Years are years, seasons can be multiple years long. There's planting time and harvest time every year (to some extent) but Summer and Winter are these other things of varying duration. Is my understanding.

But how do they define years? If it's one full revolution around the sun, then the maesters must be incredibly confused.

Why?

I forgot Cersei was sleeping with Lancel. Honestly, I had completely forgotten about Lancel until I realized who he was last night.

But how do they define years?

I thought a year was a year, but Summer or Winter was a period that went over many years. My understanding was that it's been Summer until now (despite the cold/snow in the north), simply because it's not Winter. Winter seems like the big nasty one, and when it comes it seems like there's a period of recoup and rebuilding after. But that's just my impression.

Right, a year is a year, but how do THEY define it? They can't just say "a year is a year." From the World of Ice and Fire book, I think the maester writing it says that some other maester had suggested that the seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth, but the other maesters dismissed that as nonsense. There have been a lot of hints that there's something supernatural driving the seasons, but if they're dismissing the tilt of the earth as being meaningful, and they're not seeing the actual effects of the earth's revolution, and I'm not totally sure they've accepted the earth as round, then I'm not sure what they're looking at when they count out years. What is there in their world that makes 365 days a meaningful measure of time?

Lunar cycles?

I wish to complain about the severe lack of Brienne.

with you on that, -t!

holy shit!

I just assumed they were going by stars to determine how long a year is. They navigate by the stars, yeah? ISTR something about constellations from somebody, but it's a vague memory, I could be making it up. But if I am not, next time The Mother (or whatever) shows up in the same spot in the sky at sundown as it did today => a year will have passed. No?

librarygasm

Oh god yes. I want to go to there.

Want: Cercei's battle gown.

Favorite edit: baby to Jon Snow face matchcut. For the four people in the audience who haven't been anticipating that reveal for months now.

Disappointed: Sansa not proclaimed Queen in the North. Jon's not a Stark (for even more reasons than the official ones) AND he did jack shit to win Winterfell back. Literally the only thing he's good at is knowing about white walkers and being friends with Tormund.

Confused: Travel times for Arya and Varys. Unless the Braavosi are masters of teleportation?

Jon's not a Stark (for even more reasons than the official ones) AND he did jack shit to win Winterfell back.

No, he is a Stark just not a son of Ned Stark, right?

No, he is a Stark just not a son of Ned Stark, right?

His mother is a Stark. That makes him still not a Stark.