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MonsieurChoc posted:Homestuck is very good but also gets bad and does not really have a satisfying conclusion. Still well worth reading imho, but if you find yourself hating it at some point no shame in bailing out. So much like the Book of the New Sun?
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Kesper North posted:the thing about harrow for each of those named people, i think, is that she is a tryhard's tryhard Harrow ain't tryin
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Fun Times! posted:Harrow ain't tryin Harrow's trying to get with the hot cold corpse and that's it.
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Get busy tryin' and get busy dyin'.
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Get ready for more short story / supplemental back matter stuff! https://twitter.com/tordotcompub/status/1618987204738416640?s=46&t=SA41pP7g4Dbt0fMXPLiFBg
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Happy Landfill posted:Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
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Someone made a fan-cover for Alecto and it kicks a lot of rear end https://www.tumblr.com/noctilia/708119213415530496/alecto-the-ninth-cover
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Happy Landfill posted:Someone made a fan-cover for Alecto and it kicks a lot of rear end That is just wow. Absolutely amazing. Edit: some of the work in progress shots here: https://noctilia.tumblr.com/post/708176650299392000/thought-yall-might-enjoy-the-progress-screenshots
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Watching Annie with the wife and kiddo. When the orphans all started dancing to hard knock life i leaned over and whispered "ninth house nursery moments before the gas" and my wife choked on her drink. Annie even has red hair, now I'm wondering how far I can take this joke...
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Feb 5, 2023 02:25
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Any poo poo post can be dragged to the horizon as long as you believe in yourself
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I am reading Harrow the ninth. About to be finished. I don't mind Tamsyn's style. It works well for what she's writing about, but oh my loving god there is just a little too much cringe sometimes. "Awake Remembrance of These Valliant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity" is the dumbest loving thing i've ever read that wasn't a forum post.
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Feb 5, 2023 19:07
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Riot Bimbo posted:I am reading Harrow the ninth. About to be finished. I don't mind Tamsyn's style. It works well for what she's writing about, but oh my loving god there is just a little too much cringe sometimes. It's incredible
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Feb 5, 2023 20:28
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Yeah I'm fine with it. That sort of over-the-top but self-aware cringe is very much in the tradition of Douglas Adams / Terry Pratchett, and sits pretty well in between all the more deathly serious themes.
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I found this recently and really liked it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFdQ2Yl5o5s
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah I'm fine with it. That sort of over-the-top but self-aware cringe is very much in the tradition of Douglas Adams / Terry Pratchett, and sits pretty well in between all the more deathly serious themes. it's fine but it's the stuff i enjoy least i guess? like it doesn't gently caress with the story really it's just like brief flashes of "this should've been dropped in a revision probably" + cringe
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Feb 5, 2023 22:02
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There's an explanation of why BOE names are like that in the appendices, but that certainly is peak tamsyn
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It works for me, since it’s the first full BoE name we get and the first direct pre-Resurrection cultural reference we get that isn’t Jod regurgitating memes that can be excused as the author’s voice. And it’s also acknowledged as being incredibly dumb even for a BoE name.
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My only complaint is that Jod never mocked her by calling her Commander Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.
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Riot Bimbo posted:it's fine but it's the stuff i enjoy least i guess? like it doesn't gently caress with the story really it's just like brief flashes of "this should've been dropped in a revision probably" + cringe I think in the afterword for Nona, Tamsyn mentions that her editor convinced her to use less memes in Nona and going forward, so you're not the only one who dislikes it. I enjoyed the memes and thought they added to the off-kilter feel of the writing, but it seems like a lot of people hated 'em.
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I like how the memes and dumb jokes are entirely in keeping with the setting, and I would enjoy them even if they weren't. Turns out jokes and funny things are good.
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I still want to know which meme it was she slipped in to Nona that Carl didn't notice until someone pointed it out after reading the ARC
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Happy Landfill posted:I still want to know which meme it was she slipped in to Nona that Carl didn't notice until someone pointed it out after reading the ARC If it’s someone telling Pash that of course they have blue hair and pronouns… I think someone posted the differences between the ARC and hardcover on Reddit but I can’t find it now.
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mewse posted:I think in the afterword for Nona, Tamsyn mentions that her editor convinced her to use less memes in Nona and going forward, so you're not the only one who dislikes it. The impression I got from that was more that if she didn't have her editor reining her in, the memes would come even thicker and deeper until you needed scuba gear and not just hip waders.
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It's not even like there were that many fewer memes in Nona, it's just that you only notice like half of them if you grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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cptn_dr posted:It's not even like there were that many fewer memes in Nona, it's just that you only notice like half of them if you grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand. yeah nona has loads of memes
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I am loving these books, to be clear. this was a minor irk, and the one i quoted specifically was the most egregious "i dont think i enjoyed that" moment. John follows up with a brutal dad joke a few pages later and it made me giggle like an idiot even though the vibe was more or less the same, so like understand how non-severe this complaint is. I'm several dozen pages into Nona so far and mostly wondering what the hell. Is this gonna be as mind-hosed as Harrow The Ninth? That book really did capture the vibe of a highly disorienting and unpleasant dream
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Feb 6, 2023 22:19
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Yes, in a different way. It rewards rereading because there's loads of stuff that Nona sees but really doesn't understand. Also read the short story, written in haste or w/e, it's got a lot of important context vvv ty
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Riot Bimbo posted:Is this gonna be as mind-hosed as Harrow The Ninth? That book really did capture the vibe of a highly disorienting and unpleasant dream A quote from the author, which I think about regularly; Tamsyn Muir posted:there is no way a book from the POV of Harrowhark Nonagesimus should look or feel or sound anything like a book from the POV of Gideon Nav. Harrow’s brain is a length of rusty barbed wire locked in a box buried in a desert. Gideon’s brain is that YouTube video of the German guy who tries to jump through the ice on a swimming pool but the ice doesn’t break, so he just hurts his arse really badly and he’s lying there going ‘ah, mein Arsch, mein Arsch’ while all his friends kill themselves laughing. Nona’s brain is a GIF I saw of a dog jumping over a really high gate by whirling its tail like a propeller. Seconding reading As Yet Unsent, contextualizes a very important relationship that Nona kind of glazes over in the book. It's available on tordotcom for free if your copy of Harrow doesn't have it.
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For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7c5tQCs1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1wdjysf5x8
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cptn_dr posted:It's not even like there were that many fewer memes in Nona, it's just that you only notice like half of them if you grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand. I asked my Kiwi friend what a pikelet is and they had no idea.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I asked my Kiwi friend what a pikelet is and they had no idea. it's...just a pancake, right? it's just bisquick
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Yeah pikelets are in the Edmonds Cookbook, they're not exactly obscure. That said, if you were born after... I dunno, '95 or so, you might not have heard them called anything other than hotcakes, I think stuff got way more Americanised once the internet hit it big.
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Riot Bimbo posted:I am loving these books, to be clear. this was a minor irk, and the one i quoted specifically was the most egregious "i dont think i enjoyed that" moment. I think the only meme that doesn't land for me is None House With Left Grief. I just feel like that one could have been workshopped a little more. It's a bit clunky. I've warmed up to it in a weird way if only because Harrow, a deeply traumatized , immortal teenager has zero context for what he just said, and also, dude, now is not the time to drop a 10,000 year old meme and that's what makes it funny. I also just worry it's the bit that's going to age the worst. "She was studying the blade" really works because contextually it fits right in with what Harrow is trying to say about Gideon, while also insulting/complimenting her; and the Cool S scene works because the point of the scene is that, regardless of what's on the page, Harrow is reading something that isn't actually there. I feel like Left House stops the scene a bit because I had to take a second to re-contextualize what he was saying...I just feel like it didn't slot in to the conversation as neatly as some of the others did. But I am hardly a meme connoisseur  Nona takes a bit to rev up; I thought it was a little slow at first but once you hit Day 3 things start to get real interesting
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Part of the reason some of the memes are so out of place is because god is an internet shitlord
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Riot Bimbo posted:I'm several dozen pages into Nona so far and mostly wondering what the hell. It's not so much a mindfuck as a really positive mindset child's adventure through a dystopian hellscape.
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silvergoose posted:Part of the reason some of the memes are so out of place is because god is an internet shitlord God is a poo poo lord. Just a pathetic, sopping wet man, who is also God.
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Riot Bimbo posted:I am loving these books, to be clear. this was a minor irk, and the one i quoted specifically was the most egregious "i dont think i enjoyed that" moment. If you're into books that feel like a nightmare you can't wake up from, try The Pattern Scars the author married Peter Watts and I could not possibly be less surprised
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Google Jeb Bush posted:If you're into books that feel like a nightmare you can't wake up from, try The Pattern Scars
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