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Jan 28, 2019 20:14


my "fight the physical tbr-pile" challenge.
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ikel89 January 28 2019, 21:07:59 UTC
documented evidence to the fight against physical tbr pile is kinda adorable, if wobbly :DD is there a method to how the stack is arranged? coz if not, you know, it can be re-arranged to something stabler XD

every new detailed i learnt about evil hugger from this post looks too extraneous -- the book should have kept all the kinks completely out of context and thus perhaps achieved some dada beauty*.
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SUV metaphor pfffffffft. also you& your moral superiority, you do you!

n those types of novels that are utter caricatures: the gold-digging wife, the self-proclaimed artist who never creates anything, the truly horrible patriarch...:DD you know, this actually reminds me. I had written a full short story at school that was peak cliche of this kind, for a class assignment. (We had to write something finished, within some wordcount, during our winter break, and it was my peak detective stories phase.) It definitely had a horrible matriarch, ambitious first son and his wife, loser young son, perky niece, ( ... )

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failte_aoife January 29 2019, 09:42:30 UTC
s there a method to how the stack is arranged?

Well there is. Huge books at the bottom and the smaller on top. Only that new one is quite huge so now I have the choice between re-stacking everything (for which I am too lazy) or just putting it on top and hoping for the best (for which I am too cowardly). I have no decided to just wait since I'm planning to read In Other Lands soon anyway and that's so deep down that I have to re-stack anyway to get there and then I can just leave Henriette Anne there XD I AM BEST AT MAKING BRILLIANT PLANS

I am sure any version of the evil huggers would be superiour...and why not just have a guy with a foot-fetish give a zombie a blowjob?

Now I double dare you to guess who was the murderer :D
This is SO HARD! Is it like murder on the Orient Express and everybody did it? XD

is this the freaking temeraire :')))) No. This is entirely different series with magical dragon dung where depending on what you feed the dragon his shit will explode/cause memory loss/make stuff float and now a guy wants to do ( ... )

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ikel89 January 29 2019, 20:18:33 UTC
Huge books at the bottom and the smaller on top.
I'm -- amazed by the audacity of this statement. :D You clearly meant to slip on this banana peel.

This is SO HARD! Is it like murder on the Orient Express and everybody did it? XD
That woulda been too subversive for middle school me. By the process of elimination of really aggressive players, it was the weakling loser second son as the most overshadowed family member.

Re: not-temerraire. W E L L. I mean.


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failte_aoife January 30 2019, 13:24:12 UTC
I absolutely did not mean to slip on any banana peel or insert a banana anywhere.

it was the weakling loser second son
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?!?!

I did want unconventional magical systems and...I got them. I am very happy now.

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hamsterwoman January 30 2019, 16:32:28 UTC
I really enjoyed the snark in your Half-Life writeup (WTF, seriously. I mean, maybe it works better if one finds zombified people sexy, as I decidedly do not, but even with allowances for that, and conventions of the genre, what the actual fuck.)

Also LOL at the Polish fail in the Cinderella's Dress book because:

and then I decided that, if I’m reading monolinguals-doing-bilingual characters I at least want one who can copy & paste from Google translate correctly and not confuse a ł for a t and quit

LOL XD

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failte_aoife January 31 2019, 10:33:16 UTC
Yeah...I mean I don't care about zombies at all (the blurb did say nothing about them only about vague danger or I wouldn't have picked it up) but even if I did there's still so much NOPE in it.

I am surprised by the number of writers who think that just looking up words is enough for the ~exotic~ flair (and then often enough fail at that...I also have a book with cross stitch pattern and one of them says Россйя)

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nessaniel January 31 2019, 06:54:58 UTC
as I am sure you are aware i got stuck on this part

Then Whitney gives Griffin blow-job that has the power of true love and un-zombifies him and they live happily ever after.

and I just spent ten minutes wondering about the logistics. I recently watched a playthrough of Resident Evil 2 and those zombies DO NOT STAY PUT IN ONE PLACE. Did he tie him down. Did he stop in the middle of it all to give the zombie a stern talking to. Did he pacify the zombie with an arm that just so happened to be lying around.

WHY DID YOU MAKE ME THINK ABOUT THIS OMG.

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failte_aoife January 31 2019, 10:42:09 UTC
OH NO THAT BIT HAS A TOTALY REASONABLE EXPLANATION!

You see for that spell that helps her mind-control people without turning them into actual zombies she needs that person's hair and a piece of their clothing that she then turns into a magical necklace and when she puts that on the person she has power over them. But Whitney and Griffin manage to remove each other's necklaces and then have some zombie- and mind-control free quality time together and during that Griffin gives Whitney his shirt because reasons. Then they decide to do the most logical thing and split up which is when evil cousin captures Griffin and actually zombifies him but because Whitney has his shirt and evil cousin apparently got both spells from the same website so clothing is also involved there and because Whitney has his shirt and because they are *~*soulmates*~* he ends up having some control over Griffin and can tell him to stand still while he blows him.

SEE! TOTALLY LOGICAL!

(You did ask)

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