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Once more when it pertains to A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, the fans who speculate over the prophecies of Azor Azai and the Prince Who Was Promised and which characters they refer to and how prophecies shaped character motivations – I wonder if those fans are veterans of reading Wheel of Time like me. Because that series was centered around prophecies, about conflicting prophecies of the Dragon Reborn and Coramoor, the Seanchan and Aiel and Min’s power, even the prophecies from the villains, of characters trying and failing or succeeding in fulfilling prophecies to save the world, the central characterization conflict arc of the main character tied into prophecies, same with even minor characters and the general world-building. And thus ASoIaF in comparison – the word lacking doesn’t even begin to cover it. I wonder if fans trained to closely analyze and give narrative attention and weight to prophecies in WoT are just trying to transfer that over to ASoIaF.

team voltron as the martian quotes

Shiro: They’ll probably say, “Thanks for gathering samples. But leave them behind. And one of your arms, too. Whichever one you like least.”
Pidge: Henceforth, rover experimental missions will be “Sirius” missions. Get it? Dogs? Well if you don’t, fuck you.
Keith: As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion.
Hunk: I ate the meal pack labeled “Survived Something That Should Have Killed Me.” Oh my god, I forgot how good real food tastes.
Lance: The rover and trailer regulate their own temperatures just fine, but things weren’t hot enough in the bedroom. Story of my life.
Allura: “Oh,” Lewis said, “well if you won’t let us then– Wait… wait a minute… I’m looking at my shoulder patch and it turns out I’m the commander.”
Coran: I can’t wait ’til I have grandchildren. “When I was younger, I had to walk to the rim of a crater. Uphill! In an EVA suit! On Mars, ya little shit! Ya hear me? Mars!”

For anyone wanting another ‘heget live update from harvey-affected texas’:

Mostly clear skies right now and what I’d call a normal windy Corpus Christi day (remember, our daily average is constant winds at around 10 mph). 

Twenty miles ‘in-town’ to the actual coast/the actual city of Corpus Christi and its communities on the barrier island and across the bay on the north side, yes there is damage ranging from ‘nearly untouched’ to ‘tree branches fallen and power-lines down’ to ‘houses gone’. Power is still out in some of those regions and the bulldozers are trying to clear streets so crews can get in to assess the damage. (The main power for the city proper is an older style system and they bring their power in from Victoria and that region of Texas, aka where the flooding is. So, like, zero surprise that the power is out still for a couple places)

By the way- for a majority affected by the storm, this isn’t an affluent region. (That’s …a bit of an understatement) At least the southern half on the Gulf Coast.

Depends on the petroleum refining industry, shrimping fleets, and tourism (especially birds and boating), some meat-packing. Infrastructure tends to be out-of-date or lacking. That is to say, it will be curious to see how long some areas take to be rebuilt/recover.

Houston and areas around that city are flooding, and pretty badly at that. But please remember that this fourth largest city in the United States is sitting in what is basically a giant drainage basin swamp, and the city floods multiple times a year. BAYOUS. Richmond, Texas had major flooding earlier this summer. All four years I had to drive back and froth from college in East Texas, the highway along El Campo south of Houston was almost always under water or about to become so. Because of the amount of rainfall right now and because it had already been close to flooding before Harvey came ashore, yes, the water levels and the number of people facing flooding damage and stranded is far greater than normal. The situation is ugly but not unprecedented. 

And if people would stop trying to cross the flooded roads in their cars it would be a lot better, jfc.

Victoria is also flooding; again that’s a city where frankly it’s common for that to happen. Texas has a lot of rivers, a lot of cities built on the rivers, and a lot of cities built on those rivers that have problems when run-off on those rivers cause the banks to rise.

rencat
replied to your post “Horse Theft”

Your characterizations, as usual, continue to give me life. love it!

(Now that I can actually reply) Thank you! This made me quite giddy while listening to Harvey’s winds over the sound of my snoring dog, btw. Characterizations aren’t something I’d label as my strength as a writer (I…honestly couldn’t accurately judge what are my strengths), and since this one-shot was general world-building head-canon and short on character study -except ironically a bit for Fingon- it was not what I was expecting praise for. Not complaining, mind you 😉