"Fluff" in the same way what collects under the sofa is fluff.
Was in a pet shop the other day. They had a big box of things you could throw for you dog. Among them were branded items. Among the branded items were MLP products.
I'm not sure if it's me, but it feels oddly grim to purcahse a Rainbow Dash exclusively for your dog to maul.
Suppose there's a possibility they'll be gentle, but still. It's a risk, isn't it?
Oh yes, this - I hadn't been aware of this but this happened, too:
For the longest time I was racked with curiosity as to where the TVTropes redirects for And When the Darkness Comes Around were coming from and I had almost given up hope on finding out the source, only to finally discover what it is.
I will never stop being amused at the consternation and confusion of some when confronted by my mastery of the tagging system.
The flagrant Clutch reference in "I don't care how you get them" was all a ruse to distract from the more oblique Use Of Weapons reference! Muwhahaha! I win again!
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"Works better with these."
I think if the bar for my effort spent on images were any lower, I'd have to bury it.
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You might think ponies are soft, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft.
Real talk, but Use Of Weapons was the first Culture book I read and that was, like, when I was fifteen. I didn't have a fucking clue what was going on. In hindsight, not the best to start with. Even if the flashback with Skaffen Amitskaw is DOPE AS SHIT.
Matter is my favourite.
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To this day, Use of Weapons is the biggest mindfuck of an ending* I've ever read.
*I like to spoiler the fact that it even has a twist ending, because I treasure the memory of reaching the end having had no idea that I should even have been being wary through the whole book. Zakalwe is such an excitable boy...
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I reread it recently and spent the whole time sniffing for foreshadowing.
Also, helped that I read Use Of Weapons before Surface Detail, even if the payoff was only the LAST TWO WORDS OF THE BOOK!
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I know that when SPark finished reading it, they immediately started over to re-read, sniffing for foreshadowing.
Use of Weapons was the second one I read, after Consider Phlebas. I really appreciated those last two words in Surface Detail. Getting such a kind follow-up was a pleasant surprise. A bit unusual for the Culture. I was more used to the endings of, say, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, and Matter.
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I love his endings, even if Consider Phlebas was sad as anything. Yay! We might succeed oh wait no basically everyone dies.
And Surface Detail has my favourite space battle ever, a space battle so quick a character doesn't realise they're only watching a replay seconds after the fact.
And while I'm waffling, Inversions! A Culture story you have to read the other books beforehand to even know it's a Culture story!
Iain, you magnificent bastard!
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It made reading Consider Phlebas first a good primer for what to expect going forward, anyway.
Have not read Inversions yet, actually. There's an element of... not wanting there to be no more left to be read for the first time. It's not a primary motivator, but it makes procrastinating it that much easier.
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I did feel a little bummed after finishing the Hydrogen Sonata last year, knowing that was it.
Started moving onto his non-Culture stuff now! Hah.
The non-Culture sci-fi is also good - the Algebraist is bloody brilliant, as is Against A Dark Background.
Feersum Enjinn is...just kind of weird. But good. But weird.
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I have read both of those, and I agree. All theoretical gas giant aliens are basically Algebraist-shaped in my head now.
I have a vague notion that Against A Dark Background began as a repudiation of the 'one ecosystem per planet, one planet per system' habits of a lot of sci-fi. It's such a rich, wild, sci-fi-but-also-sort-of-fantasy world for just one book. Setting kind of reminds me of Lord of Light in that way.
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The Dwellers are SO GOOD! And the Algebraist has one of my favourite villains ever. No depth, just a huge dick.
Also I do love the Lazy Guns.
I was so disappointed when I first read Inversions. And then a few months later I had a "hang on, wait a minute" moment and had to read it again. And it was much better.
Use of Weapons is two books in one. The second of which has the chapters "in reverse".
Also I learned that hats are the perfect gift for any occaision.
Excession is still probably my favourite. Several hundred pages of email sass between super intelligent machines behaving like schoolchildren.
The Affront are literal schoolchildren trying hard to be as edgy as possible.
And there's a caterpillar that can cough up your nose and get you high while you wear it like a scarf.
It's a fun book.
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Excession is also great - the classic outside context problem! And also the Sleeper Service, who is kickass.
Use Of Weapons, man. Flashbacks inside of flashbacks.
And remember that time in Look To Windward where a guy tries to foil the conspiracy (that was pre-foiled), fails miserably, dies, and ends up getting revived after circling the galaxy for so long that the Culture is barely a memory?
What the fuck, Iain.
Amazing.
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Contender for best line ever committed to print:
"Is he gay? Maybe we could fuck. I mean I'm not, but it has been a while."