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Cythereal posted:I'm reading The First Heretic for the first time in a while, and Cyrene's character really sticks in my craw. ADB can write female characters well, Betrayer is proof of that, but most of the time he strikes me as uncomfortably skeevy. Cyrene is introduced as an alluring 17 year old prostitute with years of experience and powerful lovers and is naked under her robe. It's pretty obviously a deliberate decision to slap the reader in the face and make them look at what is happening in the story. Remind them that poo poo is hosed up and you should think about what's happening. It's the same trick as he used with the baby in the Night Lords trilogy. That you didn't understand that is on you, not him.
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Just to be clear. He didn't 'put paedophilia into a book,' he made an oblique allusion to it for the sake of character background and an insight into the deeply imperfect culture of the 'Perfect City.' To counter the impression that the Emperor was laying waste to a wonderful city that Lorgar, who thought himself the innocent party, had created. If an author using a tool to make you as a reader uncomfortable, so that you question your biases and the motivations of characters, is something you can't understand or handle then you either need to grow up or go back to Mr Men books. Because your freak out in this thread is incredibly puerile.
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BL ones certainly. The Twin Peaks audiobook was awesome.
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Demiurge4 posted:Armageddon is implied to be Ullanor, where the emperor quit the great crusade and gave Horus the title of Warmaster.. Which in turn is implied to be the Ork home world iirc.
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Pyrolocutus posted:One of the post-DI books (Carrion Throne I think) had someone seeing a mural in the Imperial Palace and going "wait didn't the Emperor only have nine sons
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Sep 22, 2019 16:36
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" and getting a "DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THAT" in response.
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I refuse to entertain the proposition that anything by Kyme is 'great'. Good loving God!
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I started the new Cawl novel, and it's bad writing even for BL standards. Actually unreadable. As I can't force myself to wade through the loose stool water to find out what Cawl is doing, is there a good synopsis?
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Oct 26, 2019 18:10
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Sniffs finger.
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KM Scorchio posted:So, should I have read before then recent Cawl The Great Work book? Head it’s decent but not clear if I can be read as a stand alone. It works as a stand alone. So long as you know the basic gist of what the Primaris are and that Girlyman has returned. Try not to be put off by how absolutely cretinously incompetent the first few pages are. Once Cawl appears the writing picks up a lot.
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Xenomrph posted:The November issue of White Dwarf has a bit about Inquisitors and mentions that Jokaero make “digital weapons” and lists off ring-weapons and finger lasers as examples. “Digital weapons” in this context means “weapons one wears on their digits (fingers)”, right? Like basically miniaturized weapons? I always liked the stuff about the Ordo Time Cops all vanishing/ceasing to exist for a few hundred years, and then one day just suddenly existing again.
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