One of the many proposed GoT changes from the book to TV that got shot down due to budgetary restraints. Here we have the Rah’ven of Winter as an example.
Obligatory OH JOHN RINGO NO. If she were real, he’d be sexually harassing her and then bragging about it in a 30-page document online (I am, sadly, not making this up).
It’s nice they have breast implants in this universe. And it’s good you can’t tickle yourself, since otherwise those feathers would tickle when she lands and puts her arms down. They probably tickle her back and butt in this position.
(Reminds me of the old joke: “erotic” is when you use a feather, “perverted” is when you use the whole chicken. Implies the third part is “John Ringo is this”.)
What’s she got on her belt, a document case? Is she a carrier pigeon?
There’s also something weird about her right calf. What’s with the bulge?
@JuanPaul: It was going to be called that, but Bob Seger threatened to sue for libel.
Also, I knew a girl in high school who made herself a chain-mail prom dress. This ain’t nearly so odd-looking.
Another artist who can’t draw feet.
And presumably those loops around her arms hold the wings on. Which means she didn’t grow them. Which means that if she is a standard human being all the volume of muscle that she could have in that highly visible chest wouldn’t have a hope of driving the wings.
Therefore, she’s extremely tiny; or she is in a planet with a very low gravity and a thick atmosphere; or MAAAAgic!
Or maybe she “really” is proportioned in such a way as to make wing-powered flight possible and the artist just exercised some artistic liberty,
I’d never heard of Midwest Book Review but they have a Wikipedia page.
Quote:
‘Cox does not believe that book reviewers should be fee-based, and said, “Any reviewer that wants money from you for any purpose whatsoever is operating a scam, engaging in unethical behavior that is in violation of the publishing industry etiquette norm.”.’
…
[But wait, there’s more–in the same paragraph:]
‘After stating that charging fees is a scam, Cox began charging a reading fee in 2011. Initially fees were only charged for e-books, but since then has expanded to include any “ebooks, pre-publication manuscripts, galleys, uncorrected proofs, ARCs, and pdf files”.
Which sounds to me like “we will read any old shit if you pay us”.
June 19th, 2018 at 10:14 am
She should really keep that in her handbag. For reasons of decorum.
June 19th, 2018 at 11:34 am
Fingerbobs: The Next Generation.
June 19th, 2018 at 11:37 am
One of the many proposed GoT changes from the book to TV that got shot down due to budgetary restraints. Here we have the Rah’ven of Winter as an example.
June 19th, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Sashay Away.
June 19th, 2018 at 5:07 pm
She looks like she’s in the middle of diving into a pool.
June 19th, 2018 at 6:53 pm
🎵🎶🎵
White bird
On a cover of Baen
On a summer’s day
On my desktop
White bird
With a golden G-string
Alone
The book leaves blow
Actually the whole book blows
But her boobs hang low
It’s the rage (on Baen)
But the white bird
Just stares into space
As we groan
White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or we will die
🎵🎶🎵
(apologies to “It’s A Beautiful Day”)
June 19th, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Why? That’s what knees are supposed to look like.
June 19th, 2018 at 11:57 pm
Obligatory OH JOHN RINGO NO. If she were real, he’d be sexually harassing her and then bragging about it in a 30-page document online (I am, sadly, not making this up).
It’s nice they have breast implants in this universe. And it’s good you can’t tickle yourself, since otherwise those feathers would tickle when she lands and puts her arms down. They probably tickle her back and butt in this position.
(Reminds me of the old joke: “erotic” is when you use a feather, “perverted” is when you use the whole chicken. Implies the third part is “John Ringo is this”.)
What’s she got on her belt, a document case? Is she a carrier pigeon?
There’s also something weird about her right calf. What’s with the bulge?
@BC: Excellent.
BAEN! flutter flutter clink clank wank
June 20th, 2018 at 12:49 am
@Tiffany: Knee-shaming! It’s come to this!
June 20th, 2018 at 2:11 am
She’s flying and the book is called ‘Against the Tide’. How about ‘Against the Wind’? Or is that already taken?
June 20th, 2018 at 2:48 am
@B. Chiclitz – Way to wing it, bro. Nice.
June 20th, 2018 at 3:26 am
@JuanPaul: It was going to be called that, but Bob Seger threatened to sue for libel.
Also, I knew a girl in high school who made herself a chain-mail prom dress. This ain’t nearly so odd-looking.
June 20th, 2018 at 4:05 am
Those feather-things all seem to have the quills on the outside. Is this the hood-ornament for Marilyn Manson’s roller?
June 20th, 2018 at 5:58 am
@Bibliomancer—glad I didn’t cause a flap 😉
June 20th, 2018 at 5:36 pm
Another artist who can’t draw feet.
And presumably those loops around her arms hold the wings on. Which means she didn’t grow them. Which means that if she is a standard human being all the volume of muscle that she could have in that highly visible chest wouldn’t have a hope of driving the wings.
Therefore, she’s extremely tiny; or she is in a planet with a very low gravity and a thick atmosphere; or MAAAAgic!
Or maybe she “really” is proportioned in such a way as to make wing-powered flight possible and the artist just exercised some artistic liberty,
June 21st, 2018 at 2:19 am
We’ve got another damning with faint praise blurb:
“The story line never slows down”… because then you’d notice how shitty the prose, world-building, and characterization is!
@LL: I checked the plot. It’s MAAAAAAAAAAgic. There’s dragons.
“Continuing the new series”? Oxymoronic. Doesn’t say which series, either, but I guess if you read this crap you’d know.
June 21st, 2018 at 3:56 pm
I’d never heard of Midwest Book Review but they have a Wikipedia page.
Quote:
‘Cox does not believe that book reviewers should be fee-based, and said, “Any reviewer that wants money from you for any purpose whatsoever is operating a scam, engaging in unethical behavior that is in violation of the publishing industry etiquette norm.”.’
…
[But wait, there’s more–in the same paragraph:]
‘After stating that charging fees is a scam, Cox began charging a reading fee in 2011. Initially fees were only charged for e-books, but since then has expanded to include any “ebooks, pre-publication manuscripts, galleys, uncorrected proofs, ARCs, and pdf files”.
Which sounds to me like “we will read any old shit if you pay us”.
November 4th, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Tor’s “Change One Letter Challenge”
Against the Tilde
One man’s crusade to keep non-standard accent marks out of English.