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Bonus drama: the actors are listed by pronouns and one person uses they/them.

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Death is no longer a goth and now in blackface. Rose Walker and Unity Kincaid are now in blackface. Which we hit the snag of "you can race swap white characters and it doesn't matter" problem because Unity was born like a century ago so get ready for some shoehorned in racism where it doesn't exist. And I'll add that the Sandman comic did have parts addressing racism, so it's not like they needed to do this "in order to start a conversation".

I look forward to the day when some kid asks their parents why black people had it so much better in Victorian England than they do now.

Spot the definitely mentally ill cast member.

I mean, what did you expect people? It's 2021, you gotta woke shit up till you ruin every single IP on the planet...

In 100 years, people will look at humanity in the 21st century and say "gee, they were really retarded, right?"

I mean, what did you expect people? It's 2021, you gotta woke shit up till you ruin every single IP on the planet...

A user is annoyed that one actor uses they/them pronouns

Cringe lol. Also it annoys me that Stephen fry courts the anti sjw side etc but kinda still throws his name with the kind of people that'd happily cancel him

Heavily downvoted reply to the above: Lets be honest, a gay person is more likely to be a sjw than not. Doesn't mean all are, but you get the point.

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Hey everyone,

My third War of Broken Mirrors book is out today. This is a big milestone of me - it's the completion of my first trilogy, and I'd like to thank /r/fantasy for the tremendous help in making my career as a writer possible.

For those of you who aren't already aware, I have three different series in progress that all take place in the same universe. This book represents the completion of the first of them (chronologically), and leads directly into the next series.

The series, in chronological order, are:

• The War of Broken Mirrors
• Weapons and Wielders
• Arcane Ascension

They're designed to be read in any order, although I'd recommend reading at least one of the other series before Weapons and Wielders, since there are some appearances in there designed to appeal to fans of the other works.

In terms of style:

The War of Broken Mirrors is third person limited, with multiple perspectives, and is more serious in tone than the other books. It's more traditional epic fantasy, and it's generally described as being "Sandersonish" in style.

Arcane Ascension is by far my most popular series. It's heavily inspired by JRPGs (e.g. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Fire Emblem, etc.) and features students at a military magical university training for combat and dungeon crawling. (It also contains a fair bit of dungeon crawling, too.) If you're entirely new to my books, this is the most popular starting place. It's first person from the perspective of one of the students.

Weapons and Wielders is the middle series chronologically, but the one I started the most recently. Much like Arcane Ascension, it's JRPGish, but with a hero that's strong from the start rather than a novice. The strongest comparison would probably be something like The Legend of Zelda, although there's plenty of other JRPGish influences in there as well. Read this one if you want to see an overpowered character bulldozing through puzzles and fights.

All of my books are, to varying extents, forms of "progression fantasy" - meaning they have characters that grow progressively stronger in a coherent system. Arcane Ascension is by far the clearest example of this, b

It's been 15 years since the individual formerly known as J*** Duggar was sentenced to 14.5 years in federal prison for his crimes, and he's written a new book, entitled "If I Did It." He now goes simply by the initials, "JD Duggar" for "anonymity purposes." We questioned him on the similarity to his brother's name -

The new JD Duggar - "Has someone been stealing identities? Well of course I'm using my brother's initials, but all of us have the same initials, so it's not like I'm trying to use his identity or anything. But well, of course I'm not denying trying to use his identity."

Us - "You want to distance yourself from your past convictions?"

The new, totally not his brother JD Duggar - "J*** Duggar was convicted, but that doesn't mean he/I did it. He/I was framed by a man who was living on baked beans and sin!"

Us - "Baked beans and sin? Ah, yes, that was quite a picture your defense attorneys painted."

The new, totally not a p3d0 or his brother JD Duggar - "Look, I can see you're skeptical, and the jury didn't buy it either, but my godly wife believes in me, and that's all that matters."

Us - "Yes, we remember reading the blind tell-alls that said the "Baked Beans Man" story was tested successfully on Anna, and her enthusiasm was so strong that the defense attorneys actually put it in their closing statement. You might remember that most of the prosecution's closing simply involved referred to the story while raising an eyebrow."

The new, totally not a p3d0 or his brother JD Duggar - "Anna? No, I said my godly wife. Anna was the cause of this whole mess. Since my release I've divorced Anna and married Joshletta, a woman who really gets me. She was the one who got me through my incarceration....don't look so shocked."

Us - "Did you hear that, viewers? This is the first we're hearing this news. This is totally new. Anna has not spoken about this publicly. Mr. Duggar, wasn't Anna faithfully with you all through your incarceration? She was the picture of a loyal wife the entire time."

The new, totally not a p3d0 or his brother JD Duggar - "That Jezebel made herself look good on the 'Hollywood Prison Wives' show, but do you think any of that money made it to my account? No. And she had excuse after excuse for why she couldn't leave Arkansas to visit me daily. And she left the kids at home. She didn't visit with them for so long that I forgot some of their names. She turned the kids against me. Always making excuses, 'The kids cry too much af

I know that the mind plays a large part in healing, and in the experience of chronic pain. Placebos do work on some people for certain things. But what about those of us with rare diseases? My chronic pain is caused by a congenital structural issue. Could I have cured myself using my mind if I just knew the right way to think about it? I highly doubt it.

Here's the link: Mind Over Medicine: Dr Lissa Rankin's book shows incredible influence of mind over body

>'Even the most closed-minded doctors witness patients who get well when, by every scientific rationale, they shouldn’t.
> >'When we witness such things, we can’t help questioning everything we hold dear in modern medicine. We start to wonder if there is something more mystical at play.'
> >She went on: 'But what if we’ve got it all wrong? What if, by denying the fact that the body is naturally wired to heal itself and the mind operates this self-healing system, we’re actually sabotaging ourselves?
> >'You hear people whispering about the woman whose cancer shrank away to nothingness during radiation.
> >'Only afterward did the doctors discover that the radiation machine was busted. She hadn’t actually received one lick of radiation, but she believed she had. So did her doctors.
> >'Yet another woman broke her neck. After being taken to a hospital and getting X-rays that confirmed that she had broken her neck in two places, she opted to refuse medical intervention and saw a faith healer instead, despite her doctors’ vehement objections. Without any medical treatment, she was out jogging a month later.' Dr Rankin, a Western-trained physician, pored over hundreds of peer-reviewed studies from medical journals to find proof for her theory that the mind can cure the body.
> >She continued: 'A woman with [motor neurone] disease went to see the healer John of God, and afterward her neurologist proclaimed her cured.
> >'A paralysed man made a pilgrimage to the healing waters of Lourdes and left walking.
> >'A woman with stage 4 ovarian cancer “just knew” she wasn’t going to die, and, after rallying the support of the people who love her, is still alive ten years later.
> >'A man with blocked coronary arteries diagnosed after a heart attack was told he would die within a year if he didn’t have

I'm on my first read through,(currently on ACOK) and I came to the chapter where Sansa has her first period and is talking to Cersei. Cersei says, "Joff would cry whenever Robert picked him up. His grace did not like that. His bastards always gurgled at him happily ...""Robert wanted smiles and cheers, always, so he went where he found them , to his friends and to his whores. Robert wanted to be loved." These lines bring to light just how broken Robert truly is about a lot of things. At the center of this is Lyanna Stark, the one person Robert truly loved. It shows that after her death Robert is just constantly trying to replace the love he felt with Lyanna be it with tournament, battles, or whores. He is less like a indomitable king and paragon of masculinity and more like a drug addict chasing love and hoping to find a love that is as strong as his first love.

Poor Dobby.

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So here’s the story. Many years ago, back when I was twenty or something, I embarked on my first Epic Fantasy. At the time my publisher was Scholastic, who did books for teens, but I always thought of it as an any-age fantasy. Hell, it was a sight darker than The Belgariad, anyway.

Up until then I had been writing teen drama books for Scholastic because that was what I thought they wanted of me, but then my editor gave me a copy of Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the US) and said to me ‘That’s the kind of thing you can do with teenage books nowadays.’ So I decided to just write what I wanted to write instead of what I thought I should. I count the Broken Sky series as my first books that were truly mine, and I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for them.

Broken Sky sold far, far better than my previous books (note to self – write from the heart, people notice – end note) and was a moderate hit all over the world. It was translated into somewhere between 15 and 20 languages (I forget exactly) and shifted a quarter million copies in the US alone. For the first time in my life I could buy a beer in the pub without thinking about how much it cost.

Fast forward many years, and many books. Broken Sky has a somewhat disastrous re-release. The ‘anime’ look for the covers that worked the first time around is now dated: kids don’t think its cool and adults think it’s for kids. The books drift quietly out of print. Not cost-effective to keep them in the warehouses.

I’m a bit sad about this, as are a bunch of people who get in touch with me from time to time asking why the only available copies are, like, £1000 on Ebay. Some people who grew up with Ryushi and Kia want to be able to read it to their kids. I pester Scholastic to put them out as ebooks at least, but it’s hard going. Ebooks aimed at kids are not an easy sell, since most kids under 12 don’t have e-readers of their own. Scholastic convert my more popular books to ebook, but not Broken Sky.

I ask them to either republish them or give me the rights back. They give me the rights back. Bluff failed.

So now I have, for the first time, several of my books out of print. Four of them are my early teen drama books (Crashing, Kerosene, Catchman, Endgame) which honestly I’d rather forget about. But Broken Sky… if only for posterity, I want it to exist.

‘I’ll do that self-publishing thing!’ I say to myself. So I get trying to convert them. Turns out it’s quite time consuming as first I need to lea