#nuncle

[aelyxmagnus]

Anyone have some art of our lord and savior George R.R. Martin’s self insert character Rodrick the reader? Bringer of nuncle?

[lost-art-of-world-domination]

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2. Adept or elemental?

Adept for sure. Obviously elemental would also be great, but I just love the variety being an Adept offers. Personally I’d probably go for Necromancy. I live not far from several hospitals and cemeteries so power wouldn’t be a massive issue, and the abilities just seem great, from creating constructs to shadow walking. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a massive comic book fan, specifically DC, so the similarities to a Lantern Ring are not invisible to me, and are an added bonus. One issue would be the darker instincts Necromancy can prey on, but I think those could be kept in balance. Apart from that, I’d say Sigil magic has always intrigued me, but I don’t know if I’d have the patience and I’d probably end up with a cursed pen à la Geoffrey Scrutinous.

8. Who's the most annoying character?

Honestly most of the annoying characters are designed to be annoying, so it’s hard to actually dislike them for it. So I’d have to go for the character who currently annoys me the most, which is Nuncle, from Until the End (Spoiler alert if you haven’t read it). He was just too vague and it felt like he interrupted all the other plot threads I was invested in. I’m completely open to the possibility that he becomes something interesting in Phase 3, but for now he was just weird and confusing, and not in a good way such as with characters like Finbar.

11. Best minor character.

With these books it’s tough to say who’s really a ‘Minor’ character, and I have lots of favourites who might qualify as that, so I’m choosing a character only in a fragment of one book. Mellifluous Golding from Bedlam. If anyone doesn’t remember her, she had the clockwork house with the walls of secrets, which Skulduggery and Valkyrie had to contribute to to get the location of Greymire. I think she was a very intriguing character, both for the manner in which she keeps these secrets, and how she addresses how a trans sorcerer would work when everyone already has taken names, which was something I’d wondered. Also the wall of secrets is just an excellent concept and a lovely piece of world building, and it’s so fascinating to imagine what else might be there. And the house being in the shape of a sigil with unknown purpose makes me think of Roarhaven City’s 7 sigil buildings, so there’s definitely potential for a return, although I don’t know if that will ever happen. So yeah, a character who was both interesting to read and fleshed out the world as a whole in a fascinating new way, and I think she’d qualify as ‘minor’.

[shakespearenews]

Before a linguistic shift called metanalysis, where the “n” sounds shifted to the indefinite article, an apron once read as a napron and an uncle as a nuncle.

“How Orange (the Fruit) Inspired Orange (the Color)” via Atlas Obscura

[luchibelle]

“Your father had more courage than sense. The Old Way served the isles well when we were one small kingdom amongst many, but Aegon’s Conquest put an end to that. Balon refused to see what was plain before him. The Old Way died with Black Harren and his sons.”

“I know that.” Asha had loved her father, but she did not delude herself. Balon had been blind in some respects. A brave man but a bad lord. “Does that mean we must live and die as thralls to the Iron Throne? If there are rocks to starboard and a storm to port, a wise captain steers a third course.”

The Kraken's Daughter [Asha I], AFFC.

Show us the third way Asha.

Prove those sealords a woman can rule just as fine as any man.

Bring your house to a new age.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Hello Butterfly ! First thank for your awesome blog ! I'm always happy to read your metas and to discover new pieces of ASOIAF art. I hope that your wrist is on the mend and that you're not in too much pain. I have a question about Allyria Dayne (I know you're not too much into the Daynes so maybe you're not overly interested). If I remember correctly, Beric calls her his betrothed but Edric says he became B's squire whe "he espoused [his] aunt" Doesn't espouse mean marry ?

My wrist is doing much better, thank you. Got a little while to go yet, but still, much much better. :) 

“Spouse” literally means “pledged” and initially meant “a betrothed person” (see word origins), so Edric was saying “when he pledged to marry my aunt”. (Using GRRM archaic-speak.) Beric was definitely not married to Allyria yet, as he says “there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not […] tell you the color of that woman’s hair”, and as Edric says later “he’s promised to my aunt”.

Hope that helps!

[shakespearenews]

Fried parsnips do indeed need buttering, even though fine words cannot substitute for butter. Let us not forget what King Lear’s fool says to his distressed, disillusioned master: “Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put ’em i’ the paste alive; she knapped ‘em o’ the coxcombs with a stick, and cried, ‘Down, wantons, down!” ’Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay” (II, 4, 121-28).

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

@violet-eyes-silver-hair replied to your post “Asha sometimes calls her uncles uncle and sometimes nuncle. Why does she do that?”

I didn’t know this! I just thought that’s what she called him as a baby. This is cool

Yep, the lingustics is neat. :) Though please note that Asha calls all her uncles “nuncle”, btw, Rodrik and Victarion and Aeron and Euron. And it’s more than Asha -- Jaime calls Kevan “nuncle”, a Frey calls Emmon “nuncle”, Roland Waynwood says it in re Wallace Waynwood (who’s actually younger than him), Aemond Targaryen calls Daemon that, and Tyrion uses the phrase “favorite nuncle”.

But it’s totally an AFFC and onward thing, with GRRM deliberately archaic-ing his language (to many people’s annoyance). Before that it was just “uncle”, like, y’know, normal English. Thankfully he didn’t stop using “uncle” post-ASOS, because I am not looking forward to the Blackfish or Benjen getting called “nuncle” when they never were before, tyvm GRRM.

[wtf-tfw]

theyre trying to jack my nun swagger. all of a sudden the haters are all wearing wimples and veils and scapulars and stuff like they invented it.