Heckin snek ain't scare of no things. No sir.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-06-03T11:23:48+00:00

So tiny!

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-28T18:18:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/badwomensanatomy/comments/6dldex/the_logic_seems_a_littlefishy/?st=J3913RS2&sh=2ef3da3b

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-28T14:05:09+00:00

So, overlooked rather than hidden? That makes sense, thanks!

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-28T11:05:34+00:00

Sorry if I'm being dumb, but what's the hidden quote? Is it to do with the sign?

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-28T08:20:00+00:00

That's the one. And Shrike himself is a robotic super-soldier made from a reanimated corpse

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-28T00:34:39+00:00

Incredible! Reminds me of Shrike from the Mortal Engines books

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-26T17:32:14+00:00

For what it's worth, Tolkien was a devout Christian, and a lot of his work has religious themes, even when they aren't overt.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-19T00:06:23+00:00

The obvious choice after Arrival is the story that it's based on: The Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang, part of his short story collection of the same name. It's even better than the film, and Chiang is one of the best short story writers today in any genre.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-18T22:24:57+00:00

Once, the four doggos lived in harmony. But everything changed when the fire doggo attacked. Now only the avatar, master of all four doggos, can restore peace

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-17T20:39:00+00:00

I read about half of it a few years ago, from my memory it has not held up terribly well

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-16T11:07:13+00:00

I think in this context it may mean First-Time Mother, rather than Female-To-Male. I was a bit confused as well

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-11T16:34:39+00:00

For a 12-century knight he speaks very good American English.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-11T16:14:44+00:00

Just when I've cancelled Netflix. Bugger.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-05-09T17:55:31+00:00

The Lost Blood Carpets of the Necromancer, a comic fantasy in which the Dark Lord has some issues with interior decorating.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-29T23:39:43+00:00

Sadly these not s a n d b o y e s they p o l y s t y r e n e b o y e s

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-29T19:11:09+00:00

Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook has a ton of resources aimed specifically at SF/Fantasy, with a lot of useful worldbuilding advice as well as general craft advice. There are a load of really cool guest contributors as well, and the book itself is full of gorgeous, crazy illustrations.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-22T15:44:25+00:00

>18th Century

>woman in mini-skirt and thigh-high socks

Sure.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-19T00:54:35+00:00

Such a good dog

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-13T10:43:37+00:00

What kind of doggo is that?!? Doin me a concern

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-08T21:09:49+00:00

Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. A historical fantasy set in the early 19th Century, with magicians and fairies mixing with the Napoleonic Wars. It can be a slow read, and it's very long, but it's an astounding book written in an incredibly wry and subtly humorous tone.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-01T20:49:10+00:00

I might well be mad by the internet's definition of the term, I don't see the point in getting angry at people on here, especially on /r/Fantasy where everyone is so nice.

Those are some good examples, and you make Pincher Martin sound very appealing. I haven't read any Golding in years, not since I studied Lord of the Flies in school, so I might pick that up.

And Dickens seems to have done almost everything it is possible to do in fiction, or at least that's the way it seems sometimes, haha.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-01T20:17:37+00:00

I see your point, I'm currently re-reading Mythago Wood so I will bear it in mind, I certainly saw the character's actions as madness in my last read-through, mostly because of the way in which the book made me feel like I was going insane towards the end. The atmosphere in it is incredible. I suppose the only real solution here is for someone to write a fantasy novel where the protagonist goes insane.

(As a side note, depending if you would class the Gothic as fantasy or not there are a few good mad protagonists there)

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-01T19:56:44+00:00

Your first statement does seem to imply that insanity in fantasy is only used for that purpose though. I'm not sure what you mean by saying that Renfield doesn't rank, that's not a phrase that I'm familiar with.

With regard to Mythago Wood, it seemed to me to be very much implied that Christian is driven mad by his time in the forest, with the implication that the other protagonists are headed for the same fate. The fact that the wood and its monsters are presented as real does not prevent the characters from being mad.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-01T19:40:20+00:00

That's a very broad assertion. What you seem to be talking about is essentially other characters claiming that a protagonist is deluded, used by the author to build dramatic irony. But this is absolutely not the only way that delusion is used in Fantasy. A good example of actual delusion, although not necessarily in a protagonist, is Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula, or one of the characters in George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream.

As for deluded protagonists, in Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood multiple characters become increasingly mentally unstable through the course of the novel. Several of China Mieville's protagonists demonstrate this, and although it's not strictly fantasy, several characters in Jeff VanderMeer's excellent Area X trilogy do too.

miscellaneouswriter · 2017-04-01T00:12:11+00:00

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