Comments for page "Coober Pedy Cave Clash 100"

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Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:24:55 +0000

LESSGO Sofia's here! Always been a fan of the character, and combining her sheer insanity with the world of Titanclash feels like it shoulda happened about three seconds after the canon became a thing over here. Gonzo's always great to see around here, and this piece isn't the exception. Stellar story; loved every single word you wrote here.

Easy +1~

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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:09:29 +0000

Your wish is my command; the footnotes have been moved. I'm glad you like Sofia - she's basically a horrible little goblin that lives in the back of my brain and occasionally compels me to think about sports. I'm worried that she'll take over one day and I'll start wearing aloha shirts and going to women's soccer games.

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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:07:51 +0000

The secret sauce - what some have called "writing like a chad" - is reading a lot of trashy pulp scifi-fantasy paperbacks in middle school and integrating them into your brain so deeply that they flavor everything you do. I would suggest starting with Simon R. Green's Nightside series, which is not good, but is fun.

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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:00:15 +0000

i don't know what you're talking about. the footnotes are outside the punctuation. the footnotes have always been outside the punctuation. we have always been at war with australia. etc etc

(glad u liked it! third strike of someone mentioning the damn footnotes finally made me change it lol.)

(also yeah i like the new tags they're good. good job everyone who worked on them initially wow everyone who did that must have been so cool and smart and talented.)

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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:37:22 +0000

Personal ComboCon Reading Progress: #19

This was awesome. I personally adore gonzo, and I was super excited to see someone throw TitanClash into the con! Sofia is an ultra funny character, had me laughing out loud multiple times. Tons of fantastic world-building, I love that someone finally delved into Coober Pedy being a major part of this world, and I love that someone did it so well! Just a hell of a good time. Also: good job on the tags!

Unfortunately I am going to have to remove you from this planet for putting the footnotes before the punctuation, but I'll leave this upvote here in your memory

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Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:01:44 +0000

Were you there when Drop Bear pummelled MOLOCH into a fine paste in front of ten million screaming Bearamaniacs? I was.

This is great, the pacing and tone was perfect, I just loved everything about it. Certified good shit.

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Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:09:59 +0000

i am upvoting this on things like presentation and strength of writing and structure — i think it's very clearly a piece with a lot of love and heart poured into it and i can't find any faults in the writing or the style at all. i also think a lot of the details (the newspaper header, the worldbuilding elements) pack a real punch. it's completely saturated in the gonzo style. unfortunately the gonzo style doesn't appeal to me personally — there have been comparisons made with fear & loathing, which i also dislike — but that's not a reflection on the strength of the piece at all, just my own personal preferences and the things i like to consume. good work. +1

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Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:40:09 +0000

I never commented on this??? Swore I did. Anyhow, this is very, very good. Gonzo is, as I hope it will remain, a staple of the WL. Even so, you have put your unique, humorous twist on it. What subtly in the worldbuilding! What a wonderful gleam to the character! She has a mature voice, and breathes with life that imbues the whole work. And this is all besides the fact that a literal cyborg DEATH ARENA is the focus—which, I will add, is perfect for the frame you have here. Splendidly well done, +1
One thing I do wish is that the footnotes were outside the punctuation but that is a minor nitpick and nothing against the pillar of writing this is.
— Oli

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Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:15:39 +0000

This piece was laugh-out-loud funny (I shouldn't have read it in class) and awash in outrageous character. I adored every inane tangent and was gripped until the very end. I haven't read your other stuff, but if it's as good as this, I sure as hell want to. I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I say we would be happy to see more of Sofia, if you're so inclined.

Eye-bleeding neon +1.

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Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:23:10 +0000

Maybe some sort of under-Vegas, if we're hyphenating

SHE SAID THE LINE

An absolute splash. Every square nanometer of this is dripping with voice and character, and the gonzo vibe is only escalated by Sofia’s bizarre offbeat tangents and rambling jokes. It manages to build a very cool setting and vibe while also being really really funny and engaging to read — aggressively Australian. Sofia is a character the Library certainly needs more of. Great stuff.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:49:55 +0000

When I first read your stuff on Third Law some years ago, I was seized by a desire to not only devour anything you wrote, but incorporate at least a tiny bit of your madness into my work. Someday you'll let me know if I succeeded, but for now I can tell you that this is the exact shit that I live and breathe for. If your story was drugs, I'd inhale them without blinking and then go ballistic on someone's car with a blowtorch and a pair of firecrackers. Overkill is the best way to describe anything you write that even resembles your Deer College newspaper stuff, and I'm beyond elated to have it here on the Library — and on a canon that I proposed, of all places!

A very decadent +1 for you.

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:33:59 +0000

Road Train has been the name of at least sixteen Australian-made kaiju over the years, with forms ranging from titanic millipedes to transparent Optimus Prime ripoffs to big ol' snakey-snakes. The hog-thing described here is only the latest in a long line of Aussies going "damn. that sounds like a good name for my horrible longboy."

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:30:15 +0000

This piece proved to be a gonzo romp through the Australian sands that I did not expect going into this. Holy hell, what a ride. Sofia proves to be a heroic journalist (likely in dosage as well), braving the ever changing world around her (with some spite, though who can blame her when apparently Mad Max is out of fashion?) I loved how you played the "old as can be" into the piece, biting the reader constantly, weaving in the possibilities for personal experience over such a massive span of time, like trepanation. Apparently. Excellent piece, so glad that you're bringing more public awareness to the menace of drop bears. Though, I'm afraid we're gonna come to blows over who gets to name their Australian kaiju "Road Train." But we'll burn that bridge when we get there.

Actually, in retrospect, ripoffs in a corporate world are a common thing. Still wanna fight you though. Just 'cause.

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Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:43:33 +0000

This was such a an excellent read. Your use of first person perspective was a phenomenal choice that I love. The character here is such a trip- like styg said, its peak fear and loathing in an even worse universe. Kudos to capturing such insanity so judiciously and effectively.

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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:49:59 +0000

WONDERFUL. BOMBASTIC. SPLENDOROUS.

It becomes less and less like a newspaper post over time, but I loved the Fear and Loathing breathless tone and language here — talking about religion, drugs, conversion, and immediate reversal in the span of two short paragraphs and in-world minutes is quite the feat. It all felt surreal and immediately personal, like it was written right then and more than that was written from the perspective of their own actions as they happened. Things jump like jumping beans: they can be followed (and are!) but are not expected — it is a surprise each time, every second unique, a kaleidoscope of time, and I am so very thrilled to be part of it. It is delicious. It is fondant cake. It is a cinnamon roll (my very favourite thing). And I am so very ravenous. Beautiful work!! I am pleased.

Oh, and a teleporting koala with a folding chair? The best thing ever made. What a turnaround. What a show.

-Styg

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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:19:31 +0000

We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond Thunderdome

COMBOCON - Hideaway + Construct. The hideaway is the big ol' hole under the desert, the constructs are the kaiju.

Sofia Haugen makes her triumphant Wanderers' Library debut! She's immortal because why the hell not, I can't let my beautiful lesbian disaster OC die to something as mundane as AGING. She's not even the oldest person in the world, that's like idk Peter Thiel or something, but the rest of the top 10 are billionaires or trillionaires or whatever so they're barely even people at this point.

I figured hey, kaiju and megacorps and shit would probably shake the political situation up so Cascadia (currency: CascadiYen) and California (currency: Californian Dollars) are independent I guess? You can fit a lot of worldbuilding in a newspaper header if you make it real small.

Please don't do the math and figure out how big a koala or a horned devil would have to be for those weights. I didn't. They're big fuckers, ok? Big.

Thank u to Tsercele for critique & copyediting.

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