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Biggest ass-pull so far it pissed me off in the show and it pisses me off now. You have any number of interesting characters you can pull to assassinate Renly, any of the southern lords or northern deserters you can invent, and your choice is... magic??? Like yeah ok it's cool that magic isn't as dead as people believe but come ONNN I love Renly too much for him to die like this.

"'I am not without mercy,' thundered he who was notoriously without mercy." LMAOOO

Cersei Lannister I love you so much I want to kill you with a rock

"Tribal, communitarian, precapitalist structures, every form of exchange, of language, of symbolic organization... that is the object of murder in war—and war itself... is nothing but the medium of this process of the terrorist rationalization of the social..."

"Because heavenly fire no longer falls on corrupted cities, it is the camera lens that, like a laser, comes to pierce lived reality in order to put it to death."

"... that a head of state remains the same or is someone else doesn't strictly change anything, so long as they resemble each other. For a long time now a head of state—no matter which one—is nothing but the simulacrum of himself, and only that gives him the power and the quality to govern."

"The only weapon of power... is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production. To this end it prefers the discourse of crisis, but also, why not? that of desire."

"It is the Left that holds put the mirror of equivalence to capital hoping that it will comply... Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates... it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such."

"Dany had no wish to reduce King's Landing to a blackened ruin full of unquiet ghosts" awkward........

Last book I couldn't stand the Daenerys chapters now I can't WAIT for the next one

Gasped out loud at Asha tricking Theon #bisexualdisaster

Character named Bluetooth in book published in 1999

"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control—and it can be reproduced and indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational."

I FORGOT HOW MUCH I ACTUALLY LOVE RENLY #Baratheonforking298

They're starving in the south because of the war but the people in the north come together and have a great feast... yeah

"If only she had someone to tell her what to do." Martin loves summarizing a character's entire story up to a point in a single sentence.

"Lord Petyr... in a plush plum-colored doublet and a yellow satin cape" ok queer

Sorry i don't give a FUCK about what Bran's ass is doing in Winterfell give me literally anyone else's POV rn this chapter is so pointless

Daenerys sending her three bloodriders to search around the new city, and the way each of their returns is narrated in sequence, feels like a piece of mythology for a nation's founding. Very appropriate for this stage in her journey.

Theonn and Jon both think the Starks liked the other more than him oh GOD that's juicy

First thing the Theon chapter does is make him seem like a leech wherever he goes... inch resting...

Funniest Stannis moment is him insisting the name R'hllor is easy to pronounce, made even funnier by the fact that as a reader I have no godly idea how to pronounce it.

Diversity win! This kidnapper and menace to grad students is gay!

Oh my god it's the Allegory of the Cave I'm gonna start screaming

Chapter titled "I resolve to take better care of Myself" self-care KING

Oh okay. Ok yeah so cool yeah. Okay so.

There Are Other Piranesis And Others What The Fuck

"A message from afar. Obscure Writing. Innocence eroded." TEAAAA

I see that the Lord of Light's chosen is also called the Warrior of Light and the neurons in my brain devoted to ffxiv light up.

The urge to wiwify Lord Varys the Spider... my god I love him so much