Tom Hiddleston & Michael Fassbender Appreciation Post

Wow, this is such excellent meta....perfectly encapsulates some of the wrongness I've been trying to articulate to myself since I started reading the books back in 1998. 

#meta #asoiaf

Seeing this post reminds me that someone I’ve known for years, and who has a rather expensive college degree, said these exact words to me in regard to ASOIAF/Game of Thrones this past Tuesday at a gaming tournament:

"Things were just like that back then.”

There were not...

Story update: the Broken Saga

Chapters will come more frequently now that I am back home from the road. This chapter was also particularly horrible. I think it's all there in the title. Warning: this is not the pleasant part of the hero's journey. 

The Broken Saga

Via my bro-in-law....FASTBACK IS MY VALENTINE

Awesome. That is exactly what I was going for...that Thor is more than ready to turn the world upside down. In that scene, I was trying to give the sense that they were actually talking at cross-purposes...simply because the giants didn't expect anyone to be as physically brave as Thor. They don't quite get it at first blush, they're using the negotiating technique (offering something truly awful in hopes of getting someone to accept a different kind of awful) that's worked for them before...and they don't understand that Thor is like: rape me, maim me terribly, whatevs, so long as you can do what you say. I'm a big boy, I can take it. 

Kim’s intelligent and well thought out response:

Thor, honey, we gotta talk about this tendency of yours to be non-conned/coerced into having sex.

lazyscience:

Don’t forget Floki is like a mad genius when it comes to wood carving. The trees speak to him. What’s the bet a few of those trees were whispering “strap onnnn”?

Antler? Very carve-able and denser than most wood.Or is it too dense? Oh crap, now I'm thinking about it. 

Dat ass

Mark Sheppard talks about kissing a dude on Supernatural @ Dubai's 1st ever ComiCon!

asimplehistory:

Korean artist Yong Ho Ji makes amazing sculptures out of used tires.

This was on display at the Fairmont Bab al Bahr right here in Abu Dhabi...the coolest thing is that it is 'life size' for a Minotaur...about 8 feet tall. 

The actual quote is 'See me now'

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