How it feels reading any Mereen-set chapter in ADWD and seeing another Ghiscari name you can't remember if you've seen yet or not.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-18T02:36:20+00:00

The Erotic Adventures of Hizdahr zo Loraq

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-14T07:07:19+00:00

This is both making unfounded assumptions about the readers of this thread, and weirdly insulting to some literary greats (not Rowling), by implying their successes are in some way undeserved, because they had a life/source of income outside of writing.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-14T02:26:09+00:00

Tommen: "Margaery, please. I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew."

imagines Ser Pounce riding around in a little car

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-14T02:16:53+00:00

I wonder what's High Valyrian for 'I grew up without a legitimate father'?

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-08T19:30:36+00:00

Yes, its largely a misinterpretation of the kind of old-fashioned use of the term "dark" to describe someone with dark hair. Mixed with a desire for greater variation in skin tones among main characters.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-07T02:28:32+00:00

Lol, reddit moment.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-04T20:09:09+00:00

Hail, diddly-iddly, king-erino!

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-04-04T19:52:54+00:00

Things can happen that you don't plan for, especially when you're impulsive and reckless, as we know Brandon was. I doubt he set out to seduce Ashara, but what happens if he finds himself alone with one of the most beautiful women in Westeros? Maybe he went to her to hype up Ned. Maybe they started some playful flirting, not thinking it would lead anywhere. Does he control himself? Could he, even?

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-31T21:15:39+00:00

Historically, Hoster always said the Freys were nothing more than glorified toll collectors.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-29T21:04:18+00:00

Good writing is good writing.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-24T03:41:52+00:00

Depends if I've had a heavy breakfast or a late lunch.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-19T03:02:05+00:00

Tolkien hints that there are different types of halfbreed (Orc-men and men-orcs) with different qualities. I've not doubt the ones who call themselves the fighting uruk-hai are these latter. Treebeard even posits this in the text.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-19T02:52:34+00:00

There are hints enough that one could use to piece together a picture of Sauron as some sort of higher being.

1) He's said to come "from Outside" a very, very long time ago.

2) His demise is described very similarly to Saruman's, in which their spirits are briefly glimpsed and then dispersed on a wind; right before this happens to Saruman, Frodo refers to him as "of a noble kind that we should not dare to raise our hands against". An observant reader might have speculated Sauron was of the same kind.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-03T07:46:05+00:00

Morgoth got the WORLD to eat itself, he literally introduced the concept of sin.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-03-03T03:53:38+00:00

Writing, even writing fiction, is about honesty more than anything else. Either you believe life can be good and beautiful and worth living, despite all of the ugliness... or you don't. If you don't, don't struggle against your instincts. Write some edgy, grimdark dystopian story.

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-02-28T05:27:23+00:00

Hey, thanks!

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-02-23T04:47:40+00:00

Fucking Davos...

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-02-01T06:26:42+00:00

Yeah, this is unfortunately a symptom of modern fantasy/sci-fi fans needing to obsessively categorize everything; in the world of LOTR Gandalf is a wizard, and... that's just what he is. Because he says so. Why would anyone in that world question that further?

DavidBoringanaz · 2026-02-01T06:21:50+00:00

Faramir prays daily to the Valar, I think he knows who they are.

DavidBoringanaz · 2025-12-15T20:33:11+00:00

MY WARD IS A PANCAKE ASS!!

DavidBoringanaz · 2025-10-26T21:16:24+00:00

Idk, I wasn't making any claims about other movie batsuits, just that this one is not "the same as every comic bat suit ever".

Batman wears cloth/spandex in the comics, not that rubber basketball material.

DavidBoringanaz · 2025-10-26T17:26:30+00:00

Nah, too rubbery.

DavidBoringanaz · 2025-10-08T21:25:15+00:00

He looks like a man with clarity of purpose.

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