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The Vosgian Beast posted:A venom cock, they’re called. 
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chitoryu12 posted:HellMOO fic looking good. Nope, that's actual published, nominated-for-Tiptree-Award terrible book Touched by Venom. Crevette's review says more than I ever could: http://crevette.livejournal.com/164152.html
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Runcible Cat posted:Nope, that's actual published, nominated-for-Tiptree-Award terrible book Touched by Venom. 
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Runcible Cat posted:Nope, that's actual published, nominated-for-Tiptree-Award terrible book Touched by Venom. Ahh, Crevette. I still lose my poo poo every time I see that Night Travels of an Elven Vampire icon. Poor Legolas-with-Photoshop-fangs.
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Didn't Night Travels of the Elven Vampire also have a sequel/rewrite that she covered?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Didn't Night Travels of the Elven Vampire also have a sequel/rewrite that she covered? Hey did you mean Joan Collins or Jackie Collins?
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Hey did you mean Joan Collins or Jackie Collins?
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I have now heard the Jackie Collins episode, and since I only requested Joan Collins because she wrote books like her sister's while starring in Dynasty, it's all the same to me.
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PYF terrible book: That’th a cock, hey-o!
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grittyreboot posted:PYF terrible book: That’th a cock, hey-o! I vote for PYF terrible book: PEOPLE ARE SHTUPPING BABY DRAGONS ON PAGE 22!!!
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grittyreboot posted:PYF terrible book: That’th a cock, hey-o!
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grittyreboot posted:PYF terrible book: That’th a cock, hey-o! I think of this line every time I see a dick in a movie or TV show End of Boogie Nights? That'th a cock, hey-o! That gay efreet scene in American Gods? That'th a cock, hey-o! Frost/Nixon? That'th a dick, hey-o! 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:This isn't the IDEOTV thread, but I sent in a Joan Collins request. I haven't yet had a chance to hear the Jackie Collins episode. Wait, wait, there's an IDEOTV thread? Would you be so kind as to point me in that direction?
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Wait, wait, there's an IDEOTV thread? Would you be so kind as to point me in that direction?
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Much obliged. Thank you! 
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A terrible hot take on a classic book: https://fee.org/articles/the-leftist-apparitions-who-terrorized-scrooge-for-money/
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grittyreboot posted:A terrible hot take on a classic book: 
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my favorite bad book would have to be "Thunder in the Valley," by Jim R. Woolard. Nothing new to say in it, the book is a cowboys vs. indians story, & the good guy dies at the end!
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grittyreboot posted:A terrible hot take on a classic book: One of these things comes out every year now around Christmas, presumably because these kinds of assholes got tired of writing the same hit piece on Robin Hood. They really hate that a book about the evils of the post-industrial revolution and the way it encouraged the development of heartlessness, cruelty, and greed on the part of those who were not made wretched and broken by the system is in the canon, and also a Christmas story to boot, so eternally popular.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:One of these things comes out every year now around Christmas, presumably because these kinds of assholes got tired of writing the same hit piece on Robin Hood.
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The problem is Bill Murray. You can't hate Scrooge if he's played by Bill Murray!
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A bad movie rather than a bad book, but this year I watched "An All-American Christmas Carol" on Netflix. In this adaptation, Scrooge is replaced by a greedy welfare mother who has to be inspired by three ghosts to stop being a leech and get a job.
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RoboRodent posted:A bad movie rather than a bad book, but this year I watched "An All-American Christmas Carol" on Netflix. In this adaptation, Scrooge is replaced by a greedy welfare mother who has to be inspired by three ghosts to stop being a leech and get a job. 
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RoboRodent posted:A bad movie rather than a bad book, but this year I watched "An All-American Christmas Carol" on Netflix. In this adaptation, Scrooge is replaced by a greedy welfare mother who has to be inspired by three ghosts to stop being a leech and get a job. You shoulda watched An American Carol where three ghosts show up to teach Michael Moore that the iraq war is a good idea
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FMguru posted:I first saw it in the early 1980s when Ed Meese (Reagan's corrupt, piglike attorney general) gave a speech making the same point (that Scrooge was actually a good guy who paid his workers a more than fair wage). It's a big point of the story that he isn't. Scrooge is a bad guy because he hoards his money and just makes money for the sake of it. He isn't doing anything useful with the money he makes, and he finds that using his wealth to help enrich others also enrichs his own life. The story isn't even criticising wealth, it's criticising greed and selfishness.
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Imagine someone missing a message that Dickens pounded at over and over again with ham hands (love Dickens, but subtlety was not his strong suit).
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People are pretty good at missing a point that makes them a shitload of money to miss.
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Inescapable Duck posted:People are pretty good at missing a point that makes them a shitload of money to miss. You have now explained televangelism to me!
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The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene, is a pretty terrible self-help guide that is good at turning businesspeople into douchebags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power
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A3th3r posted:The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene, is a pretty terrible self-help guide that is good at turning businesspeople into douchebags Didn’t he have a blogging deal with Tucker Max at some point?
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FrozenVent posted:Didn’t he have a blogging deal with Tucker Max at some point? yes. Terrible & moronic idea to do that
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Runcible Cat posted:Nope, that's actual published, nominated-for-Tiptree-Award terrible book Touched by Venom. I now know why I've never heard of the Tiptree Award.
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Rough Lobster posted:I now know why I've never heard of the Tiptree Award. The winners and honorees are usually good or at the very least interesting. Still, it was only nominated and apparently not recognised at all, so it's not the Tiptree Awards' fault.
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I genuinely can't tell whether or not she means this as a criticism of it.
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Whybird posted:I genuinely can't tell whether or not she means this as a criticism of it.  Edit: wait, no it isn't: https://twitter.com/RedIsDead/status/947090181512761344?s=17 
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Supernatural forces attempting to terrify the rich into behaving has a long, storied history ”Matthew 19” posted:16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Supernatural forces attempting to terrify the rich into behaving has a long, storied history *10,000 words about how actually the 'Eye of the Needle' was just a gate in Jerusalem that was a bit tricky to negotiate with a fully laden camel and therefore it's just tricky for a rich man to get into Heaven, not, heh, impossible, like the loony left would have you believe*
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Winter Stormer posted:
A youth minister once told me that the camel could pass through if it got down on its knees, and that meant the way for a rich person to get into heaven was also to kneel and be humble before God, like this was some sort of clever wordplay or something. I remember I got in trouble for rolling my eyes at him.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Supernatural forces attempting to terrify the rich into behaving has a long, storied history I always wondered how the hell that passage made it through the various editing the church made in the middle ages. Kinda surprised since they threw out almost everything empowering woman (shout out to Judith) but kept the line of Jesus literally saying "Rich people deserve to go to hell".
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