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Having never read them, is horny crow man literally a bird?
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May 28, 2019 06:42
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Jerry Cotton posted:Having never read them, is horny crow man literally a bird? Later there is a short story where they are married and have triplets and his former-crow friends pressure him to murder one of the babies because she has dwarfism.
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May 28, 2019 07:06
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The Lone Badger posted:I thought Dresden Files was written in a fit of pique "ok I'll follow every one of these writing rules and write some utterly formulaic schlock and it will be terrible, you'll see!". And then it sold. IIRC the whole story goes that Butcher's creative writing teacher (Deborah Chester, herself a writer of fantasy and SF and romance) asked him to please write anything other than generic epic fantasy LOTR ripoffs and suggested he try a Urban Fantasy story instead. So he was like "FINE!" and wrote the first 3 Dresden stories to prove just how terrible they would be. She instead thought they were publishable and he spent a couple years shopping it around before he met Laurell K. Hamilton at a convention and she invited him to lunch with her publishing agent. If you go and look for old press releases you'll find references to the title of the series being "Semiautomagic."
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May 28, 2019 07:40
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wheatpuppy posted:Yes, she meets a bunch of literal crows and some of them decide to turn into humans for a lark. Did the lark just ask them nicely, or did it coerce them?
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May 28, 2019 07:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:Having never read them, is horny crow man literally a bird? You know that animal groom thing you get in folklore? It's basically that, but played too seriously. Tricker's Queen is probably her worst book depending on where your stand on weird vs. boring.
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May 28, 2019 07:55
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Did the lark just ask them nicely, or did it coerce them? lmbo
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May 28, 2019 07:56
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Did the lark just ask them nicely, or did it coerce them?
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May 28, 2019 08:04
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wheatpuppy posted:Yes, she meets a bunch of literal crows and some of them decide to turn into humans for a lark. That writer needs Jesus in their life. there wolf posted:You know that animal groom thing you get in folklore? It's basically that, but played too seriously. Tricker's Queen is probably her worst book depending on where your stand on weird vs. boring. Yeah but the animal is really a prince not the other way around. Is this due to Sonic again?
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May 28, 2019 09:50
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Trickster's Queen was published in 2004, and it is one of her later works. In her most recent book, Fire and Tempest, you get to hear about teen Numair's morning wood on multiple occasions, so she hasn't stopped being weird at times. She's just stopped writing age gaps. There was also the love interest mage in Mastiff (2011) who kept magical supplies in his rectum when he was imprisoned. I don't own the book, but I remember him getting thrown into prison with the main character, and unbuckling his pants, leading her to think he wants to have sex. She doesn't want to do that somewhere so open, and her magic talking cat offers to magic them up some privacy. After he sets them straight, there's a fairly detailed scene of him retrieving the supplies. I really do like her books, especially the earlier ones, but every so often they get... strange. there wolf posted:Tricker's Queen is probably her worst book depending on where your stand on weird vs. boring. Also, making Aly a foreigner of the same ethnicity as the ruling class didn't come off well, given her hypercompetence. Why is nobody living under this brutal, three hundred year regime as good at spying as the teenage daughter of a foreign spymaster?
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May 28, 2019 10:52
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Jerry Cotton posted:That writer needs Jesus in their life. There are a lot of animal spouse stories that go the other way and have the animal turn into a human in order to get with someone. It's a union of man and nature thing that misses the mark when you put in what is actually a pretty grounded fantasy world. And Mastiff is the one I think is the worst because it is hands-down the dullest. there wolf has a new favorite as of 12:43 on May 28, 2019 |
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May 28, 2019 12:23
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there wolf posted:There are a lot of animal spouse stories It even gets riffed on in Steven Universe - the characters are fans of a fantasy-epic pastiche called "The Unfamiliar Familiar" where this happens at the end and they're not too happy about it.
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May 28, 2019 15:51
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 Dumbest goddamn comic book. Picked it up as part of a humble bundle, and it does that very early 2000s thing of loving to kill off and really give it to mtv and teen celebrities. This book hates Jersey Shore and Lady Gaga. Also weirdly conservative-spends lots of time dunking on Obama and libs, though there are some dumbass rednecks, and a character who isn't democrat or republican, but chose the side of america by joining the military. The whole thing is pretty bad, the humor is bad, the political commentary is bad, the monster fighting isn't super good... Worthless
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Jun 3, 2019 11:01
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Ambitious Spider posted:
There's a tonne of regressive, weird ideas in comics, even in acclaimed series. (Preacher, anyone?) It speaks to the uncritical nature of much of their audience.
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Jun 3, 2019 11:45
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nonathlon posted:There's a tonne of regressive, weird ideas in comics, even in acclaimed series. (Preacher, anyone?) It speaks to the uncritical nature of much of their audience. Yea recently went back to preacher and it’s rough and unpleasant. Don’t think it holds up that great. Neither does Ennis punisher run come to think of it. Little too edge Lordy
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Jun 3, 2019 19:51
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Preacher isn't so much regressive, as it is examining regressive thought processes and how they've led to the bizarre and hosed up society America has today (or "today" as of the mid-90s, though some things never change  )Ennis is a left-leaning guy, but at the same time, one who has absolutely no time for decorum or niceness of any kind
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Jun 3, 2019 19:58
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nonathlon posted:There's a tonne of regressive, weird ideas in comics, even in acclaimed series. (Preacher, anyone?) It speaks to the uncritical nature of much of their audience. Ennis gets somewhat of a pass for me because he puts Nazis and white supremicists into his books just so he can tell them what huge worthless piles of poo poo they are before/while graphically disemboweling them. This is a bar most modern conservatives cannot pass.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:00
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It's been a pretty long time since I read Ennis, but I seem to remember that at least Preacher had a pretty annoying subtext along the lines of "Good people have normal, regular hetero sex. Meanwhile anybody who fucks weird is definitely a depraved bad person". And of course a giant heap of edginess for its own sake.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:33
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Sorry, what's wrong with hating Jersey Shore?
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Jun 3, 2019 23:26
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Sorry, what's wrong with hating Jersey Shore? I'm guessing the combination of teenager-style edginess and being instantly dated
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Jun 3, 2019 23:34
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Perestroika posted:It's been a pretty long time since I read Ennis, but I seem to remember that at least Preacher had a pretty annoying subtext along the lines of "Good people have normal, regular hetero sex. Meanwhile anybody who fucks weird is definitely a depraved bad person". And of course a giant heap of edginess for its own sake. I always took that as more Ennis’s indictment of social mores and the Catholic Church than his personal views. That said, I remember reading Preacher as it was published and thinking it was a reflection of a guy in his 20s who was incredibly angry at the religion that raised him, no idea how accurate that was/is.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:15
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Antivehicular posted:I'm guessing the combination of teenager-style edginess and being instantly dated And you know hating something dumb that women and girls tend to like. Reality tv and twilight or whatever always gets way more hate than their equally dumb male counterparts. Especially in a dumb godzilla comic book. Like glass houses dude.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:19
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There's nothing wrong with disliking Jersey Shore, just like there's nothing inherently wrong with disliking any other media property. But there's absolutely an attitude toward it that's unpleasant and hateful, where it's less "haha, isn't this silly" and more "haha, this is disgusting filth".
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Jun 4, 2019 00:38
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Perestroika posted:It's been a pretty long time since I read Ennis, but I seem to remember that at least Preacher had a pretty annoying subtext along the lines of "Good people have normal, regular hetero sex. Meanwhile anybody who fucks weird is definitely a depraved bad person". And of course a giant heap of edginess for its own sake. somehow that has stuck with me
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Jun 4, 2019 02:35
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dudes who make doing oral sex into A Thing also suck, but then dudes are capable of making anything suck
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Jun 4, 2019 02:45
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Djeser posted:dudes who make doing oral sex into A Thing also suck, but then dudes are capable of making anything suck Especially sucking.
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Jun 4, 2019 02:51
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Someone on IDEOTV's Facebook page posted this
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Jun 18, 2019 21:13
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grittyreboot posted:Someone on IDEOTV's Facebook page posted this I was about to ask if it was a thinly veiled racist thing, then I scrolled down.
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Jul 19, 2019 23:12
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Some p solid namechange candidates in there
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Jul 19, 2019 23:16
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Mods, "The Skulls that had Sex", please and thank you.
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Jul 19, 2019 23:22
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I'll take "The Mooner of Romney Marsh" if it's short enough, but I gotta admit "Fanny of Cock Lane" is pretty admirably straightforward.
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Jul 19, 2019 23:25
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I ordered it. I need to read Archibald's Orgy In Hell
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Jul 19, 2019 23:27
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Voyeuristic Wizard for me please
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Jul 19, 2019 23:27
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im the transvestite valet
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Jul 20, 2019 00:01
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I'm the urinating goblin
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Jul 20, 2019 00:13
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Naked Bald Agnes, that's me
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Jul 20, 2019 00:18
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Really? No love for The Ghost of the Sex-Crazed Cat?
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Jul 20, 2019 00:28
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cptn_dr posted:I'm the urinating goblin Mr. President???
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Jul 20, 2019 00:54
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Was the Bell Witch a sex thing. I thought it was just a spooky voice and some levitating stuff.
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Jul 20, 2019 01:20
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IIRC The Witch would gossip about who was having sex with who
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