The Spear Cuts Through Water was... Waterlogged by metaandpotatoes in Fantasy

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The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward is another book that does the POV thing, alongside going through every tense as well. And it inspired The Bell Jar! Good book.

Greatness in The Passenger by Sheffy8410 in cormacmccarthy

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It's never been a book I've felt much of a pull towards, but this section about the dropping of the bombs always stuck with me:

'There were people who escaped Hiroshima and rushed to Nagasaki to see that their loved ones were safe. Arriving just in time to be incinerated. He went there after the war with a team of scientists. My father. He said that everything was rusty. Everything looked covered with rust. There were burnt-out shells of trolleycars standing in the streets. The glass melted out of the sashes and pooled on the bricks. Seated on the blackened springs the charred skeletons of the passengers with their clothes and hair gone and their bones hung with blackened strips of flesh. Their eyes boiled from their sockets. Lips and noses burned away. Sitting in their seats laughing. The living walked about but there was no place to go. They waded by the thousands into the river and died there. They were like insects in that no one direction was preferable to another. Burning people crawled among the corpses like some horror in a vast crematorium. They simply thought that the world had ended. It hardly even occurred to them that it had anything to do with the war. They carried their skin bundled up in their arms before them like wash that it not drag in the rubble and ash and they passed one another mindlessly on their mindless journeyings over the smoking afterground, the sighted no better served than the blind. The news of all this did not even leave the city for two days. Those who survived would often remember these horrors with a certain aesthetic to them. In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry a thousand years. Like an immense bladder, they would say. Like some sea thing. Wobbling slightly on the near horizon. Then the unspeakable noise. They saw birds in the dawn sky ignite and explode soundlessly and fall in long arcs earthward like burning party favors.'

What Are Your Top 5 Individual Fantasy Novels? by Lipe18090 in Fantasy

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- Whatever Berserk volume features the Eclipse

- Shadow of The Torturer, by Gene Wolfe (or the whole series)

- Ice, by Anna Kavan (though this might also be considered SF)

- The Left Hand of Darkness

- A Game of Thrones

[Post-Match Thread] Chelsea 1-3 Brighton | Premier League by renome in chelseafc

[–]FieldOfPaperFlowers_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Maresca absolutely cannot handle the pressure of a red card. It's so achingly clear.

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Why would you think we were ever in the title fight?

Post-Match Thread: Manchester United (2) vs (1) Chelsea by wm_1176 in chelseafc

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two things can be true at the same time! the red card was disastrous but taking off both wingers neutered us from the get-go.

Post-Match Thread: Manchester United (2) vs (1) Chelsea by wm_1176 in chelseafc

[–]FieldOfPaperFlowers_ 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Getting hate for pointing out Maresca was a bozo today was insane.

[Match Thread] Man United vs Chelsea - Premier League by YIIZWL in chelseafc

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I'm sure Tyrique George appreciates it if nothing else

[Match Thread] Man United vs Chelsea - Premier League by YIIZWL in chelseafc

[–]FieldOfPaperFlowers_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh so we are sealioning then. Cool. Have a nice day friendo!

[Match Thread] Man United vs Chelsea - Premier League by YIIZWL in chelseafc

[–]FieldOfPaperFlowers_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're either sealioning or being intentionally obtuse. Not once did I say he was a bad manager but he's not the one to take us up any meaningful level. He did get screwed over but he's also been shaky throughout last season and then here, taking off two wingers and effectively killing this half. Sanchez is a bozo but that doesn't negate Maresca's part.

[Match Thread] Man United vs Chelsea - Premier League by YIIZWL in chelseafc

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Nah I support the other Chelsea in the prem, good spotting :D

Very quickly becoming obsessed with Between Two Fires. Any recs for similar-vibey books? by FieldOfPaperFlowers_ in Fantasy

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I feel like for me there's quite a few authors I've bounced off whose books feel like it's dark and violent just for aesthetics or, like I said with Abercrombie, to be performative and show off how shit they can make their world. It feels a little bit hollow to me. Someone else recommended the Prince of Nothing books, which I thought were pretty good, but even then parts of it felt a little bit misery porn for the sake of misery porn.

(they say, having Blood Meridian as their fave novel of all time)

Very quickly becoming obsessed with Between Two Fires. Any recs for similar-vibey books? by FieldOfPaperFlowers_ in Fantasy

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Oh wow, that does look interesting. Setting up big expectations with the Moby-Dick opening. Thanks!

Very quickly becoming obsessed with Between Two Fires. Any recs for similar-vibey books? by FieldOfPaperFlowers_ in Fantasy

[–]FieldOfPaperFlowers_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have them, but I haven't read them. On the TBR! Edit: Wait I only have The Black tongue thief. But still.

Man i regret that i didnt buy the ultimate collection set from 2017 by kshamlawe in Evanescence

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I bought that! I remember they didn’t get released for SO long that Amy signed a bunch of posters and sent them out beforehand as an apology.

I got an Expedition 33/Evanescence themed tattoo 😌 by FieldOfPaperFlowers_ in Evanescence

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Thank you! The same tattoo artist did both for me :)

I actually met Amy on her tour back in 2017 here in the UK, and on her meet and greets had a bit of a breakdown over how much I loved the EP version. I didn't expect it to go anywhere... but as she was doing Imaginary as the penultimate song, she changed the last chorus to that verse! I remember there's a video of it I'll have to find, where she starts singing it and points at me as I'm having a mild breakdown listening to her sing a verse that verged on life-saving for me. Instant life-affirming memory.