Kingfisher & Wombat

tkingfisher.com

16 October 2026 00:33

Before I even started the book, we discussed their spice expectation, and I said “Okay, dick or cock? ‘Cos you gotta pick one and commit.” They selected cock (correctly, I feel, dick always felt too modern even if it isn’t) and we were off to the euphemistic races.

Kingfisher & Wombat

tkingfisher.com

15 October 2026 06:11

In some cases—Sebastian’s, for example—under orders. In other cases, because he’d been so ground down that that’s what he thought he was good at? Because he thought if he didn’t, he’d be compelled to? Because as the required numbers ramped up, he didn’t think he could accomplish it any other way?

Isabel Cooper

isabelcooper.bsky.social

15 October 2026 03:25

Same. The creators and the majority of people who have played the game think it’s fine. Some people are going all Comic Book Guy about the architecture or math or rules; some are going all Snapewives because the interpretation of a character…

David (he/him)

dkbell0.bsky.social

15 October 2026 03:20

It's not that the story was poorly written (it wasn't). It's that they feel entitled to have their specific fan fiction be recognized as official storyline, and when that didn't happen, they got all up in their feels instead of going to therapy about it.

Dan Izzo

izzos.net

14 October 2026 09:47

When you dig down into Tolkien's writing process it becomes pretty clear he was kind of his own beast in terms of how he developed a story and wrote. Which makes sense given his background and that he wasn't really setting out to "write a story" but to more "recover a mythology"