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[wolffyluna]

I’ve been re-reading Homeland by RA Salvatore, which is the chronologically the first of the Drizzt series. It was one of my favourite series when I was a smol Wolffy, it’s one of the ones that definitely sunk it’s claws deep in me (as is traditional for favourite series read at a formative age).

On a blog house keeping level, I am trying to work out the best way to transfer my discord liveblogs over here, because they are mixture of “straightforward liveblogs of events,” “I’m going to run away with the drow worldbuilding and make something cool,” and “I have a cool idea for a Drizzt whump fic.”

But I can say this: I am having a great time on my re-read but I am being filled with the self-fuckor of “either my tastes have not changed since I was tiny, or this shaped my tastes forever, and I’m not sure which is worse.”

Comments

[lunartulip]

As someone who was very into those books as a kid and has since forgotten most of what happened in them beyond the extremely broad strokes, all subcomponents of these liveblogs sound fun to read! If they happen to be taking place in parts of Discord to which I have access, I'd be interested in being pointed at them; otherwise, I will eagerly await their porting-to-over-here.

[wolffyluna]

The liveblog is happening in my wolfsden channel on omnipolis. (If you don't have an invite to the server, I can grab you one if you like.)

[lb_lee]

Re: I am having a great time on my re-read but I am being filled with the self-fuckor of “either my tastes have not changed since I was tiny, or this shaped my tastes forever, and I’m not sure which is worse.”

We never read Drizzt... but we have this for Piers Anthony. Even though many of his works are badly written and kinda repel us, they still hit that deep kiddie chord...

And now we're 20k words into our "what if we took this premise and DID IT BETTER" which seems the best "eat your master" triumph available.

[wolffyluna]

Huzzah for 20k words of that but better!

Luckily so far the Drizzt books have been less... Piers Anthony and more "oh no, 1980s DnD was a Mess With Problems, but I'm not sure how Salvatore could have fixed that." But yeah. It definitely shaped my tastes deeply.