Whats making you happy right now

#11552 King Lear

Une belle quelquesomething sans merci

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Posted 22 December 2014 - 12:19 PM

Illuyankas, on 19 December 2014 - 01:32 AM, said:

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Dear Mr. Erikson,

Yo, you're a great writer. However, this whole bullshit that whenever one of your books begin, the reader doesn't know what the fuck is going on, yeah....that's getting old. Book 5--the start is possibly the most boring shit I've ever tried to get through. You stretch the patience of the reader through your own creative hubris.

There's a reason why this goes against all known, literary rules. This is because it's objectively poor writing. You balance it out with phenomenal writing at the end, but I can't help but wonder how good you *could* be if your books were entertaining *all* the way through.

Sincerely,

A fellow professional writer.

The Malazan facebook group is a font of hilarity.

It's even better when you find Sincerely, A fellow professional writer's actual writing

(Don't judge me, it's compulsive.)

*Men's Frights Activist*

#11553 Solidsnape

Emperor

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Location:England.
Interests:Playing Guitar/Ukulele/Banjolele, reading, music, Wing Chun Kuen, my 2 boys and my wonderful GF.
From good 'ol Newcastle upon Tyne.

Posted 23 December 2014 - 07:36 PM

Alastair Reynolds representing Newcastle on The Christmas special of University Challenge.
Howay the lads!

"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#11554 Nicodimas

Soletaken

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 12:04 AM

Guy who owed me $450, who I thought was never ever going to pay me back..

Did!

totally wild.

-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

#11555 Slow Ben

Ranger

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Location:Southern Illinois

Posted 24 December 2014 - 04:59 AM

Visiting my in laws in Washington state. The amount of quality beer is always staggering.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#11556 Nicodimas

Soletaken

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 05:49 AM

Slow Ben, on 24 December 2014 - 04:59 AM, said:

Visiting my in laws in Washington state. The amount of quality beer is always staggering.

As you get closer to Arizona..things just get better.

-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

#11557 Mezla PigDog

Malazan Yo Yo Champion 2009

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Posted 24 December 2014 - 10:02 AM

One day to go for the second of the two annual "receive presents days" and there is a pile of giant gifts under the tree with my name on! I haven't had large gifts since I was a kid. My hopes are sky high! Thanks Jeebus.

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#11558 worry

Master of the Deck

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Location:the buried west

Posted 24 December 2014 - 03:43 PM

It's a pony!

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#11559 Traveller

exile

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Location:GSV Nothing To See Here

Posted 24 December 2014 - 07:24 PM

Managed to get home just in time to get the kids out to see the space station/'santa' flying over.

Awesome clear night, it was much brighter than I thought it would be. My daughter said that he must be heading off to Australia to start there.. quite a reasonable assumption for a four year old!

So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.

#11560 Tiste Simeon

Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon

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Location:T'North

Posted 24 December 2014 - 11:08 PM

Happy Christmas all. Hope you have a spiffy day tomorrow.

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#11561 Andorion

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Interests:All things Malazan, sundry sci-fi and fantasy, history, Iron Maiden

Posted 25 December 2014 - 04:16 AM

Merry Christmas! Nice cold crispy Christmas morning here

#11562 Nicodimas

Soletaken

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 06:22 AM

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hope you all have a great one with family and loved ones.

-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

#11563 Andorion

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Posted 25 December 2014 - 05:20 PM

So this was overall a great Christmas day. Spent it at home with family, and tons and tons of home cooking. Feeling pleasantly full.

#11564 Tsundoku

A what?

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Posted 26 December 2014 - 02:11 AM

Received The World of Ice and Fire from Snotface for Xmas. So I'm sitting reading it, while one of the maps from The Lands of Ice and Fire (the Known World) is at my feet. It certainly helps.

On the TV is the Boxing Day Test match (cricket) and there's a Hoegaarden beer in a stubby cooler on the coffee table next to me. Life is good.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker

#11565 TheRetiredBridgeburner

House Knight

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Posted 26 December 2014 - 06:17 AM

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!

I also received The World of Ice and Fire, along with Willful Child :-)

- Wyrd bið ful aræd -

#11566 Tsundoku

A what?

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Posted 27 December 2014 - 03:57 AM

Anyone who knows me knows I am not exactly a big fan of the whole Christmas schtick, but this video is just about the coolest Christmas-related thing I have ever seen:

Watch from about 1:45.

http://www.news.com....o-1227167675203

#11567 Gust Hubb

Necromancer Extraordinaire

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Interests:Glass slides with entrapped bits of colored tissue
Around, just quiet....er

Posted 28 December 2014 - 01:45 AM

My kid is adorable. And Civilization Beyond Earth. In that order, currently.

"You don't clean u other peoples messes.... You roll in them like a dog on leftover smoked whitefish torn out f the trash by raccoons after Sunday brunch on a hot day."
~Abyss

#11568 Gnaw

Recovering eating disordered addict of HHM

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 07:56 PM

I love my new 25" 2560x1080 monitor. It automagically will divide the screen into 2,3, or 4 zones and resizes each windows to match the zone they're moved in to.

Spoiler

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

#11569 Puck

Mausetöter

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Posted 29 December 2014 - 10:33 PM

My best friend just bought the malazan books from GotM through to tBH. HELL YES! Though she'll only get to reading them in a few months, but.. oh, this makes me so happy! Also, a perfect opportunity shall arise for a reread alongside her first malazan experience

Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]