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Solice Kirsk posted:I've never watched the Hugo Awards, but giving someone an award for an acceptance speech is some next level of huffing your own farts. The Hugo award is a popularity contest, not a measurement of the absolute merit. You win the Hugo the same way you win any other popularity contest. A. You write something that sells so many copies and has that certain something that maintains a fanbase and buzz. Eragon and Twilight are out because it would just be embarrassing, but if Brandon Sanderson takes an extra fifteen minutes to polish his prose on a novella he's a shoe-in. B. You write something that sells pretty good and isn't embarrassingly bad and you manage to gain yourself a following through some other means than just sales numbers--a platform or an identity people unite behind that also makes the book difficult to criticize because if that happens the rabid fans attack. C. A legitimately, undeniably great book that captures hearts and minds or at least ballots because nobody from A). or B). put anything out that year.
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I always wondered what a trencher is supposed to look like. I always assumed they were eating subway sandwiches with how they’re described
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Calaveron posted:I always wondered what a trencher is supposed to look like. I always assumed they were eating subway sandwiches with how they’re described it’s a hollowed out sourdough loaf shaped like a bowl
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Calaveron posted:I always wondered what a trencher is supposed to look like. I always assumed they were eating subway sandwiches with how they’re described They're just round, big round loaves of bread.
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Calaveron posted:I always wondered what a trencher is supposed to look like. I always assumed they were eating subway sandwiches with how they’re described Saying "they filled their breadbowl with stew" is just too reader friendly and doesn't fit the setting. Unlike all the other modern words most fantasy novels use for exactly that reason. I could really go for some brunswick stew in a breadbowl now.
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Why does GRRM use bougie terms like ‘gorget’ and ‘helm’ when he could just use ‘neck guard’ or ‘metal hat’ like a normal loving American?
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pseudanonymous posted:he pulled some bullshit at the Hugo Loser's party also (i.e. the party for people who got nommed but didn't win) where most of the actual nominees couldn't get in because he did a lovely job of planning and it got full or something and he was like "welp too bad". imagine the smells at that party
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Shageletic posted:imagine the smells at that party Vape juice and BO.
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Aug 7, 2020 18:05
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Uncle Lloyd posted:At this point, I assume he's basically totally scrapped an entire book's worth of material. He's never made it a secret that he lets the story grow on its own, but now that he's done that for so long I doubt he's been able to figure out a way to make it lead to the ending. I wouldn't be surprised if he's trying to write the thing more or less by trial and error. Winds of Winter Chapter One Syrio slowly ran the stone across the steel of the blade...
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Hasselblad posted:Winds of Winter "Come on in, the water's fine." Varys said from the surf, his merman tail out of place like nipples on a breastplate.
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Winds of Winter Chapter One Rickon reclined in the warm summer sun, while in the back of his mind he sensed ShaggyDog's kill. The hot unicorn blood spraying across his teeth and gums. The young lord smiled. This is the life, he thought, and fell back asleep. The End Meanwhile, back at the wall...
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Aug 13, 2020 10:38
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For George 1948 - 2023
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Evil Fluffy posted:"Come on in, the water's fine." Varys said from the surf, his merman tail out of place like nipples on a breastplate. Just so...
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Meanwhile, back at the Fortress of Solitude https://twitter.com/GRRMspeaking/status/1294668936542400519
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Martian posted:Meanwhile, back at the Fortress of Solitude ASoIaF: A Song of Ice and Fire: I mean, once upon a time, I actually wrote my books and stories
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Vichan posted:ASoIaF: A Song of Ice and Fire: I mean, once upon a time, I actually wrote my books and stories Technically he’s still writing fiction
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TK-42-1 posted:Technically he’s still writing fiction 
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'm not sure who I'd be less surprised to see confirmed as a huge sexpest: GRRM or Rothfuss. Just from the pictures we have from him at conventions it seems like a safe bet. Gurm that is. I only read that first Rothfuss book, and it was awful, but thinking back, yeah I wouldn't be shocked.
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Aug 16, 2020 22:12
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He lies like trump, only with longer words.
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Was there ever a theory that Dragonstone was a dormant volcano that could go off at any moment? Because the way it’s worded that it’s a dragon made of stone and that it’s rich in obsidian makes me suspect that was supposed to pay off at some point
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Calaveron posted:Was there ever a theory that Dragonstone was a dormant volcano that could go off at any moment? Because the way it’s worded that it’s a dragon made of stone and that it’s rich in obsidian makes me suspect that was supposed to pay off at some point Not the volcano part but yeah the dragon made of stone part. I think that Prester guy has some videos on it. The volcano thing was part of the "dragon under Winterfell" theory, I thought?
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Collateral posted:He lies like trump, only with longer words. holy poo poo that was my first thought too.
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Collateral posted:He lies like trump, only with longer words. (repost) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQeRboyjwDk
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Calaveron posted:Was there ever a theory that Dragonstone was a dormant volcano that could go off at any moment? Because the way it’s worded that it’s a dragon made of stone and that it’s rich in obsidian makes me suspect that was supposed to pay off at some point The Dragonmont is explicitly a volcano.
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Martian posted:Meanwhile, back at the Fortress of Solitude bitch, you aren't writing anything. you only enjoy writing when it can shock people and asoiaf can't do that anymore because it got spoiled by the two hollywood idiots you sold it to except for the readers who really want to know what happened to Gerold Dayne and Strong Belwas. they're in for a surprise!!!
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He probably thinks he’s Superman too.
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Write the book coward
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RCarr posted:Write the book coward https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250168016
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Can’t wait to see GRRM rework the grayscale storyline into a covid allegory.
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At his age, Jorah only has a %99.6 chance of making a full recovery. It's practically a death sentence.
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Stannis will actually die because he refuses to wear a mask.
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Look, everybody knows that greyscale only kills the sick and elderly. The Maesters are lying to us, man.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Stannis will actually die because he refuses to wear a mask. Stannis is the boring guy everyone hates because he does The Right Thing so hard it just feels wrong. He would wear a mask, mandate that his forces do so as well and enforce social distancing under pain of execution. ...And still lose because everyone else on Westeros is a bonkers self-destructive idiot. Dany was right to burn them all, hth.
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Just have to cut out the Greyscale. Seems so easy nobody gave enough of a poo poo to try.
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Eh, he just edits those though doesn't he, and other authors do the actual work of writing.
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Invalid Validation posted:Just have to cut out the Greyscale. Seems so easy nobody gave enough of a poo poo to try. Especially since it leaves no scarring or other visible marks, even if it was covering most of their body.
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ruddiger posted:Can’t wait to see GRRM rework the grayscale storyline into a covid allegory. Hell, it's already there. Shireen has shown that children are much more likely to survive! and have life-altering side effects that we're still trying to understand!
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You can cure Greyscale just by chewing sourleaf. The maesters just don't want you to know about it. Asshai gave the disease to Westeros to weaken the rightful Targaryen rulers!
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