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Wildlife Analysis posted:I initially read this as "pro tip toe, knee, hand" I thought about putting the username in quotations but that seemed like a coward's way out. Sonrisa posted:"I have licked your heirs from my fingers and ate them all..." Yeah that's the sticky princes bit.
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they're kind of a mix of chick lit and romance but i've read some books by jennifer crusie and they're funny and have strong female characters who end up with good guys so 
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Jan 4, 2014 21:40
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To be fair to GRRM, there are probably much worse descriptions out there.
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Jan 4, 2014 21:41
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Never be fair to nerds
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I actually feel better about owning a copy of twilight than I do about owning a copy of game of thrones (I bought the twilight book to see firsthand how bad the writing really was, I assumed at the time that if it was popular it couldn't really be that bad (it was))
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Jan 4, 2014 21:43
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AriadneThread posted:Never be fair to nerds I don't know why, but I love the fact that his job titles are literally "Fantasy author/steamboat captain."  Portals posted:I actually feel better about owning a copy of twilight than I do about owning a copy of game of thrones My friend gave me the first two. They were so bad. Although nothing tops the birth of ~*~Renesmee~*~
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Jan 4, 2014 21:43
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Unless he's used the phrase "quivering quim" and I blocked it out, he's not the world's worst describer of genitals
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after christmas i have the game of thrones (books) boxset and i doubt i will read even one of the books
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Crow Jane posted:The most perfect smokey eyes I've ever had have been from waking up after falling asleep with makeup on. I'm always a little upset to wash it off when that happens e: yikes, sorry, I had the thread open last night and sniped your post
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Crow Jane posted:Unless he's used the phrase "quivering quim" and I blocked it out, he's not the world's worst describer of genitals I don't know, "sticky princes" kind of made me gag while I was eating. And I've outright swallowed semen before. (Spoilered for possible gross)
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I think you're supposed to be kind of grossed out by Cersei, though
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Kimmalah posted:I don't know, "sticky princes" kind of made me gag while I was eating. And I've outright swallowed semen before. is that actually gross to people? jesus what's wrong with me
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Crow Jane posted:I think you're supposed to be kind of grossed out by Cersei, though Yeah, toward the end of the series she's described as a wrinkling sagging bit of dried out vag. Erm... spoiler.
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Synonamess Botch posted:is that actually gross to people? jesus what's wrong with me I'm in the same boat. I don't get it And Cersei's one of my favorite Game of Thrones characters. She's so dumb and evil and incompetent, I love her
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Jan 4, 2014 21:51
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I like her eyebrows, they're really striking
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Jan 4, 2014 21:53
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How the gently caress do primitive fantasy races know about sperm cells? Did they squint really hard to see them?
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Jan 4, 2014 21:53
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it turns out that fantasy authors have a problem with anachronism who knew
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Jan 4, 2014 21:57
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Pick posted:How the gently caress do primitive fantasy races know about sperm cells? Did they squint really hard to see them? this stuff bugs me too although this is what folks thought about sperm back in the 1600s when sperm were discovered:  yep the whole baby comes from the sperm, the mom has nothing to do with the baby aside from acting as storage
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Wildlife Analysis posted:it turns out that fantasy authors have a problem with anachronism well we'll make women subservient because we've set our fantasy novel in a feudal society and "that's what it was like" but we'll selectively ignore any other characteristics of that kind of society if we feel like it gently caress fantasy
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Pick posted:How the gently caress do primitive fantasy races know about sperm cells? Did they squint really hard to see them? Maesters or something, I guess? I'm ready to forgive a lot of dumb poo poo in a fantasy setting, because I keep telling myself their world is different from ours. It's all escapism anyway, I can let stuff slide. In a real life thing, though, dumb inconsistencies piss me right the gently caress off. We were watching The Untouchables the other night because we'd never seen it. It's a pretty terrible movie, but the point where I had to turn it off was when someone was clearly wearing a rayon nightgown in a time when rayon didn't exist
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Jan 4, 2014 22:01
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Portals posted:this stuff bugs me too you can thank aristotle for that, he pioneered the "man spooges tiny baby" theory loving turd of a greek
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Jan 4, 2014 22:03
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toe knee hand posted:well we'll make women subservient because we've set our fantasy novel in a feudal society and "that's what it was like" but we'll selectively ignore any other characteristics of that kind of society if we feel like it
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Pick posted:you can thank aristotle for that, he pioneered the "man spooges tiny baby" theory greeks had some weird ideas don't jerk off, your sperm is your life essence and you will become weak and frail also, it's totally fine for a god to rape a lady in a temple and then have her get turned into medusa for sullying a temple because it's totally her fault
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Jan 4, 2014 22:06
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Portals posted:don't jerk off, your sperm is your life essence and you will become weak and frail Pretty sure plenty of dudes like the No Fap movement still think this.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:09
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toe knee hand posted:well we'll make women subservient because we've set our fantasy novel in a feudal society and "that's what it was like" but we'll selectively ignore any other characteristics of that kind of society if we feel like it To be fair Game of Thrones is actually pretty good about that for fantasy. It has a decent amount of varied female characters with various strengths, weaknesses, styles, and levels of success/failure. I unironically love Sansa Stark's growth. That said it's still at best the king of poo poo mountain and is garbage.
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mind the walrus posted:To be fair Game of Thrones is actually pretty good about that for fantasy. It has a decent amount of varied female characters with various strengths, weaknesses, styles, and levels of success/failure. I unironically love Sansa Stark's growth. That said it's still at best the king of poo poo mountain and is garbage. yea i wasn't talking about game of thrones specifically as much as fantasy as a genre
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Jan 4, 2014 22:14
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women in power breaks my suspension of disbelief *orcs*
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Jan 4, 2014 22:19
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Synonamess Botch posted:is that actually gross to people? jesus what's wrong with me I don't know, obviously it's not to me but I wanted to kind of cover my rear end just in case. Pick posted:you can thank aristotle for that, he pioneered the "man spooges tiny baby" theory Wasn't he also the one that was convinced the uterus was like a wild animal that wandered around in women's bodies and made them crazy? Or was that Hippocrates? I know it was some Greek dude.
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toe knee hand posted:well we'll make women subservient because we've set our fantasy novel in a feudal society and "that's what it was like" but we'll selectively ignore any other characteristics of that kind of society if we feel like it believe me, i have no love for fantasy either. genre fiction generally doesn't do poo poo for me. it doesn't help that fantasy/sci-fi seems to be a great outlet for latent racism/sexism/phobias for grognard authors.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:25
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People getting mad about make believe ITT.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:29
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Kimmalah posted:Wasn't he also the one that was convinced the uterus was like a wild animal that wandered around in women's bodies and made them crazy? Or was that Hippocrates? I know it was some Greek dude. that was hippocrates and his idea of hysteria, derived from "hysterikos", which meant "suffering in the uterus"
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VendaGoat posted:People getting mad about make believe ITT. it's fantasy. you can set it in whatever kind of society you want. so why do you set in a society that is sexist and classist?
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toe knee hand posted:it's fantasy. you can set it in whatever kind of society you want. so why do you set in a society that is sexist and classist? Have you read a paragraph from any history book about the time period most fantasy settings are in?
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VendaGoat posted:Have you read a paragraph from any history book about the time period most fantasy settings are in? why choose that time period though?
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I'm not a huge fantasy reader, but if you're not reading books because they don't jibe with your beliefs you're missing out on a lot of good books.
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toe knee hand posted:why choose that time period though? because those were the good old days of dragons and orcs oh wait
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VendaGoat posted:People getting mad about make believe ITT. i'm not mad about fantasy/other genre fiction, i just tend to think it's total poo poo. this is what spending too much time in literary analysis classes has done to me
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Jan 4, 2014 22:32
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I dislike most fantasy novels but China Mieville writes some really great female characters, plus his books are just a lot of fun
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toe knee hand posted:why choose that time period though? i mean i am p sure that no more wizards existed in the 1200s than exist now (i.e. 0) e f b Portals posted:because those were the good old days of dragons and orcs
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toe knee hand posted:why choose that time period though? Future is sci-fi. Past, Arthurian legend is fantasy. In most peoples opinions. Then you get a mix like the "Dragon Riders Of Pern." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern  Crow Jane posted:I'm not a huge fantasy reader, but if you're not reading books because they don't jibe with your beliefs you're missing out on a lot of good books. gently caress'n Eh Sister.
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