I was in a group conversation with Esme from the Stabby award-winning blog, The Weatherwax Report when she said that she wanted to do a “fuck counter”. I thought that was a great idea, so I decided to go through all 10 SPFBO finalists and plot the swearing and cursing and all those four letter words. But all credit to the idea goes to Esme.
Without further ado, let’s get started. I want to quickly note here that I only accounted for “real” swear words. Invented swear words, if they occurred, were not counted.
overall findings
- Every book had some form of swearing in it. If a book only had one swear-word, it occurred at least twice in the novel.
- Where Loyalties Lie gave the most fucks.
- Where Loyalties Lie also had the most swearing out of any of the books.
- Tiger Lily and The Way Into Chaos are practically pure angels when it comes to swearing.
- The word damn occurred the most overall.
- bastard occurred in the most individual novels.
- cunt, arsehole, & asshole each occurred only once
- This shit is just for fun.
words at a glance
You can abso-fucking-lutely bet your ass that the their are 795 bloody instances of swearing between all the damn SPFBO finalists.
where loyalties lie
Hey, they’re fucking pirates.
the crimson queen
Well, damn.
devil’s night dawning
Those bloody devils!
tiger lily
Damn it all!
chaos trims my beard
That beard only gave one fuck.
jack bloodfist: fixer
I think we’re shit out of luck.
the way into chaos
Who gave that bastard a sword?
pilgrimage to skara
Stop being such an ass!
the war of undoing
Bugger all!
sufficiently advanced magic
Zero fucks given.
Reblogged this on you and i books.
Gee whiz!
Whoa, where loyalties lie gave a LOT of fucks 🤣