it all goes back and back

ned and cat and everyone in winterfell would have been besieged on all sides by teenage sass had they lived to experience jon and sansa at the same time. i know it would have drove them up a fucking wall

the funniest part about robb and edmure’s relationship is that no matter how many times robb commands his uncle to address him as “your grace” he just…doesn’t. not even on purpose. not to be disrespectful. not to make a point. it’s just like an instinct for edmure to greet him with a “yo robb what’s up” 🙂‍↔️ whereas the blackfish refers to robb as “your grace” even when he’s just casually talking to catelyn one on one. because to be fair edmure was literally there the day that robb was born. he’s only ever known his nephew as an infant and then one day this teenage boy just shows up out of nowhere and suddenly he’s a king except he’s still growing out his first beard and he’s super attached to his pet dog and he’s constantly reminding his mom that he’s a GROWN UP now and he doesn’t need her approval (but also he really really really wants it). also when you’ve seen your sister’s kid in diapers it’s probably a little hard to take his authority seriously.

After the death of god and the decline of the institution of the church, traditional esotericism also fell in popularity; it's hard to keep a counterculture going when the thing you're rebelling against is no longer so popular. The rise of technology and its various fetishistic cults--the epicenter being in Silicon Valley, though disperse throughout the world--consequently means that techno-esotericism is on the rise. Common and comprehensive technologies become objects of mystical significance. AI becomes a new god; the blockchain is not a tool, but a harbinger of the Age-Yet-To-Come.

Joke aside, one problem with this formulation is that the average person doesn't really have a grasp of what a "complexity score" of a book could like.