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A long Way to a Small Angry Planet was cute. It was a good little book and I went into it knowing nothing really and was pleasantly surprised by the queer rep. It felt natural and realistic even if it did involve aliens. Enjoyed it.

We're reading Gideon the Ninth (first of Locked Tomb) in book club in October on the Discord server.

I have The Priory of the Orange Tree purchased in ebook format but I haven't read it yet. Had no idea it had queer rep, so now I am even more excited to get to it.

This is absolutely gorgeous. My new headcanon for her.

I've definitely heard First Law is both grimdark and good. I have it on my TBR.

if you're not opposed to REALLY dark, Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire trilogy (starts with Prince of Thorns) is very good. You kinda have to push through hating theMC for the first part of the first book but it's totally worth it.

Also the Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang is excellent.

Also, I will never pass up the chance to recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen.

For me "dark" fantasy aka "grimdark" is about darker themes, harsher language, and more realistic depictions of awful situations being in the forefront of what is happening (as opposed to just existing in the background). The book should be gritty and grim and feel hopeless and even victories should pyrrhic most of the time.

yeah I am excited at watching that little percentage go up lol

ok I've read the books and I have no idea what is happening in this trailer...

It's more about just making sure content is labeled in accordance to Rule 4 (they're on the sidebar, not sure how easy that is to see on mobile). We don't have nearly as many spoiler tools here as we do on Reddit, so the title labels will really help. Thanks so much :)

this made my heart hurt the first time I read it.

you have to add the word spoiler after the first three dots.

'> ::: spoiler WoR

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This should probably be tagged [All Cosmere] or if you haven't read it yet [All Cosmere NO SP3].

Also your spoiler tagging is broken. it's:

parsing error

Hi, cute comic! Would you mind editing your title to include the spoiler scope? Just a tag like [RoW] would be enough :)

nice!

I guess it depends how you are with small detail work. If you have a steady hand and a good magnifier glass and some really nice detail brushes it might not be too bad. My grandpa paints models and has for decades and he has a really nice magnifier that stands on the table so he only has to hold the model under it to make it easier to see close up.

Another option is getting them unpainted and finding someone local to paint them for you?

It's probably my third favorite after Steris and Vasher. I just love it, it's perfect.

I'm an admin from https://sffa.community

We did notice a large amount of bot sign-ups early on. We already ha email verification on and they never made it past that stage.

We have since turned on CAPTCHA and now they aren't signing up any longer.

We've purged the bot accounts from our database.

We are working on generating organic content but we've only been open for a couple weeks so I just ask that other instances bear with us. We've a very niche community of sci-fi and fantasy geeks. We'd love to be federated again.

yay! welcome on in :D

welcome on in! :D

On our instance we have !cosmere@sffa.community and !brandonsanderson@sffa.community along with some other niche ones. Still working on generating content since we're so new.

Our entire instance is dedicated to Sci-Fi and Fantasy media.

I've heard of Demon Cycle and read that it's pretty good. Sounds interesting!

welcome Xavier, nice to see you made it :)