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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
4m ago
And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"?
No matter how much you may despise "the institutions," I don't think anyone who wants to be a writer could deny, down deep, that seeing your name on a book in an actual bookstore, published by a real publishing house, is a milestone we all aspire to.
Corvos
4m ago
Oh, Christ, the movie. I only saw the trailer but that was more than enough. It’s a pity Cooper wasn’t as good as Rowling at keeping the maniacs off.
Over Sea, Under Stone is good, I just don’t recommend it when I’m recommending the series because it gives the wrong impression about what the series will be like IMO.
Glad to find another fan!
YE_GUILTY
4m ago
For me, this was back in April with "crashout." These things come and these things go.
YE_GUILTY
10m ago
I don't know if this will meet your strict criteria - it runs on the "basest cringe urges" of its author for sure - but I will not pass up an opportunity to recommend Unsounded. A rock-solid epic fantasy doorstopper, except it's a full-color graphic novel created by one person. Sure, attempts at these things are a dime a dozen; this is one that pulled it off.
(I will caution patience with Sette early on, though.)
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18m ago
Never saw that one. I think I made it to season 5 before it was too Netflixified for me.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
18m ago
Man, I didn't think anyone else but me has read those. Yes, this was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid.
(And Over Sea, Under Stone is a bit dull compared to the rest of the series, but don't skip it.)
Do skip the movie, though. Hollywood made a movie (supposedly) based on the first book called The Seeker that pissed off Susan Cooper so much she was kicked off the set. With good reason- it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Eetan
23m ago
I'd argue vanilla WoW is pretty unserious (and willing to throw random stuff that wasn't there historically, from goblins to kobolds).
WOW Kobolds - tiny ugly mischievous thieving and griefing underground dwellers - are fully mythically accurate.
Far more accurate that WOW elves.
Corvos
34m ago
She was, but it wasn’t until later that she decided that you couldn’t be feminist and write a world containing a male-only organisation that was powerful and wise. Especially when a certain number of your women are witchy - powerful but often in a secretive and manipulative way.
Corvos
37m ago
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising quadrilogy. (Skip the first one.) To my mind it’s the best of what British fantasy can be, though not modern.
Corvos
40m ago
Brandon Sanderson is the most successful ‘Christian’ writer I can think of today, meaning a writer who both is Christian and whose religion clearly informs his work.
Notably:
- He never depicts literal Christianity in his work.
- Most of his characters who think a lot about religion really think about it. They have crises of faith, they wonder how to reconcile their faith with what needs to be done, etc.
Similar industrial policies (with some degree of squinting) seem pretty common: Japan and Korea have their quasi-government conglomerates with strong political ties. The Nordics have state-owned enterprises. Norway also holds lots of shares in its wealth fund. Airbus is partially held by several European governments.
That said, I intentionally don't (didn't?) own INTC because it really needs some leadership and strategy changes to remain competitive.
Throwaway05
55m ago
Why have I never seen this word before this week, and yet like eighteen references in the last few days, each of which is presented in such a way as to help normalize it? Is this a psyop?
It's popping up because it is slang and then it got picked up in the tech-sphere (which is highly adjacent to here) as the term of choice for the behavior of LLMs being overly supportive in chats.
It's all over the place right now because of people complaining about LLMs and then a bunch people picking up and using a youth term because "neat new" and "how do you do fellow kids."
Throwaway05
1hr ago
The thing to remember here is that the show was conceptualized much closer to the Floyd/BLM time period.
Yeah I've always heard the writing was done quite proximal to Floyd events so it has zero moderation or sense.
durdenhobbes
1hr ago
I initially read this as "in which way is she otherwise disabled?"
Throwaway05
1hr ago
I saw on Twitter someone comment that the idea that the company that owns Marvel, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones would need to look for a new IP to help draw in young male audiences in their teens & 20s is pretty hilarious and absurd.
You know it's fascinating. If the movies were actively actually bad (like worst Transformers movie bad) and you ran that for 20 years it would still be easier to recover from than what we got.
It's worse than bad.
Truly one of the most epic bag fumbles of all time.
Anecdotally - I was a kid who grew up a Star Wars nerd and it was a big part of my identity, establishing my interests, and so on. I spent a ton of money on it when I didn't have a lot of money to spend.
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
Lots of people are never coming back and they didn't really connect anyone new.
I am fully open to the conspiracy theory that Iron Heart had writers who were self-aware and actively rooting for its downfall.
The thing to remember here is that the show was conceptualized much closer to the Floyd/BLM time period. It's just been delayed forever, presumably because they realized what they made after the high faded and tried to cut it into something viable or dump it when it would do the least brand damage.
In light of the absurd views on crime that flourished then, I can understand why they decided to make the genius with the full scholarship to MIT a criminal without really considering the "Stormfront or SJW" implications.
The shaming of "mediocre white men" or "nepobabies" is just par for the course. It's a reflex.
Throwaway05
1hr ago
It's really hard to tell what you are asking for specifically - are you asking for no romance at all? That's hard! Stories of any kind usually jam in a romance element because it is a "cheap" way to add additional appeal. Stories written for women or by women are more likely to do this because women are generally more interested in people, it's usually only hyper-masculine coded stories and themes that avoid any romance at all and even most war/military properties will find a way to slide in a romance element, even something close to explicitly homoerotic like Top Gun.
I've been on an anime binge recently so:
Full Metal Alchemist - written by a woman, most people can't tell.
Dan Da Dan - written by a man, many would guess the writer is a woman. Has lots to appeal to women and to men. Has a cute teenage romance that even some of my gym bros enjoy.
The Apothecary Diaries - written by a woman, clearly teenage girl fantasy elements but still enjoyable for many who hate that. Female lead has "super powers" but is helpless at the appropriate times and weird with significant character flaws. So yeah "basest" urges of women, maybe? But also illustrates that if you do a good job who cares. Same thing with hypermasculine product that everyone loves if it is good enough.
Now all three of those are Eastern so yes a possible theme here is The Message tanking artistic product, so to take it in another direction - how about Shrinking* and Ted Lasso? Two modern comedies with low levels of romance elements, strong female characters who aren't perfect (even the literal girl bosses), strong female coding in the form of lots of feelings discussion, therapy culture, and so on.
Non-slop and um, quality slop? still exist.
*only seen season 1 of Shrinking.
GBRK
1hr ago
I don't disagree with signaling, I just disagree with the particular signals I get from literary agents. I would still love to be able to signal that I am not just a writer, but an Author; I want the cachet that comes with being able to tell people to look for my writing in their local bookstore.
... and also, this is entirely petty, but I have to defeat my nemesis. I have a (2nd or 3rd degree) cousin who is published, does make their living writing, and has their book in my local Barnes and Nobles. (They live in another country entirely). They're also about my age. So despite the fact that they have no clue I exist, and that at a glance I don't have any problem with their writing, I've determined that they're my rival and made it my life goal to surpass them. (Only partially kidding.)
As for a vanity business... probably never. I'm either going to approach the problem with killing intent or not at all; if I just want status and creative freedom without regard for income I can go write fanfiction.
Tanista
1hr ago
I mean, I'm a girl (at least a good while ago) and I like SF and I thought they ruined "John Carter" because they didn't know what to do with it or how to market it - dropping "of Mars" from the title was the first signal they hadn't a clue.
In this case, it seems like the decisions were made by the director who had a blank cheque due to his animated work and wasn't the most objective about John Carter's place in the modern scifi landscape (the perilous place of having influenced deeply successful and beloved works while not being as popular)
Throwaway05
1hr ago
My wife's disabled, non-binary friend
Out of curiosity in which way is she (assuming natively she, correct me if otherwise) disabled?
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1hr ago
Oh dear. I forgot that there was a third trilogy, that's the one I meant. I'm quite content with the second one myself, they're not high cinema, but they have their charm.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1hr ago
Fair enough! Not badgering, but curious: At what point would you be comfortable investing additional resources into this as a vanity business? And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"? Is this an issue of living a "double" life where you care about public respectedness and signalling though you private disagree with it?
Cool :) I don’t have anything in mind right now because I’m away for the bank holiday but I’ll have a think. I wouldn’t mind trying something like Arma but I’d be starting from nothing - I spend 99.9% of my time playing single-player and sims aren’t so much fun on your own.
I get this a lot. Frostpunk, Factorio, Supreme Commander etc. My steam library is full of them.
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