/lit/ - Literature

>>16665346
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Malazan. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of anthropology most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Fiddler's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Dostojevsky literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Malazan truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Bridgeburner's existencial catchphrase "First In, Last Out," which itself is a cryptic reference to Tolstoy's Russian epic War and Peace I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Strven Erikson's genius unfolds itself on their Kindle screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have an Eleint tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

>why yes i write fantasy, how could you tell?