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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   2814 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 1, 2023

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Lately I've been reading Conan. Nearly finished actually, only have 50 pages left of Hour of the Dragon and then A Witch Shall be Born. Sometimes whiskey helps get my mind to stop being so dopamine fucked and slow the fuck down and focus on words on a page.

When the weather is nicer. I sit on the porch with a cigar and my ipad, and watch terrible anime like Baki or Bastard! Just the dumbest, most testosterone power fantasy shit I can find. Fucking love it. Iron Blooded Orphans wasn't bad either.

Been reading some Howard lately -- there's plenty more in the same vein when you run out of Conan -- but Howard's other axe-in-your-face protagonists just aren't the same. The introspective Kull, the melancholy Bran mak Morn, the borderline-unhinged Solomon Kane, the various bitter and vengeful Gaels from Black Turlogh to Donald MacDeesa, they all lack Conan's occasional gigachad jollity. They're all drawn from the same head-breaking tiger-man archetype, but the others just aren't having fun with it.

Have you watched Tartakovsky's Primal? The main characters' names are taken from the title of a Howard story, and it's turned up to 11 to the point that our hero doesn't interrupt his primitive ass-kicking with a single spoken word until the end of the first season.

You know, I plan to come back around to Solomon Kane at some point, but I want to get through Blaine Lee Pardoe's Land & Sea some. And I also got Vermis II in the mail recently, and am dying to dig into it. Vermis I was fucking amazing and lit my imagination on fire.

I read all the Conans a few years ago. Surprisingly good. The only real downside, to me, were Conan's absolutely inevitable victories, but otherwise it was quite enjoyable.

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