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Skullcrag

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Good Show Sir Comments: Orc fan-fic.

Published 1994

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 7.13 out of 10)
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20 Responses to “Skullcrag”

  1. JuanPaul Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    “Joke’s on you, loser. I breath through my skin!”

  2. drlemaster Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    Carl Sargent is the guy who wrote all the 2nd edition D&D World of Greyhawk stuff for TSR after Gygax left. There was a lot about orcs.

  3. fred Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 3:23 pm

    The Great God Pan seems to be in a bit of a pickle.

  4. Tat Wood Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 6:32 pm

    If this is a Puffin book, you know, for kids, that explains why the oddly-familiar Lamia-chic is clothed so demurely.

    ‘Write Your Own Adventure’ – as self-defeating a label as the 70s kid’s show ‘Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?’

  5. Max Bathroom Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    @driemaster
    He was a biggish name in his day: loads of sharecrop novels for Shadowrun and a few for D&D as well as loads of game supplements and the advanced Fighting fantasy books.

  6. GSS ex-noob Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    Which one of them is Zagor?

    It’s trying to be interesting, with the sexy and the dead and the dino and too many orcs, but it’s just dull.

    Most of the cover is pale and washed out. I thought maybe this particular copy possibly had faded out color ink, but no. It’s always been that boringly-colored.

  7. Bruce A Munro Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    The simple pleasures: wine, snake-women, giant meatballs, and monsters wrestling in a vat of tapioca.

    @GSS ex-noob: yeah, those colors do whatever the opposite of “pop” is. Squelch?

  8. Bruce A Munro Says:
    September 12th, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    He’s enjoying the perks of winning Skullcrag’s “silliest hat” contest.

  9. GSS ex-noob Says:
    September 13th, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    @Bruce: “Squelch” is at least a noise that evokes emotion.

    I think this is “meh”, typed in the smallest possible letters. Or maybe 🤷‍♀️ without the hands up.

  10. Tat Wood Says:
    September 14th, 2022 at 1:55 am

    D’oh! It’s Barbara Luna.

  11. Emster Says:
    September 15th, 2022 at 3:12 am

    Larry wasn’t scared; last week he had to wade into a ball pit of damp and snotty toddlers to fish out his over-tired three-year-old niece. In comparison, this was gonna be a piece of cake.

  12. A.R. Yngve Says:
    October 7th, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Well, this cover tries to be stupid, creepy and icky at the same time, and it sort of succeeds. Beats me who the target audience is… but it sure ain’t people who, like, read books.

  13. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 14th, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    I’m not sure the minotaur and lizard are fighting. The minotaur has an…um…intense expression, and the lizard is smiling.

  14. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 15th, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    @The Blue: So, you’re saying that the lower part of the illustration would work as a Chuck Tingle cover?

  15. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 16th, 2022 at 12:56 am

    @GSSxn – The water’s hiding something interesting. The chains offer a clue. I hope Scales and Hooves agreed on a safe word.

    BTW…I just searched “Chuck Tingle”; now I’m searching for a stiff drink.

    I said “stiff” 😀

  16. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 17th, 2022 at 2:13 am

    @The Blue: I thought everyone SF-adjacent knew about Chuck. Sorry?

    His stuff is surprisingly well-written and often funny, And he’s definitely against RWNJ.

  17. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 17th, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    I took a deeper look at the mysterious Chuck Tingle. You’re right…I have seen his work before! I just realized he’s responsible for the “Pounded-in-the-Butt” series. Those titles are freaking hilarious and difficult to forget.

    I’ve not read any of them. Yet I don’t think the RNWJ crowd would like Tingle very much, either.

  18. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 17th, 2022 at 10:52 pm

    @The Blue: Back when the pathetic RWNJ Puppies tried to cheat their way into Hugos, they nominated Chuck as a “ha-ha fuck you” to the supposed Evil Liberal Cabal that they fantasized was running things [1]. (Plot: Intelligent dinosaur astronaut is stranded with human astronaut; butt pounding eventually ensues). The RWNJ thought this would put the liberal folks who don’t hate LGBT in a tizzy.

    Turns out Chuck’s actually a pretty good writer. There was obviously an SF element and the characterization was good. Naturally he didn’t win, but he rated highest of all the Puppy entries.

    So this gave Chuck a lot of publicity, helping him become more of a legend.

    And the next year, Chuck got a *legit* Hugo nomination for his year-long roasting of Puppies on his Twitter and his web page. Which was a delight, and after all SF-related. He didn’t win, but fandom appreciated him, even if they didn’t personally care for butt-pounding. He wrote one or two books about someone being pounded in the butt by the anthropomorphic avatar of a nomination, which if you’ve ever seen a Hugo… yeah.

    Both times he was represented at the con by one of the women harassed by Gamergate, just for even more “fuck you back, RWNJ”. (there was substantial overlap between the 2 loser groups)

    So we’re cool with Chuck. I read a couple more of his stories and if you took out the actual butt-pounding, they hold up as light romance mixed with other genres. There was a Southern Gothic haunted house one I enjoyed.

    1. Which shows more of their stupidity — getting fans to do anything en masse is tougher than herding cats. Puppies were the only cabal ever to try affecting the awards that doesn’t go by the name “Scientology”, and even they stuck to only trying to get L. Ron’s novel to win. The cabal is coming from inside the house woof woof!

  19. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 18th, 2022 at 2:45 am

    @GSSxn – thanks for the rundown. I knew something about the Hugo scandal, but none of the details. I am now informed. Good Show Sir 🙂

    I may check out that Tingle Hugo nominee that…um…backfired.

  20. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 18th, 2022 at 9:35 pm

    @Blue: Heh.

    The title is “Space Raptor Butt Invasion”. The butt-pounding sections are easily skippable if you’re not into that.

    It did rank the highest among all the slated nominees, because we appreciated Chuck’s milieu and attitude. Not enough to award it, but enough to show Chuck some non-pounding love for his trolling of Puppies..

    For instance, he found that the Rabid Puppies hadn’t secured their own website and did it himself. It’s no longer online, but see this: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11759842/chuck-tingle-hugo-award-rabid-puppies-explained

    He also did some excellent trolling of the evil Domald Tromp, and this year he took on Gorg Abbott, both of which he considers “void creatures”. Tromp is a bunch of crabs in a suit, in Chuck’s opinion.

    https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/3/02/erotica-author-chuck-tingle-his-epic-governor-greg-abbott-troll

    Love is real, buckaroos.

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