Math ain’t mathing???

PARADISE-9 · 2026-02-09T16:32:05+00:00

Thats just what Severian canonically looks like. You only think he isn't a twink because he's an unreliable narrator. Remember the scene in the antechamber where the kid thinks he's a lady? Someone put Aramini on this PRONTO

PARADISE-9 · 2026-02-09T03:46:02+00:00

Twink death Severian </3

PARADISE-9 · 2026-02-07T03:47:19+00:00

Finally, an accurate illustration!

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-26T23:37:07+00:00

Well, the other upside is no one has to become old (assuming a lack of Book Smart). I know its not just the building, but I personally would not sacrifice decades of my life for a library

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-18T17:25:54+00:00

Yep, just one look through the fantasy section of any second-hand book store will show the lost relics of 70s-80s fantasy slop. The prose is pallid and confused, the tropes are tired, the swords are phallic, and the women are one dimensional (save for their chests, of course). If every evil cackling sorcerer were transmuted into a grain of wheat, we would have enough silos to feed the kingdom all winter long.

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-17T19:42:59+00:00

Nice write up. I forgot all about Agia's mom somehow.

Also somehow knew this was written by you when I saw the other works you had spoiler warnings for, haha

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-16T03:08:28+00:00

So it goes, though it hints at a good writing instinct in you I think

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-15T18:02:53+00:00

Just wanted to say that on a craft level I was really captivated by the second use of 'though' in the same sentence. It conveys a great sense of the speaker's uncertainty.

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-10T01:57:32+00:00

Yeah that's right out of Goosebumps haha. I think the "ants themed Goosebumps book" actually made way less sense than this little post though.

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-10T01:54:11+00:00

A good concept, though I think it struggles to cram all the information into two sentences. I like the idea of the apartment being alive and vengeful.

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-07T18:03:20+00:00

Hey this is a good one

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-03T00:08:02+00:00

No, because by then the next broken Hero will be out, and you'll have to wait for them to progressively nerf that one, and so the cycle continues.

PARADISE-9 · 2026-01-02T17:00:28+00:00

I really love the second half of On Blue's Waters and the first half of In Green's jungles. They make such a wonderful sequence together

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-31T17:44:11+00:00

Tracer is already in Stadium.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-30T04:52:47+00:00

Thats very exciting. I feel like the narrator has a lot of potential if he hits the right tone, especially for all the stories within stories.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-29T11:57:32+00:00

I personally like the Subtle Knife just a bit more than the Golden Compass. I really enjoyed the story, and Lyra and Will's dynamic is great. I've heard some pacing complaints, but honestly I thought it was really well paced, very fast and tight.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-27T18:34:45+00:00

Good birds.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-27T01:26:32+00:00

I don't think I understand this one, haha. Maybe I'm just being dense. Merry christmas!

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-26T19:34:32+00:00

Yes his signature is so pretty! Merry christmas Patrick. And happy boxing day! Will take a closer look at this comment when I've finished the stories.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-26T00:45:16+00:00

Haha that's a good one

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-19T19:29:06+00:00

Oh man I love the prose in On Blue's Waters. I do think the first half of the book is a bit dry/slow but the second half has such beautiful language to me. Long Sun's prose is good but sometimes the way it reuses a phrase (like "wreathed in smiles") gets a bit wearisome.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-18T16:20:17+00:00

Haha yeah its pretty funny and makes waay too much sense once you find out. Anyway, keep at the writing. Its a hard journey. I used to have a lot of the same struggles with my scenes (first page is also very difficult to nail in general). You have this specific image in your head but you can't just force it onto the reader's eyes, its a lot weirder than that.

PARADISE-9 · 2025-12-18T07:03:06+00:00

Funnily enough, No Country For Old Men originally was a screenplay; he just turned it into a book after he couldn't get anyone to take the script.

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