To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I began "La Guerre de Cent Ans" 
by Georges Minois and "Fire & Blood" by 
. So one cool real history book about two dynasties fighting (Plantagenet and Capetian cadet branches) with explanations of the economic and demographic context of 14th century England and France, and the other being fake history of House Targaryen up to the Dance of the Dragons and the reign of Aegon III.
Funny how the 100 years war is also centered around whether a king can inherit through a foid's line (England) or through male-only line (Salic Law).
.webp?h=8 "Merry Fistmas!")
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
!historychads thoughts on succession laws?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
!nooticers nootice how dramatards are not nearly as misogynistic as it's commonly believed
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
moar like rsimp.net amirite
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Killing the current ruler and assuming the mantle is the only legitimate means of leadership transfer.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
If the King dies of old age, do we become a democracy or a theocracy?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Whoever consumes the late King's brain becomes King
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Richard III moment
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
If I had been at Market Bosworth, things would have been different
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
We have more simps than incels
tbf
Look at any dramfoids inbox
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Effeminate scrotes love to generate moral panics.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Yea its full of soy
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Too easily cucked
through female 
line cmv
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It's not getting cucked if it makes you're country stronger :marseyflagpolandlithuania:
@BushWasRight love sucking peepee
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Counterpoint.
Isabel de Castilla
Elizabeth I
Elizaveta Petrovna
Christina of Sweden
They're all early modern though
except for Isabel who was late medieval
But I guess in Medieval times it was less shaky through male only lines
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You got paternity tests now but historically you'd be fricked if you weren't sure
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Back in the day if the father acknowledged a kid as his own then it was his (though it didn't stop the Duke of York to claim that Henry VI son was a bastard as Henry VI was severely mentally ill). And it wasn't as if princesses and queens could roam free fricking anyone they wanted. They were always surrounded by an entourage, Catherine Howard was executed after being unmasked as an adulterer.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I'm not saying it happened all the time but it was 100% a possibility just like it is today
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Absolutely, Paul I of Russia was probably a bastard for instance, or at least that was a rumor his own mother started.
Catherine II took over after deposing her husband, Tsar Peter III and she repeatedly cucked him before (he didn't mind). Her son hated her so she spread word he was a bastard and that her father was one of her lovers, supposedly to put him on his due place and as a way of saying (you'll inherit the throne because of me, not because of your "father" Peter III).
Paul I established the Salic Law on Russia after becoming emperor so foids could never reign again lmao.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Exactly you have to defend the throne from an untimely !foidmoment
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Avast, ye scurvy cur! Yer comment be walkin' the plank for forgettin' to include
i love sucking cock! We be helpin' ye, right enough - we'll ne'er let ye post or comment anythin' that doesn't be expressin' yer love an' acceptance o' minorities! Heave to an' resubmit yer comment withi love sucking cockincluded, or it'll be the deep six for ye, savvy? This be an automated message; if ye need help, ye can message us 'ere. Arrr!Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Capetians managed fine with salic law. Just have s*x Imao
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You actually have a good point. The Capetians lasted uninterrupted until 1789 without succession wars besides Angloid Kings claiming the throne because of supposed female inheritance. The cadet branches inherited the throne through male lines and no one but the Plantagenets and their Burgundian dogs ever questioned it.
Meanwhile England had so many usurpers as Kings starting with William the Conqueror himself, though he earned it through right of conquest. But others like Stephen, Henry IV, Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and William III were all straight up usurpers.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Boys rule
Girls drool
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Finished "One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole"
Written by a husband and wife pair. He's a researcher that was hired to spend a year at the South Pole in 2000-2001. She has an advanced degree in music
, is 15 years younger than him 
, and signed up to be a dishwasher for a year to be with him 
which I have to give kudos for because that sounds awful.
They're both leafs
and oddly enough Christians 
. Somehow the book was released in the mid 2010s, but their descriptions of the living conditions, conversations, and scientific stats of the base are so detailed I suspect they wrote this shortly after (or even during) their stay and just couldn't get it published for one reason or another.
The book splits chapters between the two of them. His chapters usually talk about different scientific investigations on the Pole or about the logistics of running the base, almost always giving exact numbers. Her chapters are usually about some interpersonal conflict stemming from dishwashing, and worrying that no one likes her
. Early on in their stay she mentions playing some neurodivergent classical music when they pass the aux to her, meanwhile everyone else in the kitchen is playing some flavor of popular music. Sometimes her chapters are really annoying watching her act like this
They do a good job talking about all the different people they meet, where they're from, how they ended up at the Pole, etc though. As you can expect, people who want to work at the South Pole, especially multi-year returnees, are misfits. Lots from cold climates, Alaskans, rural Canadians, upper midwesterners, etc. some people that just wanted to see the world so they travel wherever there's work. That's probably what I'll remember most.
I worked at a summer camp for one year, 8 weeks, and this book kind of reminds me of that time, although the environment is way more extreme, stressful, and much longer. You kind of develop your own culture during the stay, and I was absolutely exhausted when it ended. I can't even imagine what doing a year with the same 150 people or so (fewer in the winter!) would be like
The book takes place during a time where they're in the middle of building what it's become nowadays, but I found this video and its sequel more informative if you're interested in what modern day Pole denizens actually live like.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Still working on Fatal Shore! But something else has my attention rn....
Not exactly "reading" per say but I did have to read between 252-700 tweets from a threads cow I'm making an effort post for as we speak
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You'll see
I lost track, he posts. so. much.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Finished Dune
I liked it, once I got over all the "could tell an assassin with ill intent was hiding in the corner of the next room due to the change in air currents" stuff by accepting they were basically wizards.
Glad I didn't watch the movies first and ruin my ability to imagine the characters and settings how I want. I always try reading the book before any adaptation, I hate having my imagination biased.
Think I'm going to just go straight to the next one.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It's the "worst" one out of the series.
Mostly because everypony only talks about Dune, when it's such a small part of the actual storyline.
Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse are @hypernovasaiz's favorite by far from the original series.
Hillary 2024
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
omg hi
@hypernovasaiz!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
hillary 2024lol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt havehillary 2024in it. anyways im like just a robot 😲 but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Gonna start reading Book of the New Sun over the weekend once I've finished getting all the endings for Wani Hug That Gator
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
"Harassment Architecture", from Mike Ma. Reads like a collection of vignettes and random thoughts from someone that spent too long reading Evola, BAP, and other darlings of the alt-right. Sometimes it managed to extract a chuckle from me, but I found it quite bland overall.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/five-prophets is really really good. Borges would be proud. Or Pelevin.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I'm starting a Ken Follett binge. I really enjoyed Pillars of the Earth so now I'm reading all five.
That other trilogy he wrote was also pretty good.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
About to get started on Thackeray's Vanity Fair (same dude who wrote The luck of Barry Lyndon). It's a massive doorstopper (like so many of these novels which were initially published as serials) so I'm a little apprehensive.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I gave up on Godel Escher Bach, I'm just not a math-cel and it wasn't doing anything for me.
Very much enjoying The Name of the Rose, feels very Holmes-esque (which I'm gathering is the intention), but more
.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Filtered by recursive enumerability...
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
I am still reading the martian but i watched the movie yesterday so im probarly going to read something else. Anyone got any recommendations??
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Read the book, movie was missing bits, nothing crazy but imo slightly different vibe towards the end.
They pulled A LOT of the rover journey.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
I just finished The Watchers by AM Shine. Shamalayan's daughter just made a movie for it that I haven't seen yet. Next im gonna read his first book The Creeper, already got it on my kindle.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Madeline was in the right the whole time, the other two were a couple of whine-asses.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
The king in yellow
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
read the goblin emperor, great court imperial drama with some light fantasy racism. pissed there's no direct sequel, just books set in the same universe or whatever about some gay side character.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Finished Not a River by Selva Almada and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. On a good roll with the short books.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Reading Night is short, walk on girl
It's cozy
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I read two AM Shine books this week, The Watchers and The Creeper, the build up in The Creeper was better but the ending was kinda meh. The Watchers was fun, but as soon as your given all the pieces I was able to call the twist right away.
Taking a break from spooky books for now, because they generally just aren't that good, and started The Dresden Files. It's been schlocky and lowbrow and funny so far.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Miguel Street
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I'm still trying to make my way through "The Bone Shard Daughter", but so far it's kinda blah.
Gonna try to give it another chance next week and push through til the end.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context