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1077377 No.1077377 [Reply] [Original]

Okay so like, they're chicks right? Hot chicks. But instead of a head they have a whole beetle.

>> No.1077384

the ultimate but-her-face?

>> No.1078166
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Sounds good to me.

>> No.1078177
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And this one guy, who's REALLY fat and REALLY black? He totally has a fetish for hot beetle-chicks.

And they get it on.

ALL THE TIME.

>> No.1078182

So is this supposed to be some kind of thinly veiled commentary on interracial relationships? I like it.

>> No.1078631

>>1078177
Wait, he was BLACK?

World shattered.

>> No.1078640

>>1078177

Whoa I can totally see Mieville going from slipstream stud to Alexei Sayle redux if he doesn't keep hitting the gym.

>> No.1078743

He's matured a lot as a writer since Perdido St. He's a lot let precocious for precocity's sake. And that trademark casual cruelty pops up less.

>> No.1078752

I'd love to read a Mievillean pisstake of Indiana Jones.

>> No.1078764
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A NEW LINE CINEMA PRODUCTION

>> No.1078767
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IN CONJUNCTION WITH LIONSGATE

>> No.1078769
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ISAAC DAN DER GRIMNEBULIN

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LIN

>> No.1078775
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YAGHAREK

>> No.1078788
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DERKHAN BLUEDAY

>> No.1078791
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TEAFORTWO

>> No.1078795
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MR MOTLEY

>> No.1078798
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THE AMBASSADOR OF HELL

>> No.1078810
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AND OWEN WILSON WITH TOURETTE SYNDROME AND 100 CAFFEINE TABLETS AS THE VOICE OF THE WEAVER

>> No.1078812

Wait, Issac was black? How the hell did I miss that?

>> No.1078834

>>1078812

Every Mieville character is a minority.

>> No.1078845

>>1078791
>Teafortwo
>implying he won't just be an assload of CGI

>> No.1078849

>>1078845

It's Mieville: half of the cast will be part-CGI.

>> No.1079329

>>1078849
Including Isaac's rolls of fat.

>> No.1079342

>>1078834
Not true. The protagonist in the Scar was a blond lady.

>>1078631
How do you miss that? He says it like 20 times.

>> No.1079347

I didn't catch it till the second read through, but Isaac is indeed black. A fat jolly negro inventor in a steampunk fantasy world.

Now I've seen everything.

>> No.1079355

>>1079342
I thought Bellis was a middle-aged goth/punk woman with dark purple hair and blue lips?

>> No.1079739

>>1079342
I must have thought it was describing his mood or something.

I also didn't realize Ged was a Pacific Islander until I was ~13

>> No.1079742

I've just read my first Mieville book, The City and the City, and loved it. I've been looking into his others, but don't know which to read next. Any suggestions (and reason for suggestion)?

>> No.1080227

Hold up. Isaac is black? Fuck. Can we get a quote in here to prove it? It sounds like the sort of thing I'd have noticed. That said, it took me a page or two to realize that Lin had a WHOLE beetle for a head, and not just the head of a beetle.

>> No.1080239

>>1080227

Same. I didn't have any idea he was a gentleman of colour.

What is this I don't even

>> No.1080504

>>1080227
First chapter:

> A dark-skinned man, big and nude and detumescing, gripping a knife and fork, unnaturally still, sitting opposite a khepri, her slight woman’s body in shadow, her chitinous head in silhouette.

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>>1080504
Well shitfuck. There 'ya go. Thanks.

What the hell is that second word(?) in my CAPTCHA?

>> No.1081523

>>1081494
I believe that is Down

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>>1079355

>> No.1081601

>>1081494
השמים
"The sky" in hebrew :3

>> No.1081611

Bellis was a pretty worthless main character. Her only redeeming feature is that she lets us see more Uther Doul.

>> No.1081716

>>1081611
I thought she worked very well for the book she was in.