man i love how quickly the books dive into the total fucking weirdness after the “it’s a normal fantasy series NOPE LIES LOL” of agot
ned stark gets his head cut off and suddenly there are
-evil vagina dentata ladies who drain men’s souls to create assassin shadow children
-morose half drowned prophet jesters
-morose half drowned prophet pirates
-men who hunt women and flay them alive for sport
-psychic shapeshifters
-psychic children
-psychic ghosts
-disembodied beating hearts
-evil tree conspiracies
-newborn sacrifices to zombies
-zombies riding zombie bears
-people turning to stone
-cannibalism everywhere
-sam tarly having sex
