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Stannis Burns On

Stannis Burns On

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Heavy spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 5 follow. Like, seriously. Heavy.   Trigger Warning: this blog post includes a discussion of extreme violence and rape that occurred on this television program.   Stannis Baratheon is a straight-up monster and we should all hate him. But for a while there in season five, we forgot that. We started to like him. We may have even started to root for him. His rescue of Jon Snow and the Night’s Watch, his weary correction…

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Some Struggles of Not Having Read All of Game Of Thrones (Yet!)

Some Struggles of Not Having Read All of Game Of Thrones (Yet!)

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Like many pretentious liberal arts college students, I pride myself on the frequency with which I read a book before seeing its on-screen adaptation. I will never not casually #humblebrag that I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy during elementary school—yes, before any of the movies were released. That being said, I have not read the books since then and I really don’t think I could again when they are just so dang long, and I might just…

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