Last night I finished the first song of A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones. I had already watched the first season of the show which portrays a great deal of the book and admirably so at that, but I’m really happy to have read the book. It fleshes out the world and the characters much more thoroughly, and comes together much better for it. George R.R. Martin is a great writer, especially for his choice of genre. I’m going to start the second song A Clash of Kings in a moment. The image above is a portrayal of the final scene in the first song. It’s when Dany awakes the dragons among the ashes of a pyre. In the show they don’t burn off her hair, but I don’t see that as a bad thing.
It really is a great story. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading.
Macho Lemur.
The other day I was stuck in traffic, and everybody else there seemed to be aggro. An ambulance came through and I had to pull over and following that ambulance was a bunch of drivers looking to skip ahead and taking advantage of our having moved to the side for the ambulance. I had to get back in, but everyone was either ignoring or resenting me. This one guy gave me such an angry look and sneered as if I had no right to try to take the place I had only given up for an emergency vehicle. Sooner or later I get back in the lane I needed to be in and about a mile later. Behold! There he was, stuck on the side and trying to get in my lane. No one would stop for him, but I stopped and let him in. Only after shouting, “How do you like my uncompromising good nature, mother fucker!?” out the window.
…from neat video presentations…
I’ve noticed a trend of liking characters who use archery(bow, crossbow, or any other variant) in myself. This one for example, Irvine. He’s an apostle who serves Griffith as a member of the second Band of the Hawk in Berserk. He’s an incredible archer. I really like the design of his bow, and his apostle form. A centaur-like creature.
There’s one point in the series where he mentions being a hunter who preferred the isolation of the wild. One who, when hunting, became so focused on his prey that he too felt like a beast, which as one can see manifested into his apostle form(apostles true forms are a physical manifestation of their inner ego after the corruption of becoming an apostle).
There’s a lot of other archer characters that I’ve been fond of too, but this one is the most fascinating to me. Maybe someday I’ll actually invest the time and money into learning archery. I might just do falconry too while I’m at it. xD