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Sunday smile, thanks to comicallyvariant:

robin-longbottom:

okay so I am about 5 episodes into Game of Thrones and I have been using code names for the characters to describe the events to my sister, since she doesn’t watch and can’t keep up with the names

for example:

• Ned = Boromir
• Robb = Boromir Jr.
• Catelyn = Lady Boromir
• Jon = Sadface McBastard
• Daenerys = Queen Fabulous
• Viserys = Creepy Malfoy Reject
• Cersei = Foxy Cleopatra
• Jaime = Uncle Daddy
• Joffrey = Inbred Little Shit (also Grotsky Little Beeyotch)
• Sansa = Ginger Princess
• Littlefinger = Sketchballs McGee
• Renly = Queerbeard
• Syrio = Inigo Montoya
• etc
• etc
• etc

My only issue is that if we’re going to name Cersei after an Austin Powers character then it should probably be Felicity Shagwell, not Foxy Cleopatra.

Also, Bran = Comaboy and Tyrion = Peter Dinklage. And to me Viserys was Brother of Mine, but that only works for the Doctor Who nerds.

Oh and again, to me Jaime is Prince Charming. I quite like Uncle Daddy though.

(Source: scaly-panties)

My current summer read is George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire saga — recently turned into HBO’s Game of Thrones TV series, which indirectly got me reading it in the first place. (Put Sean Bean on the cover of just about any book, and I’ll buy it).

The TV series was beautiful, entertaining and captivating, but the books are even more so. Martin’s writing fully rounds out the characters and the world in which they live, and flavours the story with a very tempting cuisine (“summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash…”).

Which brings me to the Inn at the Crossroads, a stylish food blog with recipes based on the dishes in the books, including medieval recipes alongside modern remakes. It’s an entertaining browse and a bit of tasty inspiration.