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Drakyn posted:
sebmojo posted:Naw, we would say yup, but yop is a reasonable equivalent, like that's what it sounds like when we talk I know a guy (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) who uses it, but I dunno where he picked it up. But it's always felt right to me because of that. But also yeah, what Mojo said, our accent means we only have one vowel sound, two if we're feeling fancy. (Fush and Chups, Nu Zullind, etc etc)
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Dawgstar posted:Reading Nona put the booties on Noodle lead me to think that Muir had done that herself a time or two. https://twitter.com/pilpopilpo/status/1645823178084610049?s=20
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 07:45 |
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sebmojo posted:Naw, we would say yup, but yop is a reasonable equivalent, like that's what it sounds like when we talk cptn_dr posted:I know a guy (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) who uses it, but I dunno where he picked it up. But it's always felt right to me because of that. But also yeah, what Mojo said, our accent means we only have one vowel sound, two if we're feeling fancy. i guess there really are no acceptable white commonwealth countries
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 08:34 |
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Google Jeb Bush posted:i guess there really are no acceptable white commonwealth countries ??
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https://twitter.com/AcousticMalta/status/1577763084894146578?t=HWyzqTZTiXGRdw_P0w3ZhQ&s=19 Canon
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 16:49 |
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The heart bouncing off Harrow is always my favorite part.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 09:03 |
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Reclaimer posted:It's one of Lana Kane's catchphrases in Archer, like an aggressive "you are not stopping me" assertion. this is exactly how i read it
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 10:37 |
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pop culture reference or weird new zealand quirk? impossible to tell with this series
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 12:30 |
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Reclaimer posted:It's one of Lana Kane's catchphrases in Archer, like an aggressive "you are not stopping me" assertion. Thanks for catching this - when reading and listening to it in book, it always felt familiar but I couldn't place it. Dunno if this is the intended "source" but it's 100% the same vibe.
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 15:50 |
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"What is this 'internet'?" "See? I did create a utopia."
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 17:08 |
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The Unwanted Guest officially announced as the short story title in the paperback https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1684279160695410688?s=20
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 04:40 |
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I would like to chew someone’s face off metaphorically for deciding the short stories don’t get included in the audiobooks
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 02:56 |
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Same, if only to hear Quirk have another go with Mercymorn
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 03:30 |
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Is it just me or Nona was kinda meh?
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 09:42 |
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I think it's weaker than the other two but I could still enjoy just spending time with the characters, plus getting a look from outside Jod's empire. It does feel a bit stretched out, though that makes a lot of sense given it was the first act of Alecto that just kept expanding on Muir. I'm willing to forgive a lot at the moment, though, because I just tried to pick up Wheel of Time again and before I was fifty pages into a book all urge to read just slid completely out of my brain and dribbled out my ears.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 09:53 |
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Sekenr posted:Is it just me or Nona was kinda meh? It hits a lot better second time through, but I liked it as much as the other two overall
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 10:22 |
My current ranking is Harrow, Gideon, Nona, but I still adore the book, it's just up against...two of my favorite books. Like, Nona compares pretty well to a lot of other sff I've read in the last decade, just doesn't blow them away like Harrow does, and wasn't the pure unadulterated joy reading Gideon for the first time was. I'll also say Harrow was not my favorite the first read, or the second.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 11:46 |
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The major tone change with Harrow prepared me for another tone change with Nona, and then Nona wasn't as mystifying as Harrow either so I enjoyed it more. I have Gideon as my fav, followed by Nona, followed by Harrow.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 15:39 |
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I didn't appreciate the ghost plot of Harrow enough the first time around because I was very confused and thought the ghost was Alecto. But it had a bunch of other cool stuff that I loved so Harrow is still my favorite and then probably Gideon then probably Nona but Nona will move up when I reread them all again Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jul 28, 2023 |
# ? Jul 28, 2023 17:57 |
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Nona didn't jump around chronologically and "x days until the Tomb opens" wasn't quite as "what the gently caress is going to happen" suspenseful as "x days until the Emperor is murdered" so it's a bit less of a mindfuck of a story Harrow also has that eureka moment when you, the reader, realize she did a find-and-replace in her brain and for me nothing in Nona quite matched that I really liked Nona though! She and Noodle are my friends. FuturePastNow fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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what, slice of life in a war torn hellhole with some body snatcher shenanigans on the side isnt yalls favorite genre?
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 18:02 |
Robo Reagan posted:what, slice of life in a war torn hellhole with some body snatcher shenanigans on the side isnt yalls favorite genre? I've never experienced it before, so I can't say that it is! Good intro to it though
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 18:04 |
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Harrow is my favorite of the three but I appreciate them all greatly. It’s like trying to pick between which piece of the Neapolitan ice cream I like best.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 18:21 |
Luigi Thirty posted:Harrow is my favorite of the three but I appreciate them all greatly. It’s like trying to pick between which piece of the Neapolitan ice cream I like best. What's the fourth flavor, I'm worried for Alecto now
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 18:47 |
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silvergoose posted:What's the fourth flavor, I'm worried for Alecto now
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 18:58 |
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FuturePastNow posted:I really liked Nona though! She and Noodle are my friends. Nona loves you.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 21:26 |
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silvergoose posted:What's the fourth flavor, I'm worried for Alecto now Vanilla - Gideon, what many will consider a straightforward flavor if they don't think about it too deeply Chocolate - Harrow, a bit rich and to be savored Strawberry - Alecto, because Barbie jokes Nona is the sprinkles that just poured out everywhere I didn't think they'd come flooding out of the shaker like this, poo poo poo poo poo poo!
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 22:05 |
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Dawgstar posted:Nona loves you. I know and I worry for her health.
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 22:13 |
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disposablewords posted:Vanilla - Gideon, what many will consider a straightforward flavor if they don't think about it too deeply Perfect. If you some how Lyctored them all into one ice cream cone, they'd be a Neapolitan! (with sprinkles)
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# ? Jul 28, 2023 23:41 |
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I'd like to see Calvin and Hobbes strips drawn using characters from TLT, does this already exist somewhere?
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# ? Jul 29, 2023 16:42 |
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John telling Harrow that she needs to finish her tea and biscuits because it builds character.
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 03:34 |
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Gideon Without Gideon in the style of Garfield Without Garfield
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 14:16 |
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FuturePastNow posted:Gideon Without Gideon in the style of Garfield Without Garfield so Harrow?
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 14:39 |
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ORTUSfield ate all the lasagna....but the lasagna is sitting here, untouched. *Blood leaks from every cranial orifice.* Mondays!
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 19:28 |
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Congratulations Commander, you're going to give birth to a healthy litter of puppies.
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# ? Jul 30, 2023 22:09 |
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it's totally a highdea but I was thinking about narration in books. GtN was third person, HtN was second, Nona was third person as well but that book was mostly a happy little accident and also had a limited omniscience narrator I think so maybe that's also counts for changing narration? I wonder if AtN will be first person
Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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StumblyWumbly posted:I'd like to see Calvin and Hobbes strips drawn using characters from TLT, does this already exist somewhere? https://twitter.com/lambocalypse/status/1565177376266457088?s=20
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# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:25 |
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Just read Muir's short story, Undercover, and it's definitely a must read for fans of her work. Hoping she'll flesh out the world further and give readers a bigger bite. Folks have any recommendations for similar writers?
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 00:42 |
Similar is such a difficult task, I find her writing so unique. For stuff kinda maybe in the same vein I'd suggest The Dawnhounds, by one of our very own thread posters and also a NZ author And Saint Death's Daughter, which very much works in the necromancers are loving weird space
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:42 |
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I recently started Seven Blades in Black and the main protagonist hits pretty similar to Gideon. Edit: The audiobook's narrator is also pretty good, though it's hard to beat Quirk. Reclaimer fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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