Hello. My body has rebelled against me and has decided to expel all fluids from its borders. I'm sore, miserable, and growing dumber by the second.
Since I'm dying, I'm obviously going to spend my last few days reading about what it would be like to be a space ninja who gets all the chicks. I really don't want to read anything that challenges me in any way. Even TV is too hard right now.
Please give me your recommendations for your guilty pleasures, anything fun and dumb. It can be fluffy slice of life. It can be self-insert fanfiction. It can be unapologetic power fantasy. I just want to be distracted and not think.
Thank you.
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the magicians by lev grossman
archive 81 podcast
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Oh, someone told me that The Magicians was nihilistic and depressing. Or maybe I'm confusing it with something else. Thank you for the recommendations.
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I didn't find it depressing but I am a sick frick so ymmv. it's more comic book edginess to me, but done well.
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Tintin if you want pictures.
1990s era D&D schlock (Icewind Dale trilogy is a good starting point) for escapist fantasy stuff before writers felt compelled to insert contemporary real-world race/gender/sexuality politics into everything.
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terry pratchett or douglas adams for easy silliness
the one weird alternate history series harry turtledove wrote about lizard people who considered ginger to be an aphrodisiac after hitler won
whatever series piers anthony wrote where different colored (blue, green, red, yellow) wizards had to play games on a spaceship and ended up with weird s*x games involving jello pools (???)
euclid and his modern rivals
enders game series
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Yeah nice try, I've actually read that one.
No way I can do Adams or Pratchett dirty by reading them like this. Not hard reading, but worth paying close attention to.
That's a second vote for Piers Anthony, so I think I'll grab something of his. Thank you for the recommendations.
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Moonlit Fantasy
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Calvin and Hobbes collections.
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Bio of a Space Tyrant six book series by Piers Anthony.
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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Haha holy shit I remember reading that like thirty years ago. First smut I ever read, I thought I was going to get caught and get into so much trouble.
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Yeah, it's great teenage fantasy, smutty, violent, total power fantasy fulfillment
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If I recall correctly, there's this part where he keeps getting sent these anonymous VR s*x recordings from a woman. In these he can have s*x with her, record it, and send it back. They keep sending them back and forth for a while.
Oh gee, turns out it's the 16 year old he is taking care of. But it's cool, she really really wants it. So they go on a s*x cruise prospecting for bubbles in a gas giant, so they can bang in peace.
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brewing up some elderberry syrup.
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