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gabrielsantar · 2 months ago

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breathed a slight breath of fresh air at dan abnett's writing because i had missed it after so much of mcneill's, and then immediately The Bullshit Began Again. this better be john warhammer or else writing insufferable male characters is just the thing dan abnett is best at.

#black library liveblog #why is the word caucasian on this one singular page no less than 5 times #what does he _think_ he is doing with the migou thing??#mcneill has funny and interesting ideas but poor execution. dan abnett has good writing ability but comes across so chauvanistic he wont #even call the emperor 'the queen' in regards to a literal bee metaphor. he had to invent the phrase 'the king bee' a phrase so idiotic that #the metaphor instantly falls apart and reveals itself for what it is: that he can't bear to associate the emperor with a 'feminine' identit #(which doesn't even matters. bc theyre bees. theyre bees. we just call bugs queens. it doesn't. it doesnt matter. it doesnt have anything #to do with human concepts of gender whatsoever. because theyre BEES.)#mannnn he sucks.#circa 2009. maybe he gets better. but im so put off of him now.#sorry to spam so much in a row but i was hoping to get push through the short stories to get to a primarch book sometime this century

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