The NOC’s Watch: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Welcome back, it’s your humble steward Anna, ever serving in the NOC’s Watch and ready to live tweet episode 2
Game of Thrones
The NOC’s Watch: Winterfell
Welcome NOC. Our long, boring wait is over, and it’s finally Game of Thrones time!
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AOC is NOC AF! (Updated)
UPDATED OCTOBER 13, 2019 for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s birthday. See #12-14 below! For those visiting our blog for the first time,
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Konfederates Keep Koming
So news broke yesterday that the creators of Rape of Thrones are creating a new series called Confederate. It essentially
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Game of Thrones The Musical: The SDCC Version!
Just in time for tonight’s hotly anticipated season 7 premiere of Game Of Thrones comes a musical romp that takes
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Iron Fist Abridged: The Adventures of Iron Goldendoodle & The Bargain Bin Lannisters!
by Andrea Tang This weekend, between bouts of story-editing, I meandered my way through the first four episodes of Netflix’s
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8 Times President Obama Proved He Was Our NOC-in-Chief
For the last eight years, my president was Black. More than that, he was a Black Nerd, a Nerd of
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NOC Tweets Game of Thrones: She’s a Killer Queen
Last night, NOCs Alice (House Stark) and Julie (House Mormont) assembled to live-tweet the Season 6 Finale of Game of
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Which AAPI Actor Deserves the Nerd Grand Slam?
This week’s reveals from Doctor Strange and Ghost in the Shell are further proof that it’s hard out there for
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How Gods of Egypt Adheres to Racist Fantasy Rules
Gods of Egypt is a mess. You can look at the myriad of reviews trashing it and see it for
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So Much for #AAIronFist: Marvel Casts Finn Jones
Despite a months (née years)-long campaign to have Marvel and Netflix consider Asian American actors for the role of Danny
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In a Typically Weak Year for Nerdy Emmy Noms, NOCs Still Garner Big Wins
Two of this year’s big Emmy stories split the difference between our PoCness and our nerdiness. You’ve probably heard about
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We Are Brienne
by Lexi Alexander | Originally posted at Lexi-Alexander.com “All my life men like you’ve sneered at me, and all my
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Rape Culture: From Grimdark Fantasy to Reality
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault and Rape Survivors When I worked as a reporter for a local paper in East Tennessee
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Dicks and Stones
Last week on Game of Thrones, most of the attention was focused on underground extremist movements in various parts of the
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Enter Sand Snakes
It feels like each episode of this season of Game of Thrones features an exploration of a different theme from
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: What’s in a Name?
More than any other series on television, an episode of Game of Thrones can often feel like 48 minutes of
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Arya Gonna Go My Way?
Last week on Game of Thrones, we witnessed various examples of people dealing with their demons, either literally (as with Dany
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones: Control Your Dragon
Or watch it control you. “The Wars to Come,” the season five premiere of Game of Thrones, simply showed us
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‘Love Actually’ is Ground Zero for Geek Icons
When Love Actually premiered in cinemas over a decade ago, who knew it would be one of the most influential
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NOC Origin: If I Had a Horcrux, it’d Probably be My Terminator Boxset
So my version of a nerd is a person who passionately and purposefully seeks out the way- more-than-necessary knowledge about
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NOC Recaps The Legend of Korra: Gotta Catch ’em All!
Episode Two: “Rebirth” Team Avatar (minus Mako the Brooding Teenager) is ready to set off for Operation Air Nation. Pema,
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NOC Recaps Game of Thrones Part Three: It’s Not Easy Seeing Green
[Ed note: The season finale was so epic, we couldn’t contain our thoughts in just one post! So to accommodate
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