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[Reelya]

Pern inspired a weird sort of eye-rolling revulsion I only later identified as my being the anti-furry.

I'm not really sure why it would be a furry thing, given that there are no non-human humanoids at all in the setting? Or is it that the furry fans are often people who read the Pern novels or something?

[Lord Shonus]

From what I understand (never read the Pern series, just bits and pieces), the bond between humans and dragons in Pern has decidedly sexual overtones.

[Imic]

To quote Wikipedia:

The Gor novels have been criticized for their focus on relationships between dominant men and submissive women, the latter often in positions of slavery. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy has stated that the first several books are "passable exercises" of Edgar Rice Burroughs style fiction while "later volumes degenerate into extremely sexist, sadomasochistic pornography involving the ritual humiliation of women, and as a result have caused widespread offence".[8][16] Science fiction/fantasy author Michael Moorcock has suggested that the Gor novels should be placed on the top shelves of bookstores, saying, "I’m not for censorship but I am for strategies which marginalize stuff that works to objectify women and suggests women enjoy being beaten."[17]

I don't think you're missing much.

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[TD1]

"I'm not for censorship but let's censor these"
Lol.

[ChairmanPoo]

Fun fact: Michael Moorcock once tried suing the Witcher author because he thought the main character was a plagiarism of his because both were albinos in fantasy settings. The whole fiasco is present in his forum btw.

I dont have strong feelings about Michael Moorcock otherwise mind you. I think he's passable but derivative, like most run of the mill fantasy writers, and therefore I found his indignation at Andrzej Sapkowski hypocritical (if anything, I found the latter more innovative overall).

Never read Gor, did hear it was crappy.

[hops]

Wait, Geralt was albino? I thought he just like, have white hair. His skin and eyes don't seem all that albino.

[ChairmanPoo]

You're right. Geralt wasnt technically albino no. It was just the white hair. That makes Moorcock's complaint even sillier.

To his credit by the end of the fiasco he kind of apologized

Anyways

[Hotfire90]

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[smjjames]

I wonder how many times Thor, or any of the other gods, have tried to (or were able to) get whatever beings to stop the Snarl or introduce the enormity of the problem in this way. First thing I'd ask is how many times have they been able to get to the same point that the Order of the Stick (or maybe Durkon specifically) currently are.

[Imic]

I mean, obviously we were scraping the bottom of the barrel when we came up wjth “Self aware stixk figure fantasy parody.”

Out of all the incredible quotes that have come out of this, this single quote has to be the best.

[Mephansteras]

I don't know, I'm pretty fond of "Your time was too short, Laser-Snail".

[Dorsidwarf]

I knew we werent gonna get to meet thor without the auto-responder getting brought up.

Also looks like the current world really is special in some way beyond "the oots are on it so it has to end well"

[scriver]

I want to live on the theatre condiments world and drink the blood of my enemies

[DAPARROT]

I knew we werent gonna get to meet thor without the auto-responder getting brought up.

Also looks like the current world really is special in some way beyond "the oots are on it so it has to end well"

I think he's talking about the gates, which kept the world intact for quite a while after the rifts started appearing

[nogoodnames]

Given how many times the world has been destroyed, the deal with Hel seems pretty short sighted now. Either Loki didn't realize that everyone dying due to the gods unraveling creation would count as dishonorable, or he was hoping that this time the Snarl would break out and devour all the dwarf souls before Hel could collect.

...Unless his real plan was to trick Thor into an unwinnable situation and sow chaos amongst the gods, which I'll admit is pretty in-character.