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Your group chat goes quiet when the rota for the week lands. Nobody types. Someone replies with a single "right" and a thumbs up, and you all know the next five days are going to hurt.

It's Sunday evening, the uniform is on the radiator, and the alarm is set for a time that shouldn't exist. Tomorrow has a deadline, a dentist and a dentist-themed deadline. You nod gravely at the kettle.

The shop puts the Christmas stock out on the first of October. You walk past the tinsel with the face of a man who has seen the long nights coming, and who has not bought enough socks.

Your sister announces she's "popping round on Saturday". She has two children, a dog and opinions about your sofa. You hide the good biscuits at once and tell no one where.

Why it caught on: the picture shows Sean Bean as Ned Stark in *Game of Thrones*, the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fantasy novels, wrapped in a fur cloak. "Winter is coming" is the Stark family motto, and the warning stood for impending doom in the series. Around 2011, when the show began airing, people put it over anything dreaded or merely inevitable, and it spread because the pose suits both a real catastrophe and a mild Thursday.

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