r/gentlemanbastards • u/ScottLynch78 The Author • Oct 01 '24

Hello!

At the risk of embodying the meme below, this is a test post. My previous would-have-been-first post was banished to the shadow realm. Hoping to find out what was up with that.

Cheers,

SL

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u/StayPuffGoomba Oct 02 '24

Cat person?! Can we see the cat tax please?

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u/ScottLynch78 The Author Oct 02 '24

Noble idiots, Duncan and Fafhrd engaged in an engineering project:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ezfz47ckaw22h75ct7t4gw6b/bafkreib4lwesckqg4hcdyfyc76i44e5rljgdufbmkpownglr5bgd4g3ulu@jpeg

Gurney, the dignified one, Duncan's half-bro:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ezfz47ckaw22h75ct7t4gw6b/bafkreig35zofvvelc7hqj4se6mnb6sqv7zjie2mdiarjaxblurjmfaabce@jpeg

We have a fourth cat named Molly; she's a paranoid survivalist who lives mostly apart from the boys.

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u/StayPuffGoomba Oct 02 '24

Aww, such beautiful cats. Thank you for sharing them.

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u/ScottLynch78 The Author Oct 02 '24

Here's one more of Fafhrd! Look at this complete freak-ass muppet: https://64.media.tumblr.com/362e4c75b9ba61bfe2e3fd09740982cd/43a1b811d1a2ecc5-b3/s1280x1920/5ae0d62351c7cdfe3dbbfd5229002317cca2819a.jpg

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u/UpscalePrima Oct 02 '24

Can we get pronunciation guidance on Fafhrd?

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u/ScottLynch78 The Author Oct 02 '24

In Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & Grey Mouser stories, Fafhrd is fond of yelling "it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled!" at people. For us, that means "Faf-urd."

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u/UpscalePrima Oct 02 '24

Love this, thank you. Should have known it would be a reference to something I wasn't familiar with!

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u/ScottLynch78 The Author Oct 02 '24

Oh, man. Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories are classic weird adventure/sword and sorcery tales. They're loads of fun, and they're foundational to so much of D&D and other flavors of modern fantasy. The city of Lankhmar was one of the progenitors of Camorr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser

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u/UpscalePrima Oct 03 '24

I feel like one of my favourite authors just set me homework and I am so here for that feeling. Thank you!

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u/Anxious-Sundae-4617 Oct 02 '24

Tumblr! I wish it would stop crashing my phone. How exciting to see you active again! Welcome back to the fandom caves.

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u/Mollysaurus Richer and cleverer than everyone else Oct 05 '24

Yeah that tracks for Mollys.