I find your bafflement baffling!

Quote from: tleilaxu on August 27, 2017, 07:18:02 pm

Grimdark seems to have some negative connotations for Bakker.

As it should, seems to be a clumsy construct of having to categorize everything. I guess 2 words is too much ( i.e. Fantasy Horror ), so someone had to make a word up, thinking it was cool but quite the opposite, Grimdark is nerdy uncool ( the word, that is - not the works "falling into" this made up genre ).

I took "Grimdark" as a story where the protagonist/hero is evil.

So it appears, Beyond Redemption by Michael R Fletcher, beat it out. Not that I give a shit that anything did, but anyone know this book? Any good?

I always thought it was taken (sarcastically) from 40k... "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war".

Though Games Workshop is far from what I would consider to be grimdark.

Malowebi's head is still just hanging on Salt-Kellhus in the Golden Room?

Also, I think it's probably going to be a pretty interesting juxtaposition going forward regarding the Mutilated, especially, as the reader knows about them but the characters do not...

On a tangent... I hate it in fiction (books or films) when the reader knows more than the characters. I spend the entire time waiting for them to catch up.

I think the main reason the second half of the Wheel of Time fell away in dramatic tension was primarily a result of this very problem. 

If they want to have a duck, they have one. If not, they don't.

EDIT: best autocorrect ever.

Just realised there are multiple artwork threads...

Can I make a request? A female skin spy with a dress, wig, and lipstick... Plus ENORMOUS cock.

Asking for a friend.

Personally, I've always considered it to be a combination of :

1. Moral realism
2. Unwillingness to shy away from realistic descriptions of violence
3. An accurate reflection of how the real world would behave

I guess, for me, it means "realistic".

Quote from:  Yellow

Of course they can have both. They'd be pretty fucking terrible at pretending to be women if you could see their massive boners through their silk dresses.

Just ask Xerius about that...

This is proof of nothing other than that Skin Spy had its cock turned to "up".

Why would they all have dicks? That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. The Consult create a species that can recreate the build, face, voice, and demeanour of any person in the world... But all the women ones have dicks. And they went undiscovered for 300 years.

Please. 

Sure, the Consult aren't justified at all. But would I make the same choice in their place? Hell yes. I wouldn't be as rapey, but I'd definitely side with them