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Anders posted:The only dragon I can remember chasing tail were Viserys creeping on his sister. Can't blame him for that though.  As for the dragon chasing it's tail banner, maybe it's the Velaryion banner? It's the only banner showing a dragon, except for the Targs, that I know of.
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Baldbeard posted:Hey Song book nerds, I'm trying to remember a part from the series and I need some help. Is there a banner that's a dragon chasing its own tail? I thought there was a story about dragons trying to attack people, but they hid and drove the dragons mad, hence the banner. I can't figure out who or where though. House Toland http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Toland
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ulvir posted:I always read through those kind of threads after I've watched an episode just to see what other goons' reactions were, and I can confirm that this did in fact happen. TVIV people are completely bonkers when it comes to the possibility of knowing that someone ate a piece of pizza 10 seconds before they see it on-screen themselves. Why the gently caress are they liveposting in the first place? just watch the drat show!
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Why the gently caress are they liveposting in the first place? just watch the drat show! Yeah I don't get that. Let's stop watching the thing we really want to watch in order to post about watching it on the internet? Is there a draw to liveposting a tv show other than wanting to be the first to post about a thing that happened? Does it validate your existence to post about tv on something awful dot com, am I missing an important and fulfilling aspect of life here or what.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:00
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Yeah that definitely seems like the banner, the explanation has to do with time though. I thought for sure there was a story about people hiding in the hills from dragons and making them pissed off cause they couldn't find anyone to burn/consume.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:53
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Baldbeard posted:Yeah that definitely seems like the banner, the explanation has to do with time though. I thought for sure there was a story about people hiding in the hills from dragons and making them pissed off cause they couldn't find anyone to burn/consume. I think it ties into the whole failed first invasion of Dorne in which the Dornish (Toland is Dornish) stymied the Targaryens and their dragons by refusing to meet in open combat. Dorne was brought into the 7 kingdoms more through diplomacy I think.
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Traxus IV posted:Yeah I don't get that. Let's stop watching the thing we really want to watch in order to post about watching it on the internet? Is there a draw to liveposting a tv show other than wanting to be the first to post about a thing that happened? Does it validate your existence to post about tv on something awful dot com, am I missing an important and fulfilling aspect of life here or what. It's really fun liveposting along with a comedy because after a funny line on the show, you get to see that same funny line quoted in the thread 7 times, so you re-live the humour, 7 times over! It also means that you get to read all the funny lines you've missed because you've been liveposting. It's great!
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7 kingdoms is a pretty dumb name because there are like 9 of them and they aren't really kingdoms!!!
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Jeffrey posted:7 kingdoms is a pretty dumb name because there are like 9 of them and they aren't really kingdoms!!! There used to be 7 kingdoms before Aegon came ; The Kingdom of the North, the Kingdom of Mountain and Vale, the Kingdom of the Isles and Rivers, Kingdom of the Rock, Kingdom of the Reach, Kingdom of the Stormlands and Dorne. Hence the name. 
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Still it'd be like calling the US "the 13 colonies", it is a bad name.
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If we're comparing to the us, it'll be the difference between referring to the us as these United States and THE united states before and after the civil war. The Starks are going extinct sling with the Tullys and the lannisters. Soon as Dany rolls in with her dragons (and her hat), federalism in westeros is done for. Look forward to a 55 speed limit attached to federal highway funds.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Why the gently caress are they liveposting in the first place? just watch the drat show! "If I'm not liveposting, how will I know that internet strangers are laughing at the wit and wisdom of Tyrion Lannister via the method of the next 40 posts describing what he just said in 5 words or less?"
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It's like if you're a sad and lonely person and have no friends to watch tv shows with posting on the internet with like minded people is like having friends and it's in real time so that makes them real friends.
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Jeffrey posted:Still it'd be like calling the US "the 13 colonies", it is a bad name. Well Brits still call the US "the colonies" even though the vast majority were established after the War for Independence was won, so it's not wholly unprecedented.
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Baldbeard posted:Yeah that definitely seems like the banner, the explanation has to do with time though. I thought for sure there was a story about people hiding in the hills from dragons and making them pissed off cause they couldn't find anyone to burn/consume. quote:"I can attest to that." Ser Daemon took a sip of wine and said, "House Toland has a dragon on its banners."
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lemonadesweetheart posted:It's like if you're a sad and lonely person and have no friends to watch tv shows with posting on the internet with like minded people is like having friends and it's in real time so that makes them real friends. I feel like this is probably the most accurate summation.
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Toplowtech posted:It's from the Wind of Winter's preview chapter for Arianne: Yessssss thank you.
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Cast Iron Brick posted:Could I still volunteer to do a book chapter for kinks? I need some writing excuses. Sure, take one of the untouched chapters I posted earlier.
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I wrote y'all a chapter and put it in the doc, I hope it's half as legible as arbite's stuff
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mind the walrus posted:Well Brits still call the US "the colonies" even though the vast majority were established after the War for Independence was won, so it's not wholly unprecedented. I've never heard this in my neck of these desolate, uncivilised woods. As far as I know, we just call the US, "America". lemonadesweetheart posted:It's like if you're a sad and lonely person and have no friends to watch tv shows with posting on the internet with like minded people is like having friends and it's in real time so that makes them real friends. As a sad and lonely person, I can only say that you're probably dead on. The whole realisation that you're posting in a thread to substitute friends has to be a motherfucker of a downer when the moment has passed.
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ZShakespeare posted:I wrote y'all a chapter and put it in the doc, I hope it's half as legible as arbite's stuff gently caress yes, not even gonna read it, straight to the printers! Also!  It's V DaySo why not celebrate with your close and lovely loved ones by giving them the finest gift of all? No, not a nubile young actress that got passed over on GoT casting! No, not even shitdick! Share the magic, and wonder, and, comma splices of! http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/269101
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Jeffrey posted:Still it'd be like calling the US "the 13 colonies", it is a bad name. It's not exactly genius, no, but what else could he have called it? Aegonnia or Targaryos?  I'm terrible with names and so was he probably.
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Aurain posted:I've never heard this in my neck of these desolate, uncivilised woods. Weird. I've definitely heard that turn of phrase from more than one Brit in my lifetime. Maybe you guys get told to say it by customs before you come over or something.
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Yeah, no one ever calls America 'The colonies' outside of an occasional joke.
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Maybe it's an uppercrust thing.
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I call it "that piss hole that keeps ruining our politics"
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Cast Iron Brick posted:Could I still volunteer to do a book chapter for kinks? I need some writing excuses. "15. Jenn [Vampire][EROTIC] Jenn and the Day's Watch finds a very old city that the scouts said was likely where all the freemen had run to for shelter. The city is very large, but compact, ideal to repel the cold, with a massive wood burning pit in the center of town to always provide light and heat. When they arrive, there is not one person there. They search from home to home, but like everywhere else it's just as though everyone vanished into thin air. As night falls, the Watch makes camp in one of the deserted buildings, as Jenn and Depressing Dave try to start a fire in the massive pit. Then some strange sounds are heard and soon men are screaming and they hear swords crashing at stone. Jenn draws her sword, but Dave insists they start the fire. “There's a reason they kept a fire” he tells her. They work frantically amid sounds of screaming and swords striking and soon they have a small fire and quickly throw everythinjg they can on it. As the fire grows in size the fighting dies down, as the screams of men dying becomes less frequent. Dave refuses to leave the fire. He talks Jenn into staying, as there's a reason they've been left alone amidst the chaos. As they wait in the dark, Dave vanishes as Jenn nods off. When she looks up, she meets the beautiful vampire leader Ed Lestadt." SaviourX fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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Dutchfool posted:It's not exactly genius, no, but what else could he have called it? Aegonnia or Targaryos? What about, the United Kingdoms of Westeros. Also "The Colonies" isn't that far removed from "The United States" name wise, it just doesn't make sense for an independent country to be called a colony, but beyond that it's not that weird a name. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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mind the walrus posted:Well Brits still call the US "the colonies" even though the vast majority were established after the War for Independence was won, so it's not wholly unprecedented. Nobody actually does this unironically except lunatics and the extreme upper class and frankly if you have a lot of dealings with them it's your own drat fault.
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What a majestuous bastard. I'm going to have this picture in my nightmares now, though.
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This still brings a smile to my face. Oldie but a goodie.
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Junkenstein posted:Yeah, no one ever calls America 'The colonies' outside of an occasional joke. I've heard the US called that, but generally by people who also refer to London as the Smoke.
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Dutchfool posted:I'm going to have this picture in my nightmares now, though. Sexy, erotic nightmares.
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Does anyone else here "read" the series via audiobook? I'm on Storm of Swords now, and Tywin seems to suddenly sounds like Churchill. Not that I dislike it, but I'm pretty sure it's a new development. I like Roy Dotrice's reading though, it's just a worry that with him being 90, he's not going to be able to finish this thing.
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As far as finishing the series is concerned, Roy Dotrice is the least of your worries.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Does anyone else here "read" the series via audiobook? I'm on Storm of Swords now, and Tywin seems to suddenly sounds like Churchill. Not that I dislike it, but I'm pretty sure it's a new development. Honesty I listened to every book save for the first and I think parts of the second on audio and that is the leaf of your worries. Roy Dotrice talking about making GBS threads and pissing is really awkward as well as the Dany sex scenes. Still can't get him saying Sticky Princes out of my head ether...
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BizarroAzrael posted:I like ASOIAF though, it's just a worry that with me being 25, I'm not going to be able to finish reading this thing. Modified for accuracy because GURM is the planet's undying avatar of sexual deviancy, so I'm more likely to die than him.
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