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[oloriel]

(first seen at fileg's.)

If I take part, I won't be able to join online as I'll be on vacations w/ the family (Brittany, hell yeah!), but even so, I thought I'd share the fun. :D

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In other, not exactly related news, Felix got his first pair of Wellies today. Because there's no keeping that boy inside (which is good), rain or shine, and The Cold And Wet Season Is Coming*.

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*Insert rant about ASoIaF here. Of course, Winter is Coming is still a pretty awesome tagline. And I HAVE TO KEEP SAYING IT and then I'm reminded of that book and AUGH. Though of course the thing they call winter seems to me more properly named "Ice Age", because - wait, I was NOT planning to get into ranty mood! OFF!
Of course, Spring is Coming as well. As are Summer and Autumn, in turn. That's the good thing about seasons...

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[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Felix got his first pair of Wellies today.

OMG! I want pics!

I am always able to dream a rant about G.R.R. Martin and grin when I read others! I do love that "Winter is coming!" business and, yes, it is apparently some kind of cyclical version of an ice age. Clever idea though.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Pics will follow as soon as he's worn them! ATM, it's warm enough that he can go barefoot whenever he wants to get his feet wet...

Clever idea though.

That depends on whether there's some explanation for why that happens and why it is so bloody unpredictable. ^^

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

That is THE massive suspension of disbelief in his series (other than just magic in general). He definitely drops the ball there, unless he is going to surprise us, which seems highly unlikely.

I think he decided we have to swallow winter fantasy element and endure it or decide his world isn't worth it and stop reading. I have read through worse things in his books (the non-stop cliff-hangers, cliff hangers that last more than a actual decade for the reader, and gratuitous slaughter of major characters in which the reader was misled to believe will last the series). So, by comparison, the lack of plausibility of the random unpredictable decades-long winters is not hanging me up that much. It's a little like Tolkien's forests of Middle-earth enduring for long ages without any allowance for photosynthesis. I am not happy about it, and that part of JRRT's history is the least appealing to me but hasn't stopped me from reading. I get around that in Tolkien by assuming an unreliable series of biased narrators recording myth and legend instead of real history,.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I get around that in Tolkien by assuming an unreliable series of biased narrators recording myth and legend instead of real history.

Which is, for all we know, precisely what the author intended. Other authors, who are predominantly hyped for their "gritty realism"... well, let's just say that I'm more bothered by "fantasy winter" there? Though there's definitely worse! Don't get me started on the melting temperature of gold ;)