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Effectronica posted:i would rank tolkien as somewhat higher up than most fantasy types give him credit for, but that's a good list. i also like tim powers and caitlin kiernan. caitlin kiernan posted:"Anyone can come up with the artifice/conceit of a 'good story.' Story bores me. Which is why critics complain it's the weakest aspect of my work. Because that's essentially purposeful. I have no real interest in plot. Atmosphere, mood, language, character, theme, etc., that's the stuff that fascinates me. Ulysses should have freed writers from plot." discovering new dinosaurs and dunking on narrative, i like her already
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:discovering new dinosaurs and dunking on narrative, i like her already the red tree is about a woman having a breakdown and falling prey to the titular tree because her girlfriend was into online fetish stuff and i had a big smile on my horrible, jaded face for the entire second half of the book
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 04:09 |
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more like GAYme of thrones amirite? no one has ever posted or said that before now and i refuse to read the rest of the thread
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Effectronica posted:i would rank tolkien as somewhat higher up than most fantasy types give him credit for, but that's a good list. i also like tim powers and caitlin kiernan. i mean, fantasy as a whole is really really poo poo. like, really poo poo. one would think that, like all other genres, something would eventually come along with relevant themes and deep meaning important to the human existence, but nope! the fact that tolkien has no rapes and no incest (elf family trees notwithstanding) and maintains a coherent and logical storyline is all he needed to stand out in fantasy. he was a boring writer but at least he wasnt a total idiot Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Like it or not incestuous siblings, naked whore tits and wisecracking dwarfs are live wires in the uncultured zeitgeist and it all tracks back to Dr. Tolkien.
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 05:25 |
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aint no wot thats for sure rip rj
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 05:28 |
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sucks so badLY adverbs op
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:You need a weed wizard for it to be high fantasy. porkchop_express fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Tolkien had incest in the feel good story of Turin and his sister. Pretty dark stuff too.
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nomadologique posted:sucks so badLY sucks so badly implies the sucking is not good
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:gene wolfe if you want command of language, ursula leguin or china mieville if you want political consciousness (mieville is inconsistent because at his worst he's like a marginally less lovely neil gaiman but at his best you get stuff like embassytown or iron council), roger zelazny or michael moorcock if you want to see someone take the basic forms and assumptions of pulp paperback fantasy and do clever things with it i actually really loving dig sandman and anansi boys and american gods are at least entertaining if flawed and accessible works. i could def understand how people would not like him
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 09:00 |
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redshirt posted:The Mountain sort of lives. I'm pretty sure he died too, just a few seconds after the other guy. Even if he didn't immediately die, I don't think they are fixing those wounds with their voodoo medicine.
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Butthead posted:I'm pretty sure he died too, just a few seconds after the other guy. Even if he didn't immediately die, I don't think they are fixing those wounds with their voodoo medicine. No he becomes like a robot thing later on.
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Butthead posted:I'm pretty sure he died too, just a few seconds after the other guy. Even if he didn't immediately die, I don't think they are fixing those wounds with their voodoo medicine. I tell you The Mountain LIVES!
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:32 |
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OP, where do whores go?
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:37 |
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etalian posted:If you want cheesy entertaining pulp it's tough to beat the Conan the barbarian stories
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game of thrones has amazing production values and acting. it's too bad the plot is total poo poo the show itself actively fights against you getting invested with any of them except, maybe, daenerys it's literally the most cynical example of 'what sells' in recent memory - show people tits and violence and grimdark 'maturity' and people will snap it up like sweet crack
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:49 |
i mean they literally hire porn stars to play their female roles jfc
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:49 |
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a dream of spring: daenerys targaryen develops skin cancer and dies with a loyal eunuch by her side (bleach her loving eyebrows for gods sake)
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Milky Moor posted:game of thrones has amazing production values and acting. it's too bad the plot is total poo poo the show itself actively fights against you getting invested with any of them except, maybe, daenerys hahahahaha
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:53 |
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who cares about cracka kinte, she ain't gonna do poo poo that matters for the next 500 seasons
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:56 |
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The Brown Menace posted:who cares about cracka kinte, she ain't gonna do poo poo that matters for the next 500 seasons no see someone has to be a mother to dra how can i hate you when you are always on the mark brown menace
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 13:59 |
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i stopped watching once daenrays started sucking and loving the dragonspqwn
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hemale in pain posted:hahahahaha i don't loving know i haven't watched past the first episode of the second season and she seems to be the only one not dead
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 15:35 |
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One of the best things about the television version of GoT are the fan meltdowns about character death. Jon Snow's will be particularly delicious
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 15:46 |
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i don't even own a tv
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 15:48 |
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Professor Tomtom posted:i don't even own a tv I don't see how disliking this poo poo i am he posted:i stopped watching once daenrays started sucking and loving the dragonspqwn is automatically a case of not liking something just because it is popular
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 15:53 |
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prezbuluskey posted:some midget homo jerked off some dude and some homo blonde girl ate out a dragon who cares NO gently caress YOU OP!
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 15:56 |
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who else is excited for ep 9 tonight???
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 16:11 |
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I don't like GoT because I'm too cool for school.
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 16:24 |
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no you're not
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 16:43 |
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I haven't seen Game of Thrones, but I hear normalfags talk about it a lot so it's probably bland, soulless poo poo. I only watch Thai Game Shows and Portuguese Dramas That Maybe Two Other Americans Total Have Watched.
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 16:47 |
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redshirt posted:Tolkien had incest in the feel good story of Turin and his sister. He's the one with the shroud right Or was that a different fantasy novel
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 04:06 |
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GoT is popular? I've never heard of it outside of these forums, and it's only complaints when it is brought up. You must be confused because I don't think anyone likes that show. You should stop talking about it.
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 04:21 |
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Elbo posted:He's the one with the shroud right Shroud? Turin was a dick who dicked around Middle Earth and cucked an elf then hosed his sister then died.
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 06:47 |
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Disconnecticus posted:Like it or not incestuous siblings, naked whore tits and wisecracking dwarfs are live wires in the uncultured zeitgeist and it all tracks back to Dr. Tolkien.
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 06:49 |
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If you talk about 'production values' seriously you gay
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 06:52 |
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can't wait for the mannis
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 06:53 |
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So I read the first two books, and decided that GRRM was a cock, and that I was done with all that nonsense, but now the bf is into the show, and I'm trying to convince him that its all poo poo. Any tips from the pros?
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WanderingMinstrel I posted:So I read the first two books, and decided that GRRM was a cock, and that I was done with all that nonsense, but now the bf is into the show, and I'm trying to convince him that its all poo poo. Any tips from the pros? just let him read it and come to his own conclusions
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