I’ve been way busier than I expected with the end of the school year coming up. I managed to finally start The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung though. It’s been near the top of my TBR list when someone recommended it alongside The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch as great thief/heist style books. And it works for a Bingo Square.
I’m not really far enough in to have an opinion though.
I first read her stuff when she did a bunch of early Star Trek and Star Wars books in the 80s-90s. I always loved her stuff. Great choice.
One other square as it exists on your card. If you swap a square to an alternate, that square now exists on your card, otherwise they do not.
Alternatively, instant Bear Calvary.
That’s a good question, and if you’re referring to the book I think you are that was a tough one for me when I was thinking about it.
Where I came down ultimately was whether or not the disability required some level of adaptation in day to day tasks for a non insignificant passage of time.
The D&D artifacts The Eye of Vecna and The Hand of Vecna are good comparisons. Both require removing the corresponding body part to use, but if you replace your original one with the artifact immediately after removing the corresponding body part and you have similar functionality as you did before but now with extra abilities; the you never really need to learn to adapt to the loss. Now if a character had been born blind and later gained the Eye of Vecna, they would gain sight, but would have had a significant experience of managing without it.
I had a similar experience when I was working through some of the early “The Shadow” pulps and was surprised a couple times at just how blatant the racism was.
We just started a book Bingo over at !books@lemmy.world and one of the categories involves thieves or spies. Since The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung was on sale recently and it had been highly recommended I just started that.
The fact that you still can’t arrange your desktop by penis is a travesty.
I definitely was thinking of how litRPG fit in when working on a couple of the squares. I have a soft spot for JP Valentine since I was introduced to the genre via his books.
That’s awesome. A couple of us were looking for something similar when we left a year ago, and I’m glad you’re looking forward to it.
It’s too bad the judge is playing Calvin Ball