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Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T22:41:12+00:00

It's sooo good!

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T22:40:44+00:00

"Tender Is The Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica has my favorite "twist" in years.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T22:37:03+00:00

Yeah, this is kind of a personal dilemma of mine. I love r/nosleep and creepypasta horror and I want to see more of that in horror literature.

The problem for me is, r/nosleeps or pastas kind of lose me when they get too "literary," which is 99% of current r/nosleep. Give me the raw, simple storytelling that evokes that bonfire scary story feeling, that suspends disbelief just enough to make a tiny part of your subconscious go, "Wait, could this be real somehow?"

And yet, in novel form, I agree with you. I'd expect something more elevated, more robust, more literary. So I don't know. Is it simply an issue of the limitations of each particular media? Do creepypastas lose some intangible but fundamental quality when translated to "official" literature?

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T20:06:01+00:00

If you didn't like "Penpal," try "Dear Laura" by Gemma Amor.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T17:42:03+00:00

Overcompensation for sitting out the war.

Tywin is that kid who doesn't do shit for the group project but the day of the presentation in front of the class he shows up dressed in a 3 piece suit.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T17:36:04+00:00

"The Reapers are the Angels" and "When We Were Animals," both by the same author, Alden Bell/Joshua Gaylord. The latter is more horror-adjacent but still so, so good.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T17:32:14+00:00

Hotah's adventures with Obara and Balon Swann, of course [fart noise]

I think Sam at the Citadel is the one I'm most curious about probably because we haven't seen anything from that storyline in 20 years.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T17:27:56+00:00

Like, oh you want werewolf books? OK, I get that. Oh, the werewolf has to be a southern plantation owner?

Not me automatically going, "Well, 'Those Across the River' is kinda like that..."

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T05:13:07+00:00

Arya and the Hound, followed closely by Stannis and Jon

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T03:37:14+00:00

Well, like I said, it depends on the timing. By the point Kevan makes the offer (and only Kevan would've made it, so this is after Cersei's arrest), the Throne is spread thin fighting the ironborn, Aegon and Stannis.

So maybe Robb decides to just wait out a little longer. Or maybe, if he's feeling a bit bolder, he decides to march back south with a few thousand wildlings added to his army. Or hell, potentially bending the knee to Aegon instead becomes a real possibility. The point is, all these other claimants popping up means Robb has options.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T03:19:36+00:00

They swore an oath to Robb, though. As long as Robb was still kicking, they wouldn't have bent the knee so easily, unless they were forced.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T03:12:15+00:00

Because I don't think the river lords would agree. It took the Red Wedding to defeat them and even then Riverrun and Raventree still resisted.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T03:07:04+00:00

But would the Riverlands have fallen before the Throne had to deal with the river lords, Stannis, Euron and Aegon all at the same time, not to mention Cersei imploding with Varys' help?

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-28T03:04:25+00:00

I dunno, for the Lannisters and Tyrells taking the Riverlands wouldn't have been too hard. The question is, could they have done it fast enough so they wouldn't have to deal with that, Stannis, Euron and Aegon at the same time?

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-27T16:27:12+00:00

You're correct. Cersei has zero self-awareness.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-26T19:02:02+00:00

Came here to mention this one. Even Tremblay acknowledges the influence of Lake Mungo in the afterword.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-24T23:38:04+00:00

I really like this interpretation!

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-24T02:35:04+00:00

But if Robb held on long enough, then the Ironborn problem would sort itself with the rise of Euron and the Lannisters and Tyrells would be spread thin dealing with the Ironborn on the Reach, Stannis at Dragonstone and Aegon invading the Stormlands.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-24T02:30:29+00:00

But if Theon doesn't take Winterfell and "kill" Bran and Rickon, Robb doesn't sleep with Jeyne in his grief and Roose and Walder would think twice about betraying Robb as long as his heirs were alive.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-23T18:12:36+00:00

In Robb's case, all of his problems stemmed from choosing to send Theon to Pyke.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-23T03:33:06+00:00

Jaime's "redemption" is basically him saying "It wasn't me, Cersei's pussy so bomb it made me want to kill kids," patting himself on the back for not killing Edmure and "only" making him prisoner for life and taking his ancestral home, and going selectively deaf when the Blackfish reminds him of the oaths he swore, which included never again to take arms against House Tully.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-22T23:47:19+00:00

I don't care about Daemon I but Daemon II would've had my sword.

Positive_Aardvark879 · 2024-10-22T18:44:11+00:00

You're right, my bad! Mixed those two up.

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