“Robert can barely stomach his brothers. Not that I blame him. Stannis would be enough to give anyone indigestion.”

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Currently listening to the podcast. Can someone please provide a link to Linda's tumblr, I'd like to check it out.

Have not listened yet, but I'm looking forward to it. And there's a great Sansa chapter for your next episode

i wonder why nobody ever tried to teac hodor to write. he seems totally capable of understanding. he sometimes "forgets" important things (his size + that bran is sitting on his back) - but I wnder if he would be capable to write??

Wow that tumblr is both funny and scary. Funny, because I shared a lot of Linda's reaction to he show. But scary. I had no idea how much trolling and hate Linda was getting. Kinda sad that two people who have done so much to form a conduit between the fans and George are having to waste time on deflecting abuse.

Indeed, I can't believe that people can't be entitled to their own opinion in 21:th century.

I was pretty shocked that the owner of such a famous website would attack a member of his own forum in such a way, for no reason other than that member had interpreted the books in a different way.

Not to play The Internet Did It, but the web does allow for very free expression in both directions. It would be great if people could actually be civil about their disagreements, but of course that's a song that's been sung long before the internet.


I'm sorry that happened, man. My interactions with Elio have usually been positive-- maybe he was having a bad day?

there are other, more welcoming communities that I can be a part of. Like this one

Given the episode threads, I'm kind of surprised that Linda's opinions about the show don't seem to have generated much disagreement.

For the record, I love Linda, and just about everything she says.

i'm glad you think well of us! we're small and fairly slow, but the people who post here are some of the coolest ASOIAF i've ever had the pleasure of interacting with. my only regret is that i can't meet everyone in the APOIAF community and shower them with kisses and bacon.

THERE'S BACON!!!!!

I think I actually love you more (bacon is a crispy bit of heaven on earth)

:p

-hodor definitely does NOT have wernicke's (pronounced wer-nick-ee, not wer-nick) aphasia. as described here: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Wernicke's+aphasia wernicke's aphasia, as a Receptive Aphasia, involves difficulty in comprehension or understanding of words. i believe hodor understands language normally as he is able to take instructions without problem.

mimi initially thought hodor had broca's aphasia, an Expressive Aphasia, because its usually characterized as primarily having difficulty speaking however there can also be difficulty in comprehension with brocas aphasia. although the deficits in speech with brocas is usually things like agrammatism or dysprodosy or simplification of consonant clusters.

theres actually a classic case of extreme broca's aphasia in which one of Paul Broca's patients could only say one single word "Tan"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broca#Research, and the nickname for the patient was therefore Tan even though it was not his real name.

Candied Bacon. nuff said.