• novibe@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Frank Herbert is what happens when a genius writer takes too much shrooms while studying dunes. Like that is literally what happened.

      • D3FNC [any]
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        9 months ago

        I also like to kidnap my entire family in my used hearse then do a shitload of amphetamines in the Mexican desert immediately after completing a formal education in the newly developed science of ecology that ended with learning about the inevitability of man made climate change continuing to accelerate the greatest and final planetary mass extinction event, the holocene era

        Yeah I feel that shit in my soul bro, for sure

        Whomst amongst us hasn't done a Herbert once or twice

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Then you have the author of Twilight that started world building after the first book, created a number of characters with interesting background lore, then proceeded to do nothing with any of it.

      • D3FNC [any]
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        9 months ago

        Yet, somehow this would still probably be the most respectful treatment of any of the first nations by any Mormon, ever

        The history of the Mormon church is like oops hahaha all war crimes I'm so silly

    • D3FNC [any]
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      9 months ago

      It's really hard to criticize anything about Twilight after you learn it was literally self published fan fiction written by a Mormon house wife with ten kids that has never once in her life even seen a healthy or fulfilling relationship from a distance, or had a meal containing any form of seasoning, and will almost certainly die without having ever experienced even an aliquot of sexual pleasure

  • shaman1093@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Steven Erikson: here's a world that contains millennia of anthropologically grounded cultures that got spiced up by some interdimensional elves, orcs, gods & dragons that me and my buddy use to play D&D in, have fun reading through the eyes of over 1000 characters lol

  • D3FNC [any]
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    9 months ago

    I'm struggling to think of anything lore wise in gambo thrones that wasn't a real event in English history, or at the very least a popular belief / self worshipping mythology

    Even as a high schooler I remember thinking a few hundred pages in, wait. Wait.. is this the war of the fucking roses

    I can never decide which is funnier to me, GRRM being a Disney screenwriter in their children's animation division or the fact he abandoned the song of ice and fire entirely and now exclusively adds to an absolute trash universe he created about removed racist cajun vampires with alcoholism and gambling that makes Twilight look like Pride and Prejudice

  • Gorillatactics [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    Jorge Luis Borges: why write the book when you can write a review of the book like it exists already.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      She was one of the first AMAs I remember being there for on reddit. It was before people had PR handlers doing the AMAs for them (maybe 2011?), and it was so cool to hear her talk about the books.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Writing world building is fun!

    Writing actual fiction is boring and dull because if it's not a monomyth your editor is gonna removed about it

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      That's mostly true, though sometimes a writer can make a killing writing contrarian edgy slop where anyone approaching a monomyth is brutally killed off as a recurring gimmick until not much really happens ultimately except a cycle of sensationalistic violent and/or sexually violent gotcha moments until it sputters out before its undelivered last book. brrrrrrrrrrrr