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In this week’s episode of Game of Fanfiction, Season 8, Episode 2, everything you’ve ever wanted to happen on Game of Thrones happens.

**SPOILER WARNING: This story contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2.**

Reunions have been a major factor in Game of Thrones' final season. As almost every major character has descended onto Winterfell to defend the living against the Night King and his massive army of the dead. 

Dr. Steve Ruppel, a Wisconsin chiropractor, has broken a Guiness World Record after watching Captain Marvel 116 times since it opened in early March. Once ruled official, this will make him the record holder for "most cinema productions attended - same film." 

This is actually Ruppel's fifth broken world record, including one where he ran a half-marathon wearing 60 t-shirts over each other.

The final season of Game of Thrones might be a mere six episodes, but the hype for HBO's sword-and-sorcery epic has never been stronger. 

I wouldn't recommend getting a cold this time of year, folks, not only because it's a new Game of Thrones season but when it's just so nice outside you really don't want to keep feeling lousy while you're cooped up indoors.

But in the meantime, being stuck inside on the mend means that it's even easier for yours truly to procure the links you need, and some of these are older but no less worthy of your eyeballs:

Faith, family, and snakes tangle at the center of Them That Follow, a thriller set in the Appalachian mountains. Nestled among back roads and thick wilderness, a secretive sect of snake handlers thrive in a community so tight-knit it can be suffocating. As pastor's daughter Mara (Alice Englert) reaches marrying age, she's faced with some big choices about her future. Compared to that, picking up poisonous snakes isn't all that scary.

"All science goes back to something that we believe because we believe it. We believe it because we believe it and we have no proof for it. It's like a religion."

Anyone who has read Dune won’t struggle to believe that those are the words of Frank Herbert. The celebrated American author has made a career of cross-pollinating his literature with themes of religion and science and none of his work does it with quite so much vigor than his infamous Duniverse.

Welcome back to Look of the Week! Celebrating the best in TV and film sartorial excellence, past and present across sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and other genre classics!

6teen is a 2004-2010 animated series featuring six sixteen-year-olds working in their local Canadian mall. Their plan is to all work in the same mall so that even when they are being fiscally responsible they can still all hang out. But is 6teen secretly about something else entirely?

Jonesy Garcia is one of our six sixteen-year-olds. He's a free-wheelin' guy who has to get a new job every episode because he's actually very bad at being a responsible employee. But think about that for a moment: how many job opportunities could there be in one mall?

After millennia of injustices against the world of the living, the Night King from Game of Thrones has finally been held accountable for his heinous actions...kind of.

The Curse of La Llorona may be scary, but the slow nature of this Easter weekend box office is even scarier, as it's the worst one in over 10 years.

We're in the Endgame now.

Starting April 5, SYFY WIRE is celebrating the release of Avengers: Endgame with a new limited-series podcast: 22 Days of Marvel. Each day leading up to the premiere of Endgame, we’ll revisit a different movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discussing the plot, calling out the best scenes and dialogue, and, most importantly, tracking all the connections and what they mean for Endgame.

When Nintendo released the Game Boy 30 years ago, it was a grey block that looked more like house-building material than the video game systems that we know today. By its end, it had become "Advanced" and it took the form of a Micro version and an SP, which gave us a rad, mid 2000s flip-phone approach to gaming. And between these, it left us with a pantheon of fantastic games.

Welcome to Read This Fanfiction, a weekly digest of the hottest and latest fanfics about all your favorite movies, television shows, anime, and more. Whether they're popular, heartbreaking, innovative, or just plain entertaining, here's what you should be reading!

Game of Thrones may be back, but this is its final season, and The Lord of the Rings series from Amazon is so far away you might as well walk to Mordor. But fantasy fans, never fear, there is a wealth of stories of elves, magic, knights, and bards waiting for your ears. Behold the world of high fantasy podcasts.

I'm big on Saturdays; they're one of the few days of the week that actually feel tailor-made for just chilling in all its various forms: reading, watching TV or movies, playing video games, crafting. However you want to spend your vegging time, Saturdays are there for you.

You know what else is there for you on Saturdays? More links!

In the wake of a crushing defeat at Thanos' Infinity Stone-clad hands, the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will face their greatest challenge yet in Avengers: Endgame. But who is the greatest hero in the MCU? Over the next couple of weeks, SYFY WIRE will be debating who deserves the title of The Most Important Avenger. Our next contender is the Hulk, the big guy himself.

I wish I could say that I had my religious epiphany due to some life-changing event, or because I read a book that made me really question what faith meant to me. Neither of these things happened. Instead, it was watching Nicolas Cage play a disheartened astrophysicist with a questionable lace-front wig and who had been dealt a tough hand by life.

The film Knowing is no Oscar winner, and perhaps I took more from it than was intended, but when I left the theater after seeing it in 2009, I had a lot to think about and a love for the film that is still with me today.

Let's all enjoy the calm before the storm. This is the last week of our pre-Endgame lives, and everything from here on in will never be the same, at least in the geek world. We've bought our tickets (often waiting hours to do so, thank you very much, multiple crashing booking websites), made our predictions, and sort of but not really prepared ourselves from the thrilling climax. Who lives? Who dies? What happens next? Truly, we aren't prepared.

We're in the Endgame now.

Starting April 5, SYFY WIRE is celebrating the release of Avengers: Endgame with a new limited-series podcast: 22 Days of Marvel. Each day leading up to the premiere of Endgame, we’ll revisit a different movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discussing the plot, calling out the best scenes and dialogue, and, most importantly, tracking all the connections and what they mean for Endgame.

One of the major plot points of Supergirl's fourth season on The CW has been about what makes for an ethical hero: What is it that a person with powers should do, and what constitutes over-extending?

It’s a holiday weekend, and everyone is going to picnics (or staying indoors because of a weird April blizzard). There is so much more to life than family and friends, though! (Sorry, we’re totally kidding… okay, mostly kidding.) If you need a break from the family, we have plenty of video game news from this week for you to catch up on. We have info on a new system, some Mortal Kombat 11 videos, and a visit from Persona 5’s Joker. Here is the top Gamegrrl news for the week ending April 20, 2019.

Now that we have a title and a teaser for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, it’s time for everyone’s theories, hopes, and dreams to really start going to light speed. Everything that has been said about the finale of the Skywalker Saga is being picked apart ruthlessly, so naturally it’s time to analyze one of the new canon’s most important aspects: Luke Skywalker’s virginity.

Next week, Marvel’s most anticipated movie to date will finally hit theaters. Avengers: Endgame’s hype has reached unreal levels as fans attempt to discover its secrets before anyone else. Marvel probably did everyone a favor by keeping Marc Ruffalo and Tom Holland away from the complete scripts. But in the absence of facts, fan theories have taken ahold of the internet. And it’s our duty to break down the wildest theories in SYFY WIRE’s Legit or BS!

Is it possible that day two of an illness can feel even worse than day one? I am here to tell you: Yes, yes it can. But that's not going to stop me from finding links for your perusal, your enjoyment, your enlightenment.

What other great reads have you discovered on the internet lately?

In the fourth episode of the new The Twilight Zone, Steven Yeun stars as the eponymous "A Traveler," a man who seems to be a thrill-seeking tourist but is, in fact, probably an alien. Then again, whether or not Yeun's character is a bad guy, a good guy, or an invading extraterrestrial really depends on your interpretation of the episode itself.

Getting diagnosed with terminal cancer affects patients in a variety of ways. Some try to live life to the fullest and enjoy what days remain with those closest to them.

What's more frightening than the bristle-haired Warg beasts that Orc warriors favored as their battle mounts in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings? How about the fact that savage carnivores similar to those toothy predators in the dark fantasy trilogy actual roamed the hot African plains millions of years ago?

The fourth annual "Alien Day" is coming on April 26, and to celebrate, 20th Century Fox is continuing to roll out a series of short films made by fans that celebrate the almost 40-year-old classic.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s relationship to romance can be described as, at best, rocky. While Tony and Pepper have built a compelling relationship over the course of the MCU, awkward pairings like Bruce and Natasha, or Thor and Jane, are unfortunately more common. Captain Marvel and even Thor: Ragnarok proved that a love interest wasn’t a necessary element by any means, so hopefully Marvel will realize that romantic ships just haven't been its strongest suit.

Now that she's back on Earth, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) only has time to focus on fighting Thanos (Josh Brolin) and isn't able to catch up on what she's missed over the last two or so decades, right? Not so fast!

Every month, SYFY WIRE will be bringing you the solicitations for all the upcoming comic books you need to know about. Today we have Marvel Comics listings for July 2019 single-issue comics.

When American Gods star Ricky Whittle was little, he loved nothing more than Transformers.

"If you wanted to be one of the cool kids, you needed an Optimus Prime," Whittle says. Optimus Prime was the ultimate status symbol — and so much more.

In 2016, artist Marcus Williams and writer Greg Burnham came out of nowhere with a Kickstarter for a comic book concept that blew everyone away. They took the real-life story of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (the precursor to the U.S.

For years, I declared to the world my love for Emily Olivia Leah Blunt, telling anyone who’d listen, “Yes, The Devil Wears Prada is that good, but you really must see Sunshine Cleaning.” And yet, I’d never seen her first bona fide action film, one in which she kicks alien ass and teaches Tom motherf*cking Cruise to nut up so he can save the world.

This week, Adam, Dany and Karama discuss the premiere of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones; all that was revealed at Star Wars Celebration (including the first trailer and title reveal for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker); and, of course, the countdown to Avengers: Endgame ... which opens in a week! Is summer really upon us?

Listen below!

Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House won't be the only mainstream Shirley Jackson adaptation to scare audiences silly. This week, Brainstorm Media unveiled the first creepy trailer for the star-studded movie version of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which is based on Jackson's final finished novel from 1962.

British makeup artist Lynsey Mckenzie knows what you're thinking. You've hired her to do your makeup for your wedding, but as you're sitting in her chair, the signs that she has other intentions are popping up everywhere. Her entire Instagram is devoted to spellbinding makeup transformations, from Jon Snow to Maleficent, and as she organizes her tools, you start to wonder...

The Big Chill meets Are You Afraid Of The Dark? is the best way to describe English writer/director Abigail Blackmore's directorial debut, Tales from the Lodge. The portmanteau horror-comedy centers on five old friends who reunite at a remote cabin to scatter the ashes of a dearly departed pal. While there, they share scary and silly stories... and unexpectedly stumble into one of their own.

As Joe and Anthony Russo prepare for the world to see their fourth entry to the Infinity Saga, Avengers: Endgame, the brothers and co-directors are sitting on a mountain of spoilers and Universe-altering revelations.

Comics made him a star, but the movies Batman a legend!

Episode 3 of our audio documentary series Behind the Panel: Batman at 80 looks at the Dark Knight’s film career. Academy Award-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming shares her insight into creating Christian Bale's Batsuits, Heath Ledger's iconic Joker look, Tom Hardy's Bane AND Anne Hathaway's Catwoman costume.

As confirmed by series star Sonequa Martin-Green and showrunner Alex Kurtzman, the next season of Star Trek: Discovery will find the titular starship in a brand new time period, 950 years in the future, sometime around the year 3200.

I love books. Always have. This isn’t really surprising. I’m a nerd who writes for a geek website. Books are important to me and they have been for a vast majority of my life, marking moments in my own coming-of-age narrative. I am also an atheist, a fact that would have been shocking for a much younger version of myself, clad in her Catholic school uniform and altar serving on the weekends.

In the wake of a crushing defeat at Thanos' Infinity Stone-clad hands, the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will face their greatest challenge yet in Avengers: Endgame. But, who is the greatest hero in the MCU? Over the next couple weeks, SYFY WIRE will be debating who deserves the title of The Most Important Avenger.

Lorraine Warren, the famous paranormal investigator who (along with her husband, Ed) inspired The Conjuring films, passed away at the age of 92 last night. Her death was confirmed by grandson Chris McKinnell in a loving Facebook post.

Time again for STAR WARS WEEKLY, the SYFY WIRE series that rounds up the most important news of the week from a galaxy far, far away. Think of us as your own personal Star Wars Holocron.

CELEBRATION RECAP

Once Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Spider-Man are somehow back in action after the events of Avengers: Endgame, it's back to business in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Kazuo Koike—a prolific Japanese manga writer/artist known for his work on books like Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman, and even Marvel's Wolverine—has passed away at the age of 82. Koike's death, which occurred on Wednesday from pneumonia, was confirmed on his Twitter page by a relative, who wrote: 

Moviegoers and comics fans were, by and large, sold on Captain Marvel once Brie Larson was announced as the big screen Carol Danvers, and any doubts were erased after the debut of the film's first trailer. There was one moment in particular that announced the movie's style and earned the immediate meme treatment: Danvers picks out an elderly woman sitting on an elevated train and punches her in the face, just wailing the fragile senior as hard as possible.