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MisterBear posted:Can anyone remind me what actually happened in Safely You Deliver? I read it about six months ago but, honestly, I don’t recall a whole lot beyond it being the continuing adventures of Edgar and the gang and there being some form of invasion. finishes the story of the polycule becoming independents, fleshes out Rose/Grue/Blossom a lot. no actual invasions so much as attempted remote assassinations that're responded to with terrifying swiftness and finality
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i think some of the boredom is kinda effective, as it settles into the rhythm of kinda cozy competence porn the interruptions with life-and-death poo poo become more startling. quoting this scene because i like it quote:Dinner’s strange, an unfamiliar refectory’s always like that, you’re not camping, you’re not travelling, as such, not in a hostel dining room, and a lot of habits aren’t right, they don’t keep the spoons in the same place, the plates and dishes are different, you don’t have a regular spot. Chloris goes in ahead, looking for five places together. Maybe the other half of the surveyor’s table, they’ve been here for a couple months, marking the northern branch of the planned canal.
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LLSix posted:I'm reading Safely you Deliver, and I can't figure out who Zora is referring to when she says "Constant." As in, Death and Constant Strange Mayhem. this is the correct thing to be wondering about at that point, keep reading eke out fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Jul 22, 2022 19:46
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iirc creek gender is complicated in a much more fundamental way than just preferences for which genitalia you like and how many partners. i think there's references to like being attracted to what we would think of as particular personality types (e.g.: dove's absolutely insane heroism) in ways they would consider gender
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ulmont posted:Yeah they talk about a two-axis: thank you! i could not remember what was Forbidden Google Groups Knowledge and what was in the books
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you're right, looked up that part and it's not gender it's described as more like a rubric to think about how people pick sexual partners (that's presumably more relevant in a deeply post-gender society like the commonweal) what counts as gender for the creeks - or any other ilk we know about - seems less defined eke out fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Dec 15, 2022 23:35
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yeah i always imagined Reems to be in the kind of slow cascading collapse of a major empire that takes decades and involves lots of political reconfigurations as new people seize power and try increasingly desperate things. like Rome losing Britain but still being most of a century away from the West "falling" we have so little information about the state of the world -- apart from that it's an absolute hellscape -- that the easiest answer is that lots of things were probably attacking Reems from all angles once they started losing territory (especially given how much Dominion Over Territory is a big deal for everyone not in the Commonweal) eke out fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 18:09
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Sailor Viy posted:1. Does the Commonweal have money? At first I thought no, what with all the collectives and local councils. But a few times in this book they've mentioned "making things cost less" or "fines for barges that don't follow regulations". these are reasonable things to be asking but the answers to both are broadly "keep reading"
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Dec 30, 2022 22:16
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woah i had no idea a wapentake is an actual thing (a political subdivison that is apparently roughly equivalent to the 'hundred')quote:Middle English, from Old English wǣpentæc, from Old Norse vāpnatak act of grasping weapons, from vāpn weapon + tak act of grasping, from taka to take; probably from the brandishing of weapons as an expression of approval when the chief of the wapentake entered upon his office — more at WEAPON, TAKE entry 1
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lol yeah i think it's primarily mentioned in the context of Chloris being depressed there's no one to bone because she'd probably instantly kill any normal person
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also some of that artillery they're using in the March North is making explosions more like something you'd drop from a modern bomber. they seem capable of a wide range from "conventional mortar shell" to "vast expanse of burning glass" e: lol i was looking up the end of the march north to see if i was remembering right and came upon quote:The mostly clear path took us through the blast zone where the Master Gunner got whoever was running the big Reems joint enchantment. eke out fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Jan 23, 2023 23:44
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D-Pad posted:Ok so not too far off what I thought was going on. Thanks! extreme commitment to his highly specific political/economic philosophy, i think. more on that as the series progresses!
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Jan 23, 2023 23:46
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being a vriska in the commonweal is punishable by immediate summary execution
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Mar 21, 2023 04:47
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no idea when the next book comes out but it might legitimately be the fantasy novel i anticipate more than anything else particularly because, if past is any indication, he's going to make a hard turn and it'll be about something radically different than the two extensive military-focused ones we got most recently
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might have to go back and read #1 at some point before either 3 or 4? but i def think you could start with 2, given that a bunch of things the reader knows nothing about just happened off-camera and the main character also literally knows nothing about any of it
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AMOGAS was 2020, right? ain't bad at all for how big and how weird the books are. i know this is a hobby for him but also it seems like the kind of thing he will not be quitting any time soon, i have faith
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