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English Lit graduate here. I'm glad I found you. ♥

If Hal learns by association couldn't she just try to fly a kite with him to get the wind to start again?

Reaper's Creek is so trainwreckingly bad that it makes - 1. The anime Pupa look like a masterpiece 2. The protagonist of Sword Art Online look extremely well-written in comparison 3. The song "Surrounded By Silence" by Design The Skyline sound like a masterpiece 4. The long-dead youtuber Fred seem tolerable 5. The Indian movie Deshdrohi look like an Oscar-worthy sensation That's how f***ed up this book is 😖😵‍💫

A sugar house is where maple sap is gathered and boiled down into syrup. The group of trees from which the sap is gathered is called a sugar bush, in case that ever comes up. "Sugar bush" is also a terrible pick-up line. Don't ask me how I know.

started laughing at 0:00:35, this is gonna be good

This keeps getting less & less hinged. Admittedly, part of that was the onion boy question in the beginning

this channel is so underrated. i love listening to your videos while working on my art projects

"I love you, because I can see my reflection in your eyes". And they say romance isn't dead.

she top my table till we tabled topping to role play this she playing a role till i table top call her a role playing game the way she tops my table she

Wheatgrass moment‼️

Im so glad this dumpster fire is back in my algorithm, Norman is literally fucking insane haha

Oh gods, the goblin flipping her off when it said "Well now it's two!" just absolutley killed me!🤣

do NOT let norman see this 😭

Tbh, that 45 trillion barrell line sounds badass.

How about Anna Nichole Smith's Skyscraper?

I sat through Krimson Rogue's whole series and I'm surprised none of the comments I've seen bring up autism or neurodivergence. This work and the way Boutin talks about it, also his speaking manner in general, remind me heavily of 2000's era Chris Chan and his Sonichu comic, and to a lesser extent of my own childhood self and the stories and characters I'd create. He really strikes me as a boomer (we know he's in his 70's) who's autistic and was socially ostracised much of his life, never received treatment or direction to self-improve or productively self-actualize, and the book is his attempt to "make real" his inner fantasies and headcanon as he gets older.

i like listening book podcasts while im sewing stuff and yours was a delight to find. i really enjoyed how you were still considering the author's ideas and did not take the easy negative route. can't wait to listen your other episodes

I don’t know what your talking about this is a work of art the second coming of the Bible and Theresa is a goddess among motals

Oh... oh this is DELIGHTFUL Heading back to start episode 1 now, this is going to be so fun

Japanese?!? So, basically the character Samurai from the Super Friends?

J made me laugh out loud several times during this episode.

Moral of the story, limiting the reader forces the reader to think logically. Stories aren’t math problems, there’s no right answer. Let the reader imagine what the scene is while conveying what is necessary <3

This is how all bad Fantasy Novels should be reviewed tbh.

This is the best thing to ever come from light lark. Just…. ‘What if we treated the setting as a rpg’. Edit: also gotta love the duct tape on the microphone

Oh, the next couple of books will bring in Evolution, the root of all evil.

Since I grew up under Young Earth Creationism, evangelicalism/fundamentalism, and purity culture, I could fill up another hour with things to say about this book. But y'all covered most of it in your discussion. For me, the biggest thing is how such a strict adherence to "the Truth" (in any ideology) squashes creativity. Imagination is not encouraged in these circles. As to the discomfort in the scenes between Noah and his wife, I believe some of that stems from the fact that the authors were very uncomfortable writing a romance. After all, romance almost always involves sex. What if if kids read about two people referencing sex? Then these kids would start to think about it, inflaming their imaginations, and that's a very heavy transgression to have on one's conscience! The only good way to bring up sex is to link it with motherhood. As to why they wrote this book -- partly because evangelical/fundy people crave fantasy and escapism, but most of it isn't allowable under their belief system. This book feeds that need. (So does Amish romance, but that's a different subject.)

This reminds me of that famous quote, “everything in the world is about Sonic the hedgehog, except Sonic the hedgehog, which is about sex” ETA also I can’t believe you didn’t mention Barmit’s Va at 1:11:00. Amazing, a literary masterpiece, 10/10 no notes

This series continues to be the BEST kind of chaos, we love it

Building on the “weird girls playing pretend” theory, I feel like it also reads like a group of 12 year olds who discovered d&d but aren’t 100% sure how to run a campaign. It also reminds me in the best possible way of the book my two best friends and I tried to cowrite in middle school (it was called Monsters, Men, and Masquerades. yes, we were all very active on wattpad, why do you ask?) and that makes me kind of want to type it up and send it to yall. It’s not very good but it’s so sincere that it’s kind of endearing, looking back Edit: also I wanted to add that I really appreciate the way y’all framed this as a fun, cathartic writing exercise. I feel like that’s a pretty common experience. There are days where I find myself unable to write anything (fiction, schoolwork, nothing) until I spend an hour writing up my latest shitty self indulgent fanfiction idea, and while I save all of those things and kind of cherish them even though they often make me cringe, I would simply have to fake my death and move to a shack in the woods if anyone else ever saw them. I think it’s important to recognize that not everything you write has to be a masterpiece, and writing bad things can be fun or emotionally meaningful or even valuable experience for developing skills, but also it shouldn’t be published because it doesn’t mean the same thing to a reader as it does to the author

drawing fan art of andrew and jay (the other one) kissing if anyone’s interested

Honestly, Jordan Peterson sounds like a slightly nasal Mickey Mouse to me, so that was actually pretty accurate in my opinion. Also. Wait a second. These episodes are technically also a part of the SBU. Does that mean that there could be questions about the Lightlark TTRPG in the bowl? Next episode: Lightlark Jammin' in Ja-Wild Isle?

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First 🎉

The revamp of the game mechanics is almost like the revamp of the Lightlark world mechanics in Nightbane

I gave the religion thing a thought. what if all the girls are decendats from Teran settlers? Would that work?

@43:10 I don't think the thread would have been EXACTLY the same if Harper Lee were pushing To Kill a Mockingbird like Norman. Some members would actually take a look at the book itself and may become her defenders if they found the writing worthwhile. No one did this for Empress Theresa.

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We have summer when the earths rotation brings our hemisphere into a angle where more sunlight hits it. The eternal summer thing only works if all the surface is on the same plane, ie a FLAT EARTH.

"Zahn Pasta" Out of the entire review, that joke is what stuck with me. I don't know how many actually noticed it, but I did, and I don't know why it was so funny, but I literally folded over from laughter. I also saw a LOT of paralells with a WIP I have, and let me notice a bunch of things that are blantantly bad in it. Probably going to keep those anyway, but at least I'll do it on purpose now.

Big Jake Rivers (who is big) is two inches taller than Hawthorne at 6' 5", and 35 pounds heavier at 250. Knowing that does not fill me with pride.

I do not enjoy poetry in general. But listening to you explain poetry like prose writing (which I understand and love) was really intriguing. And Butthole, Butthole, Butthole amply illustrated your points. I really did see things in a new way, about something that we're "not supposed to talk about." What an interesting and courageous poem. Thanks! (Oh, and Peterson's book turns my stomach so I don't have much to say about that.)

Bear + deer (antlers) = Beer? I’d take the Beer any day lol 😂

Your thoughts on how the collaboration worked out are very interesting. I definitely guessed something closer to what Jay proposed, but I’d love to hear these two authors chat about the process for this book.

The art style is so cute

Haha! I needed that laugh!😆I loved the pokémon montage!

Honestly? I kinda wanna write a high fantasy story now, with the twist being that ever so often it gets interrupted by two girls from the modern world discussing whether this plot point would make sense or not. I think that'd be really funny 😂

I mean that's certainly one thing to learn from Empress Theresa 😅

Interestingly in the geneology of the bible Noahs wife is a descendent of Cain.

I just bought Quicksilver to maybe critique................. Wish me luck ..... It's 622 pages

You're "sleepover story time" analogy is a perfect encapsulation of a bigger problem in YA/romantasy: a disquieting dissonance between the declared ages of the characters and the actual ages they read as. Snark is supposed to indicate cleverness, but reads like petulance; propensity for violence is supposed to demonstrated ruthlessness, but reads like the prolonged temper tantrum of a rampaging toddler; sexual attraction/romance that's supposed to be electrifying and fraught with will-they-won't-they tension reads like a grade 8 game of spin-the-bottle; complex plans and political manoeuvring that are supposed to stun readers with their sophistication are written, one letter per page, in crayon; character dynamics that are supposed to leave us believing in their deep friendships or rivalries only exist as proof that authors eating glue won't make things stick. "But, they're teenagers!", you say. To which I say: "Then they should be written as teens, not pre-teens." Or, if you want to write that (im)maturity level, don't send them romping around your galaxy-of-hats slaughtering people for sh*ts and giggles. Same goes for "new adult". More often than not, twenty-somethings read like sixteen or seventeen while boning so hard they're breaking furniture. What's more disturbing is that the average age of YA readers seems to FAR outstrip its intended audience. YA readers are mid-twenties and up these days. The Peter Pan Syndrome is real, and it's creepy; like "R. Kelly hanging out at the McDonald's next to the high school" creepy. It makes the hyper-immaturity of the characters even more unsettling, especially with the demand for "spice" on the rise. That the majority of authors and consumers of such are women ... well there's a lot to unpack. All I can say, in short, is that we deserve better. I'm sure the authors were having fun at some points, and that's fine. An 8 year old can have fun making a mud pie; doesn't mean I want a slice. The issue is that they slapped a price tag on it and took people's money. That's where the fun stops. That's when having expectations of quality aren't just fair, but fundamental. That the book was released as is, IS the fault of the publisher, full stop, but the stunning lack of self-awareness on display by the authors is obnoxious. I have zero sympathy for them, their ilk (Astor, Yarros, Maas, Armentrout, etc.) and the drubbing such books get. Genre fiction readers take the things they love seriously, quite possibly because Sci-fi/fantasy was treated as something entirely un-serious for so long, so when YA drags it back into vapid, denigrating, low-effort slop territory, I'd say the backlash is earned. The marketing-squee of BookTok doesn't help, either. At this point, I categorically refuse to read BookTok, sorry, **TropeTok** recs because the odds of getting more of the "Lightlark fan club" are just too high and life is too short.