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It all mostly makes sense, it's just a severely WTF situation
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Jul 2, 2023 19:31
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Mad Hamish posted:I can't bring myself to hate John the way so many people seem to. Like, ok, sure, he killed an entire solar system, but it's not as though he was really in his right mind when he did it. The Earth gave him the power of necromancy with no training, preparation, or explanation. She can't put the tool into his hands without telling him how to use it and then get angry when he fucks it up. It's all very biblical, you know. What would happen if someone like Jesus actually appeared in the 21st century, able to cure cancer with a touch. How would our governments and media treat this person? What would you do if you had the powers of god, but the whole world feared and hated you? The Christian god punished humanity's misdeeds with a flood and started over. John is a horrible, evil person, and also a very normal, very human one.
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Jul 12, 2023 04:33
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Everyone posted:He's a horrible, evil person because he's a very normal, human one. John's story is essentially Bruce Almighty redone as horror (or at least horror-comedy). What happens when you give a regular human person the power of God? Really bad, awful things because a normal human person isn't going to have the Godlike wisdom or Godlike compassion to go with that Godlike power. Not to defend the literal genocide of humanity, or many horrible things that happened afterward, but it's also a question of "what if you gave a normal human the power of God, then betrayed them and pushed them past the breaking point?" and I think the result isn't surprising at all.
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Jul 12, 2023 21:01
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Also he is definitely not sorry Only sorry he was only able to stop one of the escaping ships
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Jul 13, 2023 00:41
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Dr. Sex
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Jul 15, 2023 22:48
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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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Jul 28, 2023 18:02
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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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Gideon Without Gideon in the style of Garfield Without Garfield
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Jul 30, 2023 14:16
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If anything about John and the Empire's age is a lie, it might be older, not younger. He might have killed and resurrected his friends many times trying to perfect them.
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Aug 12, 2023 15:51
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This was posted in the OSHA thread but it made me think of this series: https://twitter.com/atters1000/status/1691749164386779308
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Aug 17, 2023 16:03
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Just imagining an anti-necromancy planet having those signs up all over the place
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Aug 17, 2023 18:27
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The corpse number only goes up but the fever breaks and it all makes sense at the climax of the book
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Aug 23, 2023 18:20
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I look forward to seeing what completely different writing style she uses for Alecto
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Aug 29, 2023 04:39
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a story told from Noodle's POV would be rad
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Aug 29, 2023 04:47
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Noodle is the final Resurrection Beast
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Aug 29, 2023 05:13
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Mr. Bones' Wild Ride is from 4chan and became pretty well known on the internet on its own
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Sep 1, 2023 03:34
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Is there's a cliff's notes summary of Homestuck I can read in 5 minutes or less
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Sep 2, 2023 18:58
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You know John's face is on every denomination of their money
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Sep 5, 2023 01:46
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Harrow comes together in a huge mindfuck ending too
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Sep 9, 2023 05:05
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Two souls neurodiverged in a city...
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Sep 10, 2023 00:38
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So just where is Harrow's personality while her body is being occupied by whatever it is
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Sep 10, 2023 12:07
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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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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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Sep 16, 2023 21:29
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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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Sep 18, 2023 23:58
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Isn't trying to kill someone you know is unkillable more or less just suicide-by-god?
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Oct 2, 2023 16:52
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Well yes he's a terrible person, but do you know anyone better for the job
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Oct 16, 2023 15:54
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StumblyWumbly posted:
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Oct 17, 2023 04:15
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Zierham posted:We're reporting live from a small Diner on Uranus, talking to blue-collar skeletons who work the fields to provide the paste for the Eighth House, and asking whether they support the Necrolord Prime! We're hearing they fully support him to the extent we can get any sort of communicative response... And we've just learned that their mere existence is assumed to be 100% in support of Jod, without whom they wouldn't be animated, so we're breaking the news that there is 100% support for him here on the ground. Back to you in the studio! It's like Starship Troopers but the bugs are just ordinary humans
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Oct 23, 2023 20:34
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In that particular moment I think he was just really, really mad. The maddest anyone has ever been, probably. Not justifying it. But I don't think there was any long term plan at that moment.
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Nov 20, 2023 23:47
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sebmojo posted:
He's an absolutely perfect villain
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Nov 21, 2023 05:20
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There are some little details and foreshadowing in the first book but to catch all of it I had to re-read it after I knew what was going to happen.
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Nov 27, 2023 15:41
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Uranium Phoenix posted:To defend Jod (though under no circumstances do you have to hand it to him), "There are no laws, do as thou wilt" is a good test of character. These are, after all, going to be super-powered immortal liches who can teleport throughout the cosmos and murder planets at a whim, so you want to be sure they're not sociopathic monsters before they ascend. I agree that's basically a character test but it seems designed to help the sociopathic monsters succeed
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Dec 6, 2023 20:10
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Plus all the people John is keeping in his fridge
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Dec 11, 2023 06:04
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if he's not bound by human desires, then explain all the orgies (please don't explain all the orgies)
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Dec 13, 2023 20:57
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What's the point of living 10,000 years if you can't have dinner parties and gently caress
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Kesper North posted:writers can't really afford to have things "go wrong", i'm very worried at least she lives in a country with civilized healthcare
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