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MonsieurChoc posted:I mean the AU chapters in Harrow were amazing and very much fan-fodder, it's amazing. I never read/participated in Homestuck, so I can only go off of what my friend who used to be a hardcore Homestuck has told me, and from what she's said, Dave Strider was the main inspiration for Gideon Nav. What that means I don't really know. M_Gargantua posted:I've been listening to Gideon on audible for my commute these past few days. Today I got to chapter 20, the tunnel siphoning scene. I remembered it was written well, but that quality plus the narration had me feeling like I should pause the thing and pull off because of how physically uncomfortable I was starting to feel at the descriptions of the pain. Hands tensing the on wheel feeling intense anxiety for our lass's predicament, even knowing exactly what happens already. A+ very good. The audiobooks are insanely good. Moira Quirk is an angel and she had better narrate Alecto as well. (she's also the former host of Nickelodeon's GUTS, for those familiar)
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:I never read/participated in Homestuck, so I can only go off of what my friend who used to be a hardcore Homestuck has told me, and from what she's said, Dave Strider was the main inspiration for Gideon Nav. What that means I don't really know. "DAVE: thats the spooky thing about penis ouija you can never be sure who did the dicks DAVE: was it you or me or maybe a ghoooost??? "
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GIDEON: who even cares about having a baller origin story GIDEON: we were just some chumps on a moon being melodramatic and in the process of gettin chumped by an omniscient creep GIDEON: your outfit looks cool at least
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Happy Landfill posted:GIDEON: who even cares about having a baller origin story Your username should be Not-Lying Cat
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Truthing Cat  HARROW: No, Gideon was mostly preoccupied with her own... shenanigans. HARROW: The yelling is deceptive. She's a rather private person. HARROW: Ianthe, however. HARROW: She really is quite an extravagant bitch.
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I mean Harrow as Rose is a bold choice but the dialog is pretty spot on
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Which lands us in the wonderful world of Ianthe (Vriska).
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Ianthe, like Vriska, did nothing wrong.
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Yeah I was mostly trying to find someone that Dave banters with so that's why I chose Rose. Figured some of Rose's dialogue could reasonably fit Harrow, but I totally welcome other's interpretations Edit: Kanaya might be a slightly better fit, honestly Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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Harrow is Karkat with a thesaurus.
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HARROW: MY HATE IS THE LIFEBLOOD THAT PULSES THROUGH THE VEINS OF YOUR UNIVERSE. IT IS MY GIFT TO YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME FOR THAT. Edit: HARROW: YOU'RE EITHER BEING REALLY PERSISTENT WITH THIS TRANSPARENT RUSE, OR YOU REALLY ARE JUST THAT SAD AND INCOMPETENT. HARROW: NEITHER CASE DESERVES MY RESPECT OR MY FRIENDSHIP. HARROW: IN FACT, YOU KNOW WHAT, FRIENDSHIP CANCELED. HARROW: THERE IT'S OFFICIAL, BYE BYE FRIENDSHIP!
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I just saw the trailer for Scooby-Doo Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog and began listing a number of other possible crossovers in outraged disbelief, ending in "Gideon the Ninth." I was then forced to admit that this would actually be a great movie. Could Gideon Nav out-eat Shaggy Rogers? Could Harrowhark explain necromancy to Velma's satisfaction? Will Fred kiss a monitor lizard? At least Daphne is playing it safe for once and sticking close to her sickly new friend!
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Like...one flesh, one end, dudes!
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And then the Undertaker shows up.
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Yeah, but can she eat a sandwich as tall as herself? (she would absolutely try, that's for sure)
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Fred trying to unmask the Sleeper and the gang all runs away when she produces a shotgun
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You thought you were haunted by a scary necromancer, but it was old Mr Dadjokes all along!
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Strategic Tea posted:You thought you were haunted by a scary necromancer, but it was old Mr Dadjokes all along! That's a completely accurate reading of Harrow, though.
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silvergoose posted:That's a completely accurate reading of Harrow, though. It owns.
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Strategic Tea posted:You thought you were haunted by a scary necromancer, but it was old Mr Dadjokes all along! Thank you, I just laughed so hard that some pieces fell off. Also, Doge of the Ninth House c/d: 
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I would absolutely name that dog Harrow
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Happy Landfill posted:I would absolutely name that dog Harrow or Crux, with enough irascibility
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I read both books over the past few days, and I'm really glad I finally caught up with them. Maybe reading them back to back made Harrow the Ninth easier to digest, but I deeply enjoyed the stylistic choices there. Seeing second-person used well was a breath of fresh air, and disjointed non-linear narratives like this are some of my favorite stories to untangle. It's very much in the same vein as William Gibson's The Peripheral and Grant Morrison's Batman/Final Crisis. And actually, extensively revisiting the characters and setting of the first book made me think of Back to the Future Part II, remixed as a metal album and cranked to 11. I have to agree that one of the best aspects of these novels, that drove the momentum and kept me hooked, was how the mysteries inherent in the world-building are progressively revealed. Muir is masterful at this; I'll be anticipating her on the same level as Gibson even after Locked Tomb is done. (No pressure!)
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Gimme Alecto. I need it.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gimme Alecto. I need it.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gimme Alecto. I need it.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gimme Alecto. I need it. With alacrity.
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I want the D. Da 'lecto.
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Please Tamsyn, just 1 Alecto. My family is starving
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Happy Landfill posted:Please Tamsyn, just 1 Alecto. My family is starving Food 200 bones Theorems 150 bones Power 800 bones Alecto 3,600 bones Swords 150 bones someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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we can't steal a copy, we might be caught in flagrante alectosilvergoose posted:Food 200 bones wow was not expecting a Kingkiller Chronicles mashup in this thread
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I can't tell if you're being ignorant or I am, having never and will never read name of the wind
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silvergoose posted:I can't tell if you're being ignorant or I am, having never and will never read name of the wind it's a joke about how the protagonist is constantly counting his coins like litRPG experience points. in my defense i bought it in an airport bookstore and had no idea what to expect when i read it edit: https://twitter.com/raccuunart/status/1411912133365878789?s=20 Kesper North fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Kesper North posted:it's a joke about how the protagonist is constantly counting his coins like litRPG experience points. in my defense i bought it in an airport bookstore and had no idea what to expect when i read it Ignorance, then.. It's a take on a dril tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472?lang=en
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Kesper North posted:ignorance wrt dril is bliss though 
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