#poorquentyn

[valyrianfreehold]

Finally sat down and read Poorquentyn’s amazing Eldritch Apocalypse analysis of Euron. What good fuckin read, y’all. Everyone who wants to get hyped up for twow and the great tonal gear shift it’ll bring should 100% read this. It also is just a great character analysis and I like the comparisons between him and Ramsay and the bucket of crabs that is the Old Way.

Here are some of my fav excerpts but y’all should really read the entire piece.

[joannalannister]

Finally he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him. And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. North and north and north he looked, to the curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks.

--George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

In the whole spectacle there was a persistent, pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation; as if these stark, nightmare spires marked the pylons of a frightful gateway into forbidden spheres of dream, and complex gulfs of remote time, space, and ultra-dimensionality. I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething, half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

--H.P. Lovecraft, “At the Mountains of Madness”

I’m rereading Lovecraft, and this passage from “At the Mountains of Madness” instantly made me think of Bran’s vision of the curtain of light at the end of the world. Like, I think I’ve said before, I think ASOIAF’s Curtain is a gateway to the Realm of Faerie, some icy, nightmare hellscape in a different dimension where the rules of time and space don’t hold true. Really excited to see if GRRM really is drawing inspiration from Lovecraft here. 

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

@notthehound replied to your post “Hello, sir! Can I interest you in signing my petition...”

For a minute there I was like. Did we? Did we see wiener. Then I actually saw what you did there.

We actually did see weiner!

Euron stood by the window, drinking from a silver cup. He wore the sable cloak he took from Blacktyde, his red leather eye patch, and nothing else. [...] The wind came gusting through the window and stirred his sable cloak. There was something obscene and disturbing about his nakedness. [...] Victarion glanced away. “Cover yourself.” Euron seated himself and gave his cloak a twitch, so it covered his private parts.

--AFFC, The Reaver

And we’ve seen icy weiner:

Beneath her coverlets she tossed and turned, dreaming that Hizdahr was kissing her… but his lips were blue and bruised, and when he thrust himself inside her, his manhood was cold as ice. --ADWD, Daenerys VII

So indeed, kudos to @westwingconvert, for the double pun. And to GRRM I suppose, who set it up in the first place... :D

[some-dude-with-a-cat-blog]

David Bowie the Thin White Duke as Euron Greyjoy the Crow’s Eye, inspired by @poorquentyn

[joannalannister]

About to start a panel at @conofthrones with @poorquentyn and @warsofasoiaf

[joannalannister]

@poorquentyn just put on my tombstone, 

“She fought like a lioness for Tyrion Lannister”

[some-dude-with-a-cat-blog]

Prince Quentyn Martell of Sunspear

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Hi, Butterfly! You've piqued my interest in something! How would ADwD-style GRRM writing Ned or even AGoT itself look or read differently, in your opinion?

Oh… I said it would be amazing to read, but you know I’m not really certain what it would be like. Well… a lot longer, that’s one for sure. With much and more linguistical quirks, mayhaps. More consistent and more intense worldbuilding. (GRRM is a gardener-writer, and he was still planting seeds in AGOT.) And more lyrical writing, if more expansive and therefore, again, longer. Ned himself– I’d hope for more flashbacky stuff, not just Harrenhal and the Tower of Joy, but from when he was a kid at Winterfell with his siblings too. Or the early days with Catelyn – and not just stuff like the Ashara incident, but slice-of-life things.

But y’know, I don’t do lit crit that well – I mean, I know what I like in both AGOT and ADWD, and I can see the differences between them, but I lack the right words for it. However, considering that’s one of @poorquentyn’s specialties and he’s done three essay series analyzing ADWD so far (ok, two and a half), I think this would be an awesome question for him! Any thoughts here, my friend?