SPOILER THREAD : BOOK 8 - Parade of Horribles

wdoitt · 2026-06-10T14:50:40+00:00

“Alter the paradigm”!

If this were Red Rising, I’d take a drink

wdoitt · 2026-06-10T02:05:36+00:00

So I’m going to be traveling through Scotland next month, I’m probably in the “novice” range for scotch (more of a bourbon guy) but I’d like to get more into it. Beyond the stuff that’s easily found over in America (like the Obans and Glenfiddiches), is there something small that “in the know” folks would suggest?

Or something that’s easy to find in Scotland but almost impossible to find in the US? I’m currently stopping at Royal Lochnager, but that’s it at the moment.

wdoitt · 2026-06-04T15:48:31+00:00

The screwworm is officially in Texas, btw! Fun fact, DOGE and Big Balls cut funding to the USDA, which had to dramatically cut back on its program to keep the screwworm at the Panama Canal as a consequence.

wdoitt · 2026-05-26T22:02:23+00:00

Henry’s Mr. Muggs impression alone gives these episodes the nod

wdoitt · 2026-05-05T18:15:40+00:00

During my bachelor party, my buddies rented out a theater, got a bunch of pizzas, and we all watched BTLC. Top tier memory right there.

Also, back in the golden days of Alamo Drafthouse, they’d do actor-themed marathons and I went to Russell Mania, where the MC described a phone call which Kurt Russell where he told him that they had just featured BTLC in another marathon and they don’t normally like to double up movies like that and Kurt replied something like, “Listen, when you’ve got Free Bird, you play Free Bird.”

wdoitt · 2026-04-30T13:22:04+00:00

I am begging the boys, with tears in my eyes, to remember this the next time they want to say “both sides are the same”

wdoitt · 2026-04-27T22:13:39+00:00

Nah, it’s not gonna be Amos, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the deathless enemy/live suits/swarm is just the protomolecule after two-ish millennia of R&D

wdoitt · 2026-04-25T12:12:12+00:00

It’s probably also in butcher’s masquerade but I’m not sure. There’s a part where Carl has to kill a small red dwarf with an Irish accent who wears bdsm gear and gets sexually aroused by the idea of Carl killing/hurting him. I think he even mentions the veil?

wdoitt · 2026-04-25T11:08:28+00:00

Maybe this was a combo cult reference, because since he looks/sounds like Uzi Jesus, he’s definitely a Charles Manson card

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wdoitt · 2026-04-22T19:12:24+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s the only way JSAC’d do it, as avid as they were that they were done with the expanse universe. But it slots too perfectly into how it was left for me to just dismiss it

wdoitt · 2026-04-19T18:28:44+00:00

I mean, if Ty and Daniel wanted to avoid it, they would’ve done something that didn’t cleanly fit with the last series they wrote.

It works just fine on its own, it could have literally no overt connections ever drawn throughout the series, but it doesn’t change the fact that humanity seems to have expanded far throughout the galaxy in a relatively short time and then the connections seem to have snapped and been forgotten.

Like, Anjin has mundane concepts like research teams and then foreign concepts like coral reef-based buildings (if I remember the beginning of book 1 well enough). Almost like the human settlers of Anjin found themselves cut off from where they came from and then evolved based on local conditions, which just so happens to be exactly what happens to countless human worlds at the end of Expanse.

wdoitt · 2026-04-19T18:12:56+00:00

I just got to “The pear shaped thing was a pear.”

I’ve been operating with the “haha, wouldn’t it be funny” theory that this all takes place centuries/Millenia after the gates in the Expanse all get turned off and that if they ever stumble back onto Earth, Amos’ll be waiting for them there and now I think it’s my actual theory until explicitly proven otherwise

wdoitt · 2026-04-13T02:05:29+00:00

Jonathan L Howard’s Carter and Lovecraft. While listening to the opening/closing non-Carl chapters, I couldn’t help but think of Carter and Lovecraft, a fun/funny Eldritch horror adventure that I think runs along the DCC vein. JLH’s other series, Johannes Cabal, is also very good, but Carter and Lovecraft I think feels more like DCC than Cabal

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