Fic, wolves, and Terra Ignota
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halfeatenmoonI put up a couple of fic things in the last week, both Star Wars:
Somebodies, a Rey & Rose fic set immediately post-TLJ
A second massive chapter to While You Wait, a big Poe/Finn/Rey thing I drafted in November which is now thoroughly jossed by TLJ. I have lots of weird feelings about it because this was a fic where I pushed myself a lot, and the results are not perfect. It also might have felt better if I'd gotten it all done before TLJ came out, but there are advantages to doing it this way, too, like it validates some of my characterisation and changes some other things, and now I get to put Rose in the final section.
I finished reading A Companion To Wolves! It kinda lost me towards the end. The iddy wolf soulbonding was fun but the book seemed pretty confused about how it felt about war and the "exterminate all trolls" mission. I also would have liked it more, I think, if Isolfr seemed at all attracted to either of the guys he ends up mated to. Still, I liked some of the Isolfr pairings earlier in the book, the psychic wolf stuff is great and I now have plenty of ideas for Lupercalia.
Aaaaand hey, fellow Terra Ignota fans, my copy of The Will To Battle finally arrived... with the cover ripped. Badly. I'm grumpy and the seller isn't returning my emails so I started reading it anyway. I already like how the face frontispiece is disquieting with declarations from only six hives, and some of the leaders changed. What the fuck is happening. The character list was illuminating but I groaned at "Achilles - a hero" and "Patroclus - his lieutenant" MAKE THEM FUCK, YOU COWARDS.
There are moments when these books feel like Ready Player One but with Enlightenment philosophy, when Mycroft trails off into "I should of been thinking of him, but instead my mind wandered to Hume, who... [paragraph about how great Hume was and how he had the best ideas]." My most common refrain while reading the first book was "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO MARRY VOLTAIRE THEN?" But it's also so ambitious, and so much more than that.
Somebodies, a Rey & Rose fic set immediately post-TLJ
A second massive chapter to While You Wait, a big Poe/Finn/Rey thing I drafted in November which is now thoroughly jossed by TLJ. I have lots of weird feelings about it because this was a fic where I pushed myself a lot, and the results are not perfect. It also might have felt better if I'd gotten it all done before TLJ came out, but there are advantages to doing it this way, too, like it validates some of my characterisation and changes some other things, and now I get to put Rose in the final section.
I finished reading A Companion To Wolves! It kinda lost me towards the end. The iddy wolf soulbonding was fun but the book seemed pretty confused about how it felt about war and the "exterminate all trolls" mission. I also would have liked it more, I think, if Isolfr seemed at all attracted to either of the guys he ends up mated to. Still, I liked some of the Isolfr pairings earlier in the book, the psychic wolf stuff is great and I now have plenty of ideas for Lupercalia.
Aaaaand hey, fellow Terra Ignota fans, my copy of The Will To Battle finally arrived... with the cover ripped. Badly. I'm grumpy and the seller isn't returning my emails so I started reading it anyway. I already like how the face frontispiece is disquieting with declarations from only six hives, and some of the leaders changed. What the fuck is happening. The character list was illuminating but I groaned at "Achilles - a hero" and "Patroclus - his lieutenant" MAKE THEM FUCK, YOU COWARDS.
There are moments when these books feel like Ready Player One but with Enlightenment philosophy, when Mycroft trails off into "I should of been thinking of him, but instead my mind wandered to Hume, who... [paragraph about how great Hume was and how he had the best ideas]." My most common refrain while reading the first book was "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO MARRY VOLTAIRE THEN?" But it's also so ambitious, and so much more than that.
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Date: 2018-01-14 04:04 am (UTC)