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Reading over the first book again, it's kind of interesting to see how the two houses put into antagonistic positions are basically antagonists because, when you look past all the distrust and failure to communicate, they essentially have normal, sane responses to what's going on. The Second House take the position that they're all in a horror movie and if they don't treat it like one everybody is going to die (correct), and the Eighth House take the position that they've figured out enough about the Lyctor rites to know that nobody should ever become one and that anybody who's actually willing to try shouldn't be allowed to do it (correct). They're both 100% correct; they're just a bit (2) or a lot (8) of a dick about it, respectively.
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Aug 4, 2022 03:10
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Why did Babs make such a fuss over Corona demonstrating her capabilities with the rapier? It seemed a bit too strong to be purely a matter of maintaining appearances. And where's the ninth resurrection beast?
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Cugel the Clever posted:Why did Babs make such a fuss over Corona demonstrating her capabilities with the rapier? It seemed a bit too strong to be purely a matter of maintaining appearances. Coronabeth really, really wants to be the one who gets eaten. quote:And where's the ninth [spoiler]resurrection beast?
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Aug 4, 2022 03:25
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Rand Brittain posted:Coronabeth really, really wants to be the one who gets eaten. Well wait a second, how much did they know at that point? I think that’s out of sequence at that point in the narrative but I could be remembering wrong.
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Aug 4, 2022 08:18
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Ianthe is really good. Remember that she didn't get the keys to the labs that held the research. She pieced together the process just from doing the tests that would have unlocked the keys. It's quite possible that she'd realized what the process involved by then.
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Aug 4, 2022 09:45
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Rand Brittain posted:Coronabeth really, really wants to be the one who gets eaten. I'm pretty sure John is the first, and the ninth is locked away in the tomb, probably being driven around by Harrow now if the 3 card soul monty is accurate
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Aug 4, 2022 13:15
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thunderdome winner
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Jod and Electro are not resurrection beasts. Pluto isn't a planet
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M_Gargantua posted:Jod and Electro are not resurrection beasts. Are you asserting this because of anything in particular in the books?
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Aug 4, 2022 16:37
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Just because we don’t categorize Pluto as a planet doesn’t mean it lacked the Thalergy to produce a resurrection beast upon its death.
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Aug 4, 2022 17:11
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M_Gargantua posted:Jod and Electro are not resurrection beasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13R-zKGrXvg
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Aug 5, 2022 01:27
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Rand Brittain posted:His name is John. 
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Khizan posted:Ianthe is really good. Remember that she didn't get the keys to the labs that held the research. She pieced together the process just from doing the tests that would have unlocked the keys. It's quite possible that she'd realized what the process involved by then. Yeah, I remember that. I checked a synopsis and that scene is a lot later than I thought, so she’s definitely figured things out by then.
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https://twitter.com/ElixirLibris/status/1555454563217559553?t=jp-A48ioElPBtRjSn7ixXg&s=19 OK so it's not a great example of presentation (I'm a VERY amateur cocktail maker) but I made a 2nd House drink too. Not sure if I'll manage all 9 houses but it's a start. And another: https://twitter.com/ElixirLibris/status/1555505960604823552?t=84RmQ-aXufnELObSRjGpSw&s=19 cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Aug 5, 2022 08:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxL_r-0VC1k
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Underated fandom contributions: themed cocktails. Nice work, cptn_dr! I want August to be over so it can be Nona Time. Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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I'm on my fourth or fifth read of the Harrow books and I noticed a couple nice details that I missed (I often miss the obvious on my first (and second) readthrough): When Abigail and Magnus die, fake Dulcinea interrupts the spirit siphoning, presumably because it was about to work. Also, Gideon notes in narrative voice with admiration how Corona barely breaks a sweat and Ianthe appears to be doing all the work without realizing what it means.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:10
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Yeah Gideon is the master of observing facts and doing absolutely no impactful interpretation of them
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It's not just that Gideon thinks Ianthe is doing all the work. Gideon actually thinks Coronabeth must be the more powerful of the two, since she shows no signs on exertion, while Ianthe is visibly exhausted. The podcast One Flesh One End is great at pointing out all the times Gideon observes something and fails to draw any useful conclusion, as well the subtext that Harrow might have understood what she was seeing, and just neglected to let Gideon in on it. For example, Harrow, who puppeted her parents around for years, warns Gideon that she doesn't like Dulcinea's cavalier. Also, Harrow pointedly asks Dulcinea in the past tense why she wanted to become a Lyctor, and Dulcinea answers in the past tense.
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mortal posted:It's not just that Gideon thinks Ianthe is doing all the work. Gideon actually thinks Coronabeth must be the more powerful of the two, since she shows no signs on exertion, while Ianthe is visibly exhausted. Nah Harrow didn't know Cytherea was a lyctor, just that she was sketchy as all gently caress
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silvergoose posted:Nah Harrow didn't know Cytherea was a lyctor, just that she was sketchy as all gently caress Ahh but its clever writing none the less, the characters being unaware of the importance of the tenses of what they're saying is a subtly that works in written word.
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Imagining what the hell Harrowhark was thinking for all of the first book is a fascinating exercise because she's such a goddamned genius and also so loving dumb.
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Rand Brittain posted:Imagining what the hell Harrowhark was thinking for all of the first book is a fascinating exercise because she's such a goddamned genius and also so loving dumb. (HtN) ”I can’t tell if you’re a once-in-a-lifetime genius, an insane imbecile, or both.”
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One day we'll get a Locked Tomb novel where the protagonist isn't a giant dumbass. OK to be fair Nona isn't a dumbass, she's a very sweet precocious young lady, but she's also basically a child. (Spoilers but ones that are made clear in the preview chapter) Maybe in Alecto.
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cptn_dr posted:One day we'll get a Locked Tomb novel where the protagonist isn't a giant dumbass. I hope not. I hope they're dumb in different ways.
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If the protagonists were smarter Muir would have to create an even more tangled reason to avoid explaining basic setting facts.
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Rand Brittain posted:If the protagonists were smarter Muir would have to create an even more tangled reason to avoid explaining basic setting facts. Oh, that one's easy: They already know this poo poo, why do they feel the need to have an expository discussion on it?
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disposablewords posted:Oh, that one's easy: They already know this poo poo, why do they feel the need to have an expository discussion on it?
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Rand Brittain posted:If the protagonists were smarter Muir would have to create an even more tangled reason to avoid explaining basic setting facts. Getting told "Show, don't tell" too much as a child has an effect on one 90s Cringe Rock posted:It's not like Gideon would pay attention, anyway. 
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https://theinstagrahame.itch.io/thirsty-space-necromancers I heard tsl was pretty good actually, but this, this makes me want to actually play the thing...
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Aug 10, 2022 00:04
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In my newfound quest to read kiwi sci-fi/fantasy, I just got the Absolute Book. It was mentioned earlier.
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MonsieurChoc posted:In my newfound quest to read kiwi sci-fi/fantasy, I just got the Absolute Book. It was mentioned earlier. I'm still working through that via elibrary, yeah.
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Well, drat, haven't noticed this before... "Only Palamedes had the presence of mind to move: he bypassed Ianthe entirely and crossed to where the cavalier lay, stretched out and stiffening. There were blood spatters down his front, a great tear ripped in his shirt. The blade had come through his back. Palamedes reached down, grimaced at something, and shut the man’s staring eyes." Okay, what did Sextus grimace at? Babs' new eye color? Lack of eye color?
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silvergoose posted:Well, drat, haven't noticed this before... I assume he just noticed that Naberius was extremely hosed up and possibly could see that the soul had been ripped out of his body. I doubt his eyes changed color because that's a function of a changed or extra soul; normally the condition of having zero souls in your body is just regular death and doesn't have magical special effects.
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Doesn't it say that his eyes are weirdly washed out a paragraph or two before?
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Danhenge posted:Doesn't it say that his eyes are weirdly washed out a paragraph or two before? Yeah "There was something too white about his eyeballs, but otherwise he looked perfectly real, perfectly alive, perfectly coiffed."
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We're almost there, just one month to go. Don't give up, skeletons. Nona the Ninth is out on September 13. I haven't been this excited about a book release since A Song of Ice and Fire, however long ago that was.
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Aug 13, 2022 06:44
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We will absolutely get all four Locked Tomb books before Winds of Winter
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Happy Landfill posted:We will absolutely get all four Locked Tomb books before Winds of Winter Unquestioningly. And uhhh whatever the name of the wind book is called, too. I'm so excited, the question remains whether I read it once or twice before getting the audiobook though.
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I have a dumb question that I probably already know the answer to. (HtN) Is Mercy’s briefing about Number Seven one long joke about that Facebook boomer who asked a question and then responded to every reply with WRONG, NEXT!!
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