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Finally read As Yet Unsent: Who is the unnamed lyctor that heals Judith?
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mewse posted:Finally read As Yet Unsent: Mercymorn. Focus on anatomy, and completely unwilling to mask 10,000 years of anxiety-ramped neurosis.
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Agaragon posted:Mercymorn. Focus on anatomy, and completely unwilling to mask 10,000 years of anxiety-ramped neurosis. Oh, ok, I thought As Yet Unsent took place after the events of Harrow so I was confused.
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mewse posted:Oh, ok, I thought As Yet Unsent took place after the events of Harrow so I was confused. Nah it's during.
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Trawling the pre-Nona pages of this thread for fanart and I think this one is my favorite. E: this was also very good but I can't remember who posted it first, thank you to whoever that was https://youtu.be/pvJOuUJNcx8 C-Euro fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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On AT LEAST my third reread of the series as it stands, and I continue to be astonished. Alecto is now showing as October ‘25, so I’m hoping that like Nona a giant hunk gets spun out into another book. Also, this makes me cry every goddamn time: https://youtu.be/58wcEfJuwQg?si=gx1lre13FL6YimSS
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this instagram account is posting insanely cool TLT artwork: https://www.instagram.com/naomistares
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mewse posted:this instagram account is posting insanely cool TLT artwork: That is a pro-follow 
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mewse posted:this instagram account is posting insanely cool TLT artwork: Oh dang they got some cool sketch. Fear and Hunger 2, what a weird crossover interest with the Locked Tomb. ...well, maybe not that weird.
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im permabanned poster skeletonstomper99. i first started reading necromancy forums when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "lyctorhood" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "one flesh one end" and "his fingers and gestures" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "boomer" style of emperor worship was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" the nine houses to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Mad Hamish posted:gently caress. I'm not sure if I know the reference...
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C-Euro posted:im permabanned poster skeletonstomper99. i first started reading necromancy forums when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "lyctorhood" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "one flesh one end" and "his fingers and gestures" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "boomer" style of emperor worship was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" the nine houses to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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Remulak posted:The weird thing is you still don’t get the nine houses. I'm taking a break before I read Nona so you're probably right  The joke came to me in a moment of inspiration though, and I had to get it out while it was still fresh.
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C-Euro posted:im permabanned poster skeletonstomper99. i first started reading necromancy forums when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "lyctorhood" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "one flesh one end" and "his fingers and gestures" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "boomer" style of emperor worship was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" the nine houses to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace. ALSO gently caress silvergoose posted:I'm not sure if I know the reference... It's a mockery of the opening lines of the ironically popular and extremely bad and badly-written Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal. I'm just imagining John flying in on a broom made of bones and smoking a black gothic cigar and low-key losing my poo poo over here.
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Mad Hamish posted:ALSO gently caress Ahhh, okay. I only know the weird rear end rationality one in that particular genre.
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silvergoose posted:Ahhh, okay. I only know the weird rear end rationality one in that particular genre. Hartowhark Nonagesimus and the Methods of Rationality. poo poo, wait, that already exists in-universe and it's Palamedes.
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Palamedes is probably the most empathetic character in the series, so that seems unfair. Honestly, Harrowhark probably does deserve the Methods of Rationality label insofar as she spent the entire Canaan House debacle shooting herself in the foot trying to do the cold, hard, rational thing:
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I think perhaps some of Harrow's problems in Canaan House could be because she has basically no social education whatsoever and doesn't know what to do around people who are her social equals (ie, not 'below' her station) and are not ambulatory skeletons.
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C-Euro posted:I'm taking a break before I read Nona so you're probably right It was a great joke and my response was (iirc) was the first response in FYAD. It wasn’t greatest response in the world, it was a tribute. Edit: How does this one set of books reach into my cranium and fascinate me so? There are so many great books in the world, but nothing has ever captivated me like this. And I’m an old cishetrogenexwhitedude, not exactly the target demo! I don’t know where I read this first, but wow it’s the first time a fancasting turned into my mental image of a character: 
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Remulak posted:It was a great joke and my response was (iirc) was the first response in FYAD. It wasn’t greatest response in the world, it was a tribute. It's just really good, maybe because none of it is trying to be something someone would like it's just what she likes
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sebmojo posted:It's just really good, maybe because none of it is trying to be something someone would like it's just what she likes The books are so good because the author is super talented and loves the world and its characters deeply. A lot of the people in the story are objectively terrible, but they're written in such a fun way that you can't help but love them.
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Hey y'all, finished catching up with the thread after wrapping up Nona mid last year - what a hilarious and frankly enlightening catch-up process. I'm planning on doing a reread of the first three when Alecto comes out, and getting some interpretations and synopses of the prior three books has really helped prep my frame of mind for the reread.
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Remulak posted:It was a great joke and my response was (iirc) was the first response in FYAD. It wasn’t greatest response in the world, it was a tribute. Oh lol I didn't know about that part, thanks. Remulak posted:Edit: How does this one set of books reach into my cranium and fascinate me so? There are so many great books in the world, but nothing has ever captivated me like this. And I’m an old cishetrogenexwhitedude, not exactly the target demo! They're fun books and author is way way into them, OP. One thing I've noticed that Muir did well in the first two books, compared to some other popular fantasy that I may or may not current be reading, is that there are both just enough Proper Nouns to keep track of them all, AND they all feel distinct enough that keeping track of who's who/what's what isn't a chore. Everyone and everything has enough personality to keep them all distinct, even if the personality is sometime "is boring/a hater/a wet blanket".
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C-Euro posted:They're fun books and author is way way into them, OP. One thing I've noticed that Muir did well in the first two books, compared to some other popular fantasy that I may or may not current be reading, is that there are both just enough Proper Nouns to keep track of them all, AND they all feel distinct enough that keeping track of who's who/what's what isn't a chore. Everyone and everything has enough personality to keep them all distinct, even if the personality is sometime "is boring/a hater/a wet blanket". Didn't realize it until you said it, but this is so true! I often have trouble keeping track of character names in series with lots of them and default to just "the annoying one" or whatever, but somehow Muir managed to get me to remember names beyond just personalities to a much higher degree... I'd say it was a product of the numbering-naming, but I actually remembered first names not just the number-based names!
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It also helps that all the names mean something, which the author helpfully explains at the end, like "Protesilaus" meaning "Redshirt Firstdead".
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Also a lot of the characters are basically always paired up with eachother by house so its much fewer discrete character units to keep track of than youd otherwise have. Like Jeannemary and Isaac are two distinct characters but they're basically always together, same for the Second, same for the Eighth, etc. It leads to a much smaller nodes-and-edges relationship map than one would expect for nearly twenty characters.
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celadon posted:Also a lot of the characters are basically always paired up with eachother by house so its much fewer discrete character units to keep track of than youd otherwise have. Like Jeannemary and Isaac are two distinct characters but they're basically always together, same for the Second, same for the Eighth, etc. It leads to a much smaller nodes-and-edges relationship map than one would expect for nearly twenty characters. Massive slam on the salt and pepper priest out of nowhere
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Got my hands on a previz for an upcoming pitch from a pretty big director, scene is Harrow convincing Gideon not to get on the shuttle quite yet: Dammit why can’t I do a spoiler on video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7pwMtNZmg&t=57s Remulak fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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holy hell this is a well made rendition of this scene in nona https://twitter.com/sunfloowerlatte/status/1753473563011473484
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i’m gonna make the god emperor of  posts but they’re described in the book as both sitting on the crossbar and leaning towards each other
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Also that crossbar would only exist if there was some signage or something hanging from it! Walk signals at least, jeez 
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Tamsyn did a queer fantasy panel in London today. She's still plugging away on Alecto (which is further confirmed by the fact that Alecto is not on the list of Carl or Tor's 2024 releases  )but in other news https://x.com/kabriya/status/1753576150155083835?s=20 https://x.com/onefleshonepod/status/1753576482675241356?s=20 
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I did a Jod costume at Magfest and got one "gently caress you John Gaius" yelled at me from across the hallway by an unknown assailant. There were two Harrows, a Gideon, and a surprisingly good Isaac around.
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M_Gargantua posted:I did a Jod costume at Magfest and got one "gently caress you John Gaius" yelled at me from across the hallway by an unknown assailant. There were two Harrows, a Gideon, and a surprisingly good Isaac around. Masterful job on the costume, then!
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M_Gargantua posted:I did a Jod costume at Magfest and got one "gently caress you John Gaius" yelled at me from across the hallway by an unknown assailant. There were two Harrows, a Gideon, and a surprisingly good Isaac around. You should have replied "What do I know, I'm only God" and eaten peanuts insouciantly
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Kesper North posted:You should have replied "What do I know, I'm only God" and eaten peanuts insouciantly He did that one time
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M_Gargantua posted:I did a Jod costume at Magfest and got one "gently caress you John Gaius" yelled at me from across the hallway by an unknown assailant. There were two Harrows, a Gideon, and a surprisingly good Isaac around. Do you have pics? I didn't get good shots of any of the cosplay at Magfest because I was too busy gawping. As one does.
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M_Gargantua posted:I did a Jod costume at Magfest and got one "gently caress you John Gaius" yelled at me from across the hallway by an unknown assailant. There were two Harrows, a Gideon, and a surprisingly good Isaac around. How the hell do you put together a Jod fit that is actually recognizable as such?!?
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