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My spirit animal is my parents' dog Al. He is very knowing, very loving, and very anxious.

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Al looks like he’s charmed many lady dogs in his day.

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@TheScrivener do you also have a portrait of yourself above your bed?

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aka Tom

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Danaerys too has transformed recently, but into a less confident, more anxious Khaleesi. You can understand: Her trusted adviser just compared her to her mass-murderer father, the ex-slave who she elevated to her council just disobeyed orders, and she sparked a sectarian brawl by executing said ex-slave in public. The return of the prodigal Drogon came as emotional relief—... Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 2 Roundtable: "The House of Black and White" — The Atlantic

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Wouldn’t you rather be warned? It’s important to know your family’s medical history!

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While we’re still at the Wall, I was interested in the scene in which Shireen, Stannis’s daughter, continued her “Reading is Fundamental” campaign with Gilly. Apart from offering yet another example of what a crummy parent Queen Selyse is, the scene served mostly to give us the longest explanation to date of the disfiguring (and typically lethal) disease greyscale. Do I detect foreshadowing? Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 2 Roundtable: "The House of Black and White" — The Atlantic

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I would be SO DOWN for Benioff and Weiss to add a Greyscale epidemic to the plot.

Epidemics make for incredible drama, also a quick way to kill off a character or two and let a few others show off new strengths.

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...elish dining at their pub—“Ready the horses,” orders Brienne. “My lady, we only have one horse.” But Brienne is now 0-for-2 with Stark girls, as Sansa joins Arya in rejecting her offer of protection. “You should leave,” she tells Brienne, sounding like an embarrassed princess dismissing an unwanted suitor. Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 2 Roundtable: "The House of Black and White" — The Atlantic

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Or was Sansa trying, in her own way, to protect Brienne from Baelish?

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And yet, just as you start cheering on Uncle Kevan for calling her out, the sound dies in your throat as you realize that once again, a man is cutting Cersei down to size simply because she's a woman. It doesn’t matter how powerful or cunning or ambitious she is. In her world, Cersei will always be less-than. Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 2 Roundtable: "The House of Black and White" — The Atlantic

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At first you may be tempted to say, oh but that’s because Cersei’s mean! But Game of Thrones does a fascinating job of showing there are many ways of being a woman in (and out) of power, and there are just as many ways to cut them down. In each of their respective plots, Daenaerys, Sansa, Arya, Margaery Tyrell, Brienne of Tarth (and soon the Sand Snakes in Dorne) all navigate what it means to be a woman in, on the edge of, or out of power.

The closer (geographically and otherwise) women get to King’s Landing and the Iron Throne, the stronger the demand that they “act like a lady.” But Daenaerys gets undermined by her court all the time too. Arya and Brienne have each been threatened with rape more than once.

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Evan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel, who are lawyers.[4] Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. He was raised attending an Episcopalian church.[5] He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[2] Spiegel took design classes at ... Evan Spiegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Pacific Palisades are nestled between Santa Monica and Malibu. Its hub, the Palisades Village, is about to be completely remade by the developers of The Grove.

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I wonder if any other billionaires grew up there. I think of it primarily as the setting for Transparent and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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In 2012, he left Stanford to focus on Snapchat shortly before completing his degree.[2][6][7] While studying product design at Stanford[8] he proposed Snapchat as a class project.[9] Spiegel co-founded the mobile application Snapchat along with Robert Murphy and Reggie Brown. He is the CEO of Snapchat.[10] Evan Spiegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Very similar to the origin story of FedEx, which founder Fred Smith first outlined in a paper for his economics class at Yale. Smith received a C. Spiegel described the response to his project in a Forbes article:

Everyone said, ‘That is a terrible idea.’”

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... in Los Angeles, California, the son of Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel, who are lawyers.[4] Spiegel grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. He was raised attending an Episcopalian church.[5] He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[2] Spiegel took design classes at the Otis College of Art and Design while still in high school and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena the summer before ... Evan Spiegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Crossroads Alley

Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences was founded in 1971 and originally operated out of Saint Augustine’s by the Sea, an Episcopal Church on 4th street in Santa Monica. Over the years, it’s moved and spread across two campuses on Olympic Boulevard, and is soon to open a new science building that hopes to turn out more Evan Spiegels.

Spiegel has made appearances on campus since he graduated and said proudly that the liberal arts were worthless.

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