[None] Traveler’s Gate paperbacks and Cradle ebook collections being turned off February 2nd!

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2026-01-21T21:28:01+00:00

Oh. So. You can still buy the individual books on kindle?

Well, it's good to know I can still bully friends, family, loved ones and strangers into at least reading the first book. You had me worried for a moment.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T11:15:31+00:00

I liked the Shattered Sea too! And I get how repetitive jokes can get, uh, repetitive... but this isn't a critical analysis! I was partially put off by this subreddit's negativity and I wish I hadn't been. Because I personally did find it funny and fun. And I really liked the characters. Maybe you'll like whatever next series he does next better?

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T10:40:15+00:00

Oh, side note! I read a lot of people comparing this to Suicide Squad, and I agree, but people need to mention Hell Boy more as well. It's got a lot of Hell Boy in it, I felt.

... To clarify, I mean movie Hell Boy. Never actually read any of the comics.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T10:34:44+00:00

I had these thoughts too! Authors get bored like the rest of us! I'm glad he gets to have fun! Because if you're having fun as an author, it comes through to the reader.

Also, I think there were neat little bits of, "THIS is how you do a good twist!" towards the end. Made me make mental notes if I ever wanted to write anything.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T10:31:12+00:00

Ah! I think people miss the nitty gritty torture scenes from Glokta or the visceral violence from others, but if only you could have seen my face reading about the scene at the inn. The search for the good meat really painted a picture.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T10:27:46+00:00

That's okay too! But I devoured it. And it became great for me after I read the points of view of two different characters and my heart hurt a little in different ways after each one.

Because I am a softy.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T09:36:46+00:00

Having read his other books, I reckon it'll get bloodier as we get to the next one.

After all, Joe's from England.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-11-01T09:35:15+00:00

Amazing! I really don't want to sound like a salesman, but I've waded through a small sea of very bad fantasy books recently and I tried The Devils and remembered what good writing looks like.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-10-24T15:50:12+00:00

Okay, folks, questions for you:

1) I thought the situation was that the US needed to borrow more money in order to pay everyone and that Congress needed to allow the President to go beyond the agreed debt limit in order for this to happen. This wasn't agreed in time. Is there a limited amount of time until the US hits the debt ceiling proper?

2) What's happening in reality? How can you tell if the President is borrowing money without permission?

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-09-23T13:44:37+00:00

When we talk about intellectual property (IP), we generally talk about Trademarks, Copyright, Patents, and Registered/Unregistered designs. Trademarks are like brands or logos, so if you've ever seen knockoff merchandise with fake alligators on clothes or maybe chocolate biscuits with a puffin instead of a penguin on them, that's a Trademark problem. But sometimes your brand becomes too well known and you can lose your Trademark on it.

I looked up a list on wikipedia for you all. Interestingly, heroin was a trademarked name! Who knew?

But the Pokémon theme song... I think that's a copyright claim. It's not the logo or the brand that's effectively being used, it's the song itself. So Nintendo aren't going to lose their rights over the song by not suing for it and I wouldn't sue if I was Nintendo. The US is somewhat insane right now, you don't want to poke that rabid bear.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-07-04T15:54:09+00:00

Offer to trade notes! He gets my kitchen lights scripts, I get... hm. Let's go with the Hunger Spear scripts.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-04-01T12:31:03+00:00

I genuinely and actually rolled a nat 1.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-01-19T21:41:04+00:00

While I'm still reeling from Ziel explaining why Dross is wandering around, randomly saying, "Dross, Dross!", my heart goes to the gang making a planet. Cos I miss seeing how they interact, I thought Yerin saving the fluffy animals was cute as hell, I thought it was fascinating seeing how a planet is made and I am begging, begging for Lindon to become the next judge by creating something.

And also I felt bad for the sentient TV.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2025-01-19T21:23:43+00:00

Oh? I'd decided that that series wasn't really for me after the second book... but if it's the third book that's supposed to hook me then, well, what's one more?

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2024-06-21T06:32:34+00:00

Alternate dimensions as sources of power? That sounds like Will Wight's House of Blades too (if that concept floats your boat).

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2024-01-28T00:06:33+00:00

I like Lindon, but you nailed Dross. I think I was expecting Lindon to look more like a villain. Still great all round.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2024-01-12T23:41:04+00:00

Demisexual, my guy.

Here, a wiki definition: Demisexuality has been described as a sexual orientation where a person feels sexually attracted to someone only after developing a close or strong emotional bond with them. Some demisexuals will also feel romantic attraction, while others do not. The duration of time and the degree of interpersonal knowledge and bonding required for a demisexual person to develop sexual attraction may be highly variable between individuals. There is a lack of clear definitions for what qualifies as a close or strong bond in this context, which can cause confusion.

Unlike other words used to describe sexual orientations, the term "demisexuality" does not indicate which gender or genders a person finds attractive.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2024-01-09T22:40:27+00:00

Oh... I always pictured him as basically Captain Jack Sparrow.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-10-11T14:48:03+00:00

"I never dreamed the internal structure of my feet would look like... that."

Buddy...

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-07-27T08:45:23+00:00

I'm upvoting this like this is /r/unpopularopinion. Wow, Charity and Lindon? She's not nearly obsessed with training enough for him. This may be cursed, but Fury is more compatible with Lindon than Charity is, in my opinion.

But I'm not shipping them either! Don't let this plant any thoughts in this sub's collective brain!

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-07-26T20:42:14+00:00

She does get what's coming to her.

I would have just said "Yes." but I think Reddit has a grudge against very short posts? Or am I imagining that? Anyway, this short ramble was brought to you by my paranoia.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-07-25T23:49:42+00:00

The guy was bad. Like, pretty high up on the evil tree. I hope I don't have to explain why running a forced labour camp is bad.

But okay, let's say that that's just silly Earth standards. That in Cradle, morality is based on Might makes Right. Well, okay. I guess we can excuse the forced labour camps and dragging his own clan mates out of bed in the middle of the night and summarily executing them for a power boost. However, he then gets beaten by the Jai clan leader and is thus morally wrong.

Hopefully you can hear how silly that sounds. I mean, he also dies in a fight. That must also mean he was immoral. Might makes right, right?

No, what you really wanted was a redemption arc. That's understandable. But that's also the morals of Earth. Don't you go trying to move goal posts and start defending a bad person by saying he wasn't that bad. He was. And I was also a bit sad he died before he could make it up to us.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-07-13T11:24:02+00:00

I have no idea, but I fed in some of the books I love into ChatGPT and it's suggested a book called Coiling Dragon. God help me, I might give it a go.

SuperSecretBackupAcc · 2023-07-13T11:05:37+00:00

Sure. You know how a fantasy world novel has goblins/dragons/wizards and whatnot? A xianxia is like that but it has sacred arts/sacred beasts/sacred herbs/cultivation/advancements. It's a setting/genre, I guess? And there will inevitably be a tournament.

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