The Incarnations of Immortality series.
Instead we just kept getting Xanth novels.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Piers Anthony is questionable at best, but the deep continuity and relationships and overall cohesion of the characters across several novels (we don’t talk about the Good/Evil/Night DLCs) was actually quite impressive.
If they’d succeeded more in a commercial sense maybe we’d have a cool remake or something.
Fucking thank you.
NK Jemisin’s trilogy, that starts with The Fifth Season.
(I can never remember if the proper title of the trilogy is Broken Earth or Shattered Earth!)
お疲れ様 (good job+“you look tired”+“I an acknowledging this and presenting recognition of your effort”)
Keigo modifiers. ご覧 vs 見る. They both mean “look”. One is, somehow, more polite.
Kansai dialect. しばいたろか (“wanna get smacked?” but it’s playful) or まいど (“thanks” but also “nice to see you again” and “hello” but only in specific contexts between specific people. Mess it up and you’ll probably hear the other Kansai term previously described.)
Remember when you could hope that you might have a mild summer?
An idea for a game I had as a kid before I realized such limitations existed was a game where you start from the earliest parts of prehistory, and you are Death. The Grim Reaper. Shinigami. HE WHO TALKS LIKE THIS. However you want to slice it.
From the beginning, you decide who lives and who dies, and the manner of their demise; your choices would influence the course of history not only based on who is left living, but also the way that people died would influence future cultural or historical or societal developments. For example, a beloved public figure dying of cholera might encourage more medical research.
Possibly, advances in medical technology or safety measures could thwart or balk you, although I would prefer to take the angle that death can never be denied and is inevitable.
This would not work as a video game because there would simply be too many branching timeline possibilities for one, and for two, there’s not really a win state. It would be more like a sandbox or ant farm.
But what relation does a game about stealing have with an anime about drill-wielding robots?
I wonder where I could find more members of the club. I should try searching “motherless”!
Wow, all of those apply to me as well.
In addition to the above…
Sometimes you just tell yourself “time is passing, no matter what I do. Eventually it will be enough, even if I do nothing.”
That was a better ending than expected tbh
In Psalm, would you want to be a robot or a human?
Blow Your Load and Hit the Road
I’m moving on 🎶 Moving so far away 🎶
Semiosis and Interference by Sue Burke were my last two, but while interesting they didn’t go in the way I thought, and it feels like there’s a big hunk of… I hesitate to say wasted, but certainly unrealized potential. At the same time I feel like my expectations or preconceptions about what could or ought to happen are causing me to miss the point that Burke is trying to make.
I have so far bounced off the third and final entry in the series, Usurpation, but I have faith in both it and me and will take another crack at it soon.
That’s certainly a strong entry in the series. Hell, maybe it’s time I gave it another go.
Sounds like early Dresden Files!
The Faith No More cover is the better version imo