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I Killed GBS posted:You need to read amateur fiction or fanfic then if you want that stuff. It doesn't get published by big companies because they're owned by and pander to men. Why not read the Mercedes Lackey/Piers Anthony collab, If I Pay Thee Not In Gold?
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e X posted:Wow, talk about a product of its time. George W Bush and Gordon Brown are the heroic leaders of the free world, at least at the start. There's a scene where a succubus tries to seduce Bill Clinton and he blows its head off with a shotgun.
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May 25, 2017 12:40
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DACK FAYDEN posted:My memory is hazy. Is this the one where the government installs a puppet Prince of Hell after showing him a documentary about the Manhattan Project to scare the poo poo out of him with what human weapons are actually capable of doing to someplace where the fallout can't possibly spread to Earth? Mine too but that sounds vaguely familiar. Thing I remember most clearly about it is that when Hell first starts sending out its messages telling everyone to bow down and accept their new masters, Gordon Brown replies "shut up, Baldrick" and the demons are called Baldricks from then on. Thinking about it makes me cringe so hard my shins are coming out of my heels.
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May 25, 2017 22:18
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Is the main character named Jeb Bush? Am I reading that right?
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Jun 2, 2017 08:15
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Doyle and The Hobbit are readable, Lord of the Rings is not.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:39
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It's true, there were no good writers from 1881 to 1915.
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Sep 8, 2017 20:33
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So. Farewell then
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Oct 5, 2017 20:21
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See, rich people aren't allowed to want change because they don't know what it's like to be poor, and poor people aren't allowed to want change because they don't know what's good for them, which leaves... Huh..... Guess we'd better not change anything.
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Oct 12, 2017 11:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:The middle class, which has historically been pretty consistent in the belief they are the only ones worth a drat. As this thread kind of proves. The middle class are poor who think they're rich
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Oct 12, 2017 11:56
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FreudianSlippers posted:Other way around. Middle class goon detected
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Oct 12, 2017 20:44
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FreudianSlippers posted:When I think middle class I think stable white collar jobs with a decent wage, two cars, and a nice house in the suburbs. Not exactly poverty even if they are likely swimming in debt. See, I think of it as terribly nervous to do what they think polite society are doing and better their station in life, while "polite society" is more wealthy then they could possibly imagine and spends most nights doing piles of coke and throwing plates at the help. Poor (compared to the rich), but trying to be what they think the rich are.
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Oct 13, 2017 04:59
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Yeah, well, I think it's spiteful to insist everyone who wants change is too rich to be serious or too poor to not just be selfish, so what do I know
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Oct 13, 2017 11:32
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Segmentation Fox posted:Forgive me, thread, for I have sinned. I had this thought and pursued it, and now I leave it here. just write the fanfiction so we can make fun of it
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drawing one handed
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Oct 24, 2018 18:10
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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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Nov 18, 2019 01:47
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look if you wanted to talk about excellent literature this probably isn't the thread you're looking for
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Nov 18, 2019 05:43
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scooby doo and I was no older than 6
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a comic that looks exactly like the book covers would be ideal
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Hattie Masters posted:The old really ugly ones or the new, good ones? The old, really good ugly ones.
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Feb 14, 2020 19:48
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who cares about all that, they've got great atmosphere
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Feb 15, 2020 04:27
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cause too much worldbuilding suffocates the story?
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Feb 15, 2020 19:14
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dresden files more like dreadful piles
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Feb 26, 2020 06:11
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It was pretty tastefully handled and also actually important to the plot and the themes in Noughts and Crosses.
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Groke posted:In one memorable case, this resulted in eight seasons' worth of high-budget televised fanfiction. ...that being?
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oh yeah right that
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Byzantine posted:What is Thor classified as? dogshit
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Jan 17, 2021 23:27
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Both Dirk Gently books are good but in very different ways.
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Two Owls posted:Dirk Gently lifts from the never-finished (until it was, 5000 bloody times over, with animation/Tom Baker linking the bits together/ a "webcast" with Paul McGann) Doctor Who episode Shada. Specifically it's a mix of Shada and the excellent City of Death. The second one is all original. And more generally, Adams always wrote Ford as basically the Doctor if instead of saving the world, he went to parties to get drunk and meet girls.
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there's actually zero difference between bad and bad things. you illiterate. you loving ignoramus
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Jan 23, 2021 23:58
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The MGS2 novel plays it disappointingly straight, just word for word retells the game.
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Feb 3, 2021 18:29
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AlbieQuirky posted:Ed Gorman was an indefatigable anthologist of mystery stories who died a few years ago in his eighties. That’s probably a low-budget reprint of some out-of-print anthology put together by him or some other Silent Generation type who didn’t know how to use a computer. not if you have allergies
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nonathlon posted:And The Final Dangerous Visions? If you want to go into a rabbit hole, read Christopher Priest's takedown of it. Could be difficult as it was apparently withdrawn from distribution all over the internet, back when that was still possible.
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shelley posted:There are hard copies available for ridiculous prices, but here is an archived copy of the original essay Priest wrote. (I guess the title was changed later?) George R.R. Martin posted:The 1978 volume of my own 'New Voices/Campbell Awards' anthology series hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa Dabir has a new favorite as of 21:13 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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That's not even the worst thing Giles Coren's ever written. The worst thing would probably be the article he wrote for the Times about going on holiday with just his three year old daughter and how it was the "sexiest" holiday he'd ever been on. E: In trying to find this quote I've learned that he also wrote one where he speculated about her giving blowjobs when she's older. Dabir has a new favorite as of 04:34 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There was no reason in hell we needed to know this. Take it up with him
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Nov 1, 2021 06:14
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Ricky Gervais broke into the industry by being Stephen Merchant's friend, which is still a step above Giles Coren because Alan didn't get to choose his son.
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Yeah. If you want to learn a bit more about it, here's a good video going through it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Rg8V4g3ak
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If a scene makes you feel like the author is just masturbating furiously, it shouldn't be there.
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All the Tiffany Aching books after the first have a glossary of the Scottish-based slang the Feegles use, just to catch you up. They're written in-universe from the perspective of one of the characters, too.
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