good morning, magpie; the godfeels experience
i^m throwing a theory out now, on behalf of myself, the robot milf, and Soph, that the connection between this book and THE QVILT is a dark tower type thing. magpie is somehow derived from another version of the story told in good morning, magpie.
good morning, magpie
the pacing is very strange to my current reader-brain. I'm used to stories where in the midst of the larger story, an episode conflict is introduced and then lingered on or disregarded for several chapters or even most of a single book. in good morning, magpie episodic conflicts are resolved shortly after they are introduced, such as the encounter with Adam and his followers, which lasts only a few pages.
this sounds like a criticism but it's not -- I ran out of characters
good morning, magpie
the quicker episodic pace works, not only because there's nothing wrong with that (I chose episodic for a reason) but because good morning, magpie is in a lot of ways closer to a fable than the kind of story that I'm used to. I feel like using animals as the cast to draw the mind to Aesop probably wasn't an accident.
I could just ask if the fable quality is intentional lol
good morning, magpie; godfeels
So with the post-Adam scene of the Darkness, I realize that it does somewhat resemble Epigone. Not in a way that necessarily makes me think they're the same THING; in fact i think they probably actively aren't, as the story seems to be about "sometimes awful, AWFUL things happen for no reason, no earns this even if they're irredeemable, because some things are ARBITRARY" and Epigone very fundamentally Desires things.
good morning, magpie; godfeels
The tendrils of the darkness stabbing forward and corrupting people resembles a combination of the Halo vision of the horrible all consuming cult crossed with Roserot -- though it also very much reminds me of the Hunger, from TAZ
Which is 100% not me saying "oh derivative" just for the record; with Epigone it's me identifying themes in Sarah's work, and with TAZ it's me saying "man tendrils of corrupting darkness are fuckin scary"
good morning, magpie
Genuinely a huge fan of the kinda, interlude about Adam's backstory. From a narrative standpoint I'm a huge fan. It's a good story also but damn if it didn't break my heart. Jenna, but especially the Bears. Poor lil Rowan. I have a huge weakness for like..... children being tormented for no reason :(
good morning, magpie
in Part 2 the episodic nature of the conflicts becomes a bit less short-term; individual scenes are still very directly advancing the plots more than I'm used to in the shit i've been reading most, but the splitting of narrative time into present and past has really shifted the pace. It's pretty interesting.
good morning, magpie
Ngl the twist with Crow's backstory took me by surprise in a very good way. We laughed out loud when we read "Emma and Marley looked back at him"
of course it wasn't that their eggs were barren, it's that she was having an affair because Crow sucks.
Then he abandons them rather than seeking help and WOW. and swan was right about that -- he shouldn't have done that, but also, it wouldn't have made any difference.
good morning, magpie
Sarah Zedig used homestuck to trick me into reading Redwall: Zombies