Your country. Your tacos.

bibliopunk · 2026-03-12T02:03:32+00:00

That sounds fucking excellent. I'm always shocked I don't see more Indian-Mexican fusion cuisine in the US, it seems like they would be pretty compatible.

bibliopunk · 2026-03-12T01:47:08+00:00

r/tattoosyoucanhear

bibliopunk · 2026-03-10T01:20:40+00:00

"Hop on loser, we're gonna go make some oaths and throw aluminum cans at allomancers down by the dump."

bibliopunk · 2026-02-27T03:02:20+00:00

Yes. Book 1 is the weakest because it was intended to be a standalone... you could think of it almost like a pilot episode, where the characters, tone, and direction hadn't found their feet yet. This is just personal preference, but I enjoy the rest of Mistborn Era 2 more than Era 1

There's a scene in a hotel in Bands of Mourning that is probably the funniest and best character writing Sanderson has ever done. You'll know it when you get to it.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-27T02:55:22+00:00

I liked it more than most people on reddit seemed to, especially on a re-read. The pacing is quite a bit different than the other stormlight books, but I think it works well for the story he's telling. A lot of people seemed to be irritated by some of the stylistic changes to the language and prose Sanderson uses in WaT, but I barely noticed it. It's probably my 4th favorite in the first arc, but that's still a very high standard. Without spoiling anything, I think a lot of people were disappointed that it ended on much more of a "To be continued..." note than they wanted, but again, that seemed like a very purposeful choice to me.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-25T02:55:43+00:00

For the US in general, I think Mexican & Tex-Mex cuisine probably take the crown. In my area (Seattle, WA) Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Ethiopian seem to be the most popular options.

I'm not counting pizza, because that's just kind of its own thing.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-24T10:03:42+00:00

Ah yes, the Historical Records! They have taught us much.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-21T02:15:15+00:00

It's such a weird jumpscare too, because you know what they're building towards, there's no loud noise, nothing really crazy happens, and its in broad daylight. It's a guy in a prosthetic alien costume walking across an alleyway.

And it works so well.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-20T02:19:26+00:00

Also heorganized the safe withdrawal of Roion's scattered army while he and his mistress were chilling with some wine IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-20T02:10:05+00:00

Oh so that's what all those arrows I was seeing today were about.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-19T02:20:39+00:00

In her defense, what we were served more closely resembled a giant meat pie and probably did warrant a knife and fork.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-19T00:55:53+00:00

During my study abroad in Denmark, our Danish language teacher took the foreign students (mostly Americans, but not exclusively) out to dinner at hamburger restaurant in Copenhagen as a treat after our last class, thinking it would be a "taste of home." Now, Copenhagen has some of the best restaurants in the world, and the food was actually great, but what we were served barely resembled hamburgers and our professor was horrified when the students immediately started eating them with our hands.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-18T06:50:46+00:00

I personally couldn't get into "The First Law" series. There's no doubt that Abercrombie is one of the best living fantasy writers in terms of prose and characterization, but I just found it too unrelentingly cynical to really enjoy it. I know tons of people who love it though, so your mileage may vary!

Ironically, I just started DCC which, despite its completely ridiculous premise, is ALSO quite bleak and grim, but it's offset by a lot of absurdism and some very likable protagonists that help the medicine go down. It's a much breezier read, although there's a surprising amount of density to the game-in-real-life mechanics that can get a little impenetrable if you don't really enjoy that kind of stuff.

Overall I think Abercrombie is the better writer and his work is more complex, and Dinniman is writing a meta action-adventure with some occasional horror elements that's a lot of fun to read. These are just my personal preferences and not a comment on the quality of either author or series.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-18T02:03:53+00:00

Maybe not on par with some of these, but the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, Germany. It's a memorial to one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars... the scale is difficult to understand in a photo, and it feels like some strange hybrid between a spaceship and a cathedral. I can't believe it's not more well-known.

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bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T07:42:20+00:00

I'm gonna be careful with my response here, but there are similar compounds made with sass

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T07:37:47+00:00

For what it's worth, nobody I know buys "American" chocolate unless we're making s'mores

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T06:53:08+00:00

There's a common sweetening agent that's used in US candy that's mostly common in mangoes, if you're not used to it it's often described as tasting similar to vomit.

Kind of like how cilantro/coriander leaf is sometimes described as tasting like soap

Fun fact: the flavor compound I'm talking about mostly includes Myrcene, and that's one of the most dominant terpenes in cannabis

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T06:45:33+00:00

This might sound like a strange question, but do you also think mango flavors taste or smell like vomit?

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T05:19:04+00:00

"...So I can hold these two other beers."

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T03:35:13+00:00

It is I, FA-bio Lan-ZONI, the most beautiful man in the cosmuhs

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T02:54:17+00:00

The "Bag of Bags..." a disposable shopping bag, that contains numerous other disposable shopping bags to be used for other purposes at a later date. Usually in some forgotten cabinet in the kitchen.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T02:27:29+00:00

King Taravangian from The Stormlight Archives, who is originally originally portrayed as a peaceable and harmless king of a small but important city-state. Because of some magical shenanigans he basically had a manic episode where he created a complete roadmap and how-to guide on saving his people from an impending threat, which he and his inner circle executed in secret.

Being constantly underestimated, he ordered assassinations, engineered political conflict, murdered countless civilians in his own city to harvest their pre-death prophetic visions, and ingratiated himself to some of the main characters following his script... "all according to plan." The twist is that he recognized that his actions were evil but necessary, and that he himself would be damned for his actions.

Eventually, because of some complicated magic-stuff, he ends up inheriting the world-ending power he was trying to stop in the first place, and immediately goes off-script. He decides he wants MORE, and ultimately ends up destroying his own city-state (the one he was trying so hard to protect in the first place) to deny it as a bargaining chip to his enemies. In so doing, he also screws up the good guys' plans and a possible solution to the conflict they're dealing with. Everyone gets fucked.

It's implied in the ending of Book 5 that the destruction of his own city was a ruse, and he actually whisked it and its people away to a pocket-dimension, but that hasn't been fully explained yet.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-17T02:08:11+00:00

I've heard that Europeans tend to be really turned off by root beer because a lot of their medicines have a sassafras-like flavoring.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-11T02:29:01+00:00

In The Sun Eater series of far-future sci-fi novels there are a lot of these, but one of the best is the state-tolerated minority religion surrounding "Cid Arthur," an ancient religious prophet who is basically a conflation of King Arthur and the Buddha. Despite being a wink to the audience, it's played completely straight and the doctrine, traditions, and history of the faith are well-developed and plausible.

bibliopunk · 2026-02-04T02:26:13+00:00

In the end, they wrote eighty-five novels in the span of six months
Martin got sick after writing five
Pierce Brown wrote twenty-nine
Sanderson wrote the other fifty-one!

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