A story is true, a story is untrue

"this thing is just an elitist gatekeeping tool. 🙄" maybe. and maybe that's all the more reason to provide the gate-opening keys to people who would otherwise have no way of accessing them.

no greater feeling than when someone remembers something funny you said and mentions it to you weeks or months later

"when we were young gwayne thought him cruel, but gwayne thought that of many." "he's kind." "is...gwayne coming to tumbleton?" uwaaaaah

rhaena spitting out "i have asked you nothing, father, in all my life. i ask this one thing of you now" and then running into a cave and hopping on her fuckass dragon while her deadbeat dad uselessly calls her name is so true to the teenage experience.

"you were meant to accompany my sons to pentos." not "your brothers," "my sons." ahhh the distance between rhaena and daemon being emphasized with every line

comments on hotd youtube videos are always fun cause you get things like “i think 🤔 that daeron is perhaps being ABUSED by ormund. idk just a gut feeling.” and it’s still 100000x more media savvy than what’s going on in the hotd subreddit

this episode really validated all of my “can we just be fucking patient and see what they do with it” arguments

powerful men in their 50s-70s just don’t drop dead of sudden heart attacks like they used to. graham falling off the face of the earth like this is a reminder of that bygone age.

Lindsey Graham swooping in at the last second to steal Mitch McConnell’s thunder. C’mon, Mitch, don’t let that old bird show you up! You can do it!!!