- The Smith of Lie Wed Dec 11 15:15:12 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapter 22: Running with Wolves)
Geez, how sad is it that our main character sleeps with goddesses and it’s just treated as inconsequential?? This is actually an interesting bit of perspective. Normally the fact that your character not only is on speaking terms with gods, but also sleeps around among them would be pretty monumentous …
- Juracan Wed Dec 11 13:40:40 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapter 22: Running with Wolves)
Hearne didn’t throw an attactive girl right into Atticus lap despite them being in a rlationship fraught with power-imalance (in Atticus favor)? Who is this impostor and what he did with real Hearne? Yeah, it is a bit off, isn’t it? For once, the sleaziest thing isn’t what’s happening. I don’t …
- frases Wed Dec 11 03:35:05 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapter 19: I'm Sorry This is So Boring)
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- The Smith of Lie Tue Dec 10 16:55:06 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapter 22: Running with Wolves)
You know, here’s something we didn’t talk about in the last few chapters that we really should have: Granuaile wants to be Atticus’s apprentice, and yet they’re both clearly attracted to each other. Apparently their relationship up ‘til this point has been checking each other out and flirting? And yet …
- The Smith of Lie Fri Dec 6 03:25:52 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
I’d believe you if they hadn’t emailed me… Well that does it, someone is getting fired. That is a good point, and I think it comes from two places. One, people think it’s really easy to write those stories (especially romance), even though it most emphatically is not, or more accurately, it’s …
- Juracan Thu Dec 5 23:24:17 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
Hopping in just to add: I have seen the term “magical realism” a handful of times in my life, and always wondered what it meant. Now I know: It means some literature snob found him- or herself finding merit in a fantasy book, and went, “No! This cannot be! I can’t …
- TMary Thu Dec 5 21:00:05 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
Now I could regale you with tales of derring do and life-threatening, high octane, non-stop action and adventure, as I ran from the hit-squad send by Knights Templar and sought help from the Learned Elders of Zion, trying to unveil a web of conspiracy and sinister plots. Or I could …
- The Smith of Lie Tue Dec 3 03:25:31 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
I confess that I was thinking more of Juracan, mainly because I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD, WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN?! um, that is, you haven’t been commenting here much lately. Now I could regale you with tales of derring do and life-threatening, high octane, non-stop action and adventure, as …
- Nunya Mon Dec 2 19:34:10 2019 (Fifty Shades of Grey, Pt. 10: Fisting In My Hair)
“She’s TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD and she doesn’t have a gynecologist? Good lord.” I’m 39 and have never been to one, except when I was forced to as a teen in foster care. Have YOU ever been to a urologist? Have YOU ever had your prostate checked? I’m pretty sure most men …
- Nunya Mon Dec 2 19:23:27 2019 (Fifty Shades of Grey, Pt. 9: A Sensual Warning)
“I don’t have a clitoris, nor have I ever been hit in the clitoris I don’t have with a riding crop, but that sounds incredibly unpleasant.” I thought you were a woman? Now I’m confused.
- TMary Mon Dec 2 17:37:13 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
Smith: I am as far removed from US immigration issues as possible. And even I have heard about actual citizens who were detained by ICE for days or weeks under suspicion of being illegals. If the book lay within a sight of how real world works, Atticus should have prayed …
- Nunya Mon Dec 2 16:48:23 2019 (Fifty Shades of Grey, Pt. 7: A Very Moist and Integral Part)
“Personally, I think if you’re going to include an address in your story, it should be the address of a place that actually exists. If you’re not, then don’t.” Actually, the vast majority of books and movies do not use real addresses, at least not residential addresses, and for a very …
- janusgames Fri Nov 29 09:11:28 2019 (Revisiting Angelopolis)
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- Juracan Tue Nov 26 16:01:05 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 20 & 21: They're Telepathic Now)
Alright, fair. And like you said, most people don’t really put that much effort into explaining how the Maskerade’d supernatural world interacts with the normal one; it’s just off to the side as this flabby bit that no one acknowledges because Reasons. And you know how much I hate when the …
- The Smith of Lie Tue Nov 26 15:45:38 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 20 & 21: They're Telepathic Now)
Like, I get this attitude, but at the same time… I also still hold that if it’s done well enough, the Maskerade still works fairly well. Sure. And Elves, Orcs and Dwarves fantasy in hands of a good writer can make for a great setting. But it is the kind …
- Juracan Mon Nov 25 17:57:52 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 15 & 16: Boy That Escalated Quickly)
So, basically, Hearne didn’t give us a plot at all. He just made what Atticus has already been doing look like a plot. I don’t know what to tell you. Having a Plot might make Atticus have to work and we can’t have that! but without getting into it too much, surely, …
- Juracan Mon Nov 25 17:20:36 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 20 & 21: They're Telepathic Now)
I don’t buy Atticus feeling any kind of real remorse for that one. He caused Fagles’s death with a callous disregard for any kind of risk, not only to Fagles but to his own friends. Given how Atticus excused his decision to mess with spells laid on Fagles with “eh, …
- The Smith of Lie Mon Nov 25 06:31:33 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapter 19: I'm Sorry This is So Boring)
That’s fair I suppose. Let’s not forget that Atticus is also immortal, whereas Jace, as obnoxious as he is, has a limited lifespan that will run out one day. This brings attention to one more point. Atticus has had 2000 years old to mature and grow a compassion, yet he failed …
- The Smith of Lie Mon Nov 25 05:34:34 2019 (Hounded Sporking, Chapters 20 & 21: They're Telepathic Now)
I don’t know if we’re meant to find him sympathetic, but we are supposed to think he’s cool. Which… well we don’t think that either. But he is one of Atticus’s various hangers-on, which makes him a nominal good guy. Especially with the ill treatment Thor gets from Hearne. And while …
- Lily Mon Nov 25 01:18:10 2019 (Everything Wrong With Eragon)
Well, this is okay and superb. I agree with most of it.I still like eragon,with the mistakes.
