What’s behind all the weird online thirst for the Night King?

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Tasha: So let’s be frank about this: we started having a version of this conversation a week ago when Julia said she was super into the Night King on Game of Thrones. We talked about her writing a piece about villain-lust, coming in part out of a Tumblr and pop culture outlet trend toward drooling over characters like Venom and thirsting after thicc daddy Thanos. And then this Mashable piece about the Night King hit, full of references to Night Bae and “Ice me, Night Daddy” and “temperature play.”


Can we finally admit the Night King from 'Game of Thrones' is super hot?https://t.co/era0A4SDqI

— Mashable (@mashable) May 2, 2019

So, okay. I get it. Bad boys have always been kind of hot. Since the dawn of time, critics have been writing...

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