ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

Uhhh SABRIEL. Some cool afterlife stuff I guess but slow paced,
largely due to there being a curse upon the characters such that they
can’t talk about the worldbuilding and also I wish I was kidding

awwwwwww i don’t mind slow paced-ness tbh…….the fanarts and stuff i’ve seen of this looked super cool but also lmao that SURE sounds convenient??

OH OMG I went through my old goodreads account and how could I forget. Wildefire. Where p much being non-white gives you superpowers bc uhh (spins wheel) traditional Gods of uhh (spins again) almost entirely not researched cultures.

bab i should look at your goodreads reviews or smth……

ivanaskye replied to your post “i don’t know whether you have probably ready the rest of the time…”

Also only males can do this one kind of magic and only females can do the other time but THEN the man magic got blocked by DARKNESS so now only women are mages which you’d think would prevent the amazing magical main character from being a dude anyway but. Nope.

buffmaedhros replied to your post “i don’t know whether you have probably ready the rest of the time…”

in
universe a character is like “what the fuck we had magic and they had
physical strength (BLEH im vomiting) but now we don’t even have magic”

ok but not only that (continuing what ivanaskye is saying) but then the guys get magic and are inherently like x10 better at it

hey guys lmao what the fuck

siadea replied to your post “anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty sure that i would…”

Piers Anthony. Xanth. Puns, misogyny, Florida.

I HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN WARNED OFF OF THIS ONE

i don’t know whether you have probably ready the rest of the time quartet in addition to “a wrinkle in time”, but i would guess that you like/would like “a wrinkle in time” and “a wind in the door”, but hate “a swiftly tilting planet” and “many waters”

PSYCH I ACTUALLY REALLY ENJOYED MANY WATERS but more in an “omfg this is so absolutely bonkers and so un-wishy-washily ride-or-die for that concentrated ancient desert bibleosity i’m delighted” way, not in a “this was a really good and well-conceived book yep” way.

ur right that i do love Wrinkle and Wind and totally loathe A Swiftly Tilting Planet (though i liked it when i was young! for some reason).

buffmaedhros replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post: …

I’ve read the first seven books of wheel of time and my strong conclusion is that Robert Jordan has a spanking kink

KSJHCKDSJCDKVHDVJDHVJDVD

plinytheyounger replied to your post:
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oh no i also loved the horse and his boy as well and….oh dear…like
the character dynamics stand up and then you realise Lewis Entire
Interpretive Paradigm………

actualmermaid replied to your post:
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Ahhhhhh I loved The Horse And His Boy SHAME ABOUT THE RACISM HUH CLIVE STAPLES

THE HORSE AND HIS BOY IS LIKE POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE NARNIA >__< aaaaggghhhh i’m such a fucking masochist

plinytheyounger replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post: …

i was so into the forever war as a teen but to be fair possibly because i was really into Gay World as a concept and had experienced v little other representation

hhhhhhh i can imagine…..i was into fucking…..The Horse and His Boy partly for similar reasons……. >_< ~eastern mumbo jumbo shit~ as the ESTABLISHED default culture of the POV characters was so “aaaa!!! ;__; they!!!!” to me it totally overrode that inconvenient little “they’re grossly stereotyped bad guys” detail…

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

Oh I also only got through one volume of Wheel of Time but even that
was enough for me to gag at the intense gender essentialism. Also the
main villain is named Shai’tan which 1) seems at first glance like too
obviously Satan But Fantasy and 2) is almost exactly the name of a major
angel in the RL Yazidi religion which is famously persecuted to the
point of genocide partially bc of having an angel with a name similar to
Satan so mAYBE DONT

hhhhhhhhh W O W ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

actualmermaid replied to your post: actualmermaid replied to your post: …

Apparently it’s inspired by the author’s experience with coming back
from the Vietnam war to find that Everything Has Changed While He Was
Gone, but with aliens. This shit won the Hugo AND the Nebula AND the
Locus

……he…..couldn’t have come up with a better metaphor for that….than…..gay people……..?

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OKAY so Pern at its best is very good. The worldbuilding in
particular is breathtaking and basically inspired every other book where
people ride dragons. Some of them are SO BAD because the author wastes
this beautiful setting ripe for all kinds of different plots and
characters in favor of focusing on the political machinations of like 12
high-ranking characters for 3734728 books. Also they were
“groundbreaking” for the depiction of women in 60s-70s sci-fi and then
just…

…didn’t do any better. Why is there so much rape-but-she-wanted-it?
Why are we supposed to like all these abusive relationships? Why are all
the antagonistic women huge dirty sluts (or fat)? Also, congratulations
on including gay characters, but why are they so deeply stereotyped and
how is this world so deeply heteronormative when like 70% of your
dragonriders are theoretically gay men??? I could go on

OHHHHH HMMMMMMMMMM……having….alarming buffy flashbacks….

thelioninmybed replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post:
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@vardasvapors per the blurb it had the same plot as the novel we
just finished drafting and I wanted to scope out the competition. …I
think we’re good

omfg but……how……ok u know what nevermind i don’t even wanna know

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

All the windwracked stars by Elizabeth Bear has at least 10 major
worldbuilding concepts and 15 plots, none of which really go anywhere or
lead to emotional investment,

THIS KIND OF THING IS SO DISAPPOINTING!!!!!! i hate it. also that’s a cool title to add to the waste.

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

There was that one YA book published by a Mormon press (Deseret
press; I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN) which I don’t want to give any publicity by
mentioning the name of but was basically “in a dystopia where everyone
is trans…. our main character gets lost on an island where True
Christians live and realize how Right it feels to find it wrong to touch
a boy before marriage!!!”

……………….wut

simaethae replied to your post: simaethae replied to your post: …

i feel like i must have come across a good take on a matriarchy….
somewhere…. all that my memory’s giving me tho is sarah rees brennan’s
elves >_>

i apparently have not actually ‘read any fantasy’ in my life. i haven’t heard of like almost any of these.

actualmermaid replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post:
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Also the Temeraire books gave me a weird vibe whenever they talked
about non-European people but I don’t know that I could break down the
weird vibe very well

dhfjddhgd DON’T WORRY I KNOW THAT FEEL >>>___>>> i think in my experience the one i am currently remembering is stuff that might be somewhat along the lines of this post….

actualmermaid replied to your post: simaethae replied to your post: …

Lmao so in The Forever War this dude goes to war against aliens and
comes back to earth to find that gay people are suddenly normal and the
govt encourages people to be gay and he’s like repulsed. It goes
downhill from there

uh…………….why………..was this written…………..

ivanaskye replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post:
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To be fair sour grapes MIGHT not be the right term here but just…..
slow burn setup for this character to a) save a country and b) have a
cute gay relationship but then PSYCHE she’s a traitor (just like the
title says amirite) and the last scene is her impassively watching her
gf slowly die

this sounds like something i would do in like high school if i couldn’t figure out how to finish a creative writing assignment by the deadline

simaethae replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

hm, i try to dump bad books from my memory… The Stars Are Legion,
Kameron Hurley? some *awesome* concepts in there but everyone in it was
just. such a relentlessly shitty person. i feel like you might take that
badly?

yea i can’t do the cast of relentless assholes thing hfshfjdfdf i start having compulsive fantasies about all of them just stumbling into a marx brothers pie-throwing movie ending or smth

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

Oh the House of Night series is a pretty bad YA vampire series but
you’d do better looking up for reviews for why it was bad bc 1) I didn’t
read the whole thing 2) I was apparently so busy rolling my eyes at the
overblown chosen one narrative that I didn’t even notice the
slut-shaming

THERE ARE SO MANY MILLION YA VAMPIRE SERIES WHY DOES THIS DESCRIBE SO MANY BACK COVER BLURBS

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

This is probably contentious but… warrior cats. Continuously
espouses some nebulous concept of “honor” as being more important than
either this weird thing called “personal happiness” or this even weirder
thing called “not killing people all the time”.

shitty hezbollah-like splinter group of overbred-klingon cats…..

simaethae replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post:
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anyway it just pinged my memory because all the characters are
called things like Daemon and Saetan [drags hand slowly down face]

k i feel way better about jk rowling all of a sudden /o

simaethae replied to your post: ivanaskye replied to your post:
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oooh. question for @thelioninmybed as well as andie, have you read
anne bishop because the black jewels trilogy is fucking… something. how
do you make a matriarchy grossly misogynist. how. (ALSO misandrist but…
yeah.)

I am so upset that in 26 years i have yet to come across a book with a good take on a matriarchy!!!!! i have heard about this author but never read her….

actualmermaid replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

OH “The Forever War,” which I have not read, but my gf did and
roasted it constantly for its pervasive misogyny and homophobia

omg…..examples? i have heard vaguely about this book getting roasted but have no memory of what it was roasted for

ivanaskye replied to your post:
anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

Oh fucking. KILN PEOPLE BY DAVID BRIN. The mc gets a literal chance
to be a God in the end but turns it down bc “being able to be humorous
is more important”. Somehow??? I don’t even. Also souls explicitly stop
existing after death but everyone who worries about that in the book is
coded as Foolish.

JHGDJHJH i have seen some Incredibly false dichotomies in religious hot takes in my time, but “god vs funny” has got to take the cake for nuttiest yet

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

The Traitor Baru Cormorant for being nothing but sour grapes and depression

Sour grapes might possibly be the most worthless emotion in existence thx

thelioninmybed replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

antirec for Lover Unbound, the vampire novel I found in an airbnb
last week. It is about a vampire called Vishous who is ‘as smart as a
matched pair of Einsteins’ because he makes video games, and his vampire
friends Phury, Rhage and Zsadist, and it comes with a glossary full of
words like ‘ahvenge’ (it’s…revenge but vampires) and also vampires go
into heat

….holy shit how did you stand to read enough of this book to gather this much info about it

actualmermaid replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

All right so they’re sci-fantasy classics and I love (some of) them,
and idk if you’ve read any, but I feel like your commentary on (some
of) the Dragonriders of Pern books would be RUTHLESS

I have NOT read any of these books but please do enlighten me on their low points

ivanaskye replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

His Dark Materials for obvious reasons but you know that already

SJKFHSKHDFDSJFDK yes i would rather choke on a dick than read any more of phillip pullman than i have already

actualmermaid replied to your post: anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty…

Hmmm the “Temeraire” books (I loved the concept and the first book
but then it seemed like the author was making it up as she went)

I have never heard of these! But apparently dragons?

An anti-rec without dragons in it: “The Sight” which I loved in
middle school and is about wolves, complete with very bad alpha/beta
pack dynamics

I have never heard of this either but i have immediately put together half a book’s worth of plot based on this short blurb

anti-rec me a sci-fi or fantasy book you’re pretty sure that i would hate!! i have a long list of book recs and don’t need any more rn but i’m also, like, a hater, and feel warm and fuzzy when people guess what is the opposite of my jam, whether they get it right or wrong

garden-ghoul
replied to your photo “While I’m still doing these tiny pencil sketches before my tablet gets…”

oh YES they’re so cute, they look like little mushroom gnomes…

MUSHROOM GNOMES

FUQ…..PERFECT…..imagine gil-galad meeting them and going ‘omfg how did that gorgeous couple give birth to a couple of mushroom gnomes’……

aka-bambiii replied to your post “It’s funny how the gross fucking adult-horror trope of ‘creepy…”

So, they DID mess up parts like that (in A Wrinkle in Time). Lol there was a reason why I didn’t trust Disney to adapt it into some big budget movie. That’s not a story anyone should dial down for the audience’s sake.

I’m especially grossed by how it’s usually ADULTS who can’t stand ‘unusual’ and ‘precocious’ kid characters….the reflexive hatred is so palpable and venomous

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “Tagged by: @starspray and @glorfindels-muse for this meme, thank you!!…”

your answer to the first prompt is why i love u

Thanks june i love u too, fellow zodiac hate clubbers unite….