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Let's celebrate! I'm back on my main! Thanks, Support! Now....
... let's get this bread.
Pippin tax!
Today's message from Pippin: "Pippin!"
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1) Are you on the run to a safe place and passing through Arizona on your way to safer grounds? My apartment is open to you to crash at, and it is a safe space. Pippin and I will make you a meal and gladly share tea, wine, or mead with you.
2) Hey! Take your meds with a full glass of water, please. Do it for Pippin, or Space Mom, or better yet, do it for yourself.
3) Ĝefeloað wē. We will carry on.
4) all funds from the sales of items at these two links will be sent to support charities aiding to fight for Trans rights in the US (not just T-shirts!)
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74812801-all-conures-are-anarchists
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74811778-whiptail-pride
5) Since multiple people have requested this over the last two weeks or so, my ko-fi is: https://ko-fi.com/codyandpippin
johnblood616
#1 is one of my fav vids
NickRivieraMD
charondaboatman
#8 not floating. Just sayin’.
cattothelibrarian
Welcome back, King!
GratuaCuun
kublaikhan
..the fuck is Hinge?
Ronelyn
#32 Sending you love, dear readers, because you are fucking *worthy* of it. *hugs*
Pengroves
Definitely using ”Hello world I’m your problem today”
Tyrannotron
#12 It bothers me way more than it ought to that this chart inconsistently switches between singular and plural.
MoobyTheCow
I'm glad you're back.
MeatEeyore
Good to see you are well
proxy5000
MrStealYourGiF
#5 hey man, whatever quetzls your coatus.
lilbrother
#8 definitely bring all the groceries inside in one trip.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Please don’t leave Imgur!!!!
courteousjonathan
Welcome back!
JayDeeDubs
Excellent. So tech overlord incompetence rather than malice I take it?
CodyBurkett
It seems so, yes.
byronwilliams4010
#7 Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. Our office has offices in Pago Pago, Bora Bora, New York City, New York, Missouri City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas.
lovehandlesmessiah
#11 didn’t Crowley from Good Omens sleep through the same century. What a shit time to be alive/dead/undead/immortal.
TapiocaMartini
#12 game of thrones
LeftyBigGuns
Thinking about GRR Martin leaving us hanging after all these years. https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlMG4xNjQ1Yjdicno4ZXY5YzQ1ejVxZmNuNmNjYWg0dDIxMm5qY3Y0eiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/4lBRztYRqfjUs/200w.mp4
Nizlee
#12 Douglas Adams is lawful neutral and lawful evil
gnomedeplume
chaotic evil and neutral evil, surely
VaultGirl69
I'm so glad you got your account back! Hope all your content and posts are still there. <3 I also hope They fix the BiNorwayBoy account soon.
byronwilliams4010
#40 In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Shit Get The Flamethrower.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
#6
BenjyX55
Imgur users to the support staff: "Power is not given to you to deny the Return of the Meme."
CrepuscularCryomancer
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cnB6MHdnMmVwajdrZHltcXQ1YXN0a3hnMGpwYjZwbWM3OXZsdjIzOCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/9WXyFIDv2PyBq/200w.webp
CodyBurkett
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1d3B6dDIya2xzbm16d2xyY3k1NHA1YzR5OGM4bnRyMWtoejgxMXlhZyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/TcdpZwYDPlWXC/200w.webp
SalmySwims
Yay! I was extremely saddened and enraged that you got banned. Sadraged, if you will.
Kristoph57
Pippin loudly proclaiming himself is exactly the kind of energy we all should learn from. What incredible self-confidence.
noone1415
#12 Jim Butcher had been progressing along the evil axis for a while now, but I swear to god, if he dies before completing Dresden, I will resurrect him and beat his ass until he finishes...
WorkerLurker
Really putting the romance back into necromancer I see
WoeToHice
Butcher is following in Scott Lynch's footsteps, it seems. But that's still better than Patrick fucking Rothfuss. At least Butcher and Lynch had legit fuckery happening in their lives. Rothfuss has no such excuse.
pokedude3
I just started reading these and I'm loving them so far! I hope he finishes them too!
EntropyReign
IIRC, he was going through a divorce and the peeps he hired to build his house came to a complete stall, and were trying to rake him for more money or somethin'. so he had no output for a bit.
Mostlydeadpool
yeah, as i heard it, it took the wind out of his sales for a bit.
somnif
His beloved dog also died in the midst of all that. BUT Book 18 is drafted and with the editors as we speak!
Mostlydeadpool
Awww. that's always rough. But glad to hear he's on track. The ending twist of battle ground was pretty cool. who would guess that [DATA EXPUNGED] would [DATA EXPUNGED}? I know right?
somnif
His Son has put out a few books recently, and they're kinda fun. A little slapstick-y at times, but an interesting magic system in play.
EverNotRelevant
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be finished with the Dresden Files before he is. Like, after the last one I read I'm not sure I want to go back.
CodyBurkett
Honestly? Same.
WoeToHice
For me it's the last two, since they came out pretty much together and had the same vibe. Reminded me of "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams. The same feeling of "I really don't like writing this anymore", although not to the same degree. I'm waiting to see if the next one is better.
thembitchesbewitches
Give his son a read. James Butcher. He has one trilogy out so far. I might like him more than his father
WoeToHice
Already read it and loved it. I confess I was skeptical when I heard about him, but his work didn't disappoint. Waiting for more, since it's clear he's not done with the series yet.
PorterPickUp
I think he's fallen out of love with the Dresden Files and would rather be writing anything else. The gap between novels just keeps increasing, and hes trying to pitch other series to his publisher. He's also sold the series to Amazon I think. I hope he keeps some creative control or we'll get another Halo/Wheel of Time/Witcher fiasco
GentlemanScientist
I don't think he's ever been very fond of the series.
Before his breakthrough he was attending a creative writing class and his teacher gave him constructive criticism for his style and suggested he tried something different. He took youthful offense to that and decided to write exactly like his teacher told him to, just to show them that they were wrong, and the first Dresden Files was the result of that.
WoeToHice
Oh, man, Wheel of Time. I wish I knew if the ending was Jordan's fault or Sanderson's. Soooo disappointing. Not all 3 books, not even the whole last book, just the way Rand dealt with the Dark One and the Demandred fiasco. Other than that, Sanderson did a decent job, although it was clear he didn't grok some of the characters, especially Matt.
GentlemanScientist
I agree that the ending was a bit underwhelming but my general feeling was that Sanderson wrote the characters like people (albeit in Matt's case, silly people) rather than two adjectives in a coat.
WoeToHice
That's why I think Sanderson mishandled Matt, because Matt was one of the few characters -- perhaps the only one -- that wasn't just two adjectives in a coat. But again, that's not something that bothered me too much. The confrontation with the Dark One was the biggest letdown, and I don't even know if we can blame Sanderson for that, because it might have been something Jordan set in stone before he died.
PorterPickUp
I was generally satisfied with the ending. Though i wish Androl screen time had been given to Logain instead. And yeah Matt never sounded quite right which Sanderson has admitted to.
WoeToHice
Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't read it! Spoilers in the replies.
WoeToHice
What I didn't like about the ending was the whole "if you destroy the Dark One, you destroy free will". Throughout the whole series, Jordan hammered one point over and over and over: the Dark One is not the source of all evil, just the supernatural BBEG. That's why there's a difference between the Children of the Light and the Darkfriends, that's why Rand could neutralize the taint using Shadar Logoth, etc. I could get over everything else, even Demandred, but that was really lame.
bippityboppitybuttsex
#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_MyUGq7pgs
lapus
My urban kids love this!! I only play it when they behave.
EntropyReign
"Matrim Cauthon reuniting with the Band of the Red Hand" someone once said of this clip
flipj
That is BALLER. Thank you for sharing, amazing stuff.
CodyBurkett
I have this song, regularly listen to get myself moving. Occasionally I attempt to dance like the soldiers. While Pippin is on my shoulder.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yeah, I am not a Bollywood fan, but that shit slaps.
flipj
I cannot choose a favourite move, there are so many great ones. I love it.
DorkNaSa
#12 R..A. Salvatore is my favorite Lawful Evil! I quit counting after 50. Drizzt Do'Urden.
Etherealvalentine
Check out The Cleric Quintet
DorkNaSa
Yes! Good read also
Mostlydeadpool
Drizzy. the original edgelord D&D wolverine invincible badass that *everyone* had a version of. "yeah, I'm play a brooding edge dark elf ranger. but it's totally not drizzt." - everybody
DorkNaSa
Don't totally disagree but still my favorite lawful evil. I enjoy fantasy books and the more books in the series the better.
Mostlydeadpool
I was tickled pink the first time I read his books. I was (am) a pretty big D&D nerd and having a novel that had D&D stuff in it gave it a sort of legitimacy that it really needed at the time. Eventually it was normalized but at the time it was like "oooh! I know what that monster is!" and wondering what level drizzt and the matron mothers were was fun. :)
filurilurl
Do they get better later on? Found the first ~10 in storage and been re-reading them recently and found them... not very good. It's a grand epic and all, but most characters are shallow, environments are poorly described and there's frequent bad consistency ("crippling" injuries are instantly forgotten).
He's decent at fight sequences, I'll grant him.
Elaine Cunningham did a much better job at depicting "drow-goes-surface" in Starlight & Shadows, even as she credited Salvatore for his help.
DorkNaSa
Reread entire series in order 2 years ago including companion series(Cleric Quintet, Sellswords and War of the Spider Queen) I really enjoyed in as a whole but there are definitely high an low points. 54 books at my last count although he has published at least 2 I haven't read yet. Yes also enjoyed her series.
Disclaimer: I read 2-3 novels per week on average so in my opinion a book is good if I want to finish reading it and read the next one in the series.
filurilurl
Asking me to re-read books I have not read on top of not actually answering the question of whether they get better seems like extremely strange advice.
If you want people to understand you, please format your comment replies in such a way that a normal human being can read them, not like a stream of consciousness poem from the 1980s.
Sure, I can read fast too if I absolutely want to (3 novels per week is fast now? lol). Not sure what that has to do with anything.
DorkNaSa
Huh, interesting reply. If you dont like the way I choose to convey myself or my advice don't take it.
filurilurl
You responded to a specific query with unusable advice. You're like a person standing next to a petrol pump telling someone they should be running their car with wind power instead.