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cptn_dr posted:It's such a naked cash grab. This is the same publisher that charged novel price for the Murderbot novellas.
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I just read the mysterious study of dr sex and man what a delightful little story. I love how crisp and precise the characterisation of the houses is, always exaggerated but never caricatured.
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sebmojo posted:I just read the mysterious study of dr sex and man what a delightful little story. I love how crisp and precise the characterisation of the houses is, always exaggerated but never caricatured. doctor sex: doctor sex
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Luigi Thirty posted:doctor sex: doctor sex I'm imagining a "space" version of Doctor Detroit
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Everyone posted:I'm imagining a "space" version of Doctor Detroit It’s an old meme. https://twitter.com/reactjpg/status/1363726409412190213?s=20
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OK so I am re-reading HtN and towards the end of Ch14, Harrow is talking to Jod about how she was created and he says "they [Harrow's parents] did something nigh-on impossible. I know, because I have committed the same act, and I know the price I had to pay. Thalergetic modification of an embryo is difficult enough, but to achieve the same thing with thanergy..." I'm wondering if we know specifically what he's referring to? Best I can think of is with the people he resurrected and gave some of necromantic power? I'm also curious he references being thanergy being more difficult... is the implication that he harneses thalergy via Alecto...? It would make a certain sense - having a planet worth of life as your other half would seem to readily supply far more thanergy than you consume in the usual lyctoral process, but does this mean he's working with a side of magic that [other, regular] lyctors are wholly tuned out of? Like what Harrow/Gideon have sort of botched into might come close, but would both explain the miracles of Jod (even beyond a "mere" lyctor) as well as what may be to come in AtN.
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I think the House population needed minor generic modification in order to survive in the pile of cramped deep space habitats under the glare of a deadly death sun that make up Dominicus. He also needed them to have necromantic power and not wither as embryos.
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Zierham posted:OK so I am re-reading HtN and towards the end of Ch14, Harrow is talking to Jod about how she was created and he says "they [Harrow's parents] did something nigh-on impossible. I know, because I have committed the same act, and I know the price I had to pay. Thalergetic modification of an embryo is difficult enough, but to achieve the same thing with thanergy..." I'm wondering if we know specifically what he's referring to? Best I can think of is with the people he resurrected and gave some of necromantic power? I'm also curious he references being thanergy being more difficult... is the implication that he harneses thalergy via Alecto...? It would make a certain sense - having a planet worth of life as your other half would seem to readily supply far more thanergy than you consume in the usual lyctoral process, but does this mean he's working with a side of magic that [other, regular] lyctors are wholly tuned out of? Like what Harrow/Gideon have sort of botched into might come close, but would both explain the miracles of Jod (even beyond a "mere" lyctor) as well as what may be to come in AtN. M_Gargantua posted:I think the House population needed minor generic modification in order to survive in the pile of cramped deep space habitats under the glare of a deadly death sun that make up Dominicus. He also needed them to have necromantic power and not wither as embryos. Except that most people don't have necromantic power as I understood it. I always thought Jod was comparing it to Resurrection when talking about that. Honestly the vibe I got from Jod during that scene was that he was having to force himself not to say something like "Oh my me, that is soooo coool!" Jod seemed to be pretty much astonished, not simply that Harrow's parents had committed such a horrific crime, but that the whole thing had actually worked as intended instead of resulting in a bunch of dead children and the Ninth House planet getting blown in half by all that thanergy.
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I still think The Body had to come from somewhere, I'm guessing he turned an infant or fetus into an avatar.
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Some fanartists just have giant brains, this is such a fun concept https://twitter.com/Sirens_outro/status/1639334873574809600
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Hargrimm posted:Some fanartists just have giant brains, this is such a fun concept strong destiny 2 energy here we see Warlock Harrow after she has turned Jod into a gun
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redleader posted:i cannot get over this one Jesus.
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redleader posted:i cannot get over this one I guess I'd never properly pictured Gideon wearing her sunglasses but drat if that doesn't look badass as all gently caress.
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pseudorandom name posted:How have you never seen the cover to Gideon the Ninth? I've seen it but just never really looked that closely at it.
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sebmojo posted:It took me a while to realize they were aviators and not just black skull eyes, too They’re the Dave Strider glasses, which were the ones Ben Stiller wore in Starsky and Hutch.
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With all the Barbie movie meme posting now would be a hell of a time to reveal the Alecto cover
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Happy Landfill posted:With all the Barbie movie meme posting now would be a hell of a time to reveal the Alecto cover Movie version: Margot Robbie as Barbie as Alecto.
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Margo Robbie as Alecto works great. I still can't think of a better Gideon than Karen Gillan but thats probably most of the red hair. The problem with casting Harrow is you need someone who can change their affect between Harrow, Gideon, and Nona. Casting Pyrrha is the second most difficult, since you need a dude who looks like the Rock acting like Mélanie Laurent But Mélanie Laurent as Mercy and Daniel Brühl gets to be Augustine Erin Moriarty as Corona, Brie Larson (because of short term 12 not any disney stuff) as Ianthe. But Rosie Huntington-Whiteley would also be a fair choice. Taika Waititi is of course Jod. Penelope Wilton as Aiglamene, Brendan Coyle as Crux. Isla Fisher as Pash, Deborah Ann Woll as her aunt and Gideon's mum Commander Wake. So what are we up to like $450M in casting budget alone? Lets not do that and just hire a bunch of British actors who work for reasonable rates.
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M_Gargantua posted:So what are we up to like $450M in casting budget alone? Lets not do that and just hire a bunch of British actors who work for reasonable rates. Or, and hear me out here, they could cast Māori people as Māori characters. (I know it's hypothetical, but there's few enough opportunities for Māori people who aren't Taika or Cliff Curtis at the best of times). Actually, Rachel House would make a fuckin great We Suffer.
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cptn_dr posted:Or, and hear me out here, they could cast Māori people as Māori characters. Why not suggest some? Rachel house is a great start.
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Sorry, I shouldn't get snappy, I'm just still haunted by Ender's Game (which was always going to be bad, to be fair) casting Ben Kingsley as a Māori man because gently caress it, he's brown that's fine. I guess the difficult thing about it is that you'd want actual teenagers, or at least people in their early 20s, to play Gideon and Harrow. Fifteen years ago I'd have said Keisha Castle-Hughes could probably have played Harrow, but she's a bit old for it now. If Erana James cut her hair short and bulked up a bit, I reckon she could make a solid Gideon, but only because Ruby Tui is a rugby player and not an actor so probably isn't up for the role.  
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TBH, Erana James would also be incredibly good for Harrow, which wouldn't involve her getting shredded which is probably healthier. Editing so I don't triple-post: Give Jay Kiriona another 5 years and he could be Pyrrha.   Thomasin McKenzie would make a good Dulcinea, though I suppose strictly speaking not everyone needs to be played by a kiwi. Ilaisaane Green has been Judith in my head ever since I saw her in Brutal Lives where she plays a boxer. 
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Sorry, I didn't mean to kill the thread with my random aggro. As penance, please take this fine piece of fanart I saw on Tumblr. 
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Tarot deck but every card is a nine (Yes, yes, there's other houses)
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Nona is The World Gideon is The Fool
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Spotted some pretty awesome cosplay at Sakura Con over the weekend  https://twitter.com/cassylvan/status/1644747304283549697?s=20 https://twitter.com/heykrashly/status/1645119140653563906?s=20 https://twitter.com/ibyxii/status/1645600171701727232?s=20
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Locked Tomb cosplay you say? https://twitter.com/ClaireMax/status/1640997421017878528?t=4aopWa3_m0qxhhefPVKNkQ&s=19
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Wow those are the best I've seen
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The Repo Man posted:Locked Tomb cosplay you say? That’s amazing
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So hold on, are all (most?) of the houses meant to be descended/created from Maori people? I kinda got that it was heavily implied that Jod was Maori, and that a lot of the Houses were patched together from his resurrected-and-mindwiped lab-mates, who were generally folk from Aotearoa New Zealand, but I kinda missed that.
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Nah, they're not ALL Māori, but Gideon and Harrow pretty clearly are, and so is OG Gideon. Extra-canon notes (so not really text and you can ignore them if you like) are explicit about various ethnicity and culture for the Necros and Cavs from book one, but you can ignore that if you want. I am personally pretty fond of the idea that John only resurrected New Zealanders and so the entire Dominicus system has the same ethnic/cultural makeup as Aotearoa in ~2035, but there's not that much textual evidence for it (outside of Taz saying stuff like "I write Kiwis in Space". But it does mean that the wider cast should have lots more Pasifika characters, and Māori, and a lot of Asian characters alongside the Pākehā that you'd expect. I mostly just think the impulse to head-cast the majority of the cast as white is understandable but should be avoided, even though most actors people know ARE white because Hollywood is still racist as hell. But 100% Silas is the whitest motherfucker anyone has ever seen, and that's a hill I'll die on. Naberius too.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:So hold on, are all (most?) of the houses meant to be descended/created from Maori people? I kinda got that it was heavily implied that Jod was Maori, and that a lot of the Houses were patched together from his resurrected-and-mindwiped lab-mates, who were generally folk from Aotearoa New Zealand, but I kinda missed that. No, the houses aren’t specifically Māori. They’re a mix of everything representing the country at least going by the character descriptions as of GtN. Gotta love the Third twins being the whitest motherfuckers in space outside of Silas. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Māori and Asian (e.g Chinese/Japanese/vietnamese) are both ~17% of nz roughly Commander wake as described looks very Māori and John explicitly is iirc, so Gideon definitely would be.
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sebmojo posted:Māori and Asian (e.g Chinese/Japanese/vietnamese) are both ~17% of nz roughly Is Wake from one of the Houses or is she descended from one of the Elon Musk-types that escaped John's tantrum?
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