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The book in question is Split Infinity by Piers Anthony. This comic won’t make much sense if you haven’t read it, but I’m not going to explain the joke and spoil it for anyone that might want to read it.Let’s just say that friendship gets.... magical.
So, of the people that see this and have read the book, maybe two will find it funny.
One of them is me.
To whomever my compatriot Brony may be, /).
I'm tempted to try doing a "Twilight Reads ___" series of comics. The problem would be how to keep it visually interesting, since static panels filled with only Twilight reading a book would get repetitive. We'll see what I come up with I guess.
Edit: "This guy" refers to the main character, Stile, not the author.
Darn, a day later and I think of some much better dialogue.
"Yay! Stile made friends with the unicorn!"
[turns page]
"Well, that friendship suddenly got... magical."
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Bahahahaha! Poor Twilight! She's in for a bit more than she expected! Personally I'd love to see a Twilight Reads series! Maybe do things like have her walking along, or getting bugged by friends who want to know why she's reacting certain ways to some books! xD
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Piers Anthony has always had certain fixations. It shows up in a lot more than just the Apprentice Adept series... let's just say it's likely he was bottle-fed and is making up for lost time. Nonetheless, some of his stuff is pretty good. Just take it with a grain of salt, don't waste your time with anything past the third book in any of his novel-series, and enjoy the world-building; that's one thing he's good at. Admit it, we'd all LOVE to spend a few years in Proton.
There's nothing wrong with high fantasy oriented towards adults as a genre. Like everything else, it all comes down to the skill of the writing and setting proper expectations for the reader; someone going into John Varley's Titan while expecting The Last Starfighter is going to be mighty upset, but that in no way is Varley's fault or changes the quality of the writing. That being said, Anthony's stories (with a couple of short story exceptions) are generally lightweight fluff and and are harmless. With other writers, that's not always the case. The worst of the lot is John Norman's Gor series, which take mysogeny to an extreme that's hard to fathom.
I think ol' Twilight would be happier with the Xanth novels than Apprentice Adept.
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I disagree, Xanth is well worth going past the first three books.
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try and shift the panels around, the result should be fun.
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a brony is a guy that likes My Little Pony and a clopper is someone that likes it too much that they masterbate to it. even if it's just a picture from the show or a rule 34 picture. disgusting little creatures
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thats distusting, and thanks so much for the information.
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Oh thank goodness that's a link to the Know Your Meme episode. That video is probably the best and safest choice for a person unfamiliar with MLP that asks that question, and which won't immediately give a bad impression.
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yeah, ballad of the brony is a bit too long for a newcomer.
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and a clopper is the more dark side of the brony fandome. not all are cloppers but those who are; like mlp porn some even clop to it, which is a brony word for chop.
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thank you so much, now i undertsand!
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im surprised you haven't seen it yet, its the biggest thing right now just on DA there's tons of content.
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I have, but ive never understood it until now
thank you.
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I'm not sure I get it, because all I've read from Piers Anthony is the Xanth series (has he done anything else?) and it's been years, so I only really remember a few choice puns, and not a whole lot else. Good stuff though.
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Quick summary of the Apprentice Adept series, of which Split Infinity is the first novel. Minor spoilers follow.
There is a planet called Proton which is the only source of Protonite. Protonite makes space travel cheap, powers sophisticated robots, and is thus the basis of the galactic economy; it is found only on Proton. Thus the aristocrats (called "Citizens") of Proton are wealthy beyond all imagining. Part of what they have done with their wealth is to build a huge competitive amusement part, called "The Game", in which almost every imaginable form of competition from tiddly-winks to horse racing to computer-moderated interpretive dance is played. "The Game" is so addictive, so compelling, that people from all over the galaxy are willing to sign on to become indentured servants ("serfs"), and forfeit all personal rights in return for access to The Game. Add to this an annual tournament, in which the winner is awarded "Citizen" status and given a nest egg of Protonite mineral wealth that elevates them to the lifestyle of an oil sheik.
Our point-of-view character is Stile, a serf and an expert jockey. His "day job" is caring for and racing horses for his nameless Citizen employer. He becomes a pawn in a power struggle between Citizens (who play rough), and in the process discovers that Proton shares space with a fantasy-world in an alternate dimension: Phaze. In Phaze, wizards (called "Adepts") form a parallel society very similar to Proton's, with the Adepts occupying the role of Citizens. And certain people can travel between these dimensions... such as our point-of-view character Stile.
Phaze has werewolves and giants and elves and dragons and trolls and... unicorns. Hmm. I wonder how well jockey Stile will get along with unicorns? Particularly cute female unicorns who can shapeshift into humans whenever the story calls for it...
Anthony spends a lot of time on the romantic tribulations of Stile, and while he never gets hard-core descriptive of the action, there's plenty of soft-core prose involved. This is not a novel for the underaged, though it never quite crosses the line that would relegate it to an adult bookstore. If you don't like explicit stories, you'd best skip this one, but that doesn't make its mere existence bad. For the appropriate audience, it's fun (if a bit sophomoric).
Anthony has done one of the largest bibliographies in science fiction and fantasy, ranging from pure fluff to "no question about it, adults only, plain brown paper wrapper, bleach after use". A list is available on Wikipedia . He also is one of the champions of writers' rights with regard to their relationship with major publishing houses, and in that aspect is something of a hero to fiction writers of any genre. He's also tech-savvy, and apparently is something of a Linux proponent. Though his writing has reached a level that would win Hugo or Nebula awards, he is one of the cornerstones of the modern SF/Fantasy community.
And, if his writing is any measure, he loves boobies more than anything.
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o0 theres so many books...i thought i read most of the Xanth books i was wrong
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Hmmm...I guess this means I need to get back into reading more when I get the chance, beyond pony fics anyway.
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