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I remember being probably too young for these books and very disturbed. The worms hosed me up and not sure I made it much further. So I'm super surprised not to have any memory at all of the possessed nightmare baby
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Strategic Tea posted:I remember being probably too young for these books and very disturbed. The worms hosed me up and not sure I made it much further. The implication I got was that the possession is going the other way, the baby possesses her somehow.
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# ? Feb 8, 2024 13:33 |
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# ? Feb 9, 2024 14:35 |
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Welp. Any art fans in the audience wanna take a guess at what classic piece of art we'll be heading to next?
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# ? Feb 9, 2024 17:26 |
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Was the frying head/hand/leg and standing deer from a painting or something?
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# ? Feb 9, 2024 17:36 |
Whose bright idea was it to store a Bosch on the onboard computer's limited storage?
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# ? Feb 9, 2024 22:00 |
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As noted by Remalle- Heironymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. The top right corner looks an awful lot like a night time WW2 air raid, for something painted in the year 1500....
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Tree Bucket posted:As noted by Remalle- Heironymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. The top right corner looks an awful lot like a night time WW2 air raid, for something painted in the year 1500.... Oh yeah those demons def reminded me of Bosch, but perhaps we should read on? quote:
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# ? Feb 10, 2024 03:01 |
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triumphant return of the flechettes
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# ? Feb 10, 2024 09:09 |
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fléchéttés the thermals of Remnants?
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# ? Feb 10, 2024 10:41 |
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Well poo poo. I guess it's good that Tamara is still in there, but poo poo.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 00:22 |
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I feel mentioning that the performance will come with a cost was not an idle statement.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 01:37 |
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I dunno I feel like if I was on crazy alien planet-ship threatened by alien marauders and my choices were between a ceo and her shithead teen lackey, versus an alien baby and its badass marine protector-mom who killed multiple of the marauders... let's break out the gerber's you know what I mean?
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 07:25 |
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 18:09 |
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:42 |
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Miss Blake is quickly becoming my favorite character. Although, if I were faced with a living, breathing Bosch painting, I think I'd shut down too.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 02:12 |
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I read these books when I was 11 and definitely did not know who Bosch was at the time, so I feel like I can finally appreciate it now. I remember having a hard time visualizing what the hell was going on and eventually lost interest around book 4-5.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 05:17 |
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getting a lot of Greg from Over The Garden Wall vibes from Edward.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 06:03 |
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wizardofloneliness posted:I read these books when I was 11 and definitely did not know who Bosch was at the time, so I feel like I can finally appreciate it now. I remember having a hard time visualizing what the hell was going on and eventually lost interest around book 4-5. I can't really blame Young You for that. Animorphs had the awesome hook of imagining what it would be like to fly or have tiger powers. Remnants has hibernation pods filled with fungal spores.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 06:12 |
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RIP Shy, I guess!
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# ? Feb 16, 2024 03:58 |
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oh hmmm, maybe breaking out the gerber's was a little presumptuous
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# ? Feb 16, 2024 09:15 |
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# ? Feb 16, 2024 21:25 |
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I am very invested in 2Face and how she navigates this whole situation. Getting rid of Wylson is a good move anyways, her leadership style is unsuited for their current reality.
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# ? Feb 18, 2024 00:38 |
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So the last CEO in the universe is about to be eaten! This book might have a happy ending after all. More seriously, 2Face as unwilling co-conspirator with Yago is a way more interesting dynamic than I thought the author was going for.
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# ? Feb 18, 2024 02:02 |
Oh wow, we only had a single chapter left, I didn't expect this to be a 4 page chapter with how short they've been!quote:
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# ? Feb 18, 2024 23:42 |
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Wylson is Miss Blake’s mother? Can’t wait to see what she thinks of that. This is a very abrupt ending.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 05:16 |
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Glad to be done with the demon painting people... For now?
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 05:25 |
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I got behind in the thread and ended up binging a good chunk of chapters at once. I definitely would not have enjoyed these books as a kid. What was the contemporary reception of them like, I wonder? I remember reading a bunch of Animorphs and a few Everworld books, but I never heard of this series at all and I have to wonder if it’s because I aged out of the target demographic or if they were just very quietly received and never made a big splash. Edit: also yeah I really wonder if Mother understands the Bosch stuff - did Mother figure “oh, this is their art, surely it will be familiar and comforting to these creatures” or was it a deliberate “I have no mouth and I must scream, thank god I don’t have to invent tortures for you and can just cop from the nightmare journal you decided to bring with you for some reason” Coca Koala fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Coca Koala posted:I got behind in the thread and ended up binging a good chunk of chapters at once. I definitely would not have enjoyed these books as a kid. What was the contemporary reception of them like, I wonder? I remember reading a bunch of Animorphs and a few Everworld books, but I never heard of this series at all and I have to wonder if it’s because I aged out of the target demographic or if they were just very quietly received and never made a big splash. Jim the Nickel posted:God Remnants scared the poo poo out of me as a kid, in a way that I didn't feel again till years later when I read Annihilation. So much so that I never finished it, so I'm looking forward to finishing it here. 6/10 on the weirdness scale so far btw
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Something happened, because initially the cartoons were totally passive, ignoring the humans. Maybe when the Blue Meanies came back, it triggered something in Mother to get her to act more hostile? New book will start tomorrow
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:35 |
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 02:12 |
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oooo an alien pov!
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 00:45 |
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quote:Mother was a Great God, but the Gods were to be feared, not obeyed. A warrior stood strong against the Gods when the Gods turned against the Clan. hell yeah, reach heaven through violence
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# ? Feb 27, 2024 02:02 |
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Mo'dib
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# ? Feb 27, 2024 02:20 |
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I love how this series takes the "whale flying through the sky" image of beauty and splendor. Then adds hundreds of severed human legs to it for funzies
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# ? Feb 27, 2024 03:58 |
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# ? Feb 28, 2024 01:48 |
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# ? Feb 29, 2024 03:15 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 23:54 |
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So what's their deal with the survivors at this point? Are gasbags sacred animals and the humans are profaning their rituals or something? I thought they got what they wanted when their world came back (and the interesting crisis of faith that introduced, that I think is going to have much longer legs in the story)? That's the first thing I could come up with that is a motivation at this point and also means going inside the gasbag would mean anything besides "Oh they're not moving, now they're easier to kill".
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