While waiting for season 2 I tend to post more non-ASOIAF related stuff than usual. But since it usually involves Nicolas Cage I think you should all be grateful that I am bringing his glorious light to your lives.
This tumblr used to be funny and I’d check it everyday. Now it just sounds like a page dedicated to being miserable and trolling anything and everything possible.
Parris left this comment in a NAB entry from 2010. Nine years after the Hugo Awards.
I’m still bitter and angry about that particular rocket. Rowling writes in the genre, but she is not of the genre, if you get my meaning, and Storm of Swords is a mighty Everest of fantasy writing.
Hell,…
No to be being miserable. I am a very positive person.
Yes to trolling everything and anything.
R+L=J+OC=N+B+L-N+Dany’s daughter (immaculate conception)/-L+Sansan’s son
OH, LINDAAA MAD.
FROM HER ‘WEBSITE’:
First Rant of the Season?Having just finished listening to the interview with Nonso Anozie who is playing Xaro Xhoan Daxos in the second season of Game of Thrones, I feel as if all my worst fears for the season have been at least halfway confirmed. Of course, one shouldn’t go entirely by what an actor says, we’ve had some odd reports in the past that way, but it really sounds as if HBO has decided to change Daenerys’s storyline quite considerably.
Oh, and beware of spoilers.
I won’t even bother repeating my feelings about how miscast Nonso Anozie is for the slight and effeminate character of Xaro of the pale “Milk Men” of Qarth, what he says in the interview is bad enough. He says he is “the Prince of Qarth”. Uh-huh. So, their ruler or something? Sigh. He says he has read the first book, but it sounds as if he didn’t read the whole of the second book because the show is doing things so differently anyway. Lovely. He calls the book storyline in Qarth boring and mundane and goes on about how the show adds more layers and a real game of thrones. Oh, so now the book is being improved upon, is it?
Daenerys is my favourite character. I always say I am a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire because of the classic fantasy elements and how well they are done, not because it is not much like fantasy at all. Fantasy is what I read and what I love. Daenerys’s chapters have a sense of wonder and magic that only Bran’s chapters can rival and in A Clash of Kings, which is my least favourite book overall (which even so means it rates pretty darn high, but still), her storyline is by far my favourite and the most important event in the book for me is her visit to the House of the Undying. Boring and mundane? Please.
It feels very much as if HBO has caved in to what is typical for a TV series. They just couldn’t let Dany have as few chapters as she has in the book, they had to make her role bigger. The fact that characters have less chapters in some books, even disappear for some books, is as integral to the storytelling of A Song of Ice and Fire as the surprising deaths. No one is safe from death and no one is safe from being relegated to less important for a while. But apparently that was one part of the books HBO couldn’t see themselves being daring with. No, they had to give each character the same room every season.
I wonder what will happen to Theon in the third season? Will he be around? That would be a complete and utter travesty.
And even if they felt they had to give Dany more story this season, why not build on what was there? I am completely and utterly terrified of what they have made up, to be honest. A love story with Xaro? A little rebellion in Qarth? Dragons being unleashed a few seasons too early? Dany should be on a quest this season. A very fairy-tale like quest (albeit much darker) which ends in the amazing moment that is the House of the Undying.
Of course, looking at the first season, we probably won’t get much of that. Prophecies? Flashbacks? No, not important. Lets invent pointless stuff instead.
(Oh, and as a side note. What’s up with the Qartheen gowns not baring one breast? Non-sexual, culturally casual nudity wasn’t interesting to HBO?)
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TV WORKS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE REAL WORLD WORKS. MY GOD.
IT WOULD BE A TRAVESTY IF THEON WAS IN SEASON THREE? UMM….IT WOULD BE A TRAVESTY TO TAKE A MAJOR CHARACTER OUT FOR TWO SEASONS AND THEN REINTRODUCE HIM WITH ALMOST NO BACKSTORY.
ALSO: DANY’S QARTH STORYLINE IS BORING AND MUNDANE. EVERYTHING ABOUT DANY IS BORING.
OH LINDAAA, NEVER STOP. YOUR RAGE IS THE PERFECT WAY TO TOP OFF THE DAY, I DIDN’T THINK I WOULD SEE ANYTHING MORE BUTTHURT THAN FASSY STANS OVER HIS LACK OF A NOMINATION (WHICH I’M STILL LOL’ING AT).
“I’ve never felt this scared and protective over characters before in my life. Whenever a character dies, I sob as if a family member had died. We’re connected and sometimes I even talk to them when I’m alone in my room. Am I weird?”
Yes. Good lord, yes.
“Dany and Frodo must be the two most annoying literary characters created since man began to tell stories. Their authors begin their tale in such a way that you fall in love with them and tie your hopes to the success of their quests. And then they seem to turn into such bumbling idiots you no longer know how to feel about them and a small part of you wishes they would just die; and the guilt associated with that is just too much. Sigh. The frustration!”
This is the dumbest confession I’ve read in a long time, and that’s saying a lot.
She is one! There’s no doubt.
LOLWUT.
Oh, there are doubts. Many doubts. since you know, there is no textual evidence to support that (besides Cersei’s delusions).
This. I mean, even Cersei knew it wasn’t really true. It was something she fabricated to throw shade on Margaery, along with the Kettleblack scheme. Didn’t she also consider spreading around rumors insinuating incest between Margaery and Loras? I don’t have AFFC in front of me.
why is it that every time somebody expresses a desire to have a certain character be gay, because you know, we gays hardly ever get represented in anything, we have to have a bunch of people come and tell us how there’s no ~textual evidence~ that they’re gay
i mean really, why is it so important to point out how NOT GAY a certain character is? there’s no textual evidence that she’s straight, either.
Except it’s not being pointed out because someone expressed a desire for Margaery to be gay, it’s because someone said ‘there is no doubt’ which is clearly untrue.
She is one! There’s no doubt.
LOLWUT.
Oh, there are doubts. Many doubts. since you know, there is no textual evidence to support that (besides Cersei’s delusions).
I thought it was because his beard is full of secrets.
alternately: Dramatic Greymunk
