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I TAKE IT BACK, GO BACK TO FUCKING THE HOUSE!

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3560655#cmt3560655)

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Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

What on earth is going on

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

My reaction too, fellow confused dan.

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

Dyrt

It's like all the nouns have been substituted by an opaque algorithm.

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

(especially the proper nouns)

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

An opaque algorithm with a thing for mathematician RPF...

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

Remember how Anthropic released a version of their LLM that would just relate everything to the Golden Gate Bridge? https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

It's like that, but sex with Carl Gauss.

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

DYRT

I honestly don't know. The author has a degree in classical studies and allegedly landed a seven-figure deal to publish this book. Which is absolutely incredible, because this is the writing level we're talking about:

> I was half-naked, covered in scraps and streaks of sand, but I couldn't find the energy to care. Free the nipple and the lips (vaginal)?

> 'As I said before,' he said as his hawk (government surveillance drone) stared at us.

> Poco got bored and shoved the chalk into his mouth (I wonder if that tastes any good).

I'm still only a quarter of the way through! It feels like it's already been multiple lifetimes. The next arc is the obligatory Magic School (Evil) arc, and there's so many random characters and inexplicable infodumps that I can't figure out what's even worth summarizing and what's just bloat.

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

> I was half-naked, covered in scraps and streaks of sand, but I couldn't find the energy to care. Free the nipple and the lips (vaginal)?

Wut.

1) I can't parse it. Why question mark? What is going onnnn???

2) if u don't care why r u narrating it (tbf, a pet peeve in much fiction)

Re: Books - Blood of Hercules (Jasmine Mas)

[(Anonymous)]

> I was half-naked, covered in scraps and streaks of sand, but I couldn't find the energy to care. Free the nipple and the lips (vaginal)?

Reads like an Amazon drop-shipper product listing.