#Encounters at the End of the Book

[marcogiovenale]

aug 29th, 'encounters at the end of the book': alessandro de francesco and craig dworkin, an online conversation

Alessandro De Francesco and Craig Dworkin in conversation at Encounters at the End of the Book August 29th, 2024 10am MT / 11am GMT-5 / 6pm CET  online, hosted by punctum books Subscribe and join HERE August 29th at 11am CT / 6pm GMT+1 time for an Encounters at the End of the Book event between punctum authors Alessandro De Francesco and Craig Dworkin. Register…

[journey-to-the-attic]

au where this was how ik and diavolo met for the first time when she was like seven

[legobiwan]

So...we're all talking about Bill and the Theraprism, but something tells me Ford would have been no less of a candidate for a similar sentence/regimen.

[chryseis]

Can someone please please please read A Kiss of Iron/A Touch of Poison 😫 I need to talk about themmmm

[joelletwo]

😵😵😵 finished time war all in one 24-hour go need to go to bed dont have words for it today anyways but Damn. continued to enjoy the hell out of it till the end. pretty predictable plot or at least plot that eventually looped back around to address the questions i still had from the premise by the end = still really engaging execution. epub with book club discussion questions at the end of it really funny lol. "discuss how bigtime lesbian in love blue and red were" gist of most of them

[mihai-florescu]

miharu i read through a bit of obligatto and I still don't understand who the tojo-not-kaname guy who jun meets in the prologue (?) is .. do you know

It's their dad! Both kaname and oremeru's:) he's been In A State since the akehoshi papa incident, or i guess i should say his wife's death. Tomaytoes tomahtoes whats extremely traumatizing for one person's family is extremely traumatizing for the other person's family involved in the scandal too

[quatregats]

Reading through the TV Tropes page on Hornblower after going off on my own weird Hornblower ramblings truly like touching grass in the best and worst ways possible

[you-are-my-neverland]

Special feature ✨✨✨

Special Feature: post a fun fact about your story

doing this for godhood of course *sparkles*

a fun fact about godhood is that the very, very basis of the worldbuilding has been around since late 2021. that includes the concept of the glass men and some of the characters, namely naying, xinza (not introduced, but he's a character), and setskya, as well as ashka. of course, they were completely different characters (not even an iota of similarity for the most part, except for some notable points that are spoilers). setskya and naying were NOT related for one.

[brucenorris007]

Who. Taught. Knuckles. Speech????

All y’all going on about Sonic being nonverbal in his early years, KNUCKLES LITERALLY RAISED HIMSELF.

He survived purely on the basis that basically nothing on Angel Island could kill him and his own wits

He was otherwise completely alone with only other nonverbal company for YEARS, probably close to a decade before Sonic and Tails came along

My only working theory is that Eggman used the entirety of his abandoned pursuit of a teaching degree to give the Echidna a grasp of language before Sonic caught up to the crashed Death Egg

This would also explain the unfortunate instances of occasional sexism from Knuckles in some of his earlier iterations; Eggman would tell you nowadays that he was never That Guy, but he absolutely was and still is That Guy

[heartheaded]

{ @faithwounded tracked a quest from here! }

♔ < { ❝Look, I'm not really sure there's much you can do--? My guess is just... magic and technology never mix in pretty much every fictional media out there, so. They're not friends, but knock yourself out.❞

Charlie rubs her wrists and flexes her fingers, having been hit with a weird sort of shock from her spiraling laptop. Not a blue screen, but a purple one, all manner of sigil and singe dancing across the screen. She scoots the laptop over, silently trading it for the bottle. All she'd been doing is trying to help crack the Book of the Damned, but now--

♔ < { ❝... what the hell is going on with my baby? Is this a curse?!❞

[llycaons]

like the wu ming reveal was all very nice but since this all happened nearly a thousand years before the events of books 1, 3, and 5 its like...okay? everything about their relationship in the flashback I either found creepy or didn't care about 😭 ik some fans like the idea of a character so loyal he's willing to destroy a whole country on the word of his god slash crush but umm I do not! also hc disguising himself as the child who was hanging out with xl was so weird why did he do that. age gap creepiness aside it was just stupid and eliminated a chatacter I was really excited about. and it pissed me off when he kicked qyz off the sedan chair like let him sit!!! his single-minded focus on xl got so so old and his insistence on inserting himself everywhere was intrusive and annoying! to me. got real tired of his 'fuck everyone else I got dianxia' mindset. immature. annoying. and unfair

[afklancelot]

thinking about house of leaves and how significant echoes play into the book, not only through being how Will Navidson and Karen first discover the hallway because of their children’s unnatural echoing, but also in how The Navidson Record and Johnny Truant’s story literally echo and tie into each other and cannot be without the other.

Without The Navidson Record’s echo, Johnny’s story and his struggles wouldn’t have been told and would’ve stayed buried under pointless sex and drugs, and without Johnny’s own echo and him discovering it in the first place, The Navidson Record would have wasted away, forgotten along with Zampano. Neither story would have had the same impact on the reader without each other.

And when there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

[eggbagelz]

I love talking abt books i read as a kid bc ppl expect like. Idk harry potter or percy jackson or smth and then im like so basically i became obsessed with this piece of historical fiction when i was eight because i misread "fearless" as "fairies" when i bought it at a flea market and i got too engrossed in the plot to be disappointed

[orcelito]

I'm probably going to stop being as militant about tagging trigun spoilers as the book club progresses. If I post in main tag then Yeah I'll tag spoilers, but otherwise... idk man if u care about trigun spoilers U might just have to block the tag itself hfkshfjd

[murderballadeer]

hot tip if you want to destroy me emotionally through fiction just show me a woman who feels unfulfilled and past her prime, let her have a brief but life changing romantic relationship, and then make her return to her old life

[idratherdreamofjune]

When one came to think of it, even if one's grandmother was an Italian, one doesn't carry daggers about on the off-chance of their being useful.

Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue