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Thanks for all the advice people  Skwirl posted:Again it goes into more Romance but the early Laurel K Hamilton Anita Blake books she does everything on her own, but she does have magic powers, but her magic powers don't help her much, it's just what makes her attractive to various vampires and werewolves. I actually love the early Anita Blake books because while she does have some magic. It's overwhelmingly not useful in a fight. She has to navigate her way through super natural politicking with skill and guile because any of these strung out vampire street-kid minions could rip her apart. She also has to work around the police who don't trust her so she has to trick them and sneak around them to solve crimes. In the later books she's probably the most powerful being on the planet. But she's also really wealthy and can call on a private army of well armed soldier/mercenary were-animals. She's also a "federal marshal" to boot. So she flashes her cop badge to brow beat people. There was also never any disadvantages to balance out her powers. She has vampire powers but was immune to sunlight and silver. She is apparently all were-animals in a single person but never had to worry about shape shifting. The story had very interesting side characters who struggled with these things but Anita gets it all for "free" Feliday Melody has a new favorite as of 06:03 on May 14, 2021 |
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Feliday Melody posted:Thanks for all the advice people Yeah, I lost the thread when she hosed like three different were creatures in a single chapter.
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May 14, 2021 06:02
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, I lost the thread when she hosed like three different were creatures in a single chapter. As someone who powered through in hopes that the series would get better later on: You're going to have to be way more specific  I remember one of the later books they had to defeat this master vampire that was basically indestructible because he could make himself and other people rot instantly. But also heal it without consequence. So Anita makes this plan where they assemble military teams with flame throwers to burn him. And they chase him with a freaking helicopter and then one of the teams catch him and burns him up and he dies exactly as the original plan intended and the book ends there.
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May 14, 2021 06:08
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Feliday Melody posted:As someone who powered through in hopes that the series would get better later on: You're going to have to be way more specific One of them was a were jaguar I think? It was the one after the book where she went and hung out with Ned the serial killer and his secret family. (that one was pretty good)
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May 14, 2021 06:11
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Skwirl posted:One of them was a were jaguar I think? I loved Ned (Ted?) I think the first full books with him had a villain that had been turned into a wereswan or some other bird. And he (The swan) was really angry because he didn't get to be a cool animal and all the other were-animals pushed him around because he was completely harmless.
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May 14, 2021 06:14
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Feliday Melody posted:I loved Ned (Ted?) Oh god, yeah the wereswan. Ehh, I think being a wereswan would be loving awesome, I think it still included the almost instant healing from any injury when in human form powers that all the were creatures had, and then either once a month or whenever you feel like it (I can't really remember the rules in those books) you can loving fly. Turning into a wolf or a jaguar or some other predator sounds cool, but isn't very practical if you live in a city, being able to loving fly sounds goddamn awesome. Edit: yeah, if I was gonna be turned into some sort of werethingie, wereswan would be a top choice, or some other sort of werebird. Air Skwirl has a new favorite as of 06:26 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 06:21
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It's not a goose, but a swan will also try to gently caress you up
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Skwirl posted:The number of people who listen to RATM without ever actually listening to any of the lyrics loving astounds me. They're Paul Ryan's favorite band for gently caress's sake. I've got a co-worker who did whole the "RATM used to be so cool when I was younger, why'd they have to get so political" thing when they came on the radio while we were driving somewhere. The look on his face when I told him "Man, we're the same age. This song came out when we were in high school. Nothing's changed but you." was pretty loving great.
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Sanguinary Novel posted:It's not a goose, but a swan will also try to gently caress you up Aren't swans bigger? Also, If I was in the UK no one could kill me in swan form under penalty of the crown.
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May 14, 2021 06:32
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Being a wereswan would loving kick rear end. Huge, tough, can fly, roam around parks harassing picnickers and stealing their sandwiches, have a nap on the water while you digest. People see a wolf or a big cat, yeah, that'll get attention. If they see a swan, they'll go OH LOOK AT THE SWAN and then probably stay out of your way.
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May 14, 2021 06:37
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Khizan posted:I've got a co-worker who did whole the "RATM used to be so cool when I was younger, why'd they have to get so political" thing when they came on the radio while we were driving somewhere. The look on his face when I told him "Man, we're the same age. This song came out when we were in high school. Nothing's changed but you." was pretty loving great. A lot of dumdums act like politics were invented when they first noticed it. Trump was the first president to ever be criticized or made fun of in late night shows, Anita Saarkesian and Zoe Quinn invented girl representation in media as a communist plot, pro- or anti-war media isn't political for some reason, etc.
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I'm stealing this from someone else, but I don't remember who. RATM at 15: This loving rocks RATM at 25: It's good music but their politics are a little simplistic RATM at 35: You know what some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
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What's weirder: chuds who don't listen to the lyrics, or chuds who do listen to the lyrics and think the lyrics agree with them?
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Fister Roboto posted:What's weirder: chuds who don't listen to the lyrics, or chuds who do listen to the lyrics and think the lyrics agree with them? The latter, I like a lot of media I don't agree with the politics of. I'm not gonna try and put a leftist spin on Death Wish. I kinda have a leftist spin on Dirty Harry, but it's mostly just pointing out when he tortures the dude to find the girl he kidnapped she still dies and the torture means he gets let out of jail and kills other people.
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"Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses" was not intended as a shoutout
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Have you all considered the werehorse. Not a man that becomes a horse, rather a horse that becomes a wolf every full moon. Now there's a murder mystery!
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YggiDee posted:Have you all considered the werehorse. Not a man that becomes a horse, rather a horse that becomes a wolf every full moon. Now there's a murder mystery! "were" means man. You aren't describing a werehorse, you are describing a horsewolf.
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YggiDee posted:Have you all considered the werehorse. Not a man that becomes a horse, rather a horse that becomes a wolf every full moon. Now there's a murder mystery! 
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Sanguinary Novel posted:It's not a goose, but a swan will also try to gently caress you up A side effect of covid is that hundreds of idiots stopped feeding the Canada goose infestation in my area like they were adorable ducks or something “and here’s one for you” “hissssssss”, there were thousands and thousands of the drat things in the Chesterfield/Rotherham area, and now they’ve all flown off, and adorable swan parings have come back. The actual soil layer of compressed goose poo poo in our parks still remains though.
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learnincurve posted:A side effect of covid is that hundreds of idiots stopped feeding the Canada goose infestation in my area like they were adorable ducks or something “and here’s one for you” “hissssssss”, there were thousands and thousands of the drat things in the Chesterfield/Rotherham area, and now they’ve all flown off, and adorable swan parings have come back. The actual soil layer of compressed goose poo poo in our parks still remains though. What kinda loving psychopath feeds Canadian Geese? I live where they are common and most people who have an opinion about them are pissed that it's illegal to shoot them.
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May 14, 2021 07:21
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:"Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses" was not intended as a shoutout tbf, maybe they didn't know what "those that work forces" was supposed to mean. I didn't until like last year
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May 14, 2021 07:28
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Skwirl posted:I'm stealing this from someone else, but I don't remember who. Totally this. Songs like No Shelter have gone from "this is what school won't teach you" to "I am actively teaching this to students".
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Skwirl posted:The latter, I like a lot of media I don't agree with the politics of. I'm not gonna try and put a leftist spin on Death Wish. e: wow gently caress i'm an idiot, leaving this up even though it's embarrassing eat the shame
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Skwirl posted:What kinda loving psychopath feeds Canadian Geese? I live where they are common and most people who have an opinion about them are pissed that it's illegal to shoot them. It’s not just the ends of sandwiches either, it’s people bringing down actual bags of bread for them - it’s like a ritual for a lot of British people, yeh the geese chased away the ducks but let’s go the park and feed the birds - I knew a not the idiot guy who moved his chickens next to a local Cricket pitch then sold bags of corn at matches to throw to the birds.
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Skwirl posted:What kinda loving psychopath feeds Canadian Geese? I live where they are common and most people who have an opinion about them are pissed that it's illegal to shoot them. I mean, people appeased Hitler so I guess it makes sense they'd try to appease the avian equivalent.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I mean, people appeased Hitler so I guess it makes sense they'd try to appease the avian equivalent. Is that what goose-stepping means?
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I like geese, they are my spirit animal. I feel a powerful affinity for a creature that just threatens people until they give it food.
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OwlFancier posted:I like geese, they are my spirit animal. I feel a powerful affinity for a creature that just threatens people until they give it food. If they will not give you work, demand bread If they will not give you work or bread, charge at them with your head low and wings spread while hissing and take their sandwiches
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:If they will not give you work, demand bread This is praxis
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:If they will not give you work, demand bread Probably won't work with a goose named Gwyneth Paltrow
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There's a whole generation of people who listened to rage against the machine before they were old enough to understand it and to this day think "gently caress you I won't do what you tell me" is about their moms making them clean their rooms
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I didn't know what "those who work forces" meant but I definitely got the impression that they did not think burning crosses was a good thing. The machine against which they are raging is not the vending machine.
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Skwirl posted:What kinda loving psychopath feeds Canadian Geese? I live where they are common and most people who have an opinion about them are pissed that it's illegal to shoot them. One of the simple pleasures in my life is occasionally finding a walking surface outside my apartment that isn’t covered in goose poo poo. Where I live we pretty much treat the Canada Geese like the raccoons on Parks and Recreation: they have their side of town and we have ours.
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One of my earliest memories is my mother trying to feed a Twinkie to a goose at a campsite and having the absolute poo poo bitten out of her hand for her trouble.
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May 14, 2021 13:41
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Bugsy posted:It keeps happening. There is no worse type of Small Business Tyrant than restaurant owners.
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Pastry of the Year posted:One of my earliest memories is my mother trying to feed a Twinkie to a goose at a campsite and having the absolute poo poo bitten out of her hand for her trouble. A Gøøse once bit my sister.
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Nucleic Acids posted:There is no worse type of Small Business Tyrant than restaurant owners. I wonder whether Kitchen Nightmares made this better or worse. He set out to shame the Amy's Baking Companys of the world and probably a whole generation of viewers looked at it and said "Well I would do it better than that, I know what I'm doing  "I mean while we're on the topic of people taking the wrong lesson from media
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hatred of canadian geese is like hatred of seagulls: arbitrary. People just decide they have a RACIAL HATRED: GEESE modifier and then spend the rest of their life complaining about them
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Skwirl posted:The number of people who listen to RATM without ever actually listening to any of the lyrics loving astounds me. They're Paul Ryan's favorite band for gently caress's sake. gently caress you, I'll do exactly what you tell me.
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I still haven't gotten over that video of a seagull eating an entire rabbit without chewing. Absolutely majestic birds.
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