It has a castle town. But no. Harrenhal’s problem is that it’s massively over-sized, which creates huge cost problems for staffing, maintenance, repairs.
Inspired by this post, here’s a graphic and a link roundup:
No new content Sept 1 2017, in protest of Tumblr @staff‘s complete lack of effort to take any action to control rampant white-supremacist hate speech on this platform.
(There’s even a lovely write-up of it from this very month: Nazis On Tumblr Are Attempting To Make White Supremacy Hip.) (There’s a change.org petition about it too, which has a nice write-up of exactly how much absolutely-nothing Tumblr @staff are willing to do about egregious hate speech.) (No, I’m not involved with either of those links, nor the original post I’m referecing above, I just thought I’d Google it before I made a graphic. I know very little about this but it all seems pretty gross, now doesn’t it.)
I’m posting this now, then I’ll put it in my queue on the 1st and have that be the only thing that posts on that day (for those of us who can’t shut our queues down easily, that’s a solution). And then, no posts, no replies, no chats, no inbox, no messages, no visits to the site for the duration of the 1st in my timezone.
[Image description: On a blue background, white bold text says: “9/1/17 Tumblr Strike: This blog is posting no new content to protest Tumblr’s unwillingness to take action against white nationalist hate speech”]
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!
And for people who are wondering about timezone, I’m suggesting that since the Tumblr office is in New York, we use that timezone.
(And to everyone believe I’m so naive as to think a one-day boycott will stop it – c’mon. I know that. I’m trying to bring attention to this very serious issue, that’s it.)
Quick reminder that the month of August has 31 days and this boycott starts on Friday.
The time zone in New York is Eastern Standard Time so if everyone wants to do this over the same 24 hours, you can compare the time zone you’re in to the eastern one at midnight. For example, if you are in Mountain Standard Time like myself, your boycott will start at 10:00 p.m. on August 31st and end at the same time the next day.
Given how angry Twitter makes me by not doing this, it’s only consistent to extend the same logic over to Tumblr.
So yeah, I’ll take a one-day break to help spread the word. See you on Saturday.
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Jon’s not at the Fist, he’s with Mance’s army when the Fist happens.
Ah, you’re right, you’re right. My bad. I could have sworn he met wights at some point other than the tower in the books as well. I guess I was thinking of Sam.
It’s not your bad – it’s GRRM doing an AMAZING fakeout. The character who more than anyone than Dany is Designated Fantasy Protagonist has never fought the Big Bad.
Unlike the show, where Jon goes to Hardhome and Beyond-the-Wall, so that he can glower at the Night’s King and set up their cliched fight in the final season…
I think the idea that dragonglass can’t kill wights is actually a myth. The reason Sam’s dagger did nothing is because it broke on Small Paul’s armor.
There was no time to think or pray or be afraid. Samwell Tarly threw himself forward and plunged the dagger down into Small Paul’s back. Half-turned, the wight never saw him coming. The raven gave a shriek and took to the air. “You’re dead!” Sam screamed as he stabbed. “You’re dead, you’re dead.” He stabbed and screamed, again and again, tearing huge rents in Paul’s heavy black cloak. Shards of dragonglass flew everywhere as the blade shattered on the iron mail beneath the wool.
–ASOS, Samwell III
We’ve never seen anyone get a dragonglass dagger into a wight’s flesh. Could be that would kill them sure as it does Others. (And the reason why it kills them, no matter what, is because their armor is made of ice, just like they are.)
I imagine you’d catch this when you get to Sam III in RFTIT, so just a note in advance. 🙂
I believe I said has no “special properties.”
The dagger didn’t break on the White Walker’s armor.
In the books, dragonglass has no special properties when it comes to wights – Sam tries to use his dragonglass dagger on the zombiefied Small Paul (pour one out) and the dagger does nothing.
Other than fire, total dismemberment is the only other method known to work. Basically if you damage the thing so badly that it cannot move, it’ll die (again).
Edit:
While I understand the show simplifying things, I do feel something was lost in the change b/c it seems to me that the white walkers created the wights in part because they don’t share their weaknesses to dragonglass (and presumably to valyrian steel too?), so they can send them in as arrow fodder while staying safe themselves.
“We’ve all read the books countless times so we all have a pretty thorough working knowledge of them. That said, we sometimes have to alter book lore a bit to fit the demands of the show. For example, changing Asha Greyjoy’s name to Yara and that dragonglass also kills wights, as we saw in 605.“
ASOIAF, Justified, the MCU/MNU stuff, Dark Tower, The Wire, Stranger Things…
“With a stellar Persuasion check, Tomas carefully explains that he was attempting a non-lethal takedown of the guard, while at the same time using a superb Deception check to explain that the padlock on the cellar door was unlocked when we got there.”
Canonically, though, Tomas Rhymer can’t lie.
I don’t know what you mean, “Honest Tomas” has never told a lie.
EDIT: Technically speaking, when we got there, the padlock was un-locked (as in, made to no longer be locked).
Pycelle is a dyed-in-the-red Lannister loyalist, and had been the one to stage the quasi-coup that put Kevan in power and began to rebuild the Lannister/Tyrell regime, undoing the damage that Cersei had caused.
Varys wanted him gone because it would further destabilize the government and add to Cersei’s paranoia now that’s she’s the only one left standing.
Well, Garth Greenhand wasn’t really a ruler per se, more of a nature/fertility god who does seem to have been venerated across the whole of the Reach. It was his eldest son Garth the Gardener who was the first King in Highgarden, and based on what we know about subsequent Gardener Kings, yes his kingdom was small by later standards (keep in mind, power is relative; if everyone else is a petty king…).
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