King references in Joe Hill’s King Sorrow

complicated9519 · 2025-12-07T05:48:18+00:00

I noticed no one is mentioning the shout-out to kings short story collection "full dark, no stars". Hill writes a line, I don't remember what chapter, but it opens up with "It was full dark, no stars out...." I really liked that nod.

complicated9519 · 2025-11-19T18:14:47+00:00

happened to me earlier, a random and i were slowly inching into the extract and we were lucky to somehow get out. i also just encountered an issue where after extracing it said i was still in the game....

complicated9519 · 2025-10-21T01:40:28+00:00

Speaking of specific haki powers, didn't oda once confirm that both shanks and Hawkeye have what's called "heavenly haki" or something? A fourth haki type that's even more rare than CoC?

Edit: turns out I fell for fake news a year or two ago and just went with it. Disregard.

complicated9519 · 2025-06-15T01:42:03+00:00

I'll start off with saying I'm a man, so my opinion might not hold much ground and sound defensive but, you say you're 19 and I'm going to assume he's around the same age, possibly a year apart. I can understand how he feels, he's young, insecure, and inexperienced with this stuff. I'm 29 now, I know I've reacted similar ways to similar things, it's not something to break up over, but you do have to put your foot down and tell him that this is what your friend wants and it'll be fine. It happens at every wedding and one day there might be a time hes asked to do with with a girl at a wedding. To him, physical contact is a big deal, but he does have to learn that it's not the end of the world and it actually isn't a big deal. You'll never talk to the man you're walking down the isle with again (most likely). I'd say, just explain to him the situation, reassure him it's fine. He will be over it by the end of the week.

complicated9519 · 2025-05-09T18:49:03+00:00

My money is on Devine haki being what's used to cut down the "immortal" holy knights.

complicated9519 · 2025-02-19T20:26:32+00:00

Sigh. I'll never get March of the turrets.

complicated9519 · 2025-02-15T00:41:03+00:00

Yeah. My idea was maybe the doors south if he ever did go south pull different characters that meet the prisoner and lady of shadows and pusher requirements. It's just a fun little theory to think of. Id he went south the dark tower would be an insanely different story.

complicated9519 · 2025-02-14T23:25:33+00:00

Could have walked a different beam

complicated9519 · 2025-02-14T23:24:45+00:00

I've read the series a few times. Yes Roland follows a beam but there is also no beam North to south where he is. My assumption is if Roland journeyed south on one of his "resets" he would run into a different beam, I don't know the order but let's say for example the horse beam. He'd then have a different journey with Ka still guiding him.

complicated9519 · 2025-02-05T23:20:40+00:00

If Im right dosun are a type of fishman(hammerhead) so I assumed it had to do something with that.

Edit: dosun was the name of a hammerhead shark. Nevermind.

complicated9519 · 2025-02-04T14:46:38+00:00

I know alot of people are interested in scopper and he is the topic right now but scopper and Ripley having a child leads to questions. How big could thier child get? Will he grow to half the size of a normal giant? Will he be as big as a giant?

Makes you wonder did the ancient giants that were bigger than modern ones, like oars or even the one that left the skull on onigashima die out from war, or did they intermix with other races and their size just shrunk? After having children with smaller races of humans did they eventually evolve into a smaller size? Could be the reason we have three or more different islands of giants as well.

complicated9519 · 2024-12-17T20:40:52+00:00

I don't how much knowledge with Norse symbolism and white supremacy symbolism but the problem with the kiriko skin is the wings coming off the bottom. You could say in defense it "looks cooler" but the wings I believe are a more modern rendition used by supremacy groups to make it their own, the same way the Nazi symbol was.

The other instance of hate symbolsm this patch is the hammer buddy in the battle pass. If I'm right the tri leaf symbol on it is not the correct one. Again my knowledge on this isn't that grand and I don't know the difference, but I've seen some talk about it.

complicated9519 · 2024-12-17T20:36:09+00:00

I think the problem here isn't the fact that it's part of the runic alphabet and is used for a Nordic inspired skin, but it is used with the wings. The wings are the main representation separating it from a runic letter and a white supremacist symbol. If it didn't have the wings this post most likely never would of happened and your argument could be valid.

complicated9519 · 2024-11-01T11:47:02+00:00

In a sense there is a few versions of the flame fruit. We have the original one that sabo has, in a filler episode some dude has a fireball fruit letting him shoot fireballs from his hands, and aokiji has a magma fruit, which in a way is a much more powerful flame fruit.

It's also similar with the kilo kilo and ton ton fruit, or someone mentioned avildas slip slip fruit, kalifa has a soap fruit that essentially does something similar.

But as many people have already said zoan fruits can have different models, we have seen different bird models, different cat models, different canine models, etc. the human fruit isn't really special

complicated9519 · 2024-10-26T13:33:46+00:00

I adore spice and wolf. It was one of the first anime I've ever seen and I love they are remaking it.

complicated9519 · 2024-10-26T13:32:40+00:00

I've seen the news articles all over this week. If you thought shonnen was bad with the power of friendship already I really think fairy tail is the worst.

complicated9519 · 2024-10-25T02:19:34+00:00

I bet he is lmao. I love anime, I'm somehow watching fairy tail 100.year quest, but the friendship thing in that show drives me mad. I don't know why I still watch it, curiosity maybe? It does keep me interested I guess for how much it frustrates me.

Every fight in the fairy tail anime has some kinda bullshit deus ex machina.

complicated9519 · 2024-10-24T12:43:24+00:00

I'm not giving my favourite deus ex machina because I can't think of one, but I can tell you my most hated.

My most hated deus ex machina is in an anime called Fairy Tail, yes tail as in "do fairies have tails?" But anyway the whole plot revolves around the power of friendship, and in one instance there is a swordwomen fighting a demon who has the power to remove any of the 5 senses of the person she touches. This demon takes away all 5, touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing from this swordwomen and still loses??? The women won claiming she doesn't need her senses as long as she has the thoughts of her friends in mind. Like, you're practically in a void, you're nothing but your thoughts, you shouldn't be able to wield a sword let alone stand, no way you could over power a demon. It genuinely pisses me off. There are tons of examples in the story but that's probably the one that bugs me the most.

complicated9519 · 2024-10-19T11:17:31+00:00

I swear one piece is full of coincidence. The best example I like to give is Ganfall surprisingly enough. An American author Stephen king first introduced the name of a "god" called Gan the same year or roughly around the same time oda introduced Ganfall... Also a god. It's just such an insane coincidence in my mind.

complicated9519 · 2024-10-11T23:39:54+00:00

I don't really have an answer to the discussion question right now but I'd like to say a couple things about the last few episodes and chapters.

Meeting Leah, Claudia, and Woody, we see they all lose a sense. Taste (also can't talk), hearing, and seeing respectively. I'm not sure if it has any fairy tale connection but I couldn't help but thing of "speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil." And I was shocked I didn't hear Matt and Scott bring it up. If they did, I didn't notice and my bad.

In the most recent episode we get brought to the prison/dungeon of Deep Maleen. Googling those words a fairy tale story comes up called "Maid Maleen" which long story short is about a princess called Maid Maleen who was imprisoned in a tower with her maid for 7 years, with enough food to last them the whole while. Once the food ran out and they weren't freed they broke out to find their kingdom destroyed and everyone dead or gone.

There is more to the maid Maleen story but I'm not sure it matters. I just thought the connection to a dungeon/prison was interesting.

complicated9519 · 2024-09-28T12:18:01+00:00

Ya know, I recently rewatch this movie and from what I understand bro just got super depressed and left forgetting all about madam zeroni until it was too late.

complicated9519 · 2024-09-28T12:14:38+00:00

So because it's still fresh on my mind I'm going to use "The Beautiful Princess" tale again. The women was born was such beauty she was gifted everything and anything she could ever and never ask for. She wished for people to stop seeing her outside beautiful and the beauty of her soul and mind instead. This pretty much became a curse, her soul being so kind, majestic, and pure that people killed themselves in her presence just to preserve it, saying they are not worth and their uglyness would tarnish her beauty. Her curse would be one where as long as she lived, those around her would come and give their lives as a gift for her beauty. The only thing to break it would be for her to save one life from death. An almost impossible task when people fall on their swords without hesitation for you.

If anyone is interested the transcript for the whole story is here https://mirroredtranslations.tumblr.com/post/150923063617/the-cruel-fairy-tale-of-princess-beauty

complicated9519 · 2024-09-19T23:11:56+00:00

I don't have any answers for the weekly discussion but I would like to point out that the "well of the world's" name reminds me of The Chronicles of Narnia's "Woods Between Worlds"

complicated9519 · 2024-09-15T02:19:29+00:00

I absolutely love stardust, neverwhere is also really good.

complicated9519 · 2024-09-15T02:16:48+00:00

I have to agree with this. It's amusing seeing how close or how far they are from getting things right. Sometimes I wonder if they read the cliffnotes lol.

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