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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN ON WHAT MAKES A GOOD KING:

“A good king is someone who regards being king as a duty rather than a privilege that they are entitled to. A duty to the realm to dispense justice and peace, and occasionally do boring things like building roads and sanitation in Kings Landing and all that.” (San Diego Comic-Con “House of the Dragon” panel)

“Someone who regards being king as a duty rather than a privilege that they are entitled to”:

“A queen must listen to all,” she reminded him. “The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.” (ASOS, Daenerys I)

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“Viserys should have protected me, but instead he hurt me and scared me worse. He shouldn't have done that. He wasn't just my brother, he was my king. Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?” (ASOS, Daenerys III)

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“No one ever kept me safe when I was little. I want to protect you but … it is so hard. To be strong. I don’t always know what I should do. I must, though. I am all they have. I am the queen.” (ADWD, Daenerys II)

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A queen belongs not to herself but to her people. (ADWD, Daenerys V)

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Yesterday a wagon had been overturned and two of her soldiers killed, so today the queen had determined that she would bring the food herself. Every one of her advisors had argued fervently against it, from Reznak and the Shavepate to Ser Barristan, but Daenerys would not be moved. “I will not turn away from them,” she said stubbornly. “A queen must know the sufferings of her people.” (ADWD, Daenerys VI)

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A queen must listen to her people, Dany reminded herself. (ADWD, Daenerys VI)

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“A queen loves where she must, not where she will.” (ADWD, Daenerys VII)

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She would rather have drifted in the fragrant pool all day, eating iced fruit off silver trays and dreaming of a house with a red door, but a queen belongs to her people, not to herself. (ADWD, Daenerys IX)

“A duty to the realm to dispense justice and peace”:

“Some kings make themselves. Robert did.”

“He was no true king,” Dany said scornfully. “He did no justice. Justice ... that's what kings are for.” (ASOS, Daenerys III)

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Dany would gladly have sent the rest of the petitioners away … but she was still their queen, so she heard them out and did her best to give them justice. (ADWD, Daenerys III)

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I am still at war, Dany realized, only now I am fighting shadows. She had hoped for a respite from the killing, for some time to build and heal. (ADWD, Daenerys I)

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“...This match will save our city, you will see.”

“So we pray. I want to plant my olive trees and see them fruit.” Does it matter that Hizdahr's kisses do not please me? Peace will please me. Am I a queen or just a woman? (ADWD, Daenerys VII)

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On the ADWD cover for Brazil, I put Daenerys at the top of the stairs of the meereenese pyramid. I had undoubtedly been, unconsciously, influenced by the series. And George told me that Daenerys wants equality for everyone, she wants to be at the same level as her people, so I had her climb down to keep it consistent. — Marc Simonetti

“and occasionally do boring things like building roads and sanitation”:

Her Unsullied had finally restored order, but the sack left a plague of problems in its wake. And so they came to see the queen. (ADWD, Daenerys I)

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“The freedmen work cheaply because they are hungry”, Dany pointed out. “If I forbid them to carve stone or lay bricks, the chandlers, the weavers, and the goldsmiths will soon be at my gates asking that they be excluded from those trades as well.” She considered a moment. “Let it be written that henceforth only guild members shall be permitted to name themselves journeymen or masters … provided the guilds open their rolls to any freedman who can demonstrate the requisite skills.” (ADWD, Daenerys II)

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“A ditch, to bring water from the river to the fields. We mean to plant beans. The beanfields must have water.” (ADWD, Daenerys III)

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“I would gladly take as many olives as you cared to sell me. Olive oil as well.”

“I have none to offer. The slavers burned the trees.” Olives had been grown along the shores of Slaver's Bay for centuries; but the Meereenese had put their ancient groves to the torch as Dany's host advanced on them, leaving her to cross a blackened wasteland. “We are replanting, but it takes seven years before an olive tree begins to bear, and thirty years before it can truly be called productive.” (ADWD, Daenerys III)

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“Our stores are ample for the moment,” he reminded her, “and Your Grace has planted beans and grapes and wheat. Your Dothraki have harried the slavers from the hills and struck the shackles from their slaves. They are planting too, and will be bringing their crops to Meereen to market. And you will have the friendship of Lhazar.” (ADWD, Daenerys V)

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Learning is not inherently an interesting thing to write about. It's not an easy thing to write about. In the movies, they always handle it with a montage. Rocky can't run very fast. He can't catch the chicken. But then you do a montage, and you cut a lot of images together, and now only a minute later in the film, Rocky is really strong and he is catching the chicken. It’s a lot harder [in real life]. Sometimes in my own life, I wish I could play a montage of my life. I want to get in shape now. So let’s do a montage, and boom — I'll be fifty pounds lighter and in good shape, and it will only take me a minute with some montage of me lifting weights and running, shoving away the steak and having a salad. But of course in real life, you don't get to montage. You have to go through it day by day. And that has been interesting, you know. Jon Snow as Lord Commander. Dany as Queen, struggling with rule. So many books don't do that. There is a sense when you're writing something in high fantasy, you're in a dialogue with all the other high fantasy writers that have written. And there is always this presumption that if you are a good man, you will be a good king. [Like] Tolkien — in Return of the King, Aragorn comes back and becomes king, and then [we read that] "he ruled wisely for three hundred years. Okay, fine. It is easy to write that sentence, “He ruled wisely”. What does that mean, he ruled wisely? What were his tax policies? What did he do when two lords were making war on each other? Or barbarians were coming in from the North? What was his immigration policy? What about equal rights for Orcs? I mean did he just pursue a genocidal policy, "Let’s kill all these fucking Orcs who are still left over"? Or did he try to redeem them? You never actually see the nitty-gritty of ruling. I guess there is an element of fantasy readers that don't want to see that. I find that fascinating. Seeing someone like Dany actually trying to deal with the vestments of being a queen and getting factions and guilds and [managing the] economy. They burnt all the fields [in Meereen]. They've got nothing to import any more. They're not getting any money. I find this stuff interesting. And fortunately, enough of my readers who love the books do as well. —  George R. R. Martin

if you’re cold he’s cold let him in

Mr X stands in the middle of the main hall. He stares as Claire enters and runs back where she came from. He doesn't react and follows her..

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Claire mutters as another licker spawns from the deepest part of hell, she tries to dodge but instead she gets licked by it...ew..and ouch..she can hear Mr X's footsteps..and the uh.. ambience music..She still doesn't know where it's coming from..

She dodges the licker and continues running, now with Mr X and the licker chasing her, she knows Mr X will lose her eventually..and the licker will give up after a few seconds. She rushes down the stairs, then she turns and enters the chief's office. She hears footsteps..then a soft sigh, then someone going up the stairs. She opens the door.

"Claire left." A deep voice mumbles. Mr X walks up the stairs, he then turns and notices Claire. She smiles awkwardly.

"Hey! Claire you still have to return magic 101!" He walks back down, Claire shuts the door.

"Awh..she left." He mutters again. Claire sighs in relief, she turns around and flinches..how..uh..did he get in here..?

"Leon..?" She asks softly, Leon turns around with his gun.

"Claire! It's so good to see you!" He smiles and lowers his gun. He walks over to her.

"How'd you get here?" She asks with a smile. Leon looks around and shrugs.

"I honestly don't know.." He chuckles. He turns and stares at the office.

I don't even remember this place, in all honesty." He says. Claire slowly nods.

"Well, it's still nice to-" She gets cut off by a loud smash, she turns around and notices Mr X has broken through the wall. Her eyes widen in fear, she turns and runs to the other door of the chief's office, she runs and notices that Leon suddenly disappeared..did the tyrant get him..? She turns and stares in absolute horror. The tyrant had Leon's head in his hand, he was slowly squeezing. Leon was trying to fight him off..but it's no use..

Claire starts shooting in an attempt to help..but her ammo finished..she stares in horror as the tyrant crushes Leon's head. A loud crush echoes through the place. In the tyrant's hand was Leon's crushed head and limp body, the tyrant's hand all bloody, and bits of brain on the top of his fist. He lets go of Leon's crushed head. Claire gets a second to see the gore. 

Leon's head was crushed like a can. His head is popped from the top, his brain all mushed and on the ground. His eye rolls out of it's socket and onto the ground, then blood slowly forms a pool around his head. Claire stares at his body for a few seconds, she's absolutely shocked and terrified. She feels tears prick her eyes, then she hears footsteps..and realizes that the tyrant hasn't left..he's walking after her.

She gasps and runs, she runs fast..but it feels like she isn't running at all. She tries to run faster though, she feels like she's making it..she then feels a hand on her shoulder. She turns around slowly and the tyrant is standing there staring at her. Her eyes widen in absolute horror, it slowly reaches out for her head..

"No.." She whispers, she tries to run faster and faster, but to no avail. She feels his hand wrapping around her head. She sobs and screams.

"Claire!" Chris yells staring at her. Claire stares up at him, she's terrified, sweaty, and out of breath.

"You alright..?" Chris asks softly, staring at his sister. He's obviously worried and concerned. Claire stares at Chris before bursting into tears and hugging him.

[うおおお]

Exactly 83 years ago today, Germany occupied what was left of Czechoslovakia after "We will only take the Sudetenland to protect and help the German minority and nothing more."

Never trust a mad tyrant!

"The person who raises false hopes of deliverance from tyranny is more ruthless than the tyrant."

Good sign

Polititions pollute people... The ppp.

Aoife to tyrant

Aoife: And if you call me a bitch make sure baddest in front of it,Wack ass hoe!

Tyrant:

Aoife:My way,My way or the highway!

@themisadventurescrew is it accurate?

I’m sorry everyone, I just really needed to share my experience with RE2 so far.