The Missing Link

It’s fascinating the most evergreen part of Tolkien’s writing was that evil is inherently self destructive and incapable of understanding good

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Reading War and Peace is really reinforcing my opinion that every book over 800 pages long should have a dramatis personae section to help readers remember who the characters are

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I’m only about 10% in, but The Last Continent is the first Wizards book really working for me at all. Unlike Rincewind, I actually enjoy the idiots running Unseen University, and so far this book’s a lot more about them than him

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How I usually communicate this is we don’t call Franco-Belgian animation les dessins animés, so why should Japan be different

I guess Eric. It’s in general been my least favorite Discworld series by a wide margin

Cover of The Last Continent: a Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett

Getting so close to the end of the Rincewind books. Australia time

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string . .. ah . ah . . . accountant. Have you ever killed anyone?" "Not outright. But I've always thought you can do considerable damage with a well-placed Final Demand." Mr. Saveloy beamed. "Ah, yes," he said. "Civilization." - Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

Now there’s that Pratchett insight. I’ve been missing it in the Rincewind books

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Library page showing War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ready to borrow

Hopefully this was a good decision…

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Hmm, I guess Skyward Sword

I think it had some pacing problems, especially the third visits, but the motion controls were actually pretty good, the villains were great, the art style was beautiful, and there were great items and dungeons, especially the beetle and the pirate ship

Godzilla, King of the Monsters with Big Naturals

It’s always fun to see more people getting into Gundam

Yeah wing is… well messy would be a good word

If it was so inevitable, they wouldn’t need to beg us to use it.

“They say it’s very boring there. Their biggest curse is ‘May you live in interesting times,’ apparently.” - Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

Oh there’s the Terry Pratchett I know. May we all live to see boring times again

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So what they’re actually saying is they’re bad at long term memory, note taking, and creativity? Makes sense

Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia. You remain a bastion of the best parts of the internet

Starting Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett, it’s nice to see the absolute failures running Unseen University I’ve enjoyed in other books are finally in the Wizards books

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Even sushi, the reason the rolls you get in America have the rice on the outside is because people were grossed out looking at seaweed

I really love how neurospicy Maomao is. She’s the best kind of rep

I got to the big endgame reveals in Tales of Symphonia, and it has me thinking about how Star Wars is as core to the DNA of JRPGS as DnD. It’s not just Final Fantasy

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Slightly diminished a band:

Mild Admonishment Against the Machine

As usual, what is immediately identifiable as important after graduation is the thing they don’t emphasize. It’s amazing how much speaking other languages teaches you how to think more robustly, and also other languages and cultures are just really fun to learn about

Misinterpretations and bad adaptations I would think

The most interesting on this is probably my perspective antagonist Natalia. Her family is old money fallen from grace after her father’s bankruptcy. Thrust down the social ladder by her late father’s debts, she started work as a freelance assassin for the corporations while figuring out budgeting

Getting a bit into Blood Over Bright Haven, and I love how neurodivergent coded Sciona is. This is a fun book

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For my current cyberpunk book, the biggest inspirations came from reading about Gnosticism, some existentialist philosophy, and the Yakuza games, though there’s definitely been some drift from there as I centered it more on entertainment culture

Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

I’m now starting Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang. I’ve heard good things about this one

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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity:

I still need to get to the 13 sequels at some point. My favorite is 9

I don’t think there’s anything that applies to everything I write, but everything I hate about Christian nationalism and capitalism do come up a lot