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ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s cuz ya basic like one :)

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?

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  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I have only heard the term in:

      • The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
      • The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent

      I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps

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• Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are not reading enough fantasy books, then.

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  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s because the old Something Awful ruined fantasy books back in the early 2000’s when the big series was ASOIAF. Going from GRRM to Sanderson, Hobbs, Abercrombie etc… just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like from crack to whippets.

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    • Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … not wrong.

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Martin is crap compared to Sanderson

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      • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We can go settle this in the parking lot

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