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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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From: (Anonymous)

I forgot the thread subtitle *and* messed up the quote, though it's still funny that way.

(Actual quote:

Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle. He needed sympathetic handling.

'You're a mess,' I sneered.
)

From: (Anonymous)

I'm sad about the hotel manager the demons ate. :( She thought she had new customers and instead she got eaten.

From: (Anonymous)

Finished! Weirdest moment for me was tearing up a bit when Nate saw his childhood hero, the prime minister, reduced to something
grotesque. As a kid, I think I was just too baffled at the idea of anyone idolising a prime minister to find it sad. This time, I read the books within a shorter space of time, so I got more of the force of Nate losing his illusions. Even though he's still a ridiculous character. :P

I knew what was going to happen, so the plot twists and sad parts didn't hit as hard, but I still like how *neat* the whole thing is. Very Hollywood, but in a good way. A lot of trilogies are like "read the first and last book but trudge through the middle one", whereas I like all of these, and the creepy atmosphere of the 2nd may be my fave (alright, minus Nate's rather pointless trip to Prague).

I also think I got a lot more out of the depiction of the resistance than on my first read. The satire of the government also just gets better with time, but I also like how it didn't try to parody a specific rl figure, which stops it feeling cruel or too smug or dated. I spend my whole time complaining about clunky leftwing propaganda; here's the good sort. :P (It's maybe interesting that as terms like "anti-imperialism" have been popularised for teens, these books haven't seen a surge of interest. I'm not sure I know of any other children's books that are so on-the-nose about it. I can't decide if the relative obscurity is a shame or not. I think I lean toward "not". I don't want jerks ruining them and harassing the author. But I wonder whether there's a parallel universe in which he published them 10 years later, got mega rich and famous, and then promptly got cancelled.)

Other things... looks like this is Barty:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus

He's got a reputation after all! Awwwww.

I may seek out Barty fanfic. It's probably quite a hard voice to get right, and easy to do VERY badly, though. I'm also considering rereading the Ring of Solomon after all, though I remember it being baaaad (and iirc mostly anus jokes...).