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I really hate comparing pedophilia to homosexuality. gently caress off.
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Aug 19, 2023 22:53
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StrixNebulosa posted:I really hate comparing pedophilia to homosexuality. gently caress off. as soon as I saw the multi paragraph post and the word pedophilia I went  but actually think they avoided posting anything actually probeworthy, much like neo engagin bulletime
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Aug 19, 2023 23:00
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I confess I have a kneejerk reaction that’s really hostile when I see those two things compared. Fortunately I don’t moderate here so I don’t have to make any decisions on this post.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:03
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on happier notes have been liking the start of mistwraith. Like 10% in. Reading about sailing makes me want to read the Patrick o Brian book I’m hablfway through. But it’s entertaining!
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Aug 19, 2023 23:06
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Everyone posted:If the only way he expresses that is in his writing (and then relatively subtly), that's a pretty good outcome for that situation. I mean, as far as I know, there's no real "cure" or fully effective treatment for something like that. There's just trying to train the person with those desires/urges to avoid indulging/expressing them in ways that victimize and harm real children. Boy that's quite a rap sheet to be throwing this poo poo around
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Aug 19, 2023 23:07
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Username/post uncombo for sure.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:20
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StrixNebulosa posted:I confess I have a kneejerk reaction that’s really hostile when I see those two things compared. Fortunately I don’t moderate here so I don’t have to make any decisions on this post. I'm not "comparing them" in the sense that I'm saying that they're similar or close to each other. They absolutely are not. And if anything I'm comparing pedophilia just as much to being straight. LGBTQ+ people who express their sexual orientation are doing the normal, healthy good thing. So are straight people. Neither of them are anything like pedophiles and the like. My point is that pedos, etc. are broken and damaged in a basic, fundamental aspect of their person-hood. Because of that they are extremely hard if not impossible to fully heal.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:23
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Then much like DV offenders the solution is to imprison them permanently, problem solved
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Aug 19, 2023 23:25
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Not the place for this convo imo.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:43
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Glad the pedophilia explainer logged on.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:53
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glad anthony didn't write firefly and dedicate it to his convicted mates or anything Even if it's actually hebephilia or whatever, you do not under any circumstances have to hand it to him.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:02
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think long and hard before you begin typing the second paragraph of a post discussing pedophilia
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Aug 20, 2023 00:09
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So. Read any good books lately?
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Aug 20, 2023 00:10
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? I posted about your girl janny!!
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Aug 20, 2023 00:11
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? Bang Bang Bodhisattva was pretty cool.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:15
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? I started going through my TBR pile, and I'm reading Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan. It's a cracking good time so far!
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Aug 20, 2023 00:23
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I've just finished Project Hail Mary and it felt very much like the Martian but different science. Is Artemis more of the same? Also, about 1/4 into Steel Frame. I forgot how much jargon crunchy sci Fi heaps on you. Beyond that it's pretty good. It requires slightly closer reading that the power reading most casual SFF asks of you, and I'm digging it.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:28
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? No. I tried to read System Universe and Battle Mage Farmer because they're lit rpg that are mildly praised and uh.... my god low standards sure are a thing huh?
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Aug 20, 2023 00:31
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Everyone posted:If the only way he expresses that is in his writing (and then relatively subtly), that's a pretty good outcome for that situation. I mean, as far as I know, there's no real "cure" or fully effective treatment for something like that. There's just trying to train the person with those desires/urges to avoid indulging/expressing them in ways that victimize and harm real children. Steer up thread
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Aug 20, 2023 00:36
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? Just finished the goon-authored Heart of Bones. I had a few quibbles with it, but it was enjoyable and I really want the next book in what I hope turns into a series to come out in the Spring.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:36
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Captain Monkey posted:No. I tried to read System Universe and Battle Mage Farmer because they're lit rpg that are mildly praised and uh.... my god low standards sure are a thing huh? I really don't get some of the praise these things get. I can even remember which one, it may have been a Will Wright one since they had a handful of his stuff free recently, but I managed a few pages before I just quit. I mean, I liked Legends and Lattes for what it was, but some of this stuff is absolutely nothing. It's not even bad it's just the blandest grayest sense of nothing.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:40
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? Nope Bg3 just came out, nerds
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Aug 20, 2023 00:40
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Nope AC6 is next week, I'm not sure what you're busy with until then.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:45
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StrixNebulosa posted:So. Read any good books lately? I'm slowly working my way through the left hand of darkness. Its easily the best book I've read in years
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Aug 20, 2023 00:45
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I'm still reading Dune! It's very good I don't know if you've heard of it
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Aug 20, 2023 00:46
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VostokProgram posted:I'm slowly working my way through the left hand of darkness. Its easily the best book I've read in years I have Lathe of Heaven in my queue, this might bumped the LeGuin to the top for me
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Aug 20, 2023 00:48
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Lots to unpack there but I'm hung up on "relatively subtly". Edit: Sorry didn't refresh the page before posting
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Aug 20, 2023 00:49
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Bilirubin posted:I have Lathe of Heaven in my queue, this might bumped the LeGuin to the top for me It’s much less good than TLHoD. Would recommend almost any other LeGuin over it tbh.
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Ravus Ursus posted:I really don't get some of the praise these things get. I can even remember which one, it may have been a Will Wright one since they had a handful of his stuff free recently, but I managed a few pages before I just quit. I mean, I liked Legends and Lattes for what it was, but some of this stuff is absolutely nothing. It's not even bad it's just the blandest grayest sense of nothing. My standards are low enough to read Will Wight. but the other two... goddamn, literally just go google the word fanfic and you'll find better writing, goons.
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Aug 20, 2023 00:55
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buffalo all day posted:It’s much less good than TLHoD. Would recommend almost any other LeGuin over it tbh. I have already read Left Hand and several others, but have not yet read Lathe or Word for World is Forest
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Aug 20, 2023 00:57
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buffalo all day posted:It’s much less good than TLHoD. Would recommend almost any other LeGuin over it tbh. I'd agree based on the LeGuin I've read but I feel like it's worth establishing that Lathe is still a pretty standout sci fi novel nonetheless. LeGuin's floor for quality is a lot of other sci fi writers' ceilings edit: not saying this to poo poo on other writers so much as praise everything I've ever read by LeGuin, lol
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Aug 20, 2023 01:05
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VostokProgram posted:I'm slowly working my way through the left hand of darkness. Its easily the best book I've read in years
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buffalo all day posted:I posted about your girl janny!! Yeah!! And I'm so glad you're enjoying it so far! Keep us posted as the plot begins to kick into gear! Also to answer my own question, I'm reading Lilith Saintcrow's Rouje Kith and enjoying myself, even if it's less horror than I was expecting. It's also very similar to her past works, but whatever I love reading about her traumatized heroines meeting super protective super devoted dudes who protect them as the supernatural world throws violence at them. I've also decided to just stop putting it off and I've purchased a few books - - The Fellowship of the Ring, mass market paperback edition to match the Two Towers and Return of the King set that I already have. I don't need like three copies of this book/trilogy, but also no one can tell me not to have that much lotr in the house. - The final volume of the Gandalara Cycle, because I deserve to have a full set of old-school isekai sword n' sorcery adventures written by a married couple. Also the dude and his partner get their very own giant rideable talking telepathic cats!!! - Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Baring-Gould edition) because why the hell not. I'm loving the idea of digging into these stories with expansive footnotes, so I get all the fantasy-esque worldbuilding alongside classic mystery stories. As I recall B-G also really tried to go for the fiction that Holmes was a real person, so it's technically fantasy as well, similar to the Klinger Annotated Dracula.
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I don't' remember if it was here or the horror thread but thank you to everyone who recommended Hollow. It was good even if I didn't totally get the time travel stuff.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Yeah!! And I'm so glad you're enjoying it so far! Keep us posted as the plot begins to kick into gear! Best part of my bookshelf: 
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Aug 20, 2023 01:27
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Oh hell yeah that's the good stuff. I have that very copy of LeGuin's stuff and it's impossible to read without a table but I'll never give it up.
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I've been reading The Spear Cuts Through Water at a slow pace, enjoying the prose, but thenHieronymous Alloy posted:Bg3 just came out, nerds
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After struggling with it for way too long, I finally DNF'd The Archive Undying at around 70% of the way through. I can't remember the last time I encountered a book with such a cool setting that I wanted to know so much more about, but couldn't actually finish because the page-to-page events were just so loving tedious. I even like the characters! I just wish they would do something. I can recommend this one for the cozy fiction readers though, because it is a book overwhelmingly concerned with making food, caring or being cared for, and Feeling Things. Every once in a while, a giant robot shows up for a few pages. Sometimes they talk about a neat take on AIs and their cultures. It's possible the last 25% of the book is all robots all the time, but I will never know. Also finished Watership Down for the first time, and that is a masterpiece that deserves its reputation. If I'd known it had such a strong mythological component I would have read it earlier, the stories of El-ahrairah are wonderful and remind me a great deal of the Native American mythology I was immersed in as a kid. Also, if you've only seen the movie or read the book, it's absolutely worth checking out the other: the book is the superior version of the story, but the film does a wonderful job of bringing the all-important landscape to life, and its interpretation of Fiver's shamanic episodes is great. Next in the audiobook queue is Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, which I've had on the list for years, but I can only read one Powers book a year at most: he's one of my favorite authors, but he's strong medicine. In print, I started Jurassic Park because I've had this drat thing stuck in my head for two weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5z1wXFzVF4 ... and the only way to exorcise it is to read a 400 page book, apparently. This is definitely not one of the great works of literature, but boy is it a page-turner. Was amused to see that Crichton would later re-use "Doctor Carter" in ER a few years later. buffalo all day posted:Best part of my bookshelf: Unspeakably jealous of that illustrated Earthsea. Vess's art style would be great for Earthsea, although I have to admit I'm always going to be a fan of the style from the old Bantam Spectra covers: 
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