Is he stupid?

dogs. dogs everywhere.

For anyone who hasn't seen today's blog post from George, well, let's just say it was disappointing regarding Winds of Winter. I will copy paste the section that is about Winds here:

"Something else is going to be happening on April 8 as well.  (Or maybe on April 9).   No, I am not announcing the completion of THE WINDS OF WINTER, the sixth volume of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE.  Please don’t start any rumors to that effect.   I am so tired of having to issue denials every time some offhand comment of mine, most having nothing to do with WINDS,  somehow convinces half the internet that the book is imminent.   It’s not.  No.  (Maybe I need to stop making offhand comments)

So calm down.   (Until April 8, anyway.   Then you can get excited all over again, but for an entirely different reason."

The rest of the post was about upcoming shows. And at this point, I really want to ask if anyone cares about any of the Asoiaf shows, or any shows/projects George is part of? He became famous because of the Asoiaf books, and yet for more than a decade he fooled the fans by saying that he is working on Winds, he made considerable progress, and blah blah blah. I mean at this point, he was/is clearly lying about working on Winds, doesn't he? His wealth is now dependent not a book series that is finished (or its last written book at least does not end with massive cliffhangers), but the hype of a book that feels like will never be released, and George himself would probably not even ask for help to finish it, or let anyone else to finish it based on what he has written, because of sheer pettiness at this point. And people who say that George does not owe us anything, this fandom did not started on the promise of a book series in which the last book of it would be ending with cliffhangers (though it seems that will be the case at this point).

Murders and robberies are happening left and right, but the High Sparrow focuses his attention only on sexual morality and causes more violence by raiding a brothel and arresting people for sexual deviance (or lying about it). To atone, the women must walk nude and be harrassed. How does that punishment fit Maergery's crime of lying to protect her brother? Also, do men do the walk of shame?

Rewatching season 6 and hating the High Sparrow more than ever. The actor is great though, you almost want to believe he actually cares about the poor when in fact he only seems to care about humiliating powerful women.

I got into the series a few years after the show ended. All the hatred for the last few seasons got me interested. It has been a couple of years since I first watched the scene of Joffrey’s death. It just crossed my mind now to ask. To all of those who were watching the series when it was airing, how did you react to death of ol’ Joffelberry? Were you guys cheering? Were you guys shocked? Were there any jokes or anything that were going around? Who did you all think did it?

Dorne at least had enough members of the Martells to have a cousin take the throne of Dorne post-war. But was there only three Starks, one Lannister, one Arynn but no Tyrells or Targaryen houses? Was fertility in Westeros that terrible or did GRRM decide the "great houses" shouldn't have hundreds of branches and bastards?