There Is Truth In Stories

gay people: historically, we’ve always existed.

STRONGEST

DID YOU JUST TRY TO HIT ME

That’s fucking TERROR motherfucker.

How much common sense do you actually have?** (i got 8/11)

Take this vision test and we’ll guess what color your eyes are

These 18 questions will tell you what dog breed you’re compatible with**

Your choice of words will determine what age you belong to

We can guess your soulmate’s name based on these questions about your exes

What nationality are you according to your personality?**

Can we guess where you actually live?

Most Americans can’t score 10/12 on this state geography test. Can you?

Only 1% of people can name these everyday things** (i got 8/18)

Can we guess where you grew up based on your taste in snacks?

Take this test to see how you’ll most likely die**

no one but professional trainers has a full team of 6 in the pokemon universe because it would be a fucking gigantic hassle to deal with 6 animals, let alone different types that need different things

The thing is, if you’d told me a few years ago where the characters would end up in the finale, I would have thought it completely logical. Jon going to live with the Wildlings, Sansa becoming Queen in the North, Arya forsaking life as a lady and becoming an explorer, Tyrion serving as Hand of the King, Brienne and Podrick becoming knights of the Kingsguard, and really the final destination of most of the characters who are still alive – those are all lovely endpoints for those characters. Even the characters who ended more tragically, like the Hound dying to finally kill his brother, Jaime dying together with Cersei, and Daenerys becoming the Mad Queen; these were not illogical conclusions for them, with all the foreshadowing presented in previous seasons. And while I wasn’t expecting Bran of all people to be crowned King, he is the most impartial person in Westeros and will likely make a decent ruler, so that’s not too bad.

On paper, it’s not a bad way to end things. But in my opinion, they took entirely the wrong route to get to this ending. And the first staple of storytelling is that it’s not the endpoint that matters, it’s the journey you took to get there. For Game of Thrones, I feel as though the whole show was like climbing a long, winding staircase; they took the stairs one step at a time in the first four seasons, began skipping a step here and there in seasons five and six, ran up two steps at a time in season seven, and finally just said ‘fuck it’ and rode the elevator for season eight.