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the book has a title on the front cover, so you know exactly what book you are reading and where you are in the series. Thanks for holding my hand Martin, but I don't like this technique. The book title, I'm referring to. It encourages me to start wondering about the story before I've even started reading. "A GAME OF THRONES" the chapter title reads: is the throne wood or aluminum, big, small, is the game checkers, parcheesi, musical thrones… I start imagining things and then have to correct it all as the plot is revealed during the book.

the book is divided into neat chapters headed by the name of one or the other, so you know exactly whose point-of-view you're going to get and where you are in the plot. Thanks for holding my hand Martin, but I don't like this technique. The chapter headings, I'm referring to. It encourages me to start wondering about the character before I've even started reading. "CATELYN" the chapter title reads: is she young or old, a peasant, a farmer, a daughter, a mother, nice, mean… I start imagining things and then have to correct it all as the character is revealed during the chapter. There's power in names, and withholding them or putting elements of a character's personality first is often more compelling, and better writing.

i would love to know what is going on in the minds of goodreads reviewers. i imagine it's kind of like trying to make a three-pointer shot on a basketball court with a ping pong ball and also you're wearing a blindfold.

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Catelyn and Sansa ASOIAF as historical paintings (39/∞)

Art: Marie Spartali Stillman (1844 – 1927)

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used to be people would say things like "avast" or "hither and yon". nowadays folks mostly say stuff like "ethernet cable"

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Janie Mork (2011)

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Quick tapestry obsession post!

It's just so beautiful.

Just look at that composition.

The details are *chefs kiss*

Martin, my love

Our hedgehog and mole friends

Squirrel friends and Loamhedge mice

Otter bros

Badger lord and Long Patrol hares with Salamandastron in the background

Badrang, Cluny, and Tsarmina!

Hordesbeasts

Cat approved 👌

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new trope just dropped

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hey i hope this isn't a bad time but one billion points lava damage

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We need more images like these i think

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I just dipped into Appendix F for an unrelated reason, and I think it’s funny that out of everything Sauron ever did — a master craftsman and teacher, a commander and conqueror, a deceiver and seducer, who achieved so much and, even in defeat, usually came verrrry close and tended just to reappear later all the stronger — one thing he utterly failed at was making Black Speech the common language of all his servants. He made grammar and vocab and syntax, and then the orcs could never figure out how to use his system. They ended up with such a hodge podge of fragmented, bastardized versions of the language that they were often incomprehensible to each other and had to fall back on Westron, the language of their enemies, to be understood even within Mordor.

It feels extremely JRR to me that he would let his Big Bad Villain kill and maim and enslave and despoil the environment, but he simply couldn’t allow Sauron to succeed at…linguistics.

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orpheus + eurydice / kaz + inej

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you will miss this in 40 or 48 hours. twitter will smooth your brain down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a social media platform that hasn't meaningfully changed in a decade. you don't know I'm posting about you in real time bc Sarah has timestamps switched off. I'm not dead, Grant. Grant, let me out of the casket. Graaaant,

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I hope you know that it’s always this

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(okay no, but put in the tags something youre the unofficial influencer of. Like something youve purchased enough, used enough, bragged about and endorsed enough to others that you should be an influencer for)

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I painted very round birbs