Can’t tell if @paramountplus is just the worst streaming app or if somebody at paramount decided to move this game off the app, but not being able to watch the Hearts/Celtic title match is incredibly frustrating.
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Miles STANDoffISH
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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga Like, you see the very real, very personal impact each of these themes has on each character - a “sanitized” story with Cadrach, for instance, doesn’t have his non-traditionally linear character development
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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga Obviously a subjective thing, but I don’t really follow your logic here, the themes like grief & the way it poisons, the relationship between PTSD & addiction, the nature of Faustian bargains, the horrors of war/combat, etc. don’t feel “sanitized”
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Well I have some bad news
duda - reading AKOTSK@STORMWARA
i need a fantasy book as good as asoiaf i am having a reading slump
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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga fwiw, I read it/fell in love with it as a teen, & I don’t actually look at the YA distinction as an inherent negative, it’s just never occurred to me to classify it in the same category as, for instance, the Prydain Chronicles or the Dark is Rising, etc.
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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga I’m curious what gives it that designation to you? Is it Simon/Miriamele/Binabik all being teens and the “coming-of-age” aspect or are there specific plot points/developments?
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@Ichbins8 @gale_winchester @nikicaga Otherland is magnificent, but he’s better known for Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn/The Last King of Osten Ard which are quintessential “epic fantasy”
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@gale_winchester @nikicaga The answer is to pick up anything by Tad Williams
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@nikicaga Is there even anything like ASoIaF? Something low fantasy with only vague and ill-defined magic, character centric, lots of politicking, large scope, many PoVs, character deaths, sex, and a big supernatural threat that looms in the background people must eventually unite against.
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@STORMWARA Memory, Sorrow & Thorn by Tad Williams is the inspiration behind of ASOIAF - Martin lifts from/pays homage to it in a number of different ways and for my money Tad’s prose and character development are second to none. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
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i need a fantasy book as good as asoiaf i am having a reading slump
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ASOIAF is really a victim of its own success, it got too big & subsequently has the single dumbest fanbase in all of fantasy literature - everybody looking for contrarian answers to prove how clever they are rather than accepting the obvious truth on the page. Lyanna is the KotLT
Darryl@Chris62497406
@Jon_Can_Hoop66 I'll die on the hill that it was Ned that was the mystery knight, he was raised in Vale ffs It explains why Jojen expected Bran to have heard the tale from his father a bunch of times
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@litussaxonicum @Dlika2 @AegonDayne If you’re seriously asking - outside of the the obvious Tolkien, Le Guin answer below - Tad Williams, Steven Erikson, & Robin Hobb are all easy answers; Rothfuss, Jemison, Kuang, & Wang all have claim as well, & maybe even Paolini from a strictly worldbuilding perspective
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I laugh when I see posts like this bc GRRM quite literally agrees. Sam Tarly literally says the timelines presented by maesters is off by thousands of years when counting the lord commanders of the wall
Theo Nash@theo_nash
Except it really doesn’t. 8000 years ago we hadn’t even invented pottery. Metallurgy and writing were still 2-3000 years away. Martin really just didn’t understand that 8000 years is, in human terms, eternity.
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@normal_jake_ Anyone who thinks Garlan Tyrell stands a snowball’s chance in hell does not understand the story they’re reading lmao
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Euron Greyjoy when 60,000 soldiers of the Reach led by Ser Garlan the Gallant swoop down on his band of raggedy pirates
GIF
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@apotrafied The Dark is Rising or Redwall are classics if they’re into fantasy
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@thereisnojayjay Channel Innocent III and place the entire US under an Interdict
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The Pope should excommunicate JD Vance
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sister Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in south Texas. Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church. thelettersfromleo.com/p/trump-vance-…
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@AdriaOriginal @kikujomi It’s a very well done way to demonstrate that Robb is Ned’s son, through an through, whereas D&D just turned the plot into a ripoff of The Winter King
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@kikujomi I'm not a fan of Jeyne plot at all but it makes complete sense in books -Robb remembers how Jon is hurt about being a bastard and does not want to do it to another child. Him putting Jeyne's honor above his own is noble but is his undoing. annoying plotline but perfect 1/
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never mentioned it but i do prefer jeyne westerling and her role in robb’s story that talisa in the show, idk it just makes more sense to me
the books keep showing me that the show is missing so much sauce from the story and the world
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@LikeAnsi Think I agree, but that’s tough with how class Bergvall has been, he was MOTM for me today - definitely worth the shout to see if it works, but it felt like Xavi and Spence were constantly getting each other’s way
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Xavi’s vision and passing are wasted on the wing. If Frank builds the attack around him centrally, we’ll finally see the best of this team.
Hotspur Edition@HotspurEdition
A wins a win, especially the first game of the UCL. This really needs to be an indication to Frank to play Xavi centrally though, he’s our only creative player and seems wasted out wide.
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@LikeAnsi @SpursArmyTweets Destiny fills this hole, what we need is a backup RB
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@GrimOakPress @DonatoArts @tadwilliams
these are absolutely stunning, beyond thrilled to have my favorite ever novel brought to life with this artwork
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