all made up with nowhere to go

There was finally ~fifteen minutes of exciting stuff in last night's episode of Game of Thrones! After one season and four episodes of epic yawniness. (I have honestly spent the last however long questioning why I'm still watching. I think mum's in it because the show got her into the books and she wants to see how it turns out, though).

I'm going to put my blah under a cut, though, because spoilers.

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I was reminded to write this because I was googling to see if there was a list of who had actually died in ASoIaF (as opposed to GoT). I don't even know who half the people are on this list, though I was interested to see that there are some people still alive on the show who are dead in the books (and vice versa, obviously). Still, it made an interesting read.

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I am going to be cat-sitting again over the summer! I am more excited about this than you can possibly imagine. I am even slightly more excited about that than I am the convention I'm going to on Saturday.

(The comics dudes I went to hang out with last month have organised a con for my town, because we've never had one, and we apparently needed one??? If it goes well this year, they'll likely have one next year, which will be awesome).

I swear this season of Game of Thrones is just going to be Jaime looking pained a lot of the time.

At least, that's what screencaps on tumblr are telling me so far.


P.S. I am the worst. I spent the last ten minutes of the last episode laughing like a drain at one of my cats while the TV was all ~sombre~. When I sort of realised, that just made me laugh harder. Because I am the worst, obviously.

So I have been reading the TVT pages for A Song of Ice and Fire, because today the third series of A Game of Thrones started on Sky Atlantic.

And, as is usual when I read about such things, I want to write my own fantasy epic. I haven't started on this mainly because I wouldn't know where to start (and the fledgling ideas I have in my head don't want to fit any of the moulds I feel they should. I know this because I spent some of today wrestling with one of them. Though I got maybe a handful of words down for it, so it's not all bad).

Let me state also that: I haven't read the books. I tried, waaaay back before the TV show was on, but I didn't get very far. My mum's read all of them (though it took her a year to get to the most recent, but that's besides the point). I know spoilers out the wazoo, though, and will happily discuss the series with people. I watch the TV show, although I'm glad I haven't read the books, because I'd be SO ANGRY at how much must've been cut to get it down to 10 eps per series. I even have favourite characters (and spend a lot of time with mum going, "I like X character" and hearing, "Yes, so do I", in return).

I honestly don't think I'll ever read the books. For one, they're too huge (especially by A Dance With Dragons), and big books tend to lose my attention quickly (I blame Stephen King; I had a short attention span even as a teenager). For a second, it's all about political machinations and...that stuff really bores the crap out of me.

Currently I'm reading Arya's bits in A Clash of Kings, but only because I want to know how or if Jaqen H'ghar is any different in the book (learnt so far: he leaves her at a completely different point in the story). I may end up reading Arya's bits in all the books anyway, as she's one of my favourite characters, and I like where her story's going. But I can't imagine reading the rest of it. Ever.

Which is a reeeally long winded (I think; I'm very tired) way of saying that if you want to talk to me about Icy-Firey Songs, you're more than welcome to do so. Hell, even showing me cool arts if you want. I came to be familiar with it thanks to cool arts, so...yeah.

(Relatedly: I think the way Jaqen talks and refers to himself reminds me of the hanar. Specifically because I think I read a bit where he introduced himself to someone and said, "This one's name is Jaqen H'ghar". Now imagining him as a hanar - brb, loling).