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Kesper North posted:"This is the gothest book I have ever read. Possibly the gothest book ever written."
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M_Gargantua posted:That ones important because the brain damage doesn't autotranslate it Imagine trying to explain your dad joke to someone and it literally makes then start to bleed out their ears.
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Sep 14, 2023 23:32
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Entropic posted:Imagine trying to explain your dad joke to someone and it literally makes then start to bleed out their ears. Wait that doesn't happen to everyone else when they tell dad jokes?
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Sep 14, 2023 23:40
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Added links to all 3 short stories to the OP.
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Sep 14, 2023 23:47
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 it really is a book about loss edit: 
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Sep 15, 2023 22:21
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I was wondering how Muir would incorporate the greatest meme of our generation, Loss.
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Sep 16, 2023 00:49
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Skibidi toilet references when. More seriously though, is there an official date for when this universe diverges from our own? Is Jod going to be spouting new dank memes from the 2020s?
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Sep 16, 2023 03:38
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No need for that if Jod was just terminally out of date even before the end of the world.
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Sep 16, 2023 03:58
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Saraiguma posted:
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Lead out in cuffs posted:
I think I remember seeing someone establish a rough era based on John remembering attending some real New Zealand-based festival as a teenager, when that festival went defunct in the mid-oughts or something like that.
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Sep 16, 2023 11:54
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Yeah, he went underage drinking at Parachute, which means he was born no later than 1996, but in general I'd say he was probably born between '87 and '92.
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Sep 16, 2023 12:11
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cptn_dr posted:Yeah, he went underage drinking at Parachute, which means he was born no later than 1996, but in general I'd say he was probably born between '87 and '92. Christ, it's uncomfortable to think that the necromantic god-king of the next 10,000 years is younger than me.
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Sep 16, 2023 15:26
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Hmm I was thinking those flashbacks/memories were closer to the end of the 21st century I don't think we'll have FTL ships within the next couple decades
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Sep 16, 2023 15:38
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Soonmot posted:Was this animatic ever posted here? I didn't remember seeing it when I went the thread a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRRtKfJdhI I don't think so, and that's a pro-click. Good choice of music, good scripting in the scenes chosen to tell the story with, and I very much like the character designs they're using. e. Not in the last 8 days anyway, it's a new video.
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Sep 16, 2023 20:14
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Lead out in cuffs posted:More seriously though, is there an official date for when this universe diverges from our own? Is Jod going to be spouting new dank memes from the 2020s? I envisioned the flashbacks as happening somewhere vaguely 2070-2100ish based on how bad the climate had gotten - even if the powers that be continue doing as awful a job on this front as they are currently, we should be several decades out from conditions that'll make rich countries really panic in the way the book depicts (poor countries less so, but global capital will simply ignore escalating misery there) but that doesn't square with posters more knowledgeable about NZ affairs who are saying John had to be born in the 1980s or 90s, I don't think he's meant to be an 80something wizened elder in the flashbacks gonna wave my hands in the air and declare that canon is a fake idea anyway, Muir probably ain't working from a precise timeline cptn_dr posted:Yeah, he went underage drinking at Parachute, which means he was born no later than 1996, but in general I'd say he was probably born between '87 and '92. how likely do you reckon it is that someone revives this festival in the future PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Sep 16, 2023 20:49
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It's sci fi. The world can end sooner than in realistic climate scenarios because the author needed it to. Also, we only have John's word about how the world was ending. For all we know, it could have been caused by his necromantic bullshit in the first place.
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Sep 16, 2023 21:11
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Well it's both. He necromantically caused the nuclear war
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Sep 16, 2023 21:16
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He didn't cause the climate disaster that began before he was born but yeah he did admit to destroying the whole solar system and while he could be lying about that, the truth would have to be pretty bad to be worse
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FuturePastNow posted:he did admit to destroying the whole solar system and while he could be lying about that, the truth would have to be pretty bad to be worse that sounds like a challenge,
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Sep 16, 2023 21:48
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PupsOfWar posted:
Well, it is a Christian rock festival, they're pretty big on resurrections...
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Sep 16, 2023 22:06
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just started my first relisten to Harrow and why exactly did her note tell her to check Ianthe's skull?
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Sep 16, 2023 23:29
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Soonmot posted:just started my first relisten to Harrow and why exactly did her note tell her to check Ianthe's skull? Harrow had used a bone spell on Ianthes jaw to keep her from spilling the secrets and ruining everything. So that had to be intact Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Sep 16, 2023 23:32
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Harold Fjord posted:Harrow had used a bone spell on Ianthes jaw to keep her from spilling the secrets and ruining everything. So that had to be intact YOU ENSORCELLED MY JAW, YOU INSANE BITCH
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Sep 17, 2023 00:28
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sebmojo posted:YOU ENSORCELLED MY JAW, YOU INSANE BITCH every line from her is such solid gold
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Sep 17, 2023 00:55
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“when three people start kissing it is always a cue. A cue to leave.”
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Sep 17, 2023 01:02
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Just finished The Unwanted Guest and I’m so curious about the deal Dulcinea made to apparently become ‘angelic’ and remove herself from the River for good. Her dying the second death.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Just finished The Unwanted Guest and I’m so curious about the deal Dulcinea made to apparently become ‘angelic’ and remove herself from the River for good. Her dying the second death. She made a deal with Aradia.
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Getting to the end of Harrow and it's funny that the ghosts of the cavaliers kicked seven shades of poo poo out of the resurrection beast in the river. which goes back to how Jod is an idiot who did all of this backwards. and as I type I remember G.1 telling Harrow to use more thalergy. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Sep 17, 2023 15:38
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As a plural system with DID, I found certain characters in Nona (and to a lesser extent, Harrow) relatable and jarring in equal measure.
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Happy Landfill posted:If anyone is interested in what Homestuck is about but are unsure about actually reading because it's a) kind of an undertaking and b)maybe you're not that interested in actually reading it yourself, I highly recommend the Homestuck Made This World podcast. It's hosted by two media scholars, one of whom read it live and the other is reading it for the first time, and they go through and recontextualize it historically, based on what was going on in pop culture and the internet as it was being written. GtN is name dropped a couple times and one episode points out bits of HS writing that probably, most definitely inspired HtN. One of their patreon bonus eps also goes over the fanfic Tamsyn is most famous for writing. One of the hosts is a goon and uses the old HS threads as sort of an anchor for what was going on in parts of the fandom as things were happening. It's a great podcast and I'd highly recommend it, if I haven't already done so in this very thread. Just want to bring this back up, I started the first episode and it's very funny how many times they mention SA. Seems extremely well made, I'll plan on listening to the run.
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Further musings from my partner as she reads Gideon:quote:Harrow just supposed that the true answer to the puzzles is to find out where they get the thanergy. The 6th thinks its unsustainable. I think they're both right and, as a people, they use conquest as a source of thanergy. quote:Also, of all the horrible and bloody things that have happened, Dulcinea's house deliberately breeding necromancers so they are prone to cancer and thus slowly dying and producing their own power as they do so, is the worst. I said in response "You may be getting the impression that the Nine Houses are, in fact, the baddies." She replied: quote:I'd been getting that impression for a while... and I'm betting the First House is the worst of the lot. 
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Sep 18, 2023 20:00
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I can't wait for the reveals in Harrow 
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silvergoose posted:I can't wait for the reveals in Harrow ME EITHER
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Sep 18, 2023 20:09
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I have a friend going through Harrow for the first time and is ... I dunno trying to act like they're "getting it" on the first read through by pointing out all the things they're catching. It's kind of amusing, though it's certainly not how I've enjoyed reading the series (which is more "the more times I read these the more fun I have. That's cool.") Anyways I responded to the latest update by asking about their thoughts on the scene with Silas in the Canaan House plotline, since I think that's one of the more important, albeit very short, scenes that clued me in to what was really going on. They didn't pick up on anything about it really.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:As a plural system with DID, I found certain characters in Nona (and to a lesser extent, Harrow) relatable and jarring in equal measure. That would check out, considering the author's note following Harrow.
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Sep 18, 2023 20:36
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PupsOfWar posted:I envisioned the flashbacks as happening somewhere vaguely 2070-2100ish based on how bad the climate had gotten - even if the powers that be continue doing as awful a job on this front as they are currently, we should be several decades out from conditions that'll make rich countries really panic in the way the book depicts I dunno, so far we are outstripping our own predictions pretty consistently. I haven't read Nona yet so I won't comment further.
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Sep 18, 2023 20:41
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I am re-reading Gideon after finishing Nona and it's fun spotting little clues, like Dulcinea saying she feels like she's been sick "ten thousand years"
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FuturePastNow posted:I am re-reading Gideon after finishing Nona and it's fun spotting little clues, like Dulcinea saying she feels like she's been sick "ten thousand years" yeah it's littered with easter eggs. am i right that dulcinea/cyth never actually lies? i feel like that was something i noticed.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:54
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Yes
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sebmojo posted:yeah it's littered with easter eggs. am i right that dulcinea/cyth never actually lies? i feel like that was something i noticed. She said as much, even!
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