GoT S7 E1 Raven On Recap: Dragonstone
HOLY F**K YES ARYA F***ING STARK!
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The quiet catastrophe
Wrote a piece for my brother's site about disruption and the publishing industry:
Game of Thrones S7: The Top 9 Characters They Absolutely Cannot Kill Off Because Seriously I Won't Cope
The number of characters in Game of Thrones that we desperately want to see the back of is rapidly diminishing. Old Mate Euron Greyjoy has been hyped as the next Big Bad, but we"ll have to wait and see if he can match Ramsay Bolton for brutish psychopathy.
But her emails!
Today's Alien Side Boob is free because it's an experiment. No newly invented profanities. No off colour sexual references. Just a thought experiment.
An alternate micro-history. One I'm so intrigued by I'm thinking of doing agreater length as a quick ebook.
You'll understand why after reading below.
One Week.. 'til GOT
There is ONE WEEK TO GO until Game of Thrones returns, as we can all marvel in the visual spectacle, the compelling drama and the taut thrillingness of Jon Snow's abs (and everything else).
To mark the occasion, I have written a little ditty celebrating my joy at the upcoming Season Seven.
To the tune of the 1998 classic, One Week by the Barenaked Ladies:
Eulogy
Many of you will already know that my dad passed away last week after long and terrible ilness. I wrote about him for BT, but this is a more personal tribute that I'd like to leave here. The eulogy I gave at his funeral:
An old folk saying has it that when a father dies it feels as though half the sky has fallen. This speaks the truth of it.
Sweet flaming swords, it's another Game of Thrones S7 trailer recap!
Bless you, HBO. Bless your glorious cotton socks. Delivering us a heart-pumping, loin-girding, ab-touching cracker of a trailer right on the Winter Solstice.
Holy blazing dragons, it's the Game of Thrones S7 trailer!
War! Homecomings! Stabbings! Nude Grey Worm!
The Game of Thrones Season 7 trailer contained so many delights, that of course I must put pen to papyrus and recap the seven hells out of it.
But there was one thing in that 1 minute 35 seconds of glorious GoT bounty that thrilled me more than any other.
“Oh, yes, here she goes again, ranting about Jon Snow like a sad obsessed cat fancier,” I hear you say.
NO!
Star Trek Discovery trailer
Looks great. Makes me think that if they can get a strong multiseries story arc out of first contact with the Klingon Empire (I assume that's what's happening here) it could provide a platform to do something very Game of Thronesy.
Welcome to EN151. Literature for the Easily Triggered
From ASB. Probably not the sort of thing I can do at Fairfax:
Here in the Faculty of Caring About Everything we understand how important it is that students be taught in a way that never, ever upsets or challenges them because as our school motto reminds us, “That"s Not Cool.”