A Comprehensive List of Things Sad Kit Harington Looks Like

Sad Kit Harington looks like someone who’s three days into his new vegan diet when he’s invited to a family barbeque.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he bought a new hat he’d convinced himself he could pull off in the store, but once he tried it on at home he realised he just wasn’t a ‘hat person’.

Sad Kit Harington looks like that one cousin who was forced to babysit you as a kid, because your aunt and uncle thought it would be a good ‘growing experience’ for him, but he wasn’t interested, so you spent most of your time sitting around and watching PG-13 movies, eating cereal that had too much milk, and the M&Ms and lint balls you found beneath the living room couch. 

Sad Kit Harington looks like someone who’s seriously considered getting a mullet at least once in his life.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he just finished his milkshake and says he’s fine and doesn’t want another one, but he spends the rest of your date staring at your milkshake and inwardly hoping you’ll give him yours.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’s just watched Avengers: Age of Ultron for the very first time.

Sad Kit Harington looks like someone who runs an environmental blog.

Sad Kit Harington looks like that one crow that never gets to sit with all the other crows on the telephone wire.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’d buy a lava lamp unironically.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’d put that lava lamp on during sex.

Sad Kit Harington looks like an ex-boyfriend who’s totally okay with you getting married—you guys aren’t like those other couples, remember? You’re cool; it’s fine; he’s totally cool—but then he shows up way too early to the ceremony and makes awkward chitchat with your extended family about how he always loved the idea of a spring wedding, and he would have liked to have chrysanthemums, too, if you had gotten married, back when you were dating, because you were pretty serious after all, before that ‘Paul guy’ came along, ha ha ha, and then spends the whole of the reception next to the wedding gifts, making off at the end of the night with two gravy bowls and a figurine dog.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he accidentally stepped on a snail and he’s been feeling bad about it all day.

Sad Kit Harington looks like a black cocker spaniel who needs to pee, but it’s raining outside and he doesn’t want to get his little paws wet.

Sad Kit Harington looks like a guy who’d make you a mix tape, and then watch as you listen to it and get quietly upset when you didn’t find a deeper meaning in all the song lyrics he chose specifically for you.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’s in the middle of a business presentation in his best skirt suit when he realises he’s only shaved one leg, and he thinks everyone can totally tell (and they’re judging him for it).

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’s forgotten to get mini marshmallows for his cup of hot chocolate, but it’s too late now because all the stores are closed.

Sad Kit Harington looks like an upturned mop that hasn’t been properly cared for.

Sad Kit Harington looks like an old man who’s been given the chance to relive one day in his past, but instead of enjoying himself, all he can think of is how quickly the time flies, of how young and spry he once was, and how we need to take advantage of our youth and go after our dreams, to fight for life, liberty, and true love! Before it’s all too late.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he’s trying to break in a pair of too tight jeans.

Sad Kit Harington looks like he cut open an overripe avocado.

Rebecca Ferrier is a UK-based writer and journalist. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and celebrated by drinking inordinate amounts of gin and watching Miss Congeniality in her PJs.

Alyson is currently undergoing a Master’s in Poetry at the University of Edinburgh. She does all her Sudoku in pen.

79 Comments

  1. AstronautPants +136

    “Sad Kit Harington looks like a black cocker spaniel who needs to pee, but it’s raining outside and he doesn’t want to get his little paws wet” I will put your little paws in little boots and hoist an umbrella of protection for you, sad spaniel.

    1. FeuerroteZora +39

      Kit Harington in shiny red cocker-spaniel-sized boots is going to be my new go-to mental image when anything awful happens on Game of Thrones (WHICH IS ALWAYS).

    2. bluewindgirl +10

      Literally cackled and rubbed my hands together like an evil witch when I read that.

  2. hnayfeld +196

    Sad Kit Harington looks like he just burped but he doesn’t recognize the aftertaste as something he ate recently.

    1. v_d_budenmayer +40

      I’m laughing at this harder than I’ve ever laughed at anything on The Toast, and I’m sure you know how much that means and also that I will probably die if I don’t stop laughing soon.

      1. hnayfeld +27

        Without exaggeration, this is probably the greatest compliment I have ever received or will ever receive.

  3. tabbylavalamp +126

    Sad Kit Harrington looks like someone didn’t put a spoiler alert on their comment on a Game of Thrones recap, and then someone asked him why he was reading the comments if he hasn’t watched it yet anyway.

  4. MissBadcrumble +75

    Imagining him just having stepped on a snail and feeling deeply guilty in the above picture is a wonderful thing.

  5. thebellewitch +75

    The worst is when you wear the hat out once and then come home and realize that no, you really, really aren’t a hat person and why did you not realize that before the left the house, you fool.

  6. TheasyPeasy +90

    “Sad Kit Harington looks like he cut open an overripe avocado.”

    Who amongst us wouldn’t look like an angsty teenager though? You’re upset on so many levels. You wasted food, and you did it knowingly, because nobody buys avocados and doesn’t forget to watch them religiously for when they’re ready. You forget them when they’ve ripened and you put them in the fridge because you were over ambitious with how many you bought, maybe, but that doesn’t take the sting away.

    1. knitting_pun +72

      I have similar feelings about underripe avocados. Like, you were really looking forward to that, it FELT squishy enough, but no, it’s hard and unpleasant to eat but you’ve already cut it up, so you’re going to eat it anyway, because you can’t just put it back and wait a bit longer so you’re eating unpleasant avocado and your whole meal is ruined and future-you’s meal is also ruined because it WON’T have perfect avocado.

      Avocado eating is so fraught. If they weren’t so good I’d have given up on them long ago.

      1. paintingthegreyarea +30

        Having an avocado is a high-maintenance relationship. So much guilt, such high expectations to meet. I had to break up with a rotten one this morning. It was heart-wrenching.

    2. v_d_budenmayer +17

      Every time I put an avocado in the fridge, I am aware that I’m lying to myself, but I do it anyway.

      1. TheasyPeasy +5

        This is also me with tomatoes. Source: I have two in my fridge and I don’t remember when I bought them.

    3. lesliejroot +28

      I have so many of these feelings when I see people buying big bags of avocados at Costco. I always want to stop them and ask them if they’re sure that’s a good idea.

    4. depizan +14

      I recently discovered that avocados actually freeze really well for keeping around longer.

    5. Vera_Knoop +18

      We’re moving soon, and the thing I will miss most about our place, no lie, is that the cashier at the bodega across the street is an incredibly gifted avocado sommelier. Forget one perfect rose AND one perfect limousine, Dorothy Parker; I’ll take one perfect avocado every time.

      1. TheasyPeasy +3

        Ooh that is crushing. I’m moving soon (to where, I do not know!) but I’m so sad about moving and this just made me even sadder even though it’s not my avocado sommelier.

  7. AstronautPants +78

    Sad Kit Harrington just found out that his character, Jon Snow, did not invent oral sex, as George RR Martin had written.

  8. LeastBittern +229

    I want to hear your stories about sad exes at weddings.

    My high school boyfriend came to mine and didn’t wear shoes and ate using the chopsticks he tucks onto his Indiana Jones hat and climbed a tree and generally made my husband seem like a shining beacon of normalcy and propriety.

      1. sausagedog +59

        +1 please share the details behind this wedding guest, even if they were relayed to you by other guests because you were too busy with champagne and dancing

    1. LeastBittern +64

      Right yes I know a lot of people like this and I thought I was using shibboleths for them BUT

      He has only one pair of shoes because capitalism just teaches us to consume and consume and that pair broke so they were getting repaired during the wedding.

      The hat chopsticks were because he wasn’t sure if my wedding would meet his standards for waste production when it comes to silverware.

      The tree, idk, we climbed trees together in high school so either he likes climbing trees or some attempts to trigger shitty nostalgia in me.

      This is the sort of person who can pull off building and living in a tiny house, btw.

        1. LeastBittern +55

          This is the guy who couch surfed with a dozen rabbits and a twelve foot ocean going canoe.

          1. exitpursuedbyaclaire +68

            It sounds like he’s living his best life and everyone around him’s worst life

          2. Mingus_Thurber +9

            I think. . . .I mean, I know this can’t be, because I’m probably a zillion years older than you, but I think I dated this guy.

          3. LeastBittern +9

            He does have oddly amazing taste in significant others, so it is possible.

          4. Mingus_Thurber +8

            I probably dated his father. Which is terrifying, because it means certain personality traits are genetic.

          5. lavaloving +22

            For some reason i missed the word “couch” in this sentence and pictured a guy in a cool hat cruising around on a surfboard with 12 rabbits and then sleeping underneath his 12 ft canoe on a beach somewhere.

            Actually, that doesn’t sound like too bad of a life. And an interesting alt. Watership Down fic.

          6. femaelstrom +27

            I both missed “couch” AND read rabbits as “rabbis.”

            I’m not disappointed at all with the real story but I do think mine is better.

    2. aintnothingtoit +18

      Ohmygod. The tree, the naked ass feet, the chopsticks, the hat!! And you know the whole time he was like “I’ll show her what’s she missing!”

      This story is the bee’s knees and I salute you.

  9. thewhelk +173

    I KNOW SOMEONE WHOSE SISTER DATED HIM

    That’s the extent of my information, except that he’s short even by actor standards and the loincloth was not padded.

    1. mariemakesstuff +19

      The loincloth information was something that I, for one, needed to know.

  10. HyacinthGirl +56

    According to his imdb bio, he was inspired to act by Waiting for Fucking Godot, so of course he has permanent sadface.

    1. GinnyQ9 +20

      True story: I went to a scene night in college to see some friends, and one of the scenes (the one right before the short intermission) was from Waiting for Godot, and I had to pee SO BADLY. Like, fuck that Godot guy for making us all wait, WHEN I HAVE TO PEE.

      I have never seen the show or even read the full thing. I’m worried I might have some traumatic bladder issues in response.

        1. GinnyQ9 +7

          Is perfection! Starring my two favorite Sesame Street characters! (Grover and Telly FTW!) I know there was that article about how Animaniacs prepared us for popular culture, but man, Sesame Street did it first. I kid of want to go back and watch all the classic Sesame Street episodes.

          Is now watching all the other Monsterpiece Theater productions 😀

  11. mkpatter +50

    Sad Kit Harrington looks like he took his dog outside to poop, and he didn’t bring enough bags with him, and he feels really bad that someone might step in his dog’s poop later but not bad enough to come back with a bag later.

  12. v_d_budenmayer +13

    “Sad Kit Harington looks like that one cousin who was forced to babysit you as a kid, because your aunt and uncle thought it would be a good ‘growing experience’ for him, but he wasn’t interested, so you spent most of your time sitting around and watching PG-13 movies, eating cereal that had too much milk, and the M&Ms and lint balls you found beneath the living room couch.”

    This right here made me realize why I do not find Kit Harrington attractive in the least. Even happy Kit Harrington looks like this guy!

  13. Mairead +21

    Apparently, Sad Kit (Christopher Catesby!) Harrington looks like a Gunpowder Plotter who just found out that the gunpowder is damp and that the Sheriff’s men are about to storm the house. And that the Earl of Salisbury knew about it all along.

    1. terb +6

      I… I wonder about his family. He’s named after Kit Marlowe, his ancestor invented the toilet, his middle name is Catesby………….. who ARE these people?!?

      (and I say this as someone with a brother called Kit but not after Marlowe)

  14. herm_lannister +86

    Sad Kit Harington looks like someone who thought he was a Gryffindor but took a Buzzfeed quiz and found out he was a Hufflepuff.

    1. Coffeegirl_Karin +4

      THIS HAPPENED TO ME, except I thought I was a Ravenclaw. I had (oh, who am I kidding, HAVE) so many feelings about this.

  15. jackan7 +18

    Sad Kit Harrington has long looked to me like he went to the Kristen Stewart school of acting.

  16. srijanisays +10

    “Sad Kit Harington looks like a black cocker spaniel who needs to pee, but it’s raining outside and he doesn’t want to get his little paws wet.”
    So that’s why he looks so familiar.

  17. PettyVengeanceFetish +16

    “Sad Kit Harington looks like a guy who’d make you a mix tape, and then watch as you listen to it and get quietly upset when you didn’t find a deeper meaning in all the song lyrics he chose specifically for you.”

    It’s so… so right

  18. aintnothingtoit +3

    These are all incredible but the upturned mop is what’s really gettin’ me!

  19. JGlows +5

    Sad Kit Harington looks like he’s forgotten to get mini marshmallows for his cup of hot chocolate, but it’s too late now because all the stores are closed.

    I almost spit out my tea laughing.

  20. kidzndogznme +9

    No hating on my lava lamp….

    Damnit, now *I* look like Sad Kit Harington!

    (Strokes lava lamp).

  21. actualmeg +7

    Sad Kit Harington looks like he accidentally stepped on a snail and he’s been feeling bad about it all day.

    i am legitimately crying a little

  22. picnic lightning +2

    Did I miss “If Jon Snow Was Your Boyfriend”? I feel like there’s gold in them hills. Like:

    If Jon Snow was your boyfriend, you would rescue pets to shower with love and affection and nurse to health. They would not last the week.

    If Jon Snow was your boyfriend, he’d bashfully introduce you to his family, who would tease him but admire you. You would feel instantly welcome. You would never see them again.