Plaguewalker

It's a little bit like being drunk all the time. Because there is no sunlight (the sun set in April and won't be up again till August), even taking Vitamin D, we all get a little crazy. T3 syndrome used to be called polar madness. It affects everyone differently--some people get depressed and sleep a lot, others hallucinate--but mostly for me it makes me giggle at everything.

I can't comment on watching GoT stoned because that's not my thing, but I can tell you this: I live in Antarctica and, more than once, after watching an episode I've gone outside and thought "Winter is coming?? WTF, winter is HERE!!" which is probably a lot funnier if you have T3 Syndrome/Polar Madness like I do. Welcome.

*Yes,* go Rory. I think, aside from being my fave character in the books (yes, WillWork4NinjaPowers, I read them) and in the series, I think The Hound is one of the best characters to have transitioned from book to series, along with Varys (I think they oversimplified/prettied-up too many of the other characters, but that's tv for ya...). I won't post pix of my Ice World here as I would hate to be accused of clogging the overtaxed servers, but I've been blogging about it for a couple years at http://storiesthataretrue.wordpress.com/ ...feel free to check it out, but note the most recent posts are all from winter (now) so it's dark out. I have a crappy camera so I don't bother to take pix in the winter months, except of inside foolishness. A better post (which has links to a lot of other posts) if you want to see stuff would be: http://storiesthataretrue.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/groom-with-a-view/ Though it looks like Beyond the Wall, I have yet to see a Whitewalker. Got my blowtorch ready, tho...

I like to think of it as the dark underbelly of the world :-) It's minus 49F out there right now. I've just finished work for the day and think instead of heading out to the gym I'll curl up with my netbook and watch The Hound give Joff the what-for in "Blackwater." Thanks for the welcome!

Oh...here's the Intro thread. Hi everyone. I am posting this as I sit in my room at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica, where winter is NEVER coming...because it's always here! Technically it is winter now, so it's dark all the time (the sun set in April and won't be up again until August). This is my second winter on the Ice. I love it, though it is much more Ice Planet Hoth than Beyond The Wall. I miss trees. :frown5: I've read the first four books and have watched season one and all of season two except for the finale. Fave characters are The Hound, Arya, Bronn and Brienne. I started reading the books (and then watching the show) because I had so many friends who told me GRRM's stories reminded them of mine (I write fantasy and dark historical fiction...my avatar is a crop of the cover illustration I did for my novel, Plaguewalker...yeah, I picked that as my username cuz all the good GoT-themed ones were taken!) Anyway, I'm excited to have finally joined the forums "officially" and stepped out of the shadows where I'd been lurking for a while. g'nite from the Ice G