Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres.
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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the threadrippers are promptly squatted by the entire gremlin population of faerie:
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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the threadrippers are promptly squatted by the entire gremlin population of faerie:
...I _had_ wondered who put chains on this sunken castle. Perhaps all these castles are sucked into the ground so that the data centers can use the rocks as heat sinks?
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Accursed_Castle_of_Gammelin
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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the threadrippers are promptly squatted by the entire gremlin population of faerie:
@cstross Story premise is good but I’m boggling over someone asking if it’s OK to use fae (fairies) in a story because they’ve only ever seen them used by one author…
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@cstross Story premise is good but I’m boggling over someone asking if it’s OK to use fae (fairies) in a story because they’ve only ever seen them used by one author…
@Chigaze Sarah J. Mass, last I saw, had 36M books in print. This compares with 100M for Pratchett and comparable numbers for JKR and Tolkien.
It seems likely to me that $COMMENTER was a historical/contemporary romance reader who stumbled into romantasy via SJM as a back door, not a fantasy reader per se. So SJM might well have been the only fantasy author they'd ever read. (JKR didn't use the fae, did she? And Tolkien's elves don't line up.)
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@Chigaze Sarah J. Mass, last I saw, had 36M books in print. This compares with 100M for Pratchett and comparable numbers for JKR and Tolkien.
It seems likely to me that $COMMENTER was a historical/contemporary romance reader who stumbled into romantasy via SJM as a back door, not a fantasy reader per se. So SJM might well have been the only fantasy author they'd ever read. (JKR didn't use the fae, did she? And Tolkien's elves don't line up.)
@cstross Also she's also apparently unfamiliar with writers like Shakespeare as well as hundreds if not thousands of years of European mythology and folklore.
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@cstross Also she's also apparently unfamiliar with writers like Shakespeare as well as hundreds if not thousands of years of European mythology and folklore.
@Chigaze TBH Shakespeare is pretty inaccessible if you didn't get taught one or more of the plays at school—not only is there an insane amount of wordplay and puns, the language itself is highly alusive and most of the alusions have fallen out of general circulation (unless Shakespeare kept them there).
