Came for the flying toasters reference. Did not leave disappointed.
Came for the flying toasters reference. Did not leave disappointed.
I imagine a world where widespread use of creativity pills means movies like “Lucy” and the rest of that “only use 10% of your brain” crap are never created again.
Seems the Greeks wrote quite a bit of Zeus / everyone and everything fics too.
I think it’s also important to point out the historical aspect of this. Storytelling, legend, myth...a great deal of this is basically auditory fan fiction. The gods and heroes and characters are usually already established. I’d say a great deal of the myths and legends we know, that are now recorded in books, were…
Slashfic aside (I’d love to know if archaeologists ever found a tablet like this) you could pretty much say a great deal of mythology and legend is auditory fanfic. Surely there were original stories and ideas. But surely not all or even most of the stories we know were the originals, or simple evolutions on them.
Maybe not exactly in the running with the worst of the worst. But it is pretty steamy in places.
I think it’s important to remember that there is a thriving professional segment of what is essentially fanfics, just “blessed” to become canon. Have you ever been to the sci fi section of a book store? See all those Star Wars novels? All the Halo books? Star Trek? Now, take a look at the comics. Do you think the…
Fair enough. I’ll have to grab the comic for the payoff. The story and characters definitely look interesting enough to delve into this. Thanks for your insight and recommendation.
Now that seems like an epic tale. The heroic band that slew the tap-dancing dracolich. It shall be immortalized in tapestries for generations to come.
Agreed. And thank you for clarifying Luci’s pronouns, I had missed the one reference, and the “father of lies bit” had me uncertain how much of the male she incorporated into her own identity.
I’m fairly certain the “she/he” reference was specifically made with Desire of the Endless in mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_(D…) and not meant to be a dig on Luci (unsure of Luci’s preferred pronouns). Heck, even the David Bowie reference is a common thread between the two of them, being one of the…
Probably just someone having fun with a laser pointer.
“until eventually it will become a cold, dark, and desolate place where all of the lights go out.”
Barbara. Barbara. BARBARAAAAA!
I have zero qualms about Robin Hobb taking your advice.
I don’t care for the wording...but she has a point about action taken from obligation vs free will. The responsibility...even just the weight of responsibility that comes with having all that power can be crushing. If your only motive to wield it is obligation, that you must do this, that you have no say in it, I…
And Happy Hyperbole Day to the person who doesn’t seem to understand that what we we value, what we love, what we decide is worth protecting has meaning, though it is arbitrary in the objective sense. Lack of objective value doesn’t equate to meaninglessness, or equivalence between violator and victim. Artificially…
Okay, let’s look at that. Laws by definition have consequences. There are notices which escalate into fees and so on. There are some actions (actual presentation of threats to the public) that can be met with deadly force. While there is certainly room to debate level of escalation and response, as well as to oppose…
You’re correct in that I’m not holding individual rights and freedoms to be the highest standard. Nor, however, am I declaring that the greater good is the greatest standard, at least with the view that the collective ALWAYS trumping the individual. I tend to see myself more in a grey area (perhaps hard to see for…
You know, it’s nearly impossible to have reasonable conversations with people who equate nudges toward public safety with shoving guns in peoples faces and/or locking them in padded cells or enslaving them. I have to wonder if there’s any grey area in how you see the world, or if all people and things are divided…