I think a lot of it was the chilling effects that calling out a prominent feminist author as a sexual assaulter could've had on that school of literature right as it was beginning to grow.
I don't think anyone wanted to be the person that caused feminist authors not to get published by blowing the whistle.
In her own daughter's words, "I thought that my mother's fans would be angry with me for saying anything against someone who had championed women's rights and made so many of them feel differently about themselves and their lives. I didn't want to hurt anyone she had helped, so I just kept my mouth shut.".
There was one time in Avalon where one of the spies had been compromised, another was near compromised and was too inexperienced to talk her way out of it, and I, the third spy, was the only one who could still, theoretically, end up on a mission. Merlin had figured me out, but at that point, I had given up and started voting randomly, so the other good guys (who didn't know my usual practices too well) didn't figure me out, and Merlin tried to do a reverse psychology strategy that went over everyone's heads, so we still ended up winning.
In which I was right to get bored of Avalon a hundred pages in and drop the book.
I got confused the first time I read this because I thought you meant avalon the board game
I actually really like Avalon: The Game. I'm not good at it, but I've managed to fool experienced players because my incompetence actually throws them off. And the correct term is 'tabletop game'.
Yeah I guess tabletop is fine as a generic term. But like, strictly speaking it does have a board!
Also your experience with Avalon sounds similar to mine, on my very first time playing I was Percival and successfully convinced the evil team I was just a really bad Merlin. Though I haven't played Avalon or Resistance in ages, I think the group I play games with got bored of them right around the time I started coming regularly.
In which I was right to get bored of Avalon a hundred pages in and drop the book.
I got confused the first time I read this because I thought you meant avalon the board game
I actually really like Avalon: The Game. I'm not good at it, but I've managed to fool experienced players because my incompetence actually throws them off. And the correct term is 'tabletop game'.
Yeah I guess tabletop is fine as a generic term. But like, strictly speaking it does have a board!
Also your experience with Avalon sounds similar to mine, on my very first time playing I was Percival and successfully convinced the evil team I was just a really bad Merlin. Though I haven't played Avalon or Resistance in ages, I think the group I play games with got bored of them right around the time I started coming regularly.
There's usually one game of Avalon/Resistance per week with the group I play with. I've made a name for myself as the chaos player, who'll vote randomly (or in specific patterns, like alternating yes and no), suspect people on odd presumptions and occasionally goofing off on my phone while everyone's debating. It makes it really difficult to be a good guy (since everyone doesn't trust me from the start), but it gives me an edge when I'm a spy since nobody pays enough attention to me to tell when I'm voting randomly or not, so I can approve spy missions and claim that I rolled for it.
I, um, had never heard of the Avalon books or Marion Z. Bradley before now.
I would read Book Thief, but I'd rather not die at this age, my heart can't take it.
Avalon was one of the book club picks in middle school (as was Wicked, now that I think about it). Otherwise, I never would have heard of her either.
And the Book Thief isn't that sad. Well, 80% of it. The other 20% is, like, super sad, and it's not always clustered in one area. And things happen to books in it that would make it Aliroz-unsafe anyways.
I'm also 100% unimpressed by the book version of Wicked, and one day I will be punished for that, but not today.
^ Pfft
1: I feel if you are writing that sort of book, you should write about a world that bears a resemblance to the source material. The Oz of Wicked is a place that merely has talking animals and witches, which is fairly different from the more extremely magical world of the book and movie.
2: About a third of the way through the book, a character is raped by a tiger, and then it cuts away and nothing ever comes of it. If you write a book where a character is raped by a tiger, and you are not a Burroughs or a Ballard, you are not allowed to just have it be a minor occurrence. Your book is now about being raped by a tiger. This is not a thing you throw in as light seasoning
The weird Rifts version of King Arthur, where he's a dude named Arthuu being manipulated by an evil demon named Mryyrlin who is simultaneously his mentor, wife, and the Lady of the Lake in a bizarre Freudian decision they didn't seem to think through well
@Odie: I did not get to that part, and I'm glad I didn't. I did get to go see the musical as part of book club, and that was indeed fun (even if Defying Gravity is bloody overrated).
The Crimson King is my wrestling name for when I go back in time and become a prog rock themed wrestler
YOU'RE IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING NOW, BOY! *suplex*
*shot of me in a crimson robe and crown, with a muscular British man with glasses in clown makeup glaring behind me*
YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA TAKE MY CROWN AT THIS TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP? ME AND MY NEW YELLOW JESTER, BOFFIN THE CLOWN, ARE GONNA TAKE YOU ON A ROUNDABOUT JOURNEY OF PAIN INTO THE HEART OF THE SUNRISE OF SUFFERING! YOU AREN'T PREPARED FOR
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I will also miss Tools if it turns out she's left us.
Keyboard and mouse decided to start dying at the exact same time, so I had to order new ones. Whoop.
Say what you will about Razer's build quality, that Deathadder lasted me through years of abuse hard use.
New mouse is a Mouse of Many Buttons, because 5 button mice are so last decade my hands are small and if Stormblood adds any more keybinds I'm gonna need an entire extra pair otherwise.
In her own daughter's words, "I thought that my mother's fans would be angry with me for saying anything against someone who had championed women's rights and made so many of them feel differently about themselves and their lives. I didn't want to hurt anyone she had helped, so I just kept my mouth shut.".
Yeah, that's... yeah.
I'm still just kind of shocked that nobody had pointed out how at least some of her views really weren't above-board, even within the radical movements of which she was a part. Perhaps people kept quiet about her husband out of sympathy, not knowing her involvement in his publications, but if they were to have known, by the late '90s this really should have been an issue.
...oh, this is Avalon as in The Mists of. I didn't know there were sequels. Nor did I recall the author's name I guess. I never read that book but I used to know someone who really liked it.
someone keeps spamming boring islam on programming irc channels
"sun is not doing allah is doing / to accept Islam say that i bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worshiop except Allah and Muhammad peace be upon him is his slave and messenger"
it's mystifying. there's no links or anything. maybe they're actually trying to proselytize.
someone keeps spamming boring islam on programming irc channels
"sun is not doing allah is doing / to accept Islam say that i bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worshiop except Allah and Muhammad peace be upon him is his slave and messenger"
it's mystifying. there's no links or anything. maybe they're actually trying to proselytize.
someone keeps spamming boring islam on programming irc channels
"sun is not doing allah is doing / to accept Islam say that i bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worshiop except Allah and Muhammad peace be upon him is his slave and messenger"
it's mystifying. there's no links or anything. maybe they're actually trying to proselytize.
A particularly religious markov chain-generator
The AIs are finding God.
When the robots wage war against humanity, it will be a Holy War, not a political revolt.
I saw a boxed copy of Castlevania 64 today... for £25, which feels a little like rubbing salt in someone's wounds and asking them to pay for the privilege.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
In case anyone thought I was exaggerating about how much it's been raining lately, here's a photo of a park bench by a river.
So, went to the chiropractor yesterday and the reason why my back started hurting is the spine was out of place in a few points, so he popped everything back into place. I have a followup on Wednesday, so see if everything is still aligned, as he said I might have minor Scoliosis.
So, went to the chiropractor yesterday and the reason why my back started hurting is the spine was out of place in a few points, so he popped everything back into place. I have a followup on Wednesday, so see if everything is still aligned, as he said I might have minor Scoliosis.
I hope you don't, but I'm glad you're getting everything sorted.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I don't think anyone wanted to be the person that caused feminist authors not to get published by blowing the whistle.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also your experience with Avalon sounds similar to mine, on my very first time playing I was Percival and successfully convinced the evil team I was just a really bad Merlin. Though I haven't played Avalon or Resistance in ages, I think the group I play games with got bored of them right around the time I started coming regularly.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA TAKE MY CROWN AT THIS TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP? ME AND MY NEW YELLOW JESTER, BOFFIN THE CLOWN, ARE GONNA TAKE YOU ON A ROUNDABOUT JOURNEY OF PAIN INTO THE HEART OF THE SUNRISE OF SUFFERING! YOU AREN'T PREPARED FOR
*rips off robe to reveal a ringmaster's outfit*
it's criminal, I tell you
confused also
but mostly bad
I just needed some time to calm down.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Say what you will about Razer's build quality, that Deathadder lasted me through years of abuse hard use.
New mouse is a Mouse of Many Buttons, because 5 button mice are so last decade my hands are small and if Stormblood adds any more keybinds I'm gonna need an entire extra pair otherwise.
I'm still just kind of shocked that nobody had pointed out how at least some of her views really weren't above-board, even within the radical movements of which she was a part. Perhaps people kept quiet about her husband out of sympathy, not knowing her involvement in his publications, but if they were to have known, by the late '90s this really should have been an issue.
"sun is not doing allah is doing / to accept Islam say that i bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worshiop except Allah and Muhammad peace be upon him is his slave and messenger"
it's mystifying. there's no links or anything. maybe they're actually trying to proselytize.
what year is it
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's kinda a miracle that that cable still works.
18 million retweets didn't happen, but he broke Ellen's selfie record with almost 3.5 million. Wendy's is gr9.