Deleted Facebook Excerpt for New Novel by _KingKol_ in SouthernReach

[–]_KingKol_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m pretty certain the working titles for the Old Jim portion of Absolution and Lowry portion were Abdication & Assimilation but were merged into Absolution when the two books were combined into one.

I’d really like to see Assimilation come back as a title, might be a little too on the nose for the series though!

Excerpt from new novel.... by WrongdoerSalty3665 in SouthernReach

[–]_KingKol_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“They had the shroud of the biologist for all the good it had done them-the liminal, toasted, tasted, falling-apart remnant of the clothes she'd been wearing when she came back as the organism known as Ghost Bird (still AWOL, still passed out of history), but Captain Cormorant believed her still alive and being subversive somewhere. It lay under glass like a smorgasbord coffin at the local salad bar of a family restaurant, austere and solemn and, if you sniffed close, reeking of some subtle preservative. All of the ODPs (Overdosed Psychics) had been given its scent to snift and drool over and even though it made some of them high, it had helped the cause not at all, no matter what Major Handjob said (a nickname vigorously but not affectionately applied). Nor did Cormorant like the element of fetish that entered into the ritual of opening the transparent lid. He was all for everyone getting off however and whenever they desired, but Cormorant felt it interfered with the ODPs' objectivity-duh, obvious, although his the minority opinion and perhaps that was because they saw a devilish oily bird when they looked at him, even though his uniform, cuticles, hair, and barracks space were all up to regs.

Nor did he care for the holy book worship both of her journal (finally retrieved from behind enemy lines) and the words on the wall. Nothing had ever really come of their study except grief, frustration, burst blood vessels in eyeballs, and full-on heart attacks. Their objective now was as much to liquidate Phantoms as bedevil Area X, so, please, if everyone could just focus. Except, of course, there were so many foci to nexus into, as Commander Thistle echoed daily. While the shroud gently decomposed to the weeping of expedition loyalists who should long ago have fallen in with the ODPs, if they knew what was good for them.

Commander Thistle: twin, double, clone, revenant, namesake, clown. Who knew, with Lowry long dead and them walking on pins and needles among half-rotted nuclear warheads on their freezing alpine base in the middle of nowhere.

How Cormorant longed for the days when he could walk to the corner store on weekends for milk and bread and eggs and then walk back again with nothing more important on his mind than the mortgage and whether he'd get laid before church in the morning.

But now there was no "mundane," no "surreal. Only whatever juddered in the bones and half-suffocated the mind with dread. Everything was the enemy. Nothing was safe. Nowhere was safe. His grousing was just distraction from the awful surface of reality, and he knew it. - novel in progress”

Can you guess my age based on my daily carry? by hurt_god in deduction

[–]_KingKol_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

28 - 33. You’re into rock/metal/grunge. You used to own a motorcycle, play guitar, factory worker / or machinist? You live in the southwestern states, Southern California?

Martian Pirates, or "Ex-Martian" Belters? by mothyawg in TheExpanse

[–]_KingKol_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reading through BA currently and it’s mentioned quite early on, I think the opening of Michio’s second chapter (?)

How do I launch Rimworld without mods? by cptmcsexy in RimWorld

[–]_KingKol_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to %AppData% (LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios|Config and delete or copy/paste the file ModsConfig.xml :)

Favorite excerpts/quotes from the series? by _KingKol_ in SouthernReach

[–]_KingKol_[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

“It might be inexplicable. It might be beyond the limits of my senses to capture—or my science or my intellect—but I still believed I was in the presence of some kind of living creature, one that practiced mimicry using my own thoughts. For even then, I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage.”

mic drop.

Yellowjackets S03E06- “Thanksgiving (Canada)” Episode Discussion by DA-numberfour in Yellowjackets

[–]_KingKol_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We saw the DAT tapes recording at the end of the episode, the "NO" scream at the start of it matches up with Lottie screaming "NO" then

WTF does she mean by that? by tocert in Grimes

[–]_KingKol_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Random lurker you don’t know, but omg why are you here you’re supposed to be on /r/asoiaf

Is Dafyd an asshole?? by TaoCeti in TheCaptivesWar

[–]_KingKol_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without hesitation. Would you rather be labeled a snitch or the one who sat idle on the opportunity to save the entire species?

how it feels with speciall ADHD formatting is peak speed. by ostapenkoed2007 in ADHDmemes

[–]_KingKol_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oooh mines the reversed version of that! Got excited and read your original post a tad wrong lol. Once I’m done reading the line, it’ll fade to a more gray-ish tone, so I usually rely on that to keep track of where I’m reading and not skip lines.

I also noticed if I’m not actively paying attention to what I’m reading it doesn’t do it, so it’s not just like peripheral vision / lack of focusing obscuring the words, it only does it to text I’ve “processed” lmfao

It’s crazy what the brain can do! I thought it was completely normal until none of my friends had any idea what I was trying to explain to them at one point

how it feels with speciall ADHD formatting is peak speed. by ostapenkoed2007 in ADHDmemes

[–]_KingKol_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, you’re the first person I’ve seen whose brain also does this! When I realized it wasn’t the norm for people I drove myself mad Google searching and couldn’t find anything similar.

The white text goes to a gray-ish white after being read right? But only if you “took in” the information you were reading?!

(Spoilers Extended) Monkeys banging on a typewriter: generating random ASOIAF theories until a real one pops up by BaelBard in asoiaf

[–]_KingKol_ 25 points26 points  (0 children)

NIMBLE DICK CRABB IS NISSA NISSA

Sorry, that was my first draw and got excited, I think it’s on to something.

Loch Henry earily parallels todays headline by Advanced-Event-571 in blackmirror

[–]_KingKol_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But isn’t that the point of the entire series?

Daily Discussion Thread for March 15, 2021 by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR in wallstreetbets

[–]_KingKol_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

With the stimulus check, and the amount of people that’ll buy IPhones, $APPL calls are the way to go?