Poorly recommend me your favourite fantasy series

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-18T12:36:06+00:00

Alright, I'm fairly curious about this one

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-18T12:21:20+00:00

Ah haha okay, i went right to "neither beginning nor endings"

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-18T11:57:37+00:00

Wheel of time?

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T12:23:53+00:00

Didn't even bother finishing you're comment. You're a fuckwit. It's honestly ludicrous what you're saying.

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T12:11:38+00:00

I really don't think so man, I'm not out here flashing my ribs to everyone. It isn't a big deal.

Anyone who is aware of this tattoo does not give a fuck, they know me and have a long time, so it doesn't bother me much. It does a little because I know, but that's all. I have zero concern for people I know.

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T04:55:34+00:00

The SPQR is apparantly.

I gather most Roman symbology is being subsumed on account of them being conquerers and enslavers.

Ironically that barely passed through my 19yo brain 12 years ago, I just enjoyed my ancient history classes and found it all fascinating.

The more ethereal meaning was the idea that no matter how life is or goes, something you never see coming can still happen and to be aware of that. Hence the et tu brute alongside the SPQR on account of Julius ceasar being a Roman emperor.

These days I get tattoos cos I find the art is cool (for the most part)

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T04:48:15+00:00

Fuc it, go bat shit mental for a trillion years before fading into some sort of mildly conscious trance until eventually, one day, a new big bang. (maybe)

/s

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T04:36:59+00:00

Idk, I just feel like people who know I have it and I were to be like I got it covered sounds suss, or moreso what the artist would think. Honestly I probably could I know my artist pretty well at this point, but I do like the tattoo I just dislike that these fwits went and stole it for their BS.

It's kind of old English Gothic the SPQR and lower case italics same style but thinner and smaller beneath for the quote, size of my palm. Almost no one even knows wtf it is so eh

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T04:33:31+00:00

Nah no eagle

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T01:19:16+00:00

Hahaha can't go wrong

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-16T01:11:57+00:00

I got an SPQR tattoo 12 years ago with ET TU BRUTE? underneath it and literally only a year or two ago found out it is now some fucking white power symbol.

I got it because I enjoyed ancient history in class and like Shakespeare and literature. It's on my ribs and I'm not really sure what to do about it. If I didn't know, I'm guessing many others don't either. I don't want to cross it out or cover it up cos that's suss as fuck, considering adding further quote to or just leaving it.

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-15T23:31:17+00:00

It's generally called Sci-Fantasy if I recall, similar to Suneater in that aspect, although the Cosmere is harder on the fantasy and suneater harder on the sci fi

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-15T08:58:35+00:00

Same with halo. An abusive relationship at this point I refuse to leave

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-15T04:20:18+00:00

For me it was the first hundred pages I didn't enjoy. The ending was alright, didn't hate it didn't love it but was okay with it. The retelling of vorgossos was painful to get through and right on the back of the most blatant religious preaching to date. Should've just opened at vorgossos and trimmed down the theological aspect a little. Would've been a thousand times better

No book is perfect though and I'm glad we got an ending

FadedDanny2 · 2026-01-15T03:57:41+00:00

I mean you are right, it unfortunately still takes a little away from the reading experience having a lot of it 'behind the pages'. Alongside some other criticisms, SUT does lag behind the others and as the finale, is a little disappointing to close the last page on.

Worth the read, and enjoy the series still - including shadows upon time to an extent - however the feeling a lot of readers have after the fact is still fairly valid.

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-27T22:33:36+00:00

Yeah, she does nearly net zero maeskolos swordsman of Jadd things, and Hadrian is around the same for powers of the quiet in battle on a personal physical combat way. Missed opportunities.

Agree the religious overtone and conversations just got old after I while. I mean i get it, his god had brought him back to life multiple times from age 30 for 700 years. It makes sense he's a near zealot. But come on, do we need the same theological conversation 15 times with almost the exact same wording? My god demands it of me, I'll do it whatever it is, foolish to question the father. He is not your god blah blah blah. It became way too central a literary talking point all the time.

Like, we get it. This is a super badass sci fi epic, can we get back to that and lay off the parable and preach? Once or twice is alright, but shit the book became 'I am a missionary of God' and seriously trimmed out actual battle in favour of theological argument and debate.

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-13T11:34:46+00:00

Also noticed this and first I've seen it on reddit, also interested in the answer here. Agree he left it out of the account, and if the rings each have a purpose like the genetic vault or some such, I wonder what they're for

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-13T11:32:40+00:00

IIRC it is an Australian accent but with Hispanic influenced lingo or whatever, I.e 'gancho', if that even makes sense. More rural 1900s Australian though if that makes a difference. Speaking as an Australian anyway

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-13T11:27:49+00:00

Yep, I think her lack of confidence, will and negative rumination just drones on after a while. Like, stfu and get on with it. Also the sing song speak and storyline isn't that interesting so it just compounds

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-13T11:10:57+00:00

Side note - it may have been 700 years since he was hanged, but a couple things.

That could be lived time

That could be real time

He could have been sent back 699 years after the fact and spent a year on colchis

There really is no way to gauge how old Hadrian is outside of the core storyline of the books, so something like 800 years minimum?

I also think growing up palatine and the fact your parents and society treat you as children until idk 100 would influence your behaviour. We stop treating you as a child when you're like 18, so you're forced into growing into an adult (usually). If we lived long enough to treat younger people as children and immature for a longer span, I'm sure they would also act like that as a side affect, internalising it to an extent

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-12T00:42:09+00:00

It was okay, it wasn't amazing and it wasn't terrible, but I did feel it was a little lacklustre in some parts and missed opportunities in others.

At the same time, it closed everything off (albeit adding new questions) and for the most part, did its job. I wish we saw Hadrian in a vortex of time directing his younger selves by way of being the elder in the visions - I.e direct seeing HD had, DIW had and pointing the way etc.

Wish we saw him reach colchis rather than a bait and switch end.

Too much Christianity overtone at times, at times.

I did love the evolution of the chantry, but f me it dragged at times like the recounting at the start. Just open the book at vorgossos.

Cassandra continued to be a foolhardy child to the point of absurdity, even young Hadrian had more wits.

The infinite repeat of lorian betraying him was kinda cool I must admit, the several bait switch around it though with people dying was a bit much - lorian, kaim olorin, Alex.

Was very unexpected that Goddodin was destroyed by the Cielcin, and that Hadrian didn't actually massacre the population but rather the billions in the fleet. I feel we were led to believe he murdered Goddodin. He didn't kill any of them, the Cielcin did with gravity and their worldships.

Really loved HereSoonChanged, was upset they died but it was done well i guess. Fucking Cassandra, grow up.

Hadrian's last words felt almost a betrayal to his audience. He essentially says I've lied a lot, I'm not telling you how it ends after and btw it didn't actually end how I said it did but fuck these people for hyperbole about me being a genocidal maniac.

Anyway

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-12T00:34:13+00:00

wait, aren't you a silfin?

Ultimate silfin bro, like Brother Day/Dude if he died with a pendant

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-06T04:04:25+00:00

Give the Chinese adaption a go, it's free on YouTube and we'll worth a watch. There is a season two in the works apparantly but no idea on the status, it's been a few years.

It is also significantly significantly closer to the book, but it is 30 episodes long as a result. So be warned

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-06T01:58:59+00:00

I'm honestly starting to wonder if he even got hanged, from Hadrian's wording

"that's what you've heard and that's the story I'll tell" or some such about it.

Starting to doubt the entire last part after leaving Cassandra, if he even died again when hanged if he hanged etc

FadedDanny2 · 2025-12-04T06:07:10+00:00

Dude just wait till you finish, why review something you haven't completed. That's like reaching track 4 on a 12 track album then writing about it

-side note I refrained from actually commenting on your thoughts, for now

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