And so ends this tale of A Knight of the Nine Kingdoms. Help us say goodbye to Dunk, Egg, Sweetfoot, Ser Arlan, and a bunch of other characters who actually aren't coming back for the third time.

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Reminder: You can and should still contact your congresspeople to not only add guardrails around ICE but to defund (and dismantle) them.

Find and call your congresspeople by phoning the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

All you have to do is say the name of your Senator or Representative, and you'll be directed to their congressional office.

Not sure who represents you in Congress or how to find them? You can also find more of their contact information and their name on this site: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Besides calling Congress, if you're not sure what you can do, here are some more actions you can take, in no particular order:

Get involved with mutual aid (this will differ depending on where you're based, so we didn't include any links)

Donate to mutual aid or to organizations such as the ACLU, RAICES, National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center or local orgs that may need more support.

Find a local rapid response effort and save their number to your phone. Know what to look for and what to report.

Protest.

Attend a bystander training or response training.

Pressure local officials, employers, and landlords to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Other actions you can take exist. Please do what you can.

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Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In which we learn more about Dunk's childhood and a man who kept his vows to defend the young and innocent

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Reminder: You can and should still contact your congresspeople to not only add guardrails around ICE but to defund (and dismantle) them.

Find and call your congresspeople by phoning the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

All you have to do is say the name of your Senator or Representative, and you'll be directed to their congressional office.

Not sure who represents you in Congress or how to find them? You can also find more of their contact information and their name on this site: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Besides calling Congress, if you're not sure what you can do, here are some more actions you can take, in no particular order:

Get involved with mutual aid (this will differ depending on where you're based, so we didn't include any links)

Donate to mutual aid or to organizations such as the ACLU, RAICES, National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center or local orgs that may need more support.

Find a local rapid response effort and save their number to your phone. Know what to look for and what to report.

Protest.

Attend a bystander training or response training.

Pressure local officials, employers, and landlords to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Other actions you can take exist. Please do what you can.

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Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl

Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In which everyone invokes their rights: Dunk demands a trial by combat, Aerion invokes an old tradition to up the numbers, and we find out that some people might have more and better rights than others. Thankfully, some people are willing to do something about it, big or small.

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Reminder: You can and should still contact your congresspeople to not only add guardrails around ICE but to defund (and dismantle) them.

Find and call your congresspeople by phoning the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

All you have to do is say the name of your Senator or Representative, and you'll be directed to their congressional office.

Not sure who represents you in Congress or how to find them? You can also find more of their contact information and their name on this site: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Besides calling Congress, if you're not sure what you can do, here are some more actions you can take, in no particular order:

Get involved with mutual aid (this will differ depending on where you're based, so we didn't include any links)

Donate to mutual aid or to organizations such as the ACLU, RAICES, National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center or local orgs that may need more support.

Find a local rapid response effort and save their number to your phone. Know what to look for and what to report.

Protest.

Attend a bystander training or response training.

Pressure local officials, employers, and landlords to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Other actions you can take exist. Please do what you can.

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Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl

Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode gets a little Egg-sistential as characters think about the way their stories are told whether through art, song, performance, propaganda, whatever.

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Reminder: You can and should still contact your congresspeople to not only add guardrails around ICE but to defund (and dismantle) them.

Find and call your congresspeople by phoning the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

All you have to do is say the name of your Senator or Representative, and you'll be directed to their congressional office.

Not sure who represents you in Congress or how to find them? You can also find more of their contact information and their name on this site: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Besides calling Congress, if you're not sure what you can do, here are some more actions you can take, in no particular order:

Get involved with mutual aid (this will differ depending on where you're based, so we didn't include any links)

Donate to mutual aid or to organizations such as the ACLU, RAICES, National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center or local orgs that may need more support.

Find a local rapid response effort and save their number to your phone. Know what to look for and what to report.

Protest.

Attend a bystander training or response training.

Pressure local officials, employers, and landlords to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Other actions you can take exist. Please do what you can.

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Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl

Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

SPOILERS ALL

Reminder: The US Senate will vote on funding for ICE this Thursday, January 29. If you don't know any actions you can take, you can start with this one. It's quick and easy to do.

You can call your Senator by phoning the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

All you have to do is say the name of your Senator, and you'll be directed to their congressional office.

Not sure who represents you in Congress or how to find them? You can also find more of their contact information and their name on this site: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

When you call this week, you can use or adapt this script.

Hi Senator [LAST NAME], 

My name is [YOUR NAME] and I’m a resident of [YOUR STATE]. I’m calling to urge you to vote against and/or filibuster the upcoming Homeland Security appropriations bill. I’m sick of watching lawful citizens and noncitizens being arrested at their jobs, assaulted at peaceful protests, pulled out of their vehicles, blinded by munitions, and getting shot and killed. Senators like you need to filibuster this bill so ICE doesn’t get another penny. It already has $18.75 billion for 2026 and it doesn’t need another $10 billion. My fellow [YOUR STATE’S RESIDENTS] and I will be watching your vote, and we will remember, I promise. 

My name is [YOUR NAME] and my contact info is [YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND/OR EMAIL]. My zip code is [YOUR ZIP CODE]. 

Thanks for listening and doing the right thing.

If you already live somewhere that your senator says they are on board, continue to encourage them to filibuster and thank them. Call your congresspeople, regardless of party, and especially if you believe they may vote for the bill. 

The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans in the vote in the House of Representatives were:

Henry Cuellar (Texas District 28)

Jared Golden (Maine District 02)

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash. District 03)

Laura Gillen (N.Y. District 4)

Don Davis (N.C. District 01)

Tom Suozzi (N.Y. District 03)

Vicente Gonzalez (Texas District 34)

And of course, again, call your congresspeople regardless of party.

Besides calling Congress, if you're not sure what you can do, here are some more actions you can take, in no particular order:

Get involved with mutual aid (this will differ depending on where you're based, so we didn't include any links)

Donate to mutual aid or to organizations such as the ACLU, RAICES, National Immigration Project, Legal Aid Justice Center or local orgs that may need more support.

Find a local rapid response effort and save their number to your phone. Know what to look for and what to report.

Protest.

Attend a bystander training or response training.

Pressure local officials, employers, and landlords to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Other actions you can take exist. Please do what you can.

Memes mentioned

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Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

**SPOILERS ALL**

Dive back into the Seven Kingdoms with us, once more, with Dunk and Egg as we cover their first adventure together (again, once more). It all starts with a grave, a tree, and a tourney.

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Intro

"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We close our coverage of “The Hedge Knight”—the Dunk and Egg novella by George R. R. Martin—once again. Yes, this is the end. And yes, you should absolutely come back next week for more The Hedge Knight.

No, really. Come back Monday or Tuesday for our coverage of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, where we will simply continue talking about the same story, but with a budget.

This week: "Getting to know Chloe" instead of Eliana

Background music:

"Death of Kings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This is Part 2 of The Hedge Knight—a Dunk and Egg reread we have managed to do repeatedly, especially right before HBO premiered the show (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms). Timing! In this episode of Girls Gone Canon, we dig into the middle of George R. R. Martin’s story, where Dunk starts getting crushed by class and expectation, and Egg’s understanding of power cracks open.

Yes, we’re about to do this story again. No, we’re not sorry. 

Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl

To move forward, we have to go back.

In this episode of Girls Gone Canon, we return to The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin—revisiting the origins of Dunk and Egg to unpack how class, knighthood, and legacy are being reshaped in A Song of Ice and Fire. This reread sets the foundation for everything that follows, especially as the story finds new life on screen.

If you want to hear our original first-time read of The Hedge Knight, you can do it here.

Preorder I Dreamed of You, the upcoming novel from Pim Wangtechawat: https://pimwangtechawat.net/books/

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Catching up on comments, going over what Chloe and Eliana have been consuming lately (and what we're looking forward to), and then the usual gallivanting.

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