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Lady Dacey

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  1. I 100% agree with you but would love to see something radically different play out
  2. I can toally see him getting her all alone and telling her he know who she is and offering to take her 'home'... but she panicks and immediately attacks him (think a dagger through the belly like Arya's first kill, or shoving him from some precipice or another like LF did to Lysa). Beautiful. I like the Mad Mouse and I'll be sad to see him gone, but I love this potential plotline.
  3. Sansa killing the Mad Mouse!! Love that for her.
  4. I really recommend the documentary film Ex-Paje. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7754564/ It's a beautiful piece about a very sad situation, and what it pictures unfortunately contradicts the statements I quoted above. While I'm not convinced Melissandre will be successful in her converting efforts, this is not the reason why.
  5. I'm late into the thread, and haven't read it through (it's really long, I think I'm on page 7 now) so maybe it's been mentioned before and I haven't gotten around to it... Ever since the episode aired I've had this notion that D&D went for Jon (whom they named Aegon for who knows what reason..) killing Daenerys because they knew in the books Aegon VI Targaryen would, if that makes sense? Not the while 'noble' (cof, cof) reason behind the killing, but the whole "knife to the gut while embracing", maybe it could go down like that for (f)Aegon and Daenerys... I don't love it, but let's wait and see I guess.
  6. @sweetsunray what a fucking awesome catch with hair and heir!!! It does explain why George's eununchs are bald (though I suspect Varys' head could be shaved). You got me thinking about Aegon V. His hair is shaved again and again in his youth, but it does insist on growing back in. His hairline is not receeding, but his hair betrays his purpuse to keep his Targaryen identity hidden. I think this could parallel with him ending up with heirs that refuse to do as he bids them, perhaps?
  7. Is Martin familiar with Spanish language? I can't get over the Sansa/Sonsa/Zonza "pun". Zonza (Spanish) and sonsa (Portuguese) are adjectives with the same pronunciation and meaning, and could traditionally be translated as "silly" or "stupid". Controversely, the words have evolved since they first entered the iberic lexicon in the 17th century, and currently they are used to define people, usually females, who are deceivers, feigning apparent silliness to hide their true intentions under an aura of innocence. Every Brazilian reader I know describes Sansa as "sonsa". Even if it's unintentional, it works
  8. She's developed a lot of skills and I really appreciate her character. She's an impressive young woman and she's had an incredibly interesting story arc. I just believe she is still being played by Petyr Baelish - who is a master of the art by the way. She hasn't seen through him yet (though I can see she might be getting there). She doesn't trust Baelish and want to flea, which is great, but she does think "Littlefinger" is the mask and "Petyr Baelish" (her friend and savior) is who he really is. For the record, it was Mace's idea to name Loras to the kings guard. Littlefinger never so much as suggested it. And it's not like it's bad for him to have a son in the kingsguard at all. The source of his idea were the songs he heard, and the fact that he knew there was a vacant position, and the practical difficulty of finding bride and land for his third son who is gay. All of which are true things. I believe we are led to think the same is true for Sansa's idea of the tourney. It was her idea! It's just an idea that was very convenient for Baelish...
  9. I'm asserting Sansa had the idea for a tourney because Littlefinger wanted to throw a tourney and gave her all the right clues to come up with such a notion. I do not believe he has currupted her morality, whatever that means, but I believe she cannot see through his manipulation, just like Mace Tyrell didn't.
  10. I didn't read the whole thread (it's more than thirty pages long!) but has this been mentioned: while we did see some development in the last chapters of AFFC, and Sansa seems to be getting more savy about politics, I believe this quote is proof that Sansa is still totally clueless about Littlefinger's modus operanti and she's still totally a pawn in his game. This is just how Petyr Baelish works... he's even told Sansa before and she's still falling for it.
  11. I posted this in another thread, but I believe it belongs here. We get this interacting as soon as Dany agrees to marry Hizdhar: As soon as I read this I thought of Arabian Nights, where Sheherazade tricks her husband into not killing her for a thousand and one nights. The original Arabic title of "Arabian Nights" is actually "one thousand and one nights". The protagonist is the bride and queen Shererazade, the daughter of the Vizier who volunteers to marry a man she does not love and who's been killing a bride a day for the past three years (a queen puts her people before her own desires, the sons of the harpy have been murdering freedmen each night...). She is to be executed the night after the wedding but can trick him into keeping her alive, and utimately gains an oficial pardon from her husband and gets to live ("I know you will forgive me"). Whats most striking is the meaning of the name of the protagonist in the original story. From Wikipedia: "The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name in Arabic sources include Shirazad (شيرازاد Šīrāzād) in Masudi, and Shahrazad (شهرازاد Šahrāzād) in Ibn al-Nadim, the latter meaning in New Persian "the person whose realm/dominion (شهر šahr) is free (آزادāzād)"." sound like the breaker of chains? I'm of a mind to think Martin choose to place these words ("we'll have a thousand nights") coming from Hizdhar lips to make an allusion to Arabian Nights.
  12. @weirwood eyes I loved all your comments throughout this thread! I'm also a breastfeeding counselor too!!
  13. Just wanna say I read through the whole thread and really enjoyed all the analysis and discussion! I never cared for Sandor/Sansa as a couple, I always saw him just as a figure of her imagination, playing a part on her personal development from girl to young woman, but now you've got me hoping a few more interactions between the two. I wouldn't go as far as hoping for a marriage, but I definetely abandoned the idea I had that their story was over on page already. Arya and Gendry always stood out for me as a possible romantic couple, I think it's obvious they have strong feelings for each other but don't acknowledge it (Arya) or don't know how to act about it (Gendry). The articles about those two in the thread are a delight to read, but I got the impression they were "speaking to the converts". I'd love to go through a chronological re-read of their chapters to highlight how Martin gives us so many hints of their underlying feelings, even if some readers choose to overlook them.
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