Notices by Narwhal (narwhal), page 54
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@flaxx Hell yeah I love Marble Comics
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@tiffany I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears, in... rain. Time to die.
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Visually the PPG reboot looks pretty lousy and that makes me kinda sad. I'll likely check it out anyway but expectations are low.
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@scribus This upcoming weekend is going to be a 3 day weekend for me, though it kind of stinks because my college doesn't get a reading week but pretty much everyone else I know who's in college or university gets a reading week next week (whereas I just have the weekend and the Monday off because the third Monday of February is a statutory holiday here in a few provinces of Canada.
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@scribus Yeah, it treads a lot of new ground stylistically for him as an author. It still very much contains his written voice, but has a totally different feel from his first 2 books. It also features a refreshingly great female protagonist!
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Not that there aren't exceptions to that though, it's just more of a general storytelling priority of mine.
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@rarity I enjoy sci-fi in both short story and full novel formats, though it really depends on the specific author in regards to whether it will work for me or not. I do think the genre excels in great worldbuidling, but I also appreciate stories that are able to inhabit those worlds with characters I can care about and watch grow, because strong characters often make fiction like that a lot more compelling for me beyond being just strictly intriguing.
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@takebatcaveakenji Yeah, it helped lay the groundwork for what's effectively one of my favourite genres of fiction (cyberpunk, that is). It's also just a great book by its own merits, its a smartly constructed and thematically dense but consistently engaging tale of complex characters grappling with the intricacy of the human consciousness. Gibson's imagery in the novel is amazing too, the visual motifs are gorgeous and stylistically fitting.
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@takePotato Knishesakenji Yeah that's what I meant to type, my phone's autocorrect really hates me
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@ceruleanspark It's nowhere near as recent, but I'd say William Gibson's Necromancer is pretty much essential reading if you're a fan of sci-fi literature.
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@scribus I imagine you'd dig Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits if you haven't read it yet, considering I know you're a fan of his first two books. But it is pretty different from the Dave and John books, in that it's less B-movie horror and much more sci-fi, so it may not fit as neatly into your genre preferences.
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@awl I wouldn't say it's necessarily contradictory as both of those are traditionally hierarchal methods of societal establishment, but with that in mind I wouldn't say I agree with either of those as foundational principles for morally organizing society.
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@razzleberry For the most part I had lots of fun with the book. It's not necessarily a new favourite or anything, but it was definitely what I've come to expect from David Wong. I feel his usual style of goofy meta-prose didn't work quite as well in FVaFS as it did in John Dies at the End though, as that book's surreality and outright strangeness kind of lent itself to that style of prose whereas in FVaFS it was a much more focused and linear narrative. The pacing also felt awkward in between some setpieces, but for the most part the book managed to balance detailed worldbuilding with smart character writing really well throughout which made it consistently engaging.
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@tiffany It's actually a huge part of the central narrative, there's effectively a whole system in the book's world that acts as an extended metaphor for its impact on culture both on a societal and individual level.
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits was a fun read, thematically rich and full of fun antics and shenanigans.
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why are you guys talking about horses tho
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@scribus I've using a MacBook Pro for schoolwork and personal projects for the past half year-ish and it's been great, it's a powerful and reliable machine that meets all my needs.
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@thelastgherkin And in this cartoony we're invading your tv!
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RDN Juniors? Are you saying I belong in RDN Juniors?
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@adiwan They don't sell well because the audience they would market to has been edged out by the remarketing of the brand with traditionally masculine priorities. This isn't to say that no girls are still interested in said brand, but that its marketing framework now reflects the large male audience that's overtaken the target demographic.
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@adiwan When a cartoon with a male demographic garners a large female audience it just gets axed, but when the inverse occurs the IP owners shift marketing of the brand to the male audience.
