Worse yet for me is his stubborn stance on the novels being finished if he dies before ADOS comes out. he has elio and linda, a couple he's had help with in editting world details for a decade, that know the entire end game more or less. but said that if he dies he won't allow anyone else to make the ending public or finish his novels (as wheel of time needed to be finished), so if he dies it all ends a mystery. worse yet a bastardized mystery given that we have an alternate ending of sorts with the show.

He won't allow it to be finished? The stakes are hella high then. WoT that takes me back. How to make "strong" female characters that are almost all insufferable. Being powerful does not make a character interesting nor complex. I get it that back then just having relevant female characters in fantasy was a plus but god damn did the whole thing not age well in that respect. I seem to recall him saying that his wife OK'd his female characters. Lady I got some words for you... One of the reasons why reading older fantasy is not something I do a lot noawadays. There's just so much lacking

agreed on all counts. female fantasy characters from 80s or 90s are cringey as all hell.

pick up the first law series if you're looking for a poor man's version of ASOIAF, not as compelling but a good read that rewards a re-read or two.

pick up the Mazalan series if you want really well written female perspectives, imo. about a clean 50-50 mix in male-female povs all written well.

I've read a lot more fantasy novels then I probably shoudl've even the bad ones so of course I've already read those. Even pulled out the gems from female authors and by that I don't mean fantasy made by women but rather fantasy made by women FOR women. Which is not remotely the same thing. There's a difference between stuff like Robin Hobb or to a lesser extent Trudi Canavan and what I subjected myself to in my quest of fantasy readings.


Although I must admit I haven't checked for any series in the last 4-5 years so I don't know if there's any new hotness goiing around. All older stuff or ongoing series like Stormlight Archive by Brendan Sanderson. Coincidentally, the man is not really great with female charcacters and especially not romance. I can see that he didn't get his wife by any wooing skills of his own because jfc man, stop trying to write "romantic" scenes.

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Kavanaugh's calendar shows that he used a calendar to keep track of events.

Powerful report.

some of the romantic scenes in fantasy are so cringey it's unreadable, for sure. I prefer a book's worth of sexual tension and then the instant magnetic connection. such as Ron and Hermione dancing around it for 3-4 books and then Ron's call to save the house elves being too much and hermione just going at him. Or Logen and Ferro from first law being stuck and presumably going to die so they go at it, which then leads to a complicated relationship when they survive. realistic type stuff in or out of a fantasy world. not this "oh i saved you so now you must love me" dragonslayer stuff.

first law universe, if you havent touched it in a long time, have a lot of supplementary semi-stand alone novels added. 3-4 last i checked, and abercrombie has a second trilogy in the works that includes some same characters as the first 3 and some new. Logen king of the northmen will be the thing to watch for me! although a novella on that badass sorceress (caulrib or some such) would be awesome too. the far north frozen areas would be a cool setting.

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typical lefties. picking on a proud boy and none can throw hands.

https://dps.alaska.gov/dailydispatch/Home/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK18070648



Another episode of the glorious Palin Family saga

Just a good old fashioned family value conservative pushing for a more wholesome America with an unwed/divorced teen-turned-20something daughter at home with a couple kids from a couple different guys and a son that beats his own family and girlfriends

those darn gays and democrats though

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dunkin-donuts-employee-fired-pouring-water-sleeping-homeless-man-105848762.html

black man violently attacks poor defenseless white man. thankfully managment sent the deranged employee packing. From Dunkin Donuts to Dunkin balls at the daily unemployed pickup game.

honestly if he stood up and was man, turned around and swung on dude, i'd feel different (still want the employee fired, but...). Instead he stands up, and u can see the dehumanized thoughts running through his head. Knowing he has to head back out soaked with a phone that might not work anymore, might be the only thing of value the dude's got.