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McKays/Mr K's are beautiful places. EDIT: That's my snipe and I'm stickin' to it.
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im The Glowing Nudes edit: Yeah, avoided the snipe for once!
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Was the Bell Witch a sex thing. I thought it was just a spooky voice and some levitating stuff. This reminds me of an extremely terrible book by a dude who was obsessed with the Bell Witch and with having sex with angels.
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"The Skulls That Had Sex" sounds pretty straightforward, dunno why it needs an entire chapter.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:"The Skulls That Had Sex" sounds pretty straightforward, dunno why it needs an entire chapter. It's for the Skulla Sutra.
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Where's the masturbating ghost monkey?
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Krankenstyle posted:Where's the masturbating ghost monkey? turn off your monitor
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Ravished by a Glass Tube in the Tower of London, by Charles Tingleton Esq.
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Screaming Idiot posted:turn off your monitor Rude!
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There’s a Goodreads review that says the chapters are short and it’s pretty dry reading, accounts of hauntings that are sexual in nature, the most disturbing aspects being what supposedly caused the hauntings in the first place.grittyreboot posted:I ordered it. I need to read Archibald's Orgy In Hell Please do a trip report after you’ve read some!
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This is available to 'borrow' from Archive.org https://archive.org/details/sexualhauntingst00coli of course you have to read it within 14 days and then 'return' the book NoneMoreNegative has a new favorite as of 20:21 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:"The Skulls That Had Sex" sounds pretty straightforward, dunno why it needs an entire chapter. They had a lot of sex.
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The Spectre That Saved A City and somehow sex is involved? Where do I get the movie rights? Saving the city with ghost boning, it's like a Ghostbusters spinoff.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Spectre That Saved A City and somehow sex is involved? Where do I get the movie rights? Marvel Comics presents WHAT IF---?! the GhostbustersTM Failed and Ghost Rider had to Bone the Stay PuftTM Marshmallow Man out of Existence? e: Story by Roy Thomas, Art by 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 07:36 on Jul 22, 2019 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:They had a lot of sex. Can you imagine trying to sleep with what sounds like horse-clop coconuts in the attic all night?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Can you imagine trying to sleep with what sounds like horse-clop coconuts in the attic all night? OK, if that helps 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Marvel Comics presents WHAT IF---?! the GhostbustersTM Failed and Ghost Rider had to Bone the Stay PuftTM Marshmallow Man out of Existence? I'm pretty sure this is an anime by Trigger. At least if you combine Panty and Stocking and that one skeleton cop show.
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I was told to come here to tell you of Stravlin Black. It's a book written by a guy I used to work with. He asked me to check it out and review it. It is an absolutely terrible book. The story is pretty much "we created a cool all-black skeleton at this military research lab, but now it escaped and is pulling people's skeletons out through their mouths." I think it's free with Kindle unlimited it you hate yourself. Buck fifteen if you hate yourself even more.
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Untrustable posted:I was told to come here to tell you of Stravlin Black. It's a book written by a guy I used to work with. He asked me to check it out and review it. It is an absolutely terrible book. The story is pretty much "we created a cool all-black skeleton at this military research lab, but now it escaped and is pulling people's skeletons out through their mouths." I think it's free with Kindle unlimited it you hate yourself. Buck fifteen if you hate yourself even more. > Whisspy Willows holy poo poo, got me in the first sentence
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stravlin black is powerful and my friend
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Untrustable posted:I was told to come here to tell you of Stravlin Black. It's a book written by a guy I used to work with. He asked me to check it out and review it. It is an absolutely terrible book. The story is pretty much "we created a cool all-black skeleton at this military research lab, but now it escaped and is pulling people's skeletons out through their mouths." I think it's free with Kindle unlimited it you hate yourself. Buck fifteen if you hate yourself even more. Is he a decent person otherwise? Because whew, that’s bad.
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I’ve been listening to I Don’t Even Own a Television and their Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reminded me of how intensely lovely that book is. I forgot all about the endless, endless dry descriptions of stuff that straight up doesn’t matter.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’ve been listening to I Don’t Even Own a Television and their Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reminded me of how intensely lovely that book is. I forgot all about the endless, endless dry descriptions of stuff that straight up doesn’t matter. A very VERY slow burn book. And even then it's more a weird smell coming from an outlet than an actual fire. I think it worked much better as a movie because they could go from murder to kicking dildos into evil dude's rear end to getting shot at to solving a mystery without a whole lot of that newspaper poo poo in between.
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Elpato posted:A very VERY slow burn book. What really drives me up a wall is that the core mystery is so easily solved. Then whenever characters say Maybe Harriet is still alive, they’re told that’s impossible... and then she’s still alive! When you’re writing a mystery book you should at least try to make the mystery part not terrible.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Is he a decent person otherwise? Because whew, that’s bad. He's a 40 year-old shut-in with mental problems. So he's strange but not a bad dude at all. His writing is just bad. I haven't worked with him in 7 years and then he just hits me up to read this book because I was "published" once. I put published in quotations because I used to write for Cracked and some bits of my articles got put in a book they published years ago.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:What really drives me up a wall is that the core mystery is so easily solved. Then whenever characters say Maybe Harriet is still alive, they’re told that’s impossible... and then she’s still alive! When you’re writing a mystery book you should at least try to make the mystery part not terrible. A sporking blog doing the Twilight series refers to this as “Dead Herrings.” You want to misdirect the reader but can’t come up with any plausible alternate explanation, so you just have the book bring up what the reveal is and then have the characters go “No, that’s impossible!” until the reveal confirms that yes, it is possible. It’s one of the many techniques Stephenie Meyer used to pad out the series. I’m regretting doing a Let’s Read because they just drag and drag. It took almost 80 pages just for Eclipse to reveal the plot.
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THis conversation reminds me of the one time that idea was used well, in the first PS4 remake of Shadow Warrior. About halfway through the game, Wang asks the demon possessing him if it's possible he has amnesia because he wiped his own memories. He claims that that's impossible. However, later in the game, that is revealed to have been the actual thing that happened. He simply forgot he did so, and as he wiped his memory he couldn't think of a reason that he'd have wiped his own memory so he just dismissed the idea.
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Horrible tangent, but yea the Shadow Warrior remake suddenly dropped a whole lot more character development in the final third of the game than anyone was expecting. It was far better done than it had any right or need to be. Back on track, how do people feel about the whole "Oh, it was all it dream!" twist used in the final moments of a story? I understand it was more common a long time ago (eg Alice in Wonderland) and the same source wrote how its really fallen out of favor as modern audiences hate it. This came up in a non-book medium, where several people where complaining about how it essentially wrote off any prior events. I'd like to hear other's takes on it.
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Serephina posted:Back on track, how do people feel about the whole "Oh, it was all it dream!" twist used in the final moments of a story? I understand it was more common a long time ago (eg Alice in Wonderland) and the same source wrote how its really fallen out of favor as modern audiences hate it. This came up in a non-book medium, where several people where complaining about how it essentially wrote off any prior events. I'd like to hear other's takes on it. One of the worst possible ways to end a story. If you're undermining assumptions that the reader has made throughout the story, you drat well be making things more interesting, not less.
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Djeser posted:One of the worst possible ways to end a story. I think it's been done well approximately once, in Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, where the focus is more on "if you wake up, all these people will stop existing"
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Qwertycoatl posted:I think it's been done well approximately once, in Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, where the focus is more on "if you wake up, all these people will stop existing" I think the reason it works in that instance is it's not a twist at the eleventh hour -- it's introduced midway through the game, and the focus of the game is on whether Link can (and should) escape the dream. So when you succeed and the dream ends, the focus of the story and the choices made are still valid and relevant.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’ve been listening to I Don’t Even Own a Television and their Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reminded me of how intensely lovely that book is. I forgot all about the endless, endless dry descriptions of stuff that straight up doesn’t matter. Oh Christ yes. I gave up when it started going on about the specs of a protagonist's macbook and just flicked through the rest because I hate not finishing a book, but I should have just pitched it out the train window instead. Qwertycoatl posted:I think it's been done well approximately once, in Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, where the focus is more on "if you wake up, all these people will stop existing" That's not really a twist at the end though, you're explicitly told the island's the Wind Fish's dream during the game. I can think of some entertaining dreamland novels; Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Jonathan Carroll's Bones of the Moon, Cathering Storr's Marianne Dreams etc, but again they're explicitly dreams from the start. I'm fond of John Masefield's kids' book The Box of Delights, but even as a kid the "and then he woke up on the train he was on at the start and it was all a dream" ending seriously pissed me off. It's just a cop-out. An easy ending when a writer can't think of a proper one.
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Serephina posted:Back on track, how do people feel about the whole "Oh, it was all it dream!" twist used in the final moments of a story? I understand it was more common a long time ago (eg Alice in Wonderland) and the same source wrote how its really fallen out of favor as modern audiences hate it. This came up in a non-book medium, where several people where complaining about how it essentially wrote off any prior events. I'd like to hear other's takes on it. Weakest form of misdirection because it not only undoes everything that happened, but deprives it of any meaning or importance. It only works in horror and horror-adjacent fantasy stuff as 1. a reassurance that all the weird and scary poo poo is not real so chill out audience, or 2. to undermine a safe ending with the twist that people are still in danger/the scary thing is still out there. But even that stuff is pretty trite by this point. Actually The Dark is Rising series had kind of a neat twist on it where the protagonists were given a choice whether to bring the fantasy they'd been dealing with into reality, or let it fade off into myth, and they chose the latter.
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Runcible Cat posted:Oh Christ yes. I gave up when it started going on about the specs of a protagonist's macbook and just flicked through the rest because I hate not finishing a book, but I should have just pitched it out the train window instead. Did you make it to the part where he talks about his word processor and his internal monologue has a link to the word processor itself? It was baffling. Why would you put that in there? chitoryu12 posted:A sporking blog doing the Twilight series refers to this as “Dead Herrings.” You want to misdirect the reader but can’t come up with any plausible alternate explanation, so you just have the book bring up what the reveal is and then have the characters go “No, that’s impossible!” until the reveal confirms that yes, it is possible. Dead herring is such a good term for it. It’s so obnoxious and I have no idea how that kind of stuff makes it into published books.
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Serephina posted:Back on track, how do people feel about the whole "Oh, it was all it dream!" twist used in the final moments of a story? It's terrible if it's just a way to say "I know this story made no sense, but I'm not going to explain any of it." The question isn't "was it all a dream?" it's "is there any reason to care about what just happened?" If it was just some weird stuff the author came up with and threw together for no reason then, whether they say it was a dream or not, the answer is no.
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There's an example of it done well in the Archie Sonic comics. There's one character who's had half her limbs turned into robot limbs, and in one story the rest of her starts turning into robot parts too, which means she'll be under the villain's control and all her friends will be in danger. At the end of the story, she wakes up and she's fine, but the point is that we learn this is something she's worrying about all the time. The actual events didn't matter, but we get an insight into what's going on in her head from it.
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Dabir posted:the Archie Sonic comics. Why did you tell me about this
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It's done quite well in Trixie Slaughteraxe For President. The characters eventually realise that they are a simulation of the future, and that by terminating the simulation they can send a single brief message back to their real selves
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The Lone Badger posted:It's done quite well in Trixie Slaughteraxe For President. The characters eventually realise that they are a simulation of the future, and that by terminating the simulation they can send a single brief message back to their real selves  I read it when it first started but then I stopped for some reason, but now I guess I need to get caught up on it. I love how that guy's comics are just an endless series of absurdities that compound and pile on top of each other in perfectly logical ways.
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I was actually impressed by how well it was handled in Boku no Harem: Perfect Ravish. When you lose your last nekomeido and get a game over, there's a cutscene of you waking up in bed with all eight still happily snuggling you and sucking you off.
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