Recent content by AKuz

You say that like they wouldn't realistically just replace those handwaves with More Fucking Brutality. Reactionaries like that would rather fucking die than allow that to happen. We've seen it before and we'll see it again.

I mean this is whistling past the elephant in the room of "the Drakan circumstances shouldn't have created anything except a deeply misogynist, terrifying heteronormative, and cripplingly heirarchial culture where even the white women are seen as little better than broodmares and thus they're...

Shrimply invent the reverse demographic transition

Building off my earlier comments I think it would be interesting to have Merlin be forced to have to deploy drones only during like... storms and heavily clouded times to obscure the launches from the ground and space. Or to rely on drones that can be disguised as animals. Or finding other ways...

you take longer to get to the introduction, giving you more time to get to know the characters and the setting by having them do Tutorial Shit >: V if, perhaps, Merlin was less all knowing, then he'd have to go out and investigate shit and get identified as a wandering sword saint and perhaps...

I've no problems resusing old concepts in your writing. But Doing the same thing but worse and thirty times longer isn't it. The second or third book in this series is about where I stopped following Weber altogether because it's just... the point where everything descends into interminable...

Whenever someone says I've inspired them it feels like I've been hit with a 2x4, but in like, a good way? [x] GoC: Galaxy of Conquest

Ah Someone just discovered Weberfoam

what are you? an anarchist?

That's cool as heck Good job

I mean, I fell off reading new stuff but one of my perpetual quest ideas is "Havenite Honor Harrington AU". Start at "Valor Villenueve against Basilisk Sation" or whatever. (The only quest my lesbian ass would ever run with a male love interest because I love Tom Theisman just that much >: V)...

you know, unrelated to any ongoing discussion: It's interesting that this was one of the *very first* threads on SV and ELEVEN YEARS LATER we keep coming back to it and keeping on topic. I find it to be charming

...FucK

Name: Maerwynn, Fugitive Matriarch Appearance: At nearly two and a half meters sporting a wiry and muscled build, Maerwynn is an impressive specimen of a Numen woman, though her sharp face and focused features give her an outright Lupine cast. Her black hair is cut short and her skin is darkly...

That's more an artifact of capitalism than industry itself >: V The Luddites didn't smash up shit because "technology bad" but because the value produced by industry wasn't being returned to them.