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#20 "Please forgive me!"

Sebastian knows he has made a grave mistake. It's three o'clock in the morning, he is on his sixth cup of coffee, and his eyes burn from staring at his computer screen for so long in the darkness of the basement.

He just completed a project he has been hunched over for the last month for a company in ZuZu City, fighting the software tooth and nail through it all. It has been his biggest project yet, now completed, but he hasn't left the house for anything other than smoke breaks and proof-of-living checks with Sam.

He can't even remember the last time he checked his phone, but reaching across his desk to grab it, he realizes his grave mistake.

Twelve unread messages from the farmer and five missed calls.

Hi there!

That is actually one of the big issues I have with the show ending. It is unfair.... Kinslayers are punished in-universe and even if Tyrion got a pardon by Dany, that should be questioned after her demise. Now, in real life it happens often enough that some people are punished and others aren’t. So you could argue, that this might be what GRRM goes for. Grim dark realism and all that.... Tyrion as a Hand who works for the best of Westeros despite being a villain. You could argue that Tyland Lannister under Aegon III sort of foreshadows Tyrion.

On the other hand this ‘realistic’ take on a ruthless politician that ends up on top does not fit with Bran as King.

I have argued on this blog for quite some time, that I cannot see how you can reach both ends at the same time. Both are possible as the books stand now, I would say, but not in the same universe.

Either magic is important and an all-seeing magic wizard king sits the throne on the end, or politics turn out to be what ulitmately counts, and the ruthless Tywin Lannister 2.0. becomes the most important person in the kingdom after the king.

I don’t think you can have both.

Either you have poetic justice and kinslaying is punished (as Stannis, Ramsay, Robb and several others can attest), or you don’t have poetic justice. Then Jon being punished and Tyrion not being punished goes directly against many of the books plotlines. And that simply does not make sense or I would rather say, that it makes ASOIAF a dissatisfying story, because it’s neither realistic nor rounded storytelling.

I reserve judgement until the books come out. GRRM might find a way how to do it.

Hey anon--Im a self dx autistic

If you're not a white boy with a fixation on trains it's extremely hard to get a proper diagnosis as a child. So many adults turn to self dx, due to the severe ableism with autistic people and how fucking hard it is. Heres example a in my state for it

Autism is rarely acknowledged in adults or in people who don't present the way they're supposed to. Professionals learn there's only one way to see symptoms and one way only. Self diagnoses is extremely common even among minors---my father was horribly ableist growing up and would never believe I was an autist because I was simply "quirky" and regarded my behavior as "too normal" (despite when I was openly stimming which he shunned)

So many adults never addressed certain things properly with me growing up. All my symptoms were forceably repressed and shamed against and it took me 17 years to question if I was neurodivergent.

Self dx is vaild. Self dx is very common. Self dx makes up a lot of the community. The sheer relief I had finding out I was autistic was so amazing to me and I wasn't an abnormal neurotypical but a normal autistic person