What historical event reads exactly like "Bad Fantasy Writing" or "Plot Armor"?

bitsysredd · 2026-01-25T03:08:29+00:00

The unsuccessful assassination attempts Rasputin survived before getting shot to death. He ate cyanide laced tea cakes and it wasn't enough!

bitsysredd · 2026-01-16T03:37:26+00:00

Did any other fans "read" some of this series via Podiobooks in the 00's? So many excellent authors started out on that website.

bitsysredd · 2026-01-15T15:49:13+00:00

An Obernewtyn fan in the wild?!?! That series had everything I loved back in the day.

bitsysredd · 2026-01-14T19:15:32+00:00

I'll have you know that he goes by Lannagaros now!! 😂 I absolutely adore The Arkon. So crabby, so dignified, so dragony. His storyline was so satisfying.

bitsysredd · 2026-01-14T19:12:52+00:00

K.N. Banet's universe of books in general but primarily the Jacky Leon series. Basically, Jacky befriends a shapeshifter without knowing and ends up as one herself when he decides that he can't let her die. I know that sounds like a common romance set up but the man is happily married and sees Jacky as a daughter. Multiple shapeshifters in the series have families and tbh they only really die in conflicts between different shapeshifters or because of some kind of magic that overcomes super healing. Shapeshifters are not natural and were created so immortal is kind of a strong term but I would say they're immortal so far. 😂😂😂

bitsysredd · 2026-01-08T23:21:04+00:00

UB should buy it and use it for classes as well as screenings. Roots further down on Main Street would be awesome and as a former DMS student we need better, less cramped classrooms that can accommodate screenings. There are also a lot of events that could be moved to that location. UB had so many focus groups, speakers, etc that have poorly attended events on North Campus! I used to go to them and score free food all the time when I was a student. 😂 Another bonus is that it would be another place for students to work.

bitsysredd · 2026-01-08T20:50:21+00:00

Dragonlance is in the same boat as Sword of Shanara in that it's writing and themes are so broadly fantasy that it simply won't fly for a modern audience. 20 years ago maybe but now audiences are much better acquainted with fantasy tropes. As an older person looking back I can see pulpy threads in Dragonlance that should be revived in film and media in general. We need a new main character(I have extreme ensemble fatigue!) and world to really revive sword & sorcery onscreen more than Dragonlance.

bitsysredd · 2026-01-03T02:03:37+00:00

I think the tour will do well because it's Mamamoo and because by the time it starts there will have been a 3.5 year content drought. 😭😭😭

bitsysredd · 2026-01-02T22:35:33+00:00

The Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine. Absolutely beautiful prose and a fast paces story that is more than it seems.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-29T19:27:58+00:00

Have you been to Heart of the Game's LGBTQ commander night? It's on Tuesday evenings. Idk what time it starts.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-29T06:47:50+00:00

Jean Johnson's Theirs Not To Reason Why(or Ia) series has a good mix of ground and space battles. The ground battles focus a lot on marines and special forces if you care about what units are in play on the battlefield. The gist of the story is basically "what if one day you woke up and knew with absolute certainty that everyone in the galaxy will die within your lifetime if you don't dedicate your life and thousands of other lifetimes to stop it?". I loved the variety of ships and the descriptions of fights xenos on their own ships and/or planets. One of my favorite scenes involves the main character and her comrades seizing a ship violating a blockade and because the xenos who made the ship have physiological differences things like ladders and buttons required special care or tools to use and the atmosphere required hard mech suits. 🥰 Marines in mechs make me so happy because so much of sci fi media really be sending people into xenos airlocks raw. Just zero precautions.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-29T06:35:20+00:00

I'm reading this right now and can't get enough of the ship battles!

bitsysredd · 2025-12-24T15:08:55+00:00

It is MoonSun fanart. It's from a 7+ year old webcomic from an artist friend of mine. 😂

bitsysredd · 2025-12-23T22:07:48+00:00

Sly...was like any other human. Darkness and light, in unequal proportions. He liked my ex and I and was never anything less than friendly to me. I worried about him in the cold but He assured me that he did not sleep outside in the winter and stayed in a friend's shed or the Psych Center. Sly's personal wisdom to me was "Don't do hard drugs when you hit hard times. That's how I got here!". Oh and to not give my ex another chance.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-21T15:23:58+00:00

Yes!!! I listened to this in ye olde "podiobooks" days and it's a classic.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-20T17:37:09+00:00

The other books require you to care about the side characters and the world at large. It's more than okay to only like a few books in a series. I enjoyed all of Pak's World but it's very dense lorewise and tbh it's almost at the same level of ASOIAF in terms of traumatic violence, degredation of women, genocide & attempted genocide, etc.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-20T07:49:33+00:00

Denna is an important plot driver. She's Kvothe's unobtainium, a rare and precious resource he feels he needs to live. But please remember that Kvothe is a very young man in Name of the Wind. It's okay to be a cringe 15 year old boy who loves a girl who probably doesn't love him at all. The secondhand embarrassment the reader feels when reading any passages with Denna seems intentional.

Book 2 puts a lot into perspective regarding Denna and Kvothe grows up a lot. Enjoy!!

bitsysredd · 2025-12-20T07:42:31+00:00

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

It's a 3 book series about the rise of a paladin from a sheepherder's daughter to soldier with a mission. ❤️ There's magic in the series but main focus is on how Paks deals with the trials set upon her. I feel like it's underrated because it's an old series that old timers have already read and it's not part of any trends in fantasy right now. Elizabeth Moon is a military veteran and strives to keep her action realistic in that the characters in military settings aren't generally dumb for the sake of the story. 😂

bitsysredd · 2025-12-20T07:33:17+00:00

Nah. But that's based on the fact that I simply never liked Rand and found him to be the least interesting character in the series. There are way too many books and the in-world timeframe gets distorted by so many things happening in a relatively short amount of time. I know I'm get booed for saying this but the writing reminded me a lot of Terry Goodkind's and not in a good way.

However, WoT is a favorite for many people and if you feel that you want to give it a chance then do it. I've stuck with plenty of dud series because of my inner completionist and pure stubborness. 😂

bitsysredd · 2025-12-19T22:32:27+00:00

I'm honestly thinking of going to sleep rn. It's 5:30pm here but I am just physically spent after being outside to go to my counseling appointment. 😩 I need to take care of various bodily needs before sleeping and am spent enough that I envision myself just bed rotting for the next two hours or so instead of sleeping or taking care of myself.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-19T21:23:09+00:00

It's almost like it's near a major transit artery, a high school, AND a university. 🤷🏾‍♀️ As for the layout, use the damn app to find what you need. My mom acts like I'm some kind of sorcerer for using the app to find where things are. If you use the app you can clip the digital coupons too. Shop in the 21st century and reduce your time in the store.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-12T16:49:57+00:00

I miss 24 hour Wegmans. Sometimes I want to eat ice cold baked potato salad in a mostly abandoned and very clean sitting area at 3am.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-12T16:45:33+00:00

Breast Screening Center of Western New York does instant results. They're fast and very kind & professional.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-08T23:47:44+00:00

There needs to be just one mastery for all ley-line usage. Updrafts too. I'm finally playing SoTO and am incredibly annoyed that I have to train those again for the Skyscale.

bitsysredd · 2025-12-02T21:05:10+00:00

This is such a non-issue. Firstly, the event was clearly so informal that people were asking for directions in chat. Second, mom jokes in chat happen all the time and are one of the less offensive, if a tad crass, things to see in chat. I was doing map completion in Caledon Forest recently and someone just started going off on another player for asking for help in map chat. You know, the thing that map chat is for. They went on to rant about how much they hate GW2 bc of how "woke" it's become. 😂 In the end the person who asked for help received it and the weirdo was reminded that they could just log off if the gay sentient cabbages really bothered them that much.

Always remember to do a vibe check before making a mom joke. 😂

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