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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 I think's it's WHARGARBL since it seems I'm the only one who noticed.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I think's it's WHARGARBL since it seems I'm the only one who noticed. Wait, where does that show up? I'm completely blanking
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 17:37 |
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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 Oh God
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Bayham Badger posted:A quote from the author, which I think about regularly; This motherfucker really took the strongest sense of POV I've encountered in fiction and boiled her own writing down to loving memes. I love it.
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 17:06 |
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I honestly think that's one of my favorite quotes from her
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Happy Landfill posted:Wait, where does that show up? I'm completely blanking About midway through the book, Nona wakes up and shakes herself making a whargarbl sound. IIRC.
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 21:12 |
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I've done that! Also in the shower, like a dog with its face in a sprinkler
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 04:34 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:About midway through the book, Nona wakes up and shakes herself making a whargarbl sound. IIRC. It’s in the beginning of chapter 16: quote:Nona rubbed her eyes and struggled to sit up; she had been about to say the same thing, but all that came out was “Wharrgarbl.”
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 04:34 |
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How did I miss that
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# ? Feb 9, 2023 05:03 |
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Happy Landfill posted:How did I miss that Because it totally works in scene and context and Nona would absolutely say and think exactly that. It's one of the more unobtrusive ones somehow.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:My only complaint is that Jod never mocked her by calling her Commander Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. I mean he did call her "Commander Wake Me Up Inside"
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Zorak of Michigan posted:My only complaint is that Jod never mocked her by calling her Commander Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. There's still one more book to go. It could still happen
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 03:08 |
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Happy Landfill posted:There's still one more book to go. It could still happen Possibly, but Jod's reaction to original Gideon shooting her dead rear end indicates that not even he could keep her around or bring her back. OTOH, with superGod necromancy in play from whatever source who the gently caress knows?
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 05:39 |
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Happy Landfill posted:There's still one more book to go. It could still happen Don't keep me hangin' on like a yo-yo!
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 06:07 |
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https://imgur.com/a/eAnKXot Didn't catch this before, but seemingly a reference to this https://www.somethingawful.com/flash-tub/sonic-he-man/ (requires something capable of playing flash e.g. the emulator for Chrome). My money is on a reference to this https://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/firemancomics/aborted.htm being in there somewhere as well.
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 21:15 |
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I woulnd't be entirely surprised, Tamsyn has made the Gideon/Harrow/He-Man/Skeletor comparison before. I do also appreciate adding more "Tamsyn Was/Is A Goon" fuel to my fire I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread yet but I guess Tamsyn mentioned there being an upcoming sequel to Floralinda, called Queen Floralinda Takes Her Throne. Unfortunately the link to the interview (from fall 2022) doesn't seem to be working, so this tumblr post is the only source I have right now https://www.tumblr.com/chillyweirdoinacoffin/709156001704738816/princess-floralinda-2-news?source=share I want more Cobweb
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 21:59 |
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didnt know tim tebow was a tlt fan
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 20:02 |
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Jod bless
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 06:57 |
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re nona: loving friendship bracelets, what the gently caress
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 05:02 |
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You know, with a lot of authors, the seeming lack of meaningful social change in broader human society over ten thousand years would seem, uh, rather unimaginative. To put it politely. But instead it feels extremely right for this society forged by loving trillionaires to basically be trapped in eternal capitalist realism with a side order of "end of history" bullshit. Yes, some questionable motives on his part as well, but when that thought sorted itself properly in my brain I suddenly became a lot more sympathetic to Jod.
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disposablewords posted:You know, with a lot of authors, the seeming lack of meaningful social change in broader human society over ten thousand years would seem, uh, rather unimaginative. To put it politely. But instead it feels extremely right for this society forged by loving trillionaires to basically be trapped in eternal capitalist realism with a side order of "end of history" bullshit. One you get that their plan was leverage the genius/time/resources of the Earth to build them FTL spaceships so they could skip out and leave the rest of Earth to rot in the waste of the trillionaires' selfish, thoughtless decisions, Jod's "Die you mother-fuckers, die!" seems pretty reasonable.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 05:32 |
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John is very complicated but you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 07:19 |
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Reclaimer posted:John is very complicated but you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him. "How many babies did you kill, John?"
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 08:01 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:"How many babies did you kill, John?"
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 09:23 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:"How many babies did you kill, John?" He, uh, he used a word that means a lot of dudes
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 10:19 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:"How many babies did you kill, John?"
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 10:25 |
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Reclaimer posted:John is very complicated but you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him. No, you don't, but you should be able to understand/empathize with his rage without condoning the actions he took in response to it.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 16:48 |
Honestly feels like one of the major themes of the entire series.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 17:08 |
I would choose to do the major crimes against the rich, and that's before they try to abandon us!
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 17:15 |
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M_Gargantua posted:I would choose to do the major crimes against the rich, and that's before they try to abandon us! I don't even think it's that they abandoned the world. If they'd just used some of their own money, quietly built ships and left, that would be one thing. From what I gather though, they used and used up the rest of Earth's resources to falsely indicate that they were saving as many as possible and then fled Earth to leave most of the planet to die in the waste that they left behind. That's why it was something Jod can never forgive. It wasn't that the rich were saving themselves, it's that they were saving themselves by effectively killing everybody else.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 18:25 |
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I mean, who has the monopoly on telling that whole story? A 10,000 year-old Twitch streamer who lies like he breathes and calls himself loving God.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 18:55 |
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Everyone posted:I don't even think it's that they abandoned the world. If they'd just used some of their own money, quietly built ships and left, that would be one thing. From what I gather though, they used and used up the rest of Earth's resources to falsely indicate that they were saving as many as possible and then fled Earth to leave most of the planet to die in the waste that they left behind. That's why it was something Jod can never forgive. It wasn't that the rich were saving themselves, it's that they were saving themselves by effectively killing everybody else. He murdered an entire solar system down to the bacteria
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 20:33 |
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Yeah but he had good intentions
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 21:19 |
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Harold Fjord posted:Yeah but he had good intentions Also he's really really sorry (but would absolutely do it again in a heartbeat lol)
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 23:00 |
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They just made him so mad, you know?
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 23:15 |
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Zorak of Michigan posted:They just made him so mad, you know? Looks into your eyes with utter sincerity: I regret murdering the entire biosphere so very very much
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Harold Fjord posted:Yeah but he had good intentions “don’t say spite, don’t say spite”
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sebmojo posted:Looks into your eyes with utter sincerity: I regret murdering the entire biosphere so very very much While thinking, Because of those pesky Resurrection Beasts. I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling super-powerful ghost abominations.
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 01:16 |
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Harold Fjord posted:Yeah but he had good intentions cows look at sunsets too
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dude plays ipad games at the table during family breakfast and that poo poo is unforgivable
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