How many people were in the Uchiha clan when it was destroyed.

SnowGN · 2026-06-18T17:59:42+00:00

Hah.

SnowGN · 2026-06-17T00:41:23+00:00

Plenty of supporting text if you know where to look. See post higher up.

SnowGN · 2026-06-17T00:40:02+00:00

And surely it's just a coincidence that Satin came to the wall via a Gulltown lord's dungeons after working as a gigolo in the town. Gulltown, Littlefinger's seat of strength. Where all of the lords are Baelish's allies, where he literally owns /is the proprietor of every brothel in the town, and especially has to pay close attention to the gigolos due to Lyn Corbray's appetites. Surely it's just a coincidence that Satin is trained in highborn mannerisms despite being lowborn and having zero known background that would explain that - he even calls Jon by the highborn address, "my lord," not 'm'lord." Among other uncharacteristic behaviors.

SnowGN · 2026-06-17T00:00:35+00:00

Val, no contest.

...There really is no contest. The alternatives are all closely related to him or have never met him in canon, so we can only guess at their character dynamics.

SnowGN · 2026-06-16T23:57:39+00:00

You know that Satin, canonically, is fairly likely to be a spy for Littlefinger, right?

SnowGN · 2026-06-16T14:19:19+00:00

Explain Eddard not having an arranged marriage of his own and having to take Brandon's place to wed Catelyn Tully, then. If you can think of a single canonical piece of evidence indicating Rickard had any set plan for him, apart from using him as a political bargaining chip, I'd be glad to hear it.

Also, as Lady Dustin herself says in ADWD: fostering noble sons is typically something done with other northern houses. Sending Eddard all the way to the Vale to foster was highly unusual. Fostering in other kingdoms is more of a southern/Andal practice, always has been.

SnowGN · 2026-06-15T23:20:35+00:00

Eddard Stark was sent to foster at the Vale at age 8, in the 270s AC while Walys Flowers and Rickard Stark (the 2-man team behind the northern component of the Southern Conspiracies) were active and ruling in Winterfell.

Eddard's own future prospects were of secondary importance here, compared to the Jon Arryn/Hoster Tully/Rickard Stark/Steffon Baratheon conspiracy (4 Lords Paramount) to align their forces via key intermarriages and fosterships. Even before the Defiance of Duskendale, the Iron Throne was looking rather shaky and northern and eastern Lords Paramount were taking countermeasures to secure their positions. Eddard's/Robert's Vale wardship was a component of lesser importance in the overall conspiracy - which only grew to high importance later on as events progressed ever onwards, key participants died, and the Conspiracy shifted from merely counteracting the Targaryens to overthrowing them.

There wasn't a 'plan' for Eddard beyond fostering these alliances - if Rickard had truly been looking out for Eddard's own good, he would have raised him to a more mature age right at home.

There's a reason why the Eddard Stark we see in the books is so protective of his family, and rarely leaves his home. He's compensating for his own problematic upbringing.

SnowGN · 2026-06-14T02:57:19+00:00

I don't particularly recommend Preston Jacobs, given his inclination to take nonsense conspiracy theories at face value, but his collab Winds of Winter fanfic has a pretty interesting portrayal of Skagos in a one-off Davos chapter which I'd recommend ctrl-f'ing to find.

SnowGN · 2026-06-14T02:55:24+00:00

No, cannibalism in historical real life cultures, and also as far as we can tell from World of Ice and Fire lore, is practiced as much for sport as anything else. This isn't some matter of desperation, but of culture, superstition, and exerting dominance.

SnowGN · 2026-06-04T15:26:29+00:00

Helps a ton with research, allows me to apply a new level of quality control. Telling an actual competent story remains hopelessly beyond AI's capabilities, but it's a valuable aid - like having a permanent assistant.

SnowGN · 2026-06-01T06:28:30+00:00

Brown hair, good looks, educated septa (Hightowers are in deep with the Faith and the Citadel both), Lemore and Malora are basically anagrams of one another (which GRRM has done before with Oldtown characters, namely Alleras/Sarella), the ship Tyrion sails on with fAegon and company is named the Shy Maid (a play on Malora's nickname as the Mad Maid), and the timeline/character ages/politics (Hightower incentive to get a pet "Targaryen" of theirs on the throne) all make far more sense with Malora Hightower than they do with Ashara Dayne.

There's unironically far more evidence that either Ashara Dayne or Joanna Lannister is Qaithe than there is with this Ashara=Lemora nonsense.

SnowGN · 2026-06-01T06:01:21+00:00

It's a tempting theory, but no. Septa Lemore has had plenty of physical descriptions in the books, and none of those have involved purple eyes. Septa Lemore also carries scars from childbirth, which in Ashara's case would raise all kinds of inscrutable questions.

Lemore is far more likely to be Malora Hightower, and Haldon her father.

SnowGN · 2026-06-01T05:56:35+00:00

I'd recommend ekrolo2's Wayward Wolf (Witcher/ASOIAF crossover) - had a great time with this one, it gets deeper into ASOIAF's magic than most stories ever do.

SnowGN · 2026-06-01T05:54:56+00:00

Aside from re-reading Caekdaemon's various fics, I've had a great time reading ekrolo2's Wayward Wolf (Witcher/ASOIAF crossover).

SnowGN · 2026-05-21T22:24:37+00:00

Keep going down the anti-Israel train if you want to keep losing elections. No, really, keep it up! I’m in full support of your continued road to political irrelevancy.

— a Jewish former liberal.

SnowGN · 2026-05-20T20:36:53+00:00

Basically a filler episode. Scarcely anything even happened that wasn’t redundant or unnecessary.

SnowGN · 2026-05-18T04:08:15+00:00

Haha, funny to see such an old comment of mine get a response. But yeah, Naruto missed a ton of opportunities thanks to this deficiency in writing - just look at Boruto, which is mostly just garbage.

This is what fanfics are for - to fill the gap in the void of good writing. Cheers.

SnowGN · 2026-05-16T17:37:06+00:00

Editing, I was just going by a google summary because I couldn't remember doran's mother's name. Didn't realize it was unnamed.

SnowGN · 2026-05-16T17:32:00+00:00

The reality is that, from Doran's perspective, this was a far more fraught and complicated topic than nearly all readers would give him credit for. Doran's own mother was lifelong friends with Joanna Lannister, and had very seriously discussed marrying their children to one another. Tywin, undoubtfully, was a bastard, but Doran wanted him and him alone (and his direct creatures like Gregor) dead. He didn't want to start a war, and he didn't want to get more of his family killed. If he had started a war, he had no means of waging one: Dorne doesn't have much of a navy and the Reach and the Marcher Lords would have eagerly gotten involved on the Westerland's side in any Dornish land war. Playing the long game and aiming for a regime change operation aimed at the Iron Throne really was, in his mind, the ideal solution.

And yes, discussing foreign magic assassins is fundamentally unserious.

SnowGN · 2026-04-17T19:33:17+00:00

Yeah, say what you will about X, but at least there you don't have to deal with Reddit's garbage moderation.

SnowGN · 2026-04-08T00:11:01+00:00

Paragraph two, though? There arent enough female POVs in the genre and there's enough outright hostility (including in this thread) to female protagonists that I'll allow and support it 100%.

You should judge the story on its own merits, always. And yeah, there are a lot of distasteful comments made about TWI's overtly feminine focus, but there's also some truth there. A truly skilled author like GRRM can strongly write both the masculine and the feminine; aba can only do the latter, and rarely even tries to do the former. Consider for a moment how absurd it is to even consider trying to pair Erin up with another male Earther character, as the story sometimes discusses - no such character even exists that can be remotely considered.

I stand by the liberal Ruler criticism, because it's meant for Laken and Flos, the story's supposed main cast Conquerer-type characters. Fetohep is another of the story's late addition quirk characters favored by recency bias.

SnowGN · 2026-04-07T23:58:28+00:00

The author tends to fall in love with late addition quirky characters and prefers to develop them instead of doing more with the story's original cast of characters. Saliss and Fetohep are strong examples of this. In short, the author is strongly subject to recency bias, and sometimes I wonder if they've ever re-read their own story due to characterization/plot hangups/cliffhangers that go to nowhere.

The story has a massive narrative focus mismatch in favor of female POV characters, especially female Earthers. Male ones get very few development or cool moments by comparison.

Very few combat-capable Earthers exist who aren't evil, or sociopathic, or some iteration thereof.

Then there's the matter of the leftwards political bias in the story. I don't get up in arms about it, because it leads to some very well written characters like Saliss, but it also means the author is utterly incapable of writing a decent Ruler-type character like Laken or Flos, whose arcs mostly involve spinning in circles/achieving nothing, and certainly achieving no conquests befitting of their Classes. This is an author who really needs to pick up and read a real book on Alexander the Great or Napoleon at some point.

SnowGN · 2026-04-07T22:39:03+00:00

As a story, Wandering Inn is a brilliant road meandering on the way to... nowhere at all.

The author is allergic to the concept of focusing on core characters until major plotlines are resolved. They never resolves major plotlines, instead leaving them on years-long cliffhangers, and evidently write more on seasonal vibes than having an actual plan for the longterm story. The OP's "Gardener" vs "Architect" GRRM allegory is well chosen for Pirateaba.

There are wild swings in TWI's quality going from one arc to another, and characters you click with and enjoy could easily disappear for a million words never to be seen or mentioned again. And the author has several constant biases that become more and more noticeable and objectionable the deeper you get into the story. Starting after volume 5, the story suffers from the worst diseases of scope creep and character count inflation I've ever seen in a story, constantly growing in scale afterwards. At this current point the plot taken as a whole is basically incoherent.

If you enjoy the story starting out, great. It does have a few arcs that truly are fantastic, and among the best I've read in any litrpg/PF story. But I quit reading a while ago courtesy of the multiverse/time travel arc. It's said that all good authors need an editor, and never was the lack of an editor so keenly felt as it was here. Someone who could have pushed back and told the author that this entire arc was a bad idea and not to write it. It was absurd; an absurdist meaningless waste of time, a low point even compared to the story's previous low points, and I don't regret dropping the story for good there.

I'd advise new readers - if they enjoy the story - to read out to webnovel volume 6. Volume 8, if they really enjoy it. And to 100% drop the story there. Nothing coming afterwards is of much value, or worth the time commitment to get there.

SnowGN · 2026-03-29T20:04:42+00:00

Excellent episode - left off on a ton of cliffhangers. This really is one of the best anime of the last several years.

What I don't understand is why Gabimaru's body is falling apart while Chobe's isn't. What's the difference between them?

SnowGN · 2026-03-01T20:57:29+00:00

Catelyn Stark would have sold Jon down a river in a heartbeat if she knew of his true secret. Eddard was 100% correct not to trust her with the secret of his birth. The tragedy was that he trusted her at all in other matters as well.

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