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  1. In Topic: Characters from other franchises

    07 February 2025 - 06:48 PM

    View Postworry, on 07 February 2025 - 06:34 PM, said:

    Maybe Stewie and Brian from Family Guy. I can picture them seeing a T'lan Imass walk by and Stewie saying "What the deuce!" while Brian goes hog wild at all the bones (it's funny when he does normal dog stuff).


    If we're going in that direction I want the whole Scooby Doo gang and i specifically want a two minute musical sequence where they run through various doors being chased by Gryllen and/or the Hounds.

    While we're at it, i want the T'lan F'lintstones.

    Also, Shrek. ....dear gods the things I could do with a Malazan/Shrek crossover..... Shrek and Donkey going to Moon's Spawn by accident instead of Fiona's castle, Donkey meeting a Mule of Shadow, Fiona hanging out with Hetan, Puss meeting Murillio, Gingy joining the Seguleh by accident...
  2. In Topic: The Dragon Age series

    07 February 2025 - 04:06 PM

    Ideally this means Patrick Weekes has more time to spend writing fantasy books (that admittedly don't pay nearly as well).
  3. In Topic: Characters from other franchises

    07 February 2025 - 03:58 PM

    View Postsigpig, on 07 February 2025 - 02:51 AM, said:

    As we are all starving for Malazan content, I have been reading some other series (a couple of them mentioned in the "Space Opera" thread), and have found a few characters who would fit in absolutely perfectly in the Malazan world.
    The first is a character from R.M Meluch's series "Tour of the Merrimack", the US Marine named Kerry Blue. Aside from her being a Marine, I feel that she culd have been a character in almost every Marine/Bridgeburner/Bonehunter squad. If you know the series, you know the character. She is extremely "friendly".
    Another one is Thrawn. No need to explain anything, but imagine him as a Hagh Fist on a continent. Grand Admiral, High Fist, poTAYto, poTAHto...
    What other characters can you come up with and why?


    A comment i made about the Merrimack series early on was that it was the closest i had ever read to the Malazan 'eclectic misfit goofball marines who are also stone cold effective fighting machines'.

    Thrawn... Thrawn would be an uber-villain in any setting. He's got that immaterial mix of competence and civility and threat so many of the best villains have (Ozymandias from THE WATCHMEN, Xanatos from GARGOYLES, Magneto from the various XMen formats....). Just imagine him matching strategies against Tavore.

    Lan from WoT would fit right in as a classic master swordsman whose honorable tendencies are challenged by brutal realities. Him and Dassem would have a lot to talk about.

    Garet Jax from SHANNARA, i mean, if ever there was a character who should kick back and have a beer with Kalam after a tough day killing monsters it's him.

    The entire cast of Du Castell's MALEVOLENT SEVEN would be a joy to read in a Malazan setting.
  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    07 February 2025 - 03:28 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 03 February 2025 - 02:59 PM, said:

    ...
    Next up, i have some MIDNIGHT BURGER to catch up on, possibly some SILT VERSES too.


    On the audiodrama front....

    i've said this before, but podcasts are free, and MIDNIGHT BURGER is brilliant and wonderful and you're cheating yourselfveses if you don't give it a chance. The spinoff, WELCOME TO THE HORIZON, has now raised its game to the same level and is carrying on a parallel story that's just as compelling. The complexity they bring to the plot and incredible character arcs are better than many published authors could hope for.

    SILT VERSES remains amazing, i have six eps left, the buildup to the finale has been steady, i am utterly clueless how they're going to finish this and i love it.

    DERELICT popped out two more eps. Each is more or less a 90min James Cameron space action film in audio. The pause they took to upgrade their audio was worthwhile.

    And a new one, OBSERVABLE RADIO. 8eps in, a man in a tower somewhere collects stray broadcasts from parallel Earths, all of which are going through some form of apocalypse or downfall... credit where due, the audio equivalent of 'found footage' is far from new, but they make it work nicely and the realities are well planned... sure 'mysterious annual purge' and 'everyone lives underground' and 'digital afterlife' have been done many times, but they keep them interesting, and i could have listened to an entire series about the worldwide dynastic poisoning war or the truce that led to an annual arena battle of naughty children vs Santa and his elves. They run from suspense to scifi to humour, and writing is solid. The eps are less than 30min, worth a listen.


    Elselistening ONE DAY ALL THIS WILL BE YOURS is a fun time travel short story by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The basic plot of a man at the end of time hunting time travellers isn't wildly original but it's so creatively executed (pun intended) i didn't care.
  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    07 February 2025 - 03:10 PM

    View PostHoosierDaddy, on 07 February 2025 - 02:04 PM, said:

    Just want to give a final verdict on Dungeon Crawler Carl through Book 7.

    It's so good. And I've heard that the audiobooks are even better due to the voice acting.

    The LitRPG nature of the series is always present, but it isn't at the forefront after book 3 or so. It provides the foundation for the story and helps provide plot points to move it forward, but in the end it is a much larger story.

    It reminds me somewhat of Malazan in that the story and plot are one thing, but the theme is the important part.

    It is hilarious though. Great fun. 9 out of 10. Tempted to reread immediately as I know I missed on little details that help make the story even better.

    Can't wait for book 8.


    godsdammit it's converting malazfans now????

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    Tsundoku 

    11 Aug 2019 - 09:32
    Thanks for getting me to 1000. *sniff* lots of pollen around here ...
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    Savannah 

    31 Jan 2019 - 15:19
    Unbound Worlds now redirects to the PRH website, so that Top 100 fantasy link no longer works. Here's a very similar one though: https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-fantasy-series
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    Abyss 

    31 May 2016 - 03:21
    Because some mobile browsers don't resize and it makes the thread unreadable.
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    Terez 

    30 May 2016 - 18:50
    Just out of curiosity, why is it necessary to spoiler big pics on this forum? They go off the page and don't cause the text to unwrap, and they get resized in mobile browsers. I don't mind doing it; just asking.
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    Shinrei 

    27 Dec 2013 - 12:11
    Merry Nonsensicus!
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    Abyss 

    20 Sep 2013 - 13:20
    And yet you cannot tear your eyes away from it.
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    Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy 

    20 Sep 2013 - 12:23
    There is a word to describe that pic, I just found one in the depths of my convulsing brain. It's DISTURBING but in a funny way.
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    Terez 

    10 Apr 2013 - 17:44
    If you're keeping score, I think my conversation (in a WoT thread, I think) with that one noob-troll about how to get banned from Malazan is worth a few. (i.e. "I recommend telling Malaclypse he's a douchebag.")
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    Abyss 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:27
    When the new order rises, lazy posters will be among the first to be purged.
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    Whisperzzzzzzz 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:18
    Good call with the spoilers tags. I didn't want to add them because it makes it extra work to read posts :D
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    Bantato 

    21 Nov 2012 - 17:31
    HELLO
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    Macros 

    15 Nov 2012 - 20:08
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU
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    Abyss 

    14 Jun 2012 - 17:04
    That's CAThulhu.
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    The dancing game 

    14 Jun 2012 - 16:54
    ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!
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    Oddball 

    30 Mar 2012 - 16:46
    Thanks for setting me up in PEN!
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