who am i talking to here anyway

[idan_cohen]

Jesus christ but you're all fucking boring. I've been filled with the inexpressibe, unkenable, unspeakable urge to read some very bad Swords & Sorcery; and i'm not talking Michael Moorcock here, i'm not even talking Terry Brooks bad here. I'm talking Dragonlance fanfiction bad. I'm talking not-ready-for-prime-zine caliber, here. Fuck if me I haven'

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[ombriel]

I've been at a con where in the course of three days 10% of the attendees were wringing themselves out into toilets. I managed to avoid this fate but brought it home to my partner.

Well, you asked.

Also, I beg you to resist the s&s fanfic impulse. Resist! At least go for good s&s.

[kaura_nighthawk]

But there's still literary merit in bad s&s fics!

Namely, what not to do, under any cost, even if you have to lob off your own hands to prevent it from occurring.

The same could be said for some John Ringo books, come to think of it.

[idan_cohen]

God, I have a long Baen rant somewhere in me, just waiting for the right moment to burst out of my stomach with some sort of dramatic chord.

[kaura_nighthawk]

I have a Stratocaster clone with a decent, heavily distorted amp. Gimme the word, and you'll have your chord.

[idan_cohen]

T-thank you for sharing?

Does this good s&s have a thieves guild?

[ombriel]

Surely good s&s can surely have a thieves guild! Especially if it's a guild specializing in the thievery of bodily organs, and fruit in markets, and such.