Hey folks! So with Davos VI done, I’m taking a bit of time off to go on vacation for a week or so. To keep you company in the mean-time before I get back to the grind with Jon VIII, we’ve got some good stuff on the Tumblrs.
ASOIAF:
- How long would ambassadors stay at King’s Landing?
- Were journeymen forced to wander or could they choose where they worked?
- Were guilds separate by country?
- Did guilds have legacy students?
- Did the English hate the Vikings because women preferred Vikings?
- Endgame of ASOIAF POVs?
- Current Stark succession line. Who wins?
- Westerosi agriculture and multi-year winters.
- Corlys Velaryon and the spice trade.
- Cousin marriages in Westeros.
Non-ASOIAF:
- Did the Romans harbor grudges against the Greeks?
- How did the Greeks see the Romans?
- Why did the Byzantines call themselves Roman?
- Why did Byzantines blind Venetians when they retook Constantinople?
- When did historians start using BC and AD?
- Othismos or pulse theory?
- What do union organizers do?
- How did Catholic nobles at war with the pope reconcile their faith with their politics?
- My most controversial historical opinion.
- The Two-Body Problem (Locked Tomb Series)
- Question re: my favorite historical document?
- What would the Church do if a Tudor nobleman defaulted on a loan?
- Thoughts on No Way Home.
- Fractional vs. full-reserve banking.
- Thoughts on the Highland Clearances.
- Thoughts on the People’s Republic of Walmart.
- Was the Watcher powerful in the comics?
- Thoughts on X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine?
- Thoughts on Trial of Magneto?
- Why was the Caribbean attractive to colonizers in the 1500s?
- Does Gotham ever just execute the Joker?
- Wizards and the mutant metaphor.
- History of menus in Western Europe.
Patron Questions:
- Was Aegon the Conqueror’s greatest mistake the invasion of Dorne, not incorporating the Riverlands into the Crownlands desmene, not turning over the social order of the Iron Islands, or something else entirely?
- By order of magnitude, the invasion of Dorne.
- Who do you think is the Blackfyre sympathizer among Rowan or Tarly? I’m inclined to think it will be both of them, and Tarly might quite literally stab Mace Tyrell in the back.
- Probably Tarly.
- Do you think Daenerys will go straight into war with fAegon once he takes the Iron Throne, or do you think something else will finally push it over, like him mounting Viserion instead of Rhaegal?
- I think it’s inevitable once he takes the Iron Throne and offers to take her as his second wife.
- What are your thoughts on the new Batman film?
- I liked it, but I thought it was about the last “dark and gritty reboot” of Batman that I’m going to want to see for a while.
- What are your thoughts on the thematic overlaps and character parallels between Elden Ring and ASOIF? I find it really interesting how GRRM reused character archetypes in extremely exaggerated forms, like how Morgott is in essence Stannis turned up to 11. Or how the Dung Eater comes off like what would happen if Ramsay and Euron did a fusion dance.
- I haven’t really played or watched much Elden Ring, tbh, so I don’t know how much GRRM’s influence really affected the game.
Race for the Iron Throne 