The End is Nigh!
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kippurbirdRejoice my pigeons, rejoice! The end is here!
But first! More gibberish.
Why do they always have to speak in gibberish? Okay, let's see if we can translate this. The Chosen Ones are both going to have kids, one who is going to live and one who is going to die. Both are going to have a dead parent. That would be Fredrick and Sushi as the dead parents. And Sister's unborn baby and Triscuit's dead baby. Got that? Good.
Haven't a clue what the second part means. Something about the Vagaries and the Vigors being two sides of the same coin. And the kids being examples of the two sides of the same coin and... and... and...
I've got nothing.
Moving on!
Triscuit, Earwig and Dwarf have reached the Ghetto of the Shunned. I have this voice in my head screaming SHUUUUNED! SHUUUUUUNEED! whenever I see that. I'm not sure where it's from though. SHUUUNNNED! Sister is asleep in the wagon while the three 'men' are checking out the Ghetto. The Ghetto was apparently built in the bottom of a bowl so that they could see all around them.
Why yes. The Ghetto of the Shunned (SHHHUUUUNNED) was built in the middle of a bowl giving the enemy the high ground.
Currently, it's burning. And despite being on higher ground, the three of them can't see into the city. Though they do know that Kludge will know that the Sorceresses are dead because the Recluse is burning and he can do what he wants.
Dwarf goes off into the water (notice he still has his chain and collar around his neck)to the grate to wave them into the city. Triscuit, Earwig and Sister ride in. Galloping into a city with a wagon with lots of dead bodies in the way. The Minions are no where to be found. This is highly suspicious. They get to where the bird boy lived, but he's dead. They wonder where Dwarf is and Triscuit is all "Get better Sister or I'll have to leave you here". They're waiting for Gimpy to open the portal.
Kludge shows up holding Dwarf. He lets Dwarf join Earwig and Triscuit and then Earwig says, I'm going to kill Kludge and you kill Sister because no Endowed blood can be left in Parthalon. This is repeated several times. I'm not sure why this is important... but apparently it is. Kludge also has Angel. He tosses the girl at Triscuit and she is sad.
Kludge then monologues.
For four pages.
Let me sum up.
1. He can take control over everything now that the Sorceresses are dead.
2. He doesn't have to fight the Gargoyles.
3. Triscuit handed him Eutracia because he can go through the portal with his army.
4. He's going to take Sister as his queen.
Triscuit lets him talk the entire time. Only when Kludge challenges him does he attack.
They fight. Triscuit starts to lose badly. Then he remembers Fredrick's Oh LOOK BEHIND YOU trick. One of the oldest tricks in the book. Sludge falls for it. Someone that stupid deserves to die. Triscuit cuts off his head with a, "As you made me do to my father I do to you."
In a STUNNING turn of events all the remaining Minions immediately switch loyalties to Triscuit because he beat Sludge and their custom is that whoever beats the commander becomes their new leader. Because really, no grudges held here or anything like that. Personally I wouldn't want soldiers who could switch loyalties so easily.
Angel dies and Triscuit is sad, but she tells him don't worry you'll find someone who'll love you. He screams.
Angel then dissolves and becomes a twinkling of light.
Then Earwig surprises Triscuit with Sister's baby. Apparently, completely unnoticed by anyone, Sister gave birth. In about five minutes. With no screaming. Or noise. Or any indication before hand that she was going into labor. In fact this potentially dramatic happening didn't even happen at all. Here was a chance for Triscuit to try and get his Sister to remember who she is while he helped her give birth. But... instead he was busy screaming.
Earwig tells Triscuit that the baby looks normal, but you never can tell. Because apparently trauma to the mother makes the same trauma to the baby who wasn't born yet and baby won't recognize people she's never met... or something. Earwig is sad about this and cries a single tear. I think that's the last single tear in the book!
Triscuit gets ready to kill his sister and is sad about it. And then Sister blinks. Apparently she hadn't been blinking before then. Or this is an extra special blink. But she blinks, which surprises Triscuit and she blinks again, which surprises him even more. And she recognizes the medallion thing around her neck and Triscuit is all YAY. And she knows his name (which is a stupid thing to be using as a 'she's better thingy' because she knew his name when she was Evil.) Anyway Earwig gives her the baby and she's all "what's this?" Triscuit tells her that the baby is hers and names her after their mother. I'm not really sure that giving a baby to someone who just woke up from a stupor is a good idea.
But what do I know?
Babies make EVERYTHING better!
Earwig convinces Triscuit not to do something horrible to the Minions because they were "only following orders". So Triscuit gives them new orders.
1. Traax is their leader in his absence.
2. The brothels are to be opened and the women treated like equals, and the Minions can take wives and birth and death records need to be kept. (I'm not really sure why that last bit is important)
3. The angels are to be let free and live among them as equals and they can have sex with the Minions.
4. No more random violence against the people. And the succession by death is outlawed.
5. Rebuild the Ghetto of the Shunned.
6. Rebuild the Recluse but erase all signs of the Coven.
They agree to do as he says.
The portal shows up. And FINALLY they get rid of the chain on Dwarf's neck. Earwig, Sister, Glendon and Baby all leave while Triscuit angsts for a bit. And now Triscuit's blood is all shiny and glow in the dark.
Earwig's blood doesn't glow in the dark. It moves around on its own. Triscuit's blood on the other hand does. I guess it's just because he's Just That Special.
His blood talks to him. "You have survived, and ascended to manhood... your careless ways are no more. And you have become, truly, the Chose One."
Need I remind you that he's THIRTY and only now he's ascended to MANHOOD! THIRTY! THIRTY THIRTY! Again, final proof that Triscuit was originally supposed to be a lot younger than he is in the original drafts.
He makes a new vow to find out who poured endowed blood into him and why he's become the vessel that "Contains the blood of the fates". (Because he's Just That Special).
Finally, the epilogue.
Azure hands take the baby out of his grave and bring him back to life. They're Mysterious Hands that belong to Mysterious Voices who take the baby up into the sky.
The End.
Give me candy.
But first! More gibberish.
Of the seeds of the Chosen Ones, one shall live and one shall die, the two having been conceived of separate, and therefore distinct, philosophies. The mother of the first and the sire of the second shall both perish before seeing their progeny come to fruition.
As such, these lives shall be yet another manifestation of the Vigors and the Vagaries, those disciplines being two sides of the same coin, namely the craft, wrapped in the same confines but residing in different worlds. In this way the Vigors and the Vagaries themselves shall resemble the newborns of the chosen ones, being of completely different philosophies, yet each being of continually aware of the other's presence as they move through space and time...
-From the writings of Faegan, upon his later recollections of the Tome
Why do they always have to speak in gibberish? Okay, let's see if we can translate this. The Chosen Ones are both going to have kids, one who is going to live and one who is going to die. Both are going to have a dead parent. That would be Fredrick and Sushi as the dead parents. And Sister's unborn baby and Triscuit's dead baby. Got that? Good.
Haven't a clue what the second part means. Something about the Vagaries and the Vigors being two sides of the same coin. And the kids being examples of the two sides of the same coin and... and... and...
I've got nothing.
Moving on!
Triscuit, Earwig and Dwarf have reached the Ghetto of the Shunned. I have this voice in my head screaming SHUUUUNED! SHUUUUUUNEED! whenever I see that. I'm not sure where it's from though. SHUUUNNNED! Sister is asleep in the wagon while the three 'men' are checking out the Ghetto. The Ghetto was apparently built in the bottom of a bowl so that they could see all around them.
The Ghetto of the Shunned sat in a rather large bowl, surrounded on all sides by a sloping, grassy hillside. Glendon had explained to them that before the arrival of the Coven the city had been constructed in the center of the bowl for reasons of defense. Men lining the top of the rim could see for miles in every direction and easily warn the city below of danger, allowing the gates to be shut quickly and the drawbridge immediately taken up.
Why yes. The Ghetto of the Shunned (SHHHUUUUNNED) was built in the middle of a bowl giving the enemy the high ground.
Currently, it's burning. And despite being on higher ground, the three of them can't see into the city. Though they do know that Kludge will know that the Sorceresses are dead because the Recluse is burning and he can do what he wants.
Dwarf goes off into the water (notice he still has his chain and collar around his neck)to the grate to wave them into the city. Triscuit, Earwig and Sister ride in. Galloping into a city with a wagon with lots of dead bodies in the way. The Minions are no where to be found. This is highly suspicious. They get to where the bird boy lived, but he's dead. They wonder where Dwarf is and Triscuit is all "Get better Sister or I'll have to leave you here". They're waiting for Gimpy to open the portal.
Kludge shows up holding Dwarf. He lets Dwarf join Earwig and Triscuit and then Earwig says, I'm going to kill Kludge and you kill Sister because no Endowed blood can be left in Parthalon. This is repeated several times. I'm not sure why this is important... but apparently it is. Kludge also has Angel. He tosses the girl at Triscuit and she is sad.
Kludge then monologues.
For four pages.
Let me sum up.
1. He can take control over everything now that the Sorceresses are dead.
2. He doesn't have to fight the Gargoyles.
3. Triscuit handed him Eutracia because he can go through the portal with his army.
4. He's going to take Sister as his queen.
Triscuit lets him talk the entire time. Only when Kludge challenges him does he attack.
They fight. Triscuit starts to lose badly. Then he remembers Fredrick's Oh LOOK BEHIND YOU trick. One of the oldest tricks in the book. Sludge falls for it. Someone that stupid deserves to die. Triscuit cuts off his head with a, "As you made me do to my father I do to you."
In a STUNNING turn of events all the remaining Minions immediately switch loyalties to Triscuit because he beat Sludge and their custom is that whoever beats the commander becomes their new leader. Because really, no grudges held here or anything like that. Personally I wouldn't want soldiers who could switch loyalties so easily.
Angel dies and Triscuit is sad, but she tells him don't worry you'll find someone who'll love you. He screams.
And then he screamed. Screamed aloud at the true, unrelenting insanity of it all.
It was a blind, overpowering, plaintive scream that seamed to go on and on and live in his heart forever as he sat there uncaringly in the dirt, holding her in his arms. An angry scream that rang out not only for Narrissa but also for his family, for the Directorate of Wizards, and for his countrymen. And for the nations of Eutracia and Parthalon, which had virtually perished at the hands of the Coven and the grotesque, winged monsters that now stood before him, impossibly calling him their lord.
Angel then dissolves and becomes a twinkling of light.
Then Earwig surprises Triscuit with Sister's baby. Apparently, completely unnoticed by anyone, Sister gave birth. In about five minutes. With no screaming. Or noise. Or any indication before hand that she was going into labor. In fact this potentially dramatic happening didn't even happen at all. Here was a chance for Triscuit to try and get his Sister to remember who she is while he helped her give birth. But... instead he was busy screaming.
Earwig tells Triscuit that the baby looks normal, but you never can tell. Because apparently trauma to the mother makes the same trauma to the baby who wasn't born yet and baby won't recognize people she's never met... or something. Earwig is sad about this and cries a single tear. I think that's the last single tear in the book!
Triscuit gets ready to kill his sister and is sad about it. And then Sister blinks. Apparently she hadn't been blinking before then. Or this is an extra special blink. But she blinks, which surprises Triscuit and she blinks again, which surprises him even more. And she recognizes the medallion thing around her neck and Triscuit is all YAY. And she knows his name (which is a stupid thing to be using as a 'she's better thingy' because she knew his name when she was Evil.) Anyway Earwig gives her the baby and she's all "what's this?" Triscuit tells her that the baby is hers and names her after their mother. I'm not really sure that giving a baby to someone who just woke up from a stupor is a good idea.
But what do I know?
Babies make EVERYTHING better!
Earwig convinces Triscuit not to do something horrible to the Minions because they were "only following orders". So Triscuit gives them new orders.
1. Traax is their leader in his absence.
2. The brothels are to be opened and the women treated like equals, and the Minions can take wives and birth and death records need to be kept. (I'm not really sure why that last bit is important)
3. The angels are to be let free and live among them as equals and they can have sex with the Minions.
4. No more random violence against the people. And the succession by death is outlawed.
5. Rebuild the Ghetto of the Shunned.
6. Rebuild the Recluse but erase all signs of the Coven.
They agree to do as he says.
The portal shows up. And FINALLY they get rid of the chain on Dwarf's neck. Earwig, Sister, Glendon and Baby all leave while Triscuit angsts for a bit. And now Triscuit's blood is all shiny and glow in the dark.
No longer red, the prince's blood was a radiant azure that twinkled and sparkled as it dripped from his body. And the wizard instinctively knew that it was due to the fact that the Chosen One had made his first real use of the craft
Earwig's blood doesn't glow in the dark. It moves around on its own. Triscuit's blood on the other hand does. I guess it's just because he's Just That Special.
His blood talks to him. "You have survived, and ascended to manhood... your careless ways are no more. And you have become, truly, the Chose One."
Need I remind you that he's THIRTY and only now he's ascended to MANHOOD! THIRTY! THIRTY THIRTY! Again, final proof that Triscuit was originally supposed to be a lot younger than he is in the original drafts.
He makes a new vow to find out who poured endowed blood into him and why he's become the vessel that "Contains the blood of the fates". (Because he's Just That Special).
Finally, the epilogue.
Azure hands take the baby out of his grave and bring him back to life. They're Mysterious Hands that belong to Mysterious Voices who take the baby up into the sky.
The End.
Give me candy.
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Date: 2008-01-09 08:06 am (UTC)All the Magickal baby stuff is just creepy.
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Date: 2008-01-09 08:09 am (UTC)You've got a lot of courage. I'm pretty sure I couldn't have read that book.
the two having been conceived of separate, and therefore distinct, philosophies.
Shouldn't we call the Department of Redundancy Department?
And then he screamed. Screamed aloud at the true, unrelenting insanity of it all.
It's not Triscuit. It's the reader.
So having a baby healed Sister? What a bunch of misogynistic crap.
No longer red, the prince's blood was a radiant azure that twinkled and sparkled as it dripped from his body.
Oh my God a mutant is gonna take over the world, run, people, run.
...
I think this broke my brain.
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Date: 2008-01-09 08:29 am (UTC)Good lord...That was horrible. Worse than Eragon. At least with Eragon, Pao-Pao built a patchwork of plagiarized ideas from good stories, so at least there was the vague shadow of goodness behind all the gunk. But this? Blearug! D:
Also, Sister giving birth, unnoticed, in five minutes? What the crap? Going off that and Triscuit's unnaturally gestating baby, it's pretty clear Newcomb doesn't know the first thing about how pregnancy and childbirth works. And that he somehow thinks babies make everything better. Which they don't.
Wow.
Um.
*gives more candy*
You are a braver person than I, and I am in awe of your ability to not only read that tripe, but to attempt to make sense of it for the rest of us, so that we don't have to.
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Date: 2008-01-09 09:28 am (UTC)Azure hands. The hands of a Deus ex Machina if ever I saw one.
This is probably wrong of me, but I am so grateful that Angel died. We won't get to hear about the trials and tribulations of Tristan's true love just yet.
And the 'SHUUUUUUN' thing is from Charlie the Unicorn, a youtube video about unicorns! And Candy Mountain. That video is a headtrip, but a good headtrip. Not like Newcomb. More like too much candy.
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Date: 2008-01-09 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-09 11:28 am (UTC)Will you be snarking the sequels?
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Date: 2008-01-09 11:46 am (UTC)What? Babies make everything better!
Could you not spork the sequels? Your brain and mine couldn't handle it...well, maybe just mine...
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Date: 2008-01-09 01:51 pm (UTC)Why do they always have to speak in gibberish?
I couldn't understand it either. I got about two sentences in and then my eyes started to glaze over. Oh well, who really cares? ;)
SHUUUUNED! SHUUUUUUNEED! whenever I see that. I'm not sure where it's from though. SHUUUNNNED!
Charlie the Unicorn rocks my socks. *snickers*
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Date: 2008-01-09 02:09 pm (UTC)Apparently, completely unnoticed by anyone, Sister gave birth. In about five minutes. With no screaming. Or noise.
Of course. Triscuit was too busy screaming his lungs out at the time for Sister to be noticed at all, you know. Plus, didn't you remember? Sister doesn't matter! It's allll about Trissy!
BLINKING OH MY GOD IT'S SUCH A SHOCK A TRUE MIRACLE SHE'S BLINKING GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT SHE BLINKED.
"You have survived, and ascended to manhood..."
Definitely agreed; Triscuit had to have started off as much younger in the original draft. I don't know why Newcomb changed it, because Triscuit doesn't act like he's thirty once throughout the entire book. Is it because he didn't want to have a teenager sleeping around? Does he think that only grown men are allowed to be man-whores?
*Alexander busts up laughing.*
...yyyeah, that's what I thought.
In any case: Yay! It's over!
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Date: 2008-01-09 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-09 04:55 pm (UTC)Azure hands take the baby out of his grave and bring him back to life. They're Mysterious Hands that belong to Mysterious Voices who take the baby up into the sky.
Eeek! The baby was Jesus! I knew it!
I can't believe it's all over! It's been a bumpy [read: insane] ride. So, Kippurbird, you just sporked the 8th Wonder of Literary Hell- what are you gonna do next? XD
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:35 pm (UTC)Two by two, hands of blue... Oh, wait, wrong fictional world.
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:48 pm (UTC)All the Magickal baby stuff is just creepy.
Innit?
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:51 pm (UTC)Shouldn't we call the Department of Redundancy Department?
Yes.
So having a baby healed Sister? What a bunch of misogynistic crap.
Babies make EVERYTHING better.
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:54 pm (UTC)Also, Sister giving birth, unnoticed, in five minutes? What the crap? Going off that and Triscuit's unnaturally gestating baby, it's pretty clear Newcomb doesn't know the first thing about how pregnancy and childbirth works. And that he somehow thinks babies make everything better. Which they don't.
Or less than five minutes. I'm not sure. He never says when she starts labor. But I know it's damn quick. I wonder if he has any kids.
You are a braver person than I, and I am in awe of your ability to not only read that tripe, but to attempt to make sense of it for the rest of us, so that we don't have to.
Brave or crazy.
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:57 pm (UTC)This is probably wrong of me, but I am so grateful that Angel died. We won't get to hear about the trials and tribulations of Tristan's true love just yet.
Seeequal.
And the 'SHUUUUUUN' thing is from Charlie the Unicorn, a youtube video about unicorns! And Candy Mountain. That video is a headtrip, but a good headtrip. Not like Newcomb. More like too much candy.
That's where it's from! I couldn't remember it. Poor Charlie.
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:57 pm (UTC)I think you deserve not only candy, but a vacation.
Planning on it.
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Date: 2008-01-09 06:58 pm (UTC)Dunno yet.
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:03 pm (UTC)Has Newcomb ever heard of post partum depression?
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:11 pm (UTC)Could you not spork the sequels? Your brain and mine couldn't handle it...well, maybe just mine...
If I do spork the sequels it won't be for a while.
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:12 pm (UTC)My brain started to leak out my ear.
Charlie the Unicorn rocks my socks. *snickers*
SHHHUUUUUNNNN!
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:14 pm (UTC)At least that made partial sense and they were supposed to be loyal to the Lord Rahl and even then there were some detractors.
BLINKING OH MY GOD IT'S SUCH A SHOCK A TRUE MIRACLE SHE'S BLINKING GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT SHE BLINKED.
Praise the LORD! SHE BLINKED!
Is it because he didn't want to have a teenager sleeping around? Does he think that only grown men are allowed to be man-whores?
*Alexander busts up laughing.*
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)I imagine so.
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)I'm going to Disneyland!
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Hehe
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Date: 2008-01-09 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-09 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-09 08:53 pm (UTC)Q: Um Side? A bit off topic eh?
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Date: 2008-01-09 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-09 09:11 pm (UTC)Q:... *Goes back to reading Silent Hill reviews*
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Date: 2008-01-09 10:30 pm (UTC)Are there plans for future sporkings, or are you going to take a break to read something that makes sense?
The Angel person deserved to die. Because she was stupid. And she had a variation on the name of one of my characters. The thing with the glowing blood is just weird.
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Date: 2008-01-10 12:40 am (UTC)The Ghetto of the Shunned (SHHHUUUUNNED) was built in the middle of a bowl giving the enemy the high ground.
And when it rains, all the water is going to go into the bowl, flooding them all out.
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Date: 2008-01-10 02:44 am (UTC)Why does Angel die?
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Date: 2008-01-10 03:00 am (UTC)By the way, why did Narissa (I keep thinking of W.I.T.C.H. when I hear that name) die, anyway? Was any reason given, or was it yet another death with no purpose except to give the hero something else to cry about?
Finally, the list of reforms Tristram proposes are quite radical, and appear to be built on modern American views of men and women. Where did he get these ideas? The rest of the book shows gender relations are at approximately the early Bronze Age.
For comparison purposes, in "His Dark Materials", Lyra may be an adventurous and rebellious young girl, but even she doesn't show modern feminist viewpoints, simply because where she comes from, a women's rights view would be giving the women's colleges of Oxford equal footing with the men's, something she actually found absurd! Her meeting with Will and experience with another Oxford may have had some effects on her views, though. Only time (and sequels) will tell.
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:59 am (UTC)Anyway. Stupidest birth ever. Stupidest death-fight ever. Stupidest ending. Also, the blue hands make me think of the Alliance guys from Firefly who have what looks like a blue glowstick that can make blood pour out of people's heads. I hope they're not putting in an appearance.
Brava on completing this one! What next?
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Date: 2008-01-10 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-10 05:49 pm (UTC)Are there plans for future sporkings, or are you going to take a break to read something that makes sense?
There are, but I'm taking a break first.
The Angel person deserved to die. Because she was stupid. And she had a variation on the name of one of my characters. The thing with the glowing blood is just weird.
She was just there for angst purposes.
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Date: 2008-01-10 05:50 pm (UTC)Bah! You just don't see the genius of Newcomb's defensive tactics.
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Date: 2008-01-10 05:51 pm (UTC)Angst.
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Date: 2008-01-10 05:52 pm (UTC)I should do that.
Finally, the list of reforms Tristram proposes are quite radical, and appear to be built on modern American views of men and women. Where did he get these ideas? The rest of the book shows gender relations are at approximately the early Bronze Age.
Was any reason given, or was it yet another death with no purpose except to give the hero something else to cry about?
Angst.
Newcomb. I mean, Triscuit is just way ahead of his time in his thinking never mind the fact that he never treated women as his equals or things like that.
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Date: 2008-01-10 05:54 pm (UTC)Charlie and Candy Mountain. That's where I got it from. SHHHUUUUUUN!
Dunno Yet.
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Date: 2008-01-11 01:22 am (UTC)*gives candy*
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Date: 2008-01-11 04:30 am (UTC)*facepalm* Yes. Because war-torn cultures around the world have sought to build their homes on LOW GROUND for DEFENSE.
But what do I know?
Babies make EVERYTHING better!
Well, of course. Only childless women can be evil. When a woman fulfils her natural role as mother, she can't help but be good!
2. The brothels are to be opened and the women treated like equals What the hell?! This goes against what little logic, twisted and misogynistic granted, was in the book! Women are TEH EBIL, remember? If women are to be treated as equals, in the world of Fifth Sorceress, you'll get lots of evil sorceresses!
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Date: 2008-01-13 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-13 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-13 06:31 am (UTC)Thank you!
And don't try and think about it too much. Your head will explode.
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Date: 2008-01-13 06:42 am (UTC)Didn't you see what Dwarf said? They could see people coming towards them and draw up the city defenses! What else could be needed. (Obviously he never saw Episode Three)
This goes against what little logic, twisted and misogynistic granted, was in the book! Women are TEH EBIL, remember? If women are to be treated as equals, in the world of Fifth Sorceress, you'll get lots of evil sorceresses!
Since when did you think this book would have any consistency.