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The biggest FAGGOT in the literary world.

TheGhostOfAbeVigoda

Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future
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Abe, do you have any stories about some of the questionable Hollywood fellas that would wait outside of the elementary schools with a trenchcoat and no trousers?
I've heard plenty of Martin Landau stories so heinous that I won't repeat them. But I got arrested for that one time, I genuinely wasn't doing anything nefarious. I was picking my grandson Jamie up from school and I'd just developed debilitating penile arthritis that I wasn't yet medicated for so I couldn't wear pants. The wind picked up and blew my Fish coat back and everyone saw my fully stiffened penile joint and my saggy old butt. The police showed up right away, screaming at me and pointing guns at me, all I could think to say was "it's okay, my penis is just stiffened up is all!" and then they tazed me and beat me with batons in front of little Jamie.
 

Chive Turkey

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Because that's what someone wants from a fantasy book, they want to know what fucking tax brackets there are in Minas Tirith. He's basically saying he doesn't like fantasy because it's not real enough for him. This is the exact same attitude as, "Star Wars doesn't have a female audience so let's make it different to appeal to them, the Force is Female," and then they shit out this tepid garbage that just happens to have lightsaber. If you don't like fantasy go read something else, ya fat greasy queer.
Sorry, I'm cranky this morning
To be honest, I don't think he's trying to bash Tolkien when he's saying that, just musing "Hey, wouldn't it be interesting if a fantasy setting was more like the real Middle Ages, where everyone was a hypocrite who backstacked, killed nd raped eachother (IN THAT ORDER :mel_sm:) ?"

The problem with ASOIAF is that the fantasy stuff is the least interesting but that's what the whole series is building up towards. Gurrm's good at writing intrigue and character drama but all that just makes the whole DA PROPHECY stuff and dragons whirling around that much more trite and predictable. It's clear that any resolution to the magical narratives isn't going to be anywhere near as clever or satisfying as the scumbag lords outjewing eachother. No surprise he's pretty much given up right before all that shit is supposed to break loose.
 

Phish

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I've heard plenty of Martin Landau stories so heinous that I won't repeat them. But I got arrested for that one time, I genuinely wasn't doing anything nefarious. I was picking my grandson Jamie up from school and I'd just developed debilitating penile arthritis that I wasn't yet medicated for so I couldn't wear pants. The wind picked up and blew my Fish coat back and everyone saw my fully stiffened penile joint and my saggy old butt. The police showed up right away, screaming at me and pointing guns at me, all I could think to say was "it's okay, my penis is just stiffened up is all!" and then they tazed me and beat me with batons in front of little Jamie.
Ive heard plenty of those type of stories about Landau too. Except it wasnt Martin.

Also, i ever told you that I saw you in person (albeit from very far away) before? Well, i saw you, not your ghost.
 

TheGhostOfAbeVigoda

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Ive heard plenty of those type of stories about Landau too. Except it wasnt Martin.

Also, i ever told you that I saw you in person (albeit from very far away) before? Well, i saw you, not your ghost.
Yeah, I was the Wombat. I remember seeing you, specifically. Your childlike wonder made an impact on me that I carried with me for the rest of my life.




Seriously though, I don't remember you at all and I hated wearing the suit. It was very, very hot. I cut a bunch of hair off the suit and made Trey Anastasio eat it just off stage. Fuckin Phish pissed me off. Fish>Phish (Not you. The gay jam band.) I wanted to do a drum solo but apparently I "don't know how to play drums" and "I'm wrecking the vibe, maaahhhhhn." I'm just supposed to go out there and dance like a fucking clown in a 20 pound Wombat costume at 90 years old and not play a drum solo. "This is great exposure for you, Abe." They're lucky I didn't expose my arthritic penis and balls, fuckin hippies.
 
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MeridiaN

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The first three books are stone cold classics. If he had a stroke after the third one everyone would say it was one of the greatest unfinished stories of all time.

There are character arcs - particularly Jaime’s - that still make my hair stand up.

This fat faggot clearly only cared about the story and planned it out to that point. Then he decided to get lost in his own world building and now it will be impossible to finish.
I saw someone post a pretty convincing theory that he found the manuscripts for the first three books at some estate sale, and just published them as his own.

Those books are great, but the last couple barely read like the same person wrote them. There's so many different storylines that he decided to add that would be impossible to complete in 2 books.

Most people gripe about the show runners ruining the show, but I fully blame GRRM for that.
He went into it promising to have the full series released before the show caught up to him, and on top of that, he was super stingy with notes and plotlines because he had some gay beef with the producers.

These guys were just supposed to bring Fatso's story to television, not write the ending themselves. Sure, they were the ones who decided to end it early as possible, but you have to figure that they were so fed up with listening to Tubby trash them for doing their jobs that by the end, they just wanted it to be over.

The real cherry on top of this whole fiasco is that Martin has said that he won't allow anyone to finish the books in the likely event that he dies before completing them. What a complete fag.
 

NoBacon

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There's something wrong with anyone who chooses a look like that. Something kid-fuckingly wrong.


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I saw someone post a pretty convincing theory that he found the manuscripts for the first three books at some estate sale, and just published them as his own.

Those books are great, but the last couple barely read like the same person wrote them. There's so many different storylines that he decided to add that would be impossible to complete in 2 books.

Most people gripe about the show runners ruining the show, but I fully blame GRRM for that.
He went into it promising to have the full series released before the show caught up to him, and on top of that, he was super stingy with notes and plotlines because he had some gay beef with the producers.

These guys were just supposed to bring Fatso's story to television, not write the ending themselves. Sure, they were the ones who decided to end it early as possible, but you have to figure that they were so fed up with listening to Tubby trash them for doing their jobs that by the end, they just wanted it to be over.

The real cherry on top of this whole fiasco is that Martin has said that he won't allow anyone to finish the books in the likely event that he dies before completing them. What a complete fag.
I was really deep into ASOIAF for a long time. The problem with the estate sale idea and several others is that there is a GRRM collection at some university library - I cannot remember the school - and it contains a bunch of his original outlines and drafts that sketch out the story ideas and plot lines. Several of them actually went in totally different directions initially.

I’ve also read a lot of his other stories and I do think he was absolutely capable of writing those first three books.

I think it’s really simple. He was passionate about the story up to where Book 3 ends. He made a massive mistake by choosing to skip his planned time jump and he got frustrated by the complexity. Instead of working through that, he chose to indulge his famous “story gardener” bullshit and let himself get totally lost.

Then he became rich and famous and went from a celebrated fantasy author to a genuine celebrity. Now there’s all this pressure on him to deliver a 10/10 conclusion. Why bother when he could just license more shit to HBO and eat more?


I would be totally content if he just wrote down some conclusions on a napkin and xeeted them out.

“The hound is forced out of his peaceful retirement to finally put down his brother. In the process he has to face his fear of fire and get burned alive but he kills him.”


“Jaime dies in a heroic sacrifice, but it happens in such a way that he will be perceived as a villain by all of Westeros forever. It doesn’t matter this time unlike before because he is internally satisfied with himself and self-actualized.”
 
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