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alright forget tes vi. there's a new elder scrolls game better than anything todd can cook up

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This might be my favorite Tumblr ad to date

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is anybody going to talk about how noelle’s mom is hellish combination of all the betas kids guardians

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People will gag at the idea of eating bugs but then be like 'oh boy can't wait for some lobster and shrimp!' Baby that's morrowind food we're eating.

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I love how often people on this site call random things which they disagree with but don't have any actual argument against either puritan or catholic, regardless of the subject in question's actual relevance to either puritanism or catholicism. it's like 17th century england in here

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Update: guys Venus sucks. I'm living in a studio on a cloud city and people keep voting against making the surface habitable because it'll crash their property values. Like yeah buddy I sure hope it does

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On This Day In Homestuck:

July 9th, 2010

Vriska is introduced.

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dess after not surviving asgore’s truck or something

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Massive ancient marine reptiles known as salt water crocodiles

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Yeah I'm into phrenology but I don't like, really believe in it. it's just for fun. could you tell me the dimensions of your brow? oh that makes so much sense you can be really aggressive haha. wow your nostrils are really wide too are you capable of empathy? Idk I just don't want to date anyone with your head shape it gives me the ick

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Mairon to Celebrimbor : "The safeword is the location of the three"

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As far as old-timey fantasy goes, people are sleeping on the Atlan series by Jane Gaskell ngl

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This shit isn't funny dog my centaur uncle lost his legs in the orc wars when stepped on four landmines at once

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The Duel (Dashcon 2, 2025)

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SPELLBOUND

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God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft

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Whats your favorite pre tolkien fantasy work (pulps or novels) ?

hmm, that's a tough one

Of all the ones I read, I think Gormenghast might be the best overall. I listened to the Titus Groan and Gormenghast audiobooks on Libby; each one is about 20 hours long, and I got through each one in a week. However, I do feel like using the "fantasy" label for it is a bit misleading. "Gothic" or "Kafkaesque" sets expectations better. Even "magical realism" would be a bit of stretch.

The Broken Sword is also a really solid. It's probably the book that does the best job at imitating an epic, archaic style while still being fast-paced and easy to follow by modern tastes.

I found E.R. Eddison's whole legendarium to be a real slog back when I read through, but it's probably the one that I think about the most often. Everything about it's just so fascinating. I really ought to get around to re-reading it. Or at least, I really ought to re-read The Worm Ouroboros. The Zimiamvia Trilogy can wait a bit longer...