How are you going to get through the next two years before Game of Thrones returns?
Following the show’s arc, Drogon and I have agreed on our house allegiances.
It’s been eight days since the season 7 finale of Game of Thrones, and every day somebody sends me a show-related meme (many cats dressed as Lady Olenna Tyrell), joke (usually about incest), video, or mathematical meditation on Jon Snow’s ass (Fibonacci). Nearly everyone in my sphere is experiencing withdrawal symptoms that can only be alleviated by (increasingly bizarre) speculation on how the series will end. Someone should make a series about how people deal with the long wait.
In the meantime, you can read A Song of Ice and Fire, the sixth volume (The Winds of Winter) of which readers have been waiting for almost as long as the HBO series has been around. Then you can study the beautifully rendered maps in The Lands of Ice and Fire, and delve into the history of Westeros from the Children of the Forest to the First Men to the Doom of Valyria in The World of Ice and Fire. The anthology Dangerous Women includes the story The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens, a thrilling account of the brutal war between rival branches of House Targaryen known as The Dance of the Dragons. And A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (the Dunk and Egg stories) follows the adventures of the future Ser Duncan, commander of the Kingsguard, and a boy called “Egg”, an ancestor and namesake of the not-bastard formerly known as Jon Snow.
At the very least, you will be better equipped to speculate on the ending (and scream, “That’s not canonical!”).
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September 6th, 2017 at 00:16
Me? Trying to finish my damn thesis til spring next year (mandatory); write a historical essay or two for my institution; reading volumes of Berserk (this is GoT’s Japanese equivalent, and more disturbing and violent); continue updating with Attack on Titans (claimed to be another Japanese GoT equivalent, except well, Titans!); and watching this excellent GoT channel in youtube named Alt Shift X, comprehensive, intelligent and personally, the most grounded of all GoT youtube channels.