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It's not that I hate him, but he's infuriatingly bad at meeting deadlines for books that have become an integral part of my identity. I'm not one of those reddi

It's not that I hate him, but he's infuriatingly bad at meeting deadlines for books that have become an integral part of my identity. I'm not one of those redditors, but that's just because I have partaken in a thread like that yet. I was college when I read ASOIF, I was expecting the Winds of Winter to come out before I finished the others. It didn't. I read the Tales of Dunk and Egg to while the time expecting it to come out like he promised. It didn't. ASOIAF is my favorite storyline ever. I adopted a puppy yesterday and named him Aegon after Aegon the Unlucky. The fifth Aegon — Maester Aemon's younger brother. It's because I was waiting on ASOIAF that I spent a little over two years reading 21 volumes of Wild Cards (26 now), and every year he kept missing his deadlines. It's as if when you've got your money in your hand, and the pizza guy says the restaurant will open in a few mins, but it doesn't open for weeks, and he mixes coke in his pizza and you're addicted. I don't think I can explain my frustration to you in mere words on the internet, but it's so painful that I've stopped reading his blog or thinking about it. One day it'll come out, but until that day I won't be duped by this man's false deadlines.

FooHentai 8y ago
But, you understand at some level that that is a 'you' problem, right? You surely have the agency of mind to not allow a mere fantasy novel series to influence your life such that expectations about it become 'painful'?
- amingilani 8y ago
  You can certainly call it that, but I'll argue that it's not that simple. Imagine if I have the most delicious cupcake in the world that I bake for you, and I tell you that it'll be ready in ten minutes. 15 mins later, you ask me and I tell you that I need ten more minutes. This happens a dozen times, until you finally get angry and tell me to be reasonable. Then imagine me telling you that it's a 'you' problem and that you have the agency of mind but to allow a mere cupcake to influence your life such that expectations about it become 'painful'. Now imagine Martin doing this to not just me but all his fans. At some point, stringing readers along and missing deadlines repeatedly becomes part of the problem too. If only the cupcake weren't that damn good.

FooHentai 8y ago

But, you understand at some level that that is a 'you' problem, right? You surely have the agency of mind to not allow a mere fantasy novel series to influence your life such that expectations about it become 'painful'?

amingilani 8y ago
You can certainly call it that, but I'll argue that it's not that simple. Imagine if I have the most delicious cupcake in the world that I bake for you, and I tell you that it'll be ready in ten minutes. 15 mins later, you ask me and I tell you that I need ten more minutes. This happens a dozen times, until you finally get angry and tell me to be reasonable. Then imagine me telling you that it's a 'you' problem and that you have the agency of mind but to allow a mere cupcake to influence your life such that expectations about it become 'painful'. Now imagine Martin doing this to not just me but all his fans. At some point, stringing readers along and missing deadlines repeatedly becomes part of the problem too. If only the cupcake weren't that damn good.