.’ And the president goes, ‘I spent a half an hour talking about how funny everything is. I give you one note and you get into a defensive crouch,’” director Jeff Schaffer recalls. “The president said, ‘When I was in the Oval Office, I took advice and listened to my advisors, and I was the president of the United States.’ And Larry just goes, ‘Yeah, but I’m the president of this.’”
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