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uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

wearing chainmail is almost cheating tbh.

Everyone posted:

He looks like he's about to fail an audition for a Harry Potter movie.

though that fellow could level up if he had a big fluffy scarf.

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 21:23

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

he looks Carl from aqua teen if he was into the d&d kind of swords & sorcery and not the metal album kind

# ? Sep 4, 2022 14:17

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Honestly none of these are particularly egregious to me except the ones of folk with swords or in armour or whatever, and even those I could forgive if they didn't look so drat serious about it. Have a laugh, you're being a big nerd about what you love.

Unless we're just into mocking how people's faces are built, I guess.

I'm still disappointed that China Mieville turned out to apparently be a real bastard in his romantic life because he takes a *very* good author photo.

# ? Sep 4, 2022 14:22

Everyone: Sep 6, 2019; by sebmojo

HopperUK posted:

Honestly none of these are particularly egregious to me except the ones of folk with swords or in armour or whatever, and even those I could forgive if they didn't look so drat serious about it. Have a laugh, you're being a big nerd about what you love.

Unless we're just into mocking how people's faces are built, I guess.

I'm still disappointed that China Mieville turned out to apparently be a real bastard in his romantic life because he takes a *very* good author photo.

Do RPG authors count? Because

Raven C. S. McCracken

# ? Sep 4, 2022 14:31

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

HopperUK posted:

Honestly none of these are particularly egregious to me except the ones of folk with swords or in armour or whatever, and even those I could forgive if they didn't look so drat serious about it. Have a laugh, you're being a big nerd about what you love.

Unless we're just into mocking how people's faces are built, I guess.

I'm still disappointed that China Mieville turned out to apparently be a real bastard in his romantic life because he takes a *very* good author photo.

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There�s a bit in a Lavie Tidhar story about this, hang on, let me find it

# ? Sep 4, 2022 15:22

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

quote:

She concentrated.

Feebly, as from far away, she could sense the human minds moving sluggishly on the street outside. Thinking of sex, or shopping, or food. Humans were such simple creatures. She meowed softly and stalked to the door, scratching at the wood.

There!

A human mind, more pliable than the others. Dimly she sensed: horny hungry the weather strange about those aliens isn't it hungry like cats like China Mi�ville street sign door cupcakes like cats �

Buffy focused. Like cats. Like cats. She meowed. Door. The human mind came closer.

And now she could hear footsteps.

She scratched at the door, harder.

A knock on the door. The human mind, confused, angry � Left cat alone in house must rescue door locked hit it hit it hungry cupcakes alone so alone China Mi�ville with his top off the cat hit the door hit the door hit the �

The door burst open. A small woman in a brown dress that didn't suit her stood in the doorway. "Here, kitty kitty!" she said. Buffy snarled. Captain Kirk was still asleep on the sofa. Buffy concentrated and the woman, a confused look on her face, knelt down. Buffy climbed on her arm and made her way to the woman's shoulders. Humans, so the joke went among her kind, was just another word for cat taxi.

"Let's go," Buffy said, in Cat. The human obeyed. They walked away from the apartment and into the light of the sun outside. Buffy raised her head, stared into a sky where whales floated like clouds.

She bared her teeth and hissed at the sky.

8.

"We'd like to convert," the whalien ambassador said.

The rabbi stared at it. He and Ari were floating high in the sky in a perfectly ordinary room boosted up on the aliens' anti-grav devices. There were carpets on the floor, a photo of the President on the wall, an office plant, a desk, two chairs. When the rabbi looked out of the open window, though, he couldn't see the ground. Just air, and clouds, and a giant floating space whale with eyes the size of flying saucers.

"Convert to what?" he said cautiously.

"We would like," the whalien said, "to become Jews."

Ari and the rabbi exchanged glances.

"You want to be Jews?" Ari said.

"Sure," the whalien ambassador said.

"That's unusual," the rabbi said drily.

"You are the Chosen People," the whalien said. "We were confused with the Mormons, before. And those meshugeh Catholics."

An expression of pain briefly crossed the rabbi's face. "Where did you learn that word?" he said.

The whalien, if it could be said to, beamed with alien pride. "We have intensely analysed Yiddish culture!" it said. "Kleizmer! Dzigan and Shumacher! Fiddler on the Roof! Sholem Aleichem! Old Jews Telling Jokes!"

"Oy," the rabbi said, but quietly.

"I have tsures coming out of my tuches!" the whalien said.

"I think I have a headache," the rabbi said.

"Come on, be a mensch," the whalien said.

"We have to," Ari said, quietly. "We have a week or they'll destroy the planet. Rabbi, they have big loving guns! Excuse me."

"Ok, look," the rabbi said. "Whalien!"

"Rabbi?"

"Look, are you sure about this? I mean, we don't really... recruit, you know? You kind of have to be born into it. Whether you like it or not."

"But you can convert, can't you?" the whalien said.

"Sure, but... it's a lot of work!" the rabbi said. "Studying! Preparing! Can you even be circumcised?"

"We have large penises," the whalien informed him, proudly. "We are whales, you know."

# ? Sep 4, 2022 15:28

RDM: Apr 6, 2009; I LOVE FINLAND AND ESPECIALLY FINLAND'S MILITARY ALLIANCES, GOOGLE FINLAND WORLD WAR 2 FOR MORE INFORMATION SLAVA UKRANI

pradmer posted:

Earthseed: The Complete Series by Octavia E Butler - $4.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072NZBPFG/

I need to go back and read these again - we're probably pretty close to the current date in the book.

Although as I recall it's got the 80s/90s boomer near future where they assumed kids & by association society would just keep getting more and more violent. It's weird to read now that it's just like... yeah we stopped poisoning their brains with lead and things got better.

# ? Sep 4, 2022 15:30

Yaoi Gagarin: Feb 20, 2014

Everyone posted:

Do RPG authors count? Because

Raven C. S. McCracken

This dude looks hot. Holy smokes

# ? Sep 4, 2022 16:55

pradmer: Mar 31, 2009; Follow me for more books on special!

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DPRW17S/

# ? Sep 4, 2022 16:58

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

VostokProgram posted:

This dude looks hot. Holy smokes

sword, fabulous moustache, and finger gun. a total package.

# ? Sep 4, 2022 18:16

Hobnob: Feb 23, 2006; Ursa Adorandum

Everyone posted:

Do RPG authors count? Because

Raven C. S. McCracken

Close enough. Needs to grow his hair out a bit.

# ? Sep 4, 2022 18:27

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

Rothfuss looks dead on to what you'd expect him to look like. The only surprising thing to me is that his main protag isn't a chubby brown haired bearded guy.

# ? Sep 4, 2022 20:05

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

This guy

E:goddammit imgur, it's terry goodkind

# ? Sep 4, 2022 21:24

TOOT BOOT: May 25, 2010

quote:

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Blacktongue Thief sequel news...

# ? Sep 4, 2022 22:29

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

# ? Sep 4, 2022 23:09

branedotorg: Jun 19, 2009

HopperUK posted:

Honestly none of these are particularly egregious to me except the ones of folk with swords or in armour or whatever, and even those I could forgive if they didn't look so drat serious about it. Have a laugh, you're being a big nerd about what you love.

Unless we're just into mocking how people's faces are built, I guess.

given all the swords and mail for Cameron are made using authentic methods and materials, he's just a massive nerd.

I'm into laughing (with some respect) at that, not at someone who is unkempt and ugly

# ? Sep 4, 2022 23:31

MartingaleJack: Aug 26, 2004; I'll split you open and I don't even like coconuts.

This is top shelf for me

# ? Sep 5, 2022 01:21

Hieronymous Alloy: Jan 30, 2009; Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!; Morbid Hound

MartingaleJack posted:

This is top shelf for me

Doesn't count. He's been very clear.that he doesn't write "fantasy".

# ? Sep 5, 2022 01:31

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

That's also not his Goodreads profile photo.

If we're allowed to use any old photo, this one wins:

Cory Doctorow @ eTech 2007
Ed Schipul from Houston, TX, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

# ? Sep 5, 2022 02:14

Copernic: Sep 16, 2006; ...A Champion, who by mettle of his glowing personal charm alone, saved the universe...

its called Wizard's Negative Second Law, and it kicks off a brand new prequel trilogy.

E: Congrats to the Hugo winners.

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Copernic fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Sep 5, 2022

# ? Sep 5, 2022 02:33

ShutteredIn: Mar 24, 2005; El Campeon Mundial del Acordeon

Hail to the King, baby

# ? Sep 5, 2022 03:17

Gaius Marius: Oct 9, 2012

Why'd you post a can of Pringles?

# ? Sep 5, 2022 03:22

Eason the Fifth: Apr 9, 2020

Inside of you there is one wolf, and it smokes the brand of art school girls

# ? Sep 5, 2022 03:38

Whale Vomit: Nov 10, 2004; starving in the belly of a whale
its ribs are ceiling beams
its guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill

Wow, this page sucks poo poo.

That gene wolf photo is extremely good, though.

# ? Sep 5, 2022 03:42

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/TheHugoAwards/status/1566620488406900737

:toot:

# ? Sep 5, 2022 04:01

big dyke energy: Jul 29, 2006; Football? Yaaaay

I've been reading the Red Rising series and I don't think I've ever read a series where I don't like any of the main characters. It's only now that I'm on the 3rd one that I'm getting some people I like, but I'm mostly rooting for all these people to be ground into the dirt repeatedly. Like I don't even like Darrow that much pre-3. I've never continued a book out of spite before.

a friendly penguin posted:

I just finished Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire and I liked it. It was concise and expansive at the same time. I liked the premise and the characters. But it did feel as if it was wrapped up a little too quickly and neatly rather than exploring a few more of the implications from the fallout of what happened.

That said, are the other books from the Wayward Children series worth reading? They sound just as quick and fun as this one. I listened to it in a single car trip.

Next up, The Library at Mount Char.

I like the Wayward Children series a lot, they're a pretty easy read and get better as they go on. I really enjoyed Across the Green Grass Fields. Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant has...what I can only really describe as a super YA style. I think it really works for Wayward Children & they're pretty quick and enjoyable reads, but quick plot wrap ups are pretty par for the course. I gotta say, though, I bounced off her most recent one kind of hard for Personal Reasons but I'll probably go back and fully read it eventually.

# ? Sep 5, 2022 05:35

DurianGray: Dec 23, 2010; King of Fruits

a friendly penguin posted:

I just finished Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire and I liked it. It was concise and expansive at the same time. I liked the premise and the characters. But it did feel as if it was wrapped up a little too quickly and neatly rather than exploring a few more of the implications from the fallout of what happened.

That said, are the other books from the Wayward Children series worth reading? They sound just as quick and fun as this one. I listened to it in a single car trip.

Next up, The Library at Mount Char.

If you liked the first one, you'll probably like the rest! Most of the rest do deal with the fallout from the first book, sometimes more directly and sometimes it's more tangential. A few are sort of standalone (like Across the Green Grass Fields and In An Absent Dream, which is a prequel) but they seem to be getting more and more tied in as the series goes on.

In other news, I started reading Dhalgren (my first Delaney) and I am really digging it so far. It's always refreshing to find a well-written book that doesn't over-explain its world and trusts you to keep up with what's happening.

# ? Sep 5, 2022 13:37

pradmer: Mar 31, 2009; Follow me for more books on special!

First two Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir - $4.99 each
Gideon the Ninth (#1) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J6HWLPR/
Harrow the Ninth (#2) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WYSGHC7/

Some of the later Mistborn books by Brandon Sanderson - $2.99 each
The Alloy of Law (#4) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00540QR7Q/
Shadows of Self (#5) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R697CGS/
The Bands of Mourning (#6) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R697BC8/

Past Master by RA Lafferty - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PCL328Z/

John Dies at the End by David Wong & Jason Pargin - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Q7H7JC/

# ? Sep 5, 2022 16:33

habeasdorkus: Nov 3, 2013; Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.

The Mistborn books are the "Wax and Wayne" trilogy. Entertaining trifles, essentially steampunk fantasy, and not Sanderson's usual doorstoppers.

# ? Sep 5, 2022 16:37

smackfu: Jun 7, 2004

Sound like it�s actually a four part series and the fourth part is coming out in November and is $15. So guess that explains the sale.

Also lol:

quote:

Brandon Sanderson plans to write four books in this series before the release of the second Mistborn trilogy (planned to be set in a 1980s-analogous period with a female Nicroburst computer-programmer protagonist).

# ? Sep 5, 2022 18:36

Carrier: May 12, 2009; 420...69...9001...

Captain_Person posted:

Jim Butcher is exactly how you'd imagine him

This is Lin Manuel Miranda, you can't fool me.

# ? Sep 5, 2022 21:35

Harold Fjord: Jan 3, 2004

That's Shirley McClain as an Indian princess

# ? Sep 5, 2022 21:48

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Man Clarke was really into his technical details huh?

Lawman 0 fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Sep 6, 2022

# ? Sep 6, 2022 00:16

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Also the illustrated man by Bradbury kicked rear end highly recommend if you can forgive the near total zeerust.

# ? Sep 6, 2022 00:20

pradmer: Mar 31, 2009; Follow me for more books on special!

The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians, The Magician King, The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VR39H58/

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087X6Z1GS/

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (Siege #1) by KJ Parker - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078W5M7DB/

The Sandman: Book of Dreams by Neil Gaiman - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XMTN71L/

Red Mars (Mars #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QCS914/

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y5L7H71/

# ? Sep 6, 2022 17:29

Opopanax: Aug 8, 2007; I HEX YE!!!

Grant Morrison's first fiction book Luda is out today. Haven't gotten to crack it opne yet but sure to be a trip if you're a fan of them.

# ? Sep 6, 2022 17:32

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

pradmer posted:

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y5L7H71/

Anyone read that? How is it? Sea horror sounds like a pretty good idea to me...

# ? Sep 6, 2022 18:15

smackfu: Jun 7, 2004

Good deal on the magicians trilogy. Wish Kindle had better support for omnibus books like that, rather than just a single book broken into sections.

# ? Sep 6, 2022 18:29

OmniBeer: Jun 5, 2011; This is no time to
remain stagnant!

anilEhilated posted:

Anyone read that? How is it? Sea horror sounds like a pretty good idea to me...

I enjoyed it - it was done in like, semi-horror documentary style and although I read it ages ago I remember liking it a lot. Neat concept.

# ? Sep 6, 2022 18:40

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 21:23

day-gas: Dec 16, 2020

anilEhilated posted:

Anyone read that? How is it? Sea horror sounds like a pretty good idea to me...

I'll report back, though I'm a bit skeptical after how bad The Deep was. Hoping for some good times.

# ? Sep 6, 2022 18:45

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