The number one reason why ‘sticks and stones can break my bones but words [on a page] will never hurt me’ is a total fallacy, George R.R. Martin joined Twitter overnight to issue his first characteristically long-winded missive, a tweet that – like his growing magnum opus Game of Thrones – manages to be at once both entirely of its time and incredibly archaic.
I don’t tweet all that much, please check out my live journal page. 😉 #myfirstTweet
— George RR Martin (@GRRMspeaking) June 9, 2014
For the immediate addition to your RSS feed and/or bookmarks bar, here’s a link to George R.R. Martin’s LiveJournal Not A Blog, your number one destination for all kinds of literary humble brags and Martin’s terrifying emoji of choice: 
Meanwhile, Arya Stark wins today’s award for the premature #TBT most like to be turned into a news story.
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