Karmic_Acumen

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Writer of various fan- and original fictions that people keep telling me would give M. C. Escher a complex, but I remain skeptical to this day.

2021-07-07 JoinedGlobal

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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
Replied to SleepingForestKing
Is that a good or bad thing?
Ch 1 Sorry Drama, Your Dragon Is in another Dungeon
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
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With only one chapter?
Ch 36 A Short Reach Is No State for a Hand (The Storm) (III)
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
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Wasn't it a fun prank?
When pleasure was done, they got down to business. For all his skill in patterns, it didn't compare to skill and talent, and Lady Bessara had him beat in both. Though a third daughter of a fourth son, she was a testament to the worth of the bloodline and education of Keyholder families. She was also the one with consistent access to news from all their enterprises, having coordinated multiple different businesses and ships since even before she effectively took over as chief overseer of trading interests from Alyssa Karstark, Brandon's own daughter four years dead. Aside from Bessara's own husband Byam, who brought the news to begin with (or often became the news on his voyages, which sadly cut him off from current events for weeks and even months at a time), the Dame herself was the one likely to provide the best perspective on things.
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
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I'm not going with quite that extreme level of animism. Mostly because even if it was true once, the Trees and later the Doom ate them all.
When Squatmaester Nutter mentioned he had plans for some two dozen new kinds of booze, Jon latched onto the news like one would drown their sorrows, and he wasn't the only one. Maple mead, three kinds of berry wine, just as many strongwines, the same for firewine, fire ale, ten different kinds of firewater (one for every fruit!). They called horseshit of course – even a handful was too good to be true! – but the lunatic shrugged. Said that while he didn't expect all of them to become available immediately – they needed fermenting for months, years even, it was horrible! – earth apples were the only thing he hadn't developed a method for yet because he's a master alchemist, don't you know. As if they'd just believe him without proof! But then he had the gall to say it'd all be shit anyway because none of them could make real firewater worth the name without him having to distill it for days. He'd tried, don't you know, and they could have these little 'tumblers' and taste for themselves what even his 'best efforts' amounted to. They sneered and tasted for themselves right good and the rat bastard! Who did he think he was, insulting the Gods' own drink like that!?
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
Replied to Foosh
Well, he banged her at least.
"That witch is older than everyone."
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
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Extreme sports.
"…Next time I'll kill the landing."
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
Replied to Foosh
I am proud to say I predate this reference by years and years.
Shockingly, Brandon snorted. "The Gods didn't do shit. It's my fault for being a lunk. Three whole years of living and it took seeing the bloody face on the tree to finally realise where I was. Bran the lunk, thick as a castle wall and slow as an aurochs-"
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen3 months ago
Replied to Dwarf_Lord
Yep. A reference, anyway.
"Madam Rosmerta of the Three Broomsticks, Lady Flint is tending to him now, and not hardly."
The Logistics of Good Living
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Karmic_Acumen5 years ago
Replied to Beggar_Genesis
Yep. That was the idea. You're so far the only person who remarked on it.
Balin sniffled and wiped at his eyes with the handkerchief that some hobbit or other had just given him. Maybe there was something to these things. He would inquire as to whether they could acquire some before leaving, especially if Bilbo Baggins intended to make a routine out of these performances. The prior songs had all been moving but… not sad. Not like this, so deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came. For a moment there, the sadness in the lyrics threatened to feel almost vain, the voice feeling as if it essayed to drown the other music by the force of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the rest of the melody and woven into its own solemn pattern.
Master of Wood, Water and Hill
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Karmic_Acumen5 years ago
Replied to DreamWanderer
Nope. He's Robert Baratheon, if he were well-adjusted and the blanks filled in with Renly and Stannis.
For a moment the court seemed to be acting as a single being, unified in its disbelief at the balls it took to come out and say that with a straight face. Tywin in particular was looking down at him as if he doubted his sanity. Shows what they know! Long as you believe what you're saying, there's nothing easier than keeping a straight face! Now to see if Aerys took that as an attack on him, in which case he might need to-
The Logistics of Good Living
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The Logistics of Good Living

[ASOIAF] [Posting here to spare Kagetane0ko and any other thieves the effort of stealing the rest] He sometimes had the occasional, very vivid dream wherein he traveled to strange worlds and had bizarre adventures. This could well be one of them, if only for the irony. Given the possibility that every lucid dream was actually long-range astral projection or parallel incarnation, he had no qualms about treating this world as real. Of course, he could also be wrong. Wouldn't that be something? If nothing else, though, his new family won't take quite the same amount of work to salvage as his previous one. [Brandon Stark Self Insert]

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Master of Wood, Water and Hill

[Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit] Bilbo Baggins wondered what Gandalf was thinking. Oh well, Bag End would sort him out. His house did NOT approve of vandalism, thank you very much. That rune carved into his door learned it personally. Besides, it served the wizard right for not heeding the rumors about Bilbo's interest in, er, forestry.

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The Unified Theorem

A scientist reincarnates on Azeroth sometime before the First War, only for Invention to prove unreasonably obstinate compared to the fundamental principles underlying Creation itself. Clearly, the method to Arcane's madness was being deliberately obtuse. The Light, though, more than earned the spot of Main Research Tree by being the sole reason he remembered things to begin with.

Karmic_Acumen · Video Games

Beyond Good and Ego

[Marvel] Certain meddlers have been foreseeing the Thanos snap for hundreds of years. One of the consequences of this is that Meredith Quill decides to take her half-Celestial son on a DMT psychedelic trip as her last hurrah. End result: freshly snap-dusted Peter Quill is time-traveled back to the night of his abduction and thinks he's just dreaming the life flashing before his eyes. Then his grandpa gets between him and Yondu and he realises it's not. It's really not. [Avengers/GOTG/X-Men]

Karmic_Acumen · Movies

Self-Made

[Baldur's Gate] His life started in darkness and he never quite remembered how he welcomed the first light, which was probably for the best. He did remember absolutely everything that came after, though, which wasn't for the best at all (Baldur's Gate).

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