Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 It stands to reson that they would also celebrate Kellhus' resurrection, given the series' heavy reliance on RL analogies. No mention of that in the novels?Make sense. Currently doing a re-read and I'm goingo keep an eye out for amy "holiday". Now that I think about it when Maithenet announced the purpose of the holy war, I believe it was also on a certain day of importance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakkerfans Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Happy New Year Bakker Fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 LoL, that is certainly a rare Christmas card.Should send that out to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 It needs to be blown up a little so that the speech bubbles don't obscure the picture but agreed, Mith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakkerfans Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Hmm... You think Moe was getting into Kellhus’ semen somehow to make sure that he can only have kids with Esmenet and thus convince Kellhus (or the reader) that there is something special about her?ha! nothing so complicated! i think it is possible that Moe and Kel are having lots of babies and hiding the fact. you know they love to pretend to weakness to fuck with people's expectations. in fact, lots of babies may not be hidden from that many people. Maitha, saying Moe only had 6 kids, may just have been repeating the lie that Moe instructed him to tell. Esmi might be decieved that Kel was only ever breeding with her. Kel could have been breeding for a long time and just pretending to making babies exclusively with Esmi. i don't think that this is happening, but it could be. if there are more babies would i would expect is that Moe had tons of kids and hid the fact and then used his psukhe legion to mess with Kel's breeding habits. for my money, Kel has been deceived his whole life--everything from his Ishual experience to the present being a carefully crafted dream to create the perfect tool for Moe/Whoever else to do that 1 thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 ha! nothing so complicated! i think it is possible that Moe and Kel are having lots of babies and hiding the fact. you know they love to pretend to weakness to fuck with people's expectations. in fact, lots of babies may not be hidden from that many people. Maitha, saying Moe only had 6 kids, may just have been repeating the lie that Moe instructed him to tell. Esmi might be decieved that Kel was only ever breeding with her. Kel could have been breeding for a long time and just pretending to making babies exclusively with Esmi. i don't think that this is happening, but it could be. if there are more babies would i would expect is that Moe had tons of kids and hid the fact and then used his psukhe legion to mess with Kel's breeding habits. for my money, Kel has been deceived his whole life--everything from his Ishual experience to the present being a carefully crafted dream to create the perfect tool for Moe/Whoever else to do that 1 thing....Well, we learn that The Thousandfold Thought is Virmasta, lie becoming life. Moe explains this to Kellhus in their meeting in Kyudea. So, I agree that Kellhus has been living a lie the moment he left Ishual, maybe even before. Virmasta is central to this story that is a definite and I don't know why it isn't discussed more. I think it all relates to the gods and literally everything central to the story. It confuses the shit out of me trying to think about it, tbh.ETA: the Tusk, is Virmasta since the Inchoroi made changes (lies) to it. The tractate, seswatha's dreams?, he'll the list goes on and on. What is the true reality of Earwa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.H. Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just a heads up, we recorded a new tSA Cast last night. We need to edit and compare recordings (to see which sounds best) and then get it uploaded, so stay tuned. It was myself, Bolivar, and Madness on this one (although Garet Jax was lurking too) and we discuss the Slog (Reread) and wrap up tDtCB (and I ceaselessly babble on). Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 viramsata is nifty, especially when considered in conjunction with the other games in the story (benjuka, gandoch). it's a slick little gloss on one version of marxist ideology theory--lies adopted and lived as though true--incorporated into the Real thereby--manifestly actual falseness, even a true Falsity. anyway, my margins have cute little 'b/g/v?' notations every time there's some generalized ludic reference in the RSB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 viramsata is nifty, especially when considered in conjunction with the other games in the story (benjuka, gandoch). it's a slick little gloss on one version of marxist ideology theory--lies adopted and lived as though true--incorporated into the Real thereby--manifestly actual falseness, even a true Falsity. anyway, my margins have cute little 'b/g/v?' notations every time there's some generalized ludic reference in RSB.So, I never thought the game of Benjuka affected the story, but now that you've said it's most assuredly true. Its neat how all those are incorporated into the story. I have many notes on Virmasta piling up after this reread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Bryar Ashford Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Off topic, but does anyone recall a series of children's books by a female author that Bakker recommended once on his blog?I've been searching the old posts on his blog and I can't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 So do we even know that July 5th is the release date or is that still some kind of tentative release date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Off topic, but does anyone recall a series of children's books by a female author that Bakker recommended once on his blog?I've been searching the old posts on his blog and I can't find anything.Cat valente. Specifically the fairyland series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Seswatha Jordan Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 So do we even know that July 5th is the release date or is that still some kind of tentative release date?Tentative. I think the last Bakker said was that he had yet to be assigned a editor, and would let us know when he heard something. So, nothing concrete yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Cat valente. Specifically the fairyland series.Irony level overload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Irony level overload.Yep. That was before he stormed onto her lj, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Hah, I didn't know he was on her LJ as well. But man, that place was, uh, turbulent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Lol - so dramatic, Kalbear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Lol - so dramatic, Kalbear.It was a pretty big piece of drama. 500 posts, one of bakker's friends coming to defend him, bakker with the awesome line about how he's fighting REAL misogyny on the internet. Pretty dramatic stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Yeah that whole thing was a clusterfuck and one of the main examples of why Baker needs to not interact on the internet. Not that Bakker ever misbehaves on the internet ever, the man is perfect after all/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Here's the link to the lj entry if you want to waste some time.http://catvalente.livejournal.com/675153.htmlScalzi, watts, and Bakker jump in here or on their own blogs too; search for cat valente Bakker for various links if you care.What is interesting to me revisiting this is how this preceded gamergate and the rabid puppies stuff by a couple years but boy was valente proven right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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