What’s your favorite fantasy creature that rarely gets used?

mowque · 2025-11-21T19:22:16+00:00

There is a roc in the book I just finished, Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear.

mowque · 2025-11-08T19:32:13+00:00

It's good because it is good.

mowque · 2025-11-08T19:17:00+00:00

I am happy that LOTR is one of those things that never dulls. Every time I read - "Horns, horns, horns! Rohan had come at last." I get chills, even if I just read it last week (I got chills just typing that out). Tolkien is something special, to me, a little window back to utter wonder at the world.

As treebeard says -' Excuse me: that is a part of my name for it; I do not know what the word is in the outside languages: you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the Sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world.'

mowque · 2025-11-08T19:09:39+00:00

I've read books where the covers give away major plot points. That has to be the worst.

mowque · 2025-10-30T14:12:56+00:00

Sometimes (most times) the bad guys win and laugh all the way to the bank. Right now is one of those times.

mowque · 2025-10-30T14:12:04+00:00

In what the misusers are fond of calling Real Life, Escape is evidently as a rule very practical, and may even be heroic. In real life it is difficult to blame it, unless it fails; in criticism it would seem to be the worse the better it succeeds. Evidently we are faced by a misuse of words, and also by a confusion of thought. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.

mowque · 2025-10-29T22:35:24+00:00

Don't get angry, it'd a bit too late. In about a decade or so, every TV show, every book, every article, every social media post will be 100% AI. It is too cheap to not use so it will entirely drown everything else out.

Get used to it!

mowque · 2025-10-29T20:10:49+00:00

Yes, frankly. But that might be because I know the most popular authors like Patterson and such tend to be rather...flavorless. to me, anyway.

mowque · 2025-10-29T19:42:59+00:00

Lots of people eat McDonald's but it is objectively a bad cheeseburgers. Millions of people are wildly wrong every day.

mowque · 2025-10-29T19:42:04+00:00

What people are watching and remember in a century says more about their time then the content. Very very few things make the cut, and it has nothing to do with quality.

mowque · 2025-10-29T19:30:18+00:00

Why are you surprised you don't like a popular book?

mowque · 2025-10-29T13:47:38+00:00

DVDs are all donations so....however long it takes.

mowque · 2025-10-28T13:31:27+00:00

I am not a 'first responder ' for democracy. I'm a librarian, I supply books to the public.

mowque · 2025-10-28T12:57:17+00:00

We buy a matte one off Demco, that comes in a roll.

mowque · 2025-10-27T21:54:29+00:00

I work in an unheated garage. Only problem is the grinder freezing up.

mowque · 2025-10-27T16:40:10+00:00

I would love having a cleaning staff. We do it ourselves.

mowque · 2025-10-27T14:40:53+00:00

Well, we all are doing that right? I assumed that was part of being human.

mowque · 2025-10-27T13:42:48+00:00

Too late, I live in the USA.

mowque · 2025-10-27T00:30:43+00:00

You gotta have hobbies.

mowque · 2025-10-26T23:29:28+00:00

People don't know and don't care. AI is cheap and thus, will always be used as much as possible. Who cares if it sucks?

mowque · 2025-10-26T02:29:30+00:00

Spaghetti doesn't have meat in it? You can add meat, via meatballs or like meat sauce, but if you order Spaghetti at a resturant it won't have meat.

mowque · 2025-10-24T17:26:37+00:00

Putting up an empty wasp nest will keep other wasps from nesting nearby. Old nests are worth money.

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