i've always assumed that Rothfuss was leaning into the Gary Stu thing as hard as he could as an intentional exercise, but then again i thought Ernest Cline was parodying shitty nerd worldviews in RP1 until i saw what he said in interviews so what the fuck do i know
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
"I will, as a sixteen year old virgin, be so good at sex that the literal goddess of fucking people to death is amazed at my skill and spares my life" was a pretty book-throwing moment tbh
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I mean, on top of the 'immensely talented archmage, fencer, lutist' combo
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its so so so bad did help me develop a heuristic though does your fiction or comic book involve ninjas well then it probably blows hard
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this is strong stuff. I'm trying to think of anything with ninjas that's actually good and I can't find one. maybe the turtles. maybe. if tongue-in-cheek grunge culture is good (it kinda isn't though).
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As an interesting example, Daredevil S2 is good right up until the ninja-centered plot takes center stage halfway through.
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did we just discover a new trope? inverse ninja law? I feel like someone should update thishttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NINJA …
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Replying to @browserdotsys @palecur and
I'm fucking old and that went under my age bracket.
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Replying to @danlistensto @browserdotsys and
same but i did recognize the running stance comment as referring to it
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