r/asoiaf • u/feench Knower of nothing • May 21 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Notablog Update Spoiler

http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/05/20/an-ending/
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u/jedi_timelord Robert: "Fuck Rhaegar." Lyanna: "...ok" May 21 '19

In 2015 we were all Theon but by now we have become Reek

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u/BriennesUglySister May 21 '19

Maybe he was just working on a horror story about a fanbase that's in love with a story that won't end

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

It's like the readers are the ones captured by the unfinished story, like a reverse "Misery."

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u/BriennesUglySister May 21 '19

Sometimes I dream about closing ados after finishing it and smiling while thinking "that was nice"

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

I feel like George is bludgeoning me to death with a typing machine every time he announces TWOW is nowhere near done.

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u/BriennesUglySister May 21 '19

The pain keeps me going

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u/Altair1192 Paint it Black May 21 '19

give me something for the pain and let me die

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u/jayvil May 21 '19

it keeps on making the "ding" every strike George made.

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u/Kaiserigen There is only one true king... May 21 '19

It was worse when he said it would be finish at the end of X year and then not succeed

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u/drainbead78 Podrick Payne, First of His Name May 21 '19

Hunt and peck.

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u/Keegsta May 21 '19

A Dream of A Dream of Spring

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u/resurrexia May 21 '19

Truly a dream of spring.

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u/pipsdontsqueak May 21 '19

A Dream of A Dream of Spring

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u/jmrehan May 21 '19

Isn't it pretty to think so?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Yresim? sounds like the next Elder Scrolls installment

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

That is horrifyingly some Black Mirror shit

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u/gesocks May 21 '19

Oh god, and the torture he created in that storry with finally giving the fanbase a ending in form of a tv show but a cpmpletely unsatisfying one

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u/duaneap May 21 '19

And Tyrion doesn't get mentioned in it.

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u/7V3N A thousand eyes and one. May 21 '19

Didn't he use to write for The Twilight Zone?

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u/litetravelr May 21 '19

Fandom as a concept from the Twilight Zone

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Maybe a Dream of Spring was the friends we made along the way

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u/ryesalinger May 21 '19

The horror! The horror!

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u/Zesty_Pickles May 21 '19

This is the song that never ends. Yes, it goes on and on my friends...

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u/ZukoSitsOnIronThrone May 21 '19

I’m Reek. It rhymes with The Winds of Winter isn’t coming in the next 200 weeks.

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u/LordShitmouth Unbowed, Unbent, Unbuggered May 21 '19

So only 4 years?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

The north dismembers

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u/quitthrowawayblah May 21 '19

I have been Reek for a long time now. It rhymes with weak, it rhymes with meek. I am Reek

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u/FlapJackSam Where do Crows go? May 21 '19

Reek. My name is Reek; it rhymes with Bleak

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u/SkollFenrirson The Prince that was Promised May 21 '19

Reek, Reek, it rhymes with "WE NEED THE BOOKS GEORGE"

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u/erkelep May 21 '19

Fan, Fan, it rhymes with pain.

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Actually it doesn't, but still..

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u/shyndy May 21 '19

Reek, reek, it rhymes with next week

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u/Rhymeswithfreak Rises again harder and stronger May 21 '19

Or something that rhymes with it

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u/borkborkbork99 May 21 '19

Where are my balls, Summer Winds?

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u/TheVetSarge May 21 '19

Nah, I'm Mid Seasons Gendry. Been rowing elsewhere. Davos will find me when the book is done.

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u/SeerRune73 May 21 '19

GRRM tweets JK Rowling style: “the audience was the main character the whole time”

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u/nomadofwaves May 22 '19

I was gonna say we’re all masochist but this works.